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.

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…

The club's presidents:

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:

7 January 1945 – 30 June 1946 Ossi Müller 7 January 1946 – 30 June 1947 Albert Cozza 7 January 1947 – 30 June 1948 Albert Cozza, Josef "Seppl" Müller and Lory Polster 7 January 1948 – 30 June 1950 Emil Melcher 7 January 1950 – 30 June 1951 Kuno Krügel 7 January 1951 – 30 June 1952 Fritz Kerr 7 January 1952 – 30 June 1953 Kuno Krügel 7 January 1953 – 30 June 1954 Eduard Havlicek 7 January 1954 – 30 June 1956 Georg Bayerer 7 January 1956 – 30 June 1958 Oswald Pfau 7 January 1958 – 30 June 1960 Benda Hügel 7 January 1960 – 30 June 1962 Karl-Heinz Grindler 7 January 1961 – 30 April 1962 Jenö Csaknady 5 January 1962 – 30 June 1962 Albert Sing 7 January 1962 – 30 June 1966 Hans Eberle 7 January 1966 – 30 June 1969 Georg Wurzer 7 January 1969 – 30 November 1969 Gerd Menne 12 January 1969 – 30 June 1971 Georg Wurzer 7 January 1971 – 30 June 1972 Barthel Thomas 7 January 1972 – 30 June 1973 Willibald Hahn 7 January 1973 – 15 September 1974 Fritz Millinger 16 Sep 1974 – 30 June 1975 Georg Wurzer and Rudolf Kröner 7 January 1975 – 30 June 1977 Rudolf Kröner 7 January 1977 – 30 June 1978 Hans Cieslarczyk 7 January 1978 – 26 October 1980 Hans-Dieter Roos 27 Oct 1981 – 30 June 1982 Slobodan Cendic 7 January 1982 – 23 January 1983 Jürgen Sundermann 24 Jan 1983 – 21 October 1984 Horst Buhtz 22 Oct 1984 – 30 June 1987 Dieter Renner 7 January 1987 – 5 February 1990 Manfred Krafft 5 February 1990 – 30 June 1992 Rainer Zobel 7 January 1992 – 23 August 1992 Frieder…

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