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| Full name | Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V. | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Die Roten (The Reds) Die Schwaben (The Swabians) | |||
| Short name | VfB | |||
| Founded | 9 September 1893 | |||
| Ground | MHPArena | |||
| Capacity | 60,449[citation needed] | |||
| President | Claus Vogt | |||
| Chairman | Alexander Wehrle | |||
| Head coach | Sebastian Hoeneß | |||
| League | Bundesliga | |||
| 2022–23 | Bundesliga, 16th of 18 | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V. (lit. 'Association for Movement Games Stuttgart 1893'), commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (German pronunciation: [faʊ̯ɛfˈbeː ˈʃtʊtɡaʁt] ⓘ) or simply VfB, 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 85,000 members, 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.