RB Leipzig's challenge: no one has ever won three DFB Pokal titles in a row
RB Leipzig begin their defence of the DFB Pokal double crown on Wednesday. In the entire history of the competition, no club have ever won it three times in a row.
RB Leipzig have the chance to make DFB Pokal history this season. Winners of the 2022 and 2023 editions, they would do what no one has ever done before if they were to win their third consecutive crown.
No team in Germany has been able to win the DFB Pokal 3 times in a row. The record stands at 2, which RB Leipzig currently hold.
Not even Bayern Munich, 20-time winners of the competition, have been able to make the 'threepeat'. They won two consecutive cups in 1966 and 1967, 2005 and 2006, 2013 and 2014, and 2019 and 2020.
The closest a club have ever come to winning three consecutive titles was in 1968 and 2015, when Bayern Munich were eliminated in the semi-finals.
Other clubs that have won 2 DFB Pokal in a row are Dresdner SC, Karlsruher, Eintracht Frankfurt, Koln, Fortuna Dusseldorf and Schalke 04.