The DFB-Ligapokal, or German League Cup, was a German football competition that took place before the start of the Bundesliga season, featuring the top five teams of the previous Fußball-Bundesliga season and the winners of the DFB-Pokal in Germany. The cup has been known as the Premiere-Ligapokal since 2005, when Premiere, a German pay television network, took up sponsorship of the competition. The Ligapokal was not held in 2008 due to schedule crowding caused by the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship. Instead, the T-Home German Supercup was held on 23 July 2008. The DFB-Ligapokal was not held on 2009 either, due to the German Football Association's decision to abolish it. For the last edition of the DFB-Ligapokal, in 2007, the fifth-placed Bundesliga team (Bayer Leverkusen) was dropped from the competition, replaced by the winner of the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga (Karlsruhe).
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