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Germany

Five years of results, read from this team's own point of view.

Rating

42

Average — 38th percentile · Glicko-2 763 ±100

Record

6-0-21

22.2% of 27 matches in the last five years

Average margin

-18.1

17.9 for, 35.9 against

Home advantage

+1.2

Points per match better at home

Attack

-32%

17.9 scored per match, against the placed field's average

Defence

-31%

35.9 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

Schwarze Adler (Black Eagles)
Head coach
Michael Poppmeier
Captain
Justin Renc
Union
Deutscher Rugby-Verband
Emblem
Bundesadler (Federal Eagle)
First match
FRA 30−5 Germany (17 April 1927)
Most caps
Alexander Widiker (59)
Leading scorer
Raynor Parkinson (323)
Most tries
Jaco Otto (23)
World Cups
0

Anthem

DeutschlandliedSong of Germany

German · August 11, 1922 · 1:14

Only the third stanza of the Deutschlandlied is the anthem, and it is all the source page carries.

Words
German lyrics Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit Für das deutsche Vaterland – Danach lasst uns alle streben Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand! Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit Sind des Glückes Unterpfand. Blüh’ im Glanze dieses Glückes, Blühe, deutsches Vaterland! Blüh’ im Glanze dieses Glückes, Blühe, deutsches Vaterland! English translation Unity and Right and Freedom For the German Fatherland! After these let us all strive Brotherly with heart and hand! Unity and Right and Freedom Are the pledge of happiness. Bloom in the splendour of this happiness, Bloom, my German Fatherland! Bloom in the splendour of this happiness, Bloom, my German Fatherland!

Recording and words from nationalanthems.info, used under CC BY 4.0.

From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.

Recent results

Newest first, from Germany's own point of view. Home and away are as the record stores them; a fixture the record does not mark neutral is listed as one side's home, which is right for a league round and wrong for a final played at a third ground.

Shape
Matches decided by seven or fewer26%
Matches totalling 50 or more56%
Margin swing23.3 points
Last five, most recent firstlostlostlostlostwonL4

Biggest win: 46-16 v Lithuania

Heaviest defeat: 7-76 v Netherlands

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating42
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Average — 38th percentile

Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Germany. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.

Most similar teams
Teams with too few matches to rate confidently, which are most of the outliers.
component 1 →component 2 ↑South AfricaNew ZealandIrelandFranceEnglandAustraliaGeorgiaWalesChileTongaHong Kong ChinaZimbabweNamibiaAlgeriaMexicoCayman IslandsNetherlandsParaguaySwitzerlandCzechiaUnited Arab EmiratesColombiaBarbadosUgandaMalaysiaCote D'IvoireMaltaThailandLatviaAndorraSloveniaTurkeyHungaryBosnia & HerzegovinaNorwayGermany

Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 72% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (42%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (30%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.

30 of 66 teams sit too close together to name without covering another team's point, so they are drawn unlabelled. Every dot is still a link to that team, and hovering one names it.

  1. 1Turkey0.23
  2. 2Bosnia & Herzegovina0.56
  3. 3Hungary0.69
  4. 4Lithuania1.02
  5. 5Canada1.03

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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