The 2001 DFB-Ligapokal was the fifth edition of the
DFB-Ligapokal
The DFL-Ligapokal (, officially Premiere Ligapokal , previously DFB-Ligapokal ) or the ''German League Cup'' was a German football competition that took place before the start of the Bundesliga season, featuring the top five teams of the previous ...
.
Hertha BSC won the competition, beating
Schalke 04
Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine ...
4–1 in the final. Hertha had ended
Bayern Munich's dominance of the competition by beating them in the semi-finals.
Participating clubs
A total of six teams qualified for the competition. The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
*1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League position
*CW: Cup winners
*TH: Title holders
Matches
Preliminary round
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Semi-finals
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Final
References
{{2001–02 in European Football (UEFA)
2001
Ligapokal