The East Germany Olympic football team, recognized as Germany DR by FIFA, was from 1952 to 1990 the football team of

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

for Olympic football events, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with

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and

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. After German reunification in 1990, the Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR (DFV), and with it the East German team, joined the ''

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'' (DFB).

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DFB statistics of the national team
(contains information on East Germany caps and goalscorers)

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Football Germany Olympic football team

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