VfB Stuttgart

VfB Stuttgart
Full name Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 E.V.
Nickname(s) Die Roten (The Reds)
Die Schwaben (The Swabians)
Founded 9 September 1893
Ground Mercedes-Benz Arena
Capacity 60,441
President Bernd Wahler
board representative
for sport		 Robin Dutt
Coach Huub Stevens
League Bundesliga
2013–14 15th
Website Club home page

Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 E. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (German pronunciation: [faʊ̯ ʔɛf beː ˈʃtʊtɡaʁt]), is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its football team which is part of Germany's first division Bundesliga, missing only two seasons of play since the top tier of the German football league system was established in 1963. VfB Stuttgart has won the national championship five times, most recently in 2006–07, the DFB-Pokal three times and also UEFA Intertoto Cup three times (record).

The football team plays its home games at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, in the Neckarpark which is located near the Cannstatter Wasen where the city's Oktoberfest celebration takes place. Second team side VfB Stuttgart II currently plays in the 3. Liga, which is the highest division allowed for a reserve team. The club's junior teams have won the national U19 championships a record 10 times and the Under 17 Fußball-Bundesliga 6 times.

A membership-based club with 45,636 members (as of September 2011), VfB is the largest sports club in Baden-Württemberg and the fifth largest in Germany. It has departments for fistball, hockey, track and field, table-tennis and football referees, all of which compete only at the amateur level. The club also maintains a social department, the VfB-Garde.

History

Foundation to WWII

Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart was formed through 2 April 1912 merger of predecessor sides Stuttgarter FV and Kronen-Club Cannstatt following a meeting in the Concordia hotel in Cannstatt. Each of these clubs was made up of school pupils with middle class roots[1] who learned new sports such as rugby union and football from English expatriates such as William Cail who introduced rugby in 1865.[2]

FV Stuttgart

Historical logos of predecessor sides Stuttgarter FV 93 and Kronen-Club Cannstatt.

Stuttgarter Fußballverein was founded at the Zum Becher hotel in Stuttgart on 9 September 1893.[3] FV were initially a rugby club, playing games at Stöckach-Eisbahn before moving to Cannstatter Wasen in 1894. The rugby club established a football section in 1908. The team drew players primarily from local schools, under the direction of teacher Carl Kaufmann, and quickly achieved its first success; in 1909 they were runners-up to FSV 1897 Hannover in the national rugby final, losing 6–3.[4] Rugby was soon replaced by football within the club, as spectators found the game too complicated to follow.

In 1909, FV joined the Süddeutschen Fußballverband (South German Football Association),[5] playing in the second tier B-Klasse. In their second season FV won a district final against future merger partner Kronen-Klub Cannstatt before being defeated by FV Zuffenhausen in the county championship that would have seen the side promoted. They eventually advanced to the senior Südkreis-Liga in 1912.

Kronen-Klub Cannstatt

Cannstatter Fußballklub was formed as a rugby club in 1890 and also quickly established a football team. This club was dissolved after just a few years of play and the former membership re-organized themselves as FC Krone Cannstatt in 1897 to compete as a football-only side.[6] The new team joined the Süddeutschen Fußballverband (SFV) as a second division club and won promotion in 1904. Krone possessed their own ground, which still exists today as the home of TSV Münster.

Following the 1912 merger of these two clubs, the combined side played at first in the Kreisliga Württemberg and then in the Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden, earning a number of top three finishes and claiming a title there in 1927. The club also made several appearances in the final rounds of the SFV in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

1930s and 1940s

In 1933, the VfB moved to Neckar Stadium, site of its current ground. German football was re-organized that same year under the Third Reich into sixteen top-flight divisions called Gauligen. Stuttgart played in the Gauliga Württemberg and enjoyed considerable success there, winning division titles in 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940, and 1943 before the Gauliga system collapsed part way through the 1944–45 season due to World War II. The club had an intense rivalry with Stuttgarter Kickers throughout this period.

VfB's Gauliga titles earned the team entry to the national playoff rounds, with their best result coming in 1935 when they advanced to the final where they lost 4–6 to defending champions Schalke 04, the dominant side of the era. After a third-place result at the national level in 1937, Stuttgart was not able to advance out of the preliminary rounds in subsequent appearances.

Successes through the 1950s

club logo from 1949 to 1994 and new logo with start of season 2014–15
club logo from season 1994-95 until season 2013-14

After the war, VfB continued to play first division football in the Oberliga Süd, capturing titles in 1946, 1952, and 1954. They made regular appearances in the German championship rounds, emerging as national champions in 1950 and 1952, finishing as runner-up in 1953, and winning two German Cups in 1954 and 1958. The team which won four titles in eight years was led by Robert Schlienz who had lost his left arm in a car crash. Despite these successes, no player from the Stuttgart roster had a place on the team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup.

Original Bundesligist

Due to disappointing results in international competition including the 1958 and 1962 FIFA World Cup, and in response to the growth of professionalism in the sport, the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund or DFB) replaced the regional top flight competitions with a single nationwide professional league in 1963. Stuttgart's consistently good play through the 1950s earned them a place among the sixteen clubs that would make up the original Bundesliga. As an amateur organisation, and due to proverbial Swabian austerity, the club hesitated to spend money, and some players continued to work in an everyday job. Throughout the balance of the decade and until the mid-1970s the club would generally earn mid-table results. One of the few stars of the time was Gilbert Gress from Strasbourg.

In 1973, the team qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first time and advanced to the semi-finals of the 1974 tournament where they were eliminated by eventual winners Feyenoord (1–2, 2–2).

1975–2000 era of president MV

VfB Stuttgart was in crisis in the mid-1970s, having missed new trends like sponsorship. Attempts to catch up with new levels of professionalism by spending money failed. Towards the end of the 1974–75 season, with the team in imminent danger of being relegated to Second Bundesliga, local politician Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder was elected as new president. Yet, a tie in the final game meant that VfB would be ranked 16th and lose its Bundesliga status. The first season in second league, considered the worst in its history, ended with VfB being ranked 11th, having even lost a home game against local rival SSV Reutlingen in front of only 1200 spectators.

With new coach Jürgen Sundermann and new talents like Karlheinz Förster and Hansi Müller, the team around Ottmar Hitzfeld scored hundred goals in 1976–77 and thus returned to top flight play after just two seasons.

The young team was popular for offensive and high-scoring play, but suffered from lack of experience. At the end of 1977–78, the VfB was ranked fourth, but the average attendance of over 53,000 set the league record until the 1990s. They made another UEFA Cup semi-final appearance in 1980 and delivered a number of top four finishes on their way to their first Bundesliga title – the club's third national title – in 1984, now under coach Helmut Benthaus.

In 1986, VfB lost the German Cup final 2–5 to Bayern Munich. In the 1989 UEFA Cup Final, with Jürgen Klinsmann in their ranks, they lost out to Napoli (1–2, 3–3) where Diego Maradona was playing at the time.

In 1991–92, Stuttgart clinched its fourth title, in one of the closest races in Bundesliga history, finishing ahead of Borussia Dortmund on goal difference. Internationally, they had been eliminated from UEFA Cup play that season (1991–92) after losing their second round match to Spanish side Osasuna (2–3). As national champions, the club qualified to play in the UEFA Champions League in 1992–93, but was eliminated in the first round by Leeds United after a tie-breaking third match in Barcelona which was required due to coach Christoph Daum having substituted a fourth non-German player in game two.

VfB did not qualify for any European competition again until 1997, by way of their third German Cup win, with coach Joachim Löw. They enjoyed a measure of success on their return, advancing to the 1998 European Cup Winners' Cup final in Stockholm, where they lost to Chelsea in what was the penultimate year of the competition. Only one player of the magic triangle, captain Krassimir Balakov, remained after Giovane Élber and Fredi Bobic left. Löw's contract was not renewed, he was replaced by Winfried Schäfer who in turn was sacked after one season.

However, Stuttgart's performance fell off after this as the club earned just mid-table results over the next two seasons despite spending money on the transfer market and for veterans like Balakov.

2000–2007: The post-MV-era return to success

Due to high debts and the lack of results, Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder finally resigned from VfB in 2000 to take over offices at German Football Association, UEFA, and FIFA. New President Manfred Haas had to renegotiate expensive contracts with players that seldom appeared on the field anyway. As in 1976, when MV had taken over, the team had to be rebuilt by relying on talents from the youth teams. The VfB has Germany's most successful program in the German youth Championship.

Coach Ralf Rangnick had started a restructuring of the team that won the UI Cup, but the resulting extra strain of the UEFA cup participation ended in barely escaping from relegation in 2001 by clinching 15th spot. Rangnick was replaced by Felix Magath.

With players like Andreas Hinkel, Kevin Kurányi, Timo Hildebrand or Alexander Hleb earning themselves the nickname the young and wild, the club soon re-bounded and finished as Bundesliga runners-up in the 2002–03 season. In July 2003 Erwin Staudt became the new president of the club.

Champions League 2003–04

VfB qualified for their second Champions League appearance and, beating Manchester United and Rangers once and Panathinaikos twice, they advanced out of group play to the first knock out round where they were eliminated by their old nemesis Chelsea (0–1 and 0–0) (see also 2003–04 UEFA Champions League).

Stuttgart continued to play as one of the top teams in the country, earning fourth and fifth place Bundesliga finishes, and again taking part in the UEFA Cup, but without great success. In addition, coach Magath and several players left for another clubs: Kevin Kurányi for Schalke 04, Philipp Lahm for Bayern Munich, and Alexander Hleb for Arsenal.

Halfway through the disappointing 2005–06 season, Giovanni Trapattoni was sacked and replaced by Armin Veh. The new coach was designated as a stop-gap due to having resigned from Hansa Rostock in 2003 to focus on his family and having no football job since 2004 except coaching his home team Augsburg for a season. Supported by new manager Horst Heldt, Veh could establish himself and his concept of focusing on promising inexpensive players rather than established stars. Team captain Zvonimir Soldo retired, and other veterans left the team that slipped to ninth place and did not qualify for European competition for the first time in four years.

Bundesliga champions 2006–07

Stuttgart won the Bundesliga in 2007

Despite early-season losses and ensuing criticism in 2006–07, including a 3–0 loss at home to 1. FC Nuremberg, Veh managed to turn the collection of new players like Mexicans Pável Pardo, and Ricardo Osorio, and Brazilian Antônio da Silva and fresh local talents, including Mario Gómez, Serdar Tasci, and Sami Khedira into a strong contender that led the league on 12 November 2006 for the first time in two years. Stuttgart established themselves among the top five and delivered a strong challenge for the Bundesliga title by winning their final eight games. In the penultimate week on 12 May 2007, Stuttgart beat Bochum 3–2 away from home, took the Bundesliga lead from Schalke 04, and secured a spot in the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League. After trailing 0–1 in the final match of the season against Energie Cottbus, Stuttgart came back to win 2–1 and claim their first Bundesliga title in 15 years. The victory celebrations in Stuttgart (250,000 people) even topped those of Germany's third place win over Portugal in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

In addition, VfB had their first ever chance to win the double as they also reached the final of the German Cup for the first time since their victory there ten years former. Their opponents in the cup final in Berlin were Nuremberg, a team that had beaten them twice by 3 goals in regular season, 3–0 and 4–1, but last had won the cup in 1962. With the game level at 1–1 in the first half, Stuttgart's scorer Cacau was sent off. Nuremberg gained a 2–1 lead early in the second half, but the ten men of VfB managed to fight back and equalize. In the second half of extra time, with both teams suffering from exhaustion and the humid conditions, Nuremberg scored the winning goal.

2007 to present: roller coaster rides

Champions League 2007–08

The 2007–08 UEFA Champions League draw on 30 August 2007 paired the German champions with Spanish giants Barcelona, French champions Lyon and Scottish Old Firm side Rangers. Like in the 2003–04 Champions League season, Stuttgart's 2007–08 European campaign started with a match at Glasgow's Ibrox Park against Rangers. It ended in a 2–1 defeat. The second match at home against Barcelona was lost, too, 0–2, as well as the third match, against Lyon at home, with the visitors coming out 2–0 winners from two second half strikes. Five defeats and just one win (over Rangers) meant the early exit on the European stage. In the league, they managed to finish in sixth place after a poor start. New German national team star Mario Gómez scored 19 goals.

Subsequently, UEFA Cup qualification was ensured in the summer by succeeding in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008.

Post-championship seasons 2008–12

Stuttgart against Borussia Dortmund in 2011.

The 2008–09 season, like the one before it, came off to a bad start. After matchday 14 in November, VfB was only 11th in the table. As a result, Armin Veh was sacked and replaced by Markus Babbel. After exiting the German FA Cup after a thrashing 1–5 defeat to Bayern Munich in January, things improved considerably and the team ended up third, with second place just being missed after a loss to Bayern on the last matchday. That meant the chance of making the Champions League again.

Internationally, VfB mastered the group stages of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, but lost to Cup defenders Zenit Saint Petersburg in the round of the last 32 in February.

Stuttgart went into the 2009–10 season with Mario Gómez leaving for Bayern Munich, just as Pavel Pogrebnyak arrived from Zenit Saint Petersburg and Alexander Hleb returning on loan from Barcelona.

On the European level, Stuttgart started the season with a huge success by qualifying for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League 2009-10. Stuttgart entered that competition for the third time in six years (after 2003 and 2007) by defeating Romanian side FC Timisoara in the Champions League qualification "play-off round" on 18 and 26 August 2009. VfB were drawn into Group G against Spanish side Sevilla, Scottish champions Rangers, against whom they had also been drawn against in their previous two Champions League Group Stage appearances, and Romanian champions Unirea Urziceni. With two wins (one each against Rangers and Unirea), three draws (one each against all opponents) and a loss (to Sevilla) they managed second spot in the group, thus qualifying for the round of the last 16, where they had to face title holders Barcelona in late winter. After a superb home game against Barça which Stuttgart, however, did not manage to win (1–1), they were eliminated in a 4–0 rout at the Camp Nou.

In the 2009–10 German Cup, they didn't proceed further than the last 16 either, losing to second-tier side Greuther Fürth. That defeat came in the course of a disappointing first half of the 2009–10 Bundesliga season. As a consequence of slipping to 16th spot in December, young coach Markus Babbel was fired after matchday 15 and replaced by the more experienced Swiss Christian Gross. Under his tenure, VfB improved their situation domestically as well as internationally before the winter break. During that break, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Jan Šimák, and Ludovic Magnin left the club; Cristian Molinaro was loaned out from Juventus. In the later half of the season, the team — as in the 2008–09 season — had a fantastic, almost unbroken, winning streak. As the best team of that second (return) round of the Bundesliga, the Swabians under Christian Gross climbed into the upper half of the table and, after a sensational rally, eventually managed to qualify for European football next season through the UEFA Europa League.

The 2010–11 season was a mediocre one: After again spending the first half of the season almost always in the relegation zone (17th and 18th spot), with Christian Gross being fired and interim coach Jens Keller taking over for the rest of the first leg, Bruno Labbadia was hired as new coach in January and managed to save VfB from relegation. Eventually, the team finished 12th after a decent second-half performance. In July 2011 Erwin Staudt did not participate again in the election of the president and Gerd E. Mäuser was elected as president.

The following 2011–12 season in the new year managed to constantly climb up the table; this was especially thanks to a long unbeaten streak in the Spring. Subsequently, VfB qualified for the 2012-13 UEFA Europa League. Especially important during the season were offensive midfielder Martin Harnik, who scored 17 goals, as well as winger Gotoku Sakai and forward Vedad Ibišević, who both came to Stuttgart in January 2012.

With effect from 3 June 2013 Gerd E. Mäuser announced his resignation as president of VfB Stuttgart.[7] On 2 July 2013 the supervisory board of the club named Bernd Wahler as the candidate for the presidential elections.[8] On 22 July 2013 Wahler was elected by 97,4% of the votes cast.[9]

Stadium

The Mercedes-Benz Arena

The home ground of VfB Stuttgart is the Mercedes-Benz Arena which was originally built in 1933. It lies close to the River Neckar on Bad Cannstatt's Mercedes-Straße near the new Mercedes-Benz Museum and Mercedes-Benz factory. After being renovated several times, the stadium can hold a maximum capacity of 55,896 spectators (50,000 for international matches). As for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion was one of the venues for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, hosting five preliminary round matches, a First Knockout Round match (England vs. Ecuador) and the third place play-off (Germany vs. Portugal). Since the 2008–09 season, the stadium was named the Mercedes-Benz-Arena, starting with a pre-season friendly against Arsenal on 30 July 2008.[10] The stadium recently went through extensive restructuring and rebuilding as it was being converted into a pure football arena. In 2011, the capacity was increased to 60,441.

Rivalries, friendships and cooperations

The longest rivalry of VfB is the city rivalry with Stuttgarter Kickers (Die Roten/Reds against Die Blauen/Blues). However, the respective first teams of the two clubs haven't played each other since Kickers were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga in 1992. Thus, this derby has increasingly been overtaken in importance by the Baden-Württemberg-Derby between VfB and Karlsruher SC, KSC, for short. In this derby, old Badenian-Württembergian animosities are played out. The rivalry with Bavarian side Bayern Munich (Süd-/South Derby) is mainly one-sided, as VfB fans are angry at Bayern for buying some of Stuttgart's best players and coaches in recent years, such as Giovane Élber, Felix Magath and Mario Gómez.

Regional friendships exist between VfB and the South Württemberg side SSV Reutlingen 05 (little brother of VfB) as well as with North Württembergers SpVgg Ludwigsburg. On a national level, supporters groups of VfB used to be closely connected with those of Energie Cottbus, 1. FC Saarbrucken, Bayer Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt. All of these supporter group friendships have been discontinued by today or are only maintained by few supporter groups. Current ultras friendships are with the ultras of SSV Reutlingen 05 and Cesena.

In 2005, a cooperation treaty between VfB and Swiss Super League side St. Gallen was signed, especially with regard to the youth sectors of both clubs.

Honours

National

Regional

International

Youth

European competition

Scores and results list Stuttgart's goal tally first.

Club management

Players

Current squad

As of 30 January 2015[11][12]

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

No. Position Player
1 Germany GK Sven Ulreich
17 Germany GK Odisseas Vlachodimos
22 Germany GK Thorsten Kirschbaum
2 Japan DF Gōtoku Sakai
3 Germany DF Daniel Schwaab
5 Tunisia DF Karim Haggui
6 Germany DF Georg Niedermeier
16 Austria DF Florian Klein
24 Germany DF Antonio Rüdiger
27 Germany DF Tim Leibold
32 Germany DF Timo Baumgartl
34 Germany DF Konstantin Rausch
8 Germany MF Moritz Leitner (on loan from Borussia Dortmund)
10 Germany MF Daniel Didavi
11 Ecuador MF Carlos Gruezo
No. Position Player
13 Spain MF Oriol Romeu (on loan from Chelsea)
20 Germany MF Christian Gentner (captain)
21 Czech Republic MF Adam Hloušek
23 Turkey MF Sercan Sararer
26 Ivory Coast MF Serey Die
39 Germany MF Robin Yalçın
42 United States MF Jerome Kiesewetter
44 Romania MF Alexandru Maxim
7 Austria FW Martin Harnik
9 Bosnia and Herzegovina FW Vedad Ibišević
18 Serbia FW Filip Kostić
19 Germany FW Timo Werner
25 Norway FW Mohammed Abdellaoue
33 Germany FW Daniel Ginczek

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player
Saint Lucia FW Caniggia Elva (at RC Strasbourg until June 2015)
New Zealand MF Marco Rojas (at FC Thun until June 2015)
Austria MF Kevin Stöger (at 1. FC Kaiserslautern until June 2015)
Serbia GK Rastko Šuljagić (at Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk until June 2015)

List

Coaches

Manager Huub Stevens

Current coaching staff

Netherlands Huub Stevens Head coach
Netherlands Adrie Koster Assistant coach
Germany Armin Reutershahn Assistant coach
Germany Andreas Menger Goalkeeping coach
Netherlands Chima Onyeike Fitness coach
Greece Christos Papadopoulos Fitness coach

Coaches since 1920

Managers of the club since 1920:[13]

Name Period Honors
Germany Grünwald 1920
England Edward Hanney (1889–1964) July 1, 1924–Jan 27 Württemberg/Baden champions 1927
Hungary Lajos Kovács (b. 1894) Sept 1927–Dec 31, 1929 Württemberg champions 1929/30
Germany Emil Friz (1904–1966) Jan 1, 1930–June 15, 1930
Germany Karl Preuß June 15, 1930–33
Germany Willi Rutz (1907–1993) July 1933–34
Germany Emil Gröner (b. 1892) 1934–35
Germany Fritz Teufel (b. 1910) 1935–June 30, 1936 German championship runners-up 1935,
Gauliga Württemberg champions 1935
Germany Leonhard "Lony" Seiderer (1895–1940) July 1, 1936–June 30, 1939 Gauliga Württemberg champions 1937, 1938
Germany Karl Becker (1902–1942) March 1939–April 39
Germany Josef Pöttinger (1903–1970) May 1, 1939–Oct 39
Germany Fritz Teufel July 1, 1945–June 30, 1947 Oberliga Süd champions 1946
Germany Georg Wurzer (1907–1982) July 1, 1947–April 30, 1960 German champions 1950, 1952, Runners-up 1953,
Oberliga Süd champions 1952, 1954, German Cup 1954, 1958
Germany Kurt Baluses (1914–1972) May 1, 1960–Feb 24, 1965
Germany Franz Seybold (1912–1978) Feb 25, 1965–March 7, 1965
Germany Rudi Gutendorf (b. 1926) March 8, 1965–Dec 6, 1966
Germany Albert Sing (1917–2008) Dec 7, 1966–June 30, 1967
Germany Gunther Baumann (1921–1998) July 1, 1967–June 30, 1969
Germany Franz Seybold July 1, 1969–June 30, 1970
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Branko Zebec (1929–1988) July 1, 1970–April 18, 1972
Germany Karl Bögelein (b. 1927) April 19, 1972–June 30, 1972
Germany Hermann Eppenhoff (1919–1992) July 1, 1972–Dec 1, 1974
Germany Fritz Millinger Dec 2, 1974–Dec 13, 1974
Germany Albert Sing (1917–2008) Dec 14, 1974–June 30, 1975
Hungary István Sztani (b. 1937) July 1, 1975–March 31, 1976
Germany Karl Bögelein (b. 1927) April 1, 1976–June 30, 1976
Germany Jürgen Sundermann (b. 1940) July 1, 1976–June 30, 1979 Bundesliga runners-up 1979
Germany Lothar Buchmann (b. 1936) July 1, 1979–June 30, 1980
Germany Jürgen Sundermann (b. 1940) July 1, 1980–June 30, 1982
Germany Helmut Benthaus (b. 1935) July 1, 1982–June 30, 1985 German champions 1984
Croatia Otto Barić (b. 1932) July 1, 1985–March 4, 1986
Germany Willi Entenmann (1943–2012) March 5, 1986–June 30, 1986 German Cup runners-up 1986
Germany Egon Coordes (b. 1944) July 1, 1986–June 30, 1987
Netherlands Arie Haan (b. 1948) July 1, 1987–March 26, 1990 UEFA Cup runners-up 1989
Germany Willi Entenmann (1943–2012) March 27, 1990–Nov 19, 1990
Germany Christoph Daum (b. 1953) Nov 20, 1990–Dec 10, 1993 German champions 1992
Germany Jürgen Röber (b. 1953) Dec 15, 1993–April 25, 1995
Germany Jürgen Sundermann (b. 1940) April 26, 1995–June 30, 1995
Austria Rolf Fringer (b. 1957) July 1, 1995–Aug 13, 1996
Germany Joachim Löw (b. 1960) Aug 14, 1996–June 30, 1998 German Cup 1997, Cup Winners' Cup runners up 1998
Germany Winfried Schäfer (b. 1950) July 1, 1998–Dec 4, 1998
Germany Wolfgang Rolff (b. 1959) Dec 5, 1998–Dec 31, 1998
Germany Rainer Adrion (b. 1953) Jan 1, 1999–May 2, 1999
Germany Ralf Rangnick (b. 1958) May 3, 1999–Feb 23, 2001
Germany Felix Magath (b. 1953) Feb 24, 2001–June 30, 2004 Bundesliga runners-up 2003
Germany Matthias Sammer (b. 1967) July 1, 2004–June 3, 2005
Italy Giovanni Trapattoni (b. 1939) June 17, 2005–Feb 9, 2006
Germany Armin Veh (b. 1961) Feb 10, 2006–Nov 23, 2008 German champions 2007, German Cup runners-up 2007
Germany Markus Babbel (b. 1972) Nov 23, 2008–Dec 6, 2009
Switzerland Christian Gross (b. 1954) Dec 6, 2009–Oct 13, 2010
Germany Jens Keller (b. 1970) Oct 13, 2010–Dec 12, 2010
Germany Bruno Labbadia (b. 1966) Dec 12, 2010–Aug 26, 2013
Germany Thomas Schneider (b. 1972) Aug 26, 2013–March 9, 2014
Netherlands Huub Stevens (b. 1953) March 10, 2014–June 30, 2014
Germany Armin Veh (b. 1961) July 1, 2014–Nov 23, 2014
Netherlands Huub Stevens (b. 1953) Nov 25, 2014–

Bundesliga positions

The season-by-season performance of the club since 1963:[14][15]

  • 1963–64 – 5th place
  • 1964–65 – 12th place
  • 1965–66 – 11th place
  • 1966–67 – 12th place
  • 1967–68 – 8th place
  • 1968–69 – 5th place
  • 1969–70 – 7th place
  • 1970–71 – 12th place
  • 1971–72 – 8th place
  • 1972–73 – 6th place
  • 1973–74 – 9th place
  • 1974–75 – 16th place (relegated to the 2. Bundesliga)
  • 1975–76 – 2. Bundesliga, 11th place
  • 1976–77 – 2. Bundesliga, 1st place (promoted to the 1. Bundesliga)
  • 1977–78 – 4th place
  • 1978–79 – 2nd place
  • 1979–80 – 3rd place
  • 1980–81 – 3rd place
  • 1981–82 – 9th place
  • 1982–83 – 3rd place
  • 1983–84 – 1st (German champions)
  • 1984–85 – 10th place
  • 1985–86 – 5th place
  • 1986–87 – 12th place
  • 1987–88 – 4th place
  • 1988–89 – 5th place
  • 1989–90 – 6th place
  • 1990–91 – 6th place
  • 1991–92 – 1st (German champions)
  • 1992–93 – 7th place
  • 1993–94 – 7th place
  • 1994–95 – 12th place
  • 1995–96 – 10th place
  • 1996–97 – 4th place
  • 1997–98 – 4th place
  • 1998–99 – 11th place
  • 1999–00 – 8th place
  • 2000–01 – 15th place
  • 2001–02 – 8th place
  • 2002–03 – 2nd place
  • 2003–04 – 4th place
  • 2004–05 – 5th place
  • 2005–06 – 9th place
  • 2006–07 – 1st (German champions)
  • 2007–08 – 6th place
  • 2008–09 – 3rd place
  • 2009–10 – 6th place
  • 2010–11 – 12th place
  • 2011–12 – 6th place
  • 2012–13 – 12th place
  • 2013–14 – 15th place

References

  1. ↑ Hardy Grüne: Mit dem Ring auf der Brust Vorwort S. 7
  2. ↑ Heineken, Philipp (1930). Erinnerungen an den Cannstatter Fussball-Club [Memories of the Cannstatter Fussball-Club] (in German). Heidelberg: Verlag Hermann Meister. p. 10.
  3. ↑ Chronik 19
  4. ↑ Chronik 19
  5. ↑ Chronik 19
  6. ↑ "Vereinschronik Kronen-Club 1897".
  7. ↑ "Management changes". VfB Stuttgart. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Board name presidential candidate". VfB Stuttgart. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  9. ↑ "Bernd Wahler is VfB President". VfB Stuttgart. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
  10. ↑ Arsenal: Friendly against VfB Stuttgart announced
  11. ↑ "VfB Stuttgart 1893 e.V. - Team 2014/2015" (in German). VfB Stuttgart. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  12. ↑ VfB Stuttgart squad bundesliga.de, accessed: 11 May 2014
  13. ↑ VfB Stuttgart .:. Trainer von A-Z (German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 18 September 2011
  14. ↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
  15. ↑ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

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