Stuttgart Kickers

This article covers the SV Stuttgarter Kickers . See also HTC Stuttgarter Kickers and HV Stuttgarter Kickers .

Stuttgart Kickers
Basic data
Surname	Sports club Stuttgarter Kickers e. V.
Seat	Stuttgart , Baden-Wuerttemberg
founding	September 21, 1899
Colours	Blue and white
Members	2,292 (as of March 16, 2020)
president	Rainer Lorz
Board	Rainer Lorz Rainer Thiel Holger Schäfer Ingo Kochsmeier
Website	Stuttgarter-Kickers.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Ramon Gehrmann
Venue	Gazi Stadium on the Waldau
Places	11,408
league	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
2019/20	3rd place ( Oberliga Baden-Württemberg )
home Away

The SV Stuttgarter Kickers (officially: Sportverein Stuttgarter Kickers e.V.) is a sports club from the Stuttgart district of Degerloch with 2,292 members (as of March 2020) . The club was founded on September 21, 1899 under the name FC Stuttgarter Cickers ( written Kickers from 1920 ), since November 11, 1950 the club has been called SV Stuttgarter Kickers. The club is best known for its football department, whose first team belonged to the Bundesliga in the 1988/89 and 1991/92 seasons and played in the third division again from the 2012/13 season before relegation in 2015/16 this followed in fourth class and in 2017/18 in fifth class. The club's greatest successes were the German runner-up in football in 1908 and reaching the DFB Cup final in 1987 . The kickers, known as “the blues” because of their club color, are in rivalry with VfB Stuttgart, known as “the reds” . Above all, national media are increasingly calling the Kickers Stukis ( Portmanteau word for Stuttgarter Kickers), although the fans of the “Blauen” do not approve of this term.

In addition to the club's footballers, athletes from the athletics department also won numerous titles and medals. The association also has departments for table tennis , referees , handball and the fan department of the Stuttgarter Kickers (FAdSKi). The club's hockey players were spun off into the newly founded HTC Stuttgarter Kickers ; The handball players belonged to the Stuttgart Kickers HV from 2004 to 2012 . A singing department was closed in the 1960s due to problems with young talent.

The first football team of the Stuttgarter Kickers plays their home games in the city's Gazi Stadium on the Waldau , the oldest stadium in Germany, which was formerly known as the Waldau Stadium or Kickers Square . It is located below the television tower . The club area named after the long-time president Axel Dünnwald-Metzler is in the immediate vicinity . Due to renovation work in the Gazi Stadium, the Kickers played the first half of the 2014/15 season in the stadium at the Kreuzeiche in Reutlingen.

History of the football department

1899 to 1933: from foundation to top team

Season dates 1901 to 1933

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The founding team in 1899

The club was founded on September 21, 1899 by 21 men, most of whom separated from the Cannstatter Football Club because the CFC lost its permission to play on the Cannstatter Wasen, which eventually turned it into the Cannstatter Tennis Club. With the express exclusion of rugby football, which was the original football sport practiced by most football clubs, the newly founded football club Stuttgarter Cickers was to concentrate exclusively on association football and athletics . Instead of the traditional red, the future club colors should be blue and white. The club emblem was acquired by a professor for the alleged price of 300  gold marks . The three stars grouped around the Kickers-K in the logo should stand for experts, fighters and comrades .

Wanted to force as the followers of rugby, despite the negative decision of the inaugural introduction of the sport at the Cickers, left this in 1902 after a new rejection by the General Assembly the club and were closed for FV 1893 Stuttgart over, which later became today's VfB Stuttgart came . This is the root of the rivalry between the two major Stuttgart football clubs, which is still special today.

In football, the Stuttgart Cickers, which on July 8, 1900 became the first Stuttgart club to join the Association of South German Football Associations and were based at Stöckachplatz in East Stuttgart until 1905 , quickly established themselves as one of the best teams in Württemberg At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, Wuerttemberg champions were without interruption and a total of 24 Wuerttemberg championships were won.

From the 1903/04 season onwards , the South German Football Association organized point games in its association area, which was divided into circles. The Kickers belonged to the Gau Schwaben assigned to the southern district , in which the clubs from Stuttgart and the wider area played. Here they were assigned to the A-class as the highest division. After winning the championship of the Swabian A-Class in the previous years, the 1907/08 season saw the first success beyond the borders of Württemberg with winning the southern German championship and participating in the final round for the German title. In the games for the southern German championship, the Cickers prevailed against 1. FC Nuremberg , FC Hanau 93 and FC Pfalz Ludwigshafen . Here they won all games with a goal difference of 29: 7. By winning the southern German championship for the first time, they qualified for the final round of the German championship. Here the Stuttgart Cickers initially lost in the quarter-finals against last year's champions Freiburg FC with 0: 1. The game was canceled and rescheduled by the DFB, however, because the Freiburg players wanted to leave the field prematurely after a protest by the Cickers because of a wrong referee decision. After the Kickers won the replay against Freiburg with 5: 2 and the semi-final against Duisburger SpV with 5: 1, they were in the final of the German championship in 1908 . The final took place on June 7th, 1908 on Germania-Platz in Berlin-Tempelhof . In front of 4,000 spectators, the Cickers competed against the reigning German runner-up BFC Viktoria 1889 . The Berliners won against the weakened Stuttgart Cickers 3-1. Despite the defeat, Ulrich Herzog von Württemberg (1877–1944) took over the patronage of the association and thus also led it to the fore ranks of Stuttgart in social terms.

Game dates for the final of the 1908 German championship

For the 1908/09 season , the three squadrons of the A-Class Südkreis were merged into a single one. The Cickers now got competition in the league from Central Baden and the Upper Rhinegau. After the Karlsruhe teams had dominated in the first few years of the joint southern district league, the Stuttgart Cickers finished the championship in 1912/13 tied with 1. FC Pforzheim in first place. The then necessary playoff for the southern district championship won the Cickers 2-0 and qualified for the final round of the southern German championship. There they prevailed against the Frankfurt FV , the VfR Mannheim and the SpVgg Fürth and became South German champions for the second time. In the final round of the German championship in 1913, however, the Cickers were eliminated in the quarterfinals after a 1: 2 against Duisburg SpV .

The First World War , which broke out in 1914 , brought club life to a virtual standstill due to the numerous drafts of players and officials. The association abolished the competitive game round and introduced the competition of war communities for the iron football . The Cickers formed the FV Die Blaue Elf together with other clubs in Stuttgart . In the next year, regular game operations were resumed, and the Stuttgart Cickers again provided their own team.

In 1917 they were again South German champions. Due to the war, however, no final round of the German championship was held. In the following season, the Cickers could not provide a team in the spring, so they lost the games without a fight. After the November Revolution in Germany in 1918/19 no regular game operations were possible, the league operations in the Württemberg district league were resumed in the following year. For the first time since the club was founded, the club, which was renamed SV Stuttgarter Kickers in 1920, missed the Württemberg championship in the 1919/20 season. In the final table, SC 1900 Stuttgart was three points ahead of the second-placed Kickers with 32: 4 points.

Over the next few years, the Stuttgarter Kickers dominated football in Württemberg again. In the early 1920s, the prominent Austrian Heinrich Körner was a coach for the Kickers. The national players Georg Wunderlich , formerly SpVgg Fürth , and Hellmut Maneval played for the majority of the decade at the club. At the beginning of the decade, a 1-1 draw against MTK Budapest and a 2-1 draw against SK Rapid Wien achieved excellent results against two clubs of the then continental European football nobility. From the mid-1920s, alongside a few other clubs, such as Sportfreunde Stuttgart , the future long-term rival VfB Stuttgart in particular challenged the club for sole supremacy.

1933 to 1945: The Kickers under the swastika

Season dates 1933 to 1945

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With the beginning of National Socialism , the Stuttgarter Kickers joined the new rulers. Shortly after the National Socialists came to power , the top clubs in southern Germany signed a declaration on April 9, 1933 , according to which they committed themselves to the exclusion of Jews and Marxists . The Kickers then officially expelled their Jewish members from the association. A short time later they took over all the clubs prescribed unit statute and was brought into line .

Gaming operations in the German Reich were also fundamentally reorganized from 1933 onwards. The traditional regional associations that had previously held the football championship in numerous regional relays were dissolved. It was replaced by the Reichsfußball department assigned to the Reichsbund for physical exercises . The football championship was held in 16 Gauligen, based on the Reichsgauen , as the highest division, the winners of which determined the German champions in a final round.

The first season of the Gauliga Württemberg , which began in autumn 1933, was completed by the Stuttgarter Kickers tied with the Union Böckingen team . The then scheduled playoff for the Gauliga championship lost the Kickers and thus missed the entry into the finals of the German championship. After the Kickers took third place the following year, they won the Württemberg championship again. In the group stage of the final round of the German championship, however, they only finished last.

From 1939 to 1942, the Stuttgarter Kickers won the championship of the Gauliga Württemberg four times in a row. However, the club was unable to achieve success at the national level. The most successful was the final round of the German championship in 1939 , when the kickers met the teams of SK Admira Wien , VfR Mannheim and SV Dessau 05 in preliminary group IV . After losing the first game against Vienna 2: 6, Stuttgart won the next three games - in which Edmund Conen from Stuttgart alone scored eight goals. The pre-decisive group game took place against Admira Vienna in front of 70,000 spectators, with thousands no longer being able to get in, in the Stuttgart Adolf Hitler arena . The Kickers took a 1-0 lead with a goal by Eugen Frey , but had to accept the 1: 1 equalization, which also meant the final score, in the further course of the game. In the last game, a draw to win the group and the associated entry into the semi-finals of the German championship was enough for the Kickers. The game in Dessau was lost 0: 1, which means that Admira Wien's team with equal points finished the first round in front of the kickers due to the better goal quotient . In the next two years they finished 3rd in the preliminary round of the German championship, in 1942 the Kickers failed already in the elimination game for the final against SG SS Strasbourg with 0-2.

In the last year of the Second World War , the Stuttgarter Kickers formed a war sports community with the Sportfreunde Stuttgart . In March 1945 the game was stopped due to the war. At that time, the sports community had only played three league games.

1945 to 1974: Oberliga Süd and creeping decline

Season dates 1945 to 1974

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Football was played again soon after the end of World War II. Stuttgart's Lord Mayor Arnulf Klett donated an honorary award to revive football in the state capital. The Kickers moved into the final of the competition, which they lost 0-1 against VfB Stuttgart . In October 1945 the representatives of sixteen top southern German clubs met at the Fellbacher Gasthaus Krone and founded the Oberliga Süd , a first league based on the English model, which included the American zone of occupation . The first league season , which started on November 4, 1945, ended the Stuttgarter Kickers in third place. The following season they finished seventh. A German champion has not yet been determined in either year.

In the 1947/48 season, the Kickers' "Hundred Goals Storm" caused a sensation. With players like Edmund Conen , Helmut Jahn , Albert Sing and Reinhard Schaletzki , they played for the championship of the Oberliga Süd for a long time. At the end of the season they were level on points with Bayern Munich , so a playoff for 3rd place was scheduled, which the Kickers won 5-1. In the third year after the war, a German championship was held again in Germany, for which the masters of the 4 zones of occupation and Berlin as well as the runners-up in the British, American and French zones of occupation were to qualify. Due to political tensions between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, the East Zone Master SG Planitz withdrew his participation in the championship. The vacated space should first be awarded to the winner of a relegation game between the two third-placed players in the American and British occupation zones. In order to enable the SG Planitz to participate until the end, the game was finally decided not to take place. The Kickers did not take part in the final round of the German championship in 1948 .

The following year, after a good start to the season, the top-class team ended up only in the middle of the table. In 1950, the year when local rivals VfB Stuttgart won the German championship for the first time, the Stuttgarter Kickers had to relegate for the first time in the club's history, which finally reversed the original balance of power in the state capital's football. The team, which two years earlier scored 113 league goals, could only record five wins of the season and was last with five points behind on a non-relegation place.

After relegation to the 2nd Division , the team fell apart. Nevertheless, the immediate ascent succeeded. In their first season as a second division team, the Kickers scored 115 goals and became superior champions. In the last game Siegfried Kronenbitter scored six goals in a 10: 1 home win against VfL Konstanz , the highest number of goals scored by a kicker player in a game to date. In the following years, the Kickers played in the Oberliga Süd mostly against relegation to the second division, although the class could only be held three times because of the better goal quotient . At the end of the 1957/58 season they rose from bottom of the table with only 15-45 points for the second time. After the Stuttgarter Kickers returned to the league one last time in 1959/60 and were relegated immediately, they even threatened to fall into the first amateur league in 1962 . With a goal in the last minute of the 1-1 draw in the away game at Viktoria Aschaffenburg , Pál Csernai saved the Kickers from second division.

In July 1962, the DFB decided to introduce the Bundesliga as the top German division for the 1963/64 season . The regional leagues playing in five seasons were set up as the foundation . In addition to the teams from the upper league that could not qualify for the Bundesliga, the nine best teams from the last season of the II. Division should also take part in the new second class in the south. With a newly formed team, the Stuttgarter Kickers reached sixth place in the qualifying season and thus secured participation in the Regionalliga Süd, which became the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974 .

In the first regional league season , the Kickers faced renowned opponents such as FC Bayern Munich , Kickers Offenbach and SpVgg Fürth . For a long time, the team played against relegation, but was finally able to secure relegation on the third last match day. In the final table they were in 14th place. In the following years the Kickers occupied places in the upper third of the table. In the years 1967 to 1969 they finished fourth three times in a row and at times even had chances of reaching the promotion to the Bundesliga .

In order to close the sporting but also economic gap between the Bundesliga and the teams playing in the second-highest class, the DFB-Bundesliga decided on June 30, 1973 to introduce a second Bundesliga, split into a north and a south, instead of the previous regional leagues for the season 1974/75 . For the new foundation for the Bundesliga, the regional league clubs should qualify according to an elaborate catalog of points, in which not only the placements of the previous five seasons, but also economic and structural aspects were used. Mainly due to the good placements in 1972/73 and 1973/74 , the Stuttgarter Kickers managed to qualify for the new division.

1974 to 1988: Second division and cup final

Season dates 1974 to 1987

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The Stuttgarter Kickers started the first second division season with a 1: 1 at home against SV Chio Waldhof . The team played an extremely weak round and was mostly relegated during the season. In the decisive game on the fourth last day of the match, the Kickers faced a direct competitor in the relegation battle in the home game against VfR Heilbronn . When they were already behind with 0: 1 after 12 minutes in front of 7,500 spectators, they finally won with a converted penalty from Dollmann and further goals from Schroff and Redl with 3: 1 and overtook Heilbronn in the table. In the end, the Kickers finished 16th with three points ahead of the first relegation place.

1975/76 started the new season quite well. On the 10th matchday they met VfB Stuttgart again in a competitive game for the first time in 16 years due to their local rivals being relegated to the Bundesliga . The Kickers won the derby, which was held in front of 28,000 spectators on the Kickers course, 2-0. The two goals against VfB, whose ranks included Ottmar Hitzfeld , Dieter Hoeneß and Egon Coordes , were scored by Wolfgang Holoch and Karl-Heinz Schroff . In the further course of the season, however, the Kickers were again in danger of relegation. In the end, they finished 16th as in the previous year. In the following period, the club was able to establish itself in the second division and occupied places in the secured midfield. In 1980 they even came third.

The 1980/81 season got off to a promising start. In the summer, the team around players like Guido Buchwald , Werner Nickel and Klaus Täuber won the UEFA Intertoto Cup . The team was also successful in the league. During the winter break, the Kickers were in second place behind SV Darmstadt 98 , who had a clear lead , and at the end of the season would have allowed them to participate in a relegation game for promotion to the Bundesliga against the second placed in the second division north. A 0: 1 on the 29th matchday at bottom of the table VfB Eppingen , followed by two draws, broke the dream of promotion to the Bundesliga. At the end of the day, third place was again two points behind Kickers Offenbach .

Even after the introduction of the single-track 2nd Bundesliga for the 1981/82 season , the Stuttgarter Kickers belonged to the second German division until they were promoted to the Bundesliga at the end of the 1980s and consistently occupied places in the front half of the table. In the first year of the single-track 2nd league, the Kickers had to play their home games due to the renovation of the Kickers pitch in the Neckar Stadium, which was not loved by fans . The already quite low audience figures sank to an average of less than 3,000 visitors, which also led to a deficit from a financial point of view. At the home games against Rot-Weiss Essen and SG Wattenscheid 09 , only 1,700 spectators came to the stadium. In the same year, the youth player Jürgen Klinsmann played his first game in the jersey of Stuttgart at the age of 17 years and 240 days as the youngest kickers player at the time (he lost the record on April 1, 2017 to Mario Suver, who was 50 days younger). He was substituted on on March 27, 1982 in the 1: 2 home game defeat against SC Freiburg in the 25th minute. In the course of the rest of the season he played five more games and was already part of the team in the following season.

In July 1982 Jürgen Sundermann took over the team as coach. He should lead the Kickers with high-risk and lively football in the top group of the 2nd Bundesliga and in the medium term ensure promotion to the Bundesliga . After returning to the Kickers pitch, the season got off to a good start. The first game days you stood on a promotion place. After defeats in the course of the preliminary round, including against the newly promoted TuS Schloß Neuhaus and BV 08 Lüttringhausen , they slipped to a midfield position until the winter break. Due to a strong second half of the season, the Kickers were finally fifth, four points behind a relegation place.

The 1983/84 season started badly. In November the Stuttgarter Kickers were last in the table. The relegation ranks were left by the winter break, but Sundermann was dismissed and replaced by Horst Buhtz . Under him, the team grew steadily in the second half and scored point by point. At the end of the season there was eighth place in the table. When the Kickers were on the eleventh game day of the 1984/85 season after a 2-0 defeat against VfR Bürstadt on a relegation zone, coach Buhtz was dismissed and replaced by the previous assistant coach Dieter Renner . Under the new sporting direction, the team finished the season in 9th place. The following season they finished sixth.

The 1986/87 DFB Cup season was one of the highlights of the club's history. By winning against Tennis Borussia Berlin , Borussia Neunkirchen and Hannover 96 , the Kickers reached the cup quarter-finals of the competition. After the Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt had been defeated 3-1 in the quarter-finals, the Fortuna Düsseldorf team was expected in the semifinals . The semi-final match, which was broadcast live on television, was won 3-0 by the Stuttgarter Kickers and thus reached the DFB Cup final for the first time on June 20, 1987 . In the final, the team met with coach Dieter Renner front of 76,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Hamburger SV . Here the Kickers took the lead after twelve minutes with a header from Dirk Kurtenbach . Dietmar Beiersdorfer equalized three minutes later . In the 88th minute, Hamburg's Manfred Kaltz overcame Kickers goalkeeper Armin Jäger with a free kick to make it 2-1. In the final minute, the 3: 1 fell for HSV.

Match dates for the 1987 DFB Cup final

1988 to 2001: Bundesliga promotions and deep fall

Season dates 1987 to 2001

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Decisive relegation game in Gelsenkirchen's Park Stadium (1991)

Just one year after reaching the DFB Cup final, the next triumph followed when the club rose to the Bundesliga for the first time in 1988 under Dieter Renner's successor Manfred Krafft . In September 1987, the Kickers made it to the top of the table in the Second Bundesliga for the first time. From the 14th day of the game they sat there until the end of the season and were able to make the promotion on May 18, 1987 with a 3-0 away win at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen finally perfect. At the end of the 1987/88 season , the Kickers were two points ahead of FC St. Pauli champions of the second division.

Game dates of the first Bundesliga game

Before the first Bundesliga season, the Kickers did without expensive new purchases and strengthened themselves with Wolfgang Wolf , Alfred Schön and the Finnish national player Ari Hjelm . Also due to the move to the Neckar Stadium, which was required by the DFB for security reasons, those responsible stated that the season's goal was to stay up. The first Bundesliga game of the Stuttgarter Kickers took place on July 23, 1988 at home against VfL Bochum . When it was 1: 1 until shortly before the end of the game, VfL Bochum scored the 1: 2 in the 89th minute. The defeat at the start of the season was followed by an away win at Eintracht Frankfurt . After some quite high defeats, the team was almost continuously on a relegation rank from the 7th match day, but was able to keep the gap to a non-relegation place small. After the last matchday, four teams with 26 points were in 14th to 17th place in front of the last Hannover 96 , which was five goals worse than Eintracht Frankfurt. At the end of their first Bundesliga season , the Stuttgarter Kickers were relegated as seventeenth in the table.

After relegation to the Bundesliga, the club sought a direct return to the upper house. After two defeats at the beginning of the season, the Kickers worked their way into the top third of the table during the preliminary round. In the second half of the season, the Kickers were in third place in the table for several game days, which would have allowed them to participate in the relegation games to the Bundesliga. Five away defeats in a row cost third place. In the end, they finished fourth behind 1. FC Saarbrücken, one point behind .

In the following year, the new football coach Rainer Zobel reached third place with a young team and thus the relegation against the Bundesliga sixteenth FC St. Pauli . After the first and second leg had ended 1: 1, a playoff had to be played in Gelsenkirchen's Park Stadium. The Kickers won the game with goals from Vollmer , Cayasso and Fengler with a goal from Knäbel with 3: 1 and were promoted to the Bundesliga for the second time.

Game data of the play-off for the Bundesliga relegation

After the East German clubs were accepted into the Bundesliga in the 1991/92 season , the season was played with 20 teams, four of which had to be relegated. Due to the decision about promotion to the Bundesliga, which was only made in the third game, there were only 34 days between the 3-1 win in Gelsenkirchen and the season opener against SG Wattenscheid 09 . The Stuttgarter Kickers got off to a good start in their second Bundesliga season. In October the team won 4-1 against record champions FC Bayern Munich . After 16 games with just one win, the Kickers were able to catch up again in the season's final spurt. Before the last matchday they were only one point behind the saving 16th place in the table. On the last day of the match the Kickers beat VfL Bochum 2-0. Relegation would have been achieved at the break. Since SG Wattenscheid 09, as a direct competitor in the relegation battle after a 2-0 break, still won 3-2 against Borussia Mönchengladbach , the Kickers had to relegate again.

After relegated to the Bundesliga again, the club played second class again in the 1992/93 season. However, he could not hold himself there either, so that the Kickers relegated again to the re-introduced regional league in the following season. The first relegation to the third division should be followed by a direct promotion, but the weak away record and the constant performance of the later promoted SpVgg Unterhaching destroyed the hopes despite a very good second half. In the following year, as champions of the Regionalliga Süd with nine points ahead of the second VfR Mannheim, they finally returned to the second Bundesliga.

With the euphoria of being promoted again, the Stuttgarter Kickers started the 1996/97 season well , but were in danger of relegation due to bad luck with injuries. Towards the end of the season, the team suddenly even played for promotion. However, the dream of marching through to the Bundesliga was shattered due to point losses against direct competitors 1. FSV Mainz 05 and VfL Wolfsburg .

Despite the promotion to the Bundesliga that those responsible wanted, the club found itself repeatedly in relegation battle in the following seasons. In the 1999/00 season, the Kickers moved into the semi-finals of the DFB Cup after a sensational 3: 1 against Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund and further victories against Arminia Bielefeld and SC Freiburg , which were 1: 2 n. V. at Werder Bremen was lost.

Game data of the DFB-Pokal semi-finals 2000

At the same time, the situation in the league became more and more precarious. After a draw at Karlsruher SC on the last match day and the equalizer from direct competitor FC St. Pauli in the 90th minute, the Kickers were relegated. However, due to the withdrawal of Tennis Borussia Berlin's license ten days after the end of the season, relegation at the Green Table was avoided. For the following season, however, the Kickers could no longer put together a competitive team due to the late season planning and were relegated a year later in June 2001 for the second time in history in the third-class Regionalliga Süd.

2001 to 2011: Crash into fourth class

Season dates since 2001

Playtime league space ø spectators 2001/02 Regional league south 12. 2,672 2002/03 Regional league south 15th 2.986 2003/04 Regional league south 09. 3,036 2004/05 Regional league south 09. 2,760 2005/06 Regional league south 08th. 2,493 2006/07 Regional league south 04th 3,264 2007/08 Regional league south 10. 3,379 2008/09 3rd league 20th 3,647 2009/10 Regional league south 09. 2,342 2010/11 Regional league south 02. 2,756 2011/12 Regional league south 01. 3,620 2012/13 3rd league 17th 3,894 2013/14 3rd league 08th. 3,969 2014/15 3rd league 04th 4,420 2015/16 3rd league 18th 4,578 2016/17 Regionalliga southwest 13. 3,036 2017/18 Regionalliga southwest 17th 2,503 2018/19 Oberliga BW 02. 2,805 2019/20 Oberliga BW (ongoing) 3. 2,680 green background: ascent orange background: descent

With a playfully strengthened team, the immediate return to the second division should be achieved. However, the Kickers started the new season badly. After the winter break even threatened relegation to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg , the 2001/02 season ended in 12th place. In the following season, things got worse. On the last day of the match, when the Kickers had no play, you had to sit by and watch as you were overtaken by two teams in the table and the relegation to fourth division was sealed. Similar to 2000, however, the Stuttgarter Kickers were again saved at the Green Table. Since second division relegated SV Waldhof Mannheim was not granted a license for financial reasons and had to go to the top division, the club remained in the regional league.

In the summer, the long-time Kickers President Axel Dünnwald-Metzler resigned for health reasons. With the resignation of the 24-year-old president, who died a few months later on April 6, 2004, an era at the Kickers ended. Hans Kullen was elected as the new President , who was faced with the task of restructuring the association, which was about to open for bankruptcy. To save the club, the club grounds were sold to the city of Stuttgart. This and the 10-year naming rights to the stadium saved the Kickers from financial ruin.

In terms of sport, a slight upward trend could be seen. The coach Robin Dutt , who has been with the team since 2003, played a decisive role and adjusted the rejuvenated team well in terms of play and tactics. In addition to the 9th place in the table at the end of the 2004/05 season, the club qualified for the DFB Cup by winning the WFV Cup . The kickers stabilized further in the following year. With 8th place in the regional league and the title defense in the WFV-Pokal and the repeated DFB-Pokal qualification, expectations were met.

For the first time in years, the 2006/07 Kickers started the season very well. The team was at the top of the table until match day 10 and dreamed of returning to the second division. In addition, the Bundesliga club Hamburger SV was defeated 4: 3 after extra time in the first round of the DFB Cup . The 2006/07 DFB Cup season ended in a scandal for the Kickers when the second round match against Hertha BSC was canceled in the 81st minute because assistant referee Kai Voss was hit and injured by an object thrown from the fan block. The game was scored for Hertha. The investigation revealed that the object was a half-full beer mug made of hard plastic that was thrown by a spectator. The DFB then sentenced the Kickers to a fine of 10,000 euros and a game in camera. The game against SV Elversberg (final score 2-0) took place in an empty stadium on the Waldau, while the fans were invited by the club's presidium to a public viewing on the club's premises. In addition, for the second half of the 2006/07 season, a net was stretched across the entire back straight of the stadium on the Waldau. At the end of the season, they clearly missed the rise with 17 points behind the runner-up TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . The fourth place was still the best placement since relegation to the regional league.

In the 2008/09 season the Kickers will start in the newly founded 3rd division . The qualification for this was achieved on May 31, 2008 with a 2-0 victory in Elversberg, while the competitor SSV Reutlingen 05 lost 2-1 at the same time . The start in the newly created league failed completely; after only one point had been taken from the first seven games, coach Stefan Minkwitz was dismissed and replaced by Edgar Schmitt . After Schmitt resigned on April 14, 2009, the previous assistant trainer Rainer Kraft took over the post of head trainer. When the Kickers were 5 points behind a non-relegation place two game days before the end of the season, the club's management declared on May 14, 2009 that they would not repay an amount over 200,000 euros from a DFB bond fund and thus a deduction of 3 points in the current season accepted. Thus, the Kickers were the bottom of the table in the 3rd league and were relegated to the fourth-class Regionalliga Süd .

With the relegation from the 3rd division, the traditional club initially announced that Joachim Cast had been relieved of his duties as sporting director. Shortly afterwards it was agreed to terminate the current contract. Jens Zimmermann became the new managing director of Kickers. As the successor to the also dismissed head coach Rainer Kraft , Dirk Schuster was introduced at the beginning of June 2009 . The President of Kickers Dirk Eichelbaum resigned on July 15, 2009 due to "tiredness". Edgar Kurz took over his office . At the annual general meeting at the end of November 2010, he again handed over his office to Rainer Lorz .

After relegation to the fourth division regional league, promotion to the third division within three years was given as a goal. In the 2009/10 season there was a sporting and above all financial consolidation, so that the squad, which was completely renewed under the new coach Dirk Schuster, was mainly composed of former players of the second team. In addition, there were only a few external accesses, e.g. B. Vincenzo Marchese from SSV Ulm, who was previously active in the first and second team of the Kickers, and Fabian Gerster from SC Pfullendorf. Most of the players in the previous third division team left the club. The young Kickers team did very well and delighted the audience with controlled offensive football from a strong defensive position. Many of the Kickers own generation grew beyond themselves. It turned out to be very difficult to defeat the new Kickers team, but the many draws - 15 in total - at the end of the season were a small downer, so that despite only 8 defeats out of 11 wins, only 9th place came out. Nevertheless, the club was able to regain some credit from fans and the environment. At home they remained unbeaten until the last match day, until they lost the last home game of the season after all, and then very clearly with 0: 4 against 1. FC Nürnberg II. Kickers striker Mijo Tunjic was instead together with Abedin Krasniqi from Großaspach Top scorer in the Regionalliga Süd with 19 goals and then moved to the 3rd division for SpVgg Unterhaching.

In the 2010/11 season, the squad was selectively strengthened and placed 1-6 as the season goal. After a good start the Kickers lost the home game against 1. FC Nürnberg II with 1: 2 after the referee Rafael Foltyn had dismissed three Kickers players and decided twice on penalties in favor of Nürnberg. This "scandalous game" seemed to unsettle the team because they lost three more home games as a result. Although they were often successful away from home, they were only in the middle of the field during the winter break. Coming out of the no man's land of the table, however, the Kickers played an extremely successful second half of the season, now also winning their home games and a total of eight times in a row, so that they suddenly found themselves in the top group. In addition, Herbstmeister Hessen Kassel weakened visibly in the second half of the season. The real beneficiary of Kassel's weakness, however, was SV Darmstadt 98, which ultimately secured first place and promotion. However, the Kickers still reached second place after they were unbeaten for the entire second half of the season.

Since 2012: return to the 3rd division and crash into the top division

In 2011/12 , two game days before the end of the season, the Kickers' promotion to the third division was perfect. After a solid start to the 2012/13 season , the relegation places were getting closer and closer after a series of six winless games in a row. Promotion coach Dirk Schuster was relieved of his duties in November 2012, while Guido Buchwald took over the team as interim coach until the winter break. For the second half of the season, Gerd Dais was finally hired as the new coach, who had been dismissed in November 2012 as head coach of the second division SV Sandhausen . But even under him there was no sporting success. After just ten games he was released from his duties after the team had only two wins. He was followed by Massimo Morales as the new head coach. Although the team just managed to stay in league under his leadership in May 2013, in the 2013/14 season the team only scored three points from eight games. The Kickers Presidium also released him on September 9, 2013 because of discrepancies in the team; The U23 coach Jürgen Hartmann took over on an interim basis. On September 30th, the club announced that Horst Steffen will take over the position of coach at Kickers. His engagement came on the initiative of Michael Zeyer, who had recently been appointed full-time sports director . With the duo Zeyer / Steffen an upward trend began, which had already become apparent under interim coach Jürgen Hartmann, under which two out of three games could be won. Initially, however, this trend was only noticeable at home games; Until the winter break, the distance to the non-relegation places could be kept small due to the home strength. With a 2: 1 in the first back round away game in Erfurt, the relegation places could be left in time for the winter break. In the second half of the season, they made it into the top half of the table with nine unbeaten games in a row. When they led 3-0 in a key game against front runner Heidenheim, an attack on the relegation place even seemed conceivable for a short time. Heidenheim, however, still achieved a 3: 3. Despite two defeats in the last two games of the season, place 8 was reached in the final accounts. By participating in the finals in the Landespokal, participation in the DFB Cup was possible for the first time since 2006 .

Before the 2014/15 season, coach Horst Steffen changed the game system to an offensive 4-3-3 with high full-back positions. The squad was only slightly strengthened, among other things with the playmaker Besar Halimi , who came from VfB Stuttgart II, who should prove to be a direct hit. After an initial defeat in Wiesbaden, the team seamlessly built on the home strength of the previous season, although they had to play in the alternative stadium at the Kreuzeiche in Reutlingen. The Kickers were even leaders twice. The exile in Reutlingen could be survived without a home defeat. Initially, there were only defeats away from the top teams Arminia Bielefeld and MSV Duisburg. However, a 5-1 defeat in the small city derby was the start of a series of six winless games, five of which were draws. This was partly due to the loss of Captain Enzo Marchese, who could not be replaced at first. At the start of the second half of the season, however, there were four wins in a row and the promotion positions were within reach again. The emotional high point was the return of striker Daniel Engelbrecht , who returned to the pitch with a built-in defibrillator after several heart operations and a one-year break and scored two important goals. The team then even hibernated in relegation position 3. The start of the second half of the season was also successful, since Marchese was available again as captain. The two offensive players Manuel Fischer and Bentley Baxter Bahn were also newly signed . In 2015, the home games could be played again in the converted Gazi Stadium, but at the beginning there was a 0-2 against leaders Bielefeld. Two weeks later, however, the later promoted MSV Duisburg was defeated 4: 2 in an inspiring game with a 4-0 lead in the meantime. Second place was within reach. However, since a catch-up game against Halle ended 1: 1, this jump was missed and after three away defeats in a row they finally slipped out of the promotion ranks. In particular, a spectacular 3-2 away win after 0-2 deficit at direct competitor Preußen Münster secured 4th place and the associated renewed qualification for the DFB Cup.

In the early stages of the 2015/16 season, the Kickers initially stayed primarily in the upper half of the table. Later, however, followed a series of winless games, which the team slipped into the lower midfield. Coach Horst Steffen was then dismissed on November 4, 2015 and replaced by Tomislav Stipić . Under Stipić, the winless series continued, however, so that the Kickers slipped to the last place in the table, which they also took during the winter break. Later in the season, the results improved, which meant that the team was able to leave the relegation ranks in the meantime. After a 0: 1 defeat at the direct relegation competitor Werder Bremen II on the penultimate matchday, it came down to a decision on the last matchday between the Kickers, Bremen II, SV Wehen Wiesbaden and Energie Cottbus . The Kickers lost their own game against Chemnitzer FC with 0: 1, but were virtually in 17th place in the table at the time their own game was whistled, as Wehen Wiesbaden at that point in time only had 2nd place against the already relegated VfB Stuttgart II : 1 led and thus had the fewest goals scored compared to Kickers and Bremen II - with the same number of points (43) and goal difference (−14). However, Wehen increased in stoppage time to 3: 1, which resulted in a goal difference of -13. The Kickers, like Bremen II, had a goal difference of −14, so they occupied 18th place in the table due to the fewer goals scored and had to go to the fourth-class Regionalliga Südwest .

On October 20, 2016, Michael Zeyer resigned from his position as sports director. Four days later and after a 1: 2 defeat against bottom of the table FC Nöttingen, coach Alfred Kaminski was on leave. Until the winter break, the team was trained by Dieter Märkle on an interim basis. On December 14, 2016, a new trainer, Tomasz Kaczmarek, was introduced. At the end of the fourth division season 2016/17, the club managed to stay 13th out of 19. In May 2017, the football department decided to dissolve the second men's team, which at that time was participating in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg as an U-23 team .

At the end of the 2017/18 season , the Stuttgarter Kickers were relegated 17th in the Regionalliga Südwest to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg .

For the first season in the league, the fifth level in the division system, the club signed Tobias Flitsch as the new head coach in summer 2018. He led the first team to the runner-up behind the Bahlinger SC , which opened up the chance to return to the regional league via the promotion round . However, the promotion was missed by one goal after a 1: 1 against SV Röchling Völklingen and a 1: 1 against FC Bayern Alzenau .

On March 27, 2020, Kickers Managing Director Marc-Nicolai Pfeifer speaks of an existential need that increased due to the SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting non-existent audience and advertising income. At this point in time, the Stuttgarter Kickers had a liquidity gap in the lower six-digit range.

History of the playing attire

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1899 1996/97 1997/98 1998-2000 2000/01 2001/02 2002-2004 2004-2006 2006/07 2007-2009 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016-2018 2018-2019 2019/20

1899 : The first club statutes from the founding year 1899 determined black trousers and white blouses with blue stripes, the colors of the then famous Berlin Victoria, as playing clothes .

2012/13 : In the first season after promotion to the 3rd division, the Kickers team wore the Checker jersey from Umbro , which, like the founding jersey , was a blue and white striped jersey .

2019 : For the 120th anniversary of the Stuttgarter Kickers, a blue and white retro jersey with a retro logo was designed and replaced the jersey from last year just in time for the 120th birthday during the current season.

Away and alternative

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Names and numbers

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Picture from the final of the German championship in 1908

In 1987 the kickers were in the final of the DFB Cup

Championship successes

• German vice champion : 1908
• South German Master (3) : 1908, 1913, 1917
• Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga : 1988
• Second Division Champion (2) : 1951, 1959
• Champion of the Regionalliga Süd : 1996, 2012
• Württembergischer Meister (29) : 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1933, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 2019

In the all-time table of the Bundesliga, the Stuttgarter Kickers occupy 45th place after the 2018/19 season. Out of 72 games, the Kickers won 20, lost 35 and drew 17 times. The goal difference is 94: 132. In the all-time table of the 2nd Bundesliga , the blues are in 6th place after the 2018/19 season. From 864 games in 23 seasons, the club brought home 350 wins, 214 draws and 300 defeats with a goal difference of 1400: 1199.

Cup successes

• DFB Cup finalist : 1987
• DFB Cup semi-finals: 2000
• South German cup winner 1932
• Württemberg Cup Winner (3) : 1946, 2005, 2006
• Intertoto Cup winner : 1981

Squad 2020/21

(As of August 19, 2020)

No.	Nat.	player	in the team since	Last club
goalkeeper
01		Thomas Bromma	2019	SGV Freiberg
16		Maximilian Otto	2011	own youth
27		Tobias Trautner	2019	Sports fanatic Lotte
Defense
02		Painted moss	2019	Wormatia worms
03		David Kammerbauer	2019	SSV Ulm 1846
04th		Denis Zagaria	2020	SGV Freiberg
05		Theo Rieg	2020	FC Bayern Munich II
11		Marian Riedinger	2020	1. FC Heidenheim Youth
18th		Niklas Kolbe	2020	FC Nöttingen
19th		Ruben Reisig	2020	SSV Reutlingen 05
23		Nick Rudloff	2012	own youth
26th		Robin Schwemmle	2014	own youth
29		Tino Jukić	2017	own youth
33		Marcelo Freitas	2017	own youth
midfield
07th		Noah Lulić	2019	SKV Rutesheim
08th		Marvin Weiss	2019	FV Illertissen
09		Nikolaos Dobros	2019	VfR Aalen
13		Benedikt Landwehr	2019	TSG Hoffenheim Youth
14th		Markus Obernosterer	2019	1. FC Saarbrücken
15th		Nico Blank	2011	own youth
24		Niklas Benkeser	2016	own youth
25th		Lukas Kling	2018	1. FC Schweinfurt 05
attack
10		Christian Gilés	2019	SSV Reutlingen 05
20th		Mijo Tunjić	2016	SV Elversberg
21st		Bleron Visoka	2019	SSV Reutlingen 05
22nd		David Braig	2019	SSV Ulm 1846

Transfers for the 2020/21 season

Accesses	Departures
Nikolaos Dobros ( VfR Aalen ) Niklas Kolbe ( FC Nöttingen ) Denis Zagaria ( SGV Freiberg ) Niklas Benkeser (own youth) Maximilian Otto (own youth) Nick Rudloff (own youth) Robin Schwemmle (own youth) Marian Riedinger ( SSV Reutlingen 05 ) Benedikt Landwehr ( Sportfreunde Lotte )	Patrick Auracher ( TSV Essingen ) Tobias Feisthammel ( TSV Essingen ) Michael Klauß ( SGV Freiberg ) Leon Braun ( SV Fellbach ) Nikola Trkulja ( FC Giessen ) Plator Gashi ( TSG Balingen ) Johannes Ludmann (end of career)

Trainer and supervisor staff 2020/21

Nat.	Surname	function
Coaching staff
	Ramon Gehrmann	Head coach
	Yannick Dreyer	Assistant coach
	Mustafa Unal	Assistant coach
	Ümit Sahin	Goalkeeping coach
Fitness trainer
	Adrian Fleuchaus	Fitness and athletic trainer
Medical department
	Christian Mauch	Team doctors
	Stefan Zeitler
	Suso Lederle
	Sascha Weininger	physical therapy
	Simon Schneider
	Patrick Rost
Sporting management and organization
	Lutz Siebrecht	Sports director

Well-known former players

→ Main article : List of the players of the Stuttgarter Kickers

The following list contains important former top performers and record holders of the club as well as players who began their careers with the Kickers and later celebrated significant successes. The players are sorted chronologically based on the first game for the Stuttgarter Kickers.

Eugen Kipp (third from right) at the DFB's first international match in 1908

The future world champion Jürgen Klinsmann played in the club from 1980 to 1984

Former Kickers player Fredi Bobic on a Faroe Islands postage stamp

player	nationality	time	Special services
Otto Löble		1907-1913	German runner-up with the Stuttgarter Kickers in 1908. From 1909 to 1913 he played 4 international A matches for Germany. In 1910 he won the Crown Prince Cup with the South German selection .
Eugene Kipp		1908-1912	Took part in the first official game of the German national team and played a total of 18 international matches between 1908 and 1913. Crown Prince Cup winner 1910 and participant in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm .
Hellmut Maneval		1921-1928	The half-forward came to an international match against the Netherlands in 1923 . After his time with the Kickers, he moved to England.
Erwin Deyhle		1937-1939 1940-1945 1947-1950	Played in the Gauliga and Oberliga Süd as a goalkeeper for the Kickers. Here he took part in the finals of the German championship in 1939 and 1941. Made 1 full international match against Estonia in 1939.
Albert Sing		1937-1949	Played 83 games wearing the Stuttgarter Kickers jersey and scored 4 goals. Participant in the finals of the German championship in 1939 and 1941. 9 international matches from 1940 to 1942. Later, among other things, assistant coach of the German national team at the 1954 World Cup and football coach from May to June 1962.
Edmund Conen		1938-1950	129 league games and 57 goals for the Stuttgarter Kickers. Took part in the finals of the German championship in 1939, 1940 and 1941. Of his total of 28 international A matches, he played 14 during his time with the Kickers.
Helmut Jahn		1945-1949	Was 88 times in the goal of the Kickers in the Oberliga Süd . 17 full international matches from 1939 to 1942.
Hans Eberle		1953-1957	The defender played 113 league games for the Kickers and scored 3 goals. Captain of the German Olympic selection in 1952 . From 1963 to 1966 head coach of the Stuttgarter Kickers.
Siegfried Kronenbitter		1946-1957	Record goalscorer for the Kickers with 135 goals in 309 games. Scored in the 1950/51 season with 6 goals against VfL Konstanz, the most goals of a player in a game.
Feridun Buğeker		1955-1961	World Cup participant with Turkey in 1954
Herbert Dienelt		1956-1970	Record player of the Kickers with 403 league games, where he scored 35 goals.
Robert Prosinečki		1974-1980	Was with the Stuttgarter Kickers in his youth, but could not prevail. Later he became, among other things, European championship cup and World Cup third in 1998 with Croatia .
Walter Kelsch		1975-1977	Began his professional career with Kickers, where he played 69 second division games , scoring 15 goals. After leaving for VfB Stuttgart, he played 4 international matches and was German champion in 1984.
Karl Allgöwer		1977-1980	116 second division games and 59 goals for the Kickers. In 1980 he moved to local rivals VfB Stuttgart for a fee of 700,000 DM and became German champions there in 1984. He played 10 full internationals.
Guido Buchwald		1979-1983	Comes from the Kickers youth and became German A youth champion in 1979. 146 second division games and 18 goals for the Kickers before he moved to VfB Stuttgart and was German champion there twice. He played 76 full internationals and became world champion in 1990 . In 2001 he was the sports director of the Stuttgarter Kickers. From December 1, 2010 to October 1, 2013 he was a member of the Executive Committee.
Toni Kurbos		1979-1981	German A youth champion 1979, then 24 second division games and 3 goals for the Kickers. Record scorer with 6 goals in a game in French Ligue 1
Jürgen Klinsmann		1981-1984	Klinsmann was a youth player with the Kickers. At 17 years and 240 days, he was the youngest player to appear in the first team for 35 years. He played 61 second division games for the club and scored 22 goals. Jürgen Klinsmann made 108 international matches, was world and European champion and scored 47 goals for Germany. From July 2004 to July 2006 he was the national coach of the German national soccer team
Fredi Bobic		1984-1990 1993-1994	62 second division games and 26 goals for the Kickers. 37 senior internationals. European champion 1996 .
Alois Schwartz		1987-1993	160 games, 15 of them in the first Bundesliga season, for the club.
Kari Laukkanen		1987-1990	Played 82 league games in the Kickers' goal and achieved promotion to the Bundesliga with them in 1989. 49 full internationals for Finland
Ari Hjelm		1988-1990	Played 32 games with 5 goals in Kickers' first Bundesliga year. After relegation, another 23 second division games. 100 full international matches for Finland.
Jonathan Akpoborie		1994-1995	The 1985 U16 world champion played for the Stuttgarter Kickers in the 1994/95 season. With 37 goals in 32 games, he became the regional league shooter king, making him the kickers player with the most goals in a season. He made 13 full international appearances for Nigeria .
Zoltan Sebescen		1994-1999	Played 12 years in the kickers youth and then played 73 games for the first team, where he scored 5 goals. 1 international match against the Netherlands in 2000. From July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2009 he was the youth coordinator of the Kickers.

Youth football

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The youth department of the Stuttgarter Kickers was founded in 1900. In addition to the later mostly dominant VfB Stuttgart , the Kickers in the junior division have long been one of the most successful clubs in Württemberg. From the Bambini to the A-youth, there are a total of 14 youth teams in the club. In addition to numerous other professional players, the later world champions Guido Buchwald and Jürgen Klinsmann were trained in the kickers youth.

After the introduction of the German A-Youth Championship in 1969, Kickers qualified for the finals for the first time in 1978. A year later, the team became German youth champions with a 2-1 victory in the final against 1. FC Nürnberg . In 1990 the Kickers won the DFB Junior Club Cup with a 3-0 win against Lüneburg SK 3-0. The later national player and European champion Fredi Bobic played in the then Kickers team .

In 2004, the Stuttgarter Kickers qualified for the newly founded U-19 Bundesliga , to which the team belonged until relegation in the 2007/08 season . The B-Juniors also took part in the 2007/08 premier season of the U-17 Bundesliga . As the third last, however, you immediately dismounted.

Greatest successes

• German A-Junior Champion 1979
• German A-Junior Cup winner 1990
• Wuerttemberg A-youth champion 1978, 1979, 1997
• Wuerttemberg A-youth cup winner 1988, 1990, 1994, 1995, 2005, 2009
• Wuerttemberg B youth champion 1974, 1977, 1979
• Wuerttemberg B-youth cup winner 2005
• Wuerttemberg C-youth champion 1990

Second team (U23)

→ Main article : Stuttgarter Kickers II

The second team of the Kickers, Stuttgarter Kickers II, played since the 2000/01 season in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg . The team was canceled for the 2017/18 season.

Stadium and infrastructure

Gazi Stadium

Home of the first soccer team of the Stuttgarter Kickers is the Gazi-Stadion on the Waldau in Stuttgart-Degerloch , directly below the Stuttgart TV tower . The Kickers have played their home games on the former Kickers Square since 1905. No other German football club has played in the same place for so long. This makes it the oldest stadium in Germany. Only during the renovation of their own stadium, during Bundesliga times and sometimes at other games where a larger number of visitors were expected, did the kickers play for safety reasons and because of the larger capacity in the Neckar Stadium , which is not loved by their fans , today's Mercedes-Benz Arena .

In the first years after the club was founded, the Kickers still played, like most clubs founded in Stuttgart at the turn of the century, on Stöckachplatz in the east of Stuttgart . The site on which the employment office building stands today was the only sports field in Stuttgart at the time. The square's landmark was the villa-style changing house with its porches and turrets.

Opening of the Kickers-Platz in 1905

In 1905, the Stuttgart military command made their parade grounds in Degerloch available to the city on the express condition that a sports field be built on it. As a result, the first closed sports field in Stuttgart was built on the Waldau, which was opened on June 18, 1905 under the name Kickerssportplatz . A year later, a small wooden grandstand was built. In 1913 a wooden grandstand for 700 spectators followed, which was built as a true copy of the grandstand of London's Arsenal FC on a scale of 1: 3. The grandstand existed until 1975, when the DFB demanded the demolition of the now ailing construction under threat of license withdrawal. In addition to the construction of the main grandstand in 1975, the stadium was renovated again in 1981/82 and 1997/98. On July 1, 1988, the Kickers-Platz became the property of the city of Stuttgart and has been called the Waldau Stadium ever since . After the Kickers were on the verge of bankruptcy, the club and the City of Stuttgart sold the naming rights of the Waldau Stadium to the main sponsor of the Kickers. For the sale of the naming rights for a period of 10 years, the city and the association each received 500,000 euros. Since April 22, 2004, the stadium, which now has 11,436 seats, has been called the Gazi Stadium on the Waldau . In order to meet the DFB requirements for venues in the 3rd division, the Stuttgart City Council decided on July 17, 2008 to renovate the stadium for a total of 5.4 million euros. Construction was scheduled to take place from January to July 2009, but has been postponed indefinitely.

Not far from the stadium, the Stuttgarter Kickers on the Waldau have had their own club area again since 1989. Previously, the individual departments of the club were spread across various locations across Stuttgart because of the construction of the Stuttgart TV tower and the resulting loss of several playing fields. In 1996, the former university sports grounds were given the name ADM-Sportpark, based on the honorary president Axel Dünnwald-Metzler . In order to avoid the impending insolvency, the club premises were sold to the city of Stuttgart in 2004, which has been the owner since then.

The ADM sports park includes the club's office, a fan shop, a club restaurant, a youth center, four soccer fields (including an artificial turf field) and two beach soccer fields. In addition to training for the soccer teams and the athletics department, the youth teams of the Kickers play their games on the club's premises. The municipal district sports facility Waldau , which is located diagonally across from the ADM sports park and where the A1 and B1 juniors play, serves as a further play area .

If the pitches on the Waldau are not playable, the Festwiese stadium on the Cannstatter Wasen , also owned by the City of Stuttgart, is available as an alternative pitch.

Spectators and fans

Until after the end of the Second World War, the kickers were in the favor of the Stuttgart spectators on a par with local rivals VfB. In the final round of the German championship on May 7, 1939, 70,000 spectators came to the game against SK Rapid Wien in the then Adolf Hitler arena , which is the largest backdrop at a home game so far.

After the highest average attendance was achieved in the league season 1947/48 with 16,842 spectators, the number of spectators began to decline with the gradual sporting decline. Over the past few years, an average of 3,000 to 4,000 spectators have come to the home games of the Kickers.

There has been an organized fan scene since the 1970s. Blau-Weiss 77 was founded in 1977 as the first Kickers fan club . In addition to the oldest fan club that still exists today, there are now around twenty more, including in Cologne and Westphalia . The "Blaue Bomber" fan club, founded in 1995, is one of the first ultra groups in Germany. The fan department of the Stuttgarter Kickers (FAdSKi) has existed within the main club since autumn 1998 . The department's task is to integrate fans into the club and to promote cooperation between the club and its fans. The department, which has its own department head and four fan speakers, has almost 300 members.

In the Gazí Stadium on the Waldau, the core of the Kickers fans is located in Block B in the standing room in the opposite stand.

The biggest rivalry is with city rivals VfB Stuttgart . Further rivalries exist with SSV Reutlingen 05 , SSV Ulm 1846 , VfR Aalen , 1. FC Heidenheim and Wormatia Worms .

A fan friendship exists with the fans of Jahn Regensburg and the fans of FC Blau-Weiß Linz . In addition, some Kickers fans maintain contacts with fans of Hansa Rostock , FC Zurich , Kickers Offenbach and Fortuna Cologne . There is also good contact with the fans of the handball club TuS Ferndorf .

Sponsors

Jersey sponsors of the Stuttgarter Kickers
Period Shirt sponsor 1976-1986 Südmilch 1986-1989 GIN AND TONIC 1989-1990 Fidutia 1990-1994 Stuttgart Insurance 1994-1997 Peterstaler 1997-2000 GIN AND TONIC 2000-2002 Stuttgart Insurance 2002–2012 GAZİ 2012-2015 Subaru 2015– MHP

After Eintracht Braunschweig was the first German soccer club to wear the Jägermeister stag of its sponsor on its jersey in 1973 , it took three more years for the Kickers to appear with jersey advertising for the first time in their history in the 1976/77 season. The partnership with the first jersey sponsor, Südmilch, lasted until 1986. The food manufacturer was followed by the textile company GIN TONIC , Fidutia Bauträgergesellschaft, Stuttgarter Versicherung and the mineral water manufacturer Peterstaler .

From 2002 to 2012 Garmo AG with its GAZİ brand was the main and jersey sponsor of the Stuttgarter Kickers. The sponsorship contract with the Stuttgart dairy product manufacturer, who also owns the naming rights to the stadium of the Stuttgarter Kickers, was endowed with around 180,000 euros annually. There is also a sponsor pool with exclusive and business partners who are granted certain rights depending on the type of partnership. From 2012 to 2015 Subaru was also the main and shirt sponsor of the first and second team of the Stuttgarter Kickers. GAZİ continued to be the jersey sponsor of the youth teams .

As a collaboration between club officials and fans, the “Believe in Blue! The future is blue - we believe in it ”. Following the example of the Million Dollar Homepage , a website consisting of one million pixels was set up, which is divided into 10,000 squares (10 × 10 pixels). These squares can be purchased to support the Stuttgarter Kickers financially. So far, the blues earned over 110,000 euros with this project (as of 03/2009).

Uhlsport is the supplier of the Stuttgarter Kickers . The equipment contract that has existed since the beginning of the 2013/14 season is dated for three years. In addition to the first team, the Swabian clothing and sporting goods manufacturer also equips the second team and all youth teams.

Other departments of the association

Torch, certificate, jersey and photo of a participant in the 1936 Olympic Games

athletics

The athletics department was a successful part of the Stuttgarter Kickers from the start. The association produced numerous participants in the Olympic Games as well as World and European Championships. With Alfred Dompert (3000 m obstacle course) and Erich Borchmeyer (4 × 100 m relay), the club even has two bronze medalists from the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin in its own ranks.

Other well-known athletes were Werner von Moltke , ( decathlon , best performance 7786 points in 1962), Erwin Huber , (participant in the decathlon of the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam ), Werner Zandt , (100 m, 200 m, 4 × 100 m Relay at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki ) and Reinhold Boschert ( long jump at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City ).

In addition, the Kickers athletes were able to win the following German championships:

• 2 times German club champion in 1922 and 1925
• 4 times German champion 4 × 1500 m relay in 1933 and 1934 (Koch, Kettner, Dessecker, Paul)
• 2 times German champion 4 × 400 m relay in 1936 ( Helmut Sauer , Walter Tripps , Bert Sumser , Wolfgang Dessecker ) and 1937 ( Manfred Kramer , Bert Sumser, Walter Tripps, Peter Robens )
• 2 times German champion 4 × 100 m relay in 1946 (Rümping, Bachmann, Baublies, Jakob Scheuring ) and 1952 (Vogt, Werner Zandt , Neef, Roland Hänssel )

hockey

HTC logo

The hockey department of the Stuttgarter Kickers was founded on August 6, 1913 by six hockey enthusiasts in the Charlottenhof restaurant . Due to the construction of the Stuttgart television tower in 1954, gaming operations had to be relocated to Bad Cannstatt for two years . Twelve members of the hockey department then founded the Hockey- und Tennis-Club Stuttgart e. V.

At an extraordinary general meeting of the entire club on February 1, 1957, the resolution was passed that the Stuttgart hockey and tennis club should acquire new sports grounds on the Hohen Eiche and move to the Stuttgarter Kickers e. V., Stuttgart, founded in 1913 . The official separation of the hockey department from the main club followed on May 29, 1958.

The greatest successes of the HTC Stuttgarter Kicker , which emerged from the main club, were winning the German hockey championship in the summer of 2005 and winning the European Cup the following year.

Handball

The handball department of the Stuttgarter Kickers was founded in 1922. She provided several men's teams that played successfully in the upper leagues and celebrated presentable success. From 2005 the handball players were spun off into an independent club, the HV Stuttgarter Kickers , until its bankruptcy in 2012.

In the 2016/17 season, both the first women's team and the men's team will play in the Rems-Stuttgart district class.

Table tennis

The table tennis department of the Stuttgarter Kickers has existed since 1934, when it emerged from the then 1. TTC 1930 Stuttgart club. The women's team was fourth in the German championship in the 1948/49 season with Edith Schmidt , Wippler, Tholen, Kunze, Destruelle and Geiger. In the 1950s, the men's team played in the Oberliga, the top German division at the time, from which it was relegated in 1960. In 1982 he was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga ( Michael Krumtünger , Wolfgang Jäger, Rudi Böttinger, Michael Landrock, Ulrich Dochermann, Herman Hopman). The men, who strengthened themselves with Ulf Thorsell , Frank Heggenberger, Rolf-Dieter Loss and the former Baden champion Joachim Müller, played here for one season. After the direct relegation, the team disintegrated. In the period that followed, the table tennis department lost its importance. The first men's team slipped into the district league of the Stuttgart district, in which they played for several years.

After the end of the 2007/08 season, they finished second to last, so that the team has been competing in class A since then.

referee

In the 1980s, the club established a football referee department. The department currently has 46 members who are employed in leagues up to the association league and as assistants in the state and association leagues . The department is headed by Felix Spazierer and Alex Epp. Kickers referee Peter Schreiner has been chairman of the Stuttgart referee group since 2005.

Fans

The fan department of the Stuttgarter Kickers (short: FadSKi ) was founded in autumn 1998 and is an official department of the SV Stuttgarter Kickers, which has almost 300 members. All members of the FadSKi are therefore also members of the association and have the right to vote at the annual general meeting of SV Stuttgarter Kickers. The purpose of the fan department is to promote the integration of the fans in the club as well as the promotion of cooperation between the club and its fans. Like other departments, the fan department has its own department head and fan spokesmen who are elected at the annual department meeting. They take care of the bus trips to the away games, the FadSKi Beach Soccer Cup and other events such as the "Blue Night". There was also a fan team that initially only took part in hobby tournaments and later, a few years later, also took part in regular games in the leisure league organized by the WFV as the Stuttgarter Kickers III. The FadSKi called the "Waldauradio" into being, which is an online radio, whereby a team of fans act as commentators for - as a rule - all competitive games.

literature

• Paul Allmendinger: Stuttgarter Kickers . Sutton Publishing House. Erfurt 2002, ISBN 3-89702-497-7 .
• Oskar Beck: The Kickers - club history . Ed .: SV Stuttgarter Kicker, Stuttgart 1989.
• Hardy Greens : Stuttgarter Kickers. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .

Web links

• Official website
• Handball department of the Stuttgarter Kickers
• Stuttgarter Kickers Newscenter
• The archive of the Stuttgarter Kickers

Individual evidence

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