Lucio was initially handed a three-match suspension for an apparent elbow on Thomas Meggle in Bayern's 2-1 first round cup win over FC St Pauli.

Lucio maintained the incident, for which he received a red card, was an accident and the Bayern appeal has not fallen on deaf ears with the DFB panel agreeing to reduce the suspension by two matches.

However the World Cup winner with Brazil in 2002 still has to pay a 10,000-euro (12,700 dollar) fine for his conduct.