1998 DFB-Pokal final

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Template other The 1998 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 1997–98 DFB-Pokal, the 55th season of Germany's premier knockout football cup competition. It was played on 16 May 1998 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Bayern Munich won the match 2–1 against MSV Duisburg to claim their ninth cup title.

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).

Bayern Munich		Round	MSV Duisburg
Opponent	Result	1997–98 DFB-Pokal	Opponent	Result
DJK Waldberg (A)	16–1	Round 1	Rot-Weiss Essen (A)	2–1
VfL Wolfsburg (A)	3–3 Template:Aet Template:Pso	Round 2	VfL Bochum (H)	1–0
1. FC Kaiserslautern (A)	2–1	Round of 16	Eintracht Frankfurt (H)	1–0
Bayer Leverkusen (H)	2–0	Quarter-finals	Carl Zeiss Jena (A)	2–1
VfB Stuttgart (H)	3–0	Semi-finals	Eintracht Trier (A)	1–1 Template:Aet Template:Pso

Match

Details

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GK 12 Template:Flagicon Thomas Gill CB 7 Template:Flagicon Slobodan Komljenović CB 4 Template:Flagicon Torsten Wohlert (c) RWB 24 Template:Flagicon Carsten Wolters LWB 3 Template:Flagicon Dietmar Hirsch DM 21 Template:Flagicon Thomas Vana CM 6 Template:Flagicon Stig Tøfting CM 5 Template:Flagicon Tomasz Hajto AM 20 Template:Flagicon Michael Zeyer CF 18 Template:Flagicon Uwe Spies CF 9 Template:Flagicon Bachirou Salou downward-facing red arrow 73' Substitutes: GK 29 Template:Flagicon Gintaras Staučė DF 13 Template:Flagicon Markus Reiter DF 17 Template:Flagicon Thomas Puschmann MF 12 Template:Flagicon Markus Osthoff upward-facing green arrow 73' MF 19 Template:Flagicon Jörg Neun FW 8 Template:Flagicon Alexandru Popovici FW 25 Template:Flagicon Niklas Skoog Manager: Template:Flagicon Friedhelm Funkel

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes, of which up to three may be used.

External links

• Match report at kicker.de Template:In lang
• Match report at WorldFootball.net
• Match report at Fussballdaten.de Template:In lang