Borussia to visit SV Oberachern in DFB-Pokal first round

Borussia Mönchengladbach will play fifth-tier side SV Oberachern in the first round of the 2022/23 DFB-Pokal. The tie will take place between 29th July and 1st August after the draw was made on Sunday evening.

Borussia's first competitive opponent of the 2022/23 season has been determined. The Foals will travel to take on SV Oberachern in the first round of the DFB-Pokal. Oberachern are in 13th place in the fifth-tier Baden-Württemberg Oberliga with one game remaining, and qualified for the DFB Pokal for the first time in club history after winning the Südbaden regional cup. As such, the side were assigned to the ‘amateur’ pot for the draw, which was carried out on Sunday evening by World Cup winner Kevin Großkreutz and DFB Vice President Peter Frymuth at the German Football Museum in Dortmund.

SV Oberachern play their home games at the Waldsee Stadium in Oberachern. The stadium has a standing capacity of 1,600 spectators. However, the game is likely to take place in either Kehl, Offenburg or Freiburg, rather than the town of just 4,000 inhabitants.

The match will be played between 29th July and 1st August, one week before the start of the new Bundesliga season. The exact scheduling will follow in the weeks after the draw.

Last season, Borussia were knocked out of the DFB-Pokal in the round of 16 after a 3-0 defeat away to second-division Hannover 96. In the round before that, Gladbach defeated FC Bayern Munich 5-0 at home after kicking their cup campaign off with a 1-0 away win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Borussia last lifted the DFB-Pokal in 1995.

DFB-Pokal first round draw at a glance:

Jahn Regensburg - 1. FC Köln
FV Engers 07 - Arminia Bielefeld
VfB Lübeck - Hansa Rostock
1. FC Kaan-Marienborn - 1. FC Nürnberg
Schott Mainz - Hannover 96
TSG Neustrelitz - Karlsruher SC
Teutonia 05 Ottensen - RB Leipzig
Dynamo Dresden - VfB Stuttgart
Viktoria Berlin - VfL Bochum
Chemnitzer FC - Union Berlin
SV 07 Elversberg - Bayer 04 Leverkusen
BSV Rehden - SV Sandhausen
FC Einheit Wernigerode - SC Paderborn 07
SV Rödinghausen - TSG Hoffenheim
FV Illertissen - 1. FC Heidenheim
Kickers Offenbach - Fortuna Düsselsdorf
Eintracht Braunschweig - Hertha BSC
TSV 1860 München - Borussia Dortmund
1. FC Kaiserslautern - SC Freiburg
SV Oberachern - Borussia Mönchengladbach
FC Ingolstadt - SV Darmstadt 98
Waldhof Mannheim - Holstein Kiel
TuS BW Lohne - FC Augsburg
SV Straelen - FC St. Pauli
SpVgg Bayreuth - Hamburger SV
Erzgebirge Aue - 1. FSV Mainz 05
Energie Cottbus - Werder Bremen
Bremer SV - FC Schalke 04
FC Carl Zeiss Jena - VfL Wolfsburg
Stuttgarter Kickers - Greuther Fürth
Viktoria Köln - FC Bayern München
1. FC Magdeburg - Eintracht Frankfurt