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The team is fielded by the German Football Association (DFB), the governing body of football in Germany, and competes as a member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). Germany competed in their first international match on 10 November 1982, a 5–1 win in a friendly against Switzerland .
The German team qualified for all Women's Olympic Football Tournaments until 2008. However, they failed to qualify for the 2012 tournament as UEFA used the 2011 World Cup for qualification, and Germany ended below France and Sweden. [115] The German team beat Sweden in the Olympics final in Rio in 2016 to obtain their first Olympic gold medal ...
West German women's footballers (1 C, 56 P) Pages in category "German women's footballers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 541 total.
A list of football players, past and present, to play full internationals for the Germany women's national football team. This includes Olympic teams, which are not age-restricted (unlike men's Olympic teams, which are restricted to under 23). For men's international players, see Category:Germany men's international footballers.
Former captains of the national team may be awarded the title of honorary captain (German: Ehrenspielführer) by the German Football Association. To date, six former players of the men's team have received this award: Fritz Walter (1958), Uwe Seeler (1972), Franz Beckenbauer (1982), Lothar Matthäus (2001), Jürgen Klinsmann (2016) and Philipp ...
The German women's football championship was first held in 1973–74. Until 1989–90 the German championship was held as a single-elimination tournament. A nationwide league, the Bundesliga was incepted in 1990–91. As the league consisted of two divisions playoffs were still held at the end of the season.
Birgit Prinz (born 25 October 1977) is a German former footballer, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. In addition to the German national team , Prinz played for 1.
The German Women's National Football Team started play in 1983. Women's football was long met with skepticism in Germany, and official matches were banned by the DFB until 1970. [1] However, the women's national team has grown in popularity since winning the World Cup in 2003, [2] as it was chosen as Germany's Sports Team of the Year. [3]