List of Germany international footballers

Since the Germany national football team's first official match in 1908, it has been one of the most successful national teams in world football. They are the current World Champions, having won the 2014 World Cup, their fourth title in seventeen tournaments, to add to three titles from ten European Championships. In doing so, twenty of its players have won both titles, and six have won gold, silver and bronze medals at the World Cup. Lothar Matthäus has played in a record 25 World Cup matches, and his participation in five World Cup tournaments is a joint record, shared with Antonio Carbajal of Mexico.Miroslav Klose is the highest goalscorer in the tournament's history with 16 goals, while Gerd Müller is third with 14 and Franz Beckenbauer is one of only two men to win the World Cup as a player and as a coach.

Matthäus was the inaugural winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 1991, and is one of five Germany players to have been awarded European Footballer of the Year; two of which, Franz Beckenbauer and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, have each won the award twice. Beckenbauer was also voted in eighth place for the FIFA Player of the Century award, and was selected for the World Team of the 20th Century. Ten German players were named in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers chosen by former footballer Pelé, and ten are in the FIFA Century Club, having earned 100 or more caps. Lothar Matthäus's 150 international appearances make him the ninth-most capped player in world football, and Miroslav Klose's 71 goals is the eleventh-most of any international player.

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