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This is Leverkusen’s second German Cup win after their maiden victory in 1993.

Xabi Alonso and his players spoke with real pride after their Bayer Leverkusen team overcame Odilon Kossounous first-half sending off to edge past Bundesliga 2s Kaiserslautern and add the 2023/24 DFB Cup to their maiden Bundesliga title. bundesliga.com rounds up the match reaction...

Bayer Leverkusen are on course to finish the domestic season unbeaten by completing a sensational double in Berlin, with Kaiserslautern aiming to pull off one of the biggest shocks imaginable in the DFB Cup final on Saturday (kick-off: 8pm CEST).

Ahead of the DFB Pokal final, the narrative has been all about Leverkusen. But Kaiserslautern believes that they can make the impossible possible in Berlin.

A late Danel Sinani strike helped St. Pauli to complete a comeback against Wiesbaden to be crowned second-division champions, but there was despair for Hansa Rostock, who couldnt beat the drop.

Kaiserslautern became the first side from outside the Bundesliga to reach the German Cup final since 2011 on Tuesday, ending third-tier Saarbrueckens run with a 2-0 victory. Hosts Saarbruecken were bidding to become the first third-division club to lift the trophy in the competitio ..

German football club Kaiserslautern could be playing in the Europa League and in the domestic third division at the same time next season. This extraordinary scenario is possible because the club reached the German Cup final on May 25 in Berlin with a 2-0 victory at third-tier Saarbrücken on Tuesday night. The Cup winner gets direct entry into the Europa League, but at the same time Kaiserslautern are in third-last place in the second division. It means that Kaiserslautern could be relegate...

Second division Kaiserslautern ended the fairytale run of third tier Saarbrücken in the German Cup with a 2-0 semi-final victory on Tuesday to reach the final for the first time in 21 years. Almamy Touré set up Marlon Ritter to head the opening goal in the 53rd minute, and then clinched matters himself with a 75th-minute header for visiting twice Cup winners Kaiserslautern. The defeat ended Saarbrücken's remarkable campaign during which they had upset a Bundesliga trio of rec...

The US military has once again destroyed a mobile anti-ship missile set to be launched by Houthi militants from Yemen at ships in the Red Sea, the US regional military command Centcom announced on Wednesday. Another missile fired from a Houthi-controlled area in Yemen on Tuesday night towards the Gulf of Aden was tracked by the US Navy but was not intercepted because it appeared likely to miss ships in the area and crash into open water, Centcom said in a post to X, the platform formerly known a

Javier Hernández, better known as Chicharito, is the most famous Mexican ever to have graced the Bundesliga (and arguably the whole world!), inspiring a number of his compatriots to follow suit. But he was by no means the first of his countrymen to play in Germany’s top flight.