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The 2020 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 2019–20 DFB-Pokal, the 77th season of the annual German football cup competition. The match was played on 4 July 2020 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Though originally scheduled for 23 May 2020, the German Football Association postponed the final on 24 April due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. On 11 May 2020, the DFB Executive Committee approved a resumption of the competition, with the final scheduled for 4 July, subject to political approval, using a hygiene concept similar to that implemented by the DFL in the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. As with other competitions, the match was played behind closed doors without any spectators. Due to the postponement, the match was the first DFB-Pokal final to take place after June since 1974.

The match featured Bundesliga clubs Bayer Leverkusen, in their first final since 2009, and Bayern Munich, the title holders and record-winners of the competition in their third consecutive final. Bayern Munich won the final 4–2 to win a second consecutive and record 20th overall DFB-Pokal title.

With the win, Bayern completed their 13th domestic double (later completing a second continental treble), and played at home against 2019–20 Bundesliga runners-up Borussia Dortmund in the 2020 DFL-Supercup. Because Bayern had already qualified for the Champions League through the Bundesliga, the sixth-place team in the Bundesliga, 1899 Hoffenheim, earned qualification for the group stage of the 2020–21 edition of the UEFA Europa League, and the league's second qualifying round spot went to the team in seventh, VfL Wolfsburg.

Teams

In the following table, finals until 1943 were in the Tschammerpokal era, since 1953 were in the DFB-Pokal era.

Team	Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners)
Bayer Leverkusen	3 (1993, 2002, 2009)
Bayern Munich	23 (1957, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019)

Background

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Route to the final

The DFB-Pokal began with 64 teams in a single-elimination knockout cup competition. There were a total of five rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and the winner after 90 minutes would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner.

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Bayer Leverkusen		Round	Bayern Munich
Opponent	Result	2019–20 DFB-Pokal	Opponent	Result
Alemannia Aachen (A)	4–1	First round	Energie Cottbus (A)	3–1
SC Paderborn (H)	1–0	Second round	VfL Bochum (A)	2–1
VfB Stuttgart (H)	2–1	Round of 16	1899 Hoffenheim (H)	4–3
Union Berlin (H)	3–1	Quarter-finals	Schalke 04 (A)	1–0
1. FC Saarbrücken (A)	3–0	Semi-finals	Eintracht Frankfurt (H)	2–1

Match

Details

4 July 2020 (2020-07-04)20:00 CEST

Bayer Leverkusen	2–4	Bayern Munich
S. Bender 64' Havertz 90+5' (pen.)	Report	Alaba 16' Gnabry 24' Lewandowski 59', 89'

Olympiastadion, BerlinAttendance: 0Referee: Tobias Welz (Wiesbaden)

Bayer Leverkusen

Bayern Munich


GK	1	Lukas Hradecky
RB	8	Lars Bender (c)		82'
CB	5	Sven Bender
CB	12	Edmond Tapsoba
LB	18	Wendell	28'
CM	20	Charles Aránguiz
CM	15	Julian Baumgartlinger		46'
RW	19	Moussa Diaby
AM	11	Nadiem Amiri		46'
LW	9	Leon Bailey		76'
CF	29	Kai Havertz
Substitutes:
GK	28	Ramazan Özcan
DF	4	Jonathan Tah
DF	6	Aleksandar Dragović
DF	23	Mitchell Weiser		82'
MF	10	Kerem Demirbay		46'
MF	27	Florian Wirtz
MF	38	Karim Bellarabi		76'
FW	13	Lucas Alario
FW	31	Kevin Volland		46'
Manager:
Peter Bosz


GK	1	Manuel Neuer (c)
RB	5	Benjamin Pavard
CB	17	Jérôme Boateng		69'
CB	27	David Alaba
LB	19	Alphonso Davies
CM	32	Joshua Kimmich
CM	18	Leon Goretzka
RW	22	Serge Gnabry		87'
AM	25	Thomas Müller		87'
LW	29	Kingsley Coman		64'
CF	9	Robert Lewandowski	67'
Substitutes:
GK	26	Sven Ulreich
DF	2	Álvaro Odriozola
DF	4	Niklas Süle
DF	21	Lucas Hernandez		69'
MF	6	Thiago		87'
MF	10	Philippe Coutinho		87'
MF	11	Michaël Cuisance
FW	14	Ivan Perišić		64'
FW	35	Joshua Zirkzee
Manager:
Hansi Flick

Man of the Match:
Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)

Assistant referees:
Rafael Foltyn (Wiesbaden)
Martin Thomsen (Kleve)
Fourth official:
Patrick Ittrich (Hamburg)
Video assistant referee:
Felix Zwayer (Berlin)
Assistant video assistant referee:
Marco Achmüller (Bad Füssing)

Match rules

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Nine named substitutes.
Maximum of five substitutions.

Statistics

Statistic	Bayer Leverkusen	Bayern Munich
Goals scored	2	4
Total shots	7	17
Shots on target	3	7
Saves	3	1
Ball possession	50%	50%
Corner kicks	3	5
Fouls committed	15	14
Offsides	7	1
Yellow cards	1	1
Red cards	0	0

Notes

^ The final was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.
Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

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External links

Official website
Match report at kicker.de (in German)
Match report at WorldFootball.net
Match report at Fussballdaten.de (in German)

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League competitions

Men

Levels 1–3	Bundesliga 2. Bundesliga 3. Liga
Level 4	Bayern Nord Nordost Südwest West
Level 5	Baden-Württemberg Bayern Bremen Hamburg Hessen Mittelrhein Niederrhein Niedersachsen Nordost Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar Schleswig-Holstein Westfalen

Women

Cup competitions

Men	DFB-Pokal (Final) DFL-Supercup Verbandspokal (Baden, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Mittelrhein, Niederrhein, Niedersachsen, Rheinland, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Südbaden, Südwest, Thüringen, Westfalen, Württemberg)
Women	DFB-Pokal Verbandspokal

European competitions

Men	Champions League Europa League
Women	Champions League

Related to national teams

Men	UEFA Euro 2020 (Qualifying: Group C) Joachim Löw
Women	UEFA Women's Euro 2022 (Qualifying: Group I) Martina Voss-Tecklenburg

Transfers

Men	Summer 2019 Winter 2019–20
Women	Summer 2019 Winter 2019–20

Men's team seasons
Bundesliga	FC Augsburg Hertha BSC Union Berlin Werder Bremen Borussia Dortmund Fortuna Düsseldorf Eintracht Frankfurt SC Freiburg 1899 Hoffenheim 1. FC Köln RB Leipzig Bayer Leverkusen Mainz 05 Borussia Mönchengladbach Bayern Munich SC Paderborn Schalke 04 VfL Wolfsburg
2. Bundesliga	Erzgebirge Aue Arminia Bielefeld VfL Bochum Darmstadt 98 Dynamo Dresden Greuther Fürth Hamburger SV Hannover 96 1. FC Heidenheim Karlsruher SC Holstein Kiel 1. FC Nürnberg VfL Osnabrück Jahn Regensburg SV Sandhausen FC St. Pauli VfB Stuttgart Wehen Wiesbaden
3. Liga	Eintracht Braunschweig Chemnitzer FC MSV Duisburg Sonnenhof Großaspach Hallescher FC FC Ingolstadt Carl Zeiss Jena 1. FC Kaiserslautern Viktoria Köln 1. FC Magdeburg Waldhof Mannheim SV Meppen 1860 Munich Bayern Munich II Preußen Münster Hansa Rostock KFC Uerdingen SpVgg Unterhaching Würzburger Kickers FSV Zwickau

Women's team seasons
Bundesliga	1. FFC Frankfurt 1899 Hoffenheim 1. FC Köln Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich MSV Duisburg SGS Essen SC Freiburg SC Sand Turbine Potsdam USV Jena VfL Wolfsburg
2. Bundesliga	SG Andernach Arminia Bielefeld Werder Bremen BV Cloppenburg 1. FFC Frankfurt II FSV Gütersloh 1899 Hoffenheim II FC Ingolstadt SV Meppen Borussia Mönchengladbach Bayern Munich II Turbine Potsdam II 1. FC Saarbrücken VfL Wolfsburg II

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UEFA Champions League Final	2002
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FC Bayern Munich matches

Domestic

German football championship final	1932
DFB-Pokal Finals	1957 1966 1967 1969 1971 1982 1984 1985 1986 1998 1999 2000 2003 2005 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2014 2016 2018 2019 2020
DFL-Supercup	1983 (unofficial) 1987 1989 1990 1994 2008 (unofficial) 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
DFL-Ligapokal Finals	1997 1998 1999 2000 2004 2006 2007
Other	1984 DFB-Pokal semi-finals Deutschland-Cup (1990)

Continental

UEFA Champions League Finals	1974 1975 1976 1982 1987 1999 2001 2010 2012 2013 2020
European Cup Winners' Cup Final	1967
UEFA Cup Final	1996
UEFA Super Cup	~~1974~~ 1975 1976 2001 2013 2020
Other	Bayern Munich 1–2 Norwich City (1993) Uli Hoeneß Cup (2013) Barcelona 2–8 Bayern Munich (2020)

International

Intercontinental Cup	~~1975~~ 1976 2001
FIFA Club World Cup Finals	2013 2020
Other	2014 MLS All-Star Game

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