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The Verbandspokal (English: Association Cup) is a regional football competition in Germany. There are 21 Verbandspokal competitions which function as qualifying tournaments for the following seasons DFB-Pokal, the premier German Cup competition.〔(Modus ) ''DFB'' website: Modus, accessed: 17 January 2015〕 While no Verbandspokal winner has ever gone on to win the German Cup two have reached the final. Hertha BSC Amateure won the Berlin Cup in 1992 and went on to lose the 1992–93 DFB-Pokal final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Energie Cottbus won the 1996 Brandenburg Cup and went on to lose the 1996–97 DFB-Pokal final against VfB Stuttgart.〔(Historie ) ''DFB'' website: History, accessed: 17 January 2015〕 Apart from the 21 Verbandspokal champions three more teams are qualified from the regional football association to bring the number of clubs in the first round of the DFB-Pokal to 64. These three teams come from the three regional associations with the most amount of members, these currently being Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Westphalia.〔 The regional competitions, (plural:''Verbandspokale'') are generally open to all clubs in the 3. Liga and below, however regional rules vary between associations. 3. Liga clubs have a double chance to qualify for the first round of the DFB-Pokal, through the Verbandspokale and through finishing in the top four in their league. Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga clubs are not permitted to enter as they are already directly qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal. The finals of the competitions can attract large numbers of spectators, like the 2014 Lower Rhine Cup between MSV Duisburg and TV Jahn Hiesfeld did, which was watched by 24,000 in Duisburg.〔(Hiesfeld schnuppert am Pokal-Coup ) ''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'', published: 16 May 2014, accessed: 18 January 2015〕 As of 2013–14 the SV Werder Bremen II, reserve team of SV Werder Bremen, is the most successful team in any Verbandspokal competition, having won the Bremen Cup twenty times, followed by Tennis Borussia Berlin with sixteen Berlin Cup wins and Holstein Kiel with 15 Schleswig-Holstein Cup wins. ==Rules and regulations== Rules and regulations for the Verbandspokale are set by the regional football associations and vary. Bavaria, the largest one, stipulates that reserve teams are not permitted to participate in the Bavarian Cup. Teams from lower divisions always have home advantage, if two teams of the same division are drawn against each other the team drawn first receives home advantage. Bavarian clubs from the 3. Liga and Regionalliga Bayern, except reserve teams, are obliged to participate in the cup. Clubs from the two Bayernliga divisions and the five Landesliga Bayern divisions play a qualifying round. Additionally, the 24 regional cup winners in Bavaria, the ''Kreispokale'', are also qualified for the first round of the Bavarian Cup. If a game is undecided after regular time a penalty shoot out follows, no extra time is played.〔(Spielordnung ) ''BFV'' website: Rules & Regulations, accessed: 18 January 2015〕 In Lower Saxony, the third-largest association, clubs from the state playing in the 3. Liga, Regionalliga Nord and Oberliga Niedersachsen as well as the four ''Bezirkspokal'' winners are qualified for the first round of the Lower Saxony Cup.〔(Spielordnung ) ''NFV'' website: Rules & Regulations, accessed: 18 January 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Verbandspokal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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