Borussia to visit FC Erzgebirge Aue in the first round of the DFB-Pokal

The Foals will visit FC Erzgebirge Aue in the first round of the 2024/25 DFB-Pokal. The match will be played between 16th and 19th August. The draw took place on Saturday evening at the German Football Museum in Dortmund.

The Foals’ first competitive game of the season will see them take on FC Erzgebirge Aue in the first round of the DFB-Pokal. Aue finished sixth in the 3. Liga in the season just gone. Former player Nils Petersen, along with DFB vice-president Peter Frymuth, carried out the draw at the German Football Museum in Dortmund.

The match will take place between 16th and 19th August, one week before the Bundesliga season gets underway. The exact dates and times for the fixtures are usually announced 10 to 12 days after the draw.

Borussia were knocked out in the quarter-finals of last season’s competition after a 2-1 defeat to 1. FC Saarbrücken. The Foals have won the DFB-Pokal three times, most recently in 1995 following a 3-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg.

The DFB-Pokal first round fixtures in full:

FC Erzgebirge Aue – Borussia Mönchengladbach
Dynamo Dresden – Fortuna Düsseldorf
Arminia Bielefeld – Hannover 96
Jahn Regensburg – VfL Bochum
SC Preußen Münster – VfB Stuttgart
Eintracht Braunschweig – Eintracht Frankfurt
Sportfreunde Lotte – Karlsruher SC
Bremer SV – SC Paderborn
SV Meppen – Hamburger SV
Würzburger Kickers – TSG Hoffenheim
1. FC Phönix Lübeck – Borussia Dortmund
VfV Hildesheim – SV Elversberg
FC 08 Villingen – 1. FC Heidenheim
1. FC Saarbrücken – 1. FC Nürnberg
FC Energie Cottbus – SV Werder Bremen
TuS Koblenz – VfL Wolfsburg
Rot-Weiss Essen – RB Leipzig
SV Wehen Wiesbaden – Mainz 05
FC Ingolstadt – 1. FC Kaiserslautern
SV Sandhausen – 1. FC Köln
SSV Ulm – FC Bayern München
Kickers Offenbach – 1. FC Magdeburg
FC Carl-Zeiss Jena – Bayer 04 Leverkusen
VfR Aalen – FC Schalke 04
FC Hansa Rostock – Hertha BSC
Hallescher FC – FC St. Pauli
VfL Osnabrück – SC Freiburg
Greifswalder FC – 1. FC Union Berlin
TSV Schott Mainz – Greuther Fürth
Teutonia Ottensen – SV Darmstadt 98
Viktoria Berlin – FC Augsburg
Alemannia Aachen – Holstein Kiel