Stuttgart vs Young Boys facts

Stuttgart and Young Boys both have work to do as they meet in Germany on UEFA Champions League Matchday 6.

The home side have four points from their first five games but have lost the last two, going down 5-1 at Crvena Zvezda on Matchday 5 to equal their heaviest Champions League defeat.

Young Boys are one of three teams to have lost their first five fixtures, the 1-6 loss against Atalanta on Matchday 5 matching their heaviest home European reverse.

Previous meetings

2010/11 UEFA Europa League group stage
Stuttgart 3-0 Young Boys
Young Boys 4-2 Stuttgart
Christian Gross's Stuttgart earned a comfortable Matchday 1 victory thanks to strikes from Cacau, Christian Gentner and Serdar Tasci but came unstuck in the Bern return as the Swiss side conjured three goals in the last ten minutes. Stuttgart recovered from David Degen's opener to lead through Pavel Pogrebnyak and Sven Schipplock but late goals from Scott Sutter (81) and Emmanuel Mayuka (82, 87) ensured Vladimir Petković's YB progressed with their opponents.

Form guide

Stuttgart

Record vs Swiss clubs: W7 D0 L1 F27 A9
Home record vs Swiss clubs: W4 D0 L0

Stuttgart's last game against a Swiss club brought their first defeat, that 1-0 loss at Young Boys in 2010; the Swabians had won their previous seven fixtures.

The 3-0 home victory had made it four wins out of four against Swiss visitors, with 14 goals scored and only two conceded.

This is Stuttgart's fourth appearance in the Champions League proper and a first since 2009/10. Then they were second in their section to reach the round of 16, where they were eliminated by holders Barcelona (1-1 h, 0-4 a).

Stuttgart won their first three home games in the Champions League proper but have only two victories in the subsequent ten (D3 L5). They lost 0-2 to Atalanta on Matchday 4 having drawn 1-1 with Sparta Praha in the second round of games.

The German club have not taken part in European competition since 2013/14, when their Europa League campaign lasted two ties. They beat Botev Plovdiv on away goals in the third qualifying round (1-1 a, 0-0 h) but lost out to Rijeka in the play-offs (1-2 a, 2-2 h).

Stuttgart are without a win in nine home European matches (D6 L3), since a 2-0 defeat of Dinamo Moskva in the 2012/13 Europa League qualifying play-offs.

Sebastian Hoeneß guided Stuttgart to second place in the 2023/24 Bundesliga. It was the Swabians' highest league finish since winning the last of their five league titles in 2006/07.

Young Boys

Record vs German clubs: W4 D5 L8 F25 A42
Away record vs German clubs: W1 D3 L4

Young Boys were drawn in the same group as Leipzig last season, losing 1-3 at home and 1-2 away to make it six defeats in their last nine contests against Bundesliga teams (W3).

The Swiss club had only two wins against German clubs before facing Bayer Leverkusen in the 2020/21 Europa League round of 32, their previous contests before last season. They won both, 4-3 at home and 2-0 away – the latter their first victory in Germany.

Young Boys drew their first three games away to Bundesliga clubs and have lost four of the subsequent five, the exception that victory in Leverkusen.

YB have reached the Champions League proper four times – all in the last seven seasons.

In 2023/24, the Swiss side finished third in their section behind Manchester City and Leipzig but ahead of Crvena Zvezda against whom they took four points (2-2 a, 2-0 h); they lost their other four games.

Young Boys therefore moved across into the Europa League but their campaign lasted only one tie, a defeat against Sporting CP in the knockout round play-offs (1-3 h, 1-1 a).

The Bern club started this season in the Champions League play-offs, winning 3-2 at home and 1-0 away against Galatasaray.

The victory in Istanbul is Young Boys' only success in eight away European games (D3 L4); they have lost at Barcelona (0-5) and Shakhtar Donetsk (1-2) in this season's league phase.

YB have never won an away game in ten attempts in the Champions League proper, drawing only two – at Manchester United in 2021/22 (1-1) and Crvena Zvezda last season (2-2).

Young Boys won their sixth Swiss Super League title in seven years in 2023/24, their 17th championship overall.

Links and trivia

Stuttgart midfielder Fabian Rieder joined Young Boys' academy in 2017, making his first-team debut three years later. He went on to score 15 goals in 122 appearances, winning the Swiss title in 2021/22 and the league and cup double 12 months later, before leaving in 2023.

Have also played in Switzerland:
Leonidas Stergiou (St Gallen 2015–24)
Ermedin Demirović (St Gallen 2019/20)

Have played together:
Leonidas Stergiou, Ermedin Demirovic & Cedric Itten (St Gallen 2019/20)
Ermedin Demirović & Patric Pfeiffer (Augsburg 2023/24)

International team-mates:
Leonidas Stergiou, Fabian Rieder & David von Ballmoos, Joël Monteiro (Switzerland)

Latest news

Stuttgart

Stuttgart came from two goals down to win 3-2 at home to Union Berlin on Friday, substitute Nick Woltemade scoring twice before Atakan Karazor's first Bundesliga goal since June 2020 sealed victory.

On 3 December Stuttgart reached the quarter-finals of the German Cup with a 3-0 win at second-tier Regensburg, Anrie Chase scoring his first senior goal.

On 10 November Stuttgart lost 2-3 at home against Eintracht Frankfurt. That ended their 16-match unbeaten home Bundesliga run (W11 D5), their longest sequence in 17 years.

Deniz Undav suffered a muscle injury in training on 20 November and has not played since.

El Bilal Touré has been out since 19 November because of a broken metatarsal that needed surgery.

Ameen Al-Dakhil has missed the last five games due to illness.

Jamie Leweling has been out since 1 November with a hamstring injury.

Dan-Axel Zagadou, who was sidelined by a knee problem between 27 January and 14 September, suffered another knee injury on 25 September and has undergone surgery.

Young Boys

The Swiss champions have won just five of their 17 Swiss Super League games this season (D5 L7), although they were unbeaten in the five (W3 D2) before Saturday's 3-1 loss at Sion.

That was YB's seventh league reverse of the season – the same as in the whole of 2023/24.

YB won successive matches for only the second time this season with a 1-0 victory at Schaffhausen in the last 16 of the Swiss Cup on 4 December.

Ebrima Colley missed Saturday's defeat with a groin injury that forced him off in the first half at Schaffhausen while Meschack Elia has been out since Matchday 5.

Abdu Conté came on on Saturday, his first appearance since suffering a ligament injury since 2 November.

An unused substitute on Saturday, Patric Pfeiffer has not played for the first team since suffering a hamstring injury on his Young Boys debut on 17 August; he damaged the medial ligament in his right knee in training on 9 October, returning for YB's reserve team on 30 November.

Miguel Chaiwa has not played since 11 October due to an ankle injury while Banhie Zoukrou has been out since suffering a hip injury in training on 16 October.

Saidy Janko has not played this season due to a muscle injury.