The 1969–70
DFB-Pokal was the 27th season of the annual German
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
cup competition. It began on 3 January 1970 and ended on 29 August 1970. 32 teams competed in the tournament of five rounds. In the final
Kickers Offenbach defeated
1. FC Köln
1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs ''Kölner Ballspi ...
2–1.
Mode
The tournament consisted of five single elimination rounds. In case a game ended with a draw 30 minutes of
extra time
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were played. If the score was still level the game was replayed with 30 minutes of extra time in case of another draw. If still no winner could be determined the team to advance to the next round was determined by drawing.
As the
1970 FIFA World Cup
The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's senior national teams. Held from 31 May t ...
began on 31 May the
German Football Association
The German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fußball-Bund ; DFB ) is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of t ...
, scheduled all games except the first round to take place in the summer break after the World Cup. Beginning with the second round the clubs therefore played with the roster for the
1970–71 Bundesliga season.
Matches
First round
Replay
Round of 16
Replays
* Aachen won by drawing as both games were tied.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
References
External links
Official site of the DFB
Kicker.de
1970 results at Fussballdaten.de
1970 results at Weltfussball.de
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1969-70
1969–70 in German football cups