English team up before Germany came out (7)
I believe the answer is:
emerged
'came out' is the definition.
('emerge' can be a synonym of 'come out')
'english team up before germany' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'team up' becomes 'merge'.
'before' says to put letters next to each other.
'germany' becomes 'd' (vehicle registration code for Deutschland).
'e'+'merge'+'d'='EMERGED'
(Other definitions for emerged that I've seen before include "Came into view or became apparent" , "Transpired" , "Came out, became known" , "Came forth" , "Deem Reg to have come out" .)