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East Germany national football team

National Football Team
NameGerman Democratic Republic
Nickname"Weltmeister in Freundschaftsspielen" (World champion in friendly games)
AssociationDeutscher Fussballverband
der DDR - DFV
ConfederationUEFA (Europe)
Most capsJoachim Streich (102)
Top scorerJoachim Streich (55)
FIFA codeDDR
World Cup Statistics
First internationalPOL 3 - 0 East Germany DE
(Warsaw, Poland; 21 September 1952)
Last International
BEL 0 - 2 East Germany GDR
(Brussels, Belgium; 12 September 1990)
Biggest winLKA 1 - 12 East Germany GDR
(Colombo, Ceylon; 12 January 1964)
Biggest defeatEast Germany GDR 1 - 4 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia
(Leipzig,East Germany; 25 May 1957)
Appearances1
First World Cup1974
Best resultRound 2, 1974 (Rank 6)
European Championship

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The East Germany national football team was from 1952 to 1990 the football team of the German Democratic Republic, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with Saarland and West Germany.

After German reunification in late 1990, the Deutscher Fußball Verband der DDR (DFV), and with it the East German team, joined the Deutscher Fußball Bund (DFB) and the German national football team that had just won the World Cup.


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# Player East Germany career Caps
1 Joachim Streich 1969-1984 102 (98)
2 Hans-Jürgen Dörner 1969-1985 100 (96)
3 Jürgen Croy 1967-1981 94 (86)
4 Konrad Weise 1970-1981 86 (78)
5 Eberhard Vogel 1962-1976 74 (69)
6 Bernd Bransch 1967-1976 72 (64)
7 Peter Ducke 1960-1975 68 (63)
8 Martin Hoffmann 1973-1981 66 (62)
= Lothar Kurbjuweit 1970-1981 66 (59)
10 Ronald Kreer 1982-1989 65 (65)
11 Gerd Kische 1971-1980 63 (59)
12 Matthias Liebers 1980-1988 59 (59)
13 Reinhard Häfner 1971-1984 58 (54)
14 Jürgen Pommerenke 1972-1983 57 (53)
15 Rainer Ernst 1981-1990 56 (56)
= Henning Frenzel 1961-1974 56 (54)
17 Jürgen Sparwasser 1969-1977 53 (48)
18 Andreas Thom 1984-1990 51 (51)
19 Hans-Jürgen Kreische 1968-1975 50 (46)
20 Ulf Kirsten 1985-1990 49 (49)
21 Dieter Erler 1959-1968 47 (45)
= Jörg Stübner 1984-1990 47 (47)
23 René Müller 1984-1989 46 (46)
= Dirk Stahmann 1982-1989 46 (46)
25 Rüdiger Schnuphase 1973-1983 45 (45)

# Player Goals
1 Joachim Streich 55 (53)
2 Hans-Jürgen Kreische 25 (22)
= Eberhard Vogel 25 (24)
4 Rainer Ernst 20 (20)
5 Henning Frenzel 19 (19)
6 Martin Hoffmann 16 (15)
= Jürgen Nöldner 16 (16)
= Andreas Thom 16 (16)
9 Peter Ducke 15 (15)
= Jürgen Sparwasser 15 (14)
11 Ulf Kirsten 14 (14)
12 Günter Schröter 13 (13)
13 Wolfram Löwe 12 (12)
= Dieter Erler 12 (12)
15 Willy Tröger 11 (11)

Player East Germany Unified Germany Overall
Caps Goals Caps Goals Caps Goals
Ulf Kirsten 49 14 51 20 100 34
Matthias Sammer 23 6 51 8 74 14
Andreas Thom 51 16 10 2 61 18
Thomas Doll 29 7 18 1 47 8
Dariusz Wosz 7 0 17 1 24 1
Olaf Marschall 4 0 13 3 17 3
Heiko Scholz 7 0 1 0 8 0
Dirk Schuster 4 0 3 0 7 0



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