German Football Hall of Fame: 8 new players including Lahm & Klose

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Double year honored

Other prominent former professionals have now officially made it into the German Football Hall of Fame. Philipp Lahm, Jürgen Kohler, Bernd Schuster, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Miroslav Klose personally accepted their award in Dortmund at the German Football Museum on Tuesday. Horst Eckel, Joachim Streich and coaching legend Udo Lattek were posthumously honored for their achievements. The honor will be shown on television on Saturday following the international match between Germany and Turkey.

Walter to Lahm: Players in the German Football Hall of Fame

Fritz Walter – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1937–1959 | 61 international matches | Most games for: 1. FC Kaiserslautern

Helmut Rahn – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1946–1965 | 40 international matches | Most games for: Rot-Weiss Essen

Uwe Seeler – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1953–1972 | 72 international matches | Most games for: Hamburger SV

Sepp Maier – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1962–1980 | 95 international matches | Most games for: FC Bayern

Günter Netzer – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1963–1977 | 37 international matches | Most games for: Borussia Mönchengladbach

Gerd Müller – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1963–1982 | 62 international matches | Most games for: FC Bayern

Franz Beckenbauer – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1964–1983 | 103 international matches | Most games for: FC Bayern

Paul Breitner – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1970–1983 | 48 international matches | Most games for: FC Bayern

Lothar Matthäus – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1978–2000 | 150 international matches | Most games for: FC Bayern

Andreas Brehme – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1979–1998 | 86 international matches | Most games for: 1. FC Kaiserslautern

Matthias Sammer – in the Hall of Fame since 2018

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active from 1985–1998 | 74 international matches | Most games for: Borussia Dortmund

Wolfgang Overath – in the Hall of Fame since 2019

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active from 1962–1977 | 81 international matches | Most games for: 1. FC Köln

Hans-Jürgen Dörner – in the Hall of Fame since 2019

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active from 1968–1986 | 100 international matches | Most games for: Dynamo Dresden

Jürgen Klinsmann – in the Hall of Fame since 2019

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active from 1982–1998 | 108 international matches | Most games for: VfB Stuttgart

Oliver Kahn – in the Hall of Fame since 2019

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active from 1987–2008 | 86 international matches | Most games for: FC Bayern

Berti Vogts – in the Hall of Fame since 2020

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active from 1965–1979 | 96 international matches | Most games for: Borussia Mönchengladbach

Klaus Fischer – in the Hall of Fame since 2020

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active from 1968–1988 | 45 international matches | Most games for: FC Schalke 04

Rudi Völler – in the Hall of Fame since 2020

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active from 1976–1996 | 90 international matches | Most games for: AS Roma

Andreas Möller – in the Hall of Fame since 2020

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active from 1985–2004 | 85 international matches | Most games for: Borussia Dortmund

Michael Ballack – in the Hall of Fame since 2020

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active from 1995–2012 | 98 international matches | Most games for: Bayer Leverkusen

Horst Eckel – in the Hall of Fame since 2021

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active from 1950–1965 | 32 international matches | Most games for: 1. FC Kaiserslautern

Joachim Streich – in the Hall of Fame since 2021

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active from 1969–1985 | 98 international matches | Most games for: 1. FC Magdeburg

Jürgen Kohler – in the Hall of Fame since 2021

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active from 1983–2002 | 105 international matches | Most games for: Borussia Dortmund

Miroslav Klose – in the Hall of Fame since 2021

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active from 1997–2016 | 137 international matches | Most games for: Lazio Rome

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge – in the Hall of Fame since 2022

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active from 1974–1990 | 95 international matches | Most games for: FC Bayern

Bernd Schuster – in the Hall of Fame since 2022

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active from 1978–1997 | 21 international matches | Most games for: FC Barcelona

Philipp Lahm – in the Hall of Fame since 2022

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active from 2001-2017 | 113 international matches | Most games for: FC Bayern

Lahm, Schuster and Rummenigge were chosen for the 2022 vintage. Kohler, Eckel, Streich, Klose and Lattek had already been elected in the 2021 class. Due to the corona pandemic, a double award took place.

This means that 47 football greats – 27 men and 20 women – belong to the Hall of Fame, which started in 2018 with the founding eleven. The five former footballers Christa Kleinhans, Bärbel Wohlleben, Anne Trabant Haarbach, Ariane Hingst and Nadine Angerer included in the selection.

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24 Bernd Schneider – 81 international matches

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As of November 16, 2023

24 Karlheinz Förster – 81 international matches

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24 Wolfgang Overath – 81 international matches

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23 Arne Friedrich – 82 international matches

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22 Andreas Möller – 85 international matches

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20 Oliver Kahn – 86 international matches

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20 Andreas Brehme – 86 international matches

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19 Rudi Völler – 90 international matches

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18 Mesut Özil – 92 international matches

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16 Sepp Maier – 95 international matches

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16 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge – 95 international matches

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15 Berti Vogts – 96 international matches

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14 Michael Ballack – 98 international matches

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13 Thomas Häßler – 101 international matches

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12 Franz Beckenbauer – 103 international matches

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11 Per Mertesacker – 104 international matches

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10 Jürgen Kohler – 105 international matches

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9 Toni Kroos – 106 international matches

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8 Jürgen Klinsmann – 108 international matches

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7 Philipp Lahm – 113 international matches

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6 Manuel Neuer – 117 international matches

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5 Bastian Schweinsteiger – 121 international matches

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4 Thomas Müller – 124 international matches

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3 Lukas Podolski – 130 caps

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2 Miroslav Klose – 137 caps

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1 Lothar Matthäus – 150 international matches

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