Knowledge Base Wiki

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.

[1]

DFB-Pokal
Seasons	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Finals	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Information	1984 semi-finals Finals Winning managers Top scorers Bundesliga clubs eliminated by amateur sides
Related	FDGB-Pokal Verbandspokal DFB-Pokal Frauen Western German Cup

1998–99 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '98 '99 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '98 '99 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzeg-Bosnia, Republika Srpska) Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '98 '99 Faroe Islands '98 '99 Finland '98 '99 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '98 '99 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '98 '99 Latvia '98 '99 Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '98 '99 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '98 '99 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '98 '99 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '98 '99 Finland '98 '99 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '98 '99 Israel Italy Latvia '98 '99 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '98 '99 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
League cups	England Finland '98 '99 France Germany Iceland '98 '99 Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales
UEFA competitions	Champions League (qualifying, group stage, knockout stage, final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup