DFB Cup: in more recent cup history, Bremen lived by the motto everyone embarrasses themselves as well as they can between 2012 and 2014. Three years in a row the green-and-whites went out in round one to a third-division club. Heidenheim tripped them up in 2012, and in 2013 and 2014 Preussen Muenster and Saarbruecken both advanced after extra time. In 2016 the slogan became full Lotte as Sportfreunde Lotte beat the favorites 2:1.