The 2002 DFB-Ligapokal was the sixth 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 for the second consecutive year, 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, an exact repeat of the previous year's competition, although Huub Stevens, the Hertha coach, had been in charge at Schalke the year prior.

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

Participating clubs

Matches

Preliminary round

Semi-finals

Final

References