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Hamburger SV

Full name

Hamburger Sport-Verein e. V.

Nickname(s)

Rothosen
HSV
Hanseaten
Urgestein (Primary Rocks)
Bundesliga-Dino (The Dinosaur)

Founded

September 29, 1887

Ground

HSH Nordbank Arena
(Capacity 57,274)

Chairman

Head Coach

League

Bundesliga, 7th





Home colours





Away colours

Hamburger SV is a German football club based in Hamburg. They are one of the country's oldest, most well known and best performing clubs, with the unique distinction of having played continuously in top-flight German football since the end of World War I.

1 History
2 Honours
3 Stadium
4 Players
5 Coaches
6 Team trivia
7 External links

Hamburger SV can trace its roots as far back as the September 29, 1887 merger of Der Hohenfelder Sportclub and Wandsbek-Marienthaler Sportclub to form Sports Club Germania. The current club was formed as Hamburger Sport-Verein in 1919 through the union of three city teams severely weakened by World War I: Sports Club Germania; Hamburger FC (1888); and FC Falke (1906). The club colors were the Hanseatic red and white in honor of the City of Hamburg, with the blue and black of the oldest of the founding clubs, Germania, being used on the team crest. It is through Germania that HSV can lay a claim to being the oldest team in the country. However, other clubs may dispute that honor, as Germania was formed originally as an athletics club and did not begin to play football until 1891 when a half dozen Englishmen joined the club, bringing with them their enthusiasm for the game.

The newly formed HSV quickly became competitive and contested the 1922 national final against 1. FC Nürnberg, who were playing for their third consecutive title. The game was called on account of darkness after three hours and ten minutes of play, drawn at (2:2). The re-match also went into extra time, and in an era that did not allow for substitutions, that game was called at (1:1) when Nürnberg was reduced to just seven players and the referee ruled they could not continue. Considerable wrangling ensued over the decision. The DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) awarded the win to Hamburg SV but urged them to refuse the title in the name of good sportsmanship – which they grudgingly did. Ultimately, the Viktoria trophy was not officially presented that year.

The club's first umblemished success on the pitch came in 1923 when they won the national title against Union Oberschöneweide. They failed to defend in 1924 against Nürnberg, but lifted the Viktoria again in 1928. Playing in the Oberliga Nord after the resumption of league play in postwar Germany, Hamburg became a frighteningly dominant regional club. In sixteen seasons from 1947-48 to 1962-63 they laid claim to the Oberliga title fiveteen times, only posting an uncharacteristic 11th place finish in 1953-54. During this period they scored over 100 goals in each of the 1951, 1955, 1961 and 1962 seasons. However, national titles were harder to come by. Their last championship in 1928 was followed by a long drought not broken until 1960, after losing final appearances in 1957 and 1958.

Soon after, Germany's first professional football league, the Bundesliga, was formed and HSV was one of sixteen clubs invited to join that first season. Hamburger SV currently holds the distinction of being the only original Bundesliga side to have played continuously in the top flight – without ever having been relegated – since the formation of the league in 1963. They had shared that special status with Eintracht Frankfurt and 1. FC Kaiserslautern until 1996, and with 1. FC Köln until 1998. Altogether, forty-eight other sides have come and gone since the league's inception. The Bundesliga celebrated its 40th anniversary on August 24, 2004 with a match between "The Dinosaur", as the club has been affectionately nicknamed, and Bayern Munich, the league's most successful side. What is even more remarkable is a related, but less well-known, distinction HSV holds: they have played in the country's top flight league continuously since 1919, never having experienced relegation.

In the mid-70s HSV began a brilliant run that saw them capture numerous honors. In 1976 they won the German Cup and followed up the next year with a Cup Winners' Cup. The took their first Bundesliga championship in 1979, fell just two points short behind Bayern Munich in 1980, and then won consecutive championships in 1982 and 1983, led by national star Felix Magath. '83 also brought a European Champions' Cup with a (1:0) win over Juventus F.C., followed by another German Cup in 1987.

In August 2004, HSV was upset in the early rounds of the German Cup by regional league side Paderborn. The match became one of the most infamous in recent football history when it was discovered that referee, Robert Hoyzer, had accepted money from a Croatian gambling syndicate to fix the match, which he did awarding two penalties to Paderborn and sending off Hamburg's player Emile Mpenza. The resulting scandal became the biggest in German football in over thirty years, and was an embarrassment to the country as it prepared to host the 2006 World Cup.

Hamburg competed in the UEFA Champions League in the 2006-07 season for the first time since 2000-01, when they finished third in the Bundesliga. They competed in Group G alongside Arsenal, FC Porto and CSKA Moscow, but finished last and were eliminated.

The current Bundesliga campaign started rather poorly for Hamburg. After a successful 2005-06 season when they finished third in the league to qualify for the UEFA Champions League, they spent the first half of the season hovering around and in the relegation zone, with only one win (2-1 in Leverkusen) to their points tally. A series of crippling injuries to the star players along with the departures of two of their best defenders severely influenced Hamburg's league campaign, with fans fearing that Hamburg's proud stay in the Bundesliga might be drawing to a close.

On February 1, 2007 manager Thomas Doll was sacked and replaced by the Dutchman Huub Stevens. Stevens' disciplinarian style seemed to grab HSV by the scruff of the neck and shake them about, as the club went 7 games undefeated and conceded just one goal between 10th February 2007 & 7th April 2007. During this streak, HSV won their first home game of the season against Dortmund and won away to archrivals Bremen and Schalke - two sides who were 2nd & 1st respectively when HSV came to town.

However, despite this good run of form (which would come to a crashing halt at home to eventual Champions Stuttgart in April); HSV still were not safe from relegation due to the teams below them also collecting points. At one point in March, 12 teams were involved in the relegation scrap with a gap of 10pts separating 18th placed Gladbach and 7th placed Hannover.

HSV seemed to gain more success on their travels than at home, as wins at Borussia Mönchengladbach (which virtually relegated Borussia at the time), Bayern München and 1.FC Nürnberg gave HSV valuable points whilst the home games in this period were the previously mentioned defeats to Bochum and Stuttgart, as well as a disappointing draw against fellow strugglers Mainz. Ironicially though, it was the 3-0 home defeat to VfL Bochum on 5th May that mathematically secured HSV's Bundesliga status as struggling Aachen (16th) and Mainz (17th) also lost their games on the same weekend and despite the points difference only being 6 points with two games left, the goal difference was too large to make up by either club.

With their status safe, HSV were now among a small pack of clubs - consisting of Dortmund (now managed by Thomas Doll), Hannover, Bielefeld and Bochum - that were chasing 7th place and the qualifying spot for the following season's UEFA Intertoto Cup. With one game left, and following the 0-3 upset by Bochum, HSV surprised in-form Nuernberg to win 2-0 in the Southern sunshine. One week later, a resounding 4-0 home win (HSV's first since 1st April) over relegated Aachen coupled with Dortmund's 2-1 defeat in Leverkusen and Nuernberg's 3-0 win in Hannover meant that HSV had somehow slipped in at the last possible moment to snatch 7th place.

From 18th place and certain relegation on 10th February 2007 to 7th place and two games away from UEFA Cup football on 19th May 2007.

Hamburg's three Bundesliga championships entitle the club to display one gold star of the "Verdiente Meistervereine". Under the current award system their pre-Bundesliga championships are not recognized and so they are not entitled to the second star of a five-time champion.

In addition to the championships listed below Hamburger SV has a claim to the 1922 title which was never "officially" awarded due to the circumstances of the game and bureaucratic stumbling by the DFB.

Hamburger SV has qualified twice for the Group Stages of the UEFA Champions League in seasons 2000/2001 and in 2006/2007 after finishing third in the previous domestic Bundesliga season and successful play-off matches.

Hamburger SV were the 1983 European Champions, however, they lost the World Club crown to Brazilian side Grêmio.

German Champions: 1922 (not officially awarded), 1923, 1928, 1960, 1979, 1982, 1983
German Cup: 1963, 1976, 1987
German League Cup: 1973, 2003
European Champions Cup: 1983
European Cup Winners' Cup: 1977
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2005, 2007

Preceded by Aston Villa	European Cup Winner 1983 Runner up: Juventus	Succeeded by Liverpool

Preceded by Anderlecht	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Winner 1977 Runner up: Anderlecht	Succeeded by Anderlecht

The club plays its home games in the HSH Nordbank Arena (capacity: 57.274 – ~47,000 seats, 10,000 standing) which was originally opened in 2000 as the new Volksparkstadion. The first Volksparkstadion was opened in 1953 and had been a venue for the 1974 FIFA World Cup and EURO 88. The HSH Nordbank Arena is a UEFA 5 star stadium which certifies it to host UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League finals. The stadium was the site of four group matches and a quarterfinal in the past 2006 World Cup hosted by Germany and was known as FIFA World Cup Stadium Hamburg during the event.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Frank Rost
2	DF	Juan Pablo Sorín
3	DF	Thimothée Atouba
4	DF	Bastian Reinhardt
5	DF	Joris Mathijsen
7	FW	Mohamed Zidan
8	MF	Nigel de Jong
9	FW	José Paolo Guerrero
10	DF	Vincent Kompany
11	FW	Ivica Olić
12	GK	Wolfgang Hesl
13	MF	Mario Fillinger
14	MF	David Jarolím
15	MF	Piotr Trochowski
17	FW	Macauley Chrisantus

No.	Position	Player
18	MF	Romeo Castelen
19	DF	Jérôme Boateng
20	DF	Guy Demel
21	DF	Sebastian Langkamp
22	FW	Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
23	MF	Rafael van der Vaart *(captain)*
24	MF	Mišo Brečko
25	MF	Kosi Saka
28	MF	Otto Addo
29	GK	Raphael Wolf
30	MF	Collin Benjamin
31	MF	Timo Kunert
32	MF	Änis Ben-Hatira
34	MF	Sidney Sam

No.		Position	Player
12		GK	Sascha Kirschstein (on loan at SpVgg Greuther Fürth)
37		FW	Rouwen Hennings (on loan at VfL Osnabrück)

In: (July Window)

No.	Position	Player
7	FW	Mohamed Zidan (from 1. FSV Mainz 05)
12	GK	Wolfgang Hesl (from Hamburger SV Reserves)
18	MF	Romeo Castelen (from Feyenoord)
19	DF	Jérôme Boateng (from Hertha BSC Berlin)
21	DF	Sebastian Langkamp (from Bayern Munich Reserves)
22	FW	Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (from Hamburger SV Reserves)
24	DF	Mišo Brečko (from FC Erzgebirge Aue, was out on loan)
25	FW	Kosi Saka (from Borussia Dortmund)
28	MF	Otto Addo (from 1. FSV Mainz 05)
29	GK	Raphael Wolf (from Hamburger SV Reserves)
31	MF	Timo Kunert (from FC Schalke 04)
34	FW	Sidney Sam (from Hamburger SV Reserves)

Out:

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Stefan Wächter (to F.C. Hansa Rostock)
6	MF	Raphael Wicky (to FC Sion)
7	MF	Mehdi Mahdavikia (to Eintracht Frankfurt)
8	DF	Mathias Abel (to FC Schalke 04, was on loan)
12	GK	Sascha Kirschstein (to SpVgg Greuther Fürth, out on loan)
16	MF	René Klingbeil (to Viking F.K.)
16	FW	Mustafa Kučuković (to TSV 1860 Munich)
17	MF	Boubacar Sanogo (to SV Werder Bremen)
18	MF	Oliver Hampel (to Fortuna Düsseldorf)
22	FW	Besart Berisha (to Burnley F.C.)
26	DF	Volker Schmidt (to Hamburger SV Reserves)
27	MF	Alexander Laas (to VfL Wolfsburg)
37	FW	Rouwen Hennings (to VfL Osnabrück, out on loan)
33	MF	Benny Feilhaber (to Derby County F.C.)
38	FW	Danijel Ljuboja (to VfB Stuttgart Reserves, was out on loan)

Otto "Tull" Harder	Albert "Ali" Beier	Rudi Noak	Walter Warning	Erwin Seeler
Heinz Spundflasche	Jupp Posipal	Horst Schnoor	Uwe Seeler	Dieter Seeler
Klaus Stürmer	Jürgen Werner	Gert "Charly" Dörfel	Arkoc Özkan	Willi Schulz
Peter Nogly	Rudi Kargus	Manfred Kaltz	Felix Magath	Mark McGhee
Horst Hrubesch	Ditmar Jakobs	Franz Beckenbauer	Uli Stein	Thomas von Heesen
Anthony Yeboah	Thomas Doll	Sergej Barbarez	Hasan Salihamidzic	Mehdi Mahdavikia	Vahid Hashemian	Naohiro Takahara
Jörg Albertz	Iordan Letchkov	Stefan Beinlich	Daniel Van Buyten	Khalid Boulahrouz
Stéphane Henchoz	Kevin Keegan

|Mohamed Zidan | Rafael van der Vaart | Renè Klingbeil

1945 - 1949 Hans Tauchert
1946 - 1954 Georg Knöpfle
1954 - 1956 Martin Wilke & Günter Mahlmann
1956 - 1962 Günter Mahlmann
1962 - 1964 Martin Wilke
1964 - 1966 Georg Gawliczek
1966 - 1967 Josef Schneider
1967 - 1969 Kurt Koch
1969 - 1970 Georg Knöpfle
1970 - 1973 Klaus-Dieter Ochs
1973 - 1977 Kuno Klötzer
1977 - 1977 Rudi Gutendorf
1977 - 1978 Arkoc Özkan
1978 - 1980 Branko Zebec
1981 - 1981 Aleksandar Ristić
1981 - 1987 Ernst Happel
1987 - 1987 Josip Skoblar
1987 - 1990 Willi Reimann
1990 - 1992 Gerd-Volker Schock
1992 - 1992 Egon Coordes
1992 - 1995 Benno Möhlmann
1995 - 1997 Felix Magath
1997 - 1997 Ralf Schehr
1997 - 2001 Frank Pagelsdorf
2001 - 2001 Holger Hieronymus
2001 - 2003 Kurt Jara
2003 - 2004 Klaus Toppmöller
2004 - 2007 Thomas Doll
2007 - Huub Stevens

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A visit to the club's homepage reveals a clock that tallies up the time – down to the second – that Hamburg has spent in the Bundesliga.

HSV went undefeated between January 16, 1982 and January 29, 1983 - a string of 36 games that still stands as a Bundesliga record.

Hamburg became the first German team to tour the United States after the Second World War in May of 1950 and came away with a 6-0 record.

HSV share a cross-town rivalry with FC St. Pauli.

HSV shares a rivalry to the other big club of northern Germany: Werder Bremen.

HSV held the record of post-2nd World War first-class league titles, having won 15 Oberliga Nord and three Bundesliga championships until 2006 when FC Bayern München won it's 19th Bundesliga title and overtook them.