German Football Team: Brief: News: Facts
Germany national football team (deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft or just Die Mannschaft) is the men’s football team that represents Germany in international competitions since 1908. It is governed by the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund), founded in 1900.Official name and code “Germany FR (FRG)” was shortened to “Germany (GER)” following the reunification in 1990. Prior to reunification two separate teams representing the Saarland (1950-56) and the East German team representing the German Democratic Republic (1952-1990) were playing respectively.
Below stats show why the German team is one of the most successful national team in the world
| World Cup | European Championship | Confederation Cup | Olympic |
| 1954 | 1972 | 2017 | 1976 |
| 1974 | 1980 | ||
| 1990 | 1996 | ||
| 2014 |
FIFA ranking history
| 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Interesting facts related to the German Football Team
- Four-time world cup winners behind Brazil with five trophies
- 13 semifinal appearances
- Qualified for all 18 world cups it entered
- Lothar Matthaus is most capped German player with 150 appearances
- Miroslav Klose is the highest scoreer for Germany with 71 goals
- 7 to 1 win against Brazil (2014 FIFA WC) is one of the most dominating win in recent football context
- German football team is the highest goal scoring team in last 3 WCs
- Germany is currently number 1 ranked team followed by Brazil
- 9 members of the 2014 winning squad are playing for 2018 WC.
As Germany takes on Mexico today, the two sides have played 11 times against each other with Germany winning 6 times while Mexico winning 4 and 1 draw. Not much to choose as far as head to head record is considered but when you take into consideration the fact that Mexico last won in 1985 and since then it’s been Germany who has dominated. A good contest in offing for all fans.
