Soccer World Cup 2006 / Germany

This article covers the German national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany .

qualification

As the host, the German team was automatically qualified for the finals.

Contingent

No.	player	society	Date of birth	Caps / Goals (a)	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
23	Timo Hildebrand	VfB Stuttgart	04/05/1979	03 ( 00)	0	0	0	0	0
12th	Oliver Kahn	FC Bayern Munich	06/15/1969	85 ( 00)	1	0	0	0	0
1	Jens Lehmann	Arsenal FC	11/10/1969	32 ( 00)	6th	0	0	0	0
defender
3	Arne Friedrich	Hertha BSC	05/29/1979	36 ( 00)	6th	0	1	0	0
4th	Robert Huth	Chelsea FC	08/18/1984	16 ( 02)	1	0	0	0	0
2	Marcell Jansen	Borussia Monchengladbach	04/11/1985	07 ( 00)	1	0	0	0	0
16	Philipp Lahm	FC Bayern Munich	11/11/1983	18 ( 01)	7th	1	0	0	0
17th	Per Mertesacker	Hannover 96	09/29/1984	23 ( 01)	6th	0	0	0	0
21	Christoph Metzelder	Borussia Dortmund	05/11/1980	22 ( 00)	6th	0	1 * / 1	0	0
6th	Jens Nowotny	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	01/11/1974	46 ( 01)	1	0	0	0	0
midfield player
13	Michael Ballack	FC Bayern Munich	09/26/1976	65 (31)	5	0	1*	0	0
18th	Tim Borowski	Werder Bremen	05/02/1980	20 ( 02)	6th	0	1 * / 1	0	0
22nd	David Odonkor	Borussia Dortmund	02/21/1984	01 ( 00)	4th	0	1 * / 1	0	0
8th	Torsten Frings (1)	Werder Bremen	11/22/1976	52 ( 07)	6th	1	2	0	0
15th	Thomas Hitzlsperger	VfB Stuttgart	04/05/1982	15 ( 00)	1	0	0	0	0
5	Sebastian Kehl	Borussia Dortmund	02/13/1980	27 ( 03)	4th	0	0	0	0
19th	Bernd Schneider	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	11/17/1973	64 ( 01)	7th	0	0	0	0
7th	Bastian Schweinsteiger	FC Bayern Munich	08/01/1984	28 ( 07)	7th	2	1	0	0
striker
14th	Gerald Asamoah	FC Schalke 04	10/03/1978	40 ( 06)	1	0	0	0	0
9	Mike Hanke	VfL Wolfsburg	05/11/1983	06 ( 01)	1	0	0	0	0
11	Miroslav Klose	Werder Bremen	06/09/1978	55 (24)	7th	5	0	0	0
10	Oliver Neuville	Borussia Monchengladbach	05/01/1973	55 ( 08)	7th	1	0	0	0
20th	Lukas Podolski	1. FC Cologne	06/04/1985	25 (12)	7th	3	1	0	0
Trainer
	Jürgen Klinsmann (national coach )		07/30/1964
	Joachim Löw ( assistant coach )		02/03/1960
	Andreas Köpke ( goalkeeping coach )		03/12/1962

⁽¹⁾ Torsten Frings was banned from FIFA for two games against an Argentine player immediately after the quarter-final match and recorded by the television cameras. One of them was suspended for six months because Frings was not the initiator of the assault, and an appeal was prevented.

* Yellow cards from the preliminary round were deleted when they entered the final round and thus had no effect on the further course of the tournament.

^(a) A international matches (international goals in brackets) before the start of the tournament

Games of the German team

Preliminary round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	3	0	0	008: 200	+6	09
2.	Ecuador	3	2	0	1	005: 300	+2	06th
3.	Poland	3	1	0	2	002: 400	−2	03
4th	Costa Rica	3	0	0	3	003: 900	−6	00

Fri, June 9, 2006 at 6:00 p.m. in Munich
Germany	-	Costa Rica	4: 2 (2: 1)
Wed, June 14, 2006 at 9:00 p.m. in Dortmund
Germany	-	Poland	1: 0 (0: 0)
Tue, June 20, 2006 at 4 p.m. in Berlin
Ecuador	-	Germany	0: 3 (0: 2)

Munich (VR + AF) Dortmund (VR + HF) Berlin (Q + VR + VF) Stuttgart (S3)

Venues and district (Q)

Round of 16

Sat., June 24, 2006 in Munich
Germany	-	Sweden	2: 0 (2: 0)

Quarter finals

Friday, June 30, 2006 in Berlin
Germany	-	Argentina	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 0), 4: 2 i. E.

Semifinals

Tuesday, July 4, 2006 in Dortmund
Germany	-	Italy	0: 2 a.d.

3rd place match

Saturday, July 8, 2006 in Stuttgart
Germany	-	Portugal	3: 1 (0: 0)

Quarters of the team

The players of the German national team and their supervisors were accommodated in the Schlosshotel Grunewald in Berlin . Training took place in the amateur stadium of Hertha BSC and in the Mommsen stadium of Tennis Borussia Berlin .

Web links

• dfb.de: "The 2006 World Cup in Germany - Germany - a summer fairy tale"