Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as
VfB Stuttgart, is a German
sports club based in
Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its
football team, which has participated in all but two
Bundesliga seasons. The team has won the
national championship five times in total—most recently in the 2006–07 season—and the
DFB-Pokal (German cup) three times.
The football team plays its home games at the
Mercedes-Benz Arena, situated in the
Cannstatter Wasen sports complex. It is famous for its talented reserve team,
VfB Stuttgart II, which currently plays in the
3rd Liga, the highest division allowed for a reserve team, and also for its junior team, which won the
national U19 championships a record 10 times.
VfB Stuttgart is a membership-based club and with 45.037 (as of: January 2009),
VfB is the largest sports club in the state and the fifth largest in the country. 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.
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...
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