TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

The current club was founded in 1945 when the gymnastics team Turnverein Hoffenheim (founded 1 July 1899) and the football team Fussballverein Hoffenheim (founded 1921) were merged. In the beginning of the 1990s Hoffenheim was a shady local amateur club operating in the eighth division Baden-Wurttemberg's A-Liga. They gradually improved, and by 1996 , they were playing within the Verbandsliga Nordbaden (V).

In 2000, former alumnus Dietmar Hopp was able to return to the club he attended in his youth to become an investor. Hopp was co-founder of the software company SAP and also poured some of his earnings in the team. His efforts brought almost immediate results. In 2000, Hoffenheim was top of the Verbandsliga and was then promoted to the fourth division Oberliga Baden-Wurttemberg. A second-place finish in the Oberliga Baden-Wurttemberg brought the club into the Regionalliga Sud (III) for the 2001-02 season. They were 13th during their debut season in the Regionalliga however, they improved dramatically next year, and earned an impressive fifth-place finish.

Hoffenheim received seventh and fifth-place finish in the subsequent two seasons before rising to fourth in 2005-06 in order to achieve their best performance to this point. Hoffenheim had its debut DFB-Pokal appearance in 2003-04 season and was successful getting to the quarterfinals with the elimination of 2. Bundesliga teams Eintracht Trier and Karlsruher SC as well as Bundesliga team Bayer Leverkusen before being put out by another. Bundesliga side, VfB Lubeck.

Discussions to combine TSG Hoffenheim Astoria Walldorf, as well as SV Sandhausen to create FC Heidelberg 06 in 2005 were canceled due to the opposition of the two clubs and the inability to reach a consensus on the stadium of the new team should be within Heidelberg or Eppelheim. Owner of the team, Hopp evidently prefers Heidelberg however, he could not beat the opposition of the local company Wild who had secured the location of the proposed stadium for its future production facilities.

The club in 2006 attempted to enhance its technical and player squads by bringing in players who had more than a decade of Bundesliga expertise, such as Jochen Seitz, Tomislav Maric, as well as young talent like Sejad Salihovic and also hiring manager Ralf Rangnick who was in charge of Bundesliga teams like SSV Ulm 1846, VfB Stuttgart, Hannover 96 and Schalke 04, to a five-year deal. The investment was rewarded during the 2006-07 season, when the club was promoted up to 2. Bundesliga after finishing second in the Regionalliga Sud.

Hoffenheim's 2007-08 season was their first season as a professional footballer. After a poor start with just three losses and one draw during the initial four matches however, the team's performance dramatically improved and Hoffenheim improved from 16th on matchday four , to second in matchday 23. They were able to maintain their position until the close of the season scoring 60 points following matchday 34. Due to their second place finishing, they were granted an automatic promotion to the Bundesliga which is the highest level in German football. They had played within the 2. Bundesliga for only one season

Hoffenheim enjoyed a great season when they made their debut in the Bundesliga which is the highest German division, and finished with seventh place in the league. The top players at Hoffenheim during the season included Vedad Ibisevic, and Demba Ba who both had a combined score of 18 and 14. In 2009-2010 Bundesliga the club had an unsatisfactory season, finishing in the bottom 10 and placing 11th. The club went on to finish in the 11th position for the next two seasons. For the season 2012-13 in the Bundesliga The club came close to being relegated having were 16th in the league and would need to go through the play-offs for relegation to stay alive The club was able to defeat their rivals Kaiserslautern with a score of 5-2 in aggregate which included Roberto Firmino scoring two goals in the opening game. For the season 2013-14 in the Bundesliga the club was plagued by odd statistics. They were the third-highest goalscorer of the season, yet they were also the most defense team scoring 72 goals while losing 70. The best goal scorer during the campaign, and and their top assister, was Roberto Firmino, scoring 16 goals and supplying 12 assists, which resulted in the player receiving the Bundesliga Breakthrough Player of the season award. In 2014-15, in the Bundesliga Hoffenheim was very close to getting into qualifying for the Europa League, with just two points to go between them and Borussia Dortmund which were placed 7th in the league. Despite finishing 8th, Hoffenheim still had a goal differential of -6 during their 2014-15 campaign. The 2015-16 Bundesliga Hoffenheim found itself in the process of being relegated, but with only one point between them and the play-offs to avoid relegation.

The 2016-2017 season was the first since the manager Julian Nagelsmann took over, starting to sign a number of important players, such as Andrej Kramaric Kerem Demirbay, and Sandro Wagner. The club initially had a difficult time gaining momentum, with four draws during the first four matches of the season. But an increase in performance took the club to third in the league at the close of October. On April 4, 2017, the club defeated Bayern Munich by a scoreline of 1-0, which was one of the most significant victories in the club's history. On the 21st of April, 2017, Hoffenheim announced that they will play European football in the coming season after the draw of 1-1 with Koln. Following a 4th-place finish for the season 2017-17 Bundesliga, Hoffenheim confirmed Champions League football for the 2017-18 season. Hoffenheim was eventually selected to face the six-time European champions Liverpool in the play-off round. The club was defeated in the first leg game with a score of 1-2. A 4-2 defeat in the second game confirmed Hoffenheim's exclusion from the tournament. Hoffenheim lost 3-3 in an aggregate. Because of their exclusion from the play-off stage Hoffenheim would be playing European soccer in the Europa League group stages, however, they would be eliminated from the tournament because they would be bottom of their group.

The 2017-18 Bundesliga season, Hoffenheim had a successful season. They finished third and automatically being eligible for next year's UEFA Champions League.

In the 2018-19 campaign, it was even more disappointing for Hoffenheim the club, who ended up at the bottom of the Champions League group with only three draws and three losses against teams like Manchester City, Lyon and Shakhtar Donetsk. The result was that they could not even make it through the groups of the European tournament again. The Bundesliga Hoffenheim did not fare any better, finishing 9th spot, six points lower than their position of 3rd in the 2017-18 season, which was 51 points. It was only two places and 3 points removed from qualifying for the Europa League qualifying rounds. In the final round, DFB-Pokal Hoffenheim lost to RB Leipzig in a 2-0 defeat, with both goals scored by Timo Werner. The most prolific scorer in the league is Andre Kramaric, with the Croatian scoring 22 times over the course of 37 games. It was the German Kerem Demirbay stood out as the team's best player with 11 assists in this season. The head coach Julian Nagelsmann left the club to join RB Leipzig at the end of the season. Alfred Schreuder, former assistant coach under Huub Stevens as well as Julian Nagelsmann was appointed as the new head coach

Detail of the players as below mentioned.

 As of 12 July 2022

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	GER	Oliver Baumann (vice-captain)
3	DF	CZE	Pavel KadeÅ™ábek
4	DF	BIH	Ermin Bičakčić
6	MF	GER	Grischa Prömel
7	FW	DEN	Jacob Bruun Larsen
8	MF	GER	Dennis Geiger
9	FW	TOG	Ihlas Bebou
10	FW	ISR	Mu'nas Dabbur
12	GK	GER	Philipp Pentke
13	MF	GER	Angelo Stiller
14	MF	AUT	Christoph Baumgartner
15	DF	GHA	Kasim Nuhu
16	MF	GER	Sebastian Rudy
17	DF	GER	David Raum
18	MF	MLI	Diadie Samassékou
20	MF	GER	Finn Ole Becker
21	DF	GER	Benjamin Hübner (captain)
22	DF	GER	Kevin Vogt (4th captain)
24	DF	USA	Justin Che (on loan from FC Dallas)
25	DF	NGA	Kevin Akpoguma
27	FW	CRO	Andrej Kramarić
29	FW	DEN	Robert Skov
30	MF	GER	Marco John
32	DF	NED	Melayro Bogarde
33	FW	FRA	Georginio Rutter
36	GK	GER	Nahuel Noll
37	GK	GER	Luca Philipp
38	DF	AUT	Stefan Posch
39	MF	GER	Tom Bischof
41	DF	GER	Max Geschwill
43	DF	GER	Noah König
44	FW	GER	Fisnik Asllani
—	MF	ISR	Ilay Elmkies
—	MF	GER	Muhammed Damar
—		GER	Maximilian Beier

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II is the reserve team of the German association football team TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, based in Hoffenheim, Baden-Wurttemberg. The team has been in the Tier 4 Regionalliga since the year 2010.

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Frauen is the women's football team of the German football club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, based in Hoffenheim which is a village in the Sinsheim municipality in Baden-Wurttemberg located in the Rhine-Neckar. The team is currently in the Frauen-Bundesliga, which is the most prestigious level of women's soccer in Germany.

Detail of the players as below mentioned.

Prior to being promoted to 1. Bundesliga at the end of 2008, this club was based in the Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion stadium, which was in 1999 and had capacity of 5,060 (1,620 seating).

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim made their ambitious plans evident at the end of 2006 as their management opted to build a new 30,150-seat Rhein-Neckar-Arena which is suitable to host Bundesliga games. The stadium was initially planned to be constructed in Heidelberg prior to the decision to select the site in Sinsheim.

The team began their debut campaign in the 1. Bundesliga at the capacity of 26,022 in the Carl-Benz-Stadion, in Mannheim and began their first game at their brand new home on the 31st of January 2009.

Interwetten , a betting company, has opted to become the official betting partners for TSG Hoffenheim from August 2017 through 2020.

Detail of the players as below mentioned.

Dietmar's financial assistance that transformed Hoffenheim from an amateur local club to an elite Bundesliga club was heavily criticised by other clubs, supporters and even the German media. The most common criticisms are the absence of "tradition" as well as a sufficient fan base, as Hoffenheim is an historically insignificant club located in a town of only 3300 people. The situation is like that of the now defunct Scottish club Gretna along with German teams VfL Wolfsburg, Bayer Leverkusen and RB Leipzig, as those teams also received substantial financial backing from corporations; Wolfsburg is owned by a majority of the is supported by the automaker Volkswagen, Bayer Leverkusen by pharmaceutical company Bayer and RB Leipzig by Red Bull. Yet, Leverkusen and Wolfsburg are nevertheless distinct from Hoffenheim due to their lengthy time as clubs that were founded by workers from the factories themselves. They've achieved success mostly through their own merits , not external funding.

On August 16, 2011 the club issued an apology for complaints regarding the loudspeaker being placed in front of some away supporters during an home match with Borussia Dortmund. The loudspeaker was intended to muffle the sound of the fans who were cheering away and chants that were heard during the game. The report stated that the loudspeaker was put in place by the groundskeeper, however the club denied involvement, claiming that he was acting on his own. The report also stated that the speaker was utilized in other games, not just during the home game against Dortmund.

In a statement later the club acknowledged that the noisy sound assembly was utilized for at most five occasions even though club officials claim they not have any knowledge of the actions.

On February 29, 2020 Bayern Munich supporters unfurled an aggressive banner that targeted Hoffenheim manager Dietmar Hopp. This caused the match in Hoffenheim being suspended, with only 15 minutes left. Following concerns that the game might be cancelled after the game was suspended, both teams returned to complete the game, but chosen to simply go through the timer to finish the game to show solidarity with Hopp. Instead of continuing to play the field, the two teams of players began to pass the ball around and talking as if they were playing as if they were.

The next day following day, that Bundesliga fixture was played between Vfl Wolfsburg and 1. FC Union Berlin was stopped in the 44th minute of the game because of flags that were deemed offensive and one of them showed Hopp in crosshairs. Both teams left the field only to return 10 minutes later to take on the rest of the second half and later the game.

On September 25, 2020 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim signed an agreement to partner together with MLS FC Cincinnati. FC Cincinnati.

The club's honours:

Bundesliga

• Runners-up: 2007–08

Regionalliga

• Runners-up: 2006–07

Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV)

• Champions: 2000–01
• Runners-up: 2009–10

Verbandsliga Nordbaden (V)

• Champions: 1999–2000
• Runners-up: 2002–03

North Baden Cup (Tiers III-VII)

• Winners: 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05
• Runners-up: 2006–07

German Under 19 championship

• Champions: 2013–14
• Runners-up: 2014–15, 2015–16

German Under 17 championship

• Champions: 2007–08

Under 19 Bundesliga South/Southwest

• Champions: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16

Under 17 Bundesliga South/Southwest

• Champions: 2007–08
• Runners-up: 2010–11

Under 15 Regionalliga Süd

• Champions: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16

Won by reserve team.

Recent coaches of the club:

Start	End	Coach
1979	1982	Helmut Zuber
1982	1982	Meinard Stadelbauer
1982	1984	Rudi Ebel
1984	1985	Klaus Keller
1986	1989	Helmut Jedele
1989	1990	Gerhard Boll
1990	1992	Egon Ludwig
1992	1994	Hans Schreiner
1994	1998	Roland Schmitt
1998	1998	Alfred Schön
1998	14 March 1999	Raimund Lietzau
15 March 1999	30 September 1999	Günter Hillenbrand
31 August 1999	12 March 2000	Riko Weigand
2000	30 June 2000	Alfred Schön
1 July 2000	19 November 2005	Hansi Flick
19 November 2005	23 December 2005	Roland Dickgießer*
10 January 2006	21 May 2006	Lorenz-Günther Köstner
24 May 2006	30 June 2006	Alfred Schön*
1 July 2006	1 January 2011	Ralf Rangnick
2 January 2011	30 June 2011	Marco Pezzaiuoli
1 July 2011	9 February 2012	Holger Stanislawski
10 February 2012	3 December 2012	Markus Babbel
3 December 2012	31 December 2012	Frank Kramer*
1 January 2013	2 April 2013	Marco Kurz
2 April 2013	26 October 2015	Markus Gisdol
26 October 2015	10 February 2016	Huub Stevens
11 February 2016	30 June 2019	Julian Nagelsmann
1 July 2019	9 June 2020	Alfred Schreuder
10 June 2020	26 July 2020	Matthias Kaltenbach*
27 July 2020	17 May 2022	Sebastian Hoeneß

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

Key

The introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994, and the 3. Liga which was introduced in 2008, as the 3rd stage, lower than the 2. Bundesliga The leagues below fell one level. In 2012 there were Regionalligas in all leagues. raised from 3 to 5. This was accompanied by the majority of Regionalliga Sud clubs, with the exception of the Bavarian ones joining in the newly created Regionalliga Sudwest

Hoffenheim began their journey as a team in European competition in 2017 getting into the play-off stage for the 2017-18 UEFA Champions League play-offs. Their first game was played on the 15th of August and they lost the opening stage of play-offs by a score of 2-1 to Liverpool.

Hoffenheim began their journey as a team in European competition in the year 2017, making it to the playoff phase for the 2017-18 UEFA Champions League play-offs. Their first game was played on August 15th, 2017 and they lost the opening stage of play-offs by 2-1 to Liverpool. 

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Result
2017–18	UEFA Champions League	PO	Liverpool	1–2	2–4	3–6
	UEFA Europa League	GS	Braga	1–2	1–3	4th
			Ludogorets Razgrad	1–1	1–2
			Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir	3–1	1–1
2018–19	UEFA Champions League	GS	Shakhtar Donetsk	2–3	2–2	4th
			Manchester City	1–2	1–2
			Lyon	3–3	2–2
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	GS	Gent	4–1	4–1	1st
			Red Star Belgrade	2–0	0–0
			Slovan Liberec	5–0	2–0
		R32	Molde	0–2	3–3	3–5

As of 8 April 2021

Rank	Team	Point
61	Gent	26.500
62	Anderlecht	25.000
63	1899 Hoffenheim	23.000
64	Astana	22.500
65	Standard Liège	22.500

The women's team began playing in 2006-07 , and then blitzed across the lower divisions. The women's team is based in Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion as well. It is managed by Jurgen Ehrmann.