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| Nickname(s) | "Weltmeister der Freundschaftsspiele" (World champion in friendly games)[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Association | Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | Joachim Streich (98) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Joachim Streich (53) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home stadium | Zentralstadion, Leipzig[a] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | GDR | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| First international | |||||||||||||||||||||
 Poland 3–0 East Germany  (Warsaw, Poland; 21 September 1952) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Last international | |||||||||||||||||||||
 Belgium 0–2 East Germany  (Brussels, Belgium; 12 September 1990) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Biggest win | |||||||||||||||||||||
Unofficial Ceylon 0–14 East Germany (Colombo, Ceylon; 8 January 1964) Official Ceylon 1–12 East Germany (Colombo, Ceylon; 12 January 1964) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Biggest defeat | |||||||||||||||||||||
Unofficial Hungary 5–0 East Germany (Hungary; 18 May 1952) Official Poland 3–0 East Germany (Warsaw, Poland; 21 September 1952)  Wales 4–1 East Germany (Cardiff, Wales; 25 September 1957) East Germany 1–4 Czechoslovakia  (Leipzig, East Germany; 27 October 1957)  Ghana 3–0 East Germany (Accra, Ghana; 23 February 1964)  Italy 3–0 East Germany (Naples, Italy; 22 November 1969) Belgium 3–0 East Germany (Antwerp, Belgium; 18 April 1973)  Scotland 3–0 East Germany (Glasgow, Scotland; 30 October 1974)  Netherlands 3–0 East Germany (Rotterdam, Netherlands; 15 November 1978)  Hungary 3–0 East Germany (Budapest, Hungary; 28 March 1979)  Brazil 3–0 East Germany (Goiânia, Brazil; 8 April 1986)  Uruguay 3–0 East Germany (Montevideo, Uruguay; 29 January 1985)  Denmark 4–1 East Germany (Copenhagen, Denmark; 8 May 1985)  Soviet Union 3–0 East Germany (Kiev, Soviet Union; 26 April 1989)  Austria 3–0 East Germany (Vienna, Austria; 15 November 1989)  France 3–0 East Germany (Kuwait City, Kuwait; 24 January 1990) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 1 (first in 1974) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Second group stage (1974) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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The East Germany national football team, recognised as Germany DR by FIFA, represented East Germany in men's international football, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with Saarland and West Germany.
East Germany qualified for the World Cup once, doing so in 1974, and after German reunification in 1990, the Deutscher Fußball Verband der DDR (DFV, English: German Football Association of the GDR), and with it the East German team, joined the Deutscher Fußball Bund (DFB) and the West Germany national football team that had just won the World Cup.
- ^ Joel, Holger; Schütt, Ernst Christian (2008). Chronik des deutschen Fußballs: die Spiele der Nationalmannschaften von 1908 bis heute (in German). wissenmedia Verlag. p. 210. ISBN 9783577164214.
- ^ Wiederstein, Wolfgang (14 November 2009). "'Ein Spiel, das wir nicht gewinnen konnten'". Die Presse (in German). Retrieved 21 June 2016.
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