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C Nations. C U17 Champ. C U20 Champ. There is a league system , with the Bundesliga , 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga on top. The winner of the Bundesliga is crowned the German football champion.

The Germany national football team has won four FIFA World Cups , , , , being the joint-second most successful nation in the tournament only surpassed by Brazil.

Germany is the only nation that has won both the men's and women's World Cup. The first football match arguably took place in Braunschweig in Two schoolteachers, August Hermann and Konrad Koch , initiated the first match after Hermann had obtained a round football from England.

It was founded in by Englishmen living and working around Dresden. In the following 20 years the game achieved a growing popularity.

Football clubs were founded in Berlin , Hamburg and Karlsruhe. On 28 January , representatives from 86 football clubs from German-speaking areas in and outside the German Empire met in the restaurant Mariengarten in Leipzig , founding the DFB.

The founding meeting was led by E. Already some years before , associations like the Bund Deutscher Fussballspieler or Deutscher Fussball und Cricket-Bund were founded, but they were limited to smaller areas of the German Empire, in those cases to areas around Berlin.

The first championship beyond municipal areas was held in from the Verband Sueddeutscher Fussball-Vereine Association of South German football clubs , later affiliated with the DFB.

The German national football team represents Germany in international football competitions since Club football was centered in the region of Franconia during the s as 1.

The name change especially reflected the incorporation of football into the federation, which promoted leftist political views and attempted to break the monopolisation of football under the umbrella of the DFB.

Communist sporting officials such as Ernst Grube, Reichstag deputy and head of Rotsport, were murdered in concentration camps.

From to the highest level of play in German football was organised in 16 Gauligen , whose winners qualified for the finals in the German championship, held at the end of season.

After the war, Germany was occupied in three states. Both German teams advanced to the second round anyway. Nothing changed in except enlarged membership due to the access of East German states and players, thus the continuity in the German logo and uniform style as well as references to Germany's four World Cup and three European Cup titles.

Thus, all references to a "former West German team" are considered by many as false - according to the DFB, this team still exists, called Germany. Germany's greatest triumphs since has been the World Championship in Brazil, and the European Championship secured in England with players from both the former West, including Jürgen Klinsmann as captain and East Matthias Sammer as anchor of the defence.

There was also a third place at the World Cup in Germany and in addition another third place at World Cup The DFB was founded in in Leipzig , by the representatives of 86 clubs.

Today, the association has some 26, member clubs which field , teams with over 2 million players: these numbers include , female members and 8, women's teams.

With over six million members, the DFB is the world's largest sports federation. Since the World Cup , the German national team has been outfitted by the German firm adidas.

For home games, the German team wears white jerseys, black shorts and white socks in honour of the Prussian colours. Along with black both red and gold, the other two colours of the German flag, have been included in the strip over the years.

Traditionally, the Germans have worn green jerseys, white shorts and green socks as their alternate strip. In recent years, however, the Germans have changed their away strip to grey in —, black in and recently to red.

The Germans wore red as their alternate colour in the World Cup. Its current captain is Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. They are the first women's team to have successfully defended a World Cup.

They have also won eight UEFA Women's Championships , , , , , , , , which includes six consecutive titles. Germany is the only nation to have won both the men's and women's World Cup and European Championship.

The Germany women's team are also the first to have won a World Cup at senior level, either for men or women, without conceding a single goal, having done so in Satoshi Kodaira.

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