2015–16 VfB Stuttgart season

VfB Stuttgart
2015–16 season
ChairmanBernd Wahler
ManagerAlexander Zorniger (sacked 24 November 2015)
Jürgen Kramny (appointed 20 December 2015)
StadiumMercedes-Benz Arena, Stuttgart
Bundesliga17th (relegated)
DFB-PokalQuarter-finals
Top goalscorerLeague:
Daniel Didavi (13)
All:
Daniel Didavi (14)

The 2015–16 VfB Stuttgart season was the 123rd season in the club's football history. In 2015–16, the club played in the Bundesliga, the premier tier of German football.

Squad

As of 1 February 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  AUS Mitchell Langerak
2 DF  ARG Emiliano Insúa
3 DF  GER Daniel Schwaab
4 DF  BIH Toni Šunjić
5 DF  GER Timo Baumgartl
6 DF  GER Georg Niedermeier (vice-captain)
7 FW  AUT Martin Harnik
8 MF  GER Lukas Rupp
10 MF  GER Daniel Didavi
14 DF  GER Philip Heise
15 DF  GER Kevin Großkreutz
16 DF  AUT Florian Klein
18 MF  SRB Filip Kostić
19 FW  GER Timo Werner
20 MF  GER Christian Gentner (captain)
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 GK  POL Przemysław Tytoń
23 FW  UKR Artem Kravets (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
24 DF  ITA Federico Barba (on loan from Empoli)
26 MF  CIV Serey Die
27 MF  GER Mart Ristl
28 MF  GER Marvin Wanitzek
31 MF  GER Arianit Ferati
32 GK  GER Benjamin Uphoff
33 FW  GER Daniel Ginczek
34 FW  UKR Borys Tashchy
39 FW  CZE Jan Kliment
41 DF  GER Stephen Sama
42 MF  USA Jerome Kiesewetter
44 MF  ROU Alexandru Maxim

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF  GER Antonio Rüdiger (at Roma until June 2016)
— MF  NZL Marco Rojas (at Thun until June 2016)

Transfers

Transferred in

No. Pos. Name Age Nat Moving from Type Transfer Window Contract ends Transfer fee Sources
1 Goalkeeper Mitchell Langerak 26 Borussia Dortmund Transfer Summer 30 June 2018 €3,500,000
2 Defender Emiliano Insúa 26 Atlético Madrid Transfer Summer 30 June 2018 Free
4 Defender Toni Šunjić 26 Kuban Krasnodar Transfer Summer 30 June 2018 €3,000,000
8 Midfielder Lukas Rupp 24 SC Paderborn Transfer Summer 30 June 2018 Free
9 Forward Robbie Kruse 26 Bayer Leverkusen Loan Summer 30 June 2016 €750,000
14 Defender Philip Heise 24 1. FC Heidenheim Transfer Summer 30 June 2018 €750,000
22 Goalkeeper Przemysław Tytoń 28 PSV Eindhoven Transfer Summer 30 June 2017 €1,000,000
27 Midfielder Mart Ristl 18 VfB Stuttgart U19 Promoted Summer 30 June 2018 —
28 Midfielder Marvin Wanitzek 21 VfB Stuttgart II Promoted Summer 30 June 2017 —
31 Midfielder Arianit Ferati 17 VfB Stuttgart U19 Promoted Summer 30 June 2018 —
39 Forward Jan Kliment 21 Vysočina Jihlava Transfer Summer 30 June 2019 €1,000,000
— Midfielder Joshua Kimmich 20 RB Leipzig Transfer Summer — €1,500,000
— Midfielder Kevin Stöger 21 1. FC Kaiserslautern Loan return Summer 30 June 2017 —
15 Defender Kevin Großkreutz 27 Galatasaray Transfer Winter 30 June 2018 €2,170,000
23 Forward Artem Kravets 26 Dynamo Kyiv Loan Winter 30 June 2016 €500,000
24 Defender Federico Barba 22 Empoli Loan Winter 30 June 2016 €1,000,000
32 Goalkeeper Benjamin Uphoff 22 VfB Stuttgart II Promoted Winter 30 June 2017 —
34 Forward Borys Tashchy 22 VfB Stuttgart II Promoted Winter 30 June 2018 —

Transferred out

No. Pos. Name Age Nat Moving to Type Transfer Window Transfer fee Sources
1 Goalkeeper Sven Ulreich 26 Bayern Munich Transfer Summer €3,500,000
2 Defender Gōtoku Sakai 24 Hamburger SV Transfer Summer €700,000
5 Defender Karim Haggui 31 Fortuna Düsseldorf End of contract Summer —
8 Midfielder Moritz Leitner 22 Borussia Dortmund End of loan Summer —
9 Forward Vedad Ibišević 31 Hertha BSC Transfer Summer Free
13 Midfielder Oriol Romeu 23 Chelsea End of loan Summer —
22 Goalkeeper Thorsten Kirschbaum 28 1. FC Nürnberg Transfer Summer €100,000
23 Midfielder Sercan Sararer 25 Fortuna Düsseldorf Transfer Summer €500,000
23 Midfielder Kevin Stöger 21 SC Paderborn Transfer Summer €1,000,000
24 Defender Antonio Rüdiger 22 Roma Loan Summer €4,000,000
25 Forward Mohammed Abdellaoue 29 Vålerenga Transfer Summer Free
27 Defender Tim Leibold 21 1. FC Nürnberg Transfer Summer Free
34 Midfielder Konstantin Rausch 25 Darmstadt 98 Transfer Summer Free
39 Midfielder Robin Yalçın 21 Çaykur Rizespor Transfer Summer €250,000
— Midfielder Joshua Kimmich 20 Bayern Munich Transfer Summer €8,500,000
9 Forward Robbie Kruse 27 Bayer Leverkusen End of loan Winter —
11 Midfielder Carlos Gruezo 21 FC Dallas Transfer Winter €1,500,000
17 Goalkeeper Odisseas Vlachodimos 21 Panathinaikos Transfer Winter Free
21 Midfielder Adam Hloušek 27 Legia Warsaw Transfer Winter €500,000

Competitions

Bundesliga

Main article: 2015–16 Bundesliga

League table

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
14 Darmstadt 98 34 9 11 14 38 53 −15 38
15 1899 Hoffenheim 34 9 10 15 39 54 −15 37
16 Eintracht Frankfurt (O) 34 9 9 16 34 52 −18 36 Qualification for the relegation play-offs
17 VfB Stuttgart (R) 34 9 6 19 50 75 −25 33 Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
18 Hannover 96 (R) 34 7 4 23 31 62 −31 25
Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-offs.
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Results summary

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
34 9 6 19 50 75  −25 33 6 1 10 22 32  −10 3 5 9 28 43  −15

Last updated: 14 May 2016.
Source: Bundesliga

Results by round

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Updated to match(es) played on 14 May 2016. Source: Bundesliga
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

16 August 2015 (2015-08-16) 1 VfB Stuttgart 1–3 1. FC Köln Stuttgart
17:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Baumgartl  34'
Gentner  67'
Insúa  71'
Didavi 79' (pen.)		 Report Sørensen  61'
Vogt  61'
Modeste 75' (pen.)
Zoller 77'
Osako 90+2'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 59,500
Referee: Wolfgang Stark
22 August 2015 (2015-08-22) 2 Hamburger SV 3–2 VfB Stuttgart Hamburg
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Gregoritsch  31'
Iličević 34'
Djourou  48', 89'
Jung  73'
Lasogga 84'		 Report Ginczek 23', 42'
Rupp  33'
Klein  52'  53'
Kostić  68'
Didavi  72'		 Stadium: Volksparkstadion
Attendance: 54,618
Referee: Günter Perl
29 August 2015 (2015-08-29) 3 VfB Stuttgart 1–4 Eintracht Frankfurt Stuttgart
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Didavi 30',  48'
Tytoń  67'
Hloušek  86'
Ginczek  89'		 Report Hloušek 11' (o.g.)
Chandler  21'
Stendera  26'
Castaignos 42', 87'
Abraham  50'
Seferovic 69' (pen.)		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 49,327
Referee: Bastian Dankert
12 September 2015 (2015-09-12) 4 Hertha BSC 2–1 VfB Stuttgart Berlin
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Haraguchi 14'
Lustenberger 45+3'		 Report Šunjić 36'
Die  45+2'
Kostić  58'
Didavi  60'		 Stadium: Olympiastadion
Attendance: 45,994
Referee: Tobias Stieler
20 September 2015 (2015-09-20) 5 VfB Stuttgart 0–1 Schalke 04 Stuttgart
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Klein  20'
Insúa  44'
Šunjić  75'		 Report Di Santo  49'
Sané  52', 53'
Aogo  61'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 48,510
Referee: Manuel Gräfe
23 September 2015 (2015-09-23) 6 Hannover 96 1–3 VfB Stuttgart Hanover
20:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Karaman 14'
Schulz  58'
Saint-Maximin  79'
Sobiech  81'		 Report Gentner 16'
Werner 18'
Didavi  38'
Die  45+1'
Rupp  88'
Maxim 90'		 Stadium: HDI-Arena
Attendance: 36,800
Referee: Sascha Stegemann
26 September 2015 (2015-09-26) 7 VfB Stuttgart 1–3 Borussia Mönchengladbach Stuttgart
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Baumgartl  16'
Ginczek 40' (pen.)
Šunjić  61'
Gentner  64'
Die  88'		 Report Xhaka 16'
Gentner 20' (o.g.)
Sommer  78'
Raffael 90'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 51,020
Referee: Günter Perl
3 October 2015 (2015-10-03) 8 TSG Hoffenheim 2–2 VfB Stuttgart Sinsheim
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Volland 33' (pen.), 77',  78'
Rudy  60'
Schwegler  90+3'		 Report Kliment 64'
Schwaab  73'
Werner 90'		 Stadium: Wirsol Rhein-Neckar-Arena
Attendance: 30,150
Referee: Deniz Aytekin
18 October 2015 (2015-10-18) 9 VfB Stuttgart 1–0 FC Ingolstadt Stuttgart
17:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Harnik  4'
Die  12'  86'
Didavi 59'
Rupp  67'
Šunjić  89'		 Report Brégerie  90+1' Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 45,700
Referee: Guido Winkmann
24 October 2015 (2015-10-24) 10 Bayer Leverkusen 4–3 VfB Stuttgart Leverkusen
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Bellarabi 57'
Boenisch 70',  86'
Hernández 71'
Mehmedi 89',  90'		 Report Šunjić  45'
Harnik 50'
Didavi 54'
Rupp 60'
Schwaab  81'
Ristl  90+1'
Insúa  90+3'		 Stadium: BayArena
Attendance: 30,210
Referee: Felix Brych
1 November 2015 (2015-11-01) 11 VfB Stuttgart 2–0 Darmstadt 98 Stuttgart
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Tytoń  33'
Die  54'
Klein  58'
Garics 68' (o.g.)
Werner 90+4'		 Report Garics  61'
Díaz  90+1'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 55,200
Referee: Robert Hartmann
7 November 2015 (2015-11-07) 12 Bayern Munich 4–0 VfB Stuttgart Munich
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Robben 11'
Douglas Costa 18'
Lewandowski 37'
Müller 40'		 Report Stadium: Allianz Arena
Attendance: 75,000
Referee: Bastian Dankert
21 November 2015 (2015-11-21) 13 VfB Stuttgart 0–4 FC Augsburg Stuttgart
15:45 CET (UTC+01:00) Die  57'
Kliment  68'		 Report Esswein 11'
Baumgartl 17' (o.g.)
Callsen-Bracker 36'
Koo  38', 54'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 54,925
Referee: Sascha Stegemann
29 November 2015 (2015-11-29) 14 Borussia Dortmund 4–1 VfB Stuttgart Dortmund
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Castro 3'
Aubameyang 19', 90+1'
Papastathopoulos  53'
Niedermeier 65' (o.g.)		 Report Didavi 40' Stadium: Signal Iduna Park
Attendance: 81,359
Referee: Manuel Gräfe
6 December 2015 (2015-12-06) 15 VfB Stuttgart 1–1 Werder Bremen Stuttgart
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Die  25'
Rupp 33'
Kostić  49'		 Report Bargfrede  30'
Fritz  53'
Ujah 71'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 46,590
Referee: Florian Meyer
11 December 2015 (2015-12-11) 16 Mainz 05 0–0 VfB Stuttgart Mainz
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Bungert  36' Report Rupp  88' Stadium: Coface Arena
Attendance: 29,104
Referee: Felix Zwayer
19 December 2015 (2015-12-19) 17 VfB Stuttgart 3–1 VfL Wolfsburg Stuttgart
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Didavi 22', 47'
Kostić 31'
Šunjić  56'  70'
Niedermeier  76'		 Report Arnold 14'
Schürrle  68'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 47,343
Referee: Felix Brych
23 January 2016 (2016-01-23) 18 1. FC Köln 1–3 VfB Stuttgart Cologne
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Modeste 19' (pen.) Report Niedermeier  18'
Didavi 36'
Werner 51'
Gentner 83'		 Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Manuel Gräfe
30 January 2016 (2016-01-30) 19 VfB Stuttgart 2–1 Hamburger SV Stuttgart
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Großkreutz  20'
Hunt 66' (o.g.)
Kravets 88'		 Report Rudņevs 75'
Adler  79'
Hunt  84'
Ostrzolek  90+4'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 46,600
Referee: Günter Perl
6 February 2016 (2016-02-06) 20 Eintracht Frankfurt 2–4 VfB Stuttgart Frankfurt
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Oczipka  37'
Meier 52'
Zambrano  63'  75'
Huszti 90'		 Report Gentner 27'
Didavi  36'  67', 45+1'
Großkreutz  51'
Niedermeier 65'
Kostić 76' (pen.)		 Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena
Attendance: 42,000
Referee: Peter Sippel
13 February 2016 (2016-02-13) 21 VfB Stuttgart 2–0 Hertha BSC Stuttgart
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Insúa  34'
Die 51'
Maxim  72'
Großkreutz  78'
Kostić 84'		 Report Skjelbred  61'
Brooks  62'
Haraguchi  67'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 45,465
Referee: Christian Dingert
21 February 2016 (2016-02-21) 22 Schalke 04 1–1 VfB Stuttgart Gelsenkirchen
17:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Belhanda 14',  69'
Schöpf  75'
Sané  81'		 Report Didavi  28'
Harnik 74'		 Stadium: Veltins-Arena
Attendance: 61,262
Referee: Bastian Dankert
27 February 2016 (2016-02-27) 23 VfB Stuttgart 1–2 Hannover 96 Stuttgart
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Werner 18'
Niedermeier  54'		 Report Schulz 32', 83'
Hoffmann  56'
Yamaguchi  65'
Sorg  72'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 54,356
Referee: Sascha Stegemann
2 March 2016 (2016-03-02) 24 Borussia Mönchengladbach 4–0 VfB Stuttgart Mönchengladbach
20:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Hazard 16',  54'
Raffael 60'
Herrmann 68'
Großkreutz 90+1' (o.g.)		 Report Die  44'
Harnik  83'		 Stadium: Stadion im Borussia-Park
Attendance: 43,627
Referee: Tobias Welz
5 March 2016 (2016-03-05) 25 VfB Stuttgart 5–1 TSG Hoffenheim Stuttgart
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Niedermeier 5', 51'
Kravets  14'
Rupp 42'
Kostić 78'
Werner 83'		 Report Süle  60'
Kramarić 73'
Polanski  80'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 47,677
Referee: Christian Dingert
12 March 2016 (2016-03-12) 26 FC Ingolstadt 3–3 VfB Stuttgart Ingolstadt
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Hartmann 4'
da Costa  54'
Leckie 56'
Lezcano 61'
Hübner  70'		 Report Kostić 9'
Niedermeier  22'
Didavi  62', 84' (pen.)
Rupp 79'
Gentner  87'		 Stadium: Audi Sportpark
Attendance: 15,107
Referee: Manuel Gräfe
20 March 2016 (2016-03-20) 27 VfB Stuttgart 0–2 Bayer Leverkusen Stuttgart
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Niedermeier  32'
Die  61'
Kostić  88'		 Report Brandt 11'
Ramalho  31'
Kießling  44'
Bellarabi 49'
Yurchenko  82'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 54,522
Referee: Daniel Siebert
2 April 2016 (2016-04-02) 28 Darmstadt 98 2–2 VfB Stuttgart Darmstadt
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Wagner 26'
Niemeyer 51',  62'
Jungwirth  70'
Rausch  88'
Heller  90'		 Report Gentner 45'
Rupp 45+3'
Klein  90'		 Stadium: Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Felix Zwayer
9 April 2016 (2016-04-09) 29 VfB Stuttgart 1–3 Bayern Munich Stuttgart
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Didavi  45+1', 63' Report Vidal  22'
Niedermeier 31' (o.g.)
Alonso  37'
Alaba 52',  60'
Douglas Costa 89'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Bastian Dankert
16 April 2016 (2016-04-16) 30 FC Augsburg 1–0 VfB Stuttgart Augsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Finnbogason 36'
Opare  67'
Kohr  82'		 Report Stadium: WWK ARENA
Attendance: 30,660
Referee: Tobias Stieler
23 April 2016 (2016-04-23) 31 VfB Stuttgart 0–3 Borussia Dortmund Stuttgart
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Report Kagawa 21'
Pulisic 45',  49'
Mkhitaryan 56'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Daniel Siebert
2 May 2016 (2016-05-02) 32 Werder Bremen 6–2 VfB Stuttgart Bremen
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) Bartels 10', 80'
Barba 33' (o.g.)
Öztunalı 42'
Pizarro 64'
Ujah 86'
Gebre Selassie  90'		 Report Insúa  9'
Didavi 26'
Barba 53'		 Stadium: Weserstadion
Attendance: 41,000
Referee: Felix Brych
7 May 2016 (2016-05-07) 33 VfB Stuttgart 1–3 Mainz 05 Stuttgart
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Gentner 6'
Didavi  18'
Šunjić  70'
Baumgartl  90'		 Report Bungert  33'
Mallı 37'
Baumgartlinger  53'
Córdoba 53'
Onisiwo 77'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Deniz Aytekin
14 May 2016 (2016-05-14) 34 VfL Wolfsburg 3–1 VfB Stuttgart Wolfsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Arnold 11'
Schürrle 29', 90+2'
Kruse  36'
Dante  85'		 Report Kostić  55'
Didavi 78'
Schwaab  88'		 Stadium: Volkswagen Arena
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Manuel Gräfe

DFB-Pokal

Main article: 2015–16 DFB-Pokal
8 August 2015 (2015-08-08) Round 1 Holstein Kiel 1–2 VfB Stuttgart Kiel
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Czichos 37'
Herrmann  43'		 Report Didavi 41'
Gruezo  58'
Ginczek 60'
Rupp  90+1'		 Stadium: Holstein-Stadion
Attendance: 9,916
Referee: Guido Winkmann
28 October 2015 (2015-10-28) Round 2 Carl Zeiss Jena 0–2 VfB Stuttgart Jena
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Krstić  36'
Eismann  80'
Koczor  81'
Erlbeck  90+1'		 Report Harnik 22'
Wanitzek  88'
Maxim 90+2' (pen.)		 Stadium: Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Florian Meyer
16 December 2015 (2015-12-16) Round of 16 VfB Stuttgart 3–2 (a.e.t.) Eintracht Braunschweig Stuttgart
19:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Niedermeier 21',  106'
Gentner  71'
Werner 99'
Šunjić 118'		 Report Baffo 6'
Decarli  35'
Ademi 110'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 21,950
Referee: Peter Sippel
9 February 2016 (2016-02-09) Quarter-finals VfB Stuttgart 1–3 Borussia Dortmund Stuttgart
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Rupp 21'
Niedermeier  34'
Großkreutz  46'
Didavi  62'		 Report Reus 5'
Aubameyang 31'
Papastathopoulos  83'
Mkhitaryan 89'		 Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena
Attendance: 46,500
Referee: Tobias Stieler

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