german professional football club
This article is about the men ‘s team. For the women ‘s team, see TSG 1899 Hoffenheim ( women )
Football club

Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V., or just TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim ( pronounced [ teː ʔɛs ɡeː ˈʔaxt͡seːnˈhʊndɐt ˈnɔʏ̯nʔʊntˈnɔʏ̯nt͡sɪç ˈhɔfn̩haɪ̯m ] ) is a german professional football club based in Hoffenheim, a greenwich village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. in the first place founded in 1899 as a gymnastics club, Hoffenheim came into being in its modern mannequin in 1945. A fifth part side in 2000, the club quickly advanced through the german football league organization with the fiscal back of alumnus and software baron Dietmar Hopp, and in 2008 Hoffenheim was promoted to the lead tier Bundesliga. In the 2017–18 season, Hoffenheim finished third in the Bundesliga ( its best to date ), qualifying for the UEFA Champions League group stage for the foremost time. Since 2009, Hoffenheim has played its home games at the Rhein-Neckar-Arena ( presently known as PreZero Arena ), having previously played at the Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion from 1999 .

history [edit ]

The contemporary baseball club was formed in 1945, when gymnastics club Turnverein Hoffenheim ( founded 1 July 1899 ) and football baseball club Fußballverein Hoffenheim ( establish 1921 ) merged. At the begin of the 1990s, the baseball club was an obscure local amateur side dally in the one-eighth division Baden-Württemberg A-Liga. They steadily improved and by 1996 were competing in the Verbandsliga Nordbaden ( V ). Around 2000, alumnus Dietmar Hopp returned to the club of his youth as a fiscal angel. Hopp was the co-founder of software firm SAP and he put some of his money into the clubhouse. His contributions generated about immediate results : in 2000 Hoffenheim finished first in the Verbandsliga and was promoted to the fourth-division Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. Another first-place finish moved the baseball club up to the Regionalliga Süd ( III ) for the 2001–02 season. They finished 13th in their first season in the Regionalliga, but improved significantly the adjacent year, earning a fifth-place consequence. Hoffenheim earned one-fifth and seventh-place finishes in the future two seasons, before improving to fourth in 2005–06 to earn their best leave to date. The clubhouse made its first DFB-Pokal appearance in the 2003–04 contest and performed well, advancing to the quarter-finals by eliminating 2. Bundesliga sides Eintracht Trier and Karlsruher SC and Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen before being put out themselves by another 2. Bundesliga side, VfB Lübeck. Negotiations to merge TSG Hoffenheim, Astoria Walldorf, and SV Sandhausen to create FC Heidelberg 06 in 2005 were abandoned due to the underground of the latter two clubs, and the bankruptcy to agree on whether the newly side ‘s stadium should be located in Heidelberg or Eppelheim. team owner Hopp clearly preferred Heidelberg, but could not overcome the underground of local anesthetic firm Wild, which had already reserved the locate of the design stadium for its newly production facilities .

2006–2008 : major investments, promotion to the Bundesliga [edit ]

In 2006, the club sought to improve its squad and technical staff by bringing in players with respective years of Bundesliga have, most notably Jochen Seitz and Tomislav Marić, and young talents like Sejad Salihović, while signing coach Ralf Rangnick, who managed Bundesliga teams such as SSV Ulm 1846, VfB Stuttgart, Hannover 96 and Schalke 04, to a five-year contract. The investment paid off in the 2006–07 season with the club ‘s promotion to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing moment in Regionalliga Süd. The 2007–08 season was Hoffenheim ‘s first season in master football. After a weak start with three losses and merely one guide in the first four games, the team ‘s operation improved signally and Hoffenheim climbed from 16th place on matchday four to second place on matchday 23. The team managed to defend their place until the end of the season, having scored 60 points after matchday 34. As a leave of their second-place eat up they received automatic pistol promotion to the Bundesliga, the highest tier in german football, after playing in the 2. Bundesliga for just one season .
Hoffenheim had a successful season in their debut in the Bundesliga, the top German division, as they went on to record a seventh stead finish. The club ‘s best players of the season were Vedad Ibišević and Demba Ba, who scored 18 and 14 respectively. [ 1 ] In the 2009–10 Bundesliga, the cabaret had a less successful temper, recording a finish outside of the peak 10, finishing 11th. [ 2 ] The baseball club finally went on to finish in 11th set for the next two consecutive seasons. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the 2012–13 Bundesliga, the cabaret came very cheeseparing to suffering relegation, after they a sixteenth position finish, meaning they would have to play in the delegating play-offs to survive ; the club went on to beat their opponents Kaiserslautern by a scoreline of 5–2 on aggregate, with Roberto Firmino scoring two goals in the foremost match. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In the 2013–14 Bundesliga, the club had strange statistics ; being the third best goalscoring team in the league, but besides the worst defensive team, scoring 72 goals and conceding 70. [ 8 ] The club ‘s best goalscorer of the season, besides their best help provider, was Roberto Firmino, scoring 16 goals and providing 12 assists, with the player winning the Bundesliga Breakthrough Player of the Season award. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In the 2014–15 Bundesliga, the club came identical close to qualifying for the Europa League, with precisely two points separating them from Borussia Dortmund, who were in 7th home. Despite the eighth place finish, Hoffenheim still had a goal remainder of −6 in the 2014–15 season. [ 12 ] In the 2015–16 Bundesliga, the club once again came close to suffering relegation, with merely one point separating them from the relegation play-offs. [ 13 ] In the 2016–17 season, new coach julian Nagelsmann took over, [ 14 ] beginning to recruit respective very meaning players, including Andrej Kramarić, Kerem Demirbay and Sandro Wagner. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Initially, the club struggled for form, with four draws in the first gear four games of the season, [ 18 ] before a rise in shape rose the clubhouse to third base target in the league by the end of October. [ 19 ] On 4 April 2017, the club beat Bayern Munich by a scoreline of 1–0, one of the most authoritative wins in the club ‘s history. [ 20 ] On 21 April 2017, the clubhouse confirmed that they would play european football following season following a 1–1 withdraw with Köln. [ 21 ] Following a fourth place stopping point in the 2016–17 Bundesliga, Hoffenheim confirmed Champions League football for the 2017–18 season. [ 22 ] The cabaret were finally drawn to play six-time european champions Liverpool in the play-off round. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The club lost the foremost leg tie by a scoreline of 1–2, before a 4–2 loss in the second leg confirmed Hoffenheim ‘s elimination from the tournament, as the club lost 3–6 on aggregate. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Due to their elimination from the play-off stages, the club would continue playing european football in the Europa League group stages, however, the club would suffer elimination from the tournament as they would finish buttocks of their group. [ 27 ] In the 2017–18 Bundesliga season, Hoffenheim had a successful season, finishing third base, mechanically qualifying for future year ‘s UEFA Champions League. [ 28 ] The 2018–19 season was more disappoint for Hoffenheim, as they finished bottom of their Champions League group with entirely 3 draws and 3 losses whilst playing against the likes of Manchester City, Lyon and Shakhtar Donetsk. This think of that they did not make it out of the group stages of a european competition again. In the Bundesliga Hoffenheim did n’t fare much better, finishing a disappointing 9th place, 6 below their rate of 3rd during the 2017–18 campaign with 51 points. This was equitable two places and 3 points away from the Europa League qualifying rounds. In the DFB-Pokal Hoffenheim were eliminated by RB Leipzig in a 2–0 loss with both goals from Timo Werner. The season ‘s top scorer was Andre Kramarić, with the croatian finding the goal 22 times in 37 appearances. The german Kerem Demirbay was the clubs top playmaker with 11 assists during the 2018–19 temper. Head coach julian Nagelsmann left the club to join RB Leipzig at the end of the season. Alfred Schreuder, former adjunct coach under Huub Stevens and Julian Nagelsmann was appointed as the new head coach .

Players [edit ]

current police squad [edit ]

As of 23 October 2021[29]

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

Players out on lend [edit ]

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

Reserve team [edit ]

Women ‘s team [edit ]

staff [edit ]

First team [edit ]

stadium [edit ]

PreZero Rhein-Neckar-Arena, the first division team ‘s current stadium. Before being promoted to the 1. Bundesliga in 2008, the club played in Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion which was built in 1999 with a capacity of 5,000 ( 1,620 seats ). TSG 1899 Hoffenheim made their eminent ambitions clear in 2006 when the club ‘s management decided to build the fresh 30,150 seat Rhein-Neckar-Arena suitable for hosting Bundesliga matches. The stadium was in the first place to be built in Heidelberg before the choice of a site in Sinsheim. They opened their first season in the 1. Bundesliga at the 26,022 capability Carl-Benz-Stadion in Mannheim and played their foremost match in their new stadium on 31 January 2009. [ 30 ] Interwetten betting company has agreed to be the stadium ‘s bet partner for TSG Hoffenheim from August 2017, to 2020. [ 31 ]

controversy [edit ]

criticism of the clubhouse [edit ]

Dietmar Hopp ‘s fiscal support, which transformed Hoffenheim from a local amateur cabaret into a competitive Bundesliga club, has been strongly criticized by other clubs, fans and some in the german crush. The main points of criticism are the clubhouse ‘s miss of “ tradition ” and a proper fan base as the clubhouse is a historically insignificant side from a greenwich village of just 3,300 inhabitants. This site is similar to that of now-defunct scots slope Gretna and german clubs VfL Wolfsburg, Bayer Leverkusen and RB Leipzig, as those teams besides received boastfully fiscal support by companies ; Wolfsburg is wholly owned and supported by automobile manufacturer Volkswagen, Bayer Leverkusen by pharmaceutical company Bayer and RB Leipzig by Red Bull. Despite this, Leverkusen and Wolfsburg are however different from Hoffenheim because of their long history as football clubs founded by the factory workers themselves, and have been successful chiefly through their own merits rather than outside fund. On 16 August 2011, the club released a statement regarding complaints of a loudspeaker that was strategically placed under away fans during a home crippled against Borussia Dortmund. The loudspeaker was designed to drown out the randomness of the aside fans cheers and chants during the game. It was reported that the speaker was placed by the groundsman, although the club denied any involvement, saying he acted alone. It was besides reported that the loudspeaker was used during other games, not just the base game against Dortmund. [ 32 ] In a later statement, the club admitted that the disruptive legal assembly has been used at least five times, although club officials claim to have no cognition of these measures. On 29 February 2020, Bayern Munich supporters unfurled an offensive standard aimed at Hoffenheim owner Dietmar Hopp, resulting the game at Hoffenheim to be suspended with less than 15 minutes remaining. After concerns that the crippled could be abandoned, both teams returned to finish the peer, but had decided to equitable run down the clock to end the game in solidarity with Hopp. quite than play on, the two sets of players began passing the ball to each other and chatting as if they were teammates. The very future day, the Bundesliga match between Vfl Wolfsburg and 1. FC Union Berlin was stopped at the 44th hour of play ascribable to derogative banners being unfurl, one of which showed Hopp under crosshairs. The two teams left the field to return 10 minutes later and play out the remainder of the one-half and subsequently the game. [ 33 ]

partnership [edit ]

On 25 September 2020, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim signed a partnership agreement with MLS club FC Cincinnati. [ 34 ]

Honours [edit ]

The golf club ‘s honours :

youth [edit ]

Coaching history [edit ]

holocene coaches of the club : [ 35 ]

recent seasons [edit ]

The late season-by-season performance of the club : [ 36 ] [ 37 ]

Key
  • With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2012, the number of Regionalligas was increased from three to five with all Regionalliga Süd clubs except the Bavarian ones entering the new Regionalliga Südwest.

european record [edit ]

Hoffenheim made their debut in european contest in 2017, qualifying for the play-off beat of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League play-offs. Their foremost equal was on 15 August 2017, losing the beginning leg of the play-offs 2–1 to Liverpool .

Matches [edit ]

UEFA club coefficient ranking [edit ]

As of 8 April 2021[38]

top scorers [edit ]

Bundesliga

Women ‘s team [edit ]

The women ‘s team started playing in 2006–07 and rushed through the lower leagues. The women ‘s team plays at Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion and is presently coached by Jürgen Ehrmann. [ 39 ]

References [edit ]

literature [edit ]

  • Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9

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