Lower Rhine Cup

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Lower Rhine Cup
RevierSport-Niederrheinpokal Logo.svg
Founded1980
Region Lower Rhine,
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany
Qualifier for DFB-Pokal
Current champions Rot-Weiss Essen (2023–24)
Most successful club(s) Rot-Weiss Essen (11 titles)

The Lower Rhine Cup (German: Niederrheinpokal) is a German football club Cup competition open to teams from the Lower Rhine region of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The competition is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football and acts as a qualifier for the following seasons' German Cup. [1]

Contents

The competition is sponsored by the Diebels brewery and carries the official name Diebels Niederrheinpokal. It is operated by the Lower Rhine Football Association, the FVN. [2]

Modus

Clubs from fully professional leagues are not permitted to enter the competition, meaning, no teams from the Fußball-Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga can compete. [2]

All clubs from the Lower Rhine playing in the 3. Liga (III), Regionalliga West (IV) and Oberliga Niederrhein (V) are directly qualified for the first round, the remaining places in the first round are filled with the teams who qualified from local cup competitions, the Kreispokale. [2]

Since the establishment of the 3. Liga in 2008, reserve teams can not take part in the German Cup or the Lower Rhine Cup anymore.

Winners

The past winners of the competition: [3]

ClubWinsYears
Rot-Weiss Essen 111995, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2023, 2024
Wuppertaler SV 71981, 1985, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2021
FC Remscheid 31990, 1991, 1994
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 31996, 1998, 2018
MSV Duisburg 31989, 2014, 2017
Schwarz-Weiß Essen 21987, 2010
SSVg. Velbert 22003, 2006
KFC Uerdingen 05 22001, 2019
Sportfreunde Baumberg 12013
VfB Speldorf 12009
Borussia Mönchengladbach Amateure 11997
SV Viktoria Goch 11986
1. FC Bocholt 11983
Bayer 05 Uerdingen Amateure 11982
SV Straelen 12022

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References

  1. "DFB Cup Men – Mode". DFB. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 Diebels Niederrheinpokal (in German)FVN website. Retrieved 9 July 2012
  3. Endspiele und Titelgewinner im Niederrheinpokal Archived 2012-10-03 at the Wayback Machine (in German)FVN website – Finals and winners of the Lower Rhine Cup. Retrieved 9 July 2012