Yeah unfortunately, not really. Some smaller upsets, yes, but no really big embarrassing loss for any of the bigger clubs and the upsets we got were few.
I'll put the league in brackets behind the club names. Bold names are the winners.
(I) = 1. Bundesliga
(II) = 2. Bundesliga
(III) = 3. Liga /3rd league
(IV) = Regionalliga / 4th tier league
(V) = Oberliga club / 5th tier league
The Friday started with:
Würzburger Kickers (IV) - TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (I) 3:5 in penalties
Wehen Wiesbaden (III) - FSV Mainz 05 (I) 1:3 after extra time
Hallescher FC (IV) - FC St. Pauli (I) 2:3 after extra time
SSV Ulm 1846 (II) - FC Bayern München (I) 0:4
So the Friday started with some close matches where the lower league clubs forced all the Bundesliga clubs at least into extra time. Except Ulm. Ulm had no chance against FC Bayern. Like Ulm tried in the first 10 minutes but then Bayern started actually playing football.
But if you were rooting for the smaller teams and the Friday matches put some hope in your heart, well, the Saturday matches ripped it out, stomped onto it and then spat on your foolish football romantic feelings. Because only fags feel stuff.
FC Erzgebirge Aue (III) - Borussia Mönchengladbach (I) 1:3
TSV Schott Mainz (V) - Greuther Fürth (II) 0:2
FC Villingen (IV) - 1. FC Heidenheim (I) 0:4
Rot-Weiss Essen (III) - RB Leipzig (I) 1:4
FC Ingolstadt (III) - 1. FC Kaiserlautern (II) 1:2
VfR Aalen (V) - FC Schalke 04 (II) 0:2
VfL Osnabrück (III) - SC Freiburg (I) 0:4
Greifswalder FC (IV) - Union Berlin (I) 0:1
Arminia Bielefeld (III) - Hannover 96 (II) 2:0
Phönix Lübeck (IV) - Borussia Dortmund (I) 1:4
Alemania Aachen (III) - Holstein Kiel (I) 2:3
None of the smaller teams could even force the bigger clubs at least into extra time. Except Arminia Bielefeld who won against Hannover. But Arminia only got relegated to 3rd league last season while Hannover ranked 6th in 2. Bundesliga. So the gap isn't that huge in the end. And nobody cares about Arminia Bielefeld. Not even the people of Bielefeld.
So the Sunday could only do better. And in fact we got at least two lols out of the Sunday matches.
1. FC Saarbrücken (III) - 1. FC Nürnberg (II) 3:5 after penalties
Viktoria 1889 Berlin (IV) - FC Augsburg (I) 1:4
Jahn Regensburg (II) - VfL Bochum (I) 1:0
Bremer SV (IV) - SC Paderborn 07 (II) 0:4
VfV Hildesheim (V) - SV Elversberg (II) 0:7
SV Sandhausen (III) - 1. FC Köln (II) 2:3 after extra time
Hansa Rostock (III) - Hertha BSC Berlin (II) 1:5
Teutonia Ottensen (IV) - Darmstadt 98 (II) 1:3
Dynamo Dresden (III) - Fortuna Düsseldorf (II) 2:0
Sportfreunde Lotte (IV) - Karlsruher SC (II) 0:5
SV Meppen (IV) - Hamburger SV (II) 1:7
With Bochum, last year fighting relegation from Bundesliga and being a top candidate for this season's relegation battle again, we saw a 1st tier club getting eaten by Regensburg who only got relegated to 2nd Bundesliga this year.
Dynamo Dresden, who are notorious for kicking out higher ranked teams, beat Düsseldorf who were fighting for relegation to 1st Bundesliga at the end of last season but for them to fail in the end in the two relegation matches - against Bochum.
Today we had the last matches and at least one other upset victory too.
Energie Cottbus (III) - Werder Bremen (I) 1:3
TuS Koblenz (V) - VfL Wolfsburg (I) 0:1
Kickers Offenbach (IV) - FC Magdeburg (II) 2:1
Eintracht Braunschweig (II) - Eintracht Frankfurt (I) 1:4
Not going to sperg much about my Frankfurt boys. The 1st half was shit -it was 0:0 at half time-, the 2nd one was how a Bundesliga team that plays internationally should handle lower tier clubs.
Stuttgart (I) will face Preussen Münster from 2nd Bundesliga who only got relegated to 2nd Bundesliga this season. Stuttgart, despited some of their important players being gone, showed in the Super Cup match that they still are as strong as last season where they surprisingly ranked 2nd even befor FC Bayern so I guess Münster won't really stand a chance against them.
Leverkusen will face Carl Zeis Jena, a 4th tier club so yeah, no way the invincibles of Leverkusen are going to lose.
With this being said, out of 15 lower tier teams only 4 survived the 1st round: Regensburg (II), Dresden (III), Bielefeld (III) and Offenbach (IV).
Dresden made it through the next round, depending on whom they will draw as opponent. But the rest? Yeah, they will be gone after the 2nd round.
