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20 years, 196 days, Stina Blackstenius ( Sweden), vs Germany, 19 August 2016. Oldest hat-trick scorer 29 years, 55 days, Christine Sinclair ( Canada ), vs United States , 6 August 2012 .
Germany has won Olympic gold in 2016, after three consecutive bronze medals at the Women's Olympic Football Tournament, finishing third in 2000, 2004 and 2008. Birgit Prinz holds the record for most appearances and is the team's all-time leading goalscorer.
The German Women's National Football Team started play in 1983. Women's football was long met with skepticism in Germany, and official matches were banned by the DFB until 1970. [1] However, the women's national team has grown in popularity since winning the World Cup in 2003, [2] as it was chosen as Germany's Sports Team of the Year. [3]
This is a list of all German women's football champions. TuS Wörrstadt won the first championship, held in 1974. SSG Bergisch Gladbach is the club with the most championships, winning the trophy nine times. The women's football department of the club has since moved to Bayer Leverkusen.
The new British game of football quickly caught on in late 19th-century Germany, which had previously been a nation of gymnasts and fencers.The earliest attempt at organizing some form of national championship came in 1894, when city champions Viktoria 89 Berlin invited FC Hanau 93 to play a challenge match.
For the next decade, Prinz had one of the most successful international careers in women's football. She won four more UEFA European Championships in 1997 , 2001 , 2005 and 2009 . At the Summer Olympics she won bronze three times with the German team, in 2000 , 2004 and 2008 .
Germany first sent a football team to the Olympics in 1912, where they were defeated in the first round, losing 5–1 against neighbours Austria.They entered a consolation tournament, however, where they recorded a 16–0 win over Russia, with 10 goals from forward Gottfried Fuchs – this is still the national team's highest margin of victory.