Bundesliga 25/26
VfB Stuttgart
Default view is a per-slot first-choice selection in the season’s most-used formation. Swaps recompute personnel and Synergy — style metrics stay on season aggregates.
Interactive pitch
Hover a player for details. Use Side bias or Squad profiles to read the XI. Select bench → slot to swap.
Bench
Team Synergy
Team strength and Synergy (synergy-v3) for this XI. Both update on pitch swaps.
Team strength
82.2
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
89.2
Capability identity 82.8 · complete 94.9
Identity
Possession
Confidence 87%
Strongest capability
100.0
Ball Carrying
Biggest gap
16.6
Tempo Control · score 17.3 / target 78
This squad is well suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite rest defence, Elite combination play. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum ball retention; Below-minimum rotational flexibility.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Angelo Stiller
Good Carrier
Primary creator
Chris Führich
Elite Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Ermedin Demirović
Great Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
-5.7%
LHS lean
No structural gaps in current XI.
Style (season — fixed)
Bundesliga 25/26 · Season aggregates vs the rest of this competition. Click a shot zone to light it on the pitch.
Team identity
League-percentile style fingerprint for VfB Stuttgart — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P89
3/19
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P94
2/19
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P6
18/19
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P11
17/19
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P11
16/19
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P28
13/19
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P83
4/19
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 12.7% of goals
0.116
9 of 19 · P56 · league med 0.114
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
56.5%
2 of 19 · P94 · league med 47.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
23.5%
18 of 19 · P6 · league med 29.4
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
6.2%
17 of 19 · P11 · league med 7.9
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
57.7%
3 of 19 · P89 · league med 48
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
4.2%
16 of 19 · P11 · league med 5.5
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
11.8%
12 of 19 · P39 · league med 12.1
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-6.1
15 of 19 · P22 · league med -1
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
166.2
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
4 of 19 · P83 · league med 140
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
25.4
5 of 19 · P78 · league med 28.3
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
24.5
11 of 19 · P44 · league med 24.2
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 18.3 · ground 31.8
54.4%
1 of 19 · P100 · league med 49.9
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team side bias near central (-6.1); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (-6.1); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.