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 merely TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim ( pronounced [ teː ʔɛs ɡeː ˈʔaxt͡seːnˈhʊndɐt ˈnɔʏ̯nʔʊntˈnɔʏ̯nt͡sɪç ˈhɔfn̩haɪ̯m ] ) is a german professional football clubhouse based in Hoffenheim, a village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. primitively founded in 1899 as a gymnastics club, Hoffenheim came into being in its advanced class in 1945. A one-fifth division side in 2000, the clubhouse quickly advanced through the german football league system 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 first 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 club was formed in 1945, when gymnastics club Turnverein Hoffenheim ( founded 1 July 1899 ) and football club Fußballverein Hoffenheim ( establish 1921 ) merged. At the beginning of the 1990s, the club was an obscure local amateurish side play 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 young as a fiscal angel. Hopp was the co-founder of software firm SAP and he put some of his money into the club. 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 cabaret 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 next year, earning a fifth-place consequence. Hoffenheim earned 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 club made its first DFB-Pokal appearance in the 2003–04 rival 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 resistance of the latter two clubs, and the failure to agree on whether the fresh side ‘s stadium should be located in Heidelberg or Eppelheim. team owner Hopp clearly preferred Heidelberg, but could not overcome the resistance of local tauten Wild, which had already reserved the site of the design stadium for its modern production facilities .

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

In 2006, the club sought to improve its police squad and technical staff by bringing in players with several years of Bundesliga feel, most notably Jochen Seitz and Tomislav Marić, and youthful 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 second in Regionalliga Süd. The 2007–08 season was Hoffenheim ‘s first season in professional football. After a fallible start with three losses and merely one withdraw in the first four games, the team ‘s operation improved signally and Hoffenheim climbed from 16th space on matchday four to second target 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 result of their second-place finish they received automatic 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 circus tent 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 club had a less successful season, recording a finish outside of the top 10, finishing 11th. [ 2 ] The baseball club finally went on to finish in 11th place for the next two consecutive seasons. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the 2012–13 Bundesliga, the club came very cheeseparing to suffering relegation, after they a sixteenth place ending, meaning they would have to play in the relegation play-offs to survive ; the clubhouse went on to beat their opponents Kaiserslautern by a scoreline of 5–2 on aggregate, with Roberto Firmino scoring two goals in the first peer. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In the 2013–14 Bundesliga, the club had foreign 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 actor winning the Bundesliga Breakthrough Player of the Season award. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In the 2014–15 Bundesliga, the golf club came identical cheeseparing to qualifying for the Europa League, with equitable two points separating them from Borussia Dortmund, who were in 7th rate. Despite the eighth place finish, Hoffenheim still had a goal difference of −6 in the 2014–15 temper. [ 12 ] In the 2015–16 Bundesliga, the clubhouse once again came close to suffering delegating, with good 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 several very significant players, including Andrej Kramarić, Kerem Demirbay and Sandro Wagner. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Initially, the club struggled for mannequin, with four draws in the first four games of the season, [ 18 ] before a ascent in form rose the club to one-third position 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 baseball club ‘s history. [ 20 ] On 21 April 2017, the club confirmed that they would play european football following temper following a 1–1 draw with Köln. [ 21 ] Following a fourth plaza stopping point in the 2016–17 Bundesliga, Hoffenheim confirmed Champions League football for the 2017–18 season. [ 22 ] The club were finally drawn to play six-time european champions Liverpool in the play-off round. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The club lost the first leg tie by a scoreline of 1–2, before a 4–2 loss in the second stage confirmed Hoffenheim ‘s elimination from the tournament, as the golf club lost 3–6 on sum. [ 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 clubhouse would suffer elimination from the tournament as they would finish bottom of their group. [ 27 ] In the 2017–18 Bundesliga season, Hoffenheim had a successful season, finishing third, mechanically qualifying for adjacent year ‘s UEFA Champions League. [ 28 ] The 2018–19 season was more disappointing for Hoffenheim, as they finished bed of their Champions League group with merely 3 draws and 3 losses whilst playing against the likes of Manchester City, Lyon and Shakhtar Donetsk. This mean that they did not make it out of the group stages of a european rival again. In the Bundesliga Hoffenheim did n’t fare much better, finishing a disappointing 9th place, 6 below their ranking of 3rd during the 2017–18 crusade with 51 points. This was just 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 temper ‘s top scorer was Andre Kramarić, with the croatian finding the goal 22 times in 37 appearances. The german Kerem Demirbay was the clubs peak playmaker with 11 assists during the 2018–19 temper. Head passenger car julian Nagelsmann left the club to join RB Leipzig at the end of the season. Alfred Schreuder, former adjunct bus under Huub Stevens and Julian Nagelsmann was appointed as the modern promontory coach .

Players [edit ]

current 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 ]

note : Flags indicate national 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 stream stadium. Before being promoted to the 1. Bundesliga in 2008, the cabaret played in Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion which was built in 1999 with a capacity of 5,000 ( 1,620 seats ). TSG 1899 Hoffenheim made their exalted ambitions clear in 2006 when the golf club ‘s management decided to build the newfangled 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 excerpt of a locate in Sinsheim. They opened their inaugural season in the 1. Bundesliga at the 26,022 capacity Carl-Benz-Stadion in Mannheim and played their first gear match in their new stadium on 31 January 2009. [ 30 ] Interwetten betting company has agreed to be the stadium ‘s bet collaborator for TSG Hoffenheim from August 2017, to 2020. [ 31 ]

controversy [edit ]

criticism of the golf club [edit ]

Dietmar Hopp ‘s fiscal support, which transformed Hoffenheim from a local amateur golf club into a competitive Bundesliga golf club, has been powerfully criticized by other clubs, fans and some in the german press. The main points of criticism are the club ‘s miss of “ custom ” and a proper fan basis as the club is a historically insignificant side from a village of just 3,300 inhabitants. This situation is exchangeable to that of now-defunct scottish side Gretna and german clubs VfL Wolfsburg, Bayer Leverkusen and RB Leipzig, as those teams besides received large fiscal documentation by companies ; Wolfsburg is wholly owned and supported by automobile manufacturer Volkswagen, Bayer Leverkusen by pharmaceutical party Bayer and RB Leipzig by Red Bull. Despite this, Leverkusen and Wolfsburg are however different from Hoffenheim because of their hanker history as football clubs founded by the factory workers themselves, and have been successful chiefly through their own merits rather than outdoor fund. On 16 August 2011, the golf club released a statement regarding complaints of a loudspeaker that was strategically placed under off fans during a home game against Borussia Dortmund. The loudspeaker was designed to drown out the noise of the away fans cheers and chants during the game. It was reported that the speaker was placed by the groundsman, although the club denied any interest, saying he acted alone. It was besides reported that the loudspeaker was used during other games, not good the home game against Dortmund. [ 32 ] In a former statement, the club admitted that the disruptive sound fabrication 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 game could be abandoned, both teams returned to finish the match, but had decided to barely run down the clock to end the game in solidarity with Hopp. rather than play on, the two sets of players began passing the ball to each other and chatting as if they were teammates. The identical following day, the Bundesliga pit between Vfl Wolfsburg and 1. FC Union Berlin was stopped at the 44th hour of dally due to derogative banners being unfurl, one of which showed Hopp under crosshairs. The two teams left the field to return 10 minutes by and by and play out the end of the half and subsequently the game. [ 33 ]

partnership [edit ]

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

Honours [edit ]

The club ‘s honours :

youth [edit ]

Coaching history [edit ]

late coaches of the baseball club : [ 35 ]

holocene seasons [edit ]

The holocene 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 competition in 2017, qualifying for the play-off round of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League play-offs. Their first peer was on 15 August 2017, losing the first base leg of the play-offs 2–1 to Liverpool .

Matches [edit ]

UEFA cabaret 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