Germany national under-21 football team

The **Germany national under-21 football team** are the under-21s of Germany. It is currently controlled by the DFB.

### Competing as West Germany

- UEFA U-23 Championship record

|Year|Progress|
| --- | --- |
|1972|Quarterfinals|
|1974|_Did not qualify_|
|1976|_Did not enter_|

- UEFA U-21 Championship record

|Year|Progress|
| --- | --- |
|1978|_Did not enter_|
|1980|_Did not enter_|
|1982|Final|
|1984|_Did not qualify_|
|1986|_Did not qualify_|
|1988|_Did not qualify_|
|1990|Quarterfinals|

### Competing as Germany

- UEFA U-21 Championship record

|Year|Progress||
| --- | --- | --- |
|1992|Quarterfinals||
|1994|_Did not qualify_||
|1996|Quarterfinals||
|1998|Quarterfinals||
|2000|_Did not qualify_||
|2002|_Did not qualify_||
|style="border: 3px solid red"|2004|Group Stage|
|2006|Group Stage||
|2007|_Did not qualify_||
|2009|**Champions**||
|2011|_Did not qualify_||
|2013|Group Stage||
|2015|Semifinals||
|2017|**Champions**||
|/ 2019|**Runners-up**||
|/ 2021|_Qualified_||

### Individual Awards

- Golden Player: Rudi Völler (1982)
- Silver Boot: Kevin Volland (2015)

### Current squad

Players born in or after 1998 are eligible for the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

The following players were called up for the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship from 24 to 30 March 2021.

**Note:** Names in _italics_ denote players that have been called up to the senior team.

- _Caps and goals correct as of 30 March 2021._

### Player records

- Most caps
|No. of caps|Player|U-21 career|
| --- | --- | --- |
|31|Fabian Ernst|1998–2001|
|30|Levin Öztunalı|2015–2019|
|27|Andreas Beck|2007–2009|
|26|Mike Hanke|2003–2005|
|25|Dennis Aogo|2007–2009|
|24|Christian Tiffert|2002–2004|
|Daniel Schwaab|2007–2010||
|Lewis Holtby|2009–2013||
|Moritz Leitner|2011–2015||
|Nadiem Amiri|2016–2019||

- Most goals
|No. of goals|No. of caps|Player|U-21 career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|18|21|Pierre Littbarski|1979–1982|
|17|20|Heiko Herrlich|1990–1993|
|15|23|Benjamin Auer|2002–2004|
|14|26|Mike Hanke|2003–2005|
|24|Lewis Holtby|2009–2013||
|13|21|Rouwen Hennings|2007–2009|
|11|22|Kevin Volland|2012–2015|
|10|19|Rudi Völler|1979–1982|
|22|Christian Nerlinger|1992–1996||
|15|Luca Waldschmidt|2017–2019||
|17|Lukas Nmecha|2019–2021||

### Former coaches

- Hannes Löhr (1990–2002)
- Jürgen Kohler (2002–2003)
- Uli Stielike (2003–2004)
- Dieter Eilts (2004–2008)
- Horst Hrubesch (2008–2009)
- Rainer Adrion (2009–2013)
- Horst Hrubesch (2013–2016)
- Stefan Kuntz (2016–)

## Related pages

- Germany national football team

## Other websites

- Site of the Under-21 national team at the German Football Association homepage

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Germany Under-21
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- **uefau21champ first**: 1982 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 1982
- **uefau21champ apps**: 11
- **largest loss**: **U-23:**
 Soviet Union Olympic football team, Soviet Union 3–1 **West Germany**
(Yerevan, Soviet Union; 29 April 1972)
**U-21:**
 Portugal national under-21 football team, Portugal 5–0 **Germany**
(Olomouc, Czech Republic; 27 June 2015)
- **largest win**: **U-23:**
 **West Germany** 3–0 Turkey national under-23 football team, Turkey
(Augsburg, West Germany; 24 April 1971)
**U-21:**
 San Marino national under-21 football team, San Marino 0–11 **Germany**
(Serravalle (San Marino), Serravalle, San Marino; 17 November 2009)
- **first game**: **U-23:**
 **West Germany** 3–3 Yugoslavia Olympic football team, Yugoslavia
(Frankfurt, West Germany; 25 June 1955)
**U-21:**
 Poland national under-21 football team, Poland 1–0 **West Germany**
(Toruń, Polish People's Republic, Poland; 10 October 1979)
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- **association**: German Football Association, Deutscher Fußball-Bund
- **coach**: Stefan Kuntz
- **captain**: Arne Maier
- **most caps**: Fabian Ernst (31)
- **top scorer**: Pierre Littbarski (18)
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- **uefau21champ best**: **Winners** (2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2009, 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2017)