The Bundesliga team VfL Wolfsburg was subsequently deprived of its 3-1 victory in the DFB Cup at SC Preußen Münster due to a substitution error.
The sports court of the German Football Association (DFB) granted the regional league club's appeal against the valuation of the first round game this Monday after a hearing in Frankfurt / Main.
According to the sports court, the game was rated 2-0 for Preußen Münster.
Wolfsburg's head coach Mark van Bommel substituted a total of six players in the match on August 8 in Münster.
The Dutchman made three substitutions during regular time, and three other professionals were added in extra time.
According to the DFB statutes, this is not allowed.
Accordingly, Admir Mehmedi should no longer have been substituted for Maximilian Philipp.
Only five changes allowed
The Champions League participant was apparently not aware of the relevant provisions of the DFB.
The corresponding paragraph 31 states: “During the game, five players may be exchanged.
An additional substitution going beyond this in games with overtime is not permitted. ”Another regulation applied to the European Championship and the Olympic football tournament with six permissible changes in the event of overtime.
The decision of the DFB sports court not only paved the way for Preußen Münster to reach the second round of the cup on 26/27.
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At the same time, the judge's verdict gave the fourth division club a fixed premium of around 257,000 euros.
It is not the first time that VfL Wolfsburg had to be eliminated from the DFB Cup by decision at the “Green Table”.
In 2004, the Lower Saxony had used their newcomer Marian Hristov, although he was still banned after a red card for his former club 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
The Wolfsburg want to learn from the change faux pas at the competitive debut of van Bommel. “This is extremely annoying, but unfortunately it cannot be reversed,” said Jörg Schmadtke, VfL's sports director, after the breakdown and announced that “something like this will not happen in the future”.