The 2000
Bavarian Cup
The Bavarian Cup (german: Bayerischer Toto-Pokal), was created in 1998 and functions as a qualifying competition to the German Cup. It is one of the 21 regional cups in Germany. It is one of three regional associations who are permitted to send ...
was the third edition of the competition which started in 1998. It ended with the
FC Ismaning
FC Ismaning is a German association football club based in Ismaning by Munich, Bavaria.
History
The 700 member club was founded in March 1921 and played in lower-tier competition until the mid-90s when the footballers advanced for the first t ...
winning the competition. Together with finalist
TSV Rain am Lech
The TSV Rain am Lech is a German association football club from the town of Rain am Lech, Bavaria.
The club's most notable achievement has been qualifying for the tier four Regionalliga Bayern in 2012, where it played for two seasons before re ...
, both clubs qualified for the
DFB Cup 2000-01.
The competition is open to all senior men's
football teams playing within the
Bavarian football league system and the Bavarian clubs in the
Regionalliga Süd (III).
Rules & History
The seven
Bezirke in
Bavaria
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each play their own cup competition, which in turn used to function as a qualifying to the German Cup (DFB-Pokal). Since 1998, these seven cup-winners plus the losing finalist of the region that won the previous event advance to the newly introduced Bavarian Cup, the Toto-Pokal. The two finalists of this competition advance to the German Cup. Bavarian clubs which play in the first or second Bundesliga are not permitted to take part in the event; their reserve teams however can. The seven regional cup winners were qualified for the first round. It was the last edition with only seven clubs. The following season, the competition was expanded to eight teams.
Participating clubs
The following seven clubs qualified for the 2000 Bavarian Cup:
Bavarian Cup season 1999-2000
Teams qualified for the next round in bold.
Regional finals
First round
Semi-finals
Final
DFB Cup 2000-01
The two clubs, TSV Rain am Lech and FC Ismaning, who qualified through the Bavarian Cup for the
DFB Cup 2000-01, both were knocked out in the first round of the national cup competition:
DFB-Pokal 2000/2001 .:. 1. Runde
Weltfussball.de, accessed: 5 November 2008
References
Sources
* ''Deutschlands Fussball in Zahlen 1999/2000'' Yearbook of German football, author: DSFS, publisher: Agon Sport Verlag, published: 2002, page: 248
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bavarian Cup 2000
2000
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