List of DFB-Pokal winning managers

Xabi Alonso is the reigning DFB-Pokal winning manager.

The list of DFB-Pokal winning managers contains all the managers who have led their respective team to success in the DFB-Pokal. ^[1] The DFB-Pokal has been played since 1952, although the Tschammerpokal, its predecessor, took place from 1935 to 1943. Since then, 56 coaches have won a cup victory. Of these, 41 are German, 4 Yugoslav, 3 Austrian and Dutch, 2 Spanish, and an Italian, Hungarian and Croatian.

Six coaches have won the trophy three times. Hennes Weisweiler was the first to do so in 1978. The other three-time winners are Karl-Heinz Feldkamp (with three different teams), Ottmar Hitzfeld, Udo Lattek, Otto Rehhagel, and Thomas Schaaf. The most successful foreign coaches are Zlatko Čajkovski, Pep Guardiola and Huub Stevens, with two titles. Richard Michalke won the first cup competition in 1935 with 1. FC Nürnberg. The Austrian Leopold Nitsch won in 1938, making him the first foreign manager to win. In 1941, Georg Köhler became the first manager to successfully defend the title. In 2005, Felix Magath became the first coach to complete consecutive league and cup doubles. Hans Meyer is the only manager to win both the DFB-Pokal and the FDGB-Pokal, the cup competition of East Germany.

A total of seven people have won the cup as both player and manager. Ludwig Janda won as a player in 1942 with 1860 Munich and as a manager in 1956 with Karlsruher SC. Alfred Schmidt also did so while playing for Borussia Dortmund in 1965 and managing Kickers Offenbach in 1970. ^{[note 1]} Thomas Schaaf won the DFB-Pokal with the same club, after winning as a player for Werder Bremen in 1991 and 1994, and as manager in 1999, 2004, and 2009. He is also the only person to have won the cup as both player and manager with multiple titles during his playing career. Jupp Heynckes won as a player with Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1973 and as a manager with Bayern Munich in 2013. Niko Kovač won in 2003 as a player with Bayern and in 2018 and 2019 as manager of Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayern Munich, respectively. ^[3] Hansi Flick won in 1986 as a player and in 2020 as a manager, both with Bayern Munich. Xabi Alonso is the most recent manager to have achieved the feat, winning in 2016 as a player with Bayern Munich and in 2024 as manager of Bayer Leverkusen. Schaaf, Kovač and Flick are the only managers to have won titles as a player and manager with the same club, having done so for Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich and Bayern Munich, respectively. Schaaf and Kovač are also the only people to have won the cup as both player and manager with multiple titles during their managerial career.

Winning managers

Zlatko Čajkovski (right) is the most successful foreign manager along with Huub Stevens and Pep Guardiola.

Hennes Weisweiler was the first to win the trophy three times.

Udo Lattek won the trophy thrice with Bayern Munich.

Otto Rehhagel also won the DFB-Pokal three times.

Ottmar Hitzfeld was also a three-time cup winner with Bayern Munich.

Thomas Schaaf won the cup three times with Werder Bremen

Hans Meyer became the first manager to win both the FDGB-Pokal and the DFB-Pokal.

Tschammerpokal

Year	Manager	Club
1935	Richard Michalke [4]	1. FC Nürnberg
1936	Heinrich Pfaff [5]	VfB Leipzig
1937	Hans Schmidt [6]	Schalke 04
1938	Leopold Nitsch [7] [note 2]	Rapid Wien
1939	Alwin Riemke [8]	1. FC Nürnberg
1940	Georg Köhler [9]	Dresdner SC
1941	Georg Köhler [9]	Dresdner SC
1942	Max Schäfer [10]	1860 Munich
1943	Fritz Gschweidl [9] [note 2]	First Vienna

DFB-Pokal

Season	Manager	Club
1952–53	Karl Hohmann [11]	Rot-Weiss Essen
1953–54	Georg Wurzer	VfB Stuttgart
1954–55	Adolf Patek	Karlsruher SC
1955–56	Ludwig Janda	Karlsruher SC
1956–57	Willibald Hahn [12]	Bayern Munich
1957–58	Georg Wurzer	VfB Stuttgart
1958–59	Hans Wendlandt	Schwarz-Weiß Essen
1959–60	Bernd Oles [13]	Borussia München Gladbach
1960–61	Georg Knöpfle [14]	Werder Bremen
1961–62	Herbert Widmayer	1. FC Nürnberg
1962–63	Martin Wilke [15]	Hamburger SV
1963–64	Max Merkel [16]	1860 Munich
1964–65	Hermann Eppenhoff [17]	Borussia Dortmund
1965–66	Zlatko Čajkovski [12]	Bayern Munich
1966–67	Zlatko Čajkovski [12]	Bayern Munich
1967–68	Willi Multhaup [18]	1. FC Köln
1968–69	Branko Zebec [12]	Bayern Munich
1969–70	Kurt Schreiner [note 1]	Kickers Offenbach
1970–71	Udo Lattek [12]	Bayern Munich
1971–72	Ivica Horvat [19]	Schalke 04
1972–73	Hennes Weisweiler [13]	Borussia Mönchengladbach
1973–74	Dietrich Weise [20]	Eintracht Frankfurt
1974–75	Dietrich Weise [20]	Eintracht Frankfurt
1975–76	Kuno Klötzer [15]	Hamburger SV
1976–77	Hennes Weisweiler [18]	1. FC Köln
1977–78	Hennes Weisweiler [18]	1. FC Köln
1978–79	Hans-Dieter Tippenhauer [21]	Fortuna Düsseldorf
1979–80	Otto Rehhagel [21]	Fortuna Düsseldorf
1980–81	Lothar Buchmann [20]	Eintracht Frankfurt
1981–82	Pál Csernai [12]	Bayern Munich
1982–83	Rinus Michels [18]	1. FC Köln
1983–84	Udo Lattek [12]	Bayern Munich
1984–85	Karl-Heinz Feldkamp [22]	Bayer Uerdingen
1985–86	Udo Lattek [12]	Bayern Munich
1986–87	Ernst Happel [15]	Hamburger SV
1987–88	Karl-Heinz Feldkamp [20]	Eintracht Frankfurt
1988–89	Horst Köppel [17]	Borussia Dortmund
1989–90	Karl-Heinz Feldkamp [23]	1. FC Kaiserslautern
1990–91	Otto Rehhagel [24]	Werder Bremen
1991–92	Michael Lorkowski [25]	Hannover 96
1992–93	Dragoslav Stepanović [26]	Bayer Leverkusen
1993–94	Otto Rehhagel [24]	Werder Bremen
1994–95	Bernd Krauss [13]	Borussia Mönchengladbach
1995–96	Eckhard Krautzun [27]	1. FC Kaiserslautern
1996–97	Joachim Löw	VfB Stuttgart
1997–98	Giovanni Trapattoni [12]	Bayern Munich
1998–99	Thomas Schaaf [24]	Werder Bremen
1999–2000	Ottmar Hitzfeld [12]	Bayern Munich
2000–01	Huub Stevens [28]	Schalke 04
2001–02	Huub Stevens [28]	Schalke 04
2002–03	Ottmar Hitzfeld [12]	Bayern Munich
2003–04	Thomas Schaaf [24]	Werder Bremen
2004–05	Felix Magath [12]	Bayern Munich
2005–06	Felix Magath [12]	Bayern Munich
2006–07	Hans Meyer [29]	1. FC Nürnberg
2007–08	Ottmar Hitzfeld [12]	Bayern Munich
2008–09	Thomas Schaaf [30]	Werder Bremen
2009–10	Louis van Gaal [12]	Bayern Munich
2010–11	Ralf Rangnick	Schalke 04
2011–12	Jürgen Klopp [31]	Borussia Dortmund
2012–13	Jupp Heynckes	Bayern Munich
2013–14	Pep Guardiola	Bayern Munich
2014–15	Dieter Hecking	VfL Wolfsburg
2015–16	Pep Guardiola	Bayern Munich
2016–17	Thomas Tuchel	Borussia Dortmund
2017–18	Niko Kovač	Eintracht Frankfurt
2018–19	Niko Kovač	Bayern Munich
2019–20	Hansi Flick	Bayern Munich
2020–21	Edin Terzić	Borussia Dortmund
2021–22	Domenico Tedesco	RB Leipzig
2022–23	Marco Rose	RB Leipzig
2023–24	Xabi Alonso	Bayer Leverkusen

Ranking

By individual

Rank	Manager	Titles	Years
1	Karl-Heinz Feldkamp	3	1985, 1988, 1990
	Ottmar Hitzfeld	3	2000, 2003, 2008
	Udo Lattek	3	1971, 1984, 1986
	Otto Rehhagel	3	1980, 1991, 1994
	Thomas Schaaf	3	1999, 2004, 2009
	Hennes Weisweiler	3	1973, 1977, 1978
7	Zlatko Čajkovski	2	1966, 1967
	Pep Guardiola	2	2014, 2016
	Georg Köhler	2	1940, 1941
	Niko Kovač	2	2018, 2019
	Felix Magath	2	2005, 2006
	Huub Stevens	2	2001, 2002
	Dietrich Weise	2	1974, 1975
	Georg Wurzer	2	1954, 1958

By nationality

Rank	Country	Titles
1	Germany	62
2	Yugoslavia /   FR Yugoslavia	5
3	Austria	4
4	Netherlands	3
	Spain	3
6	Croatia	2
	Italy	2
8	Hungary	1

See also

• DFB-Pokal
• List of Bundesliga managers

Notes

1. Though Alfred Schmidt was manager of Kickers Offenbach at the time of the 1970 DFB-Pokal final, he was not on the bench following a car accident, and was instead represented by Kurt Schreiner. ^[2]
2. As a result of the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany on 13 March 1938, both managers had become German citizens.

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