Overview
- Kickoff is Tuesday, 26 August at 20:45 local time at the Eintracht-Stadion in Braunschweig.
- The match airs free on ARD with streaming on Joyn and the ARD Mediathek, while Sky broadcasts all DFB-Pokal games for subscribers.
- Stuttgart arrive as defending champions, with coach Sebastian Hoeneß stressing the need to progress and to stay title holders as long as possible.
- Hoeneß reported a broken nose for Luca Jaquez and muscular issues for Jeff Chabot and Ameen Al-Dakhil, and said Finn Jeltsch and Ramon Hendriks are set to start in central defense.
- Second-tier Braunschweig enter confident after a positive league start with six points and sit sixth in the 2. Bundesliga.