# 2011–12 VfB Stuttgart season

The 2011–12 VfB Stuttgart season was the 119th season in the club's football history. They competed in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football, in which they finished 6th as well as competing in the DFB-Pokal, where they were eliminated in the quarter-finals. It was Stuttgart's 35th consecutive season in the league, since having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1977.

## Season summary

Stuttgart finished 6th in Bundesliga, and as a result, qualified for the Europa League. They were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the DFB-Pokal by Bayern Munich.

## Players
### First-team squad

    Squad at end of season
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | GER | Sven Ulreich |
| 2 | DF | JPN | Gōtoku Sakai (on loan from Albirex Niigata) |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Cristian Molinaro |
| 4 | MF | DEN | William Kvist |
| 5 | DF | GER | Serdar Tasci (captain) |
| 6 | DF | GER | Georg Niedermeier |
| 7 | MF | AUT | Martin Harnik |
| 8 | MF | SRB | Zdravko Kuzmanović |
| 9 | FW | BIH | Vedad Ibišević |
| 11 | FW | FRA | Johan Audel |
| 13 | MF | GER | Timo Gebhart |
| 14 | DF | MEX | Francisco Javier Rodríguez |
| 15 | DF | CIV | Arthur Boka |
| 16 | MF | GUI | Ibrahima Traoré |
| 17 | DF | FRA | Matthieu Delpierre |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | FW | GER | Cacau |
| 20 | MF | GER | Christian Gentner |
| 21 | DF | NED | Khalid Boulahrouz |
| 22 | GK | GER | Marc Ziegler |
| 23 | FW | GER | Julian Schieber |
| 24 | MF | GUI | Mamadou Bah |
| 26 | MF | AUT | Raphael Holzhauser |
| 27 | DF | GER | Stefano Celozzi |
| 28 | MF | HUN | Tamás Hajnal |
| 30 | DF | GER | Antonio Rüdiger |
| 31 | FW | JPN | Shinji Okazaki |
| 34 | DF | GER | Patrick Bauer |
| 35 | GK | GER | André Weis |
| 36 | MF | GER | Christoph Hemlein |

### Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 29 | FW | RUS | Pavel Pogrebnyak (to Fulham) |
| 30 | GK | GER | Bernd Leno (to Bayer Leverkusen) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 38 | DF | BIH | Ermin Bičakčić (to Eintracht Braunschweig) |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Bundesliga | 6 August 2011 | 5 May 2012 | Matchday 1 | 8th | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 63 | 46 | +17 | 044.12 |
| DFB-Pokal | 29 July 2011 | 8 February 2012 | First round | Quarter-finals | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 075.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 70 | 50 | +20 | 047.37 |
Last updated: complete Source: Competitions

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 4 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 49 | 24 | +25 | 60 | Qualification to Champions League play-off round |
| 5 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 52 | 44 | +8 | 54 | Qualification to Europa League group stage |
| 6 | VfB Stuttgart | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 63 | 46 | +17 | 53 | Qualification to Europa League play-off round |
| 7 | Hannover 96 | 34 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 41 | 45 | −4 | 48 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round |
| 8 | VfL Wolfsburg | 34 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 47 | 60 | −13 | 44 | |
* 1 2 3 The 2011–12 DFB-Pokal champions (Borussia Dortmund) and runners-up (Bayern Munich) qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, thus the three Europa League places were distributed through league positions.

### DFB-Pokal
## Sources

* ↑ "FootballSquads - VfB Stuttgart - 2011/12". footballsquads.co.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2020.