Das DFB-Pokal-Wunder des FC St. Pauli

FC St. Pauli's DFB Cup Miracle Frank Fechner, then managing director of FC St. Pauli, remembers the summer of 2005. The summer before the salvageable B-series began. What happened was not only unique in sporting terms, but also life-saving for the proud FC St. Pauli. In eight months and five DFB Cup rounds, the Regionalliga team prevented "the club from disappearing from the football map," as Fabian Boll puts it. FC St. Pauli knocked four higher-league teams out of the competition. After victories against Burghausen, Bochum, Berlin, and Bremen, they only lost in the semifinals against Bayern.