VfB Stuttgart

VfB Stuttgart

Full name	Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V.
Nickname(s)	Die Roten (The Reds) Die Schwaben (The Swabians)
Short name	VfB
Founded	9 September 1893; 130 years ago (1893-09-09)
Ground	MHPArena
Capacity	60,058[1]
President	Claus Vogt
Chairman	Alexander Wehrle
Head coach	Sebastian Hoeneß
League	Bundesliga
2022–23	Bundesliga, 16th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V. (lit. 'Association for Movement Games Stuttgart 1893'), commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (German pronunciation: [faʊ̯ɛfˈbeː ˈʃtʊtɡaʁt] ^ⓘ), is a German professional sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club's football team is currently part of Germany's first division, the Bundesliga. VfB Stuttgart has won the national championship five times, most recently in 2006–07, the DFB-Pokal three times and the UEFA Intertoto Cup a record three times. In the all-time Bundesliga table the team sits in fourth place.

The football team plays its home games at the MHPArena, in the Neckarpark which is located near the Cannstatter Wasen, where the city's fall beer festival takes place. Second team side VfB Stuttgart II currently plays in the Regionalliga Südwest, which is the second highest division allowed for a reserve team. The club's junior teams have won the national U19 championships a record ten times and the Under 17 Bundesliga a record seven times.

A membership-based club with over 100,000 members,^[2] VfB is the largest sports club in Baden-Württemberg and the eighth-largest football club in Germany. It has departments for fistball, field hockey, track and field, table tennis, and football referees, all of which compete only at the amateur level. The club also maintains a social department, the VfB-Garde.