The 2023 DFB-Pokal final decided the winner of the 2022–23 DFB-Pokal, the 80th season of the annual German football cup competition. The match was played on 3 June 2023 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.
The match featured RB Leipzig, defending champions of the competition, and Eintracht Frankfurt. RB Leipzig won the match 2–0 for their second DFB-Pokal title.
As winners, RB Leipzig qualified for the 2023 edition of the DFL-Supercup at the start of the following season, where they faced Bayern Munich, champions of the 2022–23 edition of the Bundesliga. The winners of the DFB-Pokal also earned automatic qualification for the group stage of the 2023–24 edition of the UEFA Europa League. However, as Leipzig already qualified for the 2023–24 edition of the UEFA Champions League through their position in the Bundesliga, the spot went to the team in sixth, Bayer Leverkusen, and the league's UEFA Europa Conference League play-off round spot went to the team in seventh, Eintracht Frankfurt.
Teams In the following table, finals until 1943 were in the Tschammerpokal era, since 1953 were in the DFB-Pokal era.
Team Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners) RB Leipzig 3 (2019, 2021, 2022) Eintracht Frankfurt 8 (1964, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1988, 2006, 2017, 2018)
Route to the final The DFB-Pokal began with 64 teams in a single-elimination knockout cup competition. There were a total of five rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and the winner after 90 minutes would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner.
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away). RB Leipzig Round Eintracht Frankfurt Opponent Result 2022–23 DFB-Pokal Opponent Result Teutonia Ottensen 8–0 (A) First round 1. FC Magdeburg 4–0 (A) Hamburger SV 4–0 (H) Second round Stuttgarter Kickers 2–0 (A) 1899 Hoffenheim 3–1 (H) Round of 16 Darmstadt 98 4–2 (H) Borussia Dortmund 2–0 (H) Quarter-finals Union Berlin 2–0 (H) SC Freiburg 5–1 (A) Semi-finals VfB Stuttgart 3–2 (A)
Match
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GK 21 Janis BlaswichRB 39 Benjamin HenrichsCB 16 Lukas KlostermannCB 4 Willi Orbán (c)LB 23 Marcel HalstenbergCM 27 Konrad Laimer CM 8 Amadou Haidara RW 17 Dominik Szoboszlai LW 7 Dani OlmoCF 18 Christopher Nkunku CF 11 Timo Werner Substitutes:GK 13 Ørjan NylandDF 2 Mohamed SimakanDF 22 David RaumDF 25 Sanoussy BaDF 37 Abdou DialloMF 10 Emil ForsbergMF 24 Xaver Schlager MF 44 Kevin Kampl FW 9 Yussuf Poulsen Manager: Marco Rose GK 1 Kevin TrappCB 35 TutaCB 20 Makoto Hasebe CB 2 Evan NdickaRM 24 Aurélio Buta CM 17 Sebastian Rode (c) CM 8 Djibril SowLM 32 Philipp Max AM 15 Daichi KamadaAM 27 Mario Götze CF 9 Randal Kolo Muani Substitutes:GK 40 Diant RamajDF 18 Almamy TouréDF 22 Timothy ChandlerDF 25 Christopher Lenz MF 6 Kristijan JakićMF 26 Junior Dina Ebimbe MF 29 Jesper Lindstrøm MF 30 Paxten AaronsonFW 19 Rafael Santos Borré Manager: Oliver Glasner
Assistant referees: Jan Seidel (Oberkrämer) Rafael Foltyn (Wiesbaden) Fourth official: Daniel Schlager (Hügelsheim) Reserve assistant referee: Lasse Koslowski (Berlin) Video assistant referee: Marco Fritz (Korb) Assistant video assistant referee: Dominik Schaal (Tübingen)Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Nine named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions.
See also 2023 DFL-Supercup Football in Berlin
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