HSV Hamburg

	HSV Hamburg
Short name	HSV
Founded	1999
Arena	O² World; Sporthalle Hamburg
Capacity	13.800 (O² World); 3.926 (Sporthalle)
President	Martin Schwalb
Head coach	Per Carlén
League	Bundesliga
2010/11	Champion
Colours
Club colours
Home	Away
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HSV Hamburg is a team handball club from Germany, locates in Hamburg. Currently, HSV Hamburg competes in the Bundesliga First Division. The full name in German is Handball Sport Verein Hamburg e.V. but the club is usually called HSV Handball, HSV Hamburg or just HSV.

HSV Hamburg is the former handball category of VfL Bad Schwartau and the HSV Lübeck, connected in 1999. In 2002 they were relocated to Hamburg in order to grow and renamed. After the relocation they had financial troubles and almost lost licence for the German First League of Handball.^[1] That changed with the arrival of Andres Rudolph as owner and his financial aid.
The HSV Hamburg is not a division of Hamburger Sportverein, they only have the rights to use their logo and their abbreviation, in order to get more publicity. From 2008 they will connect their junior- and minor teams as SG HSV Handball.

[edit] Players

[edit] 2009/10 squad

No.	Name	Position	Date of birth	Nationality
1	Johannes Bitter	Goalkeeper	02. September 1982
12	Per Sandström	Goalkeeper	11. January 1981
3	Stefan Schröder	Right Wing	17. July 1981
4	Domagoj Duvnjak	Center Back/LeftBack	01. June 1988
5	Torsten Jansen	Left Wing	23. December 1976
6	Blaženko Lacković	Left Back	25. December 1980
7	Matthias Flohr	Left Wing/Pivot	29. March 1982
9	Igor Vori	Pivot	20. September 1980
10	Oleg Velyky	Left Back/Center Back	14. October 1977 (DoD:23.01.2010)	/
14	Bertrand Gille	Pivot	24. March 1978
15	Guillaume Gille	Center Back	12. July 1976
18	Hans Lindberg	Right Wing	01. August 1981
19	Krzysztof Lijewski	Right Back	07. July 1983
22	Marcin Lijewski	Right Back	21. September 1977
23	Pascal Hens	Left Back	26. March 1980
27	Marcel Schliedermann¹	Center Back	02. January 1991