1998–99 DFB-Pokal

1998–99 DFB-Pokal
Tournament details
Country	Germany
Teams	64
Defending champions	Bayern Munich
Final positions
Champions	Werder Bremen
Runner-up	Bayern Munich
Tournament statistics
Matches played	63
Top goal scorer(s)	Achim Weber (6)
	← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

The 1998–99 DFB-Pokal was the 56th season of the annual German football cup competition. Sixty-four teams competed in the tournament of six rounds which began on 28 August 1998 and ended on 6 June 1999. In the final Werder Bremen defeated Bayern Munich 5–4 on penalties, thereby claiming their fourth title.^[1]

Matches

Times up to 24 October 1998 and from 28 March 1999 are CEST (UTC+2). Times from 25 October 1998 to 27 March 1999 are CET (UTC+1).

First round

28 August 1998	SV Schalding-Heining	0 – 1	SpVgg Unterhaching	Schalding-Heining
		Report (in German)	Rraklli 63'	Attendance: 2,200 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

28 August 1998	Sportfreunde Eisbachtal	1 – 0 (aet)	FC Gütersloh	Nentershausen
	Bigvava 104'	Report (in German)		Attendance: 2,200 Referee: Stefan Weber (Eisenach)

28 August 1998	1. FC Saarbrücken	1 – 1 (aet) (1–3 p)	Borussia Dortmund	Saarbrücken
	Choji 42'	Report (in German)	Nerlinger 21'	Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)
	Penalties
	Da Palma Weber Gerlach Caillas		Nerlinger Möller Barbarez Chapuisat

28 August 1998	Karlsruher SC	3 – 4	VfL Wolfsburg	Karlsruhe
	Krieg 27' (pen.), 32', 53'	Report (in German)	Baumgart 41' Juskowiak 63' Kleeschätzky 69' Akonnor 88'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Hemann Albrecht (Kaufbeuren)

28 August 1998	FC St. Pauli (A)	0 – 5	Bayer Leverkusen	Hamburg
		Report (in German)	Kirsten 66', 71' (pen.) Beinlich 79' Lehnhoff 81' Meijer 83'	Stadium: Stadion am Hoheluft Attendance: 4,900 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

28 August 1998	Hansa Rostock (A)	0 – 3	MSV Duisburg	Rostock
		Report (in German)	Vana 18' Beierle 19' Wedau 35'	Attendance: 500 Referee: Ralf Hilmes (Nordhorn)

28 August 1998	Tennis Borussia Berlin	1 – 0	Hannover 96	Berlin
	Kovacec 40'	Report (in German)		Stadium: Mommsenstadion Attendance: 2,100 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Landshut)

28 August 1998	Kickers Offenbach	0 – 1	SG Wattenscheid 09	Offenbach
		Report (in German)	Allievi 73'	Stadium: Stadion am Bieberer Berg Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Schütz (Düsseldorf)

29 August 1998	Werder Bremen (A)	0 – 1	Rot-Weiss Oberhausen	Bremen
		Report (in German)	Weber 45'	Stadium: Weserstadion, Platz 11 Attendance: 800 Referee: Bernd Hauer (Celle)

29 August 1998	Sportfreunde Dorfmerkingen	0 – 3	Stuttgarter Kickers	Dorfmerkingen
		Report (in German)	Sebescen 16' Raspe 50' (pen.) Carnevale 67'	Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Knopp (Wiesbaden)

29 August 1998	Chemnitzer FC	1 – 2	SC Freiburg	Chemnitz
	Mehlhorn 31'	Report (in German)	Weißhaupt 1', 38'	Stadium: Stadion an der Gellertstraße Attendance: 6,300 Referee: Uwe Kemmling (Kleinburgwedel)

29 August 1998	Bayer Leverkusen (A)	1 – 2 (aet)	Werder Bremen	Leverkusen
	Demir 34'	Report (in German)	Frings 44' Maximov 114'	Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Frank Gettke (Haltern)

29 August 1998	SG Hoechst	1 – 2	Energie Cottbus	Frankfurt
	Zürlein 90'	Report (in German)	Vata 83' Irrgang 84'	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Schmitt (Sillenbach)

29 August 1998	SV Straelen	4 – 7	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Straelen
	Gottwald 27' Kersten 72' Kosztowniak 75' Schröers 85'	Report (in German)	Lesniak 8', 34', 56', 76', 87' Tare 31', 50'	Attendance: 3,400 Referee: Detlef Scheppe (Wenden)

29 August 1998	Sportfreunde Siegen	3 – 1 (aet)	Mainz 05	Siegen
	Jonjić 87' Cirba 105' Sarić 119'	Report (in German)	Grevelhörster 36'	Stadium: Leimbachstadion Attendance: 5,200 Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)

29 August 1998	VfB Lübeck	1 – 2	VfB Stuttgart	Lübeck
	Kullig 32'	Report (in German)	Ristić 2' Lisztes 63'	Stadium: Lohmühle Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)

29 August 1998	Carl Zeiss Jena	1 – 0	SSV Ulm 1846	Jena
	Hauser 50'	Report (in German)		Stadium: Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld Attendance: 1,800 Referee: Christian Schößling (Leipzig)

29 August 1998	VfB Leipzig	2 – 4 (aet)	1860 Munich	Leipzig
	Dittgen 29' Bančić 86'	Report (in German)	Schroth 35' Küttner 35' (o.g.) Winkler 99', 118'	Attendance: 5,200 Referee: Florian Meyer (Braunschweig)

29 August 1998	SC Idar-Oberstein	0 – 1	Arminia Bielefeld	Idar-Oberstein
		Report (in German)	Stratos 69'	Attendance: 4,600 Referee: Kammerer (Karlsruhe)

29 August 1998	FC Denzlingen	0 – 3	Hamburger SV	Denzlingen
		Report (in German)	Yeboah 54' Groth 83' Spörl 88' (pen.)	Attendance: 4,100 Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (Biberbach)

29 August 1998	Waldhof Mannheim	1 – 5	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Mannheim
	Mallam 65'	Report (in German)	Polster 5' Pettersson 18', 57' Ketelaer 82' Mallam 88' (o.g.)	Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Sippel (Würzburg)

29 August 1998	1. FC Köln	0 – 1	Hansa Rostock	Cologne
		Report (in German)	Majak 55'	Stadium: Müngersdorfer Stadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Wagner (Hofheim)

29 August 1998	Energie Cottbus (A)	0 – 1	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Cottbus
		Report (in German)	Schmidt 90'	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Matthias Anklam (Buchholz in der Nordheide)

29 August 1998	1. FC Magdeburg	1 – 2	KFC Uerdingen 05	Magdeburg
	Hannemann 15'	Report (in German)	Spizak 58' Scherbe 81' (pen.)	Attendance: 3,200 Referee: Olaf Blumenstein (Berlin)

29 August 1998	Lichterfelder SU	0 – 6	Schalke 04	Berlin
		Report (in German)	Eigenrauch 11' Max 16' Kmetsch 27' Hami 54', 65' Anderbrügge 77'	Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Berlin)

29 August 1998	VfL Osnabrück	0 – 2	1. FC Nürnberg	Osnabrück
		Report (in German)	Ćirić 33' Bürger 90'	Stadium: Stadion an der Bremer Brücke Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Wolfgang Friedrichs (Lennestadt)

30 August 1998	Post/Süd Regensburg	0 – 2	Hertha BSC	Regensburg
		Report (in German)	Sverrisson 36' Tretschok 56'	Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Lange (Herrenburg)

30 August 1998	SV Meppen	0 – 1	FC St. Pauli	Meppen
		Report (in German)	Maxhuni 59' (pen.)	Stadium: Emslandstadion Attendance: 4,600 Referee: Hellmut Krug (Gelsenkirchen)

30 August 1998	FSV Zwickau	2 – 5	VfL Bochum	Zwickau
	Milde 49' (pen.), 82'	Report (in German)	Peschel 40' Fahrenhorst 48' Michalke 54' Reis 66' (pen.), 90'	Stadium: Westsachsenstadion Attendance: 4,300 Referee: Michael Wendorf (Glienicke)

30 August 1998	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	1 – 6	Eintracht Frankfurt	Erfurt
	Scheller 89'	Report (in German)	Sobotzik 45' Pisont 61' Yang 72' Gebhardt 78' Westerthaler 80', 84'	Stadium: Steigerwaldstadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)

30 August 1998	LR Ahlen	0 – 5	Bayern Munich	Ahlen
		Report (in German)	Effenberg 22' (pen.), 37' Jancker 34' Helmer 44' Fink 73'	Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Jürgen Aust (Cologne)

30 August 1998	Fortuna Köln	1 – 3	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Cologne
	Younga-Mouhani 45'	Report (in German)	Rösler 11' Marschall 72', 90'	Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)

Second round

17 September 1998	Energie Cottbus	2 – 4	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Cottbus
	Heidrich 14', 87' (pen.)	Report (in German)	Polster 10' Pflipsen 79', 90' Ketelaer 86'	Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft Attendance: 11,400 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kniftel)

17 September 1998	Hamburger SV	4 – 0	SpVgg Unterhaching	Hamburg
	Kiriakov 23' Yeboah 52' Hollerbach 73' Strehmel 88' (o.g.)	Report (in German)		Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)

22 September 1998	Sportfreunde Eisbachtal	1 – 4	Rot-Weiss Oberhausen	Nentershausen
	Wagner 69'	Report (in German)	Weber 40', 81' Bieber 43' Adriano 81'	Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Jörg Keßler (Höhenkirchen)

22 September 1998	Tennis Borussia Berlin	4 – 2	Stuttgarter Kickers	Berlin
	Kovacec 23', 26' Copado 60' Aračić 77'	Report (in German)	Carl 7' Winkler 63'	Stadium: Mommsenstadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

22 September 1998	Bayer Leverkusen	1 – 1 (aet) (3–4 p)	Hertha BSC	Leverkusen
	Rink 25'	Report (in German)	Preetz 24'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)
	Penalties
	Kirsten Heintze Mamić Rink Beinlich		Rekdal Thom Veit Tretschok Preetz

22 September 1998	VfB Stuttgart	3 – 2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Stuttgart
	Đorđević 17' Lisztes 45' Spanring 90'	Report (in German)	Schneider 48', 50'	Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Hellmut Krug (Gelsenkirchen)

22 September 1998	Werder Bremen	3 – 2	Hansa Rostock	Bremen
	Trares 52' Maximov 57' Frey 72'	Report (in German)	Bičanić 81' Majak 90'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 9,600 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

22 September 1998	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1 – 1 (aet) (4–5 p)	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
	Rösler 6'	Report (in German)	Petrović 58'	Stadium: Betzenberg Attendance: 23,200 Referee: Winfried Buchhart (Schrobenhausen)
	Penalties
	Schjønberg Rische Marschall Ballack Ibrahim Riedl		Sundermann Baştürk Petrović Dzafič Hofmann Schindzielorz

22 September 1998	Arminia Bielefeld	2 – 1	SG Wattenscheid 09	Bielefeld
	Labbadia 70' Bagheri 79'	Report (in German)	Feinbier 66'	Stadium: Bielefelder Alm Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Hans-Jürgen Weber (Bielefeld)

22 September 1998	Fortuna Düsseldorf	2 – 1	1860 Munich	Düsseldorf
	Pizarro 24' Tare 81'	Report (in German)	Ouakili 31'	Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

23 September 1998	Sportfreunde Siegen	1 – 0	SC Freiburg	Siegen
	Kuci 24'	Report (in German)		Stadium: Leimbachstadion Attendance: 10,800 Referee: Jürgen Aust (Cologne)

23 September 1998	Carl Zeiss Jena	1 – 2	MSV Duisburg	Jena
	Noll 40' (pen.)	Report (in German)	Neun 44' Beierle 90'	Stadium: Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld Attendance: 2,900 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)

23 September 1998	VfL Wolfsburg	3 – 0 (aet)	1. FC Nürnberg	Wolfsburg
	Juskowiak 101' Präger 110', 115'	Report (in German)		Attendance: 7,200 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Kyllburg)

23 September 1998	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	0 – 0 (aet) (3–4 p)	Bayern Munich	Fürth
		Report (in German)		Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Jürgen Jansen (Essen)
	Penalties
	Van Lent Probst Felgenhauer Eberl Skarabela		Strunz Salihamidžić Tarnat Fink Effenberg

23 September 1998	KFC Uerdingen 05	1 – 1 (aet) (5–4 p)	FC St. Pauli	Krefeld
	Smejkal 68'	Report (in German)	Marin 5'	Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweier)
	Penalties
	Smejkal Nacev Spizak Grauer Scherbe Von Ahlen		Trulsen Stanislawski Seeliger Savichev Marin Hanke

23 September 1998	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 0 (aet)	Schalke 04	Dortmund
	Salou 98'	Report (in German)		Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)

Round of 16

27 October 1998	VfL Wolfsburg	3 – 1	Arminia Bielefeld	Wolfsburg
	Präger 8' Boy 49' (o.g.) Akonnor 85'	Report (in German)	Reina 28'	Attendance: 6,400 Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)

27 October 1998	VfB Stuttgart	3 – 1	Borussia Dortmund	Stuttgart
	Akpoborie 71' Rost 83', 85'	Report (in German)	Häßler 90' (pen.)	Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion Attendance: 21,500 Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)

27 October 1998	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
		Report (in German)	Polster 10'	Attendance: 21,500 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

27 October 1998	Rot-Weiss Oberhausen	3 – 3 (aet) (4–3 p)	Hamburger SV	Oberhausen
	Weber 9', 52' Pröpper 43'	Report (in German)	Dembinski 7', 66' Groth 79'	Stadium: Niederrheinsstadion Attendance: 7,100 Referee: Frank Gettke (Haltern)
	Penalties
	Konjević Judt Toborg Quallo Luginger Ciuca		Groth Grubač Yeboah Dembiński Butt Ernst

28 October 1998	Tennis Borussia Berlin	4 – 2	Hertha BSC	Berlin
	Aračić 32', 59' Copado 41' Kovacec 57'	Report (in German)	Thom 12' Tchami 68'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 40,100 Referee: Jürgen Jansen (Essen)

28 October 1998	Werder Bremen	3 – 2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Bremen
	Frings 17', 66' Maximov 50'	Report (in German)	Dobrovolski 30' Pizarro 86'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 8,400 Referee: Sippel (Würzburg)

28 October 1998	MSV Duisburg	2 – 4	Bayern Munich	Duisburg
	Beierle 37', 50'	Report (in German)	Giovane Élber 56', 60' Jeremies 76' Lizarazu 89'	Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweier)

3 November 1998	Sportfreunde Siegen	1 – 0	KFC Uerdingen 05	Siegen
	Cirba 75'	Report (in German)		Stadium: Leimbachstadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Christian Schößling (Leipzig)

Quarter-finals

1 December 1998	Bayern Munich	3 – 0	VfB Stuttgart	Munich
	Jancker 26' Basler 71' Zickler 78'	Report (in German)		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)

2 December 1998	Sportfreunde Siegen	1 – 3	VfL Wolfsburg	Siegen
	Cirba 22'	Report (in German)	Juskowiak 6', 45' Reyna 63'	Stadium: Leimbachstadion Attendance: 14,600 Referee: Stefan Weber (Eisenach)

2 December 1998	Rot-Weiss Oberhausen	2 – 0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Oberhausen
	Toborg 71' Weber 80'	Report (in German)		Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)

2 December 1998	Werder Bremen	2 – 1 (aet)	Tennis Borussia Berlin	Bremen
	Flo 86' Wojtala 107'	Report (in German)	Kovacec 10'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 9,900 Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Kaufbeuren)

Semi-finals

10 March 1999	Rot-Weiss Oberhausen	1 – 3	Bayern Munich	Gelsenkirchen
	Scheinhardt 85' (pen.)	Report (in German)	Jancker 24' Effenberg 42' Linke 79'	Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 47,300 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Kyllburg)

10 March 1999	VfL Wolfsburg	0 – 1	Werder Bremen	Wolfsburg
		Report (in German)	Bode 52'	Stadium: VfL-Stadion Attendance: 19,900 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

Final

12 June 1999

19:30 CEST

Bayern Munich	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Werder Bremen
Jancker 45'	Report	Maksymov 4'
Penalties
Salihamidžić Daei Tarnat Jancker Effenberg Matthäus	4–5	Bode Todt Bogdanović Wicky Eilts Rost

Olympiastadion, Berlin

Attendance: 75,841

Referee: Jürgen Aust (Cologne)

References

^ "DFB-Pokal 1998-99" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2008.

External links

Official site of the DFB (in German)
Kicker.de (in German)

[1] "DFB-Pokal 1998-99" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2008.

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