Cup fatal: Freiburg have also managed some painful defeats in the DFB-Pokal. As a fresh Bundesliga side they reached the quarter-finals in 1994 and drew what seemed the easiest possible opponent, second-division strugglers Tennis Borussia Berlin, at home, only to carelessly throw away what looked like a free ticket to the semis with a 1–0 defeat. In the next season they were out in round one, 3–1 at third-tier Stuttgarter Kickers.\n\nIt was only the start of a series of slip-ups against amateurs: Sportfreunde Siegen in 1998, Darmstadt in 2001 on penalties, and Unterhaching in 2011. They were also knocked out five times by second-division clubs.
A film about SC in the cup would probably be called Beware the Trap.