The DFB Cup game between RB Leipzig and the Hamburg regional league club Teutonia Ottensen has been postponed.
"The reason for this is that the pitch in Dessau is unplayable," said the German cup winner on Wednesday.
The first round game will now take place next Tuesday (8.46 p.m. / ZDF) in Leipzig.
"We are now complying with the request from the DFB to host the match in the Red Bull Arena.
A special regulation of the home right exchange applies, which now grants RB Leipzig the home right in this cup round, ”said the message.
“We went through different scenarios together.
After weighing up all the options, this is the best solution," said Peter Frymuth, Vice President of Game Operations and Football Development at the German Football Association (DFB), on Wednesday.
The game was supposed to be kicked off in Dessau's Paul-Greifzu Stadium.
However, the turf there was so damaged that the playing field cannot be brought back into a playable condition in the short time.
The DFB also announced that the option of replacing the turf had to be discarded, as experts considered the time until the game to be too short and the condition of the turf substructure to be too bad.
As an amateur club, the fourth division club from Hamburg thus loses home rights against the defending champion.
Teutonia was not allowed to use their own stadium because of the artificial turf, the second division clubs FC St. Pauli and Hamburger SV did not want to make their arenas available for a game against RB Leipzig.
The move to Dessau, almost 400 kilometers away, was therefore to take place.
So far, over 7,000 of the 20,000 tickets have been sold.
These are now no longer valid and will be cancelled.
The encounter in the first round could not be played at the end of July because Leipzig was still in action against champions Bayern Munich (3:5) in the Supercup.