Triumphs and tragedies, victories and defeats, anecdotes and stories. VfB’s Bundesliga history is an eventful one – and on Sunday another chapter will be added: the meeting with SV Werder Bremen (kick-off 15:30 CEST) will be the Cannstatt club’s 1,000 home match in the German top flight. A special milestone, behind which many more interesting numbers lie.
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A quick quiz question: how many of VfB’s 999 Bundesliga home matches to date have ended goalless? The answer: there have been exactly 51 encounters in which the Stuttgart faithful haven’t seen any goals. On average, that’s only one in every 20.
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Only one of the previous 999 Bundesliga home games has been abandoned. That was on 2 December 1967, when play was stopped in the 54th minute of the meeting between VfB and Borussia Neunkirchen because of thick fog, with the score at 0-0. Stuttgart won 2-1 in the replay two weeks later.
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Former striker Mario Gomez has the honour of being the only player to have scored four goals in a VfB Bundesliga home match. It occurred on 9 May 2009 in a 4-1 win over VfL Wolfsburg. Hat-tricks for VfB players have been far more common – 36 times to be precise. Fritz Walter even did so three times, while Karl Allgöwer, Jürgen Klinsmann, Dan Corneliusson, Ioan Viorel Ganea, Kevin Kuranyi and Vedad Ibisevic all managed two hat-tricks on home turf.
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There were nine goals in the highest-scoring VfB Bundesliga home game to date. The clash between the Cannstatt boys and upcoming opponents Bremen on 8 March 2008 ended in a 6-3 win for the home side.
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Allgöwer scored an impressive 82 goals in all his Bundesliga appearances at home for VfB, making him the leading goalscorer in this category. He’s followed by Fritz Walter with 67 home goals and Hermann Ohlicher with 62. Among the current squad, Deniz Undav leads the way, having found the net 21 times in home league matches.
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Club legend Günther Schäfer featured in 168 Bundesliga home games for VfB, more than any other player. Just behind him is Allgöwer with 167 appearances, while Guido Buchwald and Ohlicher share third place in this list with 161 games each. In the current squad, Atakan Karazor has the most home appearances in the Bundesliga to his name with 84.
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VfB have won 558 of their 999 home matches in the Bundesliga to date, which equates to around 56 percent. There have been 211 draws and 230 defeats.
