"Our security plan worked impressively," German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters on Tuesday, adding that he had received high praise from the foreign police forces that lent a hand during the tournament.

More than 300 police officers from 30 countries served on German soil during the month-long World Cup that ended Sunday with the victory of Italy over France.

Some 7,200 crimes were registered -- mainly scuffles, public disturbances and theft -- while 862 people were injured, 200 of them police officers.

Some 250,000 police were mobilized across the country. The head of the German conference of state interior ministers, Guenther Beckstein, described their style as "pleasant, relaxed and communicative" which helped defuse tension.

About 370 people were kept from entering Germany at the borders of the some 436,000 people who were checked, most of them because of suspected links to the hooligan scene, Schaeuble said.

The head of the police hooligan unit, Michael Endler, said separately that 9,000 people were arrested or taken into preventive custody during the tournament. Eighty percent of those arrested were German with the second largest group probably the English, he said.