Germany national football team goal records

This summarises various goal statistics of the Germany national football team.

Youngest goalscorers
Lukas Podolski is the youngest player to score two goals in one match, which he managed in his eighth match. In contrast, Fritz Walter is the youngest player to score three goals, which he achieved on his national team debut. Jamal Musiala is the youngest player to score his first goal in a competitive fixture, having found the target in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification match in 2021 against North Macedonia. The following table lists all national players who scored a goal for the national team before reaching the age of 20.

Oldest goalscorers
17 players were over 33 when scoring their last goal, including record goal scorer Miroslav Klose, who also scored the most goals after his 30th birthday. His precursor Gerd Müller scored the last of his 68 international goals at 28 years and 246 days, making him the player with the most goals before the 30th birthday. The following table lists all national players who have scored at the age of at least 33.

Players who have scored a hat-trick
50 players have scored at least three goals in at least one match, 16 of whom have done so in at least two matches. Only six players scored three or more goals in their first match. Otto Dumke was the only of them get no further goals. Two other players also scored only these goals, including Julius Hirsch after all four in one match. For four players it was their first goals, but they had previously played a match without scoring. Two players scored only three goals in their last match, for Paul Pömpner it was the only goal.

German players have scored most hat-tricks against Finland (seven matches, one of which featured hat-tricks by two players) and against Switzerland (seven times). In seven matches two players scored a hat-trick. Gerd Müller is the only player who scored hat-tricks in two consecutive matches: On 7 and 10 June 1970, he scored in the World Cup matches against Bulgaria and Peru. The two matches on 18 and 26 April 1926, in which initially Josef Pöttinger and then Otto Harder scored three goals, followed immediately after each other. Richard Hofmann is the only player who has succeeded in three consecutive years (1928-1932) in each match a "hat-trick" in the German sense. For Miroslav Klose, the longest time (six years and three months) passed between two German "hat-tricks". In the 1950s, 1980s and 1990s, there was no match in which a player scored at least four goals. Since 1910 German players have score a hat-trick in every decade.

In twelve matches with German hat-tricks, no other German player scored. Additionally Gerd Müller once scored four times in a match without another German scoring. In two matches, there were only the two German "hat-tricks" by two players, both matches ended 6–0. No match in which a player scored at least three goals was lost, but five ended in a draw (three times 3–3, once 4–4 and once 5–5.

Players who have scored multiple hat-tricks
Players with the same number of hat-tricks are listed by total goals in those games, then in chronological order.

List of players who scored in the first minute of a match
The German team has only scored in the first minute of a match eleven times. Lukas Podolski, who scored a goal after nine seconds, scored the fastest and most recent. The fastest opponent scorer - so far known - was the Belgian Hendrik Isemborghs, who scored the opening goal for Belgium on 28 April 1935 after 35 seconds, but his side went on to lose 1–6. The players below are presented in chronological order.

Chronological list of players who scored in the last minute of the match
In the 90th minute, including additional time scored 61 goals according to DFB statistics with most matches of all minutes. In addition, one goal was scored in the 95th minute in an extra time, which ended the match (Golden Goal) and one goal in the 120th minute. This is followed by the 72nd with 35, the 65th, 70th, 85th and 88th with 32 hits each. In the 85th minute were also the winning goals in the World Cup victories in 1954 and 1990, but also the goal that made Argentina 1986 World Cup. Most of the goals came in the 90th minute including additional time.

In most cases, the goals in the final minute were no longer competitive match. Ten goals but still brought the victory, nine goals prevented a defeat. Two goals (Nr. 4 and 7) scored for an extra time, in which Germany nevertheless lost. One (Nr.8) scored an extra-time, scoreless, after which Germany lost on penalty shoot-out. Oliver Neuville scored the most goals (4) in the final minute, with two even scoring in a match. In each of the three matches he had been substituted. Lukas Podolski is the first player to do so in two consecutive matches. In both he secured Germany a draw. Mesut Özil scored the first goal in the last minute of an extra time against Algeria in the World Cup 2014 Round of 16.

Own goals of the German team
So far, Germany players have scored 27 own goals for opposing teams. In the first international match Ernst Jordan scored an own goal. Two German players, Arne Friedrich and Thomas Helmer, scored two own goals; in four cases a Germany captain scored an own goal. In only one competitive match was the own goal the only goal of a match - Mats Hummels' goal for France in the EURO 2020 group stage. In three such matches (2 April 1958; 11 October 1995; and 6 June 2007) Germany's opponent scored an own goal in the same game.

Chronological list of players who have scored in one match a goal of the month
So far, began in 1971 by the ARD - Sportschau election of the goal of month and 53 goals in matches of the Germany national team scored excellent in about 9% of the matches played since 1971 are Goal of the month. In addition Benjamin Lauth succeeded on 16 December 2002 in the match of the national team in a charity match against a Bundesliga Allstar team a goal of the month. 37 players have been honored at least once as national team, three of them (Günter Netzer, Marco Bode and Miroslav Klose) as players only for a together with another player or each other. Most (3 each) achieved Michael Ballack, Klaus Fischer, Lukas Podolski and Rudi Völler. For every 4 players, the goal of the month was the only, first or last goal in the national team. For Uwe Bein, Marco Bode, Heinz Flohe, Mario Gomez, Leon Goretzka Mario Gotze, Dietmar Hamann, Jens Jeremies, Miroslav Klose, Toni Kroos, Philipp Lahm, Dieter Müller, Hansi Müller, Christian Pander, Stefan Reuter, Piotr Trochowski, Berti Vogts and Herbert Wimmer was the award for goal, the only goal of the month. Uli Hoeneß also scored one goal of the month for the Olympics, but none as a club player.

The most often (25 times) it was the 1–0, six times the decisive 1–0. Two goals, the Golden Goal Oliver Bierhoff and the 1: 0 by Mario Götze were decisive for a title win. The most frequently scored (4 times) the goal of the month against Wales.

A goal of the month in a match against Germany Hans Krankl scored for the Austria in World Cup 1978 Group (2:3).

One goal of the month was also achieved by Klaus Fischer, Benjamin Lauth and Uwe Seeler in charity matches of the national team and a match by former was selected for the goal of the year.

In 1976, in three consecutive months (April, May and June) the goal of the month was scored by a national player. In 1994, Jürgen Klinsmann scored two goals of the month within five goals as a player.

List of players who scored goals after substituted (g.a.s)
The following list contains the players who scored at least four goals after a substitution. First player who scored a goal after a substitution was Richard Hanke on 2 November 1930, in the match against Norway. He had come on as a substitute for the second half and scored in the 55th minute 1-0 (final score 1:1), at a time when substitutes were rarely practiced. It was his only use in the national team and thus his only goal. In total, 79 players scored 165 goals after substitutions, 21 of them scored only goals after substitutions, including Max Kruse with four, Olaf Marschall with three and Andreas Thom and Patrick Helmes with two goals each. Thom had previously scored 16 goals for East Germany. For 46 players, the goal after a substitute their first international goal, Dieter Müller get three, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Erich Beer and Ronald Worm two goals each. For Dieter Müller it was also the first international match and the gates led first to equalize in EC 1976 Semi final and then to victory. Worm also scored his first two goals in his first international match. The final after substitution goal was scored by Lars Stindl in the 2–2 draw against France on 14 November 2017, ten minutes after his substitution in the third minute of additional time. With 41 substitutions, Lukas Podolski is the most-substituted player. The most successful scorer in world championships is André Schürrle with three goals (2014) in front of Rudi Völler, who scored two goals in 1986 after substitutions. Best scorer at European Championships was Dieter Müller with three goals ahead of Oliver Bierhoff, who scored two goals in 1996 after substitution. Both scored their goal after substitution in one match.

Penalty from the match
, Germany were awarded 126 penalties in 130 matches. Of these, 104 were converted (%). The first penalty was in Germany's second-ever match, which finished 1–5. In two matches, there were two penalties for Germany, in two cases both penalties by one player (Fritz Walter World Cup 1954 semi-final and Bastian Schweinsteiger) were converted. Once two players (Torsten Frings and Lukas Podolski) scored penalties in the same match, against Luxembourg in 2006, and once two shooters could not convert their penalties in the same match.

The most successful penalty taker is Michael Ballack, who scored 10 times from 11 occasions. The player with the most unsuccessful penalties is Jürgen Klinsmann, who could not convert three of six penalties. 28 penalties were converted by a captain, most often by Lothar Matthäus, who converted 7 penalties as captain.

Germany have been awarded penalties against Bulgaria more than any other nation: 9 in a total of 21 matches, % of matches against Bulgaria, of which they converted 8.

Andreas Brehme scored a penalty in the 1990 FIFA World Cup final; captain and regular penalty taker Lothar Matthäus had changed his boots earlier in the game and passed the duty to Brehme, whose goal was the only goal of the final. This made Germany the first team to be awarded a penalty in two World Cup finals, having scored from the spot in the 1974 final.

51 penalties were converted in friendly matches, 18 in European Championship qualifiers, 11 in World Cup qualifiers and 10 in World Cup matches. 32 players have missed penalties.

The following table lists all players who took a penalty during the course of a match.

Penalty shoot-out
The Germany national team has had eight matches go to penalty shootouts; the team has won six of them and lost two. Germany (4) and Argentina (5) are the only teams to have won a shootout four or more times in a World Cup. Argentina suffered their only defeat in a penalty shootout at a World Cup against Germany; Germany is thus the only team ever to have had more than one penalty shootout at a World Cup with a 100% win rate.

The most successful German penalty takers in shootouts are Andreas Brehme, Pierre Littbarski, Lothar Matthäus and Olaf Thon, with two penalties each, though Matthäus does not have a perfect record. Harald Schumacher is the most successful goalkeeper with four penalty saves. Sepp Maier (1976) and Eike Immel (1988) are the only goalkeepers who could not save a penalty in a penalty shoot-out. There have been four times when all German penalty takers were successful; in three cases, only four German shooters had to participate due to the outcome already having been decided. In two cases (1982 and 1996) an additional sixth German penalty taker secured victory, in 2016 the ninth penalty taker - Jonas Hector - scored the decisive penalty.