Stuttgart Kickers
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Stuttgarter Kickers is a Germany football (soccer) List of football clubs in Germany that plays in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, founded on 21 September, 1899 as
FC Stuttgarter Cickers. Its members made a deliberate and emphatic choice early on to play football exclusively and to turn their backs on rugby – their chosen sport's close cousin – at a time when both of these new English games were still evolving.
History
In its early years Stuttgart Kickers 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, Stuttgart Kickers – 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.
After the war Stuttgart Kickers resumed play in the Oberliga Süd (1945-63) 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 on 14th place, constantly struggling to avoid relegation throughout the decade.
Kickers spent the early 60's in 2nd Oberliga Süd, but after the formation of the Bundesliga (football), Germany's new professional league, in 1963, Stuttgart Kickers was moved to the Regionalliga Süd (1963-74). In 1974 that league went professional and became the 2nd Bundesliga (football). Between 1963 and the late 1980s Stuttgart Kickers 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 German Cup in 1987 and in 1988-1989 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 German Cup and then had a second turn in the Bundesliga in 1991-1992, but with the same result as its earlier time up. Over the next decade Stuttgart Kickers 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 3rd Liga.
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 hockey department too, which in 1957 got independent under the name of HTC Stuttgarter Kickers.
Reserve team
The
Stuttgarter Kickers II, historically also known as
Stuttgarter Kickers Amateure, are playing in the
Oberliga Baden-Württemberg since 2000. Previously, Stuttgart Kickers fluctuated between the
Landesliga and
Verbandsliga Württemberg.
See also List of Stuttgarter Kickers players
For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers summer 2008 and List of German football transfers winter 2008-09.
Stuttgarter Kickers II squad
- Manager: Björn Helge Hinck
Honours
Traditionally a strong local club,
Kickers hold 24 Württemberg championships.
- Southern German championship: 1908, 1913, 1917
- Südkreis-Liga (I) champions: 1913, 1914, 1917
- Kreisliga Württemberg (I) champions: 1921, 1923
- Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden (I) champions: 1924, 1925
- Bezirksliga Württemberg (I) champions: 1928, 1933
- Gauliga Württemberg (I) champions: 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942
- 2nd Oberliga Süd (II) champions: 1951, 1959
- 2nd Bundesliga (football) champions: 1988
- Regionalliga Süd champions: 1995
- German Cup finalist: 1987
- German Cup semi-finalist: 2000
- Württemberg Cup winners: 2005, 2006
The club's youth teams have enjoyed quite a bit of success on the national scene.
- German Under 19 championship (football): 1979
- German Cup Junior champions: 1990
Recent seasons
Stuttgarter Kickers
Stuttgarter Kickers II
Manager History
- 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 Viktor Havliczek
- 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 Markus 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
- 01.07.2009 - present Dirk Schuster
Related pages
Bayern München II, FC Hessen Kassel, FC Ingolstadt, FSV Frankfurt, FSV Oggersheim, Karlsruher SC II, SC Pfullendorf, Sportfreunde Siegen, SSV Jahn Regensburg, SSV Reutlingen, Stuttgart Kickers, SV Elversberg, SV Sandhausen, TSV München 1860 II, Unterhaching, VfB Stuttgart II, VfR Aalen, Wacker Burghausen