Lower Rhine Cup

Lower Rhine Cup
Founded1980
RegionLower Rhine,
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany
Qualifier forDFB-Pokal
Current championsRot-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]

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]

  1. ^ "DFB Cup Men – Mode". DFB. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  2. ^ Diebels Niederrheinpokal (in German) FVN website. Retrieved 9 July 2012