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Stuttgart stayed in the Bundesliga in the [[2020–21 VfB Stuttgart season|2020–21 season]], finishing in ninth place in the league.<ref name="Bundesliga Tabelle 2020/21">{{cite web |title=Bundesliga Tabelle 2020/21 |url=https://www.kicker.de/bundesliga/tabelle/2020-21 |website=kicker.de |access-date=14 May 2022 |language=German}}</ref> In the [[2021–22 VfB Stuttgart season|2021–22 season]], the team narrowly avoided relegation; a last-minute-win against [[1. FC Köln]] on the last match day guaranteed them a spot in the first league for a third consecutive season.<ref name="We are staying up!">{{cite web |title=We are staying up! |url=https://www.vfb.de/en/vfb/team/saison/bundesliga/2122/34-vfb-stuttgart----1--fc-koeln/ |website=vfb.de |access-date=14 May 2022}}</ref> In the [[2022–23 VfB Stuttgart season|2022–23 season]], Stuttgart managed to stay in the Bundesliga for a fourth consecutive season, but again only very closely, with Stuttgart finishing in 16th place and only qualifying for the next season thanks to successful play-offs.
The [[2023–24 VfB Stuttgart season|2023–24 season for Stuttgart]] has been one of the most successful ones of the club's history,<ref>[https://web.de/magazine/sport/fussball/bundesliga/doppel-hack-erledigt-stuttgart-vfb-verpasst-beste-klub-hinrunde-39062566 web.de], retrieved 3 February 2024</ref> Stuttgart was frequently called "the surprise team of the season". They remained in 3rd place of the [[2023–24 Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] for most of the matchdays, only behind Leverkusen and Bayern, and also reached the quarter-finals in [[2023–24 DFB-Pokal|the DFB Pokal]], where they defeated [[1. FC Union Berlin]] 1–0 and [[Borussia Dortmund]] 2–0 before losing to eventual finalists [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen|Bayer Leverkusen]] 3–2. Strikers [[Serhou Guirassy]] and [[Deniz Undav]] were among the top goal-scorers worldwide,<ref>[https://www.sportschau.de/fussball/bundesliga/bundesliga-spielbericht-vfb-stuttgart-eintracht-frankfurt-104.html sportschau.de], retrieved 25 April 2024.</ref> with Guirassy even breaking the all-time Stuttgart record of most goals in a season even though he missed some games.<ref>[https://www.sportschau.de/fussball/bundesliga/bundesliga-spielbericht-vfb-stuttgart-eintracht-frankfurt-104.html sportschau.de], retrieved 25 April 2024.</ref> Undav and multiple other players were nominated for the German national team for the first time, with four of them playing all at once in the first match of 2024 against France.<ref>[https://www.kicker.de/frankreich-gegen-deutschland-2024-nationalteams-freundschaftsspiele-4898561/aufstellung kicker.de], retrieved 25 April 2024.</ref>
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