The German Women's National Football Team started play in 1983.
Women's football was long met with skepticism in Germany, and official matches were banned by the DFB until 1970.
[4] The German national team is one of the most successful in women's football.
Germany is also one of the only two nations to have won both the women's and men's tournament, the Netherlands is the other.
The team has won eight of the twelve UEFA European Championships, claiming six consecutive titles between 1995 and 2013.