Captain Alexandra Popp leads the provisional German squad for the European Football Championship in England. National coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg nominated 28 players in Frankfurt/Main; the provisional squad will be reduced to 23.
The squad of the record European champions for the tournament from July 6th to 31st includes eight players each from champion and cup winner VfL Wolfsburg and runner-up FC Bayern Munich, including 31-year-old Popp with her 113 caps and goalkeeper Almuth Schult. The youngest in the team is 19-year-old Jule Brand from TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.
For the 2016 Olympic champion, the European Championship is the first major tournament since the World Cup quarter-finals in 2019. In the strong group B, the Voss-Tecklenburg team meets Denmark, Spain and Finland.
An initial preparation will take place from June 5th to 9th on the association’s new campus in Frankfurt. Before the final measure from 21 to 29 June in Herzogenaurach, the final EM squad will be named. On June 24th there is a friendly international match against Switzerland in Erfurt.
The only foreign professionals in the squad are midfielder Sara Däbritz from Paris Saint-Germain and goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger from Chelsea. Dzsenifer Marozsan from Olympique Lyon after a cruciate ligament rupture and the pregnant Melanie Leupolz from Chelsea will miss the European Championship.