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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 ...
The East German women's national football team had played only one official international match, losing 3–0 to Czechoslovakia in a friendly match on 9 May 1990. The unified German team defended their title successfully at the 1991 European Championship .
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.
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 ...
For association football in Germany, this page details football records in Germany. National team ... FIFA Women's World Cup. Champions (2): 2003, 2007;
This was the first women's football game broadcast live in Germany. On July 2, 1989, the German team beat the favored Norwegian team 4–1 in front of 23,000 spectators. This was an attendance record for a German women's team that would last until May 24, 2008, when 27,460 spectators watched 1.
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.