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The most players to be sent off in a single Germany match is three, against Uruguay on 3 June 1928: the German players Hans Kalb and Richard Hofmann were dismissed, in addition to the Uruguayan José Nasazzi. Two German players have been sent off after being brought on as a substitute: Ulf Kirsten and Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Youngest player: Willy Baumgärtner, 17 years, 104 days, 5 April 1908, 3–5 v Switzerland Oldest player: Lothar Matthäus , 39 years, 91 days, 20 June 2000, 0–3 v Portugal Oldest debutant: Karl Sesta , 35 years, 83 days, 15 June 1941, 5–1 v Croatia
Lothar Matthäus earned 150 caps for Germany, a team record, and went to nine major international tournaments, captaining the 1990 World Cup-winning team. The Germany national football team played its first international match on 5 April 1908 during the era of the German Empire, losing 5–3 to Switzerland in Basel.
The new British game of football quickly caught on in late 19th-century Germany, which had previously been a nation of gymnasts and fencers.The earliest attempt at organizing some form of national championship came in 1894, when city champions Viktoria 89 Berlin invited FC Hanau 93 to play a challenge match.
Julius Hirsch was the first Jewish player to represent the Germany national football team, which he joined in 1911. [24] [25] Hirsch scored four goals for Germany against the Netherlands in 1912, becoming the first German to score four goals in a single match. [26] [27] Forward Gottfried Fuchs, key player for Germany at the 1912 Olympic Games
The Bundesliga was founded as the top tier of German football at the start of the 1963–64 season. The following is a list of records attained in the Bundesliga since the league's inception. [1] Statistics are accurate as of the 2024–25 season.
This is a list of Bundesliga top scorers season by season. [1] Since 1966, a trophy sponsored by the German football magazine Kicker, shaped in the form of a miniature artillery piece, has been awarded to the top scorer at the end of each season.
The All-time Bundesliga table (German: Ewige Tabelle der Bundesliga) is a ranking of all German football clubs based on their performance in the Bundesliga, the top division of German football. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw, and 0 for a loss, although the Bundesliga awarded 2 points for a win until the 1994–95 ...