Overview
- The draw will take place Sunday, November 1 beginning at 19:15 at the Deutsches Fußballmuseum in Dortmund and will be shown live on ARD's Sportschau with free livestreams on sportschau.de and Joyn.
- All 16 teams left in the competition come from the first and second Bundesliga, with ten Bundesliga clubs and six from the 2. Bundesliga in the pot.
- The draw is unseeded so high‑profile Bundesliga matchups are possible and the team drawn first in each pairing will receive home advantage.
- Media report that Lea Wagner will host, Markus Gaugisch will perform the draw and DFB vice‑president Peter Frymuth will oversee the process, though those personnel details are reported rather than independently verified.
- The round‑of‑16 matches are scheduled for December 1 and 2, a stage that will affect club travel, match scheduling and gate revenue as well as shaping the path to the final at Berlin's Olympiastadion.