Rot-Weiss Essen and Germania Ratingen will duel on Wednesday evening. April 10, 7:30 p.m., for second place in the Lower Rhine Cup final. Others are already further along.

Rot-Weiss Oberhausen have shown the way: Thanks to a commanding 3:0 victory over Sportfreunde Baumberg, Mike Terranova’s team have reached the Lower Rhine Cup final and can sit back and relax on Wednesday evening, April 10, 7:30 pm.

Rot-Weiss Essen will then welcome Germania Ratingen to the stadium on Hafenstrasse to play off against the Cloverleafs. Of course, the third division team is the clear favorite against the regional league contenders.

RWE coach Christoph Dabrowski set out a clear strategy: “We’ll recover on Monday and then focus fully on the semi-final against Ratingen from Tuesday – with the very clear aim of reaching the cup final.”

Other associations already have their final pairings together. Bavaria, for example, where the opponent of the Würzburger Kickers has been known since Tuesday, April 9. It is FC Ingolstadt, who won 4:1 at FV Illertissen.

South Baden almost has its final together, SV Meppen is already the winner

The first finalists have now also been decided in South Baden. Verbandsliga side SC Lahr defeated last year’s DFB Cup first-round participants SV Oberachern 5:0. The final will be against either FC Teningen (Verbandsliga) or FC 08 Villingen (Oberliga).

Meanwhile, SV Meppen won in Lower Saxony. They beat Blau-Weiß Lohne 2:0 in the final. It now remains to be determined which amateur team from the federal state will join SVM in the DFB Cup.

The finalists of all German state cups at a glance

State Cup Baden: 1. FC Mühlhausen (Verbandsliga), SV Sandhausen (3. Liga)

Bavarian State Cup: Würzburger Kickers (Bavarian regional league), FC Ingolstadt (3rd division)

Berlin State Cup: –

Brandenburg State Cup: SV Babelsberg 03 (Regionalliga Nordost), FC Energie Cottbus (Regionalliga Nordost)

Bremen State Cup: Bremer SV (Regionalliga Nord), SV Hemelingen (Bremenliga)

Hamburg State Cup: USC Paloma (Hamburg Oberliga), Teutonia Ottensen (Regionalliga Nord)

State Cup Hesse: –

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state cup: –

Central Rhine State Cup: Alemannia Aachen (Regionalliga West), Bonner SC (Mittelrheinliga)

Lower Rhine State Cup: Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (Regionalliga West)

Lower Saxony State Cup: The Lower Saxony State Cup is played in two variants. On the one hand with the Lower Saxony third and regional leagues, and on the other with the amateur clubs below them. The respective winners may both take part in the DFB Cup. SV Meppen is the winner of the higher-class variant.

The second final will be contested by VfV 06 Hildesheim (Oberliga Niedersachsen) and Atlas Delmenhorst (Oberliga Niedersachsen)

Rhineland state cup: –

Saarland State Cup: FV 09 Schwalbach (Saarland League)

Saxony state cup: –

Schleswig-Holstein State Cup: SV Todesfelde (Oberliga), Phönix Lübeck (Regionalliga Nord)

South Baden state cup: SC Lahr (Verbandsliga Südbaden)

Landespokal Südwest: SV Gonsenheim (Oberliga), TSV Schott Mainz (Regionalliga Südwest)

State Cup Thuringia: Carl Zeiss Jena (Regionalliga Nordost), ZFC Meuselwitz (Regionalliga Nordost)

Westphalia regional cup: Arminia Bielefeld (3rd division), SC Verl (3rd division)

Württemberg state cup: –