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The record attendance for Germany was 73,680 in the 2011 Women's World Cup opening game against Canada at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. [62] That game also set a new European record in women's football.
Germany is one of only two nations to have won both the FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women's World Cup. [7] [8] At the end of the 2014 World Cup, Germany earned the highest Elo rating of any national football team in history, with a record 2,205 points. [9] Germany is also the only European nation that has won a FIFA World Cup in the Americas.
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]
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. In total, 235 players have appeared for ...
Arrival in Frankfurt after winning the 2007 Women's World Cup. The Germany women's national football team has represented Germany at the FIFA Women's World Cup on nine occasions in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023. They have won the title twice and were runners-up once. [1] They also reached the fourth place in 1991 and ...
Nadine Keßler (German pronunciation: [naˈdiːn ˈkɛslɐ]; [1] [2] born 4 April 1988) is a German retired footballer and current UEFA's head of women's football. [3] She played for VfL Wolfsburg and the German national team. [4] Keßler was the recipient of the FIFA World Player of the Year award at the 2014 FIFA Ballon d'Or.
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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.