Hannover 96 3-3 VfB Stuttgart: result and report

Bundesliga · Sunday 16 April 2006

Result

Hannover 96 3-3 VfB Stuttgart

Bundesliga · Sunday 16 April 2006, 15:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Hannover 96 3-3 VfB Stuttgart: match report

Hannover 96 drew with VfB Stuttgart 3-3 in the Bundesliga on Sunday 16 April 2006. The half-time score was 2-0.

Hanno Balitsch opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Hannover 96's goals came from Hanno Balitsch (2'), Jiri Stajner (33') and Per Mertesacker (67'). VfB Stuttgart scored through Danijel Ljuboja (52'), Thomas Hitzlsperger (77') and Jon Dahl Tomasson (82').

Discipline: Hannover 96 received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; VfB Stuttgart received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Hannover 96 were 11th on 35 points from 29 and VfB Stuttgart 7th on 39 points from 29. Hannover 96 went on to finish that season 12th with 38 points, and VfB Stuttgart 9th with 43.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Hannover 96 wins, 1 draw and 0 for VfB Stuttgart.

Going into the match Hannover 96's last five read D-L-L-W-D and VfB Stuttgart's W-L-L-D-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Hanno BalitschHannover 96 · 1-0
  • 8'Yellow card · Altin LalaHannover 96
  • 33'Goal · Jiri StajnerHannover 96 · 2-0
  • 38'Second yellow · Altin LalaHannover 96
  • 45'Yellow card · Timo HildebrandVfB Stuttgart
  • 52'Goal · Danijel LjubojaVfB Stuttgart · 2-1
  • 67'Goal · Per MertesackerHannover 96 · 3-1
  • 77'Goal · Thomas HitzlspergerVfB Stuttgart · 3-2
  • 82'Goal · Jon Dahl TomassonVfB Stuttgart · 3-3

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Hannover 96 0, draws 1, VfB Stuttgart 0.

Team news

Hannover 96 line-up

Robert Enke, Steven Cherundolo, Michael Tarnat, Per Mertesacker, Altin Lala, Hanno Balitsch, Jiri Stajner, Silvio Schroter, Vinícius Bergantin, Christoph Dabrowski, Michael Delura

VfB Stuttgart expected line-up

Timo Hildebrand, Fernando Meira, Heiko Gerber, Matthieu Delpierre, Christian Tiffert, Danijel Ljuboja, Andreas Hinkel, Zvonimir Soldo, Christian Gentner, Markus Babbel