Lower Rhine Cup


The Lower Rhine Cup 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.
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.

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.
All clubs from the Lower Rhine playing in the 3. Liga, Regionalliga West and Oberliga Niederrhein 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.
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:
ClubWinsYears
Rot-Weiss Essen91993, 1995, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016
Wuppertaler SV Borussia61981, 1985, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007
FC Remscheid31990, 1991, 1994
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen31996, 1998, 2018
Schwarz-Weiß Essen21987, 2010
SSVg. Velbert22003, 2006
MSV Duisburg22014, 2017
KFC Uerdingen 0522001, 2019
Sportfreunde Baumberg12013
VfB Speldorf12009
Borussia Mönchengladbach Amateure11997
SV Viktoria Goch11986
1. FC Bocholt11983
Bayer 05 Uerdingen Amateure11982