| 1 | Maik Wagefeld | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1981 | — |
| 2 | Hanno Balitsch | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1981 | — |
| 3 | Florian Bruns | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 4 | Michael Mutzel | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 5 | Owen Hargreaves | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | England Canada | Retired | 1981 | — |
| 6 | Ivica Banovic | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Croatia | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 7 | Boris Kolb | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 8 | Orlando Engelaar | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Netherlands Suriname | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 9 | Resit Schuurman | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Netherlands | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 10 | Jens Truckenbrod | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 11 | Christian Poulsen | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Denmark | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 12 | Peer Kluge | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 13 | Junichi Inamoto | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Japan | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 14 | Jurica Vranjes | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Croatia | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 15 | Sven Vandenbroeck | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Belgium | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 16 | Ünal Demirkıran | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany Türkiye | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 17 | Adam Chambers | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | England | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 18 | Carsten Sträßer | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 19 | Sean Davis | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | England | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 20 | Stefan Kühne | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 21 | Marco Engelhardt | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 22 | Marcel Meeuwis | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Netherlands | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 23 | Robert Vujevic | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Croatia | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 24 | Roda Antar | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Lebanon Sierra Leone | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 25 | Jordy Zuidam | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Netherlands | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 26 | Markus Krösche | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 27 | Karim Touzani | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Netherlands Morocco | Retired | 1980 | — |
| 28 | Zlatan Bajramovic | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Bosnia-Herzegovina | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 29 | Fabian Ernst | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Germany | Retired | 1979 | — |
| 30 | Paul Scharner | Midfield - Defensive Midfield | Austria | Retired | 1980 | — |