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 for by the formation of a youth section to gradually build the club's 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 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 finishing 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, as Ali Souli trained the team.
Once again, the team failed to recover as they finished bottom of Kreisliga A1 in 2017-18 despite the goals of Saban Erdogmus under trainer Ahmet Kiymaz. In the same pattern as a decade previously, Cannstatt then won the B1 title at the first attempt under the stewardship of player-trainer Burak Demirel, as Erdogmus scored thirty-eight goals in just twenty-six games.
Cannstatt went down again in 2021-22, retaining faith in Demiral, whose team finished second in Kreisliga B2 the following season as Kerim Karaboga scored consistently, which he repeated in 2023-24. Their tenth-tier division was renamed Kreisliga B2 Stuttgart/Böblingen, as Harun Halilovic took over as trainer for the 2024-25 season, where the team finished fifth.
FC Stuttgart-Cannstatt will play in the Kreisliga B2 Stuttgart/Böblingen in the 2025-26 season.
My visit
Sunday 16th 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 a 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
around 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 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.
