The Best Moments of the Forklift World Championship
StaplerCup Impressions & Highlights
From an idea to an industry event
StaplerCup has an impressive history - and has become bigger and more professional year after year. We have collected the most exciting pictures and important milestons for you.
StaplerCup 2025
20 Years of StaplerCup – Record-Breaking Crowds and New World Champions!
From October 23 to 25, 2025, the LINDE MH ARENA in Aschaffenburg transformed into the ultimate hotspot of the international forklift sports scene. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the StaplerCup attracted more than 50,000 enthusiastic fans – live on-site and via stream – who witnessed the most spectacular competitions of the Forklift World Championship. Over 130 Forkliftheroes from around the globe competed in challenging courses for the coveted world championship titles.
Swetlana Lattermann (Women’s), Benjamin Danker (Men’s), and the German National Team (Team) claimed the world championship crowns. ZF Friedrichshafen took home the Corporate Cup. With creative challenges, automated vehicles, and the legendary Kaup HeroRamp, the anniversary event became a true highlight for the global forklift community.
StaplerCup Finals 2025 – Experience the Livestreams now!
You couldn’t join us live or want to relive the highlights? Here you’ll find the official livestreams of the StaplerCup Finals 2025 – featuring all the thrilling competitions, spectacular courses, and emotional moments from the LINDE MH ARENA. Whether it’s the individual competition, team challenges, or the grand finale: tune in now and enjoy the ultimate forklift action!
Day 1 – 23. Oct.
Corporate Cup
Day 2 – 24. Oct.
Forklift Team / Men's / Women's World Championship
Day 3 – 25. Oct.
Forklift Team / Men's / Women's World Championship
Want even more forklift action?
On our official StaplerCup YouTube channel, you’ll find exclusive behind-the-scenes videos, interviews with the champions, recaps of past events, and tons of spectacular forklift moments.
Go to the StaplerCup YouTube channelStaplerCup 2024
Premiere of the Forklift World Championship
On October 25th and 26th, 2024, the StaplerCup at the LINDE MH ARENA in Aschaffenburg (Germany) celebrated the first official Forklift World Championship – over 17,000 fans witnessed thrilling races on-site and via livestream. The first individual world championship titles went to Stefan Jenniges (Men’s) and Tina Föhre-Scheller (Women’s). Belgium triumphed in the team competition, and the Hanseatische Brauerei Rostock secured the Corporate Cup. Singer-songwriter JORIS provided a moving closing concert.
StaplerCup 2023
Fortklift-Action at StaplerCup 2022
The 17th StaplerCup marks forklift-history as one of the most exciting and varied competitions. New forklift driving champions were crowned in four disciplines on 28th and 29th of October in Aschaffenburg. More than 3,000 enthusiastic spectators in the f.a.n frankenstolz experienced the two-day event which was closed with an unforgettable live show by Culcha Candela.
StaplerCup 2022
StaplerCup 2021 - Everything New!
New Location, New Parcours, Pure Emotion
Tires pull through the course with a sure grip, forks move up and down, lift loads, restack, stack up. Referees watch closely, the presenters comment on every action. Will the structure remain still? Will it collapse? Blood pressure rises. So does the speed. A last sharpening of the focus, the running stopwatch in the neck. Then comes the explosion of joy or the great disappointment. Breathtaking, fascinating, exciting, from the first whistle to the last second.
StaplerCup 2020: The competition pauses.. charity goes on.
The Corona pandemic is forcing countless events worldwide to pause and StaplerCup is also taking a break in 2020 - to protect spectators and employees. But even if StaplerCup takes a break, the charity activities continue. StaplerCup hilft e.V. has been accompanying the sporting event since 2008. The non-profit association supports regional social institutions for sick or disadvantaged children and young people as well as elderly people in need of help. In the first year of covid, the association donates 10,000 euros to the Aschaffenburg-Alzenau Clinic. The purpose: more safety equipment for hospital staff, who are under greater pressure than ever before. In total, more than 300,000 euros in donations have been collected since the association was founded.
StaplerCup 2019: 15 years and counting!
Jubilee Year
15 German Championships in forklift driving and five German Championships of female forklift drivers. Two World Championships. 13 International Championships. Twelve Company Team Championships. Five PR and event awards. - Wow.
From industry event to crowd puller: That's a small numerical sample of 15 years of StaplerCup, where only the best of the best compete and deliver impressive top performances time and time again. In its first year, StaplerCup was still purely an industry event for logistics companies, but today it is a public sporting event with several thousand spectators every year. The 375 regional championships held so far - the finalists traditionally qualify for the StaplerCup - have attracted a total of 29,000 registrations.
Phenomenal performances at the wheel: the StaplerCup is as popular for its audience as it is for the participants in 2019, the year of the second world championship in forklift driving, around 15,000 guests followed the three-day event and cheered along with the "Heroes". The drivers solved spectacular tasks with their forklifts. The spectators took their breath away at one point or another. And increased appreciation for what employees in warehouses and logistics operations do every day to get materials and goods to their destination on time and intact.