VfL Wolfsburg

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VfL Wolfsburg

Full name	Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V. (Sports club) Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg Fußball GmbH (Professional football club)
Nickname(s)	Die Wölfe (The Wolves) Die Weißgrünen (The White and Greens)
Founded	12 September 1945; 78 years ago (1945-09-12)
Ground	Volkswagen Arena
Capacity	30,000
Owner	Volkswagen AG (of GmbH)[1]
Managing directors	Marcel Schäfer[citation needed] Michael Meeske[citation needed] Tim Schumacher[citation needed]
Head coach	Ralph Hasenhüttl
League	Bundesliga
2023–24	Bundesliga, 12th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg (pronounced [ˌfaʊ ʔɛf ʔɛl ˈvɔlfsbʊɐ̯k]), is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of Wolfsburg. It is best known for its football department, but other departments include badminton, handball and athletics.

The men's professional football team play in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system. Wolfsburg have won the Bundesliga once in their history, in the 2008–09 season, the DFB-Pokal in 2015 and the DFL-Supercup in 2015.

Professional football is run by the spin-off organization VfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group.^[2][3] Since 2002, Wolfsburg's stadium is the Volkswagen Arena.