The club were suspended from the 2013–14 edition of the DFB-Pokal, due to crowd trouble in the previous season's competition.
Review and events
Dynamo began the season slowly, failing to win any of their first nine matches of the season. This run cost coach Peter Pacult his job, he was sacked in August and replaced by Olaf Janßen. Jansen was unable to save the club from relegation – they finished 17th, having been leapfrogged into this position by Arminia Bielefeld after a dramatic 3–2 home defeat on the last day of the season. Dynamo had won just five games all season, and drawn seventeen.