2006 DFL-Ligapokal

2006 DFL-Ligapokal

Tournament programme cover
Tournament details
Country	Germany
Teams	6
Final positions
Champions	Werder Bremen
Runner-up	Bayern Munich
Tournament statistics
Matches played	5
Goals scored	8 (1.6 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Ivan Klasnić (2)

The 2006 DFL-Ligapokal was the tenth edition of the DFL-Ligapokal. Werder Bremen won their first title, beating Bayern Munich 2–0 in the final.

Participating clubs

A total of six teams qualified for the competition. The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League position
• CW: Cup winners
• TH: Title holders

Semi-finals
Bayern Munich (1st + CW)	Werder Bremen (2nd)
Preliminary round
Hamburger SV (3rd)	Bayer Leverkusen (5th)
Schalke 04TH (4th)	Hertha BSC (6th)

Matches

Preliminary round

29 July 2006

20:00

Hamburger SV	1–0	Hertha BSC
Kompany 52'	Report

LTU-Arena, Düsseldorf

Attendance: 23,195

Referee: Peter Vink

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29 July 2006

18:15

Schalke 04	1–1	Bayer Leverkusen
Bordon 37'	Report	Rodríguez 29' (o.g.)
Penalties
Bajramović Boenisch Rost Kobiashvili Larsen Halil Altıntop Løvenkrands Hamit Altıntop Baumjohann Abel Larsen	9–8	Babić Rolfes Barbarez Castro Butt Kießling Touré Madouni Ramelow Haggui Babić

LTU-Arena, Düsseldorf

Attendance: 23,195

Referee: Alain Hamer

Semi-finals

1 August 2006

20:30

Werder Bremen	2–1	Hamburger SV
Zidan 50' Frings 82'	Report	Sanogo 70'

Weserstadion, Bremen

Attendance: 27,650

Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer

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2 August 2006

20:30

Bayern Munich	0–0	Schalke 04
	Report
Penalties
Scholl Hargreaves Santa Cruz Sagnol	4–1	Boenisch Abel Løvenkrands

Allianz Arena, Munich

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Lutz Wagner

Final

Main article: 2006 DFL-Ligapokal final

5 August 2006 (2006-08-05)

18:00 CEST

Werder Bremen	2–0	Bayern Munich
Klasnić 29', 66'	Report

Zentralstadion, Leipzig

Attendance: 41,300

Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)