German national soccer team / Olympic Games

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The article contains a detailed description of the representatives of the German Football Association at the football tournament of the Olympic Games :

The senior national team at the Olympic Games

Overview

The first major football tournaments took place at the Olympic Games, initially in 1900 and 1904 as a demonstration sport with club teams, and in 1908 as an official Olympic sport. German teams did not take part in those years. Overall, you were only at three of seven tournaments for senior national teams .

The German team at the 1912 Games
year venue Participation until ... opponent Result Comments and special features
1908 London no participation --- ---
1912 Stockholm Round of 16 Austria 11. Biggest win in German international history (16-0 against Russia)
1920 Antwerp no participation --- --- Germany was excluded from the games.
1924 Paris no participation --- --- Germany did not take part in the games again.
1928 Amsterdam Intermediate round Uruguay 08th. ---
1936 Berlin Quarter finals Norway 06th ---
1948 London no participation --- --- Germany was excluded from the games.

Source: fifa.com: TECHNICAL REPORT AND STATISTICS

1912

Game scene from the game against Austria

At the 1912 Games in Stockholm, Germany faced Austria, Russia and Hungary. While against Russia in the consolation round with 16: 0 the highest victory in international game history was achieved, Gottfried Fuchs scored ten goals alone, there were defeats against the two k.-u-k. Countries . The game against neighboring Austria was lost 5-1 in the round of 16 and the game against Hungary in the semi-finals of the consolation round was lost 3-1.

1928

In 1916 there were no Olympic Games due to the war. After the First World War , Germany was not registered again until 1928. In Amsterdam, the neighbor from Switzerland was initially defeated 4-0, before the games ended with a 1: 4 for the German team against the eventual Olympic champion from Uruguay. It was the first international match against a non-European team and with Hans Kalb and Richard Hofmann the first German national players were sent off in an international match.

1936

After football was not in the program in 1932, the World Cup third party started the tournament in 1936 with a 9-0 win against Luxembourg, but then had to bury hopes of an Olympic victory after a 2-0 win against Norway. After this game, Reich trainer Otto Nerz was replaced by Sepp Herberger .

Amateur teams at the Olympic Games

year venue Participation until ... opponent Result Comments and special features
1948 London no participation --- --- Germany was excluded from the games.
1952 Helsinki 3rd place match Sweden 4th
1956 Melbourne Round of 16 USSR 9.
1960 Rome not qualified --- ---
1964 Tokyo not qualified --- --- Failed in qualification in the GDR Olympic selection , which was third in Tokyo.
1968 Mexico not qualified --- ---
1972 Munich Intermediate round GDR, Mexico, Hungary 6th Germany automatically qualifies as host.
1976 Montreal not qualified --- ---
1980 Moscow not qualified --- ---

In 1948 Germany was initially not admitted and from 1952 onwards the senior national teams of the western countries no longer took part, but the national team of amateurs .

1952

Germany first won in the round of 16 against Egypt (3: 1) and in the quarter-finals against Brazil (4: 2, only win against Brazil in a major tournament until 2014), then lost in the semifinals against Yugoslavia (1: 3) and also the game for 3rd place against Sweden (0: 2). National coach Sepp Herberger was the coach of the amateur national team .

1956

The German amateur national team loses in Melbourne on November 24th in the round of 16 against the eventual Olympic champion USSR with 1: 2.

1960

In two games played in 1959 (2: 0 and 2: 1) in front of empty ranks against the selection of the GDR, the German amateur national team qualified for the qualifying games against Finland (2: 1 on November 11, 1969; in victories and 2: 3 on May 18, 1960; in Helsinki) and Poland (0: 3 on November 24, 1959; in Essen and 1: 3 on April 18, 1960; in Warsaw), but eliminated from them.

1964

Due to a 3-0 defeat on September 15, 1963 in Karl-Marx-Stadt and a 2-1 victory on September 22, 1963 in Hanover against the GDR Olympic team , the German amateur national team missed the qualification for the Games in Tokyo . There the GDR Olympic selection reached 3rd place .

1968

Due to a 2-0 defeat (on October 25, 1967; in Augsburg) and a 1-0 victory (on November 8, 1967; in Herdon) against the United Kingdom, the German team missed the qualification for the finals in Mexico.

1972

The German team is automatically qualified as the organizer for the games in Munich. In addition to the World Cup in Germany two years later , it is the only tournament in which two German teams take part. With a team made up of young Bundesliga players, in which the later world champion Uli Hoeneß and the later successful coach Ottmar Hitzfeld were, the amateur national team wins first by beating Malaysia and Morocco (3-0 each) and the USA (7-0) Group stage . In the second round one against Mexico but only one succeeds. After a 1: 4 against Hungary and a 2: 3 against the GDR, the German team is eliminated. The GDR selection, together with the USSR, took 3rd place after a 2: 2 nV . The team was trained by Jupp Derwall , the assistant to the national coach .

1976

The German team met Spain in qualifying and lost 3-2 in the second leg after a 0-0 home match, which meant that qualification was missed.

1980

The German team met Norway (0: 2 and 0: 1) and Finland (2: 0 and 0: 0) and finished second in the group behind Norway, which meant that they missed the qualification. Since Germany boycotted the games after the invasion of the USSR in Afghanistan, the team would not have participated even if they had successfully qualified.

Selection teams at the Olympic Games

year venue Participation until ... opponent Result Comments and special features
1984 los Angeles Quarter finals Yugoslavia 5.
1988 Seoul 3rd place match Italy 3. Only regular tournament victory against Italy
1992 Barcelona not qualified --- ---
1996 Atlanta not qualified --- ---
2000 Sydney not qualified --- ---
2004 Athens not qualified --- ---
2008 Beijing not qualified --- ---
2012 London not qualified --- ---
2016 Rio de Janeiro final Brazil 2. First participation in the final
2021 Tokyo qualified --- ---

1984

After the boycott of the Eastern Bloc countries, the initially unqualified German Olympic team, which is a team made up of professional players, is nominated and achieved after victories against Morocco (2-0) and Saudi Arabia (6-0), as well as a defeat against Brazil (0: 1) the quarter-finals, which are lost with 2: 5 against Yugoslavia. The team included the eventual world champions Andreas Brehme and Guido Buchwald . The team's coach was Erich Ribbeck , who was also the national coach from 1998 to 2000. Players who participated in World Championships before the Olympic Games were not allowed to participate in the tournament.

1988

In 1988 a German men's team took part in the Olympic Games and achieved the best placement for the DFB to date. The team coached by Hannes Löhr , which included the eventual world champions Jürgen Klinsmann and Thomas Häßler , initially won 3-0 against China and 4-1 against Tunisia and then lost 2-1 against Sweden. In the quarterfinals they beat Zambia 4-0, in the semifinals Germany lost 3-2 on penalties against Brazil after a 1-1 draw, but won the match for 3rd place 3-0 against Italy. This was the only victory against an Italian team in a major tournament until they won the quarter-finals of the 2016 European Championship.

2016

By reaching the semi-finals at the U-21 European Football Championship in 2015 , a German men's team qualified for an Olympic football tournament for the first time in 28 years and reached the final for the first time. Players who were born after December 31, 1993 could be nominated for the squad, although three players did not have to meet this age criterion. At the games in Brazil, the team reached the final against hosts Brazil, but lost it on penalties because Nils Petersen missed. With this defeat, Germany is now the only soccer world champion that has not yet become an Olympic champion. Before that it was Brazil and Germany. Nils Petersen, Serge Gnabry (6 goals each) and Max Meyer (4 goals) were the top scorers of the tournament.

2021

Four years later, at the UEFA European Under-21 Championship in 2019 , the now of reaching Stefan Kuntz coached U-21 team's semi-final and qualified for the scheduled initially for 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo , which then because of COVID- 19 pandemic will be postponed for one year. However, players who would have been allowed to compete in 2020 are still allowed to participate in order to enable players who have qualified to participate.

The best goal scorers

Most games

Trainer

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fifa.com: "Regulations for the Olympic Football Tournaments 2016", page 20