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Germany
Nickname	Wolfpack
Union	Deutscher Rugby-Verband
Head coach	Pablo Feijoo
Captain	Carlos Soteras Merz
First colours	Second colours
Rugby World Cup Sevens
Appearances	1 (First in 2022)
Best result	18th in 2022

The German national rugby sevens team competes in the top-level European sevens competition, the Sevens Grand Prix Series. In 2012, Germany finished eleventh out of twelve teams and avoided relegation. The team also unsuccessfully took part in the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying tournament in Moscow in July 2012.

In 2015 Germany qualified to the Final 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament, where they failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Germany won the 2019 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series, an equivalent to European Championships in other team sports.

History

The team has taken part in the Hong Kong Sevens tournament in the past, its greatest success being a win in the Bowl final in 1990, beating Thailand 28–12.^[2] In the 1990s, the team, captained by Rainer Kumm, took part in a number of international tournaments including the Punta del Este Sevens in 1997, where they lost to Argentina in the Plate final and the Paris Sevens in 1996, 1997 (when they defeated Romania in the Bowl final) and 1998 (Bowl finalists, losing to Japan in the final).

Kumm retired in 2000 to take up coaching and was replaced as captain by Mark Schulze, who led the team to the 2000 Sri Lanka Sevens, where they reached the cup semi-final, having won their pool and defeated Hong Kong in the quarter-final.

In 2000 the German Rugby Federation celebrated its centenary. Centenary celebrations included the hosting in 2000 the European leg of qualifying for the 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Heidelberg, followed by a Centenary banquet in the Heidelberg Castle. In the tournament the German team thrashed Switzerland and Yugoslavia and lost 12–35 to Ireland, who had Gordon D'Arcy in their line-up.

In 2005 Germany hosted the 2005 World Games where Germany participated in the rugby sevens tournament. After losing all three games on the first day of the tournament, Germany went on to the Bowl semi-finals where they lost 35–12 against France and 31–17 against Japan in the seventh-place final.

After years of playing in the lower ranks of the Sevens Grand Prix, Germany started a continuous rise which ultimately led to a second place in the 2018 Sevens Grand Prix behind Ireland and to winning the 2019 Sevens Grand Prix ahead of France. Since 2016 they participated four times in the Hong Kong Sevens Qualifier where they reached the finals twice.

Germany qualified for the 2024 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series.^[3] In round one of the series they went undefeated in their pool, even beating eventual winners, Kenya.^[4] However, losses to Chile in the semi-final, and to Uruguay in the bronze final saw them finish in fourth place.^[4] They finished fourth in the overall series and qualified for the SVNS promotion and relegation play-off competition at the 2024 Spain Sevens.^[5]^[6]

Tournament history

World Cup Sevens record

Rugby World Cup Sevens Record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
1993	Did not qualify
1997
2001
2005
2009
2013
2018
2022	Bowl Final	18th	4	2	2	0
Total	0 Titles	1/8	4	2	2	0

Summer Olympics record

Olympic Games
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2016	Did not qualify
2020	Did not qualify
Total	0 Titles	0/0	0	0	0	0

World Rugby Sevens Series

World Series Record
Season	Position
1999–00	22nd
2003–04	15th
2008–09	17th
2016–17	Did Not Qualify
2017–18
2018–19
2019–20
2021	7th
2021-22	18th
2022-23	20th
Total	0 Titles

World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series

Sevens Challenger Series
Year	Position
2020	3rd
2021	Not held
2022	4th
2023	3rd
2024	4th

World Games

World Games
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2001 Akita	Did not qualify
2005 Duisburg	7th Place Finalist	8th	5	0	5	0
2009 Kaohsiung	Did not qualify
2013 Cali	Did not qualify

Rugby Europe Sevens

Rugby Europe Sevens
Year	Round	Position
2002	Third Place	3rd
2003	Fourth Place	4th
2004	Fifteenth Place	15th
2005	Sixth Place	6th
2006	Not played
2007	Ninth Place	9th
2008	Seventh Place	7th
2009	Ninth Place	9th
2010	Not played
2011	Champions	1st (promoted)
2012	Eleventh Place	11th
2013	Eleventh Place	11th
2014	Tenth Place	10th
2015	Fifth Place	5th
2016	Fourth Place	4th
2017	Fifth Place	5th
2018	Runners-up	2nd
2019	Champions	1st
2021	Runners-up	2nd
2022	Runners-up	2nd
Total	1 Title	17/20

Honours

Rugby Europe Sevens

Winners: 2019
Runner-up: 2018
Third-place: 2002
Fourth-place: 2003, 2016

Current squad

Squad for the 2024 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series in Dubai.^[7]

No.	Players
1	Felix Hufnagel
2	Bastian van der Bosch
3	John Dawe
4	Niklas Koch
5	Maximilian Heid
8	Ben Ellermann
9	Max Roddick
11	Philip Gleitze
12	Tim Lichtenberg
30	Daniel Eneke
71	Chris Umeh
99	Jakob Dipper