Stuttgarter Kickers

Stuttgarter Kickers
Full name Sportverein Stuttgarter Kickers e.V.
Nickname(s) Die Kickers, Die Blauen (The Blues),
Die Blauen-Götter (The Blue-Gods).
Founded 21 September 1899
Ground Gazi-Stadion auf der Waldau
(Capacity: 11,410)
Chairman Edgar Kurz
Manager Dirk Schuster
League Regionalliga Süd (IV)
2010–11 2nd
Home colours
Away colours

Stuttgarter Kickers is a German association football club that plays in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, founded on 21 September 1899 as FC Stuttgarter Cickers. Its members made a deliberate and emphatic choice early on to play football exclusively and to turn their backs on rugby – their chosen sport's close cousin – at a time when both of these new English games were still evolving.

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History

In its early years the club had a decent local squad that played in the Südkreis-Liga, Kreisliga Württemberg and then in the Bezirksliga Württemberg. With the reorganization of German football during the Third Reich in 1933, the team – now known as SV Stuttgarter Kickers – found itself in the Gauliga Württemberg, one of sixteen top tier regional leagues established in the country during that time. It continued to have good results locally, but was unable to impress beyond its own area. In the final year of World War II the Kickers fielded a combined wartime squad with Sportfreunde Stuttgart.

After the war the club resumed play in the Oberliga Süd and performed as a mid-table team early on. By 1950 it had slipped to the lower half of the table with a seemingly solid grip on 14th place, constantly struggling to avoid relegation throughout the decade. Kickers spent the early 60's in tier II football, but after the formation of the Bundesliga, Germany's new professional league, in 1963, the club was moved to the Regionalliga Süd. In 1974 that league went professional and became the 2.Bundesliga. Between 1963 and the late 1980s the team had varying results, but finally stabilized in the upper half of the standings toward the end of that period. It has one losing appearance to its credit in the German Cup in 1987 and in 1988–89 it made it to the Bundesliga for the first time. It ended a run of 28 years as a second division outfit. The team was immediately relegated after a 17th place finish, but continued to deliver some of its best performances. Die Blauen advanced to the semi-finals of the 2000 German Cup and then had a second turn in the Bundesliga in 1991–92, but with the same result as its earlier time up. Over the next decade the club played largely in the second division, before slipping to the Regionalliga Süd (III) in 2001, where they remained until 2008, when a tenth place finish narrowly qualified them for the new 3rd Liga. They finished last (20th) in the 3rd Liga and were relegated to the Regionalliga Süd, where they finished in the Season 2009/10 with a 9th place.

The Stuttgarter Kickers also have handball, athletics, table tennis, cheerleading, and Lacrosse departments. The association is also recognized for its training of football referees and other game officials. They had a hockey department too, which in 1957 got independent under the name of HTC Stuttgarter Kickers.

Reserve team

The Stuttgarter Kickers II, historically also known as Stuttgarter Kickers Amateure, are playing in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg since 2000. Previously, the team fluctuated between the Landesliga and Verbandsliga Württemberg.

Current squad

See also List of Stuttgarter Kickers players

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Daniel Wagner
3 DF Patrick Auracher
4 DF Simon Köpf
6 MF Demis Jung
7 MF Marcel Ivanusa
8 MF Michele Rizzi
9 FW Daniel Reule
10 MF Enzo Marchese
11 FW Marcel Brandstetter
13 MF Oliver Stierle
No. Position Player
15 FW Omar Jatta
17 DF Fabian Gerster
19 DF Alessandro Abruscia
20 MF Ali Pala
21 GK Günay Güvenc
23 FW Dirk Prediger
24 MF Mahir Savranlioglu
25 FW Denis Videc
26 DF Royal-Dominique Fennell
28 DF Andreas Wonschick
99 FW Ilir Bajrami

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Cup

Youth

The club's youth teams have enjoyed quite a bit of success on the national scene.

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[1][2]

Stuttgarter Kickers

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000 2nd Bundesliga II 15th
2000–01 2nd Bundesliga 17th ↓
2001–02 Regionalliga Süd III 12th
2002–03 Regionalliga Süd 15th
2003–04 Regionalliga Süd 9th
2004–05 Regionalliga Süd 9th
2005–06 Regionalliga Süd 8th
2006–07 Regionalliga Süd 4th
2007–08 Regionalliga Süd 10th
2008–09 3rd Liga 20th ↓
2009–10 Regionalliga Süd IV 9th
2010–11 Regionalliga Süd 2nd
2011–12 Regionalliga Süd

Stuttgarter Kickers II

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000 Verbandsliga Württemberg V 2nd ↑
2000–01 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg IV 11th
2001–02 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 8th
2002–03 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 7th
2003–04 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 12th
2004–05 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 10th
2005–06 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 13th
2006–07 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 9th
2007–08 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 15th
2008–09 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg V 7th
2009–10 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 12th
2010–11 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 6th
2011–12 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg

Manager History

The club's managers:[3]

References

  1. ^ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
  2. ^ Fussball.de - Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
  3. ^ Stuttgarter Kickers .:. Trainer von A-Z (German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 17 September 2011

External links
Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (V) 2011–12 clubs
2011–12 clubs
Former clubs