High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The DFB-Pokal 1971–72 was the 29th season of the competition. It began on 4 December 1971 and ended on 1 July 1972. 32 teams competed in the tournament of five rounds. In the final Schalke 04 defeated Kaiserslautern 5–0, the largest margin by which a DFB-Pokal final was ever decided.