1954–55 DFB-Pokal

1954–55 DFB-Pokal
Tournament details
Country	West Germany
Teams	32
Defending champions	VfB Stuttgart
Final positions
Champions	Karlsruher SC
Runner-up	Schalke 04
Tournament statistics
Matches played	35
	← 1953–54 1955–56 →

The 1954–55 DFB-Pokal was the 12th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 15 August 1954 and ended on 21 May 1955. 32 teams competed in the tournament of five rounds. In the final Karlsruher SC defeated Schalke 04 3–2.^[1]

Matches

First round


15 August 1954
FC Schalke 04	1 – 1	SSV Jahn Regensburg	(AET)
VfB Stuttgart	4 – 2	Arminia Hannover
Altonaer FC 93	3 – 2	1. FC Saarbrücken
Hamburger SV	5 – 3	Eintracht Trier	(AET)
Kickers Offenbach	6 – 3	Hannover 96	(AET)
1. FC Nürnberg	2 – 0	TSV Hüls
Eintracht Frankfurt	1 – 0	FK Pirmasens
Karlsruher SC	5 – 1	FSV Frankfurt
SV Bremerhaven 1893	5 – 1	SpVgg Erkenschwick
SG Düren 99	2 – 5	1. FC Kaiserslautern
1. FC Köln	2 – 1	STV Horst-Emscher
Tennis Borussia Berlin	2 – 4	FC Schweinfurt 05
Union Krefeld	4 – 0	Eintracht Braunschweig
Phönix Ludwigshafen	0 – 0	Alemannia Aachen	(AET)
TuRa Ludwigshafen	0 – 1	FC St. Pauli
Spandauer SV	1 – 2	VfB Lübeck

Replays


22 August 1954
SSV Jahn Regensburg	3 – 6	FC Schalke 04
Alemannia Aachen	4 – 0	Phönix Ludwigshafen

Round of 16


21 September 1954
FC Schalke 04	1 – 1	FC Schweinfurt 05	(AET)
VfB Stuttgart	5 – 1	VfB Lübeck
Altonaer FC 93	2 – 1	Eintracht Frankfurt
Karlsruher SC	1 – 0	1. FC Nürnberg
SV Bremerhaven 1893	3 – 1	Hamburger SV
1. FC Kaiserslautern	7 – 0	1. FC Köln
Alemannia Aachen	4 – 2	Union Krefeld	(AET)
Kickers Offenbach	2 – 0	FC St. Pauli

Replay


28 September 1954
FC Schweinfurt 05	0 – 1	FC Schalke 04

Quarter-finals


28 November 1954
Altonaer FC 93	2 – 0	Alemannia Aachen
VfB Stuttgart	2 – 5	Karlsruher SC
Kickers Offenbach	4 – 1	1. FC Kaiserslautern
FC Schalke 04	2 – 0	SV Bremerhaven 1893

Semi-finals


1 March 1955
FC Schalke 04	2 – 1	Kickers Offenbach
Altonaer FC 93	3 – 3	Karlsruher SC	(AET)

Replay


2 March 1955
Karlsruher SC	3 – 0	Altonaer FC 93

Final

21 May 1955

Karlsruher SC	3–2	Schalke 04
Kunkel 20' Sommerlatt 83' Traub 86'	Report	Sadlowski 44', 70'

Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Werner Treichel (West Berlin)

References

^ "DFB-Pokal 1954-55" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2008.

External links

Official site of the DFB (in German)
Kicker.de (in German)
1954-55 results at Fussballdaten.de (in German)

[1] "DFB-Pokal 1954-55" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2008.

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