VfB Stuttgart
2008–09 season
ManagerMarkus Babbel
Bundesliga3rd
UEFA CupRound of 32
DFB-PokalLast 16
Top goalscorerLeague: Mario Gómez (24)
All: Mario Gómez (35)

During the 2008–09 VfB Stuttgart season, the club was a genuine contender for the Bundesliga title, losing out only to VfL Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich and finishing in third position. Striker Mario Gómez scored 24 goals in the Bundesliga campaign, only to then make a shock switch to rivals Bayern for the highest-received transfer fee in the club's history.

Players

First-team squad

Squad at end of season[1]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Germany GER Jens Lehmann
3 DF Mexico MEX Ricardo Osorio
4 DF Netherlands NED Khalid Boulahrouz
5 DF Germany GER Serdar Tasci
6 DF Germany GER Georg Niedermeier (on loan from Bayern Munich II)
7 MF Germany GER Martin Lanig
8 MF Czech Republic CZE Jan Šimák
9 FW Romania ROU Ciprian Marica
10 MF Turkey TUR Yıldıray Baştürk[notes 1]
11 MF Germany GER Thomas Hitzlsperger
12 GK Germany GER Alexander Stolz
13 MF Germany GER Timo Gebhart
15 DF Ivory Coast CIV Arthur Boka
16 MF Germany GER Sebastian Rudy
17 DF France FRA Matthieu Delpierre
18 FW Germany GER Cacau[notes 2]
19 DF Germany GER Roberto Hilbert
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 DF Switzerland SUI Ludovic Magnin
22 FW Germany GER Sven Schipplock
24 GK Germany GER Sven Ulreich
25 MF Brazil BRA Élson
26 DF Germany GER Tobias Feisthammel
28 MF Germany GER Sami Khedira
29 MF Cameroon CMR Georges Mandjeck
33 FW Germany GER Mario Gómez
35 DF Germany GER Christian Träsch
36 DF Germany GER Robin Schuster
37 GK Germany GER Timo Hammel
38 FW Serbia SRB Danijel Ljuboja[notes 3]
39 FW Germany GER Julian Schieber
40 MF Germany GER Marijan Kovačević
42 DF Germany GER Marco Pischorn
45 DF Germany GER Sebastian Enderle

Left club during season

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
13 MF Mexico MEX Pável Pardo (to América)
23 FW Germany GER Manuel Fischer (on loan to TuS Koblenz)
No. Pos. Nation Player
31 FW Poland POL Matthias Morys (to Kickers Offenbach)

VfB Stuttgart II

VfB Stuttgart II were coached by Rainer Adrion and finished 11th in the 3. Liga.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Germany GER Timo Hammel
2 DF Germany GER Tobias Feisthammel
3 DF Germany GER Joachim Schwabe
4 DF Germany GER David Pisot
5 MF Germany GER Marijan Kovačević
6 MF Germany GER Christian Träsch
7 FW Germany GER Nico Klotz
8 MF Germany GER Martin Dausch
9 MF Germany GER Sebastian Hofmann
10 MF Germany GER José-Alex Ikeng[notes 4] (to January)
10 MF Germany GER Markus Pazurek (from January)
13 FW Germany GER Johannes Rahn
15 MF Germany GER Daniel Didavi
16 MF Germany GER Sebastian Rudy
11 MF Germany GER Michael Klauß
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 MF Germany GER Patrick Funk
17 MF Germany GER Jeremy Karikari
18 DF Germany GER Robin Schuster
19 FW Germany GER Julian Schieber
20 MF Germany GER Andreas Hindelang
21 DF Germany GER Dubravko Kolinger
22 FW Germany GER Sven Schipplock
23 DF Germany GER Sebastian Enderle
24 GK Germany GER Sven Ulreich
25 DF North Macedonia MKD Shaban Ismaili
26 DF Germany GER Sven Schimmel
27 MF Austria AUT Clemens Walch
30 FW Germany GER Manuel Fischer (to January)
31 GK Germany GER Marcel Schmid
42 DF Germany GER Marco Pischorn

Bundesliga

Classification

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 VfL Wolfsburg (C) 34 21 6 7 80 41 +39 69 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Bayern Munich 34 20 7 7 71 42 +29 67
3 VfB Stuttgart 34 19 7 8 63 43 +20 64 Qualification to Champions League play-off round
4 Hertha BSC 34 19 6 9 48 41 +7 63 Qualification to Europa League play-off round
5 Hamburger SV 34 19 4 11 49 47 +2 61 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
Source: kicker (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions

Results

17 August 2008 1 Borussia Mönchengladbach 1–3 VfB Stuttgart Mönchengladbach
16:00 Rob Friend 60' Hitzlsperger 15'
Marica 26'
Gómez 44'		 Stadium: Borussia-Park
Attendance: 47,028
Referee: Herbert Fandel
23 August 2008 2 VfB Stuttgart 0–2 Bayer Leverkusen Stuttgart
14:30 Helmes 35',
Gekas 79'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Jochen Drees
31 August 2008 3 VfB Stuttgart 2–0 Hannover 96 Stuttgart
16:00 Gómez 18'
Pardo 40' (pen)		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 41,000
Referee: Lutz Wagner
13 September 2008 4 1899 Hoffenheim 0–0 VfB Stuttgart Sinsheim
14:30 Stadium: Carl-Benz-Stadion
Attendance: 26,400
Referee: Peter Sippel
27 September 2008 6 Borussia Dortmund 3–0 VfB Stuttgart Dortmund
14:30 Hajnal 10'
Santana 20'
Frei 73'		 Stadium: Westfalenstadion
Attendance: 71,200
Referee: Felix Brych
4 October 2008 7 VfB Stuttgart 4–1 Werder Bremen Stuttgart
14:30 Khedira 18'
Träsch 29'
Hilbert 63'
Lanig 88'		 Diego 65' Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 55,800
Referee: Herbert Fandel
18 October 2008 8 Hertha BSC 2–1 VfB Stuttgart Berlin
14:30 Nicu 26'
Kacar 87'		 Cacau 31' Stadium: Olympiastadion
Attendance: 42,336
Referee: Peter Sippel
26 October 2008 9 VfB Stuttgart 3–0 VfL Bochum Stuttgart
17:00 Mario Gómez 80', 83' Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 43,000
Referee: Manuel Gräfe
29 October 2008 10 Hamburger SV 2–0 VfB Stuttgart Hamburg
20:00 Trochowski 17' (pen)
Mathijsen 74'		 Stadium: HSH Nordbank Arena
Attendance: 50,037
Referee: Günter Perl
1 November 2008 11 VfB Stuttgart 1–3 Köln Stuttgart
15:30 Hilbert 69' Novakovic 3', 61'
Petit 90+4'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer
9 November 2008 12 Eintracht Frankfurt 2–2 VfB Stuttgart Frankfurt
17:00 Lyberopoulos 18', 66' Lanig 71'
Gómez 87'		 Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena
Attendance: 51,000
Referee: Babak Rafati
15 November 2008 13 VfB Stuttgart 0–0 Arminia Bielefeld Stuttgart
15:30 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Florian Meyer
22 November 2008 14 VfL Wolfsburg 4–1 VfB Stuttgart Wolfsburg
15:30 Grafite 51', 76'
Džeko 79', 85'		 Lanig 17' Stadium: Volkswagen Arena
Attendance: 26,897
Referee: Helmut Fleischer
30 November 2008 15 VfB Stuttgart 2–0 Schalke 04 Stuttgart
17:00 Jan Simak 79'
Mario Gómez 83'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 55,800
Referee: Wolfgang Stark
6 December 2008 16 Energie Cottbus 0–3 VfB Stuttgart Cottbus
15:30 Hilbert 4'
Simak 63'
Khedira 68'		 Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft
Attendance: 13,527
Referee: Jochen Drees
13 December 2008 17 VfB Stuttgart 2–2 Bayern Munich Stuttgart
15:30 Khedira 45+1', 90+1' Borowski 48'
Toni 66'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 55,896
Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer
7 February 2009 19 Bayer Leverkusen 2–4 VfB Stuttgart Leverkusen
15:30 Kießling 67'
Charisteas 90+3'		 Gómez 3', 75'
Hitzlsperger 51'
Sinkiewicz 90'		 Stadium: ESPRIT arena
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Günter Perl
14 February 2009 20 Hannover 96 3–3 VfB Stuttgart Hanover
15:30 Stajner 43'
Krzynowek 45+2'
Forssell 85'		 Gómez 7'
Lanig 22'
Hitzlsperger 87'		 Stadium: Heinz-von-Heiden-Arena
Attendance: 31,127
Referee: Manuel Gräfe
21 February 2009 21 VfB Stuttgart 3–3 1899 Hoffenheim Stuttgart
15:30 Cacau 26'
Gómez 31', 63'		 Demba Ba 24', 45', 67' Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 54,000
Referee: Michael Kempter
1 March 2009 22 Karlsruher SC 0–2 VfB Stuttgart Karlsruhe
17:15 Élson 50'
Khedira 88'		 Stadium: Wildparkstadion
Attendance: 29,252
Referee: Felix Brych
7 March 2009 23 VfB Stuttgart 2–1 Borussia Dortmund Stuttgart
15:30 Élson 10'
Gómez 62'		 Valdez 52' Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 55,896
Referee: Florian Meyer
15 March 2009 24 Werder Bremen 4–0 VfB Stuttgart Bremen
17:00 Diego (footballer, born 1985) 34'
Pizarro 53'
Rosenberg 59', 74'		 Stadium: Wohninvest-Weserstadion
Attendance: 39,272
Referee: Günter Perl
21 March 2009 25 VfB Stuttgart 2–0 Hertha BSC Stuttgart
15:30 Cacau 47'
Khedira 51'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 51,000
Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer
4 April 2009 26 VfL Bochum 1–2 VfB Stuttgart Bochum
15:30 Epalle 48' Cacau 58'
Tasci 90'		 Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 24,718
Referee: Helmut Fleischer
12 April 2009 27 VfB Stuttgart 1–0 Hamburger SV Stuttgart
17:00 Gómez 90+2' Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 55,700
Referee: Wolfgang Stark
18 April 2009 28 1. FC Köln 0–3 VfB Stuttgart Cologne
15:30 Gómez 16', 55', 71' Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion
Attendance: 50,997
Referee: Peter Gagelmann
25 April 2009 29 VfB Stuttgart 2–0 Eintracht Frankfurt Stuttgart
15:30 Cacau 33'
Gómez 48'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Guido Winkmann
9 May 2009 31 VfB Stuttgart 4–1 VfL Wolfsburg Stuttgart
15:30 Gómez 1', 20', 63', 76' Džeko 36' Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 55,896
Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer
13 May 2009 32 Schalke 04 1–2 VfB Stuttgart Gelsenkirchen
20:00 Ivan Rakitic 39' Cacau 15'
Marica 56'		 Stadium: Veltins-Arena
Attendance: 61,673
Referee: Michael Kempter
16 May 2009 33 VfB Stuttgart 2–0 Energie Cottbus Stuttgart
15:30 Hitzlsperger 19'
Cacau 78'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Denis Aytekin
23 May 2009 34 Bayern Munich 2–1 VfB Stuttgart Munich
15:30 Boulahrouz 16' (o.g.)
Van Bommel 60'		 Gómez 63' Stadium: Allianz Arena
Attendance: 69,000
Referee: Florian Meyer

Statistics

Top scorers

Notes

  1. ↑ Baştürk was born in Herne, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Turkey internationally and made his international debut for Turkey in 1998.
  2. ↑ Cacau was born in Santo André, Brazil, but also qualified to represent Germany internationally after gaining citizenship and made his international debut for Germany in May 2009.
  3. ↑ Ljuboja was born in Vinkovci, SFR Yugoslavia (now Croatia), but also qualified to represent Serbia and Montenegro and its successor state Serbia internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Serbia and Montenegro in 2003.
  4. ↑ Ikeng was born in Bafia, Cameroon, but also qualified to represent Germany internationally and represented Germany at U-18 level.

References

  1. ↑ "FootballSquads – VFB Stuttgart – 2008/09".
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