A cikin 1955, DFB ta yanke shawarar hana ƙwallon ƙafa na mata a duk kungiyoyinta a Yammacin Jamus. A cikin bayanin ta, DFB ta ambata cewa "wannan wasan motsa jiki na yaƙi baƙon abu ne ga yanayin mata" kuma "jiki da ruhu babu makawa za su sha wahala". Bugu da ƙari, "nuna jiki ya keta ladabi da ladabi". Duk da wannan haramcin, an buga wasanni sama da 150 na ƙasa da ƙasa ba bisa ƙa'ida ba a cikin shekarun 1950 da 1960. A ranar 30 ga Oktoba, 1970, an ɗage haramcin mata a taron shekara-shekara na DFB. Sauran ƙungiyoyin kwallon kafa sun riga sun kafa ƙungiyoyin mata na ƙasa a cikin shekarun 1970, DFB ta daɗe ba ta shiga cikin ƙwallon ƙafa na mata ba. A shekara ta 1981, an gayyaci DFB jami'in Horst R. Bisan Schmidt ya aika da tawagar zuwa gasar kwallon kafa ta mata ta duniya ba bisa ƙa'ida ba. DFB ya karɓi gayyatar kuma "jiki da ruhu ba makawa za su sha wahala".
Hermann Neuberger