German national soccer team for women / world championships

Germany
Federal Republic of Germany

World Cup record scorer :	Birgit Prinz (14)
World Cup record player:	Birgit Prinz (24)
Rank :	2
Organizer:	2011
Balance sheet
44 World Cup games 30 wins 5 draws 9 defeats 121: 39 goals
statistics
First World Cup game Germany 4-0 Nigeria Jiangmen ( CHN ); November 17, 1991
Biggest World Cup victory Germany 11: 0 Argentina Shanghai ( CHN ); September 10, 2007
Biggest World Cup defeat Germany 0: 4 Sweden Guangzhou , ( CHN ); November 29, 1991
successes
World Championship
Participation in the finals	8 ( first : 1991 )
Best results	World Champion 2003 , 2007
Best placements in the countries that host the FIFA World Cup
(As of June 29, 2019 )

The article contains a detailed description of the German national soccer team for women at world championships . The German team was able to qualify for all World Cup finals and win the title twice and is the only team to date to defend it once.

The national team at world championships

Overview

year	Host country	Participation until ...	opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1991	People's Republic of China	3rd place match	Sweden	4th Place	Germany wins the fair play rating
1995	Sweden	final	Norway	2nd place	Vice world champion for the first time
1999	United States	Quarter finals	United States	-	Out in the quarter-finals after leading twice
2003	United States	final	Sweden	World Champion	Nia Künzer heads the golden goal , Birgit Prinz becomes top scorer and best player
2007	People's Republic of China	final	Brazil	World Champion	Germany defended the title without conceding a goal
2011	Germany	Quarter finals	Japan	-	Germany fails for the fourth time at eventual world champions
2015	Canada	3rd place match	England	4th Place	In the group stage , the team met Ivory Coast , Norway and Thailand and prevailed as group winners. Loss in the semi-finals against eventual world champions USA
2019	France	Quarter finals	Sweden	-	Group opponents in France were China, Spain and South Africa, each of whom won without conceding a goal.

statistics

(Information incl. 2019: eight world championships)

• not participated: never (0%)
• qualified: always (100%)
  • Quarter-finals: three times (37.5%; 1999, 2011, 2019)
  • 4th place: twice (25%; 1991, 2015)
  • 2nd place: once (12.5%; 1995)
  • World Champion: twice (25%; 2003, 2007)

Germany is the only nation that has become world champions in both men's and women's football.

The tournaments

World Cup 1991 in the People's Republic of China

The German national team had qualified as reigning European champions for the first world championship. National coach Gero Bisanz drove to the “Middle Kingdom” with 18 players . In the preliminary round, the German team celebrated three wins without conceding a goal. Nigeria were beaten 4-0, Taiwan 3-0 and Italy 2-0. In the quarter-finals, the opponent was Denmark . The game was the first in World Cup history to be extended. The Bisanz-Elf finally prevailed 2: 1. Opponents in the semifinals were the selection of the USA , which was a size too big for the German team. At the end of the game for third place there was a 4-0 defeat against Sweden . Heidi Mohr proved with her seven tournament goals that she was one of the world's best goal scorers of her time.

World Cup 1995 in Sweden

Once again, the German team qualified as European champions for the second World Cup. For the first time the World Cup took place on European soil. The German team failed in the final to Norway .

The German team started the tournament with a difficult 1-0 victory (goal: Silvia Neid ) over Japan . In the second group game, the hosts waited and it only looked as if the German team could take revenge for the defeat in the small final of 1991. Bettina Wiegmann and Ursula Lohn ensured the 2-0 half-time lead. After Andersson's goal, the Swedes were able to turn the game around in the last five minutes. Due to the defeat, the last group game against Brazil had to be won. With a brilliant 6-1 victory, Gero Bisanz's team secured the group victory. Birgit Prinz scored her first World Cup goal.

In the quarter-finals, Germany met the English selection . Maren Meinert, Heidi Mohr and Martina Voss ensured a safe 3-0 win. The semi-final against China was more difficult . The Chinese skilfully closed the rooms in defense and only allowed a few scoring opportunities for the German team. After many unsuccessful attempts, Bettina Wiegmann scored the relieving 1-0 in the 79th minute. Thus, the German team reached the final against Norway for the first time. A Norwegian double strike shortly before half-time by Riise and Pettersen sealed the final defeat.

World Cup 1999 in the USA

For the third World Cup, UEFA scheduled qualifying matches for the first time . To date, UEFA is the only continental association that holds separate World Cup qualifiers. The DFB-Elf, which has been coached by Tina Theune-Meyer since 1996 , had to go into relegation after a surprising defeat against the Netherlands and another defeat against Norway. In the relegation, the Germans made everything clear with their 5-0 first leg win over Ukraine .

The German team struggled in the preliminary round. At the beginning there was a happy draw against Italy. In the second game, World Cup debutant Mexico was teased 6-0. Inka Grings became the first German player to score three goals in a World Cup game. In the last group game, the team did not get past a 3: 3 against Brazil and only finished second. In the quarterfinals you met the host and failed because of your own nerves. Despite two leading positions ( Brandi Chastain by own goal, Bettina Wiegmann) the Theune Meyer-Elf lost 2: 3.

2003 World Cup in the USA

Scene in the final Germany - Sweden

At the 2003 World Cup, the German national team became world champions for the first time. This made Germany the first nation to win a world championship in both men's and women's football. The World Cup should actually take place in the People's Republic of China again. Because of the SARS epidemic, the tournament was moved to the USA at short notice. The German team kept a clean slate during qualification. All six games were won and only the Englishwoman Rachel Yankey could score a goal against the German team.

In the first round game, the German team met Canada . The Canadians took the lead after a few minutes. Then the German team turned up and came to a 4-1 victory. This was followed by an undisputed 3-0 win against Japan and at the end of the preliminary round a 6-1 win against Argentina . During this game, Steffi Jones suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament and had to travel home.

As group winners, the DFB selection moved into the quarter-finals. The Russian selection was sent home with a 7-1 shooting match. Kerstin Garefrekes and Birgit Prinz each scored two goals. In the semifinals, the opponent was again USA. In what many experts consider the best women's football game of all time, the German team successfully took revenge and reached the final with a 3-0 victory. In the final, the German team met Sweden. This resulted in a new edition of the finals of the EM 2001 . Shortly before the half-time whistle, Hanna Ljungberg gave the Trekroners the lead. In the second half, less than a minute was played when Maren Meinert equalized. After regular playing time it was 1: 1, so that an extension was necessary. In the 98th minute, the German team received a free kick. Renate Lingor brought the leather into the penalty area. Nia Künzer headed the ball over the Swedish goalkeeper Caroline Jönsson for the golden goal, which ended the final like the European Championship final two years earlier. With this golden goal, Germany was world champion.

World Cup 2007 in the People's Republic of China

Reception on the Roman balcony after winning the title at the 2007 World Cup

In the qualification, the German team was able to win all games and thus sovereignly qualify for the World Cup in China. For the first time, the team received a bonus for successfully qualifying. A total of 200,000 euros were distributed by the DFB. The World Cup, in which the German team met Argentina, England and Japan in the preliminary round, then became a tournament of superlatives for the German team, because it set the following records:

• Longest run without defeat (women): 12 games (six each in 2003 and 2007), previously USA 11 games (1995 (game for 3rd place), 1999 (6) and 2003 (4))
• Longest run without conceding a goal (men and women): 6 games (2007), previously Italy 5 games for men ( World Cup 1990 ) and Germany (1991), Norway (1995), Sweden (1991), USA (1991 and 2003) and PR China (1999) with 3 games each for women.
• Highest World Cup victory (men and women) at the time: With the 11-0 win in the opening game against Argentina, both the previous women's records (Japan-Sweden 0: 8, 1991 World Cup and Norway-Nigeria 8: 0 World Cup 1995 ) as well as the record for men (Hungary-El Salvador 10: 1 World Cup 1982 ). It is also the opening game with the highest number of goals (men and women) of all time.
• First title defense of a women’s world champion
• First title win (women and men) without conceding a goal
• Birgit Prinz becomes the women's record goal scorer with a total of 14 goals (previously Michelle Akers / USA with 12 goals).
• Silvia Neid was the first national coach (women and men) to win the title at her first world championship.

After the record win against Argentina at the start, the team had to be content with a goalless draw against England, but with a 2-0 win over Japan, the team safely qualified for the quarter-finals against North Korea , which they won 3-0. The semi-final against Norway was also won 3-0. In the final against Brazil, two equal teams faced each other, with the Brazilians having the better individual players with Marta and Cristiane , but the German team being more homogeneous and ultimately winning the final 2-0.

World Cup 2011 in Germany

National coach Silvia Neid after leaving the quarter-finals against Japan

At the home World Cup, Germany wanted to be the first country to win the title for the third time in a row. The Bundesliga season ended in mid-March and the cup final was held at the end of March. The initially 26-member squad met for seven courses, between which four test matches were held against teams with similar styles of play as the group opponents. Silvia Neid changed her starting line-up again and again, especially when attacking, and up to six players during the games. All test matches were won without conceding a goal and 15 goals were scored. U-20 World Cup top scorer Alexandra Popp shot five of them . Nevertheless, she was only used as a substitute in the World Cup games and did not score a goal.

In the opening game Germany started with a 2-1 win over Canada. This was followed by a hard-fought 1-0 win against African champions Nigeria. After these two victories, the quarter-finals were certain. Record national player and captain Birgit Prinz was replaced at both games. In the final group game against France and also in the quarter-finals, it was not used. While the German team was able to improve significantly in the game against France and defeat the French women, who had also previously won twice, 4-2, they had to accept their first defeat after 15 World Cup games without defeat against Japan and for the second time after 1999 after the quarter-finals pack the suitcases. It was the fourth defeat in a World Cup knockout round against the eventual world champion.

After the departure, Bernd Schröder in particular criticized the too long preparation time and the tactics. For Schröder, the long preparation time also had the disadvantage that the national players from 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam were not available to prepare for the Champions League final , which Potsdam lost 2-0 to Olympique Lyon at the end of May .

Birgit Prinz and Ariane Hingst , who had both played for Germany for more than 14 years, announced their resignation from the national team immediately after the defeat against Japan, but the DFB held out the prospect of a farewell game for Birgit Prinz on March 27, 2012 . Silvia Neid initially didn't want to comment on her future for a few weeks. On July 13th, the national coach announced that she wanted to fulfill her contract, which was extended to 2016 before the World Cup, and that she wanted to build a new team for the 2013 European Championship. With this the European title could be defended.

With the defeat and the simultaneous semi-finals of France and Sweden , the qualification for the Olympic football tournament of women was missed for the first time .

On August 23 and 29, 2011, Ursula Holl and Kerstin Garefrekes also announced their departure from the national team.

After the quarter-final against Japan, the team remained unbeaten in 22 consecutive games and only lost again in the final of the Algarve Cup in 2013 against the USA.

2015 World Cup in Canada

In the qualification , which began in autumn 2013 after the European Championship in Sweden, the team met Russia , Ireland , Slovakia , Slovenia and Croatia . With the exception of Slovenia, the German team had previously played against all other group opponents and had not yet lost a game against them, although only Russia could already score goals against the German team. Most recently, Germany, the most frequent opponent of the Russian team, met Russia in a friendly for the 2009 European Championships in August 2009 and won 3-1 in Bochum . Two games were played against Slovakia as part of the qualification for the European Championship 1997 in 1995 and 1996, Croatia were opponents in the qualifying for the European Championship 1995 and against Ireland the team competed twice in the qualification for the 2007 World Cup. Apart from Russia, none of the group opponents could previously qualify for a World Cup or European Championship finals.

The German team met Russia in the first game on September 21, 2013 and inflicted the biggest defeat on Russia at 9-0, which was one of the reasons why Russia missed the playoff games of the best runners-up in the end. Then they met Slovenia for the first time on October 26th, with the German team winning 13-0 in Slovenia, the highest victory in a World Cup qualification and the highest away win. The following games were also won without conceding a goal, so that the German team went into the winter break with five wins and 40-0 goals. The qualification continued on April 5, 2014 with the game in Ireland, with the German team conceding their first goals in a 3-2 win. For the German team, the qualification ended on September 17, 2014 with a 2-0 win in their home game against Ireland. Germany won all 10 games and qualified for the World Cup on September 13th.

Since the World Cup in Canada is to be played on artificial turf , against which several players have spoken out, the German team played a friendly against Sweden on October 29, 2014 in the Behrn Arena in Örebro , which was won 2-1. Previously, a test match against France in Offenbach am Main was lost 2-0 and then won 3-0 against England on November 23 at Wembley Stadium in London .

At the group draw in Ottawa (Canada) on December 6, 2014, Germany, which had previously been the head of group B, were drawn as opponents: Ivory Coast , Norway and Thailand .

Germany set an example in their first game against Ivory Coast with a 10-0 win, the second highest World Cup victory. They dominated the first half against their opponents in the European Championship finals, Norway, but only scored one goal and had to accept an equalizer in the second half. Even against the physically inferior Thai women, they were the game-determining team, but could only score four goals. Nevertheless, they were group winners with the better goal difference, as Norway had won that with the same result against Thailand, but only achieved a 3-1 against Ivory Coast. In the round of 16, Sweden was defeated 4-1, with the Swedish goalkeeper being their best player. In the quarter-finals against strong French women, the DFB-Elf could only prevail on penalties , against the USA in the semifinals the accuracy was off the penalty spot, so that the game was lost 2-0. In the small final, they lost to England for the first time, which had never made it past the quarter-finals before.

World Cup 2019 in France

In the qualification , which began in autumn 2017 after the European Championships in the Netherlands, the team met Iceland , the Czech Republic , the Faroe Islands and Slovenia for the first time . The German team, which was eliminated in the quarter-finals for the first time at the European Championships and from which Anja Mittag had subsequently resigned, met Slovenia in their first game and won 6-0. Here made Simone Laudehr , which could not be used one year due to injuries, her 100th international. Three days later it was only enough to win a difficult 1-0 win in the Czech Republic, helped by an own goal by a Czech player. In the third game, the team lost 2: 3, the first time after 14 victorious games against Iceland and for the first time a home game in World Cup qualification. As a result, the team fell back to third place in the table, but were able to recapture the top position four days later with an 11-0 win against the Faroe Islands, in which Hasret Kayikçi scored the last four goals, while also sharing points between Iceland and the Czech Republic. A week after the team had no win at the SheBelieves Cup 2018 and only finished last, national coach Steffi Jones was sacked. Horst Hrubesch initially only took over the position of women's national coach for the two qualifying games in April, but his assignment was extended after it was agreed with Martina Voss-Tecklenburg , currently coach of Switzerland, that she will take over the office after the World Cup qualification. Under Hrubesch, the remaining four qualifying games were won without conceding a goal, including the second leg in Iceland 2-0. So they had won the direct comparison against Iceland due to the more goals scored and since the Icelandic women could not win the second game against the Czech Republic, Germany was group winners and Iceland also missed the playoff games of the best runners-up in the group for the last European World Cup starting place.

At the World Cup finals, China and Spain and, for the first time, South Africa were the opponents of the group stage. With three wins without conceding a goal, the round of 16 was reached. Here African champions Nigeria were beaten 3-0. In the quarter-finals, a competitive game against Sweden was lost again after 24 years. Although brought Lina Magull the German team in the 16th minute lead but it lasted only six minutes. Shortly after the half-time break, the Swedes were able to use a defensive weakness of the German team and score the winning goal.

statistics

Players

Surname	Tournaments	Games	Gates	yellow	Yellow Red	red
Birgit Prinz	1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011	24	14th	0	0	0
Bettina Wiegmann	1991, 1995, 1999, 2003	22nd	11	0	0	0
Nadine Angerer	2007, 2011, 2015	17th	0	0	0	0
Ariane Hingst	1999, 2003, 2007, 2011	17th	1	0	0	0
Maren Meinert	1995, 1999, 2003	16	6th	2	0	0
Kerstin Garefrekes	2003, 2007, 2011	16	8th	2	0	0
Annike Krahn	2007, 2011, 2015	15th	1	3	0	0
Simone Laudehr	2007, 2011, 2015	15th	3	3	0	0
Renate Lingor	1999, 2003, 2007	15th	5	0	0	0
Alexandra Popp	2011, 2015, 2019	15th	3	2	0	0
Sandra Minnert	1995, 1999, 2003, 2007	14th	2	1	0	0
Melanie Behringer	2007, 2011, 2015	13	3	0	0	0
Kerstin Stegemann	1999, 2003, 2007	13	1	0	0	0
Heidi Mohr	1991, 1995	12	10	0	0	0
Sandra Smisek	1995, 1999, 2003, 2007	12	4th	0	0	0
Martina Voss-Tecklenburg	1991, 1995, 1999	12	1	0	0	0
Linda Bresonik	2003, 2007, 2011	11	0	1	0	0
Celia Šašić	2011, 2015	11	8th	0	0	0
Pia Wunderlich	1995, 1999, 2003	11	1	1	0	0
Birgitt Austermühl	1991, 1995	10	0	0	0	0
Saskia Bartusiak	2007, 2011, 2015	10	0	3	0	0
Sara Däbritz	2015, 2019	10	5	0	0	0
Doris Fitschen	1991, 1999	10	0	2	0	0
Melanie Leupolz	2015, 2019	10	2	1	0	0
Silke Rottenberg	1999, 2003	10	0	0	0	0
Lena Goessling	2011, 2015, 2019	9	0	2	0	0
Inca grings	1999, 2011	8th	5	0	0	0
Anja noon	2007, 2015	8th	5	1	0	0
Fatmire Bajramaj	2007, 2011	7th	0	2	0	0
Martina Muller	2003, 2007	7th	3	0	0	0
Silvia Neid	1991, 1995	7th	3	0	0	0
Steffi Jones	1999, 2003	7th	1	0	0	0
Dzsenifer Marozsán	2015, 2019	7th	1	0	0	0
Babett Peter	2011, 2015	7th	0	1	0	0
Anouschka Bernhard	1995	6th	1	0	0	0
Roswitha Bindl	1991	6th	0	0	0	0
Manuela Goller	1995	6th	0	0	0	0
Gudrun Gottschlich	1991	6th	1	0	0	0
Stefanie Gottschlich	2003	6th	1	0	0	0
Marion Isbert	1991	6th	0	0	0	0
Tabea Kemme	2015	6th	0	0	0	0
Ursula Lohn	1995	6th	1	0	0	0
Leonie Maier	2015, 2019	6th	0	1	0	0
Dagmar Pohlmann	1995	6th	0	0	0	0
Patricia Brocker	1995	5	0	0	0	0
Sara Doorsoun-Khajeh	2019	5	0	0	0	0
Giulia Gwinn	2019	5	1	0	0	0
Marina Hegering	2019	5	0	0	0	0
Svenja Huth	2019	5	0	1	0	0
Frauke Kuhlmann	1991	5	0	0	0	0
Lina Magull	2019	5	2	1	0	0
Almuth Schult	2019	5	0	0	0	0
Britta Unsleber	1991	5	0	0	0	0
Beate Wendt	1991	5	0	0	0	0
Petra dam	1991	4th	0	0	0	0
Nia Künzer	2003	4th	1	1	0	0
Jutta Nardenbach	1991	4th	0	0	0	0
Lena Oberdorf	2019	4th	0	1	0	0
Christine Paul	1991	4th	0	0	0	0
Bianca Schmidt	2011, 2015	4th	0	0	0	0
Lea Schüller	2019	4th	1	0	0	0
Carolin Simon	2019	4th	0	0	0	0
Klara Bühl	2019	3	0	0	0	0
Melanie Hoffmann	1995, 1999	3	0	0	0	0
Kim Kulig	2011	3	0	1	0	0
Lena Lotzen	2015	3	0	0	0	0
Monika Meyer	1999	3	0	0	0	0
Lena Petermann	2015	3	2	0	0	0
Verena Schweers	2019	3	0	0	0	0
Jennifer Cramer	2015	2	0	0	0	0
Linda Dallmann	2019	2	0	0	0	0
Kathrin Hendrich	2019	2	0	0	0	0
Petra Wimbersky	2007	2	0	0	0	0
Tina Wunderlich	1995, 1999	2	0	1	0	0
Pauline Bremer	2015	1	0	0	0	0
Sonja Fuss	2003	1	0	0	0	0
Sandra stallion	1991	1	0	0	0	0
Josephine Henning	2015	1	0	0	0	0
Michaela Kubat	1991	1	0	0	0	0
Claudia Müller	1999	1	0	0	0	0
Viola Odebrecht	2003	1	0	0	0	0
Conny Pohlers	2003	1	1	0	0	0
Elke Walther	1991	1	0	0	0	0

So far (as of June 29, 2019) 83 players have been used at world championships. Bettina Wiegmann was the only player to take part in four world championships until 2007. At the 2007 World Cup, Sandra Minnert, Sandra Smisek and Birgit Prinz caught up. In 2011, Prinz was the first German player to take part in a World Cup for the fifth time. 32 players scored a total of 119 goals. There are also two own goals. Until 2015, Simone Laudehr was the only player who was banned from a game because of two yellow cards in a tournament. Saskia Bartusiak was next in the 2015 quarterfinals. So far, no German player has been sent off.

Katja Kraus (1995), Claudia Klein (1995), Christine Francke (1995), Nicole Brandebusemeyer (1999), Ursula Holl (2007, 2011), Laura Benkarth (2015, 2019), Johanna Elsig (2019), Merle Frohms (2019 ) and Turid Knaak (2019) are the only players who were in the World Cup squad but did not play.

Games

Germany has played 44 World Cup games so far, of which 30 have been won (including the first two double-digit wins), 9 have lost and 5 have ended in a draw - four of them against European teams. Five games went into overtime because a winner had to be determined. Of these, three were won (once by golden goal , once on penalties and once normal) and two were lost - in both cases it was the first loss ever against the respective opponent.

The most frequent opponents were Sweden (5 times), Japan and the USA (4 times each).

Germany took part in the opening game of the World Cup twice (2007 and 2011), only China, Canada and Norway also have two opening games. Germany have had four home games so far and played twice (1999 and 2003) against the hosts. Five times it was the end of the line against the eventual world champions: 1991 (HF), 1999 (VF) and 2015 (HF) against the USA, 1995 in the final against Norway and 2011 in the quarter-finals against Japan.

All World Cup games
No.	date	Result	opponent	venue	occasion	Remarks
1	November 17, 1991	4-0	Nigeria	Jiangmen ( CHN )	Preliminary round	First international match and first World Cup game against Nigeria
2	November 19, 1991	3-0	Chinese Taipei	Zhongshan ( CHN )	Preliminary round	First international match and first World Cup game against Taiwan
3	November 21, 1991	2-0	Italy	Zhongshan ( CHN )	Preliminary round	First World Cup game against Italy
4th	November 24, 1991	2: 1 a.d.	Denmark	Zhongshan ( CHN )	Quarter finals	First World Cup game against Denmark
5	November 27, 1991	2: 5	United States	Guangzhou ( CHN )	Semifinals	First World Cup game against the USA
6th	November 29, 1991	0: 4	Sweden	Guangzhou ( CHN )	3rd place match	First international match, first World Cup game and biggest defeat against Sweden
7th	June 5, 1995	1-0	Japan	Karlstad ( SWE )	Preliminary round	First World Cup game against Japan
8th	June 7, 1995	2: 3	Sweden	Helsingborg ( SWE )	Preliminary round
9	June 9, 1995	6: 1	Brazil	Karlstad ( SWE )	Preliminary round	First international match, first World Cup game and biggest win against Brazil. By September 26, 1999 one of the two biggest defeats for Brazil
10	June 13, 1995	3-0	England	Västerås ( SWE )	Quarter finals	First World Cup game against England
11	June 15, 1995	1-0	China	Helsingborg ( SWE )	Semifinals	First World Cup game against China 100th international game by Silvia Neid
12	June 18, 1995	0: 2	Norway	Stockholm ( SWE )	final	First World Cup game against Norway
13	June 20, 1999	1: 1	Italy	Los Angeles ( USA )	Preliminary round
14th	June 24, 1999	6-0	Mexico	Portland ( USA )	Preliminary round	First international game, first World Cup game and biggest win against Mexico
15th	June 27, 1999	3: 3	Brazil	Washington, DC ( USA )	Preliminary round	100th international match by Bettina Wiegmann
16	July 1, 1999	2: 3	United States	Washington, DC ( USA )	Quarter finals
17th	September 20, 2003	4: 1	Canada	Columbus ( USA )	Preliminary round	First World Cup game against Canada
18th	September 24, 2003	3-0	Japan	Columbus ( USA )	Preliminary round	One of the two biggest victories against Japan . 150th international match by Bettina Wiegmann
19th	September 27, 2003	6: 1	Argentina	Washington, DC ( USA )	Preliminary round	First international game and first World Cup game against Argentina 100th international game by Sandra Minnert
20th	October 2, 2003	7: 1	Russia	Portland ( USA )	Quarter finals	First World Cup game against Russia
21st	October 5, 2003	3-0	United States	Portland ( USA )	Semifinals	Biggest win against the USA Until September 27, 2007 one of the two biggest defeats in the USA
22nd	October 12, 2003	2: 1 according to the Basic Law.	Sweden	Carson ( USA )	final	Germany becomes world champion for the first time. Decision by golden goal by Nia Künzer 154th and last international game by Bettina Wiegmann 92nd and last international game by Maren Meinert
23	September 10, 2007	11: 0	Argentina	Shanghai ( CHN )	Preliminary round	Biggest win for a European against a South American team Biggest defeat for Argentina
24	September 14, 2007	0-0	England	Shanghai ( CHN )	Preliminary round
25th	September 17, 2007	2-0	Japan	Hangzhou ( CHN )	Preliminary round	200th international win
26th	September 22, 2007	3-0	North Korea	Wuhan ( CHN )	Quarter finals	First international game, first World Cup game and one of the two biggest wins against North Korea
27	September 26, 2007	3-0	Norway	Tianjin ( CHN )	Semifinals
28	September 30, 2007	2-0	Brazil	Shanghai ( CHN )	final	Germany becomes world champion for the second time
29	June 26, 2011	2: 1	Canada	Berlin	Preliminary round / opening game	Up to August 9, 2012, the highest number of spectators for a women's international match in Europe (73,680)
30th	June 30, 2011	1-0	Nigeria	Frankfurt am Main	Preliminary round	100th international match by Nadine Angerer 214th and last international match by Birgit Prinz
31	July 5, 2011	4: 2	France	Mönchengladbach	Preliminary round	First World Cup game against France 174th and last international game by Ariane Hingst
32	July 9, 2011	0: 1 a.d.	Japan	Wolfsburg	Quarter finals	First defeat against Japan 130th and last international game by Kerstin Garefrekes
33	June 7, 2015	10-0	Ivory Coast	Ottawa ( CAN )	Preliminary round	First international match and first World Cup game against Ivory Coast Melanie Behringer scores the 100th World Cup goal for Germany
34	June 11, 2015	1: 1	Norway	Ottawa ( CAN )	Preliminary round
35	June 15, 2015	4-0	Thailand	Winnipeg ( CAN )	Preliminary round	First international match and first World Cup game against Thailand
36	20th June 2015	4: 1	Sweden	Ottawa ( CAN )	Round of 16
37	June 26, 2015	1: 1 n.V .; 5: 4 i. E.	France	Montreal ( CAN )	Quarter finals
38	June 30, 2015	0: 2	United States	Montreal ( CAN )	Semifinals
39	4th July 2015	0: 1 a.d.	England	Edmonton ( CAN )	3rd place match	First defeat against England 146th and last international game by Nadine Angerer 111th and last international game by Célia Šašić
40	06/08/2019	1-0	China	Rennes ( FRA )	Preliminary round
41	06/12/2019	1-0	Spain	Valenciennes ( FRA )	Preliminary round	First World Cup game against Spain 106th and last international game by Lena Goeßling
42	06/17/2019	4-0	South Africa	Montpellier ( FRA )	Preliminary round	First international match and first World Cup game against South Africa 250th international match without conceding a goal
43	06/22/2019	3-0	Nigeria	Grenoble ( FRA )	Round of 16	100th international match by Alexandra Popp
44	06/29/2019	1: 2	Sweden	Rennes ( FRA )	Quarter finals

Record against the other world champions at world championships

• Japan : 4 games - 3 wins, 1 loss - 6-1 goals
• Norway : 3 games - 1 win, 1 draw, 1 loss - 4: 3 goals
• USA : 4 games - 1 win, 3 losses - 7:10 goals

Records

Players

• Birgit Prinz is the youngest player to have made it to a World Cup final: at 17 years and 234 days in the 1995 final.
• First converted penalty at a World Cup: Bettina Wiegmann on November 19, 1991 in the 10th minute.
• Most converted penalties: Bettina Wiegmann (8)
• Nia Künzer scored the first and only golden goal in the final of a Women's World Cup in the 2003 World Cup final against Sweden to make it 2-1 for Germany.
• Goalkeeper with most consecutive games without conceding a goal: Nadine Angerer (6)
• Silvia Neid scored the 100th World Cup goal on June 5, 1995 with a 1-0 win against Japan, Birgit Prinz four days later scored the 150th World Cup goal with a 1-0 (final score 6: 1) against Brazil.

Top scorer queens

• 2003: Birgit Prinz –7 goals
• 2015: Célia Šašić - 6 goals

Golden ball

• 2003: Birgit Prinz

Golden glove

• 2003: Silke Rottenberg
• 2007: Nadine Angerer

Best young player

• 2019: Giulia Gwinn

team

• Most penalties received: 14 (of which 13 converted)
• The first team to score 100 goals - currently (121, USA: 134)
• Second highest goals per game: 2.75 (USA: 2.79)
• Most goals in 3 tournaments:
  • 2003: 25
  • 2007: 21
  • 2015: 20
• The longest series without a defeat: 15 games, 2003 to 2011 - ended in the quarter-finals in 2011
• Longest straight run of matches: 6 matches (2007)
• The only team to have three wins without conceding goals in their first World Cup games.
• Most consecutive World Cup game minutes without conceding a goal: 678 minutes (October 16, 2003 - June 26, 2011)
• Most games to become world champion: 8 qualifying and six finals when winning the 2007 title.
• Second-highest World Cup victory of all time (men and women): Germany against Argentina 11-0 (5-0), World Cup preliminary round 2007
• Most overtime wins: 2 (plus 1 × on penalties) out of 5 (Brazil also won 2 × in overtime, but 1 × on penalties, USA won 2 × in overtime on penalties and lost 1 × on penalties )
• The only world champion who could defend the title.
• First country to win the title in the country of a former world champion (2003 in the USA)
• First country to make three finals
• Most consecutive wins in qualifying: 24 since 1998 (1-1 against Ukraine)
• The highest victories in the round of 16: 2015 against Sweden 4-1 and 2019 against Nigeria 3-0 (as well as France against South Korea in 2015 and England against Cameroon in 2019 3-0 each)
• The highest wins in three tournaments:
  • 2003: Germany 7-1 Russia (quarter-finals)
  • 2007: Germany 11-0 Argentina (preliminary round)
  • 2015: Germany 10-0 Ivory Coast (preliminary round)
• Most of the teams (12 of 36) suffered their biggest or one of their biggest World Cup defeats against Germany. This is followed by the USA (8, with two highest victories against North Korea, together with Germany) and Brazil (8)
• Only team (women and men) to achieve two double-digit victories.

Negative records

• Germany and Norway lost the game for third place most often: twice each

Highest victories and defeats

The German team achieved their highest victories against the following countries in World Cup tournaments:

•  Argentina 11-0 (2007, preliminary round) - Argentina’s biggest defeat
•  Brazil 6: 1 (1995, preliminary round)
•  Ivory Coast 10-0 (2015, preliminary round) - first game against Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast's biggest defeat
•  Mexico 6-0 (1999, preliminary round)
•  North Korea 3-0 (2007, quarter-finals) - also once 3-0 in a friendly match in February 2010
•  South Africa 4-0 (2019, preliminary round) - so far only game against South Africa
• Taiwan 3-0 (1991, preliminary round) - so far only game against Taiwan
•  Thailand 4-0 (2015, preliminary round) - first game against Thailand
•  United States 3-0 (2003, semi-finals)

The German team suffered their biggest defeats at a World Cup tournament only against three countries:

•  England 0: 1 a.s. (2015, game for 3rd place, only defeat to England so far)
•  Japan 0-1 aet (2011, quarter-finals, only defeat to Japan so far)
•  Sweden 0-4 (1991, game for third place, one of the two second-highest defeats in Germany)

See also

• German national soccer team / world championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2019 outbid by the USA with a 13-0 win against Thailand.
2. ↑ A dream without a happy ending. In: dfb.de. German Football Association , July 10, 2013, accessed on November 29, 2013 . 
3. ↑ SID : End of career: Prince can hope for a farewell game. In: fifa.com. FIFA , July 10, 2011, accessed December 11, 2013 . 
4. ↑ SID: Envy no longer rules out resignation. In: fifa.com. FIFA, July 11, 2011, accessed April 16, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Envy remains the coach of the women's national team. In: dfb.de. German Football Association, July 13, 2013, accessed on December 11, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Goalkeeper Ursula Holl ends her career in the DFB team. In: dfb.de. German Football Association, August 23, 2011, accessed on December 11, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Garefrekes ended his career in the DFB selection. In: dfb.de. German Football Association, August 29, 2011, accessed on December 11, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Sports information service: Angerer and Co. threaten FIFA with lawsuit. In: weltfussball.de. August 7, 2014, accessed March 8, 2015 . 
9. ^ Sports information service: DFB women: World Cup test on artificial turf. In: weltfussball.de. September 18, 2014, accessed March 8, 2015 . 
10. ↑ DFB women at the World Cup against Ivory Coast, Norway and Thailand. In: dfb.de. German Football Association, December 6, 2014, accessed on December 6, 2014 . 
11. ↑ dfb.de: DFB releases national coach Steffi Jones from duties
12. ^ German World Cup squad 1991. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed September 15, 2014 . 
13. ^ German World Cup squad 1995. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed September 15, 2014 . 
14. ^ German World Cup squad 1999. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed September 15, 2014 . 
15. ^ German World Cup squad 2003. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed September 15, 2014 . 
16. ^ German World Cup squad 2007. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed September 15, 2014 . 
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18. ↑ Countdown: Only 91 days left. In: fifa.com. FIFA, March 7, 2015, accessed April 25, 2015 . 
19. ↑ Statistical Kit - FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 ™ - Milestones & Superlatives- Event edition. (pdf) In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed April 25, 2015 .