The dates and times have now been announced for the second round of the DFB-Pokal, with SC Freiburg set to take on Hamburger SV on 30th October 2024 at the Europa-Park Stadion. Kick-off is at 18:00 CEST.

The DFB-Pokal second round draw took place on Sunday evening at the Fußballmuseum in Dortmund. Sonja Greinacher, Olympic champion in 3x3 basketball in Paris, performed the draw alongside DFB vice president Peter Frymuth.

Sc Freiburg were the seventh ball to be drawn by Greinacher, which granted head coach Julian Schuster’s team a home tie against second-tier Hamburger SV. The northerners marched through the first round after defeating fourth-division side SV Meppen 7-1. SC reached the second round with a 4-0 win at third-tier VfL Osnabrück.

Fond memories of a successful 2021/22 DFB-Pokal campaign

Without a doubt, the last match-up between the sides in the DFB-Pokal was one to be remembered. On 19th April 2022, SC came out 3-1 victors at a sold-out Volksparkstadion with goals from Nils Petersen, Nicolas Höfler and Vincenzo Grifo to reach a first final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin in the club’s history. After VfL Osnabrück, Hamburger SV now represent another opponent from that successful cup run in the 2021/22 season.

SC had already encountered the northerners twice before in the DFB-Pokal, but were eliminated on both occasions. HSV won 3-1 at home in the second round of the 2007/08 season and 4-1 at the Dreisamstadion also in the second round over two decades earlier, in the 1983/84 campaign.