German Olympic football team

The German Olympic football team is a representative of the German Football Association (DFB) , which has participated in three Olympic Games football tournaments .

Before 1984, Germany was represented at the Olympic Games by the German national soccer team of amateurs . In 1984 and 1988 all players who had never played in a World Cup were eligible to play. After that, the U-21 European Championship replaced qualification. Since 1992, up to three players on the Olympic team have been allowed to be over 23 years old.

Since the German U-21 national team reached the semi-finals of the U-21 European Championship in 2015 , the German Olympic football team qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games , where they lost to Brazil in the final and thus won the silver medal.

history

The Olympic selection team was the successor to the amateur national teams previously admitted to the Olympic Games and - after a rule change - from 1984 only admitted players who had not yet played for the senior national team at a world championship . After another rule change, the U-21 national teams have been eligible to participate in the Olympic football tournaments since 1992.

The first game of the German Olympic team took place on November 16, 1982 in Emmen and ended 0-0 against the Netherlands.

The team that competed for the first time:

Franke - Geils , Bast , Hupe , Groh - Pagelsdorf , Bittcher ( Heck ), Möhlmann ( Mohr ), Koch ( Otten ) - Klotz ( Schatzschneider ), Dreßel

The last game of the German Olympic team took place on August 20, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and ended with a 4-5 defeat on penalties in the Olympic final against Brazil after the game was 1-1 after 120 minutes.

The team that last competed:

Timo Horn - Lukas Klostermann , Niklas Süle , Matthias Ginter , Jeremy Toljan - Sven Bender - Serge Gnabry , Max Meyer , Lars Bender (67th Grischa Prömel ), Julian Brandt - Davie Selke (76th Nils Petersen )

Olympic tournament 1984

In qualifying for the 1984 Olympic football tournament in Los Angeles , the Olympic selection team had to play four games against Portugal and Israel; in addition, she played five preparatory games. They won their European qualification group, but could not prevail in the elimination round against the other group winners France. Because of the Olympic boycott of the Eastern Bloc countries , Germany was subsequently included in the Olympic tournament, in which the Olympic selection team was eliminated from the tournament in the quarter-finals after a 2-5 defeat against Yugoslavia.

Preparation and qualifying games

November 16, 1982	Emmen	Germany	-	Netherlands	0-0	-
March 29, 1982	Wuppertal	Germany	-	Poland	1: 1	Treasure cutter
April 24, 1983	Lisbon	Portugal	-	Germany	3: 1	Treasure cutter
June 8, 1983	Wuppertal	Germany	-	Israel	2-0	Hartwig, what
20th September 1983	court	Germany	-	Czechoslovakia	0: 1	-
4th October 1983	Osnabrück	Germany	-	Portugal	3-0	Treasure cutter (2), Bommer
October 25, 1983	Maribor	Yugoslavia	-	Germany	3: 2	Buchwald, Klotz
November 20, 1983	Tel Aviv-Jaffa	Israel	-	Germany	0: 1	Treasure cutter
March 23, 1984	Paris	France	-	Germany	1: 1	Treasure cutter
April 17, 1984	Bochum	Germany	-	France	0: 1	-
17th June 1984	Koblenz	Germany	-	China	6: 2	Schatzschneider (2), Bommer, Brehme, Mill, Rahn

Tournament games

July 30, 1984	Palo Alto	Germany	-	Morocco	2-0	Brehme, Rahn
August 1, 1984	Palo Alto	Brazil	-	Germany	1-0	-
3rd August 1984	Palo Alto	Germany	-	Saudi Arabia	6-0	Bommer (2), Schreier (2), Mill, Rahn
August 6, 1984	Pasadena	Yugoslavia	-	Germany	5: 2	Bommer, Rahn

Used players

The following 37 players were used by coach Erich Ribbeck in 15 international matches between 1983 and 1984:

Goal: Bernd Franke (12/4 appearances / including final round), Walter Junghans (2), Ralf Zumdick (2)
Defense: Dieter Bast (14/4), Bernd Wehmeyer (13/4), Manfred Bockenfeld (11/4) , Roland Dickgießer (6/1), Karl-Heinz Geils (6), Dirk Hupe (4), Thomas Allofs (1), Lothar Huber (1), Dieter Schlindwein (1)
Midfield: Jürgen Groh (14/4), Rudi Bommer (11/4), Andreas Brehme (10/4), Guido Buchwald (9/4), Jimmy Hartwig (8), Peter Lux (5/3), Uwe Rahn (5/4), Jürgen Mohr (4 ), Uwe Bein (2), Werner Heck (2), Frank Pagelsdorf (2), Alfred Schön (2/1), Ulrich Bittcher (1), Ralf Falkenmayer (1), Meinolf Koch (1), Benno Möhlmann (1 ), Jonny Otten (1)
Attack: Dieter Schatzschneider (11/3), Christian Schreier (10/3), Frank Mill (8/4), Bernd Klotz (5), Werner Dreßel (4), Karl Del'Haye ( 3), Wolfgang Patzke (3), Herbert Waas (1)

Goal scorers

Schatzschneider (8 / - goals / of which final round), Bommer (5/3), Rahn (4/3), Brehme (2/1), Mill (2/1), Schreier (2/2), Buchwald (1) , Hartwig (1), Klotz (1), Waas (1)

Olympic tournament 1988

For the 1987/88 year, the DFB gave the former national player Hannes Löhr the role of coach for the Olympic team, which played 18 international games under his leadership. In qualifying for the 1988 Olympic football tournament in Seoul , the Olympic team had to play eight games against Romania, Greece, Poland and Denmark; in addition, she played four preparatory games. With five wins, two draws and one defeat, the Löhr team qualified for the tournament, from which they emerged as bronze medalists - just because the sporting group winners Denmark played against Poland against Per Frimann , who was not eligible to play .

Preparation and qualifying games

March 25, 1987	Tel Aviv	Israel B	-	Germany	1: 2	W. Funkel, Mill
April 18, 1987	Cluj-Napoca	Romania	-	Germany	1-0	-
August 10, 1987	Aschaffenburg	Germany	-	Czechoslovakia	0: 1	-
September 8, 1987	Maastricht	Netherlands	-	Germany	1: 1	Walter
September 22, 1987	Offenbach	Germany	-	Greece	3-0	Mill (2), Wuttke
October 13, 1987	Osnabrück	Germany	-	Poland	5: 1	Hochstätter, Mill, Klinsmann (2), Wuttke
November 18, 1987	Aarhus	Denmark	-	Germany	0: 1	Wuttke
December 12, 1987	Larisa	Greece	-	Germany	0: 2	Schreier, Walter
March 30, 1988	Osnabrück	Germany	-	Denmark	1: 1	Goertz
April 27, 1988	Chorzów	Poland	-	Germany	1: 1	Mill
May 31, 1988	Dortmund	Germany	-	Romania	3-0	Klinsmann (2), Wuttke
August 30, 1988	Wins	Germany	-	Nigeria	2: 1	Screamers (2)

Tournament games

17th September 1988	Busan	Germany	-	China	3-0	Mill (2), Wuttke
September 19, 1988	Busan	Germany	-	Tunisia	4: 1	Grahammer, Wuttke, Mill / Mizouri own goal
September 21, 1988	Daegu	Germany	-	Sweden	1: 2	Walter
September 25, 1988	Gwangju	Germany	-	Zambia	4-0	Klinsmann (3), W. Funkel
September 27, 1988	Seoul	Germany	-	Brazil	1: 1 n.v. 2: 3 i. E.	subject
September 30, 1988	Seoul	Germany	-	Italy	3-0	Kleppinger, Klinsmann, Schreier

Used players

In the course of the 18 games played, the following regular team emerged from 44 players:
Goal: Uwe Kamps (8/6 appearances / of which final round), Andreas Köpke (8 / -)
Defense: Wolfgang Funkel (17/5), Roland Grahammer (14/6), Thomas Hörster (12/6), Uli Borowka (9 / -), Michael Schulz (7/6)
Midfield: Thomas Häßler (12/6), Christian Schreier (12/4), Wolfram Wuttke ( 11/6), Armin Görtz (9/5), Rudi Bommer (9/1), Gerhard Kleppinger (8/6), Holger Fach (7/5), Olaf Janßen (3/2), Ralf Sievers (2 / 1)
Attack: Jürgen Klinsmann (14/6), Frank Mill (12/5), Fritz Walter (8/1), Karl-Heinz Riedle (1/1),

Goal scorers

Klinsmann (8/4 goals / including final round), Mill (8/3), Wuttke (6/2), Schreier (4/1), Walter (3/1), W. Funkel (2/1), Fach ( 1), Görtz (1), Grahammer (1), Hochstätter (1), Kleppinger (1).

3rd place match

The bronze medal game contested:
Uwe Kamps - Thomas Hörster - Roland Grahammer , Wolfgang Funkel , Michael Schulz , Gerhard Kleppinger - Thomas Häßler , Wolfram Wuttke ( Christian Schreier ), Ralf Sievers ( Rudi Bommer ) - Jürgen Klinsmann , Frank Mill .

Olympia 1992

In the run-up to the 1992 Olympic football tournament in Barcelona , there was irritation about the admission regulations. While the world football association FIFA wanted to enforce an age limit of 23 years, the International Olympic Committee spoke out against this limit. Finally, FIFA prevailed with their demand. The DFB reacted to this uncertain situation with the temporary formation of a new Olympic team, which initially began in 1990 with players under the age of 21 as follows.

Preparation games

May 15, 1990	Muri	Switzerland	-	Germany	1: 2	Hubner, Franck
May 18, 1990	Wurzburg	Germany	-	Czechoslovakia	0: 3	-
August 28, 1990	Amadora	Portugal	-	Germany	1: 1	wreath

This was followed by the qualifying games for the U-21 European Championship , which also served as European qualifiers for the 1992 Olympic tournament. Germany officially competed there with its U-21 national team , whose composition, however, essentially corresponded to the 1990 Olympic team. The U-21 team won the qualification and took part in the European Championship in May and June 1992.

Before that, however, the Olympic team was challenged again and played two more

Preparation games

February 18, 1992	Sabadell	Spain	-	Germany	2-0	-
February 25, 1992	Troisdorf	Germany	-	Poland	2: 1	Kranz, Poschner

in which eleven players participated who were already active in 1990:

A month later, eleven of the players used in the Olympic selection team in February competed as an U-21 team in the U-21 European Championship against Scotland. After the 1: 1 on March 10, 1992 in Bochum and the 3: 4 defeat on March 24, 1992 in Aberdeen, Germany dropped out of the tournament and at the same time had missed the qualification for the Olympic football tournament.

Used players

In the five international games of the Olympic team, coach Hannes Löhr, who was also the coach of the U-21 national team, played 33 players, most of whom played:

Goal: Jens Lehmann (5 appearances)
Defense: Christian Wörns (5), Nils Schmäler (4), Joachim Stadler (4), Markus Kranz (2)
Midfield: Thomas Franck (4), Horst Heldt (3), Thomas Lasser ( 3), Ulf Kliche (3), Gerhard Poschner (3)
Attack: Heiko Herrlich (5), Henri Fuchs (2), Michael Klauß (2), Frank Türr (2)

Goal scorers

Markus Kranz (2), Thomas Franck, Michael Hubner and Gerhard Poschner. The coach was again Hannes Löhr, who also looked after the U-21 national team.

Olympia 2000

In preparation for the 2000 Olympic football tournament in Sydney , an Olympic team was brought into being again in 1998 for five games, the following one

Preparation games

March 4, 1998	Casablanca	Morocco	-	Germany	0: 1	Klitzpera
April 14, 1998	Darmstadt	Germany	-	Israel	1: 1	Nehrbauer
May 15, 1998	Toulon0000	Germany	-	China	1: 1	Hertzsch
May 17, 1998	Arles000000	Germany	-	Brazil	1: 3	Nehrbauer
May 19, 1998	Mallemort00	Germany	-	Portugal	0: 1	-

denied. The following team emerged from the 24 players used:

Robert Enke (4 missions) - Frank Fahrenhorst (4) - Alexander Klitzpera (4), Stefan Blank (4) - Ralf Keidel (4), Thorsten Nehrbauer (5), Christian Fröhlich (4), Christoph Dabrowski (4), Frank Wiblishauser (5) - Marcel Ketelaer (5), Stefan Siedschlag (3)

In September 1998, the Olympic team developed into the new U-21 national team, which took part in qualifying for the U-21 European Championship in 2000 . The European Championship was also considered a qualification for the Olympic football tournament 2000, in which Germany failed and thus missed participation in this tournament.

Olympic tournament 2016

Slightly modified version of the federal eagle , which was used as a badge for the German Olympic football team for the 2016 games in Rio .

After the German U-21 national team had reached the semi-finals at the U-21 European Championship in 2015 , the participation of the German Olympic team in the soccer tournament of the 2016 Olympic Games was certain.

From this tournament she emerged as a silver medalist after a 4-5 defeat on penalties against Brazil in the Olympic final.

Squad

The German starting line-up for the semi-final game against Nigeria

The German team during the penalty shoot-out in the Olympic final.

Eligible to play are players born after January 1, 1993 and three older players. The squad was named on July 15, 2016. The twins Lars and Sven Bender as well as Nils Petersen , the second best scorer in the 2nd Bundesliga 2015/16 , were nominated as older players . Seven players as well as substitute Christian Günter have already played A- internationals .

The following was agreed between the DFB and the Bundesliga:

• that a maximum of two players per club are nominated for the regular squad.
• Also, no professionals should be appointed who have changed clubs for the new season, such as Yannick Gerhardt , Timo Werner or Kevin Volland .
• Players from clubs that will qualify for the Champions League (Borussia Mönchengladbach, e.g. Mahmoud Dahoud ) or for the Europa League (Hertha BSC, e.g. Niklas Stark ) should also not be appointed.
• The same applied to players who were already in the German squad for the 2016 European Championship (e.g. Leroy Sané , Julian Weigl , Jonathan Tah ).

RB Leipzig and Bayer 04 Leverkusen nominated Yussuf Poulsen for Denmark and Ryu Seung-woo for South Korea in addition to the two players for the German squad . Poulsen then later canceled, Ryu was not included in the squad of the professional team for the new season.

position	No.	player	Date of birth	society	A country games	A country goals	OS games	OS gates
goal	1	Timo Horn	05/12/1993	1. FC Cologne	00	0	6th	0
	12	Jannik Huth	04/15/1994	1. FSV Mainz 05	00	0	0	0
Defense	14th	Robert Bauer	04/09/1995	FC Ingolstadt 04	00	0	1	0
	4th	Matthias Ginter	01/19/1994	Borussia Dortmund	09	0	5	2
	3	Lukas Klostermann	06/03/1996	RB Leipzig (II ▲ )	00	0	6th	1
	13	Philipp Max	09/30/1993	FC Augsburg	00	0	3	1
	5	Niklas Süle	09/03/1995	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	00	0	6th	0
	2	Jeremy Toljan	08/08/1994	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	00	0	6th	0
midfield	8th	Lars Bender	04/27 1989	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	19th	4th	6th	0
	6th	Sven Bender	04/27 1989	Borussia Dortmund	07th	0	6th	0
	11	Julian Brandt	05/02/1996	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	01	0	6th	0
	15th	Max Christiansen	09/25/1996	FC Ingolstadt 04	00	0	2	0
	17th	Serge Gnabry	07/14/1995	Arsenal FC	00	0	6th	6th
	10	Leon Goretzka	02/06/1995	FC Schalke 04	01	0	1	0
	7th	Max Meyer	09/18/1995	FC Schalke 04	01	0	6th	4th
	16	Grischa Prömel	01/09/1995	Karlsruher SC (II)	00	0	3	0
attack	18th	Nils Petersen	06.12. 1988	SC Freiburg (II ▲ )	00	0	6th	6th
	9	Davie Selke	01/20/1995	RB Leipzig (II ▲ )	00	0	5	2

Trainer: Horst Hrubesch
Status: August 20, 2016

Substitute players on call

position	player	Date of birth	society	A country games	A country goals	OS games
goal	Eric Oelschlägel	09/20/1995	Werder Bremen	00	0
Defense	Christian Günter	02/28/1993	SC Freiburg (II ▲ )	01	0
midfield	Leonardo Bittencourt	12/19/1993	1. FC Cologne	00	0
	Sebastian Kerk	04/17/1994	SC Freiburg (II ▲ )	00	0

Tournament games

4th August 2016	Salvador	Germany	-	Mexico	2: 2	Gnabry, Ginter
7th August 2016	Salvador	Germany	-	South Korea	3: 3	Gnabry (2), Selke
August 10, 2016	Belo Horizonte	Germany	-	Fiji	10-0	Gnabry (2), Petersen (5), Meyer (3)
August 13, 2016	Brasília	Germany	-	Portugal	4-0	Gnabry, Ginter, Selke, Max
17th August 2016	São Paulo	Germany	-	Nigeria	2-0	Klostermann, Petersen
20th August 2016	Rio de Janeiro	Germany	-	Brazil	1: 1 n.V .; 4: 5 i. E.	Meyer

statistics

The football Olympic team played 49 international matches between 1982 and 2016:

• 23 were won,
• 12 ended in a draw
• 14 were lost.

From 150 players the most frequently used were:

• Christian Schreier (VfL Bochum, Bayer Leverkusen), 22, 1983–1988
• Rudi Bommer (Fortuna Düsseldorf, Bayer Uerdingen, Viktoria Aschaffenburg), 20, 1983–1988
• Frank Mill (Borussia Mönchengladbach, Borussia Dortmund), 20, 1983–1988
• Wolfgang Funkel (Bayer Uerdingen), 17, 1987–1988
• Dieter Bast (VfL Bochum, Bayer Leverkusen), 14, 1982-1984
• Roland Grahammer (1. FC Nuremberg, Bayern Munich), 14, 1987–1988
• Jürgen Groh (Hamburger SV), 14, 1982–1984
• Jürgen Klinsmann (VfB Stuttgart), 14, 1987–1988

A complete list of used players is among list of German footballer of the Olympic selection teams to find

Of 31 goalscorers, the most common:

• Frank Mill 10
• Jürgen Klinsmann 8
• Dieter Schatzschneider 8
• Christian Schreier 6
• Wolfram Wuttke 6
• Serge Gnabry 6
• Nils Petersen 6
• Rudi Bommer 5

The following appointments / number of players result from 10 player clubs:

• Bayer 04 Leverkusen (74/14)
• VfB Stuttgart (55/9)
• Bayer 05 Uerdingen (47/8)
• Hamburger SV (46/7)
• Borussia Dortmund (48/16)
• 1. FC Cologne (44/11)
• Borussia Mönchengladbach (39/11)
• 1. FC Kaiserslautern (37/8)
• 1. FC Nürnberg (26/6)
• FC Bayern Munich (26/9)

literature

• Kicker Almanach 2006, ISBN 3-7679-0499-3 , pp. 173-179.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Olympic squad has been determined. In: dfb.de. German Football Association, accessed on July 15, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Team and trainer. In: dfb.de. German Football Association, accessed on July 15, 2016 . 
3. ↑ dbu.dk: "OL-afbud fra to profiler"
4. ↑ Kader season 2016/17 ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; bayer04.de, accessed on August 18, 2016.  
5. ↑ Numbers according to the squad list