Klopp's first task is to assemble a team that blends experience and youth, with a revamped goalkeeping department following Manuel Neuer's second retirement from international football. The 59-year-old has named a 44-player squad, which includes returning veteran Marc-André ter Stegen as his number one goalkeeper. Ter Stegen last played for Germany in their 2025/26 Nations League third-place play-off defeat to France and has been named in the first squad to play in the Netherlands and at home to Greece, alongside Augsburg's Finn Dahmen and Alexander Nübel of Beşiktaş.
Germany will play in the UEFA Nations League Group A2 campaign against the Netherlands, Greece, and Serbia. The team will travel to Amsterdam to open their campaign against the Netherlands on 24 September, before hosting Greece in Augsburg on 27 September and Serbia in Munich on 1 October. The international window concludes with a return fixture against Greece in Thessaloniki on 4 October.