Where will VfL Wolfsburg play in the first round of the DFB Cup? Several names were bandied about, but now a venue has been found.
It was clear that VfL Wolfsburg would not have to travel far in the first round of the DFB Cup. The first-round match against SV Hemelingen was supposed to take place at the Stadion am Berliner Ring in Verden. However, at 96 meters, the pitch is four meters too short.
Now a solution has been presented: VfL Wolfsburg will play its first-round match at the Weserstadion in Bremen. What makes sense from an infrastructure point of view is bitter for both sets of fans. Hemelingen loses its home advantage, while the Wolves head to a stadium they already know from previous years and will be returning to in the Bundesliga anyway.
There were also problems at 1. FSV Mainz 05. The Rheinhessen club is taking the scheduling of the match on Monday, August 18, at 6 p.m. to the Federal Court. The DFB had justified the August 18 date with binding requirements from the local security authorities in connection with the “Canaletto” city festival in Dresden. Mainz has to play in the Conference League just three days later.
DFB Cup 2025/26: All matches at a glance
SSV Ulm 1846 – SV Elversberg
SV Hemelingen – VfL Wolfsburg
FK 03 Pirmasens – Hamburger SV
Hallescher FC – FC Augsburg
SV Atlas Delmenhorst – Borussia Mönchengladbach
Viktoria Köln – SC Paderborn
RSV Eintracht – 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Rot-Weiss Essen – Borussia Dortmund
Eintracht Braunschweig – VfB Stuttgart
ZFC Meuselwitz – Karlsruher SC
FV Illertissen – 1. FC Nürnberg
FV Engers 07 – Eintracht Frankfurt
VfB Lübeck – SV Darmstadt 98
Eintracht Norderstedt – FC St. Pauli
BFC Dynamo – VfL Bochum
SF Lotte – SC Freiburg
FC Gütersloh – 1. FC Union Berlin
SC Preußen Münster – Hertha BSC
SSV Jahn Regensburg – 1. FC Köln
FC 08 Homburg – Holstein Kiel
FC Energie Cottbus – Hannover 96
SV Sandhausen – RB Leipzig
Blau-Weiß Lohne – Greuther Fürth
FC Hansa Rostock – TSG Hoffenheim
Bahlinger SC – 1. FC Heidenheim
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig – Schalke 04
1. FC Saarbrücken – 1. FC Magdeburg
SG Sonnenhof Großaspach – Bayer 04 Leverkusen
SV Wehen Wiesbaden – FC Bayern Munich
1. FC Schweinfurt – Fortuna Düsseldorf
Arminia Bielefeld – Werder Bremen
Dynamo Dresden – FSV Mainz 05