The German women's national teamt occurs at Deutschland Cup (November 5-9, 2025) in Landshut with 23 players. Women's national coach Jeff MacLeod announced the squad in today's live broadcast of the PENNY DEL game between ERC Ingolstadt and the Adler Mannheim known on MagentaSport.

The DEB-Selection is led by a proven core around captain Daria Gleissner. Seventeen of the 23 nominated players were in the squad for this year's World Championship in the Czech Republic, with debutants Aileena Dopheide and Mathilda Heine making their first senior international appearances. Several of the national team players currently playing at the US college level (Nina Christof, Lilli and Luisa Welcke) are also missing. Katarina Jobst-Smith and Jule Schiefer are also missing due to injury.

DEB-Women go into the Deutschland Cup

The women's team will travel to Landshut on Monday, November 3, 2025, to prepare for the upcoming tournament. In the third joint tournament of women and men at the Deutschland Cup goes the DEB-Selection of Jeff MacLeod as defending champion The tournament starts for the women on Wednesday, November 5 (19:30 p.m.), in the VR-Bank Landshut Arena with the international match against France. DEBThe selection will then play against Slovakia (Friday, November 7th at 19:00) and Hungary (Saturday, November 8th at 14:45).

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Women's national coach Jeff MacLeod: “We are looking forward to the Fans and the atmosphere in Landshut, the DEB offers us a great stage, which we greatly appreciate. Deutschland Cup is an important event to prepare us for the Olympics. Therefore, the great attention and hype surrounding the tournament are a good stress test for us, as we prepare for the challenge in February. Some of our core players will not be available, partly due to injury. We hope that these important players will be fit again in time for the upcoming challenges. This, in turn, gives some players the chance to show themselves on the international stage and integrate into the team structures, so that they can also recommend themselves for the Olympics. We want to Deutschland Cup continue to work on our winning mentality and consistently continue the positive path of our past performances.

Christian Künast, Sports Director of the DEB: "First of all, we are delighted to be back on stage with our two senior national teams in Landshut. Because of the new scheduling of the Women's World Cup in November 2026, the upcoming Deutschland Cup as a men's tournament only, while the women are already preparing for the World Cup. Over the past two years, the joint appearance of our two teams has had a tremendous impact and many positive effects, which will be even more pronounced this time, as we will be competing together at the Olympic Games next February."

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