High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010–11 DFB-Pokal was the sixty-eighth season of the annual German football cup competition. It commenced on the weekend around 14 August 2010 with the matches of Round 1 and concluded on 21 May 2011 with the final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The competition was won by FC Schalke 04, who thus qualified for the play-off round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.