Germany national football team records and statistics
[1] The team is governed by the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund), founded in 1900.
[7][8] At the end of the 2014 World Cup, Germany earned the highest Elo rating of any national football team in history, with a record 2,205 points.
Of the players who were not yet of age on their debut, only Franz Beckenbauer managed more than 100 internationals, but other players later became World and / or European Champions, who were not yet of age on their debut: Rainer Bonhof, Paul Breitner, Horst Eckel, Uli Hoeneß, Gerd Mueller, Wolfgang Overath, Berti Vogts, Fritz Walter.
Besides Beckenbauer, Willy Baumgärtner, Paul Janes and Uwe Seeler later became record appearances.
Eighteen players played their last match for Germany at an age older than 35 years, including six GKs.
Eight national players continued to play for Austria or the Saarland after the Second World War.
By contrast, Fritz Walter was the youngest player to score three goals, doing so in his first international match.
Klose was 35 years and 362 days old when he scored 69th international goal, the one which saw him replace Müller as the record scorer.
For several players with the same number of hat-tricks and total goals, the entry is made chronologically.
On three occasions did the same player, Fritz Förderer, Torsten Frings, and Lukas Podolski, successfully convert one penalty but miss another in the same match.
Germany have also received thirteen penalties as reigning world champions, of which ten were converted.
Germany's 1990 World Cup quarter-final victory also saw the converted penalty being the only goal of the match.
Germany is the only team ever to participate in at least four World Cup shoot-outs with a 100 percent win rate.
Consequently, of Argentina's record seven World Cup shoot-outs, their sole defeat was against Germany in 2006.
Sepp Maier (1976) and Eike Immel (1988) are the only goalkeepers who could not save a single penalty in a shoot-out.
In two cases (1982 and 1996), an additional sixth German taker secured a shoot-out victory, while in 2016 this was achieved by the ninth kicker.
The first player to be sent off was Hans Kalb, in a match against Uruguay on 3 June 1928 at the 1928 Olympics; he thus also became the first captain of the German team to be sent off.
Jérôme Boateng was the first player to be dismissed on his international debut, on 10 October 2009 in Moscow against Russia.
[14] The first German player to be shown a red card in a World Cup match (used since 1970) was Thomas Berthold on 21 June 1986, in a quarter-final game against Mexico.
The Germany national team partook in seven penalty shoot-outs at World Cup finals and European Championships, winning six and losing one.
Below are: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Russia (as the Russian Empire) and San Marino suffered their highest losses against Germany, while Brazil, Estonia, Hungary and Luxembourg suffered their joint-highest defeats against Germany.
The meeting in Saarbrücken against the Saarland in the context of 1954 World Cup qualification counts as an away match.
