The 1952–53 DFB-Pokal was the 10th season of the annual German football cup competition. The DFB-Pokal was formerly known as Tschammer und Osten Pokal, or Tschammerpokal. It was the first time the cup was held after World War II. 32 teams competed in the tournament of five rounds. The competition began on 17 August 1952 and ended on 11 May 1953. In the final Rot-Weiss Essen defeated Alemannia Aachen 2–1.[1]

1952–53 DFB-Pokal
Tournament details
CountryWest Germany
Teams32
Defending championsFirst Vienna
Final positions
ChampionsRot-Weiss Essen
Runner-upAlemannia Aachen
Tournament statistics
Matches played34
← 1943

The replay match between Hamborn and St. Pauli was the first football match in Germany covered live by television.[2]

Matches

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First round

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17 August 1952
VfB Stuttgart 0 – 3 Kickers Offenbach
Rot-Weiss Essen 5 – 0 SSV Jahn Regensburg
SV Waldhof Mannheim 2 – 1 Eintracht Braunschweig
Eintracht Osnabrück 1 – 2 Preußen Dellbrück
1. FC Saarbrücken 1 – 2 FC St. Pauli
Borussia Neunkirchen 2 – 1 FC Schalke 04
SpVgg Fürth 6 – 1 VfR Kaiserslautern
Wacker 04 Berlin 2 – 6 1. FC Nürnberg
Concordia Hamburg 4 – 3 Borussia Dortmund
Hamburger SV 6 – 1 Victoria Hamburg
Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin 0 – 1 Eintracht Trier
VfB Mühlburg 5 – 3 Preußen Münster (AET)
Alemannia Aachen 5 – 2 SC Essen West
SSV Reutlingen 4 – 5 VfR Wormatia Worms (AET)
Hamborn 07 4 – 1 SC Göttingen 05 (AET)
VfL Osnabrück 2 – 2 SV Phönix 03 Ludwigshafen (AET)

Replay

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5 October 1952
SV Phönix 03 Ludwigshafen 0 – 2 VfL Osnabrück

Round of 16

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11 November 1952
SV Waldhof Mannheim 5 – 2 SpVgg Fürth
Concordia Hamburg 4 – 3 VfB Mühlburg
Preußen Dellbrück 2 – 3 Kickers Offenbach (AET)
VfR Wormatia Worms 4 – 1 Eintracht Trier
1. FC Nürnberg 3 – 3 Alemannia Aachen
Hamburger SV 2 – 0 Borussia Neunkirchen
Hamborn 07 1 – 1 FC St. Pauli (AET)
Rot-Weiss Essen 2 – 0 VfL Osnabrück

Replays

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Alemannia Aachen 2 – 0 1. FC Nürnberg
FC St. Pauli 3 – 4 Hamborn 07

Quarter-finals

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1 February 1953
Rot-Weiss Essen 6 – 1 Hamburger SV
Kickers Offenbach 1 – 2 VfR Wormatia Worms
SV Waldhof Mannheim 2 – 1 Concordia Hamburg
Alemannia Aachen 3 – 1 Hamborn 07

Semi-finals

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1 March 1953
Rot-Weiss Essen 3 – 2 SV Waldhof Mannheim
Alemannia Aachen 3 – 1 VfR Wormatia Worms

Final

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Rot-Weiss Essen2–1Alemannia Aachen
  • Islacker   32'
  • Rahn   52'
Report Derwall   56'
Attendance: 37,000

References

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  1. ^ "DFB-Pokal 1952-53" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
  2. ^ Uwe Bahnsen, Kerstin von Stürmer: "Trümmer - Träume - Tor zur Welt: Die Geschichte Hamburgs von 1945 bis heute", Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2012, Hamburg (Germany)
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