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Training Group Two: Hoffenheim began the 2013/14 season
Training Group Two: Hoffenheim began the 2013/14 season with a wholesale squad overhaul.
with a wholesale squad overhaul. Players such as Daniel Williams, Igor de Camargo and Chris had left. More importantly, established figures like Tim Wiese, Tobias Weis, Edson Braafheid, Matthias Jaissle and Matthieu Delpierre were discarded by coach Markus Gisdol and banished to the so-called “training group 2”.
They were not allowed to train with the first team and were also excluded from the reserve side’s match operations. After heavy public criticism, the group was dissolved in September 2013. By the second half of the season, everyone except Tim Wiese had left the club.
Cup fiascos: Hoffenheim always seemed strangely cold toward
Cup fiascos: Hoffenheim always seemed strangely cold toward what Germans call the shortest road to Europe, the DFB-Pokal.
what Germans call the shortest road to Europe, the DFB-Pokal. Since their Bundesliga promotion in 2008, the club never went beyond the quarter-finals. From 2017 to 2019, they went out in the second round three times in a row.
Their last place among the final eight came in 2014/15, when they only lost 3–2 after extra time away to Dortmund.
Nobody wants to watch Hoffe: in 2018/19 Sky
Nobody wants to watch Hoffe: in 2018/19 Sky broadcast 266 Bundesliga matches.
broadcast 266 Bundesliga matches. On average, five million people tuned in on a matchday, and the meetings between Dortmund and Bayern each drew more than two million. But there are also games no one seems to want.
In 2018/19, there were exactly four matches whose audiences fell below the technically measurable threshold of 5,000 viewers and therefore statistically counted as having been watched by nobody. They were Mainz against Wolfsburg in a midweek round, and three matches from the final day: Hertha against Leverkusen, Wolfsburg against Augsburg and Mainz against Hoffenheim.
TSG vs. league average
OMG — Update 2020–2026
The Hopp affair of February 2020: in Bayern Munich versus TSG Hoffenheim, Bayern ultras displayed an insulting banner directed at Dietmar Hopp.
The Hopp affair of February 2020: in Bayern
The Hopp affair of February 2020: in Bayern Munich versus TSG Hoffenheim, Bayern ultras displayed an insulting banner directed at Dietmar Hopp.
Munich versus TSG Hoffenheim, Bayern ultras displayed an insulting banner directed at Dietmar Hopp. Referee Christian Dingert stopped the match twice. Bayern’s players demonstratively stood in front of the banner and showed solidarity with Hopp.
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Uli Hoeness embraced the TSG patron in front of the television cameras. The DFL threatened match abandonments and games behind closed doors. The debate about patronage, 50+1 and football’s commercialisation reached a new peak.
TSG — Financial Stability Score
Hoffenheim ist ein bilanzielles Paradox: Hervorragende EK-Quote (71,4%) bei gleichzeitig höchster PK-Quote der Liga (61,7%). Übersetzt: Hopp hat viel Geld reingesteckt (hohes EK), aber die laufenden Kosten fressen es auf. Ohne Hopp wäre Hoffenheim weder in der Lage, Bundesliga-Gehälter zu zahlen, noch den Spielbetrieb am Standort Sinsheim aufrechtzuerhalten. Die zentrale Frage: Was passiert nach Hopp?