VfB Stuttgart - last updated on 24 January 2008
(Courtesy of Johnny Beaufays)
Club name: Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e.V.
Foundation: September 9th 1893
City: Stuttgart
Colours: White and red
Website: www.vfb-stuttgart.de
Honours:
UEFA Intertoto Cup - 2 (2000, 2002)
German Champions - 5 (1949/50, 1951/52, 1983/84, 1991/92, 2006/07)
DFB-Pokal - 3 (1953/54, 1957/58, 1996/97)
DFB-Ligapokal - 1 (1992)
Oberliga Süd - 3 (1946, 1952, 1954)
2.Bundesliga Süd - 1 (1977)
Württemberg/Baden - 2 (1927, 1930)
Gauliga Württemberg - 4 (1935, 1937, 1938, 1941)
A bit of history:
VfB Stuttgart is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. With 40.000 members (July 2007),
VfB is the largest sports club in the state and the fifth largest in the country. The club is best known for its football team which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons, and has won the national championship five times in total. They were the champions in the last Bundesliga season (2006-2007).
The football team plays its home games at the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, situated in the Cannstatter Wasen sports complex. Its reserve team, VfB Stuttgart II, currently plays in the Regionalliga, two divisions below the first team.
In addition to the successes of the professional, amateur and youth football teams, athletes from the club's athletics department have won numerous titles and medals. The club also has departments for fistball, hockey, table-tennis and football referees. These five departments only compete at amateur level. The club also maintains a social department, the
VfB-Garde.
Club crests: (roll on the crest to get more informations)
Stuttgarter FV 93 -
Founded on September 9th 1893
VfB Stuttgart -
New name after fusion with Kronenclub 1897 Cannstatt on April 2nd 1912
