U20 Elite League Preview: Poland vs. Germany
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Hannes Wolf's Germany U20 side will continue their U20 Elite League campaign with an away game against Poland on Friday. The two sides met earlier this year as Paderborn's Ruben Müller scored the only goal of the game in the 90th minute.
Germany started this season's friendly tournament with wins over France and Italy before losing 2-1 to ten-man England in La Nucia, Spain. They will also play their last two games of 2026 away from home as the match in Bialystok will follow a trip to Czechia.
Poland started the annual competition with wins over holders Portugal and Czechia as they will now hope to record their first win over Germany since 2019 at this level.
Wolf nominated six new players in his 22-man squad, including FC Bayern's highly-rated attacker Tim Bender, Juventus loanee Adin Licina and Bochum's 18-year-old key midfielder Tom Meyer.
Germany U20 Full Squad List
Goalkeepers: Florian Hellstern (SpVgg Greuther Fürth), Lio Mark Rothenhagen (Holstein Kiel) and Timo Schlieck (SC Verl)
Farid Alfa-Ruprecht (Hertha BSC), Tim Binder (FC Bayern Munich), Taylan Bulut (Besiktas Istanbul), Eric Emanuel da Silva Moreira (Excelsior Rotterdam ), Luis Engelns (TSG Hoffenheim), Paul Erevbenagie and Mick Schmetgens (Werder Bremen), Luca Erlein (Energie Cottbus), Almugera Kabar (NEC Nijmegen), Adin Licina (Cremonese), Tom Meyer (VfL Bochum), Friedrich Müller (Dynamo Dresden), David Odogu (FC Toulouse), Lukas Reich (Greuther Fürth), Otto Stange (Hamburger SV), Niklas Swider (Viktoria Köln), Kjell-Arik Wätjen (FC Midtjylland), Deniz Zeitler (SC Paderborn) and Danyal Zor (Karlsruher SC)
