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Founded | 1980 |
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Region | Lower Rhine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
Qualifier for | DFB-Pokal |
Current champions | Rot-Weiss Essen (2023–24) |
Most successful club(s) | Rot-Weiss Essen (11 titles) |
The Lower Rhine Cup (German: Niederrheinpokal) is a German football club Cup competition open to teams from the Lower Rhine region of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The competition is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football and acts as a qualifier for the following seasons' German Cup.[1]
The competition is sponsored by the Diebels brewery and carries the official name Diebels Niederrheinpokal. It is operated by the Lower Rhine Football Association, the FVN.[2]