1899 Hoffenheim Home & Away Kits
Apart from unveiling their new sponsor TV Digital, 1899 Hoffenheim unveiled the new shirts that they will be wearing next season. Having played in the 2 Bundesliga last season, they ranked 2nd and hence gained promotion to the highest tier of German football for 2008/09. Thus, they will be using their new kits against the top clubs in Germany, hoping that they can live up to the expectations of the Bundesliga and the club’s fans, and manage to battle hard and remain in the division.
As can be seen from the above picture, the kits designed by Puma do not have any details and are rather plain. The home kit is all blue, which is the traditional colour of 1899 Hoffenheim, while the away shirt is white, retaining both last season’s colours. The Puma logo appears on the shoulders and on the right of the shirt. The shirts have a V-neck black collar. The kits for the 2008/09 campaign were presented by the club board members.
Ugly, boring, looks cheap.
well its a boring, ugly and cheap team
Who-enheim? I’ve followed European football for years and I’ve never heard of this lot, Looks like one or two could do with their trousers being taken up though.
Since when is plain always a bad thing??? There are some over-done, loud, busy shirts that are horrible. Everyone always comments on how much they love the classic look. Uh folks, the classic kits were even more plain than these.
Here you go Augustus… lifted from Wikipedia…
“The modern-day club was formed in 1945, when gymnastics club Turnverein Hoffenheim (founded July 1 1899) and football club Fußballverein Hoffenheim (founded 1921) merged. At the beginning of the 1990s, the club was an obscure local amateur side playing in the eighth division Baden-Württemberg A-Liga. They steadily improved and by 1996 were competing in the Verbandsliga Nordbaden (V).
Around 1990, alumnus Dietmar Hopp returned to the club of his youth, not as a player, but as financial backer. Hopp was the co-founder of software firm SAP and he put some of his money into the club. His contributions generated almost immediate results: in 2000 Hoffenheim finished first in the Verbandsliga and was promoted to the fourth-division Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. Another first place finish moved the club up to the Regionalliga Süd (III) for the 2001-02 season. They finished 13th in their first season in the Regionalliga, but improved significantly the next year, earning a fifth place result.
Hoffenheim earned fifth and seventh place finishes in the next two seasons, before improving to fourth in 2005-06 to earn their best result to date. The club made its first German Cup appearance in the 2003-04 competition and performed well, advancing to the quarterfinals by eliminating 2. Bundesliga sides Eintracht Trier and Karlsruher SC and Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen before being being put out themselves by another 2. Bundesliga side, VfB Lübeck.
Negotiations to merge TSG Hoffenheim, FC Astoria Walldorf, and SV Sandhausen to create FC Heidelberg 06 in 2005 were abandoned due to the resistance of the latter two clubs, and the failure to agree on whether the new side’s stadium should be located in Heidelberg or Eppelheim. Team owner Hopp clearly preferred Heidelberg, but could not overcome the resistance of local firm Wild, which had already reserved the site of the planned stadium for its new production facilities.
In 2006, the club sought to improve its squad and technical staff by bringing in players with several years of Bundesliga experience, most notably Jochen Seitz and Tomislav Marić, and by signing Ralf Rangnick, former manager of Bundesliga teams VfB Stuttgart, Hannover 96, and FC Schalke 04, to a five-year contract. The investment paid off in the 2006-07 season with the club’s promotion to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing 2nd in Regionalliga Süd. Remarkably, the club spent only a single season in the 2. Bundesliga, where they finished in 2nd place and received automatic promotion. The 2008–2009 season will be Hoffenheim’s first in the German top division.”
haha Hoffenheim av proved you lot wrong top of the league and they dont look like movin
IBISEVIC TO POMPEY!!
Hoffenheim are the pompey of Germany play up Hoffenheim top da Bundesliga from outta knowhere
were i can buy the shirt of Ibisevic? thanks
Nicola