VfB Stuttgart
Five-time German champions from the Neckarpark.
VfB Stuttgart is a sports club from Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, whose football team plays in the Bundesliga. It has won the German championship five times, most recently in 2006-07, the DFB-Pokal four times and a record two Intertoto Cups, and is fourth in the all-time Bundesliga table.
Quick Facts
- Full name
- Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V.
- Short name
- VfB
- Founded
- 9 September 1893
- Stadium
- MHPArena
- Owner
- Mercedes-Benz Group (10.4%)
- Porsche AG (10.4%)
- Jako AG (1.0%)
- Chairman
- Dietmar Allgaier
- Manager
- Sebastian Hoeneß
- League
- Stuttgart
Lore & Background
The team plays at the MHPArena in the Neckarpark. With more than 100,000 members, VfB is the largest sports club in Baden-Wurttemberg.
Reader's Guide
When coach Felix Magath and several players left Stuttgart in the mid-2000s, Philipp Lahm moved to Bayern Munich.
Stuttgart lost the 1986 DFB-Pokal final 5-2 to Bayern Munich. In 2008-09 Bayern knocked them out of the cup 5-1 and beat them on the last matchday, which left VfB third.
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