Nickname- Die Mannschaft (The Team), used by English-speaking media

Association- German Football Association
(Deutscher Fußball-Bund — DFB)

Confederation- UEFA (Europe)

Head coach- Joachim Löw

Captain- Michael Ballack

Most caps- Lothar Matthäus (150)

Top scorer- Gerd Müller (68)

FIFA code- GER

FIFA ranking- 4

Highest FIFA ranking- 1 (August 1993)

Lowest FIFA ranking- 23 (March 2006)

Elo ranking- 5

Highest Elo ranking- 1 (1990–92, 1993–94, 1996–97)

Lowest Elo ranking- 28 (1923)

The German national football team (German: Die deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft) is the football team representing the country of Germany in international competition since 1908. It is governed by the German Football Association DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) which was founded in 1900.

From 1950 to 1990, the team was also informally called West Germany in English, as since World War II, the DFB is based in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) which was commonly referred to as West Germany from 1949 to 1990. The DFB continues to field the German national team that had been fully reinstated by FIFA after the 1950 FIFA World Cup, retaining all records and traditions. Under Allied occupation and division, two other separate national teams had also been recognized by FIFA, the Saarland team (1950–1956), and the East German team (1952–1990). Both have been absorbed into the current national team, along with their records (caps and goal scorers). The official name and code "Germany FR (FRG)" has been shortened again to "Germany (GER)" since 1990.

Germany is one of the three most successful national teams at international competitions, having won a total of three World Cups and three European championships. They are also one of the most consistent teams. Aside from winning three world and continental titles, they were also runners-up three times in the European Championships, four times in the World Cup and won 3rd place in the World Cup three times as well. East Germany won Olympic Gold in 1976. Germany is the only nation to have won both the men's and women's World Cups.

The current coaching staff of the national team include head coach Joachim Löw, assistant coach Hans-Dieter Flick, goalkeeper coach Andreas Köpke, athletic coach Mark Verstegen, athletic coach Oliver Schmidtlein, scout Urs Siegenthaler, technical director Matthias Sammer and team manager Oliver Bierhoff.

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Goalkeeper
Robert Enke
Tim Wiese
Manuel Neuer
René Adler

Defender
Arne Friedrich
Philipp Lahm
Per Mertesacker
Marcell Jansen
Heiko Westermann
Serdar Tasci
Marcel Schäfer
Andreas Hinkel
Robert Huth
Christian Träsch
Andreas Beck
Marvin Compper
Clemens Fritz
Christoph Metzelder
Christian Pander
Jerome Boateng

Midfielder
Michael Ballack (captain)
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Thomas Hitzlsperger
Piotr Trochowski
Christian Gentner
Mesut Özil
Sami Khedira
Tobias Weis
Marko Marin
Simon Rolfes
Torsten Frings

Striker
Miroslav Klose
Mario Gómez
Cacau
Lukas Podolski
Patrick Helmes
Stefan Kießling

* The recent players called for National duty and some of them may drop from the squad in case of injury or off-form.