The 1988–89 Stuttgarter Kickers season is the 89th season in the club's football history. In 1988–89 the club play in the Bundesliga, the first tier of German football. It is the club's first season in this league, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1988. The club also takes part in the 1988–89 edition of the DFB-Pokal.
| 1988–89 season | |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Axel Dünnwald-Metzler |
| Manager | Manfred Krafft |
| Stadium | Neckarstadion, Stuttgart, BW |
| Bundesliga | 17th |
| DFB-Pokal | Round 1 |
| Top goalscorer | League: Wolfgang Schüler (9) All: Wolfgang Schüler (9) |
| Highest home attendance | 32,000 vs. 1. FC Nürnberg, 17 June 1989 |
| Lowest home attendance | 3,800 vs. Bayer Uerdingen, 26 November 1988 |
Squad information edit
Squad and statistics edit
| Squad Season 1988–89 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Player | Nat. | Birthdate | at Kickers since | previous club | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | ||||
| App | Gls | App | Gls | ||||||||
| Goalkeepers | |||||||||||
| Armin Jäger |  |
19 September 1962 | 1986 | VfB Stuttgart | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Kari Laukkanen |  |
14 December 1963 | 1987 | Kuopion Palloseura | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Defenders | |||||||||||
| Runald Ossen | |
18 May 1963 | 1987 | SC Birkenfeld | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Andreas Keim | |
8 June 1962 | 1989 | 1. FC Köln | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Bernd Schindler | |
28 December 1961 | 1983 | 1. FC 08 Walldorf | 29 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Alfred Schön | |
13 January 1962 | 1988 | SV Waldhof Mannheim | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Heribert Stadler | |
4 January 1964 | 1985 | VfB Stuttgart Am. | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Wolfgang Wolf | |
24 September 1957 | 1988 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 32 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Midfielders | |||||||||||
| Ralf Allgöwer | |
4 April 1964 | 1987 | VfB Stuttgart | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Frank Elser | |
5 October 1958 | 1985 | SSV Ulm 1846 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Dirk Fengler | |
3 March 1970 | 1987 | Junior Team | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Bernd Grabosch | |
23 September 1958 | 1986 | FC Schalke 04 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Alois Schwartz | |
28 March 1967 | 1988 | Junior Team | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Hans Hein | |
29 May 1955 | 1989 | SV Waldhof Mannheim | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Ari Hjelm | |
24 February 1962 | 1988 | Ilves | 32 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Andreas Kleinhansl | |
21 December 1963 | 1983 | Junior Team | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Niels Schlotterbeck | |
12 March 1967 | 1983 | Junior Team | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Forwards | |||||||||||
| Uwe Igler | |
14 November 1964 | 1987 | SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Wolfgang Schüler | |
17 February 1958 | 1988 | Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin | 26 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Demir Hotić |  |
15 April 1968 | 1987 | Union Solingen | 23 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Ralf Vollmer | |
5 July 1962 | 1983 | FV Lauda | 32 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |||