Stuttgarter Kickers

In its early years the club had a decent local squad that played in the Südkreis-Liga, Kreisliga Württemberg and then in the Bezirksliga Württemberg. With the reorganization of German football during the Third Reich in 1933, the team – now known as SV Stuttgarter Kickers – found itself in the Gauliga Württemberg, one of sixteen top tier regional leagues established in the country during that time. It continued to have good results locally, but was unable to impress beyond its own area. In the final year of World War II the Kickers fielded a combined wartime squad with Sportfreunde Stuttgart.

Historical chart of Stuttgarter Kickers league performance after WWII

After the war the club resumed play in the Oberliga Süd and performed as a mid-table team early on. By 1950 it had slipped to the lower half of the table with a seemingly solid grip in 14th place, constantly struggling to avoid relegation throughout the decade. Kickers spent the early 60s in tier II football, but after the formation of the Bundesliga, Germany's new professional league, in 1963, the club was moved to the Regionalliga Süd. In 1974, that league went professional and became the 2. Bundesliga. Between 1963 and the late 1980s the team had varying results, but finally stabilized in the upper half of the standings toward the end of that period. It has one losing appearance to its credit in the DFB-Pokal in 1987 and in 1988–89 it made it to the Bundesliga for the first time. It ended a run of 28 years as a second division outfit. The team was immediately relegated after a 17th-place finish, but continued to deliver some of its best performances. Die Blauen advanced to the semi-finals of the 2000 DFB-Pokal and then had a second turn in the Bundesliga in 1991–92, but with the same result as its earlier time up. Over the next decade the club played largely in the second division, before slipping to the Regionalliga Süd (III) in 2001, where they remained until 2008, when a tenth-place finish narrowly qualified them for the new 3. Liga. They finished last (20th) in the 3. Liga in 2008–09 and were relegated to the Regionalliga Süd. After three seasons at Regionalliga level, the Kickers returned to the 3. Liga in 2012 where they played for four seasons until relegation at the end of 2015–16, now dropping down to the Regionalliga Südwest. In 2018 they were relegated once more to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg.

The Stuttgarter Kickers also have handball, athletics, table tennis, cheerleading, and lacrosse departments. The association is also recognized for its training of football referees and other game officials. They had a field hockey department too, which in 1957 became independent under the name of HTC Stuttgarter Kickers.

The Stuttgarter Kickers II, historically also known as Stuttgarter Kickers Amateure, have been playing in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg since 2000. Previously, the team fluctuated between the Landesliga and Verbandsliga Württemberg.

The reserve team squad:[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Manuel Schneck 2 DF Robin Faber 3 DF Emmanuel Apler 4 DF Marvin Jäger 5 MF Valentin Vochatzer 6 MF David Barisic 7 MF Sven Bode 8 MF Maximilian Wojcik 9 FW Leander Vochatzer 11 FW Niklas Pollex 12 MF Janis Lamatsch

No. Position Player 13 DF Marcel Strobel 14 MF Felix Metzler 16 MF Marc Tiryaki-Zeeb 17 MF Omar Pasagic 18 MF Shaibou Oubeyapwa 19 MF Maximilian Eiselt 20 DF Georgios Doufas 21 DF Noah Sautter 22 FW Anastasios Ketsemeridis 23 DF Marco Romano 30 GK Cedric Veser

The club's honours:

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[3][4]

• With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.

The club's presidents:[5]

• 1900–1900 Hans Schröder
• 1900–1900 Hans Spandau
• 1900–1901 Gustav Dreher
• 1901–1902 Richard Dürr
• 1902–1904 Viktor Mäulen
• 1904–1905 Gustav Dreher
• 1905–1908 Alfred Hezel
• 1908–1911 Hans Trapp
• 1911–1912 Anton Salg
• 1912–1919 Hans Trapp
• 1919–1921 Albert Mann
• 1921–1926 Friedrich Häussermann
• 1927–1929 Max Maurer
• 1929–1934 Gotthilf Waizenegger
• 1934–1937 Karl Umgelter
• 1937–1945 Hermann Kurz
• 1945–1948 Eugen Grau
• 1948–1950 Richard "Molly" Schauffele
• 1950–1951 Max Maurer
• 1951–1952 Wilhelm Reuter
• 1952–1955 Dr. Erich Häussermann
• 1955–1957 Erich Scriba
• 1957–1957 Philipp Metzler
• 1957–1958 Hermann Ulrich
• 1958–1960 Albrecht Brunst
• 1960–1960 Willi Knörzer
• 1960–1962 Albrecht Brunst
• 1962–1963 Gottfried Sälzer
• 1963–1967 Helmuth Bauer
• 1967–1979 Walter Queissner
• 1979–2003 Axel Dünnwald-Metzler
• 07/2003 – 03/2007 Hans Kullen
• 03/2007 – 07/2009 Dirk Eichelbaum
• 07/2009 – 11/2010 Edgar Kurz
• since 12 January 2010 Prof. Dr. Rainer Lorz

The club's coaches:[6]

• 07.01.1945 – 06.30.1946 Ossi Müller
• 07.01.1946 – 06.30.1947 Albert Cozza
• 07.01.1947 – 06.30.1948 Albert Cozza, Josef "Seppl" Müller and Lory Polster
• 07.01.1948 – 06.30.1950 Emil Melcher
• 07.01.1950 – 06.30.1951 Kuno Krügel
• 07.01.1951 – 06.30.1952 Fritz Kerr
• 07.01.1952 – 06.30.1953 Kuno Krügel
• 07.01.1953 – 06.30.1954 Eduard Havlicek
• 07.01.1954 – 06.30.1956 Georg Bayerer
• 07.01.1956 – 06.30.1958 Oswald Pfau
• 07.01.1958 – 06.30.1960 Benda Hügel
• 07.01.1960 – 06.30.1962 Karl-Heinz Grindler
• 07.01.1961 – 04.30.1962 Jenö Csaknady
• 05.01.1962 – 06.30.1962 Albert Sing
• 07.01.1962 – 06.30.1966 Hans Eberle
• 07.01.1966 – 06.30.1969 Georg Wurzer
• 07.01.1969 – 11.30.1969 Gerd Menne
• 12.01.1969 – 06.30.1971 Georg Wurzer
• 07.01.1971 – 06.30.1972 Barthel Thomas
• 07.01.1972 – 06.30.1973 Willibald Hahn
• 07.01.1973 – 09.15.1974 Fritz Millinger
• 09.16.1974 – 06.30.1975 Georg Wurzer and Rudolf Kröner
• 07.01.1975 – 06.30.1977 Rudolf Kröner
• 07.01.1977 – 06.30.1978 Hans Cieslarczyk
• 07.01.1978 – 10.26.1980 Hans-Dieter Roos
• 10.27.1981 – 06.30.1982 Slobodan Cendic
• 07.01.1982 – 01.23.1983 Jürgen Sundermann
• 01.24.1983 – 10.21.1984 Horst Buhtz
• 10.22.1984 – 06.30.1987 Dieter Renner
• 07.01.1987 – 05.02.1990 Manfred Krafft
• 05.02.1990 – 06.30.1992 Rainer Zobel
• 07.01.1992 – 08.23.1992 Frieder Schömezler
• 08.25.1992 – 06.30.1993 Rolf Schafstall
• 07.01.1993 – 02.28.1994 Lorenz-Günther Köstner
• 03.01.1994 – 06.30.1994 Günter Sebert
• 07.01.1994 – 10.26.1994 Paul Sauter
• 10.26.1994 – 02.18.1998 Wolfgang Wolf
• 02.18.1998 – 02.24.1998 Frieder Schömezler
• 02.25.1998 – 05.17.1999 Paul Linz
• 05.18.1999 – 06.30.1999 Ralf Vollmer
• 07.01.1999 – 03.28.2000 Michael Feichtenbeiner
• 03.30.2000 – 06.30.2000 Dragoslav Stepanović
• 07.01.2000 – 09.25.2000 Hans-Jürgen Boysen
• 09.27.2000 – 08.26.2001 Rainer Zobel
• 08.27.2001 – 03.09.2003 Marcus Sorg
• 03.10.2001 – 10.27.2003 Rainer Adrion
• 10.27.2003 – 06.30.2007 Robin Dutt
• 07.01.2007 – 11.04.2007 Peter Zeidler
• 11.05.2007 – 09.21.2008 Stefan Minkwitz
• 09.21.2008 – 04.14.2009 Edgar Schmitt
• 04.14.2009 – 06.30.2009 Rainer Kraft
• 07.01.2009 – 11.19.2012 Dirk Schuster
• 11.19.2012 – 12.19.2012 Guido Buchwald (interim)
• 12.19.2012 – 04.07.2013 Gerd Dais
• 04.07.2013 – 09.09.2013 Massimo Morales
• 09.09.2013 – 09.30.2013 Jürgen Hartmann (interim)
• 09.30.2013 – 11.04.2015 Horst Steffen
• 11.04.2015 – 11.08.2015 Alfred Kaminski (interim)
• 11.09.2015 – 06.30.2016 Tomislav Stipić
• 07.01.2016 – 10.24.2016 Alfred Kaminski
• 11.04.2015 – 12.31.2016 Dieter Märkle (interim)
• 01.01.2017 – 16.10.2017 Tomasz Kaczmarek
• 17.10.2017 – 05.04.2018 Paco Vaz
• 09.04.2018 – 30.06.2018 Jürgen Seeberger
• 01.07.2018 – Tobias Flitsch

• Official website (in German)
• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• Stuttgarter Kickers at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• Stuttgarter Kickers II at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)