The English and german national football teams have played each other since the end of the nineteenth hundred, and officially since 1930. The teams met for the first base clock time in November 1899, when England beat Germany in four straight matches. luminary matches between England and Germany ( or West Germany ) include the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final, and the semi-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1996 and the round of sixteen of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2020. While the English public, football fans and in particular newspapers consider a England–Germany football rivalry to have developed, it is by and large an english phenomenon since most german fans consider the Netherlands or Italy to be their traditional footballing rivals. [ citation needed ]
football is a simpleton game ; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win .Gary Lineker[1]
In this article, references to the german football team include the erstwhile West Germany football team before german reunion .
history
early encounters
England and Germany have played 33 official matches against each other since 1930. The Football Association ( FA ) instigated a four-game tour of Germany and Austria by a representative England team in November 1899. The England team played a representative german team in Berlin on 23 November 1899, with the german side losing 1-0. Two days later a slenderly altered german side lost 10–2. The third and fourthly matches were played in Prague and Karlsruhe against a compound austrian and german side, and England won 6–0 and 7–0. Those games can not be considered as “ official ” and are known as “ proto-international matches ” ( Ur-Länderspiele ) in Germany because they were organised by a regional federation from Berlin and the German Football Association ( DFB ) was not founded until 28 January 1900. On the other hand, the DFB considers four matches played between 1908-1913 against the England home amateur football team of the FA as official matches against England, while the FA does not. The beginning ever wax international between the two teams was a friendly match played on Saturday 10 May 1930, in Berlin. England were 1–0 and 2–1 up in the crippled, but after losing a actor to injury went behind 3–2, before a late goal from David Jack brought the score to 3–3, which was how the game finished. [ 2 ] The adjacent match between the two teams was played on 4 December 1935, at White Hart Lane in London, the first gear full external to take stead between the teams in England and the first since the rise to exponent of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in 1933. It was besides the first match to stir up finical controversy, as The Observer newspaper reported protests by the british Trades Union Congress that the plot could be used as a propaganda consequence by the Nazi government. “ No recent sporting consequence has been treated with such high earnestness in Germany as this match … Between 7,500 and 8,000 Germans will travel via Dover, and particular trains will bring them to London. A description broadcast throughout Germany … Sir Walter Citrine, General Secretary of the TUC, in a far letter to Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary, said that ‘such a big and carefully organised nazi contingent coming to London might confirm the impression among people in this country that the consequence is being regarded as of some political importance by the visitors ‘. ” [ 3 ] Of the match itself, however, which England won 3–0, the lapp newspaper reported the following workweek that : “ indeed chivalrous in affection and then fairly in tackling were the English and german teams who played at Tottenham in mid-week that even the oldest of veterans failed to recall an international engagement played with such good manners by everybody. ” [ 4 ] The next game between the two teams, and the last to be played before the second World War, was again in Germany, a friendly at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on 14 May 1938, played in front of a crowd of 110,000 people. It was the final time England played against a unite german team until the 1990s. This was the most controversial of all the early encounters between the two teams, as before kick-off the english players were ordered by the Foreign Office to line up and perform a Nazi salute in respect to their hosts. How compliant the players were with this situation has been a matter of argue, with a feature in The Observer in 2001 speculating that they were “ possibly merely indifferent players ( who had undoubtedly become more reluctant, to the distributor point of mutiny, by the meter the post-war memoirs were published ). ” [ 5 ] A BBC News Online report published in 2003 reported that the salute was calculated to show : “ that Germany, which two months earlier had annexed Austria, was not a outcast submit. The friendly bet on efficaciously helped clear the way for Chamberlain ‘s “ Peace for our time “ consider with Hitler, which, in turn, led to Germany ‘s invasion of Czechoslovakia. ” [ 6 ] England won the match 6–3, but according to german writer Ulrich Linder, generator of the ledger Strikers for Hitler : “ To lose to England at the clock was nothing unusual because basically everybody lost to [ them ] at the clock time. For Hitler the propaganda consequence of that game was more authoritative than anything else. ” [ 6 ] The two countries did not meet again on a football pitch for sixteen years. Two german states had been founded in 1949, with the Germany national football team continuing its tradition, based in the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) from 1949 to 1990. The german democratic Republic ( East Germany ) fielded a separate national football team ; although the English did play some matches against them, the competition never developed the same edge or high-profile. A third base german team, Saarland, besides concisely existed between 1950 and 1956. however they never played a match against England. In a friendly at Wembley Stadium on 1 December 1954, England won 3–1 against an under-strength west german slope, who were at the time the champions of the world, having won the 1954 FIFA World Cup. England won far friendlies against West Germany in 1956 ( 3–1 at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin ) and 1965 ( 1–0 in Nuremberg ) .
1966–69 : 1966 FIFA World Cup
England and Germany met at Wembley again on 23 February 1966, as part of their preparations for the 1966 FIFA World Cup, which was to be held in England. England again won 1–0, with a goal from Nobby Stiles, and the match besides saw the first appearance for England of West Ham United striker Geoff Hurst. Both countries had a successful World Cup in 1966, and met in the final play at Wembley on Saturday, 30 July 1966. This was and however is regarded by many as the most important match always played between the two teams, and it was besides the inaugural clock they had always met in a competitive game, as opposed to the friendly matches they had played ahead. It was besides a highly eventful and in some respects controversial game, which created [ citation needed ] the mod competition between the teams. England led 2–1 until the very end of normal clock time, when a german goal levelled the scores and took the catch into extra time. In the first gear period of extra prison term, England hitter Geoff Hurst had a shot on goal which bounced down from the crossbar and then out of the goal, before being cleared away by the german defenders. [ 7 ] The England players celebrated a finish, but the referee was diffident as to whether or not the ball had crossed the argumentation when it hit the ground. After consulting with a electrician, Tofiq Bahramov, the referee awarded a goal to England. Bahramov, from the USSR, became celebrated and celebrated in English popular culture as “ the russian electrician ”, although he was actually from Azerbaijan. When England played the Azerbaijan national team in a World Cup modifier in October 2004—in a stadium named after Bahramov—many England fans travelling to the game asked to be shown the sculpt of the official, who had died in 1993, so that they could place flowers on it, and before the game a ceremony honouring him was attended by Hurst and early footballing celebrities. [ 8 ] Germany, however, did not believe that the ball had crossed the cable, with commentators such as Robert Becker of Kicker magazine accusing the linesman of bias because the german team had eliminated the USSR in the semi-final. [ 9 ] Modern studies using film analysis and computer simulation have suggested the ball never crossed the line – both Duncan Gillies of the Visual Information Processing Group at Imperial College London and Ian Reid and Andrew Zisserman of the Department of Engineering Science at University of Oxford agree that the ball would have needed to travel a promote 2.5–6 curium to amply cross the line, and that therefore this was not a fair finish. [ 10 ] In Germany it led to the creation of the expression “ Wembley-Tor “, or “ Wembley-Goal ”, a idiom used to describe any finish scored in a exchangeable manner to Hurst ‘s. England, however, scored another controversial finish at the end of extra meter, winning 4–2. This finish came after fans began to spill onto the discipline, thinking the game was over, which should have stopped play. The goal, a third base for Hurst ( making him the only homo ever to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final ), was described by BBC Television commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme in a now-famous piece of comment, “ They think it ‘s all over … it is now ! “, referring to the english fans who had spilled onto the playing field. The expression has become a celebrated function of English democratic culture, indelibly linked with the plot in the minds of the English public. The 1966 final ‘s influence on the culture surrounding the England team would not end there, however. Despite playing on their home dirty, England wore their aside kit out of red shirts, ashen shorts and crimson socks, and since then England fans have had a particular affinity for their team ‘s away kit, with ex post facto 1966 shirts selling well in recent years. The game is often held as having been the altitude of English sporting accomplishment, it has besides created some favorable legacies ; a coarse chant among England supporters at Germany games is “ Two World Wars and One World Cup “ to the tune of “ Camptown Races “. [ 11 ] Two years after the World Cup, on 1 June 1968, the two teams met again in another friendly match, this clock in West Germany, in which the Germans won their first gear victory over an english team, 38 years after they had first base played. The scoreline was 1–0, Franz Beckenbauer scoring for West Germany, but as Hugh McIlvanney wrote in his match report for The Observer : “ Comparing this measly hour and a half ( in which fouls far outnumber examples of creative football ) with the last capital merging between the countries is wholly asinine. But that will not prevent the Germans from doing it. Their celebrations will not be inhibited by the cognition that nowadays ‘s losers were about a reserve team, and even the agonies of boredom they shared with us will now seem worthwhile. They have beaten England, and that is enough. ” [ 12 ]
1970–89 : 1970 FIFA World Cup
far more note and remembered, however, was the adjacent competitive meet between the two teams, in the quarter-finals of the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. England were 2–0 up, but Beckenbauer and Uwe Seeler equalised at 2–2 in the second half. In excess time, Geoff Hurst had a goal cryptically ruled out [ 13 ] and then Gerd Müller scored in excess time to win 3–2. England had been weakened by losing their goalkeeper Gordon Banks to illness, and besides substituted Bobby Charlton, one of their conduct players, while the Germans were in the midst of their comeback. As McIlvanney put it when reflecting on the personnel casualty five days late, “ Sir Alf Ramsey ‘s team are knocked out because the best goalkeeper most people have ever seen turned disgusted, and one who is only slenderly less gifted was overwhelmed by the abruptness of his promotion. In mutant calamity often feeds upon itself but this was a disgustingly gluttonous model. ” [ 14 ] The result was psychologically damaging for English morale—as The Guardian newspaper described in a 2006 have : “ Four days subsequently Harold Wilson blamed Labour ‘s loss in the general election on the frustration. This marked the beginning of two decades of german footballing dominance and England ‘s refuse. ” [ 15 ] Two years belated the teams met once more, in the quarter-finals of the European Championship, which were at the time held on a home-and-away footing. England lost 3–1 at Wembley on 29 April 1972 in the home plate leg, and on 13 May could entirely draw 0–0 in West Germany, being knocked out of the competition. Said The Observer in 2001 : “ England may have been robbed of the luck in Mexico … but there were no deficit of excuses – the heat, the hostile crowd, the food which had felled Banks, the errors of Bonetti … It was a conspiracy of destiny more than a footballing kill. In 1972, there were no excuses at all. West Germany did not good knock England out of the European Championships, they came to Wembley and comprehensively outclassed England. ” [ 5 ] McIlvanney wrote in his pit report for The Observer : “ No Englishman can ever again warm himself with the erstwhile assumption that, on the football field if nowhere else, the Germans are an inferior slipstream. ” [ 16 ]
1990–99 : 1990 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1996
There were several friendly games played in the 1970s and 1980s, with wins for both nations, but the future competitive match—a second round group game at the 1982 FIFA World Cup —ended in a disappointing 0–0 disembowel. England were later eliminated from that competition after drawing Spain 0-0, while Germany reached the final. however, when the teams next meet competitively, at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, it was a quite more dramatic and eventful clash in the semi-finals, the beginning time England had reached that army for the liberation of rwanda in the competition since their win in 1966. In summer 1990, the serve of german reunion had advanced far, with the Deutsche Mark being introduced in the East two days before the semifinals on 3 July. Unlike in previous decades, east german fans could openly support the german team of the DFB which by then had an 80+ year custom. The England team had started the event ill and had not been expected to reach that stagecoach of the contest, but in the bet on they could match the stronger german team, managed by Franz Beckenbauer. The Germans took the head in the 59th moment when a free-kick from Andreas Brehme deflected off Paul Parker and over goalkeeper Peter Shilton. Gary Lineker equalised in the eightieth minute, and then David Platt had a goal ruled out in extra time. The leave was thus decided by a penalty shoot-out —the England team ‘s first—which West Germany won 4–3 after misses from Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle. England would lose to host nation Italy for the third-place consolation catch, whilst West Germany defeated Argentina in the final examination .
Manager Franz Beckenbauer led the german football team to victory against England in 1990. The meet stayed heavily in the English democratic consciousness — not plainly for the football and the dramatic manner of the get the better of, but besides for the chemical reaction of star musician Paul Gascoigne to receiving a yellow calling card. His second of the tournament, his realization that this would see him suspended for the concluding should England make it prompted him to burst into tears on the pitch. Said The Observer in 2004, “ There are half a twelve images that define this decade of change, which help to show why football widened its entreaty. First, and most important, is the sight of Paul Gascoigne crying into his England shirt after being booked in the 1990 World Cup semi-final against West Germany. Unaggressive and emotional, a billboard persona that helped to start an apparently unstoppable scend in popularity for the national team. ” [ 17 ] Despite this rehabilitation of the image of football aided by the English national team ‘s success in the 1990 tournament, the narrow get the better of by Germany helped to increase the antipathy felt towards the german team and the german nation in general. Mark Perryman wrote in 2006 : “ How could we expect to beat mighty ( West ) Germany, who had only narrowly lost the final four years previously ? To my mind it is the fact that we sol about did, then lost in the penalty shoot-out that explains the past 16 years of an increasingly bitter competition. ” [ 18 ] Germany was reunited in October 1990. For the DFB team, few things changed aside from players previously capped for East Germany becoming eligible for the united german team. This made small difference to the tone and emotion of the competition. England ‘s inaugural match against the incorporate Germany since 1938 was a friendly in 1991 at Wembley, which the Germans won 1–0. Five years late, at the 1996 european Championships, England played a incorporate german team for the first time in a competitive fixture, when they met in the semi-finals. Like the 1966 World Cup, the tournament was being held in England, and the semi-final was played at Wembley Stadium. England ‘s fans and team were confident, particularly after wins in the group degree over Scotland ( 2–0 ) and the Netherlands ( 4–1 ) and their first ever penalty shoot-out victory, over Spain, in the quarter-finals. so intense were the memories of 1966 for England fans that a media clamor ensued for England to wear red jerseys, rather of the unfamiliar-looking grey away kit that had been launched earlier that year ( as England had not submitted details of any loss kit to UEFA before the tournament, this was never going to be permitted, and England did wear grey ). [ 19 ] The build-up to the game was soured, however, by headlines in English tabloid newspapers which were regarded by many as excessively chauvinistic, and evening racist in spirit, as they had besides been before the former match against Spain. Particularly controversial was the Daily Mirror’ randomness headline “ Achtung ! resignation ! For You Fritz, ze Euro 96 Championship is over ”, accompanied by a mock article aping a report of the contract of war between the two nations in 1939. The editor of the paper, Piers Morgan, subsequently apologised for the headline, peculiarly as it was at least partially blamed for ferocity following England ‘s defeat, including a carouse in Trafalgar Square. [ 20 ] England took the go in alone the third moment, through tournament exceed scorer Alan Shearer, but in the 16th infinitesimal Stefan Kuntz equalised, and despite many close shots and a forbid goal from the Germans, the score remained level at 1–1 until the end of extra time. The match was settled by another punishment shoot-out, as in 1990, and although this clock all five of England ‘s initial penalty-takers were successful, so were all five german players. The shoot-out carried on to “ sudden death ” kicks, with Gareth Southgate missing for England and Andreas Möller scoring for Germany to put the hosts out. As in 1990, Germany went on to win the tournament. besides the FA cancelled a friendly with Germany as it was pencilled for 20 April 1994 as it coincided with Hitler ‘s 105th manque birthday and played at the Berlin Olympic Stadium, the venue for the controversial and Nazi-politicized 1936 Summer Olympics .
2000–09 : 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier
friendly match between England and Germany at Wembley Stadium on 22 August 2007 England and Germany were drawn to meet each other in the first gear round group stage of the Euro 2000, held jointly by Belgium and the Netherlands, with the England–Germany bet on taking seat in Charleroi in Belgium. Before the game, played on 17 June 2000, there were crimson incidents involving England fans in the town center, although these were largely abbreviated and there were no fierce confrontations with german fans. however, report of the ferocity did to a degree overshadow the match result in some media coverage. [ 21 ] The match itself was a scrappy affair that lacked the drama of many of the previous encounters, with England sneaking a 1–0 winnings thanks to a second-half header by hitter Alan Shearer. There was enthusiastic celebration of this result in England, peculiarly as this was the first base time that England had won a competitive equal against Germany since the 1966 World Cup final. The german reaction was more pessimistic. Rounding up the german media coverage, The Guardian reported : “ ‘0–1 ! Germany weeps. Is it all over ? ‘ asked the mass circulation Bild newspaper in a front-page standard headline. ‘Shearer tells us to pack our bags, ‘ wrote Berlin ‘s Der Tagesspiegel. ” [ 22 ] In the event, both England and Germany lost their final group matches and both were knocked out in the first circle, finishing third and one-fourth respectively in their group, which was the worst german result in a tournament since the 1938 World Cup, while England had already experienced that multiple times in the two previous decades. England and Germany had besides been drawn together in the like qualify group for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. England ‘s base meet against Germany was played on Saturday 7 October 2000, and was meaning as it was the concluding international fastness ever to be played at the old Wembley Stadium, before it was demolished and rebuilt. England lost 1–0 to a german free kick scored by Dietmar Hamann. “ It was the last refuge of the inadequate. half-time approach, England were a goal down and a ample department of the crowd sullied the ever-dampening juncture. ‘Stand up if you won the War, ‘ they sang ”, wrote diarist Ian Ridley in his match report for The Observer. [ 23 ]
The result prompted the immediate resignation of England coach Kevin Keegan, and by the clock time the recurrence match was played at the Olympic Stadium in Munich on 1 September 2001, England were nowadays managed by their first always foreign coach, Sven-Göran Eriksson. Expectations on the english side were depleted, but they amazingly won the game 5–1 with a hat-trick from striker Michael Owen, and finally qualified for the World Cup as the winners of their group. During the crippled the forefather of german coach Rudi Völler suffered a center assail inside the stadium, but was successfully resuscitated. [ 24 ] Some Germans were shocked by the scale of the kill, with former striker Karl-Heinz Rummenigge stating that “ I have never seen such a atrocious get the better of … This is a raw Waterloo for us. ” [ 25 ] At the 2002 World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea, it was Germany who enjoyed more success, finishing second. England only reached the quarter-finals. Both teams were defeated by the competition winners, Brazil. The two teams did not meet in Euro 2004, 2006 World Cup or Euro 2008. ( Germany suffered a second straight group elimination in 2004, England avoided a confrontation with Germany in the final 16 by holding Sweden to a draw and end at the peak of their group, and England did not qualify for Euro 2008. England and Germany adjacent played on 22 August 2007, in a friendly at the newly-rebuilt Wembley Stadium. England lost the match 2–1, their first get the better of at the new Wembley, with Germany, following the by chance successful 2006 World Cup, still rebuilding the home team. [ 26 ] then in a friendly held on 19 November 2008, England inflicted Germany ‘s first get the better of in Berlin in thirty-five years with a 2–1 victory .
2010–2019 : 2010 FIFA World Cup
In the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the two teams met in the second round on Sunday, 27 June, after Germany won Group D and England finished second base in Group C. Germany won the equal 4–1, knocking England out and advancing into the quarter-finals. This was the greatest get the better of England ever suffered in their World Cup history. In the 38th minute, a inject by Frank Lampard controversially bounced off the crossbar well into the goal and back out again with Germany leading alone 2–1. however, neither the referee Jorge Larrionda nor the electrician saw it pass over the line.
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The decision drew immediate comparisons with Geoff Hurst ‘s alleged “ Wembley Goal ” during the 1966 World Cup Final. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] however, in the 2010 case there was no dispute about whether the ball had crossed the finish line, because the ball had clearly touched the grass well within the goal, and the television receiver replay immediately showed this. In Germany it was regarded as “ payback ” for the goal of 1966. [ 29 ] Following Germany ‘s 1–0 acquire over England at Wembley in November 2013, german yellow journalism Bild humorously declared on its movement cover that “ Wembley is now german ”. [ 30 ] [ 31 ]
2020–present : UEFA Euro 2020 and beyond
On 29 June 2021, England won their meet in the UEFA Euro 2020 round of golf of 16 equal 2-0, their first win over Germany in a knockout stage of a tournament since the 1966 World Cup final examination. [ 32 ] It was besides England ‘s first competitive victory on home territory against Germany since the 1966 World Cup final examination. [ 33 ] In the final examination, England lost to Italy after a penalty shoot-out .
Comparison of England and Germany in major external tournaments
| Tournament |  England |
 Germany |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 FIFA World Cup | DNP | DNP | |
| 1934 FIFA World Cup | 3 | ||
| 1938 FIFA World Cup | 9–16 | German team included Austrian players as a result of the Anschluss. | |
| 1950 FIFA World Cup | 5–13 | DNP | German teams were still banned as a result of World War II. |
| 1954 FIFA World Cup | 5–8 | 1 | First tournament where only West Germany was represented. |
| 1958 FIFA World Cup | 9–16 | 4 | |
| UEFA Euro 1960 | DNP | ||
| 1962 FIFA World Cup | 5–8 | ||
| UEFA Euro 1964 | FTQ | DNP | |
| 1966 FIFA World Cup | 1 | 2 | In the final, England defeated West Germany 4–2 after extra time. |
| UEFA Euro 1968 | 3 | FTQ | |
| 1970 FIFA World Cup | 5–8 | 3 | In the quarter-finals, West Germany defeated England 3–2 after extra time. |
| UEFA Euro 1972 | FTQ (5–8) | 1 | In the final qualifying round (effectively a quarter-final) West Germany defeated England 3–1 on aggregate. |
| 1974 FIFA World Cup | FTQ | 1 | This tournament is the only World Cup or European Championship where East Germany qualified. |
| UEFA Euro 1976 | 2 | ||
| 1978 FIFA World Cup | 5–8 | ||
| UEFA Euro 1980 | 5–8 | 1 | |
| 1982 FIFA World Cup | 5–12 | 2 | In the second group stage, West Germany drew 0–0 with England. |
| UEFA Euro 1984 | FTQ | 5–8 | |
| 1986 FIFA World Cup | 5–8 | 2 | |
| UEFA Euro 1988 | 5–8 | 3–4 | |
| 1990 FIFA World Cup | 4 | 1 | In the semi-finals, West Germany defeated England on penalty shoot-out. |
| UEFA Euro 1992 | 5–8 | 2 | First tournament since World War II where all of Germany was represented by one team |
| 1994 FIFA World Cup | FTQ | 5–8 | |
| UEFA Euro 1996 | 3–4 | 1 | In the semi-finals, Germany defeated England on penalty shoot-out. |
| 1998 FIFA World Cup | 9–16 | 5–8 | |
| UEFA Euro 2000 | 9–16 | 9–16 | England and Germany were placed in the same first round group. Both were eliminated, with England finishing third and Germany fourth. England defeated Germany 1–0 in the match between the two teams. |
| 2002 FIFA World Cup | 5–8 | 2 | England and Germany were placed in the same qualifying group. Germany won 1–0 at Wembley, while England won 5–1 in Munich. |
| UEFA Euro 2004 | 5–8 | 9–16 | |
| 2006 FIFA World Cup | 5–8 | 3 | |
| UEFA Euro 2008 | FTQ | 2 | |
| 2010 FIFA World Cup | 9–16 | 3 | In the round of 16, Germany defeated England 4–1. |
| UEFA Euro 2012 | 5–8 | 3 | |
| 2014 FIFA World Cup | 17–32 | 1 | |
| UEFA Euro 2016 | 9–16 | 3–4 | England infamously lost in the round of 16 to Iceland. |
| 2018 FIFA World Cup | 4 | 17–32 | Germany were eliminated in the first round of a FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1938. |
| UEFA Euro 2020 | 2 | 9–16 | In the round of 16, England defeated Germany 2–0. |
Team performed better in the tournament
The german women ‘s league is considered one of the strongest in the world, until the end of the 2013–14 temper out of a possible 13 Champions League titles, german clubs have won eight. By contrast, Arsenal is the merely english side to have won the competition, doing so in 2007 .
National teams
The german women ‘s team is by and large more democratic in Germany than the English women ‘s team is in England. Germany matches were televised on national television receiver and attracted millions of viewers. The World Cup 2011 quarterfinal between Germany and Japan attracted over 17 million viewers, [ 34 ] while England women ‘s matches struggled to evening make it into television schedules. [ citation needed ] England ‘s group games in the World Cup 2011 were watched by up to four million viewers on german television, but less than a million on BBC, which means even with no german engagement, England games were at that point more popular in Germany than in the state the England team actually represents. [ 35 ] Observers [ who? ] noted that this opening in popularity was not barely due to a miss of gender equality in England, but to the fact that the success of the german women ‘s team meant that there was much more media coverage and matter to. England has not won a major claim, their best resultant role being Euro runners up in women ‘s Euro 1984 and in Euro 2009. meanwhile, Germany ‘s women have won two World Cups, 2003 and 2007, [ 36 ] a entire of eight european Championships in the years of 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013 [ 37 ] and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Germany is the merely nation to win both the men ‘s and women ‘s FIFA World Cup. together with the three Euro wins and the four World Cup wins of the men ‘s team, Germany counts 18 major tournament titles, while England has one major tournament title thus far. On 4 July 2015, England upset Germany 1–0 in the third place catch at the 2015 FIFA Women ‘s World Cup ; this was their first base always victory against Germany in 21 matches. [ 38 ]
Media and public reactions
England
Germany may beat us at our national sport today, but that would be only fairly. We beat them twice at theirs .Vincent Mulchrone of The Daily Mail, before the 1966 World Cup final.[39]
Since World War II, England has considered itself a equal to Germany in many areas, such as automobile product, naval forces, deal and economy [ 40 ] —this competition has besides permeated into football. english football fans often deem Germany to be their traditional football rival and care more about this competition than those with other countries, such as Scotland, Argentina or even Australia. In the run-up to any football catch against Germany, many English tabloids print articles that contain references to the moment World War, such as calling their opposition derogative terms such as “ krauts “ or “ kraut “. [ citation needed ] Two days before the UEFA Euro 1996 semifinal, The Daily Mirror published an article on its front man page that ran with the headline “ Achtung ! surrender ! “ : another reference to the war. [ 41 ] After the 5–1 victory over Germany in 2001, the English news media were ecstatic. The Sunday Mirror drew more comparisons to World War II, by running an article about the game on the front man page under the headline “ BLITZED ”. [ 42 ] England ‘s frustration of Germany in the 1966 World Cup has been often voted by the English as their greatest ever sporting consequence, [ 43 ] and the 5–1 victory in 2001 has besides regularly placed highly. [ 44 ] England ‘s Manchester United defeating Germany ‘s Bayern Munich at the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final is besides highly regarded by English football fans as a high indicate in their perceived competition. [ 45 ] The competition has besides made its room into diverse aspects of English popular culture. For example, in the 1970s BBC television receiver series Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, the character Terry remarks that 14 June 1970, the day that England lost 3–2 to West Germany, should be “ indelibly printed on every on-key Englishman ‘s mind ”. [ 46 ] [ 47 ]
Germany
As far back as the 1960s, the footballing competition between England and Germany has been considered chiefly an english phenomenon ; this has been observed by respective commentators of both English and german origin. In June 2009, british comedian Stephen Fry stated on the BBC picture QI that, unlike the English, German football fans do not care about their team ‘s loss at the 1966 World Cup final and may not even remember that they had made it that far. rather, german fans consider their competition with the Netherlands to be their traditional footballing competition and care more about the matches against them, such as the 1974 FIFA World Cup concluding. [ 48 ] Following their 5–1 passing in 2001, many german fans were not peculiarly concerned, rather revelling in the Netherlands ‘ defeat by the Republic of Ireland the lapp sidereal day. Some spill the beans directly after the loss to England : “ Ohne Holland fahr’n wir zur WM “ ( “ We ‘re going to the World Cup without Holland ! “ ), which was finally made into a german Schlager song. [ 49 ] In 2010, during the lead-up to 2010 World Cup pit, journalist Marina Hyde remarked in The Guardian that the competition between the England and Germany football team was “ quite obviously an delusion, existing alone in the minds of those aspirant to the orient of insanity – which is to say, the English ”. She added : “ In a universe that has changed bewilderingly in holocene decades, England losing to Germany in major tournaments is one of the few certainties. ” [ 50 ] Similarly, professor Peter J. Beck described Germany ‘s ambivalence to the competition, saying that “ a far as the Germans are concerned, Sunday ‘s game is nothing more than another sporting contest ”. [ 51 ] however, it would besides be false to say that there is no competition at all between England and Germany ; for one thing, the very fact that the English perceive it to be such can not go unnoticed, for another, there is the long-standing quarrel about the “ Wembley goal “ ( only slightly silenced since a clear goal was not awarded to the English in 2010 ). England vs. Germany matches, even friendlies, are always considered highly important sporting events ( though the custom and, normally, the choice of both the teams may account for most of that ), going indeed far that a popular radioplay series mocks people in love as “ looking deep into each early ‘s eyes evening if a England vs. Germany pit is on television receiver ”. [ 52 ] however, any feeling of competition towards England, if actual, is dwarfed by the German-Dutch competition. [ citation needed ]
tilt of matches
unofficial internationals
english teams played a issue of games against german teams between 1899 and 1911. The first of these, encompassing an official Football Association go of Germany and Austria in 1899, and a reciprocal cross go of England by a german choice team, saw the english teams feature a shuffle of amateurs and professionals playing against German sides organised by regional associations, even after the foundation of the DFB in 1901. The games played between 1908 and 1913 saw the official german home team, organised by the DFB, play against the England Amateur side. [ 53 ] [ 54 ]
- Note that matches 6–9 Germany awarded caps against the England amateur team.
Full internationals
- As of 29 June 2021
overview
| Type | Matches | |
Draw | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UEFA European Championship* | 5 | 2 | 2 (incl. 1 PSO) | 1 |
| FIFA World Cup* | 7 | 2 | 2 (incl. 1 PSO) | 3 |
| All competitive | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Friendly | 21 | 10 | 2 | 9 |
| Total | 33 | 14 | 6 | 13 |
* Euro and World Cup matchups include qualifiers.
* PSO = penalty shoot-outs
Matches
note : Since 1908, Germany is represented by the German Football Association ( DFB ) which fields the Germany national football team. During german division ( 1949–1990 ), the team of the German Football Association based in Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany was colloquially called West Germany .
youth Teams
east german national team
England played four friendly matches against East Germany ‘s team, which was fielded by the DFV in the german Democratic Republic which existed from 1949 to 1990 : overview :
| Type | Matches | |
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Draw |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friendly | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
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Draw | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches in England | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Matches in East Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| # | German | Years |
|---|---|---|
| East Germany
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Deutsche Demokratische Republik | 1949–1990 |
Club level
vitamin a well as the competition between the national sides, English and german club teams have besides met on numerous occasions in the assorted european club competitions. On 19 May 2012, Bayern Munich met Chelsea in the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final. Having recently missed out on the Bundesliga title to their rivals Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich suffered get the better of at the Allianz Arena ; a game dubbed “ Finale dahoam ” ( Bavarian for “ final at home ” ) as it marked the second meter that any team played the tournament ‘s final at their dwelling prime. The plot [ 56 ] ended as a 1–1 draw after added extra time ( aet ) before being decided 4–3 on penalties. Bayern Munich seemed like the more dominant of the two sides throughout, but an overtly defensive [ 57 ] [ 58 ] Chelsea team “ parked the bus ”, preventing many chances which finally led them to their first Champions League gain. In the memorable 1999 UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich, United were trailing 1–0 until they scored two deep goals in injury time to win 2–1. [ 59 ] early memorable matches were the controversial 1975 european Cup Final in which Bayern beat Leeds United after the latter had penalty claims turned down by a french referee who besides disallowed a goal scored by Peter Lorimer with a shoot from outside the area. Leeds would finally eliminate a german team ( VfB Stuttgart ) in unexpected and bizarre circumstances. After the Germans had qualified, in the first round of the 1992–93 competition, on the away goals govern, the fall stage was awarded by UEFA 3–0 to Leeds United because Stuttgart fielded an extra foreigner, thus infringing the european competition rules that were in place at the clock time. A replay was ordered as the aggregate stood at 3–3. Leeds won the replay at Barcelona ‘s Camp Nou 2–1. In 2000, a youthful and depleted Leeds United side, managed by David O’Leary, eliminated 1860 Munich from the Champions League beating them home and away in the preliminary round before reaching the semi-final. There were besides celebrated wins by Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa in european Cup semifinals or finals. These were against the likes of Borussia Mönchengladbach, 1. FC Köln, Hamburg and FC Bayern Munich. Liverpool ‘s winnings against Borussia Mönchengladbach in Rome started a succession of six straight english european Cup victories each clock time involving the elimination of a german club in the latter stages. The English hold the upper berth hand in club football encounters, although there were luminary german wins such as Bayern ‘s retaliation over Manchester United F.C. in 2001, winning home and away, and Bayer 04 Leverkusen ‘s elimination of Liverpool ( a curio for german club sides ) and Manchester United in 2002, after they had received a 4–1 cream at Arsenal ( the Gunners – who boast the best english record against italian sides in the three european competitions – have an unimpressive record against german opposition ) in the second group phase. Both English sides exacted retaliation over Leverkusen in subsequent Champions League encounters. Borussia Dortmund beat Manchester United 1–0 both home and away in the semifinal of the 1996–97 UEFA Champions League which they won, United having been guilty of squandering numerous chances in both legs, specially the render leg at Old Trafford. english clubhouse victories were often celebrated in a manner which evoked memories of the War. The outspoken Brian Clough is on criminal record boast that he never lost to a german side and that he took atonement from this for what the Germans had done to his don during the war. Clough memorably led Nottingham Forest to a 1–0 acquire in Cologne following a 3–3 puff at the City Ground in the 1979 semifinal en path to Forest winning their first european Cup. The keep up class, a Forest side minus star topology musician, Trevor Francis, defeated Hamburg in the concluding by employing an italian style catenaccio based on chase defense and brilliant goalkeeping by Peter Shilton. One other celebrated coach who never tasted get the better of against the Germans was Bob Paisley who led Liverpool to three of their five european Cup wins and one of their two UEFA Cup wins. Liverpool have a enormous record against german enemy, from both sides of the East-West divide. They once beat 1860 Munich 8–0 in an honest-to-god Fairs Cup game and besides thrashed Hamburg 6–0 when winning the first of their three european Super Cups, the second besides against german confrontation in the human body of FC Bayern Munich. Liverpool ‘s encounters with Bayern and Borussia Mönchengladbach ( known in Germany as the Gladbacher ), the latter a impel to be reckoned with in the 1970s, are memorable. Bayern and Liverpool first gear met in the Fairs Cup ( the precursor to the UEFA Cup ) in 1970–71. Bayern had hit Coventry City for six in a previous round. Liverpool won the inaugural leg 3–0 with an Alun Evans hat-trick and drew 1–1 in Munich. This was the Bayern team of Franz Beckenbauer, Maier, Gerd Müller, Schwarzenbeck and Breitner who turned the tables on Liverpool the following year in a UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup irregular circle tie, drawing at Anfield and winning 3–1 at base. The most important meet between the two sides was in the european Cup semi-final of 1981 when a depleted Liverpool were held to a scoreless draw at Anfield and then drew 1–1 in Munich. They scored in the 83rd hour with a Ray Kennedy goal at the Olympiastadion in Munich before Karl-Heinz Rummenigge equalised in the 88th minute to preserve Bayern ‘s then unbeaten home record against English opposition, flush though Liverpool went through to win their third base european Cup final. The two sides met again in the 2001 UEFA Super Cup when Liverpool, managed by Gérard Houllier, stormed to a three-goal lead before Bayern scored doubly towards the end to make it 3–2. apart from the 1977 european Cup final, Liverpool beat Mönchengladbach in the 1970–1971 european Cup competition, in the 1973 UEFA Cup Final and the 1978 european Cup semi-final. Günter Netzer and midfield forager, Herbert Wimmer, played for Mönchengladbach in the 1973 Cup final against Liverpool, then managed by Bill Shankly. That year Liverpool won the UEFA Cup beating four german teams along the manner, two from West Germany ( Eintracht Frankfurt and the Gladbacher ) and two from the DDR ( Dynamo Dresden, who they besides beat twice in by and by years, and BFC Dynamo ). Borussia eliminated an english baseball club in 1979 en route to winning the UEFA Cup for the second time in their history. The english club was Manchester City whose coach, Malcolm Allison, had taken over a few months earlier from Tony Book. There were memorable encounters in the other european competitions. Borussia Dortmund ‘s wins over holders West Ham United and Liverpool ( concluding in Glasgow ) in the 1965-66 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup were memorable as were West Ham ‘s winnings over TSV 1860 Munich at Wembley Stadium in the final of the same competition a class earlier, Everton ‘s semitrailer final examination elimination of Bayern in 1985 ( they went on to win the Cup Winners Cup and the league ) and Gianluca Vialli ‘s Chelsea ‘s succeed over VfB Stuttgart in the concluding of 1998. memorable Anglo-German encounters in the UEFA Cup include Ipswich Town ‘s victories both home and away over 1. FC Köln in the semifinal of the 1981 competition which they won, Tottenham Hotspur ‘s 5–1 aggregate get the better of of Cologne in the 1974 rival and frustration of Bayern Munich ten years belated when winning the rival for the second time, debutant Watford ‘s comeback against Kaiserslautern in the first turn of the 1983–84 contest, Bayern ‘s thrash of Nottingham Forest 7–2 on aggregate – after Forest had held Bayern to a 1–1 trace in the first base stage in Munich – in 1996 en route to winning the cup, debutant Norwich City ‘s acquire at the Olympiastadion in Munich before ousting Bayern at Carrow Road in 1993 and Kaiserslautern ‘s belated turn around against Tottenham Hotspur, managed by George Graham, in 1999. In 2009, Hamburg eliminated Manchester City who had earlier in the political campaign beaten Schalke in Germany, a team they besides beat 5–1 in the quarter finals of the 1969-70 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup which City went on to win. Reinhard Libuda played for Schalke at that fourth dimension ( 1969–70 ) while City had the celebrated trio of Francis Lee, Colin Bell and Mike Summerbee. The english hold the amphetamine hand even in these competitions. There were however some minute escapes. Liverpool won their 1973 UEFA Cup Final first leg at Anfield 3–0 alone for Borussia Mönchengladbach to pull back to 3–2 on aggregate by half-time. The Reds attend on in the second gear one-half. In 1976, Queens Park Rangers, besides making their introduction, with Stan Bowles, Dave Thomas and Don Givens in their ranks, took a 3–0 run to the Muengersdorf Stadion in Cologne and increased their go there only for the Germans to storm back with four goals and miss out on reservation on the away goals rule. There were besides many encounters between English league sides and clubs from East Germany which largely ended in prefer of the English sides, although these confrontations were less spectacular than those involving clubs from West Germany. Newport County, then from the English third base division but representing Wales in the european Cup Winners ‘ Cup in 1981, went tantalisingly close to eliminating FC Carl Zeiss Jena after a 2–2 draw in East Germany, but lost 0–1 in the home leg. FC Carl Zeiss Jena made it to the concluding where they lost to Dynamo Tbilisi from Georgia, which was ten-spot part of the Soviet Union. Liverpool had three confrontations with Dynamo Dresden which they all won, including a 5–1 performance at Anfield in the second orotund of the 1977-78 european Cup rival. Title holders Nottingham Forest faced BFC Dynamo under Jürgen Bogs in the quarter finals of the 1979-80 european Cup. Nottingham Forrest lost the first leg at the City Ground 0–1, to one goal by Hans-Jürgen Riediger. The victory against Nottingham Forrest away made BFC Dynamo the beginning german team to defeat an english team in England in the european Cup. [ 60 ] Nottingham Forest defeated BFC Dynamo 3–1 in front of 30,000 spectators at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion in East Berlin. Forest under Brian Clough then went on to defeat Ajax and Hamburger SV to retain the trophy. A unlike Nottingham Forest side, still managed by Brian Clough, would finally see off another east german team, FC Vorwärts Frankfurt, in the foremost round of the 1983–84 UEFA Cup. BFC Dynamo suffered another home defeat ( 1–2 ) to an English team, Aston Villa, in the second round of the 1981–82 european Cup. BFC Dynamo managed to register another victory on English territory in the render leg, with one finish by Frank Terletzki, only to be eliminated on the off goal rule. Aston Villa went on to keep the european Cup in England for a one-sixth consecutive year, after defeated FC Bayern Munich in the Rotterdam final. Forest cast-away, Peter Withe, scored the alone goal of the game against the prevail of dally. For most of the second half, Bayern were camped inside the Villa half, hitting the carpentry and coming close to scoring on a issue of occasions, but found ersatz cub goalkeeper, Nigel Spink ( who replaced seasoned Jimmy Rimmer after only a few minutes ), in inspiring shape. In the 2015-16 Champions League, Bayern Muinch defeated Arsenal 5-1 in the group degree. In the future class ’ s competition they met again in the Round of 16, where Bayern repeated the scoreline home and off for a 10-2 aggregate victory. A few year former on 1 October 2019, in a Champions League match Bayern Munich thrashed Tottenham Hotspur in a 7–2 winnings in London in the same tournament .
Players
The competition between the two nations has not prevented their respective nationals from playing in each other ‘s domestic leagues, in certain cases to high fame. many german players have played in England, including Max Seeburg ( who played for Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Burnley, Grimsby Town and Reading ), Bert Trautmann ( Manchester City ), Jürgen Klinsmann ( Tottenham Hotspur ), christian Ziege ( Liverpool, Middlesbrough and Tottenham Hotspur ), Karlheinz Riedle ( Liverpool and Fulham ), Fredi Bobic ( Bolton Wanderers ), Dietmar Hamann ( Newcastle United, Liverpool and Manchester City ), Uwe Rösler, Eike Immel and Maurizio Gaudino ( Manchester City ), Markus Babbel ( Liverpool ), Jürgen Röber ( Nottingham Forest ) Robert Huth ( Chelsea, Middlesbrough, Stoke City and Leicester City ), Thomas Hitzlsperger and Stefan Beinlich ( Aston Villa ), Jens Lehmann ( Arsenal ), Moritz Volz ( Arsenal, Fulham and Ipswich Town ), Sascha Riether ( Fulham ), Michael Ballack ( Chelsea ), Mesut Özil ( Arsenal ), Per Mertesacker ( Arsenal ), Lukas Podolski ( Arsenal ), Jérôme Boateng ( Manchester City ), Bastian Schweinsteiger ( Manchester United ), İlkay Gündoğan ( Manchester City ) and Leroy Sané ( Manchester City ). Trautmann was voted Football Writers ‘ Association Footballer of the class in 1956 for continuing to play in goal for Manchester City in the 1956 FA Cup Final despite a neck injury. Klinsmann was voted the lapp award in 1995 while playing for Tottenham, where he pioneered the ‘ diving ‘ finish celebration. Fewer Englishmen have played in Germany, with luminary players being Kevin Keegan ( Hamburger SV ), David Watson ( Werder Bremen ), Tony Woodcock ( 1. FC Cologne and SC Fortuna Köln ), Michael Mancienne ( Hamburg ), Jadon Sancho and Jude Bellingham ( both Borussia Dortmund ), Reiss Nelson ( Hoffenheim ) and Reece Oxford ( Augsburg ). Owen Hargreaves played for Bayern Munich for seven seasons before transferring to Manchester United in 2007. Keegan was doubly european Footballer of the Year and a european Cup finalist during his time at Hamburg, where the german public nicknamed him “ Mighty Mouse ”, after a cartoon hero, because of his prolific score, his short stature, his high level of mobility, and his ability to turn sharply and often while running at high accelerate. Woodcock was besides a democratic number at Cologne .