Stuttgart's Jeff Chabot heads the ball during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, final match between Arminia Bielefeld and VfB Stuttgart at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
VfB Stuttgart players celebrate after Stuttgart's Deniz Undav, centre, scored his side's third goal during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, final match between Arminia Bielefeld and VfB Stuttgart at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
VfB Stuttgart players celebrate after Stuttgart's Deniz Undav, centre, scored his side's third goal during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, final match between Arminia Bielefeld and VfB Stuttgart at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Stuttgart's Maximilian Mittelstaedt reacts during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, final match between Arminia Bielefeld and VfB Stuttgart at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
VfB Stuttgart supporters burn flares and wave flags during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, final match between Arminia Bielefeld and VfB Stuttgart at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Stuttgart's Jeff Chabot heads the ball during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, final match between Arminia Bielefeld and VfB Stuttgart at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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VfB Stuttgart players celebrate after Stuttgart's Deniz Undav, centre, scored his side's third goal during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, final match between Arminia Bielefeld and VfB Stuttgart at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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VfB Stuttgart players celebrate after Stuttgart's Deniz Undav, centre, scored his side's third goal during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, final match between Arminia Bielefeld and VfB Stuttgart at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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Stuttgart's Maximilian Mittelstaedt reacts during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, final match between Arminia Bielefeld and VfB Stuttgart at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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VfB Stuttgart supporters burn flares and wave flags during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, final match between Arminia Bielefeld and VfB Stuttgart at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Stuttgart ruthlessly capitalized on errors in Arminia Bielefeld’s defense to win the German Cup with a 4-2 victory in the final on Saturday.
Enzo Millot scored twice and Germany forwards Nick Woltemade and Deniz Undav got the others as Stuttgart claimed its fourth German Cup win and the first since 1997.
Bielefeld, the third-division champion, was playing in the final for the first time as only the fourth representative from that division to ever reach German soccer’s end-of-season showpiece.
But there was no fairytale ending for the team’s American captain, Mael Corboz, after he helped the team Bayer Leverkusen in the semifinals and a host of Bundesliga clubs en route to the final.
Substitute Julian Kania scored a late consolation goal, a minute before Josha Vagnoman’s own goal, to get the Bielefeld fans singing again before the end.
Both sets of supporters displayed huge choreographies before the match in front of 74,000 spectators at Berlin’s Olympiastadion, where they repeatedly ignored appeals to stop setting off pyrotechnics.
