The 1938

Tschammerpokal The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considered ...

was the 4th season of the annual German football cup competition. For the first time, Austrian teams competed in the competition due to the ''

Anschluss The (, or , ), also known as the (, en, Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938. The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...

'' by

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at the beginning of the year. In the final, which was held on 8 January 1939 at the

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, Austrian club

Rapid Wien Sportklub Rapid Wien (), commonly known as Rapid Vienna, is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, ...

defeated

FSV Frankfurt Fußballsportverein Frankfurt 1899 e.V., commonly known as simply FSV Frankfurt, is a German association football club based in the Bornheim district of Frankfurt am Main, Hesse and founded in 1899. FSV Frankfurt also fielded a rather successfu ...

3–1.

Matches

First round

Replay

Second round

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

In the quarter-finals, the eight German teams (''Altreich'') were paired internally in an elimination round. The eight teams from Austria (now called ''

Ostmark Ostmark is a German term meaning either Eastern march when applied to territories or Eastern Mark when applied to currencies. Ostmark may refer to: *the medieval March of Austria and its predecessors ''Bavarian Eastern March'' and ''March of Pann ...

'' due to the ''

'') were also paired in an internal elimination round. The winners then met in a joint quarter-final round. The pairings were entirely random.

Altreich elimination

Ostmark elimination

Joint quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

External links

Official site of the DFB

Kicker.de

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