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| Nickname | Wolfpack | ||
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| Union | Deutscher Rugby-Verband | ||
| Head coach | Pablo Feijoo | ||
| Captain | Carlos Soteras Merz | ||
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| Rugby World Cup Sevens | |||
| Appearances | 1 (First in 2022) | ||
| Best result | 18th in 2022 | ||
The German national rugby sevens team competes in the top-level European sevens competition, the Sevens Grand Prix Series. In 2012, Germany finished eleventh out of twelve teams and avoided relegation. The team also unsuccessfully took part in the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying tournament in Moscow in July 2012.
In 2015 Germany qualified to the Final 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament, where they failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]
Germany won the 2019 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series, an equivalent to European Championships in other team sports.
- ^ Der DRV-Arbeitsplan “Rugby auf dem Weg nach Olympia 2016” (in German) totalrugby.de, author: Claus-Peter Bach, published: 19 October 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2010