VfB Stuttgart

	Country:	Germany
	Competition:	Bundesliga
	website:	VfB Stuttgart
	Wiki:	wiki
	Founded in:	1893
	Stadium:	Mercedes-Benz Arena
	Chairman:	Gerd Mauser
	Coach:	Bruno Labbadia

Although Bayern and Dortmund have been dominating the 1. Bundesliga, VfB Stuttgart, which was founded in 1893, has performed above average in both the domestic competitions as internationally. Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V play their home matches in the Mercedes-Benz Arena with a capacity of 60,000 seats. Their home matches are played in the traditional colours of VfB Stuttgart, white and red. As of 2013 the coach of Stuttgart is Bruno Labbadia, a former top player of the 1. Bundesliga. During his active career he played for Bayern Munich, Werder bremen, and Karlsruhe. He has been a coach since 2003, when he began training SV Darmstadt 98. Ever since he has trained Greuter Furth, Bayer Leverkusen, Hamburger SV and VfB Stuttgart since 2010. President of the southern German club is Gerd Mauser who was also a manager of BMW and Porsche.

The national German Bundesliga was won in 2007, which was Stuttgart's fifth win in total. They managed to outlast Schalke and Werder who came second and third. Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich were nowhere to be seen that season. Before 2007, the Bundesliga was won in 1992, 1984, 1952 and 1950. The national Cup, DFB Pokal was won in 1997, 1958 and 1954. Their latest win gave access to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup win which VfB Stuttgart ended as runners-up the following year when they lost to Chelsea. Stuttgart have never won a major international title. Besides runners-up in the 1998 Cup winners' Cup, they already had become runners-up in the UEFA Cup in 1989.

Notable players in the 2013 VfB Stuttgart team are Serdar Tasci, who has been assigned captain, Rani Khedira, brother of Real Madrid player Sami Khedira and Tim Hoogland who has been loaned from Schalke 04. Former Stuttgart players are Mario Gomez, who currently plays for Bayern Munich, Goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand and Portugal's Fernando Meira.

Stuttgart has a regional rivalry with Karlsruhe as both are from the southwest of Germany. Matches of these two clubs are highly anticipated in the region as it is the match between Baden and Wurttemburg, two regions that make the province Baden-Wurttemberg. Also, as both VfB Stuttgart and Bayern Munich are positioned in the South of Germany, when both teams play against each other, there is some rivalry, but only from the side of Stuttgart as Bayern has taken some of Stuttgart's best players in recent history, like Mario Gomez and Giovanni Elber. Make sure to watch Stuttgart Bayern live and streaming!