European Football Championship 2008 / Germany

This article covers the German national soccer team at the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland.

European Championship qualification 2008

Games

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Czech Republic	12	9	2	1	27: 05	29
2	Germany	12	8th	3	1	35: 07	27
3	Ireland	12	4th	5	3	17:14	17th
4th	Slovakia	12	5	1	6th	33:23	16
5	Wales	12	4th	3	5	18:19	15th
6th	Cyprus	12	4th	2	6th	17:24	14th
7th	San Marino	12	0	0	12	02:57	00

Game results

09/02/200600	Stuttgart	Germany00	-	Ireland	1: 0 (0: 0)	Goals: 1-0 L. Podolski (57.)
09/06/2006	Serravalle	San Marino	-	Germany00	0:13 (0: 6)0	Goals: 0: 1, 0: 5, 0: 8, 0:11 L. Podolski (12th, 43rd, 64th, 73rd), 0: 2, 0: 7 B. Schweinsteiger (29th, 47th) ), 0: 3, 0: 6 M. Klose (30., 45. + 1 '), 0: 4 M. Ballack (35.), 0: 9, 0:10 T. Hitzlsperger (66., 72. ), 0:12 M. Friedrich (87.), 0:13 B. Schneider (90.)
10/11/2006	Bratislava	Slovakia	-	Germany	1: 4 (0: 3)	Goals: 0: 1, 1: 4 L. Podolski (13th, 72nd), 0: 2 M. Ballack (25th), 0: 3 B. Schweinsteiger (36th), 1: 3 S. Varga
11/15/2006	Nicosia	Cyprus	-	Germany	1: 1 (1: 1)	Goals: 1: 0 M. Ballack (16th), 1: 1 I. Okkas (43.)
03/24/2007	Prague	Czech Republic	-	Germany	1: 2 (0: 1)	Goals: 0: 1, 0: 2 K. Kurányi (42nd, 62nd), 1: 2 M. Baroš (77th)
06/02/2007	Nuremberg	Germany	-	San Marino	6: 0 (1: 0)	Goals: 1-0 K. Kurányi (45th), 2-0 M. Jansen (52nd), 3-0 T. Frings (56th), 4-0, 5: 0 M. Gómez (63rd, 65th) .), 6: 0 C. Fritz (67.)
06/06/2007	Hamburg	Germany	-	Slovakia	2: 1 (2: 1)	Goals: 1: 0 J. Ďurica (10th, ET ), 1: 1 C. Metzelder (20th, ET), 2: 1 T. Hitzlsperger (43.)
09/08/2007	Cardiff	Wales	-	Germany	0: 2 (0: 1)	Goals: 0: 1, 0: 2 M. Klose (5th, 60th)
10/12/2007	Dublin	Ireland	-	Germany	0-0
10/17/2007	Munich	Germany	-	Czech Republic	0: 3 (0: 2)	Goals: 0: 1 L. Sionko (2nd), 0: 2 M. Matějovský (23rd), 0: 3 J. Plašil (63.)
11/17/2007	Hanover	Germany	-	Cyprus	4: 0 (2: 0)	Goals: 1-0 C. Fritz (2nd), 2-0 M. Klose (20th), 3-0 L. Podolski (53rd), 4-0 T. Hitzlsperger (82nd)
11/21/2007	Frankfurt a. M.00	Germany	-	Wales	0-0

Contingent

National coach Joachim Löw announced the provisional line-up on May 16, 2008 on the Zugspitze , from which the following three players were deleted on May 28: Marko Marin , Patrick Helmes and Jermaine Jones .

Number / name		Club before the start of the European Championship	birthday	Sp.	goal
goalkeeper
23	René Adler	Bayer Leverkusen	January 15, 1985	0	0	0	0	0
12	Robert Enke	Hannover 96	08/24/1977	0	0	0	0	0
01	Jens Lehmann	Arsenal FC	11/10/1969	6th	0	1	0	0
Defense
03	Arne Friedrich	Hertha BSC	05/29/1979	4th	0	1	0	0
04th	Clemens Fritz	Werder Bremen	December 07, 1980	4th	0	0	0	0
02	Marcell Jansen	Bayern Munich	04/11/1985	5	0	0	0	0
16	Philipp Lahm	Bayern Munich	11/11/1983	6th	1	1	0	0
17th	Per Mertesacker	Werder Bremen	09/29/1984	6th	0	0	0	0
21st	Christoph Metzelder	real Madrid	05/11/1980	6th	0	0	0	0
05	Heiko Westermann	FC Schalke 04	08/14/1983	0	0	0	0	0
midfield
13	Michael Ballack	Chelsea FC	09/26/1976	6th	2	2	0	0
18th	Tim Borowski	Werder Bremen	05/02/1980	2	0	0	0	0
08th	Torsten Frings	Werder Bremen	11/22/1976	5	0	0	0	0
15th	Thomas Hitzlsperger	VfB Stuttgart	04/05/1982	5	0	0	0	0
19th	David Odonkor	Betis Seville	02/21/1984	1	0	0	0	0
06th	Simon Rolfes	Bayer Leverkusen	01/21/1982	2	0	0	0	0
07th	Bastian Schweinsteiger	Bayern Munich	08/01/1984	5	2	1	0	1
14th	Piotr Trochowski	Hamburger SV	March 22, 1984	0	0	0	0	0
attack
09	Mario Gomez	VfB Stuttgart	07/10/1985	4th	0	0	0	0
11	Miroslav Klose	Bayern Munich	06/09/1978	6th	2	0	0	0
22nd	Kevin Kuranyi	FC Schalke 04	02.03.1982	3	0	0	0	0
10	Oliver Neuville	Borussia Monchengladbach	05/01/1973	1	0	0	0	0
20th	Lukas Podolski	Bayern Munich	06/04/1985	6th	3	0	0	0
Trainer
	Joachim Löw		02/03/1960
Assistant coach
	Hansi Flick		02/24/1965
Goalkeeping coach
	Andreas Koepke		03/12/1962

Games of Germany

Crew quarters

The German national team initially prepared for the European Championship for eleven days at the Arabella Golf Resort 'Son Vida' in Palma from May 19, 2008 . The players' families were invited for the first four days, as was the case before the 2006 World Cup , when their closest relatives were with them in Sardinia . The workouts during the preparation as found before the Euro 2000 in Stadium Son Moix of RCD Mallorca instead.

After the training camp on Mallorca , the team moved into their EM quarters on May 30th, 2008 in the five-star hotel Giardino Relais & Chateaux in Ascona, Switzerland . The training ground during the European Championship was the Centro Sportivo in nearby Tenero .

Preparation games

Before the start of the European Championship tournament, the national team played two test matches, against Belarus on May 27th and against Serbia on May 31st, 2008. Against Belarus, the team in Kaiserslautern couldn't get past a 2-2 draw. The goals were scored by Miroslav Klose and Wladimir Korytko for Germany and Vitaly Bulyga (2) for Belarus . In the second preparatory game against Serbia it was initially difficult, but after falling behind at halftime through goals from Oliver Neuville and Michael Ballack they won (2-1).

European Championship finals

For details, see European Football Championship 2008 / Group B and European Football Championship 2008 / final round

Preliminary round

rank	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1	Croatia	3	3	0	0	4: 1	+3	9
2	Germany	3	2	0	1	4: 2	+2	6th
*3 *	Austria	3	0	1	2	1: 3	−2	1
*4 *	Poland	3	0	1	2	1: 4	−3	1
* The goal difference from all group matches is decisive for the placement (see mode ).

0June 8, 2008 at 8:45 p.m. in Klagenfurt ( Wörthersee Stadium )
Germany	-	Poland	2: 0 (1: 0)
June 12, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in Klagenfurt ( Wörthersee Stadium )
Croatia	-	Germany	2: 1 (1: 0)
June 16, 2008 at 8:45 p.m. in Vienna ( Ernst Happel Stadium )
Austria	-	Germany	0: 1 (0: 0)

Quarter finals

Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 8:45 p.m. in Basel ( St. Jakob-Park )
Portugal	-	Germany	2: 3 (1: 2)

Semifinals

Wed., June 25, 2008 at 8:45 p.m. in Basel ( St. Jakob-Park )
Germany	-	Turkey	3: 2 (1: 1)

final

Sun., June 29, 2008 at 8:45 p.m. in Vienna ( Ernst Happel Stadium )
Germany	-	Spain	0: 1 (0: 1)