Here are a few facts to fill in the gaps:
1. The club's home colours are green and white. When the team first formed on September 12 1945, the coach had 10 green jerseys, and bed sheets donated by the public were sewn together by wives to make the shorts.
2. Wolfsburg's first season in the Bundesliga was 1997/1998. On May 23 2009 they sealed their first ever Bundesliga title by beating Werder Bremen 5-1.
3. Wolfsburg's manager is former VfB Stuttgart boss Armin Veh. He took over from Felix Magath in July, with Magath having agreed to join FC Schalke.
4. Wolfsburg's star player is striker Edin Dzeko. The Bosnian attracted interest from a host of European big guns over the summer with Manchester City, Arsenal and AC Milan all mentioned. Sevilla are the latest club to be linked with a January move. He has scored 38 goals in 67 Bundesliga games.
5. Former Newcastle striker Obafemi Martins made the switch to Wolfsburg in the summer. He has scored two goals in five appearances for his new team so far. United fans will remember Martins for his goal for the Magpies in last season's 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.
6. The club's ground - opened for the 2003/2004 season - is the Volkswagen Arena which has a capacity of 30,000. There are 22,000 permanent seats and 4,000 temporary seats that can be converted to 8,000 standing places.
7. Wolfsburg are sitting in sixth place in the Bundesliga table with four wins and three losses so far. They have scored 15 goals but conceded 14 in those fixtures. They beat CSKA Moscow 3-1 in their opening Champions League fixture thanks to a hat-trick from Brazilian forward Grafiti.
8. Wolfsburg used to be managed by Wolfgang Wolf but he was sacked in 2003. Wolf's most recent job came at Greece Super League club Skoda Xanthi FC, but he left after just two and a half months in September this year.
9. Wolfsburg is located in Lower Saxony, towards the north of the country, and is home to the headquarters of car giant Volkswagen. Its population is a shade over 120,000.
10. Wolfsburg reached the last 32 of the 2008/2009 UEFA Cup before being knocked out by Paris St Germain. It was only the second time the club had competed in the competition.
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The Bosnian attracted interest from a host of European big guns over the summer with Manchester City, Arsenal and AC Milan all mentioned.
Pop quiz hot shot which of these teames mentioned is not an european big gun
Conceded 14 already sounds good. Let's hope it's not another early stage cagey performance by us. I hope we get stuck in and attack from the start, get a couple up an bring on the wee Owen boy, think he'd like a European goal or two.
Edinbugh Red
That's easy - Arsenal because they have never won the Champions League/European Cup. Surely you wanted to ask which of the 3 teams is not a domestic power? That's got to be the Blue lot from the Theatre of Farce. Next?
dzeko's the danger man... yet it's grafiti who has a european hatrick(7)against CSKA I fear the wrtings on the wall with this guy.....
"4. Wolfsburg's star player is striker Edin Dzeko. The Bosnian attracted interest from a host of European big guns over the summer with Manchester City, Arsenal and AC Milan all mentioned."
Patient: Doctor, Doctor, I keep waking up thinking Manchester City are a European big gun.
Doctor: You are a delusional mental case; they resemble Blackburn Rovers 15 years ago and look what happened to them.
United must be careful they are not a bad side with some shooting power ! in Dzeko and Grafite
AC Milan - 17 domestic titles/ 7 champions league titles/ 2 UEFA Cups, etc. etc. etc.
City - 2 domestic titles (that's one less than Huddersfield Town)/ 1 European Cup Winners Cup (the lowest-ever attendance - 7,968 - for a European final)... not to mention 2 League Cups...
absolutely MASSIVE!
Matthew Savage - LOL!
Odd one out..???
Surely it's Arsenal........as they dont appear to have stars on their shirt!
Arf!!
And which of these posters does not attend Utd's games but mouths it off all the time, I'd say the one at 11:54. What's wrong with Hibs and Hearts ?
The brazilian striker is called "Grafite", not "Grafiti", and in Germany people still wonder how he's pronounced. Yet he and fellow forward Dzeko scored 54 times in the last Bundesliga Season (28 and 26 goals, respectively, with Grafite topscorer and Dzeko runner-up). Another threat is playmaker Misimovic (another Bosnian international), who was top Bundesliga provider last season with 20 assists but also manages to score (4 goals in 7 09/10 Bundesliga appearences so far). He delivered a brilliant free-kick goal last weekend in Wolfsburgs 4-2 win against Hannover.
But, frankly, the Wolfsburg defense is crap (at least for a Champions League participant).
I'd hope for an interesting draw. 4-4 or something like that.
Andy K. from Nuremberg, Germany