FC Stuttgart-Cannstatt (Germany)

FC Stuttgart-Cannstatt is an amateur football club from the city of Stuttgart, who are located in the north of the city. They were formed in 1995 as TSV Hilalspor, serving mainly members of Turkish extraction.

In 2006 they changed their title. At the same time many Turks left the club but this was compensated by the formation of a youth section to gradually build the clubs stature in the district competitions.

The team was demoted from the eighth tier Bezirksliga in 2007-08 before the following season ended in a twelfth place finish in Kreisliga A1 to confirm consecutive relegations. However, Cannstatt bounced back by winning the B1 title in 2009-10.

The step up proved too much but the team was received a reprieve from relegation twelve months later. There was to be a second successive escape in 2011-12 and then a third in 2012-13 despite the side finished bottom of the table.

In 2013-14 Cannstatt lifted the A2 title to return to the Bezirksliga where the side adapted well, finishing in sixth on their first season back which continued in 2015-16 before finishing bottom in 2016-17.

Once again, the team failed to recover as they finished bottom of Kreisliga A1 in 2017-18 despite the goals of Saban Erdogmus. In the same pattern of a decade previously Cannstatt then won the B1 title at the first attempt.

Erdogmus scored thirty eight goals in just twenty six games for the team led by Burak Demirel. When the 2019-20 season ended early Cannstatt were in thirteenth spot in Kreisliga A1 and waiting to hear if they would be relegated.

FC Stuttgart-Cannstatt will play in the Bezirksliga A1 Württemberg in the 2019-20 season.

My visit

Sunday 16^th August 2015

I was extremely damp on a dreary summer’s morning as I decided that FC Stuttgart-Cannstatt would be last call before I went back to the hotel to get dry before my afternoon double header of matches.

The U Bahn tram service 12 to Riethmüllerhaus dropped me just a few minutes from the Sportzplatz.

I crossed the road and went through the car park and up a slope showing signs for the very tempting TC Original American Barbecue. The finely named restaurant was at the top of the hill next to the stadium clubhouse.

The pitch with running track surround was on the right hugging the side of the hill with some impressive trees flanking the surrounds. A lone athlete was doing laps round the track in the rain.

On the entrance side there was a fine block of wide terracing for spectators as well as some semi-permanent cover near to the clubhouse; no doubt for the provision of the staple sausages and beer?

I headed back down the hill ready to change trams at Lowentor, and to change shirts at my hotel. I would have time to dry out and take stock before heading off to Stuttgarter Kickers II’s Oberliga.encounter against FC 08 Villingen.