TSG Hoffenheim
Also written as Hoffenheim.
The club
Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V. were founded on 1 July 1899 as the gymnastics club Turnverein Hoffenheim, and the modern club was formed in 1945 when it merged with the football club Fußballverein Hoffenheim, founded in 1921. They are nicknamed Die Kraichgauer. This is TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, NOT 1. FC Heidenheim, and not Hoffenheim's own reserve or youth sides, which have won titles of their own.
The first team plays in the stadium listed by Wikipedia as the SNP Arena, also called the PreZero Arena and the Rhein-Neckar-Arena, where the Europa League home matches are listed as played in Sinsheim. Capacity is 30,150 and it has been in use since 2009; before that the club played at the Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion, from 1999. The club's colours are blue and white, according to the German Wikipedia.
The SAP co-founder Dietmar Hopp, who played for the club as a youth, funded it from 1990 to 2008, taking it from the Kreisliga A to the Bundesliga. He holds 96 per cent of the football company's shares; in 2015 he took the majority of voting rights despite the 50+1 rule and returned that majority to the club in 2023.
The head coach is Christian Ilzer, appointed in November 2024. His predecessors, most recent first, were Pellegrino Matarazzo (February 2023 to November 2024), André Breitenreiter (May 2022 to February 2023), Sebastian Hoeneß (2020 to 2022), Alfred Schreuder (2019 to 2020) and Julian Nagelsmann (2016 to 2019).
Recent seasons
Bundesliga finishes: 4th in 2016/17, 3rd in 2017/18, 9th in 2018/19, 6th in 2019/20, 11th in 2020/21, 9th in 2021/22, 12th in 2022/23, 7th in 2023/24, 15th in 2024/25 and 5th in 2025/26. The 2025/26 season brought 61 points from 34 matches, 18 wins, 7 draws and 9 defeats, with 65 goals scored and 52 conceded. Andrej Kramarić was top scorer with 14 league goals, 15 in all competitions. Fifth place qualified the club for the 2026/27 UEFA Europa League. In the 2025/26 DFB-Pokal they lost in the second round to FC St. Pauli, 2-2 after extra time and 8-7 on penalties.
Honours and landmarks
Hoffenheim were 2. Bundesliga runners-up in 2007/08, which took them up to the Bundesliga for the first time. In that first top-flight season, 2008/09, they were surprise autumn champions after a draw with Schalke on matchday 17 and finished seventh. Lower down they were Oberliga Baden-Württemberg champions in 2000/01 and Verbandsliga Nordbaden champions in 1999/2000, and North Baden Cup winners four years running from 2001/02 to 2004/05. The youth sides won the German U19 title in 2013/14 and the U17 title in 2007/08. No major senior trophy appears in the sources read here; the best DFB-Pokal result is the quarter-final, reached in 2003/04, 2007/08 and 2013/14. The 1-0 home win over Bayern Munich on 4 April 2017 is described as one of the club's most significant victories.
Notable scorelines
In 2025/26 Hoffenheim beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 5-1 at home in January and Borussia Dortmund 2-1 at home in April, but lost 5-1 at Bayern Munich in February and 5-0 at RB Leipzig in March. In Europe they lost the 2017/18 Champions League play-off to Liverpool 6-3 on aggregate (1-2 away, 2-4 at home), and beat Anderlecht 4-3 in the 2024/25 Europa League league phase. The club's all-time record win and record defeat were not established from the sources read here.
European record
The sources read here show the first European campaign as 2017/18, though whether it was the club's first was not established. They lost the Champions League play-off to Liverpool 6-3 on aggregate, then finished bottom of their Europa League group, losing to Braga (1-2, 1-3) and Ludogorets Razgrad (1-1, 1-2) and taking four points from İstanbul Başakşehir (3-1, 1-1). In 2018/19 they reached the Champions League group stage, their only appearance there, and finished last, losing 3-2 to Shakhtar Donetsk in the penultimate group match.
In 2020/21 they won their Europa League group, which included Gent, Red Star Belgrade and Slovan Liberec, then went out to Molde of Norway in the knockout round, 3-5 on aggregate (0-2 and 3-3). In 2024/25 they finished 27th in the Europa League league phase, beating Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 and Anderlecht 4-3, drawing 2-2 with Lyon and losing 3-0 to Braga. Whether they played in Europe in 2021/22 to 2023/24 was not established from the sources read here.
Quotes
No directly quoted material was confirmed from the sources read here.
Right now (2026/27)
Christian Ilzer remains head coach. Summer arrivals listed were Cajetan Lenz from VfL Bochum, Patrick Wimmer from VfL Wolfsburg, Mats Rots from FC Twente for 16 million euros, Nathan De Cat from RSC Anderlecht for 20 million euros and Adam Daghim from Red Bull Salzburg on a free. Bazoumana Touré left for Newcastle United for 42 million pounds, among other departures including Stanley Nsoki to 1. FC Union Berlin and Muhammed Damar to VfL Wolfsburg.
The Bundesliga start has been poor. After eight matches they had won three and lost five, scoring 14 and conceding 16: losses at 1. FC Köln (2-3), to Borussia Dortmund (2-3 at home), at SC Paderborn (1-3), to Hamburger SV (2-3 at home) and at Werder Bremen (0-2), with wins over VfB Stuttgart (2-1 at home), at Borussia Mönchengladbach (2-1) and Bayer Leverkusen (3-0 at home on 25 October 2026). The source gives their league position inconsistently, 17th in one place and 12th in another, so it was not established here. In the DFB-Pokal they won 4-0 at Erzgebirge Aue in the first round, then drew 1-1 at Holstein Kiel on 28 October 2026 and lost the shootout 4-3, going out in the second round.
In the Europa League league phase they lost 2-0 at OFI on 17 September, lost 3-2 at home to Beşiktaş on 15 October and beat Lyon 3-0 at home on 22 October, leaving them 23rd of 36 with 3 points. Still to come are Crystal Palace away on 5 November, Sturm Graz at home on 26 November, Anderlecht away on 10 December, Olympiacos away on 21 January and Ferencváros at home on 28 January.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSG_1899_Hoffenheim https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSG_1899_Hoffenheim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%9326_TSG_1899_Hoffenheim_season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_TSG_1899_Hoffenheim_season
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