The VfB Stuttgart

The VfB Stuttgart has established itself as a top-notch club in the national league and in Europe. For the fourth time in a row, the VfB has qualified at place 5 in the previous national league season for a European competition. Also the fans honor the performance and stream into the Mercedes-Benz-Arena: 40,000 at each home game. New high amounts can also be reported with the number of members - with henceforth more than 30,000 members, the club has tripled the number of members in just two years. Thus the VfB, in the mean time, is one of the largest clubs in Germany.

In the regional league south, and thus the third highest German playing class, is the VfB Stuttgart II. The team, which consists mainly of younger players, represents an important training stage in the youth concept of the VfB since it is the passageway for young players on the way from the junior teams to the licensed player team. The successful youth work of the club also has a great share in the most recent success of the VfB Stuttgart. The different junior teams of the VfB are among the most eager collectors of titles in Germany. Thus the A juniors could celebrate in all the tenth German championship title in their age group last year.
Further departments of the club in addition to soccer are athletics, hockey, table tennis, fistball and referees.

The association for movement games Stuttgart 1893 e.V. resulted in 1912 through the fusion of the two clubs "Soccer Club Stuttgart" and the "Crown Club Cannstatt". Throughout the years, the VfB has developed to one of the most successful German soccer clubs and has celebrated in all five German championships (1950, 1952, 1984, 1992 and 2007) and three German trophies (1954, 1958, 1997). In addition in 1989 (UEFA Cup) and 1997 (European Cup of the Cup winners) the VfB has been in two European club trophy finals. The most famous players of the club are among others Robert Schlienz, Günther Sawitzki, Karl Bögelein, Rolf Geiger and Erwin Waldner, who wore the jersey with the stripe round the chest before the founding of the national league. Since the Bundesliga was founded in 1963 the club's famous players included Karl Allgöwer, Karlheinz Förster, Hansi Müller, Guido Buchwald and Jürgen Klinsmann.

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