GERMANY
WORLD CUP HISTORY Record | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA |
| 78 | 45 | 17 | 16 | 162 | 103 |
Final Fours 1934 — Third place. 1954 — Champion. 1958 — Fourth place. 1966 — Runner-up. 1970 — Germany. 1974 — Champion. 1982 — Runner-up. 1986 — Runner-up. 1990 — Champion.
U.S. RIVALRY 1993 — Germany 4-3. 1993 — Germany 3-0. 1998 — Germany 2-0 (World Cup). 1999 — USA 3-0. 1999 — USA 2-0 (Confederations Cup).
TEAM Kahn, Rehmer, Nowotny, Linke, Schneider, Ramelow, Hamann, Ziege, Ballack, Asamoah, Zickler.
QUALIFYING Sept. 2 in Hamburg Germany 2 (Deisler 17, own goal 75) Greece 0. Oct. 7 in London England 0 Germany 1 (Hamann 14). March 24 in Leverkusen Germany 2 (Deisler 50, Klose 88) Albania 1 (Kola 65). March 28 in Athens Greece 2 (Haristeas 20, Georgiadis 44) Germany 4 (Rehmer 6, Ballack pen. 25, Klose 81, Bode 89). June 2 in Helsinki Finland 2 (Forssel 28, 43) Germany 2 (Ballack pen. 69, Jancker 72). June 6 in Tirana Albania 0 Germany 2 (Rehmer 28, Ballack 68). Sept. 1 in Munich Germany 1 (Jancker 6) England 5 (Owen 12, 49, 66, Gerrard 45, Heskey 74). Oct. 6 in Gelsenkirchen Germany 0 Finland 0.
EUROPE GROUP 9 STANDINGS | TEAM | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | P |
| *England | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 17 |
| **Germany | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 17 |
| Finland | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 12 |
| Greece | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 7 |
| Albania | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 3 |
*Qualifies for Korea/Japan 2002. **Meets Ukraine in playoff.
PLAYOFF Nov. 10 in Kiev Ukraine 1 (Zoubov 18) Germany (Ballack 31). Nov. 14 in Dortmund Germany 4 (Ballack 4, 51, Neuville 11, Rehmer 15) Ukraine 1 (Shevchenko 90). (Germany wins 5-2 on aggregate and qualifies for Korea/Japan 2002.)
