Editing VfB Stuttgart (section)

====FV Stuttgart====
[[File:Rugby team of FV Stuttgart in 1894.jpg|thumb|left|FV Stuttgart in 1894]]
''Stuttgarter Fußballverein'' was founded at the Zum Becher hotel in Stuttgart on 9 September 1893.<ref>[http://www.hefleswetzkick.de/VFB/25_Chronik/1890_1899/Stuttgart/03/Saison.htm Chronik 19<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312014842/http://www.hefleswetzkick.de/VFB/25_Chronik/1890_1899/Stuttgart/03/Saison.htm |date=12 March 2012 }}</ref> ''FV'' were initially a rugby club, playing games at Stöckach-Eisbahn before moving to Cannstatter Wasen in 1894. The rugby club established a football section in 1908. The team drew players primarily from local schools, under the direction of teacher Carl Kaufmann, and quickly achieved its first success; in 1909, they were runners-up to ''FSV 1897 Hannover'' in the national rugby final, losing 6–3.<ref>[http://www.hefleswetzkick.de/VFB/25_Chronik/1900_1909/Stuttgart/09/Saison.htm Chronik 19<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312014836/http://www.hefleswetzkick.de/VFB/25_Chronik/1900_1909/Stuttgart/09/Saison.htm |date=12 March 2012 }}</ref> Rugby was soon replaced by association football within the club, as spectators found the game too complicated to follow.

In 1909, ''FV'' joined the Süddeutschen Fußballverband (South German Football Association),<ref>[http://www.hefleswetzkick.de/VFB/25_Chronik/1900_1909/Stuttgart/07/Saison.htm Chronik 19<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312014911/http://www.hefleswetzkick.de/VFB/25_Chronik/1900_1909/Stuttgart/07/Saison.htm |date=12 March 2012 }}</ref> playing in the second tier B-Klasse. In their second season ''FV'' won a district final against future merger partner ''Kronen-Klub Cannstatt'' before being defeated by ''FV Zuffenhausen'' in the county championship that would have seen the side promoted. They eventually advanced to the senior [[Südkreis-Liga]] in 1912.