Below is a list of the 273 players who played for the East Germany national team from its foundation in 1952, until 1990 when it was merged with the West Germany team after German reunification.
Below is a list of the 273 players who played for the East Germany national team from its foundation in 1952, until 1990 when it was merged with the West Germany team after German reunification.
Played in East Germany's first official game, against Poland in 1952.
Member of East Germany's squad at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the only major tournament the team ever qualified for.
Played in East Germany's last game, against Belgium in 1990.
Played for the Germany national team, after reunification.
| Name | Position | Appearances | Goals | First appearance | Last appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jens Adler | GK | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Horst Assmy | FW | 12 | 4 | 1954 | 1959 |
| Gerd Backhaus | FW | 3 | 2 | 1963 | 1966 |
| Christian Backs | DF | 9 | 1 | 1983 | 1985 |
| Jürgen Bähringer | FW | 1 | 0 | 1980 | 1980 |
| Wolfgang Barthels | FW | 2 | 2 | 1963 | 1964 |
| Bernd Bauchspieß | FW | 1 | 0 | 1959 | 1959 |
| Erhard Bauer | DF | 3 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 |
| Frank Baum | DF | 17 | 0 | 1979 | 1984 |
| Rainer Baumann | FW | 2 | 0 | 1956 | 1956 |
| Wolfgang Benkert | GK | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 |
| Arthur Bialas | FW | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Andreas Bielau | MF | 9 | 0 | 1981 | 1985 |
| Hermann Bley | MF | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Wolfgang Blochwitz | GK | 19 | 0 | 1966 | 1974 |
| Stefan Böger | DF | 4 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Heiko Bonan | MF | 2 | 0 | 1989 | 1990 |
| Andreas Bornschein | FW | 1 | 0 | 1982 | 1982 |
| Perry Bräutigam | GK | 3 | 0 | 1989 | 1990 |
| Bernd Bransch | DF | 72 | 3 | 1967 | 1976 |
| Gert Brauer | DF | 4 | 0 | 1979 | 1980 |
| Steffen Büttner | DF | 3 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Günter Busch | GK | 2 | 0 | 1954 | 1957 |
| Georg Buschner | DF | 6 | 0 | 1954 | 1957 |
| Martin Busse | FW | 3 | 1 | 1983 | 1983 |
| Jochen Carow | DF | 1 | 0 | 1972 | 1972 |
| Jürgen Croy | GK | 94 | 0 | 1967 | 1981 |
| Klaus Decker | DF | 3 | 0 | 1974 | 1974 |
| Thomas Dennstedt | DF | 1 | 0 | 1983 | 1983 |
| Bernd Dobermann | DF | 2 | 0 | 1969 | 1969 |
| Hans-Jürgen Dörner | MF | 100 | 9 | 1969 | 1985 |
| Matthias Döschner | DF | 40 | 2 | 1982 | 1988 |
| Thomas Doll | MF | 29 | 7 | 1986 | 1990 |
| Konrad Dorner | DF | 2 | 0 | 1958 | 1958 |
| Werner Drews | FW | 2 | 0 | 1961 | 1962 |
| Peter Ducke | FW | 66 | 15 | 1960 | 1975 |
| Roland Ducke | FW | 37 | 5 | 1958 | 1967 |
| Lutz Eigendorf | MF | 6 | 3 | 1978 | 1979 |
| Werner Eilitz | DF | 8 | 0 | 1952 | 1956 |
| Dieter Engelhardt | FW | 3 | 1 | 1966 | 1966 |
| Dieter Erler | MF | 47 | 12 | 1959 | 1968 |
| Rainer Ernst | FW | 56 | 20 | 1981 | 1990 |
| Michael Faber | DF | 1 | 0 | 1963 | 1963 |
| Dieter Fischer | MF | 4 | 0 | 1958 | 1960 |
| Otto Fräßdorf | FW | 33 | 4 | 1963 | 1970 |
| Gerhard Franke | DF | 5 | 0 | 1958 | 1959 |
| Horst Franke | FW | 2 | 0 | 1953 | 1954 |
| Reinhard Franz | FW | 5 | 2 | 1956 | 1960 |
| Horst Freitag | FW | 1 | 0 | 1957 | 1957 |
| Henning Frenzel | FW | 56 | 19 | 1961 | 1974 |
| Joachim Fritsche | DF | 14 | 0 | 1973 | 1977 |
| Harald Fritzsche | GK | 8 | 0 | 1962 | 1964 |
| Rolf Fritzsche | FW | 2 | 0 | 1955 | 1955 |
| Heinz Fröhlich | FW | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Frank Ganzera | DF | 13 | 0 | 1969 | 1973 |
| Manfred Geisler | DF | 15 | 1 | 1965 | 1967 |
| Michael Glowatzky | FW | 9 | 1 | 1984 | 1986 |
| Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin | GK | 21 | 0 | 1975 | 1981 |
| Wilfried Gröbner | DF | 8 | 0 | 1976 | 1979 |
| Wolfgang Großstück | GK | 1 | 0 | 1958 | 1958 |
| Torsten Gütschow | FW | 3 | 2 | 1984 | 1989 |
| Lothar Haack | FW | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Erich Haase | MF | 1 | 0 | 1953 | 1953 |
| Reinhard Häfner | MF | 58 | 5 | 1971 | 1984 |
| Damian Halata | MF | 4 | 1 | 1984 | 1989 |
| Erich Hamann | MF | 3 | 0 | 1969 | 1974 |
| Ralf Hauptmann | MF | 4 | 0 | 1989 | 1990 |
| Lothar Hause | DF | 9 | 1 | 1978 | 1982 |
| Gert Heidler | FW | 12 | 2 | 1975 | 1978 |
| Steffen Heidrich | MF | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Werner Heine | DF | 29 | 2 | 1958 | 1964 |
| Jürgen Heinsch | GK | 7 | 0 | 1963 | 1965 |
| Heinz Hergert | DF | 1 | 0 | 1962 | 1962 |
| Hendrik Herzog | DF | 7 | 0 | 1989 | 1990 |
| Jürgen Heun | FW | 17 | 4 | 1980 | 1985 |
| Dirk Heyne | GK | 9 | 0 | 1979 | 1990 |
| Günter Hirschmann | MF | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Martin Hoffmann | FW | 66 | 16 | 1973 | 1981 |
| Günter Hoge | FW | 6 | 0 | 1961 | 1968 |
| Karl-Heinz Holze | MF | 1 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 |
| Willy Holzmüller | MF | 1 | 0 | 1957 | 1957 |
| Karl-Heinz Ilsch | FW | 1 | 0 | 1953 | 1953 |
| Günter Imhof | FW | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Harald Irmscher | MF | 41 | 4 | 1966 | 1974 |
| Rolf Jahn | GK | 1 | 0 | 1957 | 1957 |
| Eberhard Janotta | MF | 1 | 0 | 1986 | 1986 |
| Rainer Jarohs | FW | 3 | 1 | 1982 | 1982 |
| Manfred Kaiser | MF | 31 | 1 | 1955 | 1964 |
| Siegfried Kaiser | FW | 1 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 |
| Peter Kalinke | DF | 7 | 0 | 1960 | 1961 |
| Ulf Kirsten | FW | 49 | 14 | 1985 | 1990 |
| Gerd Kische | DF | 63 | 0 | 1971 | 1980 |
| Hans-Georg Kiupel | MF | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Wolfgang Klank | GK | 3 | 0 | 1952 | 1953 |
| Heino Kleiminger | FW | 4 | 5 | 1963 | 1964 |
| Wilfried Klingbiel | FW | 6 | 1 | 1958 | 1961 |
| Sven Köhler | DF | 2 | 0 | 1989 | 1989 |
| Gerhard Körner | MF | 33 | 4 | 1962 | 1969 |
| Horst Kohle | FW | 1 | 1 | 1959 | 1959 |
| Bernhard Konik | DF | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 |
| Peter Kotte | FW | 21 | 3 | 1976 | 1980 |
| Torsten Kracht | DF | 2 | 0 | 1988 | 1990 |
| Hans-Dieter Krampe | DF | 28 | 0 | 1959 | 1965 |
| Andreas Krause | MF | 4 | 2 | 1981 | 1985 |
| Rudolf Krause | FW | 2 | 0 | 1953 | 1956 |
| Steffen Krauß | MF | 2 | 0 | 1985 | 1985 |
| Albert Krebs | DF | 1 | 0 | 1975 | 1975 |
| Ronald Kreer | DF | 65 | 2 | 1982 | 1989 |
| Hans-Jürgen Kreische | FW | 50 | 25 | 1968 | 1975 |
| Heinz Krüger | DF | 1 | 0 | 1957 | 1957 |
| Waldemar Ksienzyk | MF | 1 | 0 | 1987 | 1987 |
| Günter Kubisch | DF | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Dieter Kühn | FW | 13 | 5 | 1978 | 1983 |
| Lothar Kurbjuweit | DF | 66 | 4 | 1970 | 1981 |
| Reinhard Lauck | MF | 33 | 3 | 1973 | 1977 |
| Heinz Lemanczyk | FW | 2 | 0 | 1955 | 1958 |
| Henry Lesser | MF | 4 | 0 | 1986 | 1986 |
| Frank Lieberam | DF | 1 | 0 | 1989 | 1989 |
| Matthias Liebers | DF | 59 | 3 | 1980 | 1988 |
| Kurt Liebrecht | MF | 16 | 1 | 1960 | 1965 |
| Werner Lihsa | GK | 1 | 0 | 1972 | 1972 |
| Lutz Lindemann | DF | 21 | 2 | 1977 | 1980 |
| Ernst Lindner | FW | 6 | 0 | 1959 | 1962 |
| Matthias Lindner | DF | 22 | 0 | 1987 | 1990 |
| Werner Linß | FW | 2 | 0 | 1962 | 1962 |
| Wolfram Löwe | FW | 43 | 12 | 1967 | 1977 |
| Heiko März | DF | 1 | 0 | 1989 | 1989 |
| Gerhard Marotzke | DF | 1 | 0 | 1955 | 1955 |
| Willi Marquardt | GK | 1 | 0 | 1956 | 1956 |
| Olaf Marschall | FW | 4 | 0 | 1987 | 1989 |
| Herbert Maschke | MF | 7 | 0 | 1959 | 1962 |
| Hans-Bert Matoul | FW | 3 | 1 | 1974 | 1974 |
| Johannes Matzen | FW | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1954 |
| Matthias Maucksch | MF | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Siegfried Meier | FW | 3 | 1 | 1952 | 1954 |
| Erhard Meinhold | FW | 2 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 |
| Lothar Meyer | FW | 16 | 2 | 1954 | 1961 |
| Ralf Minge | FW | 36 | 8 | 1983 | 1989 |
| Stefan Minkwitz | MF | 2 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Erhard Mosert | MF | 1 | 0 | 1969 | 1969 |
| Harald Mothes | FW | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 |
| Waldemar Mühlbächer | MF | 17 | 1 | 1958 | 1965 |
| Bringfried Müller | MF | 18 | 0 | 1955 | 1960 |
| Helmut Müller | FW | 13 | 5 | 1957 | 1962 |
| Joachim Müller | MF | 5 | 0 | 1977 | 1978 |
| Jochen Müller | MF | 3 | 0 | 1953 | 1954 |
| Klaus Müller | DF | 2 | 0 | 1976 | 1976 |
| Matthias Müller | DF | 4 | 0 | 1980 | 1980 |
| René Müller | GK | 46 | 0 | 1984 | 1989 |
| Rainer Nachtigall | FW | 11 | 2 | 1960 | 1965 |
| Hans-Jürgen Naumann | DF | 1 | 0 | 1968 | 1968 |
| Wolf-Rüdiger Netz | MF | 2 | 0 | 1978 | 1981 |
| Mario Neuhäuser | MF | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 |
| Michael Noack | DF | 2 | 0 | 1979 | 1981 |
| Jürgen Nöldner | FW | 30 | 16 | 1960 | 1969 |
| Helmut Nordhaus | DF | 3 | 0 | 1953 | 1954 |
| Herbert Pankau | MF | 25 | 4 | 1962 | 1967 |
| Frank Pastor | FW | 7 | 0 | 1983 | 1987 |
| Heiko Peschke | DF | 5 | 1 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Werner Peter | FW | 9 | 1 | 1978 | 1979 |
| Wolfgang Pfeifer | FW | 2 | 0 | 1958 | 1959 |
| Hans-Uwe Pilz | MF | 35 | 0 | 1982 | 1989 |
| Jürgen Pommerenke | MF | 57 | 3 | 1972 | 1983 |
| Udo Preuße | DF | 1 | 0 | 1978 | 1978 |
| Jürgen Raab | MF | 20 | 2 | 1982 | 1988 |
| Detlef Raugust | MF | 3 | 0 | 1978 | 1979 |
| Burkhard Reich | DF | 6 | 0 | 1987 | 1990 |
| Alfred Reinhardt | MF | 1 | 0 | 1953 | 1953 |
| Frank Richter | FW | 7 | 1 | 1971 | 1973 |
| Hans Richter | FW | 15 | 4 | 1982 | 1987 |
| Dieter Riedel | FW | 4 | 0 | 1974 | 1978 |
| Hans-Jürgen Riediger | FW | 41 | 6 | 1975 | 1982 |
| Peter Rock | FW | 11 | 1 | 1967 | 1971 |
| Mario Röser | DF | 1 | 0 | 1988 | 1988 |
| Uwe Rösler | FW | 5 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Frank Rohde | DF | 42 | 1 | 1984 | 1989 |
| Armin Romstedt | MF | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 |
| Georg Rosbigalle | MF | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Norbert Rudolph | MF | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 |
| Bodo Rudwaleit | GK | 33 | 0 | 1979 | 1988 |
| Rainer Sachse | FW | 2 | 0 | 1977 | 1977 |
| Carsten Sänger | DF | 16 | 0 | 1984 | 1987 |
| Klaus Sammer | MF | 17 | 0 | 1970 | 1973 |
| Matthias Sammer | MF | 23 | 6 | 1986 | 1990 |
| Hartmut Schade | MF | 31 | 5 | 1975 | 1980 |
| Gerhard Schaller | DF | 5 | 0 | 1955 | 1956 |
| Gerd Schellenberg | FW | 3 | 0 | 1974 | 1974 |
| Horst Scherbaum | MF | 5 | 0 | 1952 | 1958 |
| Rainer Schlutter | MF | 5 | 0 | 1970 | 1971 |
| Jens Schmidt | GK | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Udo Schmuck | DF | 7 | 1 | 1976 | 1981 |
| Dieter Schneider | GK | 3 | 0 | 1969 | 1973 |
| Günter Schneider | MF | 1 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 |
| Karl Schnieke | FW | 3 | 1 | 1952 | 1954 |
| Rüdiger Schnuphase | MF | 45 | 6 | 1973 | 1983 |
| Herbert Schoen | MF | 12 | 0 | 1952 | 1957 |
| Johannes Schöne | MF | 3 | 0 | 1954 | 1954 |
| Detlef Schößler | DF | 18 | 0 | 1986 | 1990 |
| Heiko Scholz | MF | 7 | 0 | 1987 | 1990 |
| Günter Schröter | FW | 39 | 13 | 1952 | 1962 |
| Harald Schütze | MF | 1 | 0 | 1969 | 1969 |
| Ralf Schulenberg | FW | 3 | 0 | 1972 | 1972 |
| Axel Schulz | MF | 3 | 0 | 1984 | 1985 |
| Bernd Schulz | DF | 3 | 1 | 1984 | 1985 |
| Ulrich Schulze | GK | 1 | 0 | 1974 | 1974 |
| Dirk Schuster | DF | 4 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Jörg Schwanke | MF | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Klaus-Dieter Seehaus | DF | 10 | 0 | 1963 | 1969 |
| Wolfgang Seguin | MF | 21 | 0 | 1972 | 1975 |
| Gunter Sekora | MF | 1 | 0 | 1980 | 1980 |
| Martin Skaba | DF | 7 | 0 | 1958 | 1963 |
| Jürgen Sparwasser | FW | 53 | 15 | 1969 | 1977 |
| Hans Speth | FW | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1958 |
| Karl-Heinz Spickenagel | GK | 29 | 0 | 1954 | 1962 |
| Dirk Stahmann | DF | 46 | 2 | 1982 | 1989 |
| Helmut Stein | FW | 22 | 2 | 1962 | 1973 |
| Wolfgang Steinbach | MF | 28 | 1 | 1978 | 1985 |
| Rico Steinmann | MF | 23 | 3 | 1986 | 1990 |
| Hermann Stöcker | FW | 6 | 4 | 1963 | 1965 |
| Ralf Sträßer | MF | 4 | 0 | 1982 | 1986 |
| Joachim Streich | FW | 104 | 55 | 1969 | 1984 |
| Michael Strempel | MF | 15 | 1 | 1970 | 1971 |
| Dieter Strozniak | DF | 6 | 0 | 1980 | 1982 |
| Jörg Stübner | MF | 47 | 1 | 1984 | 1990 |
| Frank Terletzki | MF | 4 | 1 | 1975 | 1980 |
| Ronny Teuber | GK | 1 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Klaus Thiele | GK | 4 | 0 | 1958 | 1959 |
| Andreas Thom | FW | 51 | 16 | 1984 | 1990 |
| Günter Thorhauer | FW | 1 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Andreas Trautmann | MF | 14 | 1 | 1983 | 1989 |
| Norbert Trieloff | DF | 18 | 0 | 1980 | 1984 |
| Martin Trocha | FW | 8 | 1 | 1980 | 1982 |
| Willy Tröger | FW | 15 | 11 | 1954 | 1959 |
| Rainer Troppa | DF | 17 | 0 | 1981 | 1984 |
| Axel Tyll | DF | 4 | 0 | 1973 | 1975 |
| Frank Uhlig | DF | 1 | 0 | 1980 | 1980 |
| Artur Ullrich | DF | 13 | 0 | 1980 | 1983 |
| Werner Unger | MF | 7 | 0 | 1954 | 1964 |
| Klaus Urbanczyk | DF | 34 | 0 | 1961 | 1969 |
| Jürgen Uteß | DF | 1 | 0 | 1982 | 1982 |
| Lothar Vetterke | FW | 1 | 0 | 1953 | 1953 |
| Eberhard Vogel | FW | 75 | 25 | 1962 | 1976 |
| Gerhard Vogt | FW | 4 | 1 | 1959 | 1959 |
| Siegmar Wätzlich | DF | 24 | 0 | 1972 | 1975 |
| Andreas Wagenhaus | DF | 3 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Konrad Wagner | DF | 4 | 0 | 1959 | 1963 |
| Jens Wahl | DF | 1 | 0 | 1989 | 1989 |
| Horst Walter | FW | 1 | 0 | 1962 | 1962 |
| Manfred Walter | MF | 16 | 0 | 1965 | 1967 |
| Gerd Weber | MF | 35 | 5 | 1975 | 1980 |
| Harald Wehner | FW | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Uwe Weidemann | FW | 10 | 0 | 1985 | 1990 |
| Horst Weigang | GK | 12 | 0 | 1962 | 1968 |
| Hilmar Weilandt | MF | 2 | 0 | 1990 | 1990 |
| Konrad Weise | DF | 86 | 2 | 1970 | 1981 |
| Jörg Weißflog | GK | 15 | 0 | 1984 | 1989 |
| Werner Welzel | FW | 1 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Jürgen Werner | DF | 1 | 0 | 1970 | 1970 |
| Günther Wirth | FW | 28 | 10 | 1954 | 1962 |
| Karl-Heinz Wohlfahrt | DF | 2 | 0 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Siegfried Woitzat | DF | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Karl Wolf | MF | 10 | 0 | 1955 | 1957 |
| Siegfried Wolf | MF | 17 | 0 | 1955 | 1959 |
| Dariusz Wosz | MF | 7 | 0 | 1989 | 1990 |
| Horst Wruck | MF | 1 | 0 | 1969 | 1969 |
| Wolfgang Wruck | DF | 6 | 0 | 1967 | 1968 |
| Markus Wuckel | FW | 4 | 2 | 1987 | 1990 |
| Bernd Wunderlich | DF | 1 | 0 | 1984 | 1984 |
| Kurt Zapf | DF | 4 | 0 | 1957 | 1958 |
| Manfred Zapf | DF | 16 | 0 | 1969 | 1975 |
| Arno Zerbe | FW | 1 | 0 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Uwe Zötzsche | MF | 38 | 5 | 1982 | 1988 |
| Alfred Zulkowski | GK | 1 | 0 | 1962 | 1962 |
