Germany national under-21 football team

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Germany U-21

Nickname(s)

Association

Deutscher Fußball-Bund

Head coach

Dieter Eilts (2004-)

Captain

Eugen Polanski

Most caps

Michael Zepek 50 Games

Top scorer

Erdal Kilicaslan 32 Goals





First kit





Second kit

First International
U-23: Turkey 0-2 West Germany
Ankara, October 18, 1970

U-21: Bulgaria 1-0 West Germany
Plovdiv, December 2, 1980

Biggest win
U-23: West Germany 3-0 Turkey
Augsburg, April 24, 1971

U-21: Germany 8-0 Ireland
Baunatal, March 23, 1993

Biggest defeat
U-23: USSR 3-1 West Germany
Yerevan, April 29, 1972

U-21: Lost 3-1 on four occasions

(Records for competitive matches only)

UEFA U-21 Championship

Appearances

6 (First in 1982)

Best result

Runners-up 1982

The Germany national under-21 football team represents the under-21s of Germany in the UEFA U-21 Championship, and is controlled by the German Football Association, 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. However, a West German team 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 ot a two year competition, technically it is an U-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.

1 UEFA U-23 Championship Record
2 UEFA U-21 Championship Record
3 Players
- 3.1 Latest Squad
- 3.2 Current Crop
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] UEFA U-23 Championship Record

Competing as West Germany:

1972: Losing quarter-finalists.
1974: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.
1976: Did not enter.

Competing as East Germany:

1972: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 3 in qualification group.
1974: Runners-up. 3:2,0:4 versus Hungary
1976: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.

[edit] UEFA U-21 Championship Record

Competing as West Germany:

1978: Did not enter.
1980: Did not enter.
1982: Runners-up.
1984: Losing semi-finalists.
1986: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 4 in qualification group.
1988: Losing quarter-finalists.
1990: Losing quarter-finalists.

Competing as unified Germany:

1992: Losing quarter-finalists.
1994: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group.
1996: Losing quarter-finalists.
1998: Losing quarter-finalists.
2000: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group. Were 9th best runner-up (top 7 qualified for playoffs)
2002: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 5 in qualification group.
2004: Finished 3rd of 4 in finals group.
2006: Finished 3rd of 4 in finals group.
2007: Did not qualify. Losing in playoff for Final Tournament

East Germany:

1978: Runners-up. losing final vs Yugoslavia 0:1,4:4
1980: Runners-up. losing final vs Sovietunion 0:0,0:1
1982: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 4 in qualification group.
1984: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.
1986: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 4 in qualification group.
1988: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 4 in qualification group.
1990: Did not qualify. Finished 2rd of 4 in qualification group.

[edit] Players

[edit] Latest Squad

Squad called up for the friendly against Denmark on May 28. (Caps and goals as of May 29, 2008)

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Manuel Neuer	March 27, 1986 (1986-03-27) (age 22)	11	0	Schalke 04
21	GK	Thorsten Kirschbaum	April 20, 1987 (1987-04-20) (age 21)	7	0	1899 Hoffenheim
2	DF	Andreas Beck	March 13, 1987 (1987-03-13) (age 21)	16	1	Stuttgart
6	DF	Dennis Aogo	January 14, 1987 (1987-01-14) (age 21)	13	3	Freiburg
15	DF	Mats Hummels	December 16, 1988 (1988-12-16) (age 19)	7	0	Borussia Dortmund
20	DF	Pascal Bieler	February 26, 1986 (1986-02-26) (age 22)	11	0	Hertha BSC
36	DF	Niko Bungert	October 24, 1986 (1986-10-24) (age 21)	3	0	Kickers Offenbach
38	DF	Benedikt Höwedes	February 29, 1988 (1988-02-29) (age 20)	5	0	Schalke 04
16	MF	Barış Özbek	September 14, 1986 (1986-09-14) (age 21)	15	3	Galatasaray
22	MF	Marc-André Kruska	June 29, 1987 (1987-06-29) (age 20)	13	2	Borussia Dortmund
24	FW	Max Kruse	March 19, 1988 (1988-03-19) (age 20)	1	1	Werder Bremen
26	MF	Jan Rosenthal	April 7, 1986 (1986-04-07) (age 22)	13	2	Hannover 96
28	MF	Sami Khedira	April 4, 1987 (1987-04-04) (age 21)	6	5	Stuttgart
39	MF	Fin Bartels	February 7, 1987 (1987-02-07) (age 21)	1	0	Hansa Rostock
11	FW	Rouwen Hennings	August 28, 1987 (1987-08-28) (age 20)	17	13	Osnabrück
13	FW	Marcel Heller	February 12, 1986 (1986-02-12) (age 22)	8	3	Eintracht Frankfurt
14	FW	Aaron Hunt	September 4, 1986 (1986-09-04) (age 21)	11	3	Werder Bremen
37	FW	Kevin Schindler	May 21, 1988 (1988-05-21) (age 20)	4	1	Werder Bremen

[edit] Current Crop

All of these players have been called up to the national under-21 team at least once.

Born in 1986 (eligible for the 2007-09 UEFA European U-21 Championship).

Goalkeepers:

Florian Fromlowitz (Kaiserslautern)
Manuel Neuer (Schalke 04)

Defenders:

Midfielders:

Nils Ole Book (Duisburg)
Daniel Brinkmann (Alemannia Aachen)
Kai Bülow (Hansa Rostock)
Niko Bungert (Kickers Offenbach)
Sascha Dum (Bayer Leverkusen)
Denis Epstein (Kickers Offenbach)
Juri Judt (Greuther Fürth)
Barış Özbek (Galatasaray)
Eugen Polanski (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Jan Rosenthal (Hannover 96)

Strikers:

Born in 1987 (eligible for the 2007-09 UEFA European U-21 Championship).

Goalkeepers:

Mark Birkenbach (Sportfreunde Siegen)
Thorsten Kirschbaum (1899 Hoffenheim)

Defenders:

Dennis Aogo (Freiburg)
Andreas Beck (Stuttgart)
Tom Bertram (Greuther Fürth)
Sebastian Boenisch (Werder Bremen)
Gonzalo Castro (Bayer Leverkusen)
Robert Fleßers (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Sören Halfar (Paderborn)
Fabian Johnson (1860 Munich)
Torben Joneleit (Hibernian)
Fabian Schönheim (Kaiserslautern)
Serdar Taşçı (Stuttgart)

Midfielders:

Daniel Adlung (Greuther Fürth)
Fin Bartels (Hansa Rostock)
Kevin-Prince Boateng (Tottenham Hotspur)
Patrick Ebert (Hertha BSC)
Stephan Fürstner (Bayern Munich)
Dennis Grote (Bochum)
Sami Khedira (Stuttgart)
Marc-André Kruska (Borussia Dortmund)
Sebastian Reinert (Kaiserslautern)
Pierre de Wit (Osnabrück)
Björn Ziegenbein (1860 Munich)

Strikers:

Chinedu Ede (Hertha BSC)
Rouwen Hennings (Osnabrück)

Born in 1988 (eligible for the 2009-11 UEFA European U-21 Championship).

Defenders:

Midfielders:

Max Kruse (Werder Bremen)
Mesut Özil (Werder Bremen)

Strikers:

Daniel Halfar (Arminia Bielefeld)
Kevin Schindler (SV Werder Bremen)

Born in 1989 (eligible for the 2009-11 UEFA European U-21 Championship).

Defenders:

Kevin Pezzoni (1. FC Köln)

Midfielders:

Marko Marin (Borussia Mönchengladbach)

Note: Players in bold have already been called up to the senior team.

[edit] See also

European Under-21 Football Championship

[edit] External links

UEFA Under-21 website Contains full results archive
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships.
Site of the Under-21 national team at the German Football Association homepage.

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