Germany at the FIFA Women's World Cup

Opponent in the semifinals was the selection of the United States, which was a number too big for the German team.

Heidi Mohr proved with her seven tournament goals that she was one of the world's top scorer in her time.

The German team started with a painstaking 1-0 victory (goal: Silvia Neid) over Japan in the tournament.

In the second group game, the hosts waited and it looked as if the German team could reciprocate for the defeat in the small final of 1991.

To date, UEFA is the only continental federation to hold separate World Cup qualifiers.

The World Cup should have taken place again at the People's Republic of China, but due to the SARS epidemic, the tournament was temporarily relocated to the United States.

In this game, Steffi Jones suffered an Anterior cruciate ligament injury and had to travel home.

In a women's football game of all time, which was the best for many experts, the German team was able to successfully take revenge and moved into the final with a 3-0 victory.

At the home World Cup Germany wanted to be the first country to win the title for the third time in a row.

The initially 26-member squad met for seven courses between which four friendly matches against teams with similar playing styles as the group opponents took place.

FFC Turbine Potsdam were not available to prepare for Champions League Final, which lost to Potsdam 2-0 at the end of May against Olympique Lyon , Birgit Prinz and Ariane Hingst, both of whom had played for Germany for more than 14 years, announced their retirement from the national team immediately after their defeat by Japan, but the DFB announced a farewell match that would not have been possible for Birgit Prinz on 27 March 2012 took place.

But on 13 July, the national coach announced that she wanted to fulfill her contract, which had been extended until the 2016 World Cup, and would like to build a new team for the European Championship 2013.

With the defeat and the simultaneous semi-final entry of France and Sweden also for the first time the qualification for the Olympic women's tournament missed.

After the quarter-final against Japan, the team remained unbeaten in 22 games successively and lost only in the final of 2013 Algarve Cup against the United States.

In the Qualification, which started in the autumn of 2013 after the European Championships in Sweden, the team met Russia, Ireland, the Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia.

Most recently, Germany, the most frequent opponent of the Russian team, met Russia in a friendly for the 2009 European Championship in August 2009 and won 3-1 in Bochum.

The qualification was continued on April 5, 2014 with the game in Ireland, with the German team had to accept the first goals in a 3-2 victory.

Previously a friendly match against France was lost 2-0 at Offenbach am Main and then at London on 23 November Wembley Stadium against England 3-0 win.

Germany put in the first game against Ivory Coast with a 10: 0, the second highest World Cup victory a sign.

Nevertheless, they were group winners with the better goal difference, as Norway had won with the same result against Thailand, against the Ivory Coast, only a 3-1 reached.

In the Qualification, which began in the autumn of 2017 after the European Championships in the Netherlands, the team met Iceland, Czech Republic, for the first time the Faroe Islands and Slovenia.

The German team, who were eliminated for the first time at the European Championships in the quarter-finals and then Anja Mittag had announced her resignation, met in the first game on Slovenia and won 6-0.

The team fell back in the table in third place, but the top spot four days later by a 11-0 draw against the Faroe Islands, in which Hasret Kayikçi scored the last four goals, with simultaneous division of points between Iceland and the Czech Republic to recapture.

One week after the team was without a win at the 2018 SheBelieves Cup and came in last, Germany coach Steffi Jones was dismissed.

At the World Cup finals, China and Spain as well as South Africa were the opponents of the group stage.

Shortly after the half-time break, the Swedes could use a defensive weakness of the German team and achieve the winning goal.