List of captains of the German national soccer team

The list of the captains of the German national football team includes players who since 1908 as captain of the national team functioned. So far, 127 players have worn the captain's armband, 16 of them are still active in their clubs, but only five of them are currently in the extended squad. After the resignation of Philipp Lahm , who had been captain since 2011 and who announced his retirement from the national team after the 2014 World Cup , his deputy Bastian Schweinsteiger was appointed the new captain on September 2, 2014. Schweinsteiger was not used again until March 29, 2015, so that his deputies Manuel Neuer , Sami Khedira and Thomas Müller had to replace him in several games after the appointment. After Schweinsteiger's farewell game on August 31, 2016, Neuer became his successor on September 1.

Six players became captains in their first international match for Germany: Franz Binder , Ernst Blum , Josef Glaser , Arthur Hiller (captain of the first German international match), Johann Mock and Christian Schmidt . Mock and Binder had previously played for the Austrian national soccer team.

For nine players, their only game as captain was their last international match: Ernst Blum, Ernst Eikhof , Rudolf Gellesch , Heinrich Hergert , Andreas Kupfer , Josef Müller , Helmut Röpnack , Jakob Streitle and Serdar Taşçı . In addition, Lukas Podolski , who had already taken the captain's armband five times during a match, led the team onto the field as captain for the first time in his last international match.

On May 13, 2014, Julian Draxler replaced Christian Schmidt as the youngest captain in a friendly against Poland. On April 24, 1910, he was the captain of the national team at the age of 21 years and 299 days. At the age of 20 years and 235 days, Draxler is the first player who was younger than 21 when he first appeared as captain.

Legend

• Place: Rank in terms of the number of assignments as captain.
• Name: gives the name of the footballer. Players who have also played for the Austrian national soccer team are specially marked. Last players not included in the roster are in italics.
• Club (s): Identifies the club or clubs the player was playing for when he was captain.
• Born: Calls the year in which the footballer was born.
• 1. Game as captain: State the date of the first assignment as captain, possibly the minute when the captain took over after replacing the actual captain (without substitutions in the last minute of the game) or the time of the substitution, as an example: (up to 46. ' ) .
• Last game as captain: Mention the date of the last assignment as captain, if he was captain in more than one game, possibly the minute when the captain took over after the actual captain had been replaced or the time of the substitution and the game, if this was the case is a major game.
• Number of games as captain: states the number of games in which the player acted as captain, in brackets, appearances as captain at the beginning of the game, if less than the total number.
• Total matches: states the number of international matches the player has made.
• Quote: Indicates the percentage of games in which the player acted as captain.
• Important games: Names important games for German football in which the player was the captain.

list

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  Record captain Lothar Matthäus

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  Michael Ballack in second place

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  Philipp Lahm in third place

The list can be sorted: after clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column, by clicking twice the sorting is reversed. Various combinations can be set by clicking two columns one after the other.

space	Surname	Societies)	Born	1. Game as captain	last game as captain	Number of games as captain	Total games	Quota	important games
1.	Lothar Matthäus	FC Bayern Munich Inter Milan NY / NJ Metrostars	1961	25th Mar 1987	November 14, 1999 (from 83 ')	75 (72)	150	050.0%	1990 World Cup final, 1988 European Championship semi-final
2.	Michael Ballack	FC Bayern Munich FC Chelsea	1976	May 27, 2004 (from 69 ')	03rd Mar 2010	55 (54)	98	056.1%	2006 World Cup semi -finals, 2008 European Championship final
3.	Philipp Lahm	FC Bayern Munich	1983	22 Aug 2007 (from 90 ')	July 13, 2014 World Cup final vs. Argentina	53 (51)	113	046.9%	World Cup final 2014 World Cup semi-final 2010 European Championship 2012 semi-final
4th	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	FC Bayern Munich Inter Milan	1955	June 14, 1980 (from 73 ') European Championship game vs. the Netherlands	June 29, 1986 World Cup final vs. Argentina	51 (50)	95	053.7%	World Cup finals in 1982 and 1986
5.	Franz Beckenbauer	FC Bayern Munich	1945	Apr 25, 1971	Feb 23, 1977	50	103	048.5%	1974 World Cup Final, 1972 and 1976 European Championship
6th	Oliver Kahn	FC Bayern Munich	1969	0June 3, 2000 (from 57 ')	0July 8, 2006 World Cup game for 3rd place vs. Portugal	49 (47)	86	0057%	World Cup final 2002 and game for 3rd place in 2006
7th	Uwe Seeler	Hamburger SV	1936	Sep 20 1961	0Sep 9 1970	40	72	055.6%	1966 World Cup final and 3rd place match in 1970
8th.	Jürgen Klinsmann	Tottenham Hotspur FC Bayern Munich Sampdoria Genoa	1964	Feb 22, 1995	04th July 1998 World Cup quarter-finals vs. Croatia	36	108	033.3%	European Championship final 1996
9.	Manuel Neuer	FC Bayern Munich	1986	03rd Sep 2014 (until 45th ')	still active	35 (34)	92	0038%	European Championship opening game 2016
10.	Paul Janes	Fortuna Dusseldorf	1912	Feb. 26, 1939	22nd Nov. 1942 Last game of the German Reich	31	71	043.7%
11.	Fritz Szepan	FC Schalke 04	1907	May 27, 1934 1st World Cup game in Germany	Oct 22, 1939	30th	34	088.2%	World Cup game for 3rd place 1934
	Fritz Walter	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1920	Apr 15, 1951	Nov 21, 1956	30th	61	049.2%	World Cup final in 1954
13.	Oliver Bierhoff	AC Milan	1968	0Sep 2 1998 (until 45th ')	0Oct 6, 2001	23	70	0032.9%
14th	Willi Schulz	FC Schalke 04 Hamburger SV	1938	Apr 24, 1965	May 21, 1969	20th	66	030.3%	European Championship qualifier vs. Albania 1967
	Berti Vogts	Borussia Monchengladbach	1946	Apr 27, 1977	June 21, 1978 World Cup intermediate round match vs. Austria	20th	96	020.8%
16.	Bernard Dietz	MSV Duisburg	1948	December 20, 1978	0Apr 1, 1981	19th	53	035.8%	1980 European Championship final
17th	Herbert Erhardt	SpVgg Fürth	1930	May 20, 1959	Sep 30 1962	18th	50	036.0%
	Bastian Schweinsteiger	FC Bayern Munich Manchester United	1984	Aug. 20, 2008 (from 46. ')	31 Aug 2016 (until 68 ')	18 (13)	121	0014.9%	World Cup match for 3rd place in 2010 and European Championship quarter-finals 2016 (after substitution)
19th	Miroslav Klose	FC Bayern Munich Lazio Rome	1978	08 Sep 2007	02nd June 2013	17 (13)	137	012.4%
20th	Hans Schäfer	1. FC Cologne	1927	10 Mar 1957	June 10, 1962 World Cup quarter-finals vs. Yugoslavia	16	39	041.0%	World Cup game for 3rd place 1958
21st	Wolfgang Overath	1. FC Cologne	1943	0May 8, 1968	Nov 17, 1971	14th	81	017.3%
	Toni Schumacher	1. FC Cologne	1954	Sep 12 1984	Oct 15, 1986	14 (11)	76	018.4%	World Cup semi-finals 1986 (from 57 ')
23.	Ludwig Leinberger	SpVgg Fürth	1903	0May 4th 1930	0Jan. 1, 1933	11	24	045.8%
24.	Rudolf Gramlich	Eintracht Frankfurt	1908	Nov 19, 1933	07 Aug 1936 Olympic quarter-finals vs. Norway	10	22nd	045.5%
	Adolf Jäger	Altona 93	1889	Apr 14, 1912	Dec 14, 1924	10	18th	055.6%
	Sami Khedira	Real Madrid Juventus Turin	1987	Aug. 15, 2012 (62-69. ')	0June 8, 2018 (from 46. ')	010 (8)	77	0013%
	Jürgen Kohler	Juventus Turin Borussia Dortmund	1965	October 12, 1994 (from 46th ')	May 30, 1998	10 (8)	105	009.5%	EM game vs. Czech Republic 1996 (until 14. ')
28.	Camillo Ugi	VfB Leipzig	1884	0Apr 4, 1909	0Oct 6, 1912	09	15th	060.0%	16-0 record win against Russia in 1912
	Bernd Schneider	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	1973	June 21, 2005 (until 45 ')	Sep 12 2007 (until 60th ')	09 (8)	81	011.1%	World Cup opening game 2006
	Thomas Müller	FC Bayern Munich	1989	29 Mar 2016 (until 69th ')	23 Mar 2018 (53 .'- 81. ')	09 (6)	100	009%
	Per Mertesacker	Werder Bremen FC Arsenal	1984	May 29, 2010 (from 71st ')	0June 6, 2014 (from 46 ')	09 (3)	104	008.6%
32.	Julian Draxler	FC Schalke 04 Paris Saint-Germain	1993	May 13, 2014	still active	08th	51	0015.7%	Confederation Cup Final 2017
	Klaus Allofs	1. FC Cologne Olympique Marseille	1956	Oct. 29, 1986	31 Mar 1988 (until 46th ')	08th	56	014.3%
	Otto Harder	Hamburger SV	1892	Aug 31, 1924	December 12, 1926	08th	15th	053.3%
	Reinhold Munzenberg	Alemannia Aachen	1909	June 30, 1935	26th Mar 1939	08th	41	019.5%
	Helmut Rahn	Red and white food	1929	0Apr 3, 1957	0May 6, 1959	08th	40	020.0%
	Rudi Völler	AS Roma Olympique Marseille	1960	23 Sep 1987 (from 46. ')	0July 2, 1994 (from 46 ') World Cup round of 16 vs. Belgium	08 (5)	90	008.9%
	Andreas Brehme	Inter Milan 1. FC Kaiserslautern	1960	29 Aug 1990 (from 53 ')	June 27, 1994 (from 64 ') World Cup game vs. South Korea	08 (4)	86	009.3%	European Championship final 1992
	Torsten Frings	FC Bayern Munich Werder Bremen	1976	0June 4, 2005 (from 73 ')	May 27, 2008 (54-67. ')	08 (2)	79	010.1%	World Cup opening game 2006 (from 90 + 1 ') (after Bernd Schneider was substituted)
40.	Max Breunig	Karlsruhe FV	1888	26th Mar 1911	Oct 26, 1913	07th	9	077.8%	1st game of Germany at an Olympic football tournament
	Thomas Häßler	Karlsruher SC TSV 1860 Munich	1966	June 21, 1995	0June 7, 2000 (from 46 ')	07 (4)	101	006.9%	EM game vs. Czech Republic 1996 (from 14. ')
	Christian Wörns	Borussia Dortmund	1972	July 28, 1999 (from 71st ')	0Feb 9, 2005	07 (4)	64	010%	Confed-cup 1999 group stage DE vs NSL (from 71 ')
43.	Sepp Maier	FC Bayern Munich	1944	Oct 11, 1978	May 26, 1979	06th	95	006.3%
	Josef Posipal	Hamburger SV	1927	Apr 20, 1952	Dec. 19, 1954	06th	32	018.8%
	Heinrich Stuhlfauth	1. FC Nuremberg	1896	0Nov 4, 1923	02nd Mar 1930	06th	21st	028.6%
	Manfred Kaltz	Hamburger SV	1953	Feb 22, 1982	July 11, 1982 (from 70 ') World Cup final vs. Italy	06 (3)	69	008.7%	World Cup semi-finals 1982
	Arne Friedrich	Hertha BSC	1979	December 21, 2004 (until '67)	29 Mar 2011 (from 64.)	06 (2)	82	008.5%
	Lukas Podolski	1. FC Cologne FC Arsenal Galatasaray Istanbul	1985	May 13, 2010 (from 72nd ')	22 Mar 2017 (until 84th ')	06 (1)	130	004.6%
49.	Guido Buchwald	VfB Stuttgart	1961	0Sep 9 1992	Apr. 27, 1994 (from 46. ')	05 (2)	76	006.8%
	Bernhard Cullmann	1. FC Cologne	1949	May 22, 1979 (from 46. ')	June 17, 1980 European Championship game vs. Greece	05 (1)	40	012.5%
51.	Josef Glaser	Freiburg FC	1887	16. Mar. 1909	0May 5, 1912	04th	5	080.0%
	Richard Hofmann	Dresdner SC	1906	0Sep 7 1930	15th Mar 1931	04th	25th	016.0%
	Karl Hohmann	TuS Duisburg 48/99	1908	Aug 25, 1935	June 25, 1937	04th	26th	015.4%
	Hans Kalb	1. FC Nuremberg	1899	Oct 23, 1927	0June 3, 1928	04th	15th	026.7%	Olympic quarter-finals 1928
	Johann Mock	Austria Vienna	1906	0June 4, 1938 1st World Cup round of 16 vs. Switzerland	0Feb. 1, 1942	04th	5 (for the DFB)	080.0%
	Karlheinz Förster	VfB Stuttgart	1958	0Sep 7 1983	0April 9, 1986 (until 46 ')	04 (3)	81	004.9%
	Toni Kroos	real Madrid	1990	Nov. 18, 2014 (from 90 + 1 ')	still active	04 (2)	96	004.2%
	Jerome Boateng	FC Bayern Munich	1988	Aug. 15, 2012 (from 69 ')	27 Mar 2018 (until 68. ')	04 (1)	76	005.3%
	Mats Hummels	Borussia Dortmund	1988	29 Mar 2016 (from 69. ')	Nov 10, 2017	04 (1)	70	005.7%
	Joshua Kimmich	FC Bayern Munich	1995	June 25, 2017 (from. 80. ')	still active	04 (1)	48	008.3%	Confed-Cup semi-finals 2017 (from 81. ')
	Andreas Möller	Borussia Dortmund	1967	23 Aug 1995	25th Mar 1998	04 (1)	85	004.7%	European Championship semi-finals 1996
62.	Ernst Albrecht	Fortuna Dusseldorf	1907	Oct 22, 1933	11th Mar 1934	03	17th	017.7%
	Ludwig Goldbrunner	FC Bayern Munich	1908	Jan. 27, 1935	Oct 20, 1940	03	39	007.7%
	Aki Schmidt	Borussia Dortmund	1935	Dec 29, 1963	0June 7, 1964	03	25th	012.0%
	Leonhard Seiderer	SpVgg Fürth	1895	26th Mar 1922	Apr 21, 1924	03	8th	037.5%
	Pierre Littbarski	1. FC Cologne	1960	21 Sep 1988	Nov 15, 1989	03	73	004.3%	World Cup qualifier against Wales in 1989
	Dietmar Hamann	Liverpool FC	1973	27 Mar 2002 (from 61. ')	May 27, 2004 (until 69 ')	03 (1)	59	005.1%
68.	Albert Beier	Hamburger SV	1900	16 Sep 1928	Sep 30 1928	02	11	018.2%
	Willy Busch	TuS Duisburg 48/99	1907	Aug 18, 1935	27 Sep 1936	02	13	015.4%
	Arthur Hiller	1. FC Pforzheim	1881	0April 5, 1908 1st international match of the DFB	April 20, 1908 2nd international match of the DFB	02	4th	050.0%
	Ludwig Hofmann	FC Bayern Munich	1900	June 23, 1929	May 10, 1930	02	18th	011.1%
	Eugen Kipp senior	Sports fans Stuttgart	1885	0June 7, 1908	May 18, 1913	02	18th	011.1%
	Alfred Pfaff	Eintracht Frankfurt	1926	June 13, 1956	June 30, 1956	02	7th	028.6%
	Carl Riegel	1. FC Nuremberg	1897	0June 3, 1923	June 29, 1923	02	7th	028.6%
	Horst Szymaniak	Tasmania 1900	1934	Nov 14, 1965	Feb 23, 1966	02	43	004.7%
	Karl Tewes	Viktoria 89 Berlin	1886	0May 5, 1921	Sep 18 1921	02	6th	033.3%
	Heinrich Weber	SV Kurhessen Kassel	1900	April 26, 1931	15th Mar 1931	02	12	016.7%
	Mario Gomez	FC Bayern Munich	1985	November 11, 2011 (until '83)	Feb. 29, 2012 (from 46 ')	02 (1)	78	002.6%
	Thomas Hitzlsperger	VfB Stuttgart West Ham United	1982	28 Mar 2007 (from 46. ')	11 Aug 2010 (until 66 ')	02 (1)	52	003.8%
	Jens Jeremies	FC Bayern Munich	1974	Aug 21, 2002	October 11, 2002 (from 46 ')	02 (1)	55	003.6%
	Felix Magath	Hamburger SV	1953	June 15, 1985	0April 9, 1986 (from 46. ')	02 (1)	43	004.3%
	Jens Nowotny	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	1974	May 29, 2001 (from 74th ')	Apr 17, 2002	02 (1)	48	004.2%
	Benedikt Höwedes	FC Schalke 04	1988	May 29, 2016 (from 64. ')	Nov. 15, 2016 (from 60 ')	02 (0)	44	004.5%
	Ulf Kirsten	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	1965	0Sep 2 1998 (from 46. ')	05th Sep 1998 (from 72 ') Berti Vogts ' last international match as national coach	02 (0)	51 (for the DFB)	003.9%
	Mesut Özil	Arsenal FC	1988	25th Mar 2015 (from 63. ')	14 Nov 2017 (from 75 ')	02 (0)	92	002.2%
86.	Ernst Blum	VfB Stuttgart	1904	0Oct. 2, 1927		01	1	100.0%
	Hans-Peter Briegel	Hellas Verona	1955	May 14, 1986		01	72	001.4%
	Rudolf Brunnenmeier	TSV 1860 Munich	1941	13 Mar 1965		01	5	020.0%
	Fritz Buchloh	VfB Speldorf	1909	0May 8, 1935		01	17th	005.9%
	Ernst Eikhof	SC Victoria Hamburg	1892	Aug 12, 1923		01	3	033.3%
	Franz Binder	Rapid Vienna	1911	Aug 27, 1939		01	9 (for the DFB)	011.1%
	Rudolf Gellesch	FC Schalke 04	1914	0Oct 5, 1941		01	20th	005.0%
	Hans Hagen	SpVgg Fürth	1894	Oct. 20, 1929		01	12	008.3%
	Wilhelm Hahnemann	Admira Vienna	1914	June 15, 1941		01	23 (for the DFB)	004.3%
	Heinrich Hergert	FK Pirmasens	1904	19 Mar 1933		01	5	020.0%
	Paul Hunder	BFC Victoria 1889	1884	0Apr 3, 1910		01	8th	012.5%
	Erich Juskowiak	Fortuna Dusseldorf	1926	23 Dec 1956		01	31	003.2%
	Albin Kitzinger	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	1912	0Sep 1 1940		01	44	002.3%
	Stanislaus Kobierski	Fortuna Dusseldorf	1910	0December 3, 1933		01	26th	003.8%
	Andreas Kupfer	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	1914	Nov 22, 1950 (1st post-war game)		01	44	002.3%
	Kevin Kuranyi	FC Schalke 04	1982	28 Mar 2007 (until 46th)		01	52	001.9%
	Hans Lang	Hamburger SV	1899	June 21, 1925		01	10	010.0%
	Ernst Lehner	TSV Schwaben Augsburg	1912	0December 3, 1939		01	65	001.5%
	Max Morlock	1. FC Nuremberg	1925	Nov 25, 1956		01	26th	003.8%
	Josef Müller	FV 04 Würzburg	1893	Apr 15, 1928		01	12	008.3%
	Paul Pömpner	VfB Leipzig	1892	June 26, 1925		01	6th	016.7%
	Josef Pöttinger	FC Bayern Munich	1903	Feb 10, 1929		01	14th	007.1%
	Josef Röhrig	1. FC Cologne	1925	May 25, 1955		01	12	008.3%
	Helmut Röpnack	BFC Victoria 1889	1884	Nov 23, 1913		01	10	010.0%
	Christian Schmidt	FC Concordia Wilhelmsruh	1888	Apr 24, 1910		01	3	033.3%
	Hans Schmidt	1. FC Nuremberg	1893	Nov 23, 1924		01	16	006.3%
	Wilhelm Sold	FV Saarbrücken	1911	20 Mar 1938		01	12	008.3%
	Jakob Streitle	FC Bayern Munich	1916	0May 4th 1952		01	15th	006.7%
	Willi Tiefel	Eintracht Frankfurt	1911	Oct 13, 1935		01	7th	014.3%
	Hans Tilkowski	Borussia Dortmund	1935	0Oct 9, 1965		01	39	002.6%
	Heinrich Träger	1. FC Nuremberg	1893	0Jan. 1, 1923		01	6th	016.7%
	Georg Wunderlich	Stuttgart Kickers	1893	May 10, 1923		01	5	020.0%
	Christian goat	Tottenham Hotspur	1972	27 Mar 2002 (until 61st ')		01	72	001.4%
	Shkodran Mustafi	Arsenal FC	1992	June 10, 2017 (from 76. ')		01 (0)	20th	005%
	Heiko Westermann	Hamburger SV	1983	Nov. 17, 2010 (from 60 ')		01 (0)	27	03.7%
	Thomas Berthold	AS Roma	1964	May 30, 1990 (from 67. ')		01 (0)	62	001.6%
	Tim Borowski	Werder Bremen	1980	16 Aug 2006 (from 82nd ')		01 (0)	33	003%
	Klaus Fischer	1. FC Cologne	1949	Nov. 18, 1981 (from 51. ')		01 (0)	45	002.2%
	Ilkay Gündoğan	Manchester City	1990	20 Mar 2019 (from 45. ')	still active	01 (0)	37	002.7%
	Jens Lehmann	Arsenal FC	1969	May 27, 2008 (from 67. ')		01 (0)	61	001.6%
	Christoph Metzelder	Borussia Dortmund	1980	0Feb. 7, 2007 (from 74th ')		01 (0)	47	002.1%
	Serdar Taşçı	VfB Stuttgart	1987	11 Aug 2010 (from 66 ')		01 (0)	14th	007.1%

Remarks:

1. ↑ now New York Red Bulls
2. ↑ ^{a b} In the kicker match report for the game against Finland on October 6, 2001 , Oliver Kahn is named as captain, eu-football.info names Oliver Bierhoff , the DFB did not mark a captain in its match report . Bierhoff can be recognized as the captain in a YouTube video .
3. ↑ Including once in the EM quarter-finals up to the substitution of Bastian Schweinsteiger in the 16th minute.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} now SpVgg Greuther Fürth
5. ↑ Then Germany played without a captain until Thomas Müller came on in the 78th minute.
6. ↑ now 1. CfR Pforzheim
7. ↑ In the 2006 kicker almanac, Riegel is named as the captain of the game against Sweden, eu-football.info names Leonhard Seiderer as the captain, in the DFB match report no captain is named, in the match report of the Swedish association Seiderer is also named as the captain.
8. ↑ now KSV Hessen Kassel
9. ↑ now Würzburger FV
10. ↑ now 1. FC Saarbrücken

particularities

• Longest uninterrupted series as a captain:

1. Franz Beckenbauer - 47 games

2. Berti Vogts - 20 games

3. Herbert Erhardt - 15 games

4. Jürgen Klinsmann - 12 games

5. Lothar Matthäus, Hans Schäfer, Uwe Seeler - 11 games each

8. Oliver Kahn, Ludwig Leinberger - 10 games each

• Most frequent substitutions as captain:

1. Lothar Matthäus, Miroslav Klose - 11 times each

3. Oliver Bierhoff, Karlheinz Rummenigge - 8 × each

5. Michael Ballack, Sami Khedira - 7 times each

7. Thomas Müller, Bernd Schneider - each 6 × (of which Schneider 3 times in the 90th minute)

9. Philipp Lahm - 5 ×

• In the friendly against Belarus on May 27, 2008, four players (Michael Ballack, Miroslav Klose, Torsten Frings and, for the first time, Jens Lehmann) wore the captain's armband.

• Fewest games as captain before tournaments in which the player was captain (italic = substitute captain in the tournament):

0 games: Fritz Szepan before the 1934 World Cup, Hans Mock before the 1938 World Cup, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge before the 1980 European Championship, Christian Wörns before the 1999 Confed Cup and Bernd Schneider before the 2005 Confed Cup

1 game: Reinhold Munzenberg before the 1936 Olympic Games, Andreas Brehme before the 1992 European Championship, Andreas Möller before the 1996 European Championship, Oliver Kahn before the 2000 European Championship, Torsten Frings before the 2005 Confed Cup

2 games: Hans Kalb before the 1928 Olympic Games, Manfred Kaltz before the 1982 World Cup and Thomas Häßler before the 1996 European Championship

3 games: Julian Draxler before the Confederation Cup 2017

4 games: Max Breunig before the 1912 Olympic Games, Bernhard Cullmann before the 1980 European Championship and Jürgen Kohler before the 1996 European Championship

5 games: Philipp Lahm before the 2010 World Cup

6 games: Camillo Ugi before the 1912 Olympic Games, Hans Schäfer before the 1958 World Cup and Rudi Völler before the 1992 European Championship

7 games: Franz Beckenbauer before the 1972 European Championship, Toni Schumacher before the 1986 World Cup and Lothar Matthäus before the 1988 European Championship

See also

• Honorary captain
• List of German national soccer players
• German national soccer team / statistics

swell

• Foosball Football Almanac 2006 . ISBN 3-7679-0813-1 (data up to June 29, 2005)
• Kicker Edition 100 Years of German International Games (dates until February 6, 2008)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dfb.de: "New is the captain of the national team"