Youngest Debutants

The table below lists the youngest twenty-five debutants for the Nationalmannschaft, since the team’s official full international match against Switzerland on 5th April 1908 in Basel.

When Willy Baumgärtner lined up in the starting eleven for that first match, he was the youngest member of the team at seventeen years and 104 days. This record has remained in place since then, with close to a thousand players joining the long list of those who have worn the Nationaltrikot. (As at the time of writing, 25th March 2021).

Uwe Seeler is the youngest postwar debutant, making his debut in 1954 at the age of 17 Years and 354 Days against France in Hannover. The most recent addition to the list, joining Friedel Holz in joint fourth place, was FC Bayern München’s Jamal Musiala, who made his international bow in the World Cup qualifying match against Iceland in Duisburg’s MSV-Arena on 25th March 2021.

Pic	Name	Born	Birthplace	Debut	Opponent	Venue	Age at Debut
	BAUMGÄRTNER, Willy	1890.12.23	Berlin	1908.04.05	Switzerland	Basel	17 Years, 104 Days
	HILLER, Marius "Bubi"	1892.08.05	Pforzheim	1910.04.03	Switzerland	Basel	17 Years, 241 Days
	SEELER, Uwe	1936.11.05	Hamburg	1954.10.16	France	Hannover	17 Years, 345 Days
	MOUKOKO, Youssoufa	2004.11.20	Yaoundé (CMR)	2022.11.16	Oman	Muscat	17 Years, 361 Days
	HOLZ, Friedel	1920.02.21	Duisburg	1938.03.20	Luxembourg	Wuppertal	18 Years, 27 Days
	MUSIALA, Jamal	2003.02.26	Stuttgart	2021.03.25	Iceland	Duisburg	18 Years, 27 Days
	WOLTER, Karl	1894.08.02	Berlin	1912.10.06	Denmark	København	18 Years, 65 Days
	JELINEK, Franz	1922.07.10	Wien (AUT)	1940.09.15	Slovakia	Bratislava	18 Years, 67 Days
	WIRTZ, Florian	2003.05.03	Pulheim	2021.09.02	Liechtenstein	St. Gallen (SUI)	18 Years, 123 Days
	GÖTZE, Mario	1992.06.03	Memmingen	2010.11.17	Sweden	Göteborg	18 Years, 167 Days
	TÄNZER, Willy	1889.12.12	Berlin	1908.06.07	Austria	Wien	18 Years, 178 Days
	THON, Olaf	1966.05.01	Gelsenkirchen-Horst	1984.12.16	Malta	La Valletta	18 Years, 229 Days
	MEYER, Maximilian "Max"	1995.09.18	Oberhausen	2014.05.13	Poland	Hamburg	18 Years, 237 Days
	DRAXLER, Julian	1993.09.20	Gladbeck	2012.05.26	Switzerland	Basel	18 Years, 249 Days
	DUTTON, Edwin	1890.04.08	Mittelwalde/Międzylesie (POL)	1909.04.04	Hungary	Budapest	18 Years, 361 Days
	SCHNELLINGER, Karl-Heinz	1939.03.31	Düren	1958.04.02	Czechoslovakia	Praha	19 Years, 2 Days
	PODOLSKI, Lukas	1985.06.04	Gliwice/Gleiwitz (POL)	2004.06.06	Hungary	Kaiserslautern	19 Years, 2 Days
	FIEDERER, Hans	1920.01.21	Fürth	1939.03.26	Italy	Firenze	19 Years, 64 Days
	CONEN, Edmund	1914.11.10	Ürzig	1934.01.14	Hungary	Frankfurt am Main	19 Years, 65 Days
	HALLER, Helmut	1939.07.21	Augsburg	1958.09.24	Denmark	København	19 Years, 65 Days
	FICK, Willi	1891.02.17	Lurup	1910.04.24	Netherlands	Arnhem	19 Years, 66 Days
	JÄGER, Adolf	1889.03.31	Altona/Elbe	1908.06.07	Austria	Wien	19 Years, 68 Days
	STÜRMER, Klaus	1935.08.09	Glinde	1954.10.16	France	Hannover	19 Years, 68 Days
	MARIN, Marko	1989.03.13	Bosanska Gradiška (YUG/BZH)	2008.05.27	Belarus	Kaiserslautern	19 Years, 75 Days
	MATTHÄUS, Lothar	1961.03.21	Erlangen	1980.06.14	Netherlands	Napoli (ITA)	19 Years, 85 Days
	SCHLÖSSER, Karl	1912.01.29	Dresden	1931.04.26	Netherlands	Amsterdam	19 Years, 87 Days
	ARLT, Willi	1919.10.27	Bobersen	1939.01.25	Belgium	Bruxelles	19 Years, 90 Days
	HAVERTZ, Kai	1999.06.11	Aachen	2018.09.09	Peru	Sinsheim	19 Years, 90 Days