For the third year in a row, VfB Stuttgart secured qualification for a European competition in the 2025/26 season. And for the second time after 2023/24, the Cannstatt boys finished in one of the UEFA Champions League places – setting various records along the way.
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Sebastian Hoeneß is the first VfB coach to lead the club to Champions League qualification twice. It’s also the second time in the last three years that Stuttgart have qualified for Europe’s premier club competition – before that it took 20 years to achieve it twice.
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As in the 2023/24 and 1979/80 seasons, VfB failed to score in just three of their 34 league games. Only in the 1984/85 campaign was this more rarely the case (one game without scoring).
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Maximilian Mittelstädt converted all four of his penalties – only Mainz’s Nadiem Amiri (eight) and Hoffenheim’s Andrej Kramaric (five) scored more times from the spot without missing at all.
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The past Bundesliga season was the fifth best in the club’s history, while 62 points represents VfB’s third-best showing since the title-winning 2006/07 campaign. Only in the 2023/24 (73 points) and 2008/09 (64) seasons, when the Cannstatt boys finished second and third respectively, did they amass more points.
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Jamie Leweling registered nine assists in the 2025/26 Bundesliga season, more than he managed in his first four top-flight campaigns combined (eight). Only Alexander Hleb in 2004/05 has posted more than nine assists for VfB in one season since detailed data collection began that same year. With seven goals as well, Leweling provided the second-most goal contributions (16) for VfB after Deniz Undav (25).
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Angelo Stiller was also among the most creative players in the Bundesliga last term. His 2,332 passes are the third-highest figure after Leverkusen’s Aleix García (3,035) and Bayern’s Joshua Kimmich (2,650). What’s more, he initiated 44 situations that led to attempts (first place) and 10 attacks that resulted in goals (second behind Luis Diaz).
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The VfB defence, marshalled by goalkeeper Alexander Nübel, kept 11 clean sheets, eight of them at the MHP Arena. Only Borussia Dortmund (15) and Borussia Mönchengladbach (13) registered more shutouts. Stuttgart were top of the league in two defensive categories, though: 16 goals conceded at home (joint with BVB) and just four from set pieces.
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Ermedin Demirovic may have just fallen short of his previous season’s tally of 15 goals in the Bundesliga, finishing on 12, but the Bosnia and Herzegovina international did still achieve a league best. The 28-year-old scored VfB’s first goal in the game nine times – only Dortmund striker Serhou Guirassy did that as often for his team. “Medo” also proved to be one of the most clinical forwards in the league: his chance conversation rate of 29 percent is the third best among all players who had at least 20 shots, after Frankfurt’s Jonathan Burkardt (32%) and Bayern star Harry Kane (30%).
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With 19 goals, Undav not only surpassed his previous Bundesliga best of 18 goals from the 2023/24 campaign but also finished as the second highest scorer in the league after Kane. In the Golden Shoe ranking of the best goalscorers in all the top divisions in Europe, the striker occupies ninth position and becomes only the second German VfB player to finish in the top 10 in this millennium after Mario Gomez (2008/09, 24 goals).
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VfB were regularly praised for the character they showed last season, too – and that’s reflected in the stats. Twenty points from losing positions is a club record in the three-points era and was only topped by FC Bayern (29 points).
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More than half of VfB’s 71 goals last season – incidentally the second-best attack in the league after champions Bayern (122) and the second best in the club’s history after 2023/24 (78) – were scored away from home. Forty-one goals on the road is a new club record and goes hand in hand with another: Hoeneß’s side have currently scored at least once in 21 consecutive away league matches.
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Among wingers who registered at least 40 dribbles in the 2025/26 Bundesliga season, Chris Führich boasts the second-best success rate with 57 percent after Jean-Matteo Bahoya of Eintracht Frankfurt (59%). Among all players who hit 50 or more crosses from open play, the Stuttgart number 10 actually holds top spot with a success rate of 38.6 percent.
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Hoeneß is now on 58 Bundesliga wins overall, putting him second in the all-time list of the VfB coaches with the most league victories behind Jürgen Sundermann (71).
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Ramon Hendriks took no prisoners last season, winning just over two thirds of his tackles (67.7%). That makes the Dutch defender the best tackler in the Bundesliga – along with Hamburg’s Luka Vuskovic – among all players who played at least 50 percent of minutes for their team.
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On the subject of playing time, Stiller completed the most minutes of all VfB’s outfield players with 2,746 minutes. Goalkeeper Nübel was one of 12 players in the German top flight (eight of them keepers) who were on the pitch for all 3,060 minutes of the campaign.
