Hildebrand, 28, was Stuttgart's hero of the hour at VfL Bochum last week when his superb 87th minute save blocked Christoph Dabrowski's point-blank range shot to secure a 3-2 win which put them top of the Bundesliga.

But the five-times capped German goalkeeper is set to leave Stuttgart at the end of the season and wants to win the league this weekend, and the cup the week after, to repay the club he first joined at 16.

"I am sure that a few tears will flow," he said as his side look to capture their first Bundesliga title since 1992 with their ninth-straight win.

"The game will be quite emotional for me.

"If we win both titles, that would be insane. As a small boy, I dreamed of Stuttgart doing the double."

Stuttgart's 3-2 win at Bochum, coming from 2-1 down - as well as leaders Schalke's 2-0 defeat at Borussia Dortmund - allowed the men in red to steal top spot with just one game left.

A capacity 55,000 strong crowd is expected to cram into the Gottlieb-Daimler Stadium on Saturday with the game being shown on a 71-metre screen in the city centre to allow fans to see their side win the Bundesliga for the third time.

If successful, Stuttgart will then be gunning for the double when they face Nuremberg at Berlin's Olympic Stadium on May 26 in the German Cup final.

And with Arsenal's Jens Lehmann ahead of him in the German national side, Hildebrand is prepared to take a gamble for Germany's number one shirt by moving overseas.

Hildebrand, out of contract at the end of the season and set to join six-times Spanish champions Valencia with AC Milan and Real Madrid also in the hunt for his signature, wants to finish on a high.

With all eyes on Stuttgart, the rest of the Bundesliga is a formality.

Second-placed Shalke have to hope Stuttgart lose and they can win at home to Arminia Bielefeld to have any chance of capturing their first Bundesliga title.

Third-placed Werder Bremen, who travel to midtable VfL Wolfsburg, are out of the title race and can only finish second at best if Schalke lose.

German giants Bayern Munich have had their worst season for 10 years and will finish fourth with only a place in next season's UEFA Cup to look forward to.

At the bottom of the table, Borussia Moenchengladbach are relegated, while Mainz 05 and Alemannia Aachen are virtually certain to join them.

Mainz, who are at Bayern Munich on Saturday, and Aachen, who travel to Hamburg, have tough away games and both have the impossible task of needing to score a hatful of goals to have any chance of getting out of the relegation zone.

The other games are simply for pride with Eintracht Frankfurt, safe from the relegation dogfight, entertaining mid-table Hertha Berlin and Bayer Leverkusen taking on Dortmund.

Nuremberg, in sixth place, travel to Hanover and if they win, while Leverkusen falter, they would finish fifth and claim the Bundesliga's final UEFA Cup place by virtue of a better goal difference.