TSG Hoffenheim football jersey 2018-19

The Champions League in Sinsheim. It still sounded almost wrong. Hoffenheim had gone from regional football to the Bundesliga in a few years, and in 2018-19, Julian Nagelsmann's team took the next step: the club's first Champions League group stage.

Facts:

• Club: TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
• Brand: Lotto
• Season: 2018-19
• Size: Medium
• Model: Third kit
• Condition: Good used condition

FOOTBALL MEMORIES

The burgundy football shirt with orange details was Hoffenheim's official third kit in 2018-19. Lotto gave it a subtle camouflage pattern and the text "Ein Team. Ein Weg. Einmalig." on the neck. The model is documented as having been used in the Bundesliga, Champions League, and DFB-Pokal.

It was also the end of an extraordinary era. Julian Nagelsmann, at 28, had taken over a relegation-threatened Hoffenheim and led the club all the way to European competition. In his final season, Manchester City, Lyon, and Shakhtar Donetsk were their opponents in the Champions League, while Hoffenheim finished ninth in the Bundesliga.

Andrej Kramarić scored 17 league goals, while players like Kerem Demirbay, Joelinton, and Reiss Nelson were part of a team that made Hoffenheim much more than the story of a small village club with a rich investor.

This third kit therefore belongs to the one season when Hoffenheim was on Europe's biggest club stage – and to Nagelsmann's last chapter before he continued to RB Leipzig.