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Germany Under-21
Association	Deutscher Fußball-Bund
Head coach	Stefan Kuntz
Captain	Jonathan Tah
Most caps	Fabian Ernst (31)
Top scorer	Pierre Littbarski (18)
First colours	Second colours
First international
	U-23:; West Germany 3–3 Yugoslavia ; (Frankfurt, Germany; 25 June 1955); U-21:; Poland 1–0 West Germany ; (Toruń, Poland; 10 October 1979)
Biggest win
	U-23:; West Germany 3–0 Turkey ; (Augsburg, Germany; 24 April 1971); U-21:; San Marino 0–11 Germany ; Serravalle, San Marino; 17 November 2009)
Biggest defeat
	U-23:; Soviet Union 3–1 West Germany ; (Yerevan, USSR; 29 April 1972); U-21:; Portugal 5–0 Germany ; (Olomouc, Czech Republic; 27 June 2015)
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances	11 (first in 1982)
Best result	Winners (2009, 2017)

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The Germany national under-21 football team represents the under-21s of Germany in the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship and is controlled by the German Football Association (DFB), the governing body of football in Germany.

Before the reunification of Germany, East Germany and West Germany played as separate entities — the two teams played separately until summer 1990. Following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976, international under-21 football in Europe began. A West German team, however, did not compete in the U-21 European Championship until the qualifying round (beginning in 1980) of the 1982 competition.

West Germany competed in the first two under-23 competitions, which finished in 1972 and 1974. The first under-21 competition finals were in 1978, and since the under-21 competition rules state that players must be 21 or under at the start of a two-year competition, technically it is an under-23 competition.

The current Germany team can be legitimately considered as the current incarnation of the West German team, since the West Germany flag, uniform, and football association all became those of the unified Germany. In effect, the West German team absorbed the East German team to become 'the Germany national under-21 football team'.

For these reasons, the record of West Germany for the U-23 and U-21 competitions is shown below.

Competition records

For the East Germany team record, look here.

Competing as West Germany

UEFA U-23 Championship record

Year	Progress
1972	Quarterfinals
1974	Did not qualify
1976	Did not enter

UEFA U-21 Championship record

Year	Progress
1978	Did not enter
1980	Did not enter
1982	Final
1984	Did not qualify
1986	Did not qualify
1988	Did not qualify
1990	Quarterfinals

Competing as Germany

UEFA U-21 Championship record

Year	Progress
1992	Quarterfinals
1994	Did not qualify
1996	Quarterfinals
1998	Quarterfinals
2000	Did not qualify
2002	Did not qualify
2004	Group Stage
2006	Group Stage
2007	Did not qualify
2009	Champions
2011	Did not qualify
2013	Group Stage
2015	Semifinals
2017	Champions

Individual Awards

Golden Player: Rudi Völler (1982)
Silver Boot: Kevin Volland (2015)

EURO Under-21 dream team

On 17 June 2015, UEFA revealed an all-time best XI from the previous Under-21 final tournaments.^[1]

Included players from Germany:

Goal: Manuel Neuer
Defence: Mats Hummels
Midfield: Mesut Özil

Schedule and results

24 March 2017 Friendly	Germany	1–0	England	Wiesbaden
20:00	Amiri 25'	Report		Stadium: BRITA-Arena Attendance: 9,457 Referee: Roy Reinshreiber (Israel)

28 March 2017 Friendly	Germany	0–1	Portugal	Stuttgart
18:00		Report	Fernandes 25'	Stadium: Gazi-Stadion auf der Waldau Attendance: 6,865 Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)

18 June 2017 2017 UEFA Euro	Germany	2–0	Czech Republic	Kraków
18:00	Meyer 44' Gnabry 50'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Cracovia Attendance: 14,051 Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)

21 June 2017 2017 UEFA Euro	Germany	3–0	Denmark	Kraków
18:00	Selke 53' Kempf 73' Amiri 79'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Cracovia Attendance: 9,298 Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

24 June 2017 2017 UEFA Euro	Italy	1–0	Germany	Tychy
20:45	Bernardeschi 31'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Miejski Attendance: 9,047 Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

27 June 2017 2017 UEFA Euro	England	2–2 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p)	Germany	Tychy
18:00	Gray 41' Abraham 50'	Report	Selke 35' Platte 70'	Stadium: Stadion Miejski Attendance: 13,214 Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)
	Penalties
	Baker Abraham Chilwell Ward-Prowse Redmond		Arnold Gerhardt Philipp Meyer Amiri

30 June 2017 2017 UEFA Euro	Germany	1–0	Spain	Kraków
20:45	Weiser 40'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Cracovia Attendance: 14,059 Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)

1 September 2017 Friendly	Germany	1–2	Hungary	Paderborn
18:00	J. Eggestein 65'	Report	Zsótér 15' Vida 60'	Stadium: Benteler-Arena Attendance: 5,510 Referee: Laurent Kopriwa (Luxembourg)

5 September 2017 2019 UEFA Q	Germany	1–0	Kosovo	Osnabrück
19:00	M. Eggestein 45'	Report		Stadium: Stadion an der Bremer Brücke Attendance: 5,331 Referee: Dumitri Muntean (Moldova)

6 October 2017 2019 UEFA Q	Germany	6–1	Azerbaijan	Cottbus
19:00	Ochs 8', 37' Dahoud 34' Krivotsyuk 53' (o.g.) Hartel 72' Teuchert 83'	Report	Safarzade 86'	Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft Attendance: 7,345 Referee: Vilhjalmur Thorarinsson (Iceland)

10 October 2017 2019 UEFA Q	Norway	3–1	Germany	Drammen
19:00	Thorsby 45', 71' Ødegaard 56'	Report	Teuchert 31'	Stadium: Marienlyst Stadion Attendance: 1,810 Referee: Ognjen Valjić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

9 November 2017 2019 UEFA Q	Azerbaijan	0–7	Germany	Baku
15:00		Report	Hartel 2', 46', 58' Amiri 14' Seydel 28' Klostermann 60' Öztunalı 84'	Stadium: Dalga Arena Attendance: 150 Referee: Daniyar Sakhi (Kazakhstan)

14 November 2017 2019 UEFA Q	Israel	2–5	Germany	Petah Tikva
18:30	Barshazki 44' Weissman 73'	Report	Dahoud 17' Klostermann 54' Seydel 79' Baumgartl 82' Neuhaus 90+1'	Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Rade Obrenović (Slovenia)

22 March 2018 2019 UEFA Q	Germany	v	Israel	Braunschweig
19:00				Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion Referee: Mario Zebec (Croatia)

27 March 2018 2019 UEFA Q

Kosovo

v

Germany

7 September 2018 Friendly

Germany

v

TBD

11 September 2018 2019 UEFA Q	Republic of Ireland	v	Germany	Dublin
				Stadium: Tallaght Stadium

12 October 2018 2019 UEFA Q

Germany

v

Norway

16 October 2018 2019 UEFA Q

Germany

v

Republic of Ireland

Players

Current squad

Players born in or after 1996 are eligible for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

The following players were called up for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches against Israel and Kosovo on 22 and 27 March 2018.^[2]

Note: Names in italics denote players that have been called up to the senior team.

Caps and goals correct as of 14 November 2017.^[3]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Alexander Nübel	(1996-09-30) 30 September 1996 (age 28)	6	0	Schalke 04
2	2DF	Benjamin Henrichs	(1997-02-23) 23 February 1997 (age 27)	4	0	Bayer Leverkusen
3	2DF	Lukas Klostermann	(1996-06-03) 3 June 1996 (age 28)	10	2	RB Leipzig
4	2DF	Jonathan Tah (c)	(1996-02-11) 11 February 1996 (age 28)	7	0	Bayer Leverkusen
6	2DF	Waldemar Anton	(1996-06-20) 20 June 1996 (age 28)	5	0	Hannover 96
7	3MF	Levin Öztunalı	(1996-03-15) 15 March 1996 (age 28)	17	4	Mainz 05
8	3MF	Mahmoud Dahoud	(1996-01-01) 1 January 1996 (age 28)	12	2	Borussia Mönchengladbach
9	4FW	Aaron Seydel	(1996-02-07) 7 February 1996 (age 28)	2	2	Holstein Kiel
10	3MF	Nadiem Amiri	(1996-10-27) 27 October 1996 (age 27)	15	3	TSG Hoffenheim
11	4FW	Cedric Teuchert	(1997-01-14) 14 January 1997 (age 27)	3	2	Schalke 04
12	1GK	Florian Müller	(1997-11-13) 13 November 1997 (age 26)	0	0	Mainz 05 II
13	4FW	Janni Serra	(1998-03-13) 13 March 1998 (age 26)	4	0	VfL Bochum
14	3MF	Salih Özcan	(1998-01-11) 11 January 1998 (age 26)	0	0	1. FC Köln II
15	3MF	Philipp Ochs	(1997-04-17) 17 April 1997 (age 27)	4	2	VfL Bochum
16	3MF	Suat Serdar	(1997-04-11) 11 April 1997 (age 27)	1	0	Mainz 05
17	3MF	Eduard Löwen	(1997-01-28) 28 January 1997 (age 27)	1	0	1. FC Nürnberg
18	3MF	Marcel Hartel	(1996-01-19) 19 January 1996 (age 28)	6	4	Union Berlin
19	3MF	Florian Neuhaus	(1997-03-16) 16 March 1997 (age 27)	5	1	Fortuna Düsseldorf
21	2DF	Jordan Torunarigha	(1997-08-07) 7 August 1997 (age 27)	0	0	Hertha BSC II
22	3MF	Maximilian Eggestein	(1996-12-08) 8 December 1996 (age 27)	4	1	Werder Bremen
23	1GK	Moritz Nicolas	(1997-10-21) 21 October 1997 (age 27)	0	0	Borussia Mönchengladbach

Recent call ups

The following players have also been called up to the Germany under-21 squad and remain eligible:

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Svend Brodersen	(1997-03-22) 22 March 1997 (age 27)	0	0	FC St. Pauli	v. Israel, 14 November 2017
GK	Nils-Jonathan Körber	(1996-11-13) 13 November 1996 (age 27)	1	0	Preußen Münster	v. Azerbaijan, 6 October 2017

DF	Timo Baumgartl	(1996-04-04) 4 April 1996 (age 28)	8	1	VfB Stuttgart	v. Israel, 22 March 2018
DF	Thilo Kehrer	(1996-09-21) 21 September 1996 (age 28)	9	0	Schalke 04	v. Israel, 22 March 2018
DF	Pascal Stenzel	(1996-03-20) 20 March 1996 (age 28)	3	0	SC Freiburg	v. Israel, 14 November 2017
DF	Jannes Horn	(1997-02-06) 6 February 1997 (age 27)	2	0	1. FC Köln	v. Kosovo, 5 September 2017
DF	Lukas Klünter	(1996-05-26) 26 May 1996 (age 28)	1	0	1. FC Köln	v. Kosovo, 5 September 2017

MF	Ohis Felix Uduokhai	(1997-09-09) 9 September 1997 (age 27)	0	0	VfL Wolfsburg	v. Israel, 14 November 2017
MF	Dennis Geiger	(1998-06-10) 10 June 1998 (age 26)	0	0	1899 Hoffenheim	v. Azerbaijan, 9 November 2017
MF	Felix Passlack	(1998-05-29) 29 May 1998 (age 26)	1	0	1899 Hoffenheim	v. Norway, 10 October 2017
MF	Aymen Barkok	(1998-05-21) 21 May 1998 (age 26)	1	0	Eintracht Frankfurt	v. Kosovo, 5 September 2017
MF	Tim Skarke	(1996-09-07) 7 September 1996 (age 28)	1	0	1. FC Heidenheim	v. Kosovo, 5 September 2017

FW	Johannes Eggestein	(1998-05-08) 8 May 1998 (age 26)	4	1	Werder Bremen	v. Norway, 10 October 2017
FW	Felix Platte	(1996-02-11) 11 February 1996 (age 28)	3	1	SV Darmstadt	v. Norway, 10 October 2017
FW	Luca Waldschmidt	(1996-05-19) 19 May 1996 (age 28)	3	0	Hamburger SV	v. Norway, 10 October 2017

Past squads

Player records

Most caps

No. of caps	Player	U-21 career
31	Fabian Ernst	1998–2001
27	Andreas Beck	2007–2009
26	Mike Hanke	2003–2005
25	Dennis Aogo	2007–2009
24	Christian Tiffert	2002–2004
	Daniel Schwaab	2007–2010
	Lewis Holtby	2009–2013
	Moritz Leitner	2011–2015
23	Marco Haber	1990–1993
	Andreas Neuendorf	1994–1998
	Benjamin Auer	2002–2004
	Christoph Preuß	2002–2004
	Sebastian Rudy	2009–2013

Most goals

No. of goals	No. of caps	Player	U-21 career
18	21	Pierre Littbarski	1979–1982
17	20	Heiko Herrlich	1990–1993
15	23	Benjamin Auer	2002–2004
14	26	Mike Hanke	2003–2005
14	24	Lewis Holtby	2009–2013
13	21	Rouwen Hennings	2007–2009
11	22	Kevin Volland	2012–2015
10	19	Rudi Völler	1979–1982
10	22	Christian Nerlinger	1992–1996

Former coaches

Hannes Löhr (1990–2002)
Jürgen Kohler (2002–2003)
Uli Stielike (2003–2004)
Dieter Eilts (2004–2008)
Horst Hrubesch (2008–2009)
Rainer Adrion (2009–2013)
Horst Hrubesch (2013–2016)
Stefan Kuntz (2016–)

References

^ "Our all-time Under-21 EURO dream team". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
^ "Kuntz beruft 23er-Kader für Israel- und Kosovo-Spiel". dfb.de. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
^ "U 21-Nationalteam Männer Team". dfb.de. Retrieved 4 March 2014.

External links

Site of the Under-21 national team at the German Football Association homepage

[1] "Our all-time Under-21 EURO dream team". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2016.

[2] "Kuntz beruft 23er-Kader für Israel- und Kosovo-Spiel". dfb.de. Retrieved 15 March 2018.

[3] "U 21-Nationalteam Männer Team". dfb.de. Retrieved 4 March 2014.

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Revision as of 19:36, 22 March 2018

Competition records

Competing as West Germany

Competing as Germany

Individual Awards

Schedule and results

Players

Current squad

Recent call ups

Past squads

Player records

Former coaches

See also

References

External links