out followed to determine the winner. The winner of the 2013–14 Bavarian Cup was automatically qualified for the first round of the German Cup the following season. The second spot awarded to the Bavarian Football Association for the first round of the German Cup went to FV Illertissen, the best-placed non-reserve side in the Regionalliga Bayern. Should the same team have won the cup and finished as the best non-reserve side in the Regionalliga the second spot would have gone to the losing finalist. Schedule The dates set for the various rounds were: First round: 21 August 2013 Second round: 28 August 2013 Round of sixteen: 3 October 2013 Quarter finals: 9 April 2014 Semi finals: 30 April 2014 Final: 14 May 2014 Prize money The BFV awarded prize money to all clubs participating in the 2013–14 edition. Every Kreispokal winner was awarded €700. Every club participating in the first round received €150, the winners of the first round €250. From there it gradually increased to the winner of the competition receiving €5,000. The winner of the Bavarian Cup also received another €140,000 from the DFB for participating in the first round of the DFB-Pokal. Apart from this the club also received the gate receipts as all amateur clubs are guaranteed a home game for the first round. By reaching the second round of the German Cup Würzburger Kickers earned €408,000 from the German Football Federation, the DFB in television and advertising revenue. Overview The final of the competition saw two Regionalliga Bayern sides playing each other with SV Schalding-Heining hosting Würzburger Kickers. Schalding went ahead twice but eventually the game ended two all. In the following penalty shoot out Kickers defeated Schalding 4–2. It was the first cup win for Würzburg while SV Schalding-Heining had previously won the inaugural Bavarian Cup in 1998. Of the three 3. Liga sides in the competition, the only clubs in the competition at fully professional level, Wacker Burghausen was knocked out in the semi finals after the club had in turn knocked out SpVgg Unterhaching in the round before. The third of those clubs, Jahn Regensburg, was defeated 4–3 by Sportfreunde Dinkelsbühl in round two, a club playing three divisions lower in the Landesliga. Dinkelsbühl was also the only side from the Landesliga level or below to reach the last eight of the competition, eventually going out to Würzburger Kickers in the semi