Hamburger SV

Hamburger SV

Full name	Hamburger Sport-Verein e. V.
Nickname(s)	Rothosen ("Red Shorts") The Dinosaur
Founded	29 September 1887 (1887-09-29)
Ground	Imtech Arena (capacity: 56,889)
Chairman	Carl-Edgar Jarchow
Head coach	Thorsten Fink
League	Bundesliga
2012–13	7th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Hamburger Sport-Verein e. V. [ham.ˈbʊɐ̯.gɐ ˌʃpɔɐ̯tʰ.fəʁ.ˈaɪ̯n], commonly known as Hamburger SV, Hamburg or HSV [haː.ɛs.faʊ̯], is a German multi-sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department. The football team is one of the country's oldest, most well known, and best performing clubs, with the unique distinction of having played continuously in top tier of the German football league system since the end of World War I; the team has never been relegated from any top-flight league and is the only team that has always played in the Bundesliga since its foundation in 1963.

In the mid-1970s, HSV began a brilliant run that saw them capture numerous honours. In 1976 they won the DFB-Pokal and followed up the next year with a Cup Winners' Cup. They 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. In 1982 they reached the final of the UEFA cup, but lost to IFK Göteborg from Sweden. In 1983 they won the UEFA Champions League, followed by another German Cup in 1987.

Hamburg has a rivalry with Werder Bremen and FC St. Pauli. Hamburg plays their home games at the Imtech Arena. Hamburg's colors are red, white, blue, and black. In terms of revenue, Hamburg is the fourth biggest sports club in Germany and the eighteenth biggest football club in the world, generating €121.1 million in 2012.

History

Early years

Graph showing Hamburger SV's performance in the German football league system from 1933 to 2011.

The Hamburger Sport-Verein (HSV), can trace its roots as far back as the merger of Der Hohenfelder Sportclub and Wandsbek-Marienthaler Sportclub on 29 September 1887 to form Sportclub Germania zu Hamburg. The current club was formed as Hamburger Sport-Verein in 1919 through the union of three city teams severely weakened by World War I: Sportclub Germania zu Hamburg; Hamburger FC (1888); and FC Falke Eppendorf (1906). The club colours were the Hanseatic red and white in honour of the City of Hamburg, with the blue and black of the oldest of the founding clubs, Germania, being used on the team badge. It is through Germania that HSV can lay a claim to being the oldest team in the country. However, other clubs may dispute that honour, 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 Hamburger SV quickly became competitive and contested the 1922 national final against 1. FC Nuremberg, who were playing for their third consecutive title. The game was called off 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 Nuremberg was reduced to just seven players (two were injured, two had been sent off!) and the referee ruled they could not continue. Considerable wrangling ensued over the decision. The German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund) awarded the win to Hamburger 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 unblemished success on the pitch came in 1923 when they won the national title against Union Oberschöneweide. They failed to defend in 1924 against Nuremberg, but lifted the Viktoria again in 1928.

During the Third Reich, HSV enjoyed local success, first in the Gauliga Nordmark, from 1942 in the Gauliga Hamburg, taking out the league title in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941 and 1945, but on national level the club was a failure. Its main rival in the Gauliga in those years was Eimsbütteler TV.

Post war play in the Stadtliga Hamburg saw the club take out the championship there in 1946. The club also won the championship of the British occupation zone in 1947 and 1948, the only two seasons this competition was staged.

Hamburg became the first German team to tour the United States after the Second World War in May 1950 and came away with a 6–0 record.^{[citation needed]}

Playing in the Oberliga Nord after the resumption of league play in postwar Germany in 1947, Hamburg became a frighteningly dominant regional club. In sixteen seasons from 1947–48 to 1962–63 they laid claim to the Oberliga title 15 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. In the 1961 European Champions Cup competition, Hamburg were knocked out by FC Barcelona in the semi-finals. Hamburg had beaten BSC Young Boys from Switzerland and English champions Burnley on their way to the semi-finals.

Entry into the Bundesliga

Soon after, Germany's first professional football league, the Fußball-Bundesliga, was formed and HSV was one of 16 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, 49 other sides have come and gone since the league's inception. The Bundesliga celebrated its 40th anniversary on 24 August 2004 with a match between "The Dinosaur", as the club has been affectionately nicknamed due to its old age, and Bayern Munich, the league's most successful side.

HSV went undefeated between 16 January 1982 and 29 January 1983—a string of 36 games that still stands as a Bundesliga record.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2004, HSV was upset in the early rounds of the German Cup by regional league side SC Paderborn 07. 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 30 years, and was an embarrassment to the country as it prepared to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

2006–07 UEFA Champions League campaign

Hamburg competed in the UEFA Champions League in the 2006–07 season for the first time since 2000–01, after they finished third in the Bundesliga. They beat CA Osasuna on away goals in the third preliminary round, and competed in Group G alongside Arsenal, FC Porto and CSKA Moscow, but finished a disappointing last and were thus eliminated.

2006–07 Bundesliga campaign

Hamburg against Borussia Dortmund in January 2010

The Bundesliga campaign started 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 against Bayer Leverkusen) to their points tally. A series of crippling injuries to the star players along with the departures of two of their best defenders, Khalid Boulahrouz and Daniel Van Buyten, severely influenced Hamburg's league campaign, with fans fearing that Hamburg's proud stay in the Bundesliga might be drawing to a close, as the club occupied the bottom spot of the league table after the first half of the season.

On 1 February 2007, the coach, 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 seven games undefeated and conceded just one goal between 10 February 2007 and 7 April 2007. During this streak, HSV lost their first home game of the season against Borussia Dortmund and won away to arch-rivals Werder Bremen and Schalke 04 — two sides who were 2nd and 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 10 points separating 18th placed Borussia Mönchengladbach and 7th placed Hannover 96.

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 Munich, and 1. FC Nuremberg gave HSV valuable points whilst the home games in this period were the previously mentioned defeats to VfL Bochum and VfB Stuttgart, as well as a disappointing draw against fellow strugglers 1. FSV Mainz 05. Ironically, it was the 3–0 home defeat to Bochum on 5 May that mathematically secured HSV's Bundesliga status as struggling Alemannia Aachen (16th) and Mainz (17th) also lost their games on the same weekend and despite the points difference only being six 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 Borussia Dortmund, Hannover 96, Arminia 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 Nuremberg to win 2–0 in the Southern sunshine. One week later, a resounding 4–0 home win (HSV's first since 1 April) over relegated Aachen coupled with Dortmund's 2–1 defeat in Leverkusen and Nuremberg's 3–0 win in Hannover meant that HSV had somehow slipped in at the last possible moment to snatch 7th place, moving from 18th place and certain relegation on 10 February 2007 to 7th place and two games away from UEFA Cup football on 19 May 2007.

Recent seasons

Year	Division	Position
1999–00	Bundesliga	3rd
2000–01	Bundesliga	13th
2001–02	Bundesliga	11th
2002–03	Bundesliga	4th
2003–04	Bundesliga	8th
2004–05	Bundesliga	8th
2005–06	Bundesliga	3rd
2006–07	Bundesliga	7th
2007–08	Bundesliga	4th
2008–09	Bundesliga	5th
2009–10	Bundesliga	7th
2010–11	Bundesliga	8th
2011–12	Bundesliga	15th
2012–13	Bundesliga	7th

Honours

HSV held the record of post-World War II first-class league titles, having won 15 Oberliga Nord and three Bundesliga championships until 2006 when Bayern Munich won its 19th Bundesliga title and overtook them.^{[citation needed]}

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.

After the replay of the championship final in 1922 had to be abandoned due to the opponents no longer having enough players on the ground, the German FA requested HSV to renounce the title which the club did.

International titles

• Intercontinental Cup:

• Runners-up (1): 1983

• European Cup / UEFA Champions League:

• Winners (1): 1982–83
• Runners-up (1): 1979–80

• European Cup Winners' Cup:

• Winners (1): 1976–77
• Runners-up (1): 1967–68

• UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League:

• Runners-up (1): 1982

• European Super Cup:

• Runners-up (2): 1977, 1983

• UEFA Intertoto Cup:

• Winners (2): 2005, 2007
• Runners-up (1): 1999
• Group Winners (2): 1970, 1994

National titles

• German Champions:

• Winners (6): 1922–1923, 1927–1928, 1959–1960, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1982–83
• Runners-up (8): 1923–1924, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1975–76, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1986–87

• German Cup:

• Winners (3): 1962–63, 1975–76, 1986–87
• Runners-up (3): 1955–56, 1966–67, 1973–74

• German Supercup:

• Runners-up (3): 1977, 1982, 1987

• German League Cup:

• Winners (2): 1972–73, 2003

Regional titles

• Northern German football championship
  • Winners (10): 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933
  • Runners-up (2): 1926, 1927

• Oberliga Nord
  • Winners (15): 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963

• Gauliga Nordmark
  • Winners (4): 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941
  • Runners-up (4): 1934, 1935, 1940, 1942

• Gauliga Hamburg
  • Winners (1): 1945
  • Runners-up (2): 1943, 1944

• Stadtliga Hamburg
  • Winners (1): 1946
  • Runners-up (1): 1947

• Championship of the British occupation zone
  • Winners (2): 1947, 1948

Other Trophies

• Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu:
  • Winners (1): 1982

• Dubai Challenge Cup:
  • Winners (2): 2007, 2008

• Emirates Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2008

• T-Home Cup
  • Winners (1): 2009

• Peace Cup
  • Winners (1): 2012

Stadium

The Imtech Arena

Hamburg plays its home games in the Volksparkstadion, which is currently called the Imtech Arena through a sponsorship deal. Built on the site of the original Volksparkstadion, opened in 1953, the current stadium was opened in 2000, and has a capacity of 57,000 – approximately 47,000 seats with another 10,000 spectators standing. The first Volksparkstadion had been a venue for the 1974 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1988. The Volksparkstadion is a UEFA category one stadium, which certifies it to host UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League finals. The stadium was the site of four group matches and a quarter-final in the past 2006 FIFA World Cup, hosted by Germany, and was known as FIFA World Cup Stadium Hamburg during the event. It was also the venue for the 2010 UEFA Europa League Final.

HSV fans can be buried at a dedicated graveyard near the home stadium, covered in turf from the original Hamburg pitch.

Shirt Sponsors

Season	Sponsor
1974–1976	Campari
1976–1979	Hitachi
1979–1987	BP
1987–1994	Sharp
1994–1999	Hyundai
1999–2003	TV Spielfilm
2003–2006	ADIG
since 2006	Emirates

Players

First team squad

As of 29 July 2012, according the official website.
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Jaroslav Drobný 2 DF Dennis Diekmeier 3 DF Michael Mancienne 4 DF Heiko Westermann 5 DF Jeffrey Bruma (on loan from Chelsea) 6 DF Dennis Aogo 7 MF Marcell Jansen 8 MF Tomás Rincón 10 FW Artjoms Rudņevs 11 MF Ivo Iličević 14 MF Milan Badelj 15 GK René Adler 16 FW Marcus Berg

No. Position Player 17 DF Lam Zhi Gin 18 MF Tolgay Arslan 19 MF Petr Jiráček 21 MF Maximilian Beister 22 MF Jacopo Sala 23 MF Rafael van der Vaart (captain) 24 DF Slobodan Rajković 25 MF Per Ciljan Skjelbred 30 GK Sven Neuhaus 33 MF Christian Nørgaard 37 DF Janek Sternberg 40 FW Son Heung-Min 44 MF Gojko Kačar

Players out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 13 MF Robert Tesche (at Fortuna Düsseldorf until 30 June 2013) 20 DF Paul Scharner (at Wigan Athletic until 30 June 2013) MF Hakan Çalhanoğlu (at Karlsruher SC until 30 June 2013)

Personnel

Current technical staff

Manager Thorsten Fink

Position	Staff
Head coach	Thorsten Fink
Assistant coach	Patrick Rahmen
Assistant coach	Frank Heinemann
Goalkeeping coach	Ronny Teuber
Fitness coach	Manfred Düring
Fitness coach	Markus Günther
Fitness coach	Nikola Vidović
Athletic supervisor	Frank Arnesen
Technical Director	Lee Congerton

Last updated: 19 December 2011
Source: Hamburger SV official website

Head coaches since 1963

Name	From	To	Days	Played	Win	Drawn	Lost	Win %	Honours
Wilke, MartinMartin Wilke	1 July 1963	7 May 1964	311	700129000000000000029	700111000000000000011	70009000000000000009	70009000000000000009	700137930000000000037.93	1962–63 DFB-Pokal – winner
Gawliczek, GeorgGeorg Gawliczek	8 May 1964	17 April 1966	709	700159000000000000059	700122000000000000022	700112000000000000012	700125000000000000025	700137290000000000037.29
Schneider, JosefJosef Schneider	18 April 1966	30 June 1967	438	700139000000000000039	700112000000000000012	700111000000000000011	700116000000000000016	700130770000000000030.77	1966–67 DFB-Pokal – runners-up
Koch, KurtKurt Koch	1 July 1967	30 June 1968	365	700134000000000000034	700111000000000000011	700111000000000000011	700112000000000000012	700132350000000000032.35	1967–68 European Cup Winners' Cup – runners-up
Knöpfle, GeorgGeorg Knöpfle	1 July 1968	30 June 1970	729	700168000000000000068	700125000000000000025	700121000000000000021	700122000000000000022	700136760000000000036.76
Ochs, Klaus-DieterKlaus-Dieter Ochs	1 July 1970	30 June 1973	1095	7002102000000000000102	700136000000000000036	700126000000000000026	700140000000000000040	700135290000000000035.29	1972–73 DFB-Ligapokal – winner
Klötzer, KunoKuno Klötzer	1 July 1973	30 June 1977	1460	7002136000000000000136	700162000000000000062	700129000000000000029	700145000000000000045	700145590000000000045.59	1973–74 DFB-Pokal – runners-up 1975–76 Fußball-Bundesliga – runners-up 1975–76 DFB-Pokal – winner 1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup – winner
Gutendorf, RudiRudi Gutendorf	1 July 1977	27 October 1977	118	700112000000000000012	70006000000000000006	70001000000000000001	70005000000000000005	700150000000000000050.00	1977 DFB-Supercup – runners-up
Özcan, ArkoçArkoç Özcan	28 October 1977	30 June 1978	245	700122000000000000022	70008000000000000008	70005000000000000005	70009000000000000009	700136360000000000036.36	1977 European Super Cup – runners-up
Zebec, BrankoBranko Zebec	1 July 1978	18 December 1980	901	700185000000000000085	700154000000000000054	700117000000000000017	700114000000000000014	700163530000000000063.53	1978–79 Fußball-Bundesliga – winner 1979–80 Fußball-Bundesliga – runners-up 1979–80 European Cup – runners-up
Ristić, AleksandarAleksandar Ristić	19 December 1980	30 June 1981	193	700117000000000000017	70008000000000000008	70005000000000000005	70004000000000000004	700147060000000000047.06	1980–81 Fußball-Bundesliga – runners-up
Happel, ErnstErnst Happel	1 July 1981	30 June 1987	2190	7002204000000000000204	7002109000000000000109	700153000000000000053	700142000000000000042	700153430000000000053.43	1981–82 Fußball-Bundesliga – winner 1981–82 UEFA Cup – runners-up 1982–83 Fußball-Bundesliga – winner 1982–83 European Cup – winner 1983 Intercontinental Cup – runners-up 1983 European Super Cup – runners-up 1983 DFB-Supercup – runners-up 1983–84 Fußball-Bundesliga – runners-up 1986–87 Fußball-Bundesliga – runners-up 1986–87 DFB-Pokal – winner
Skoblar, JosipJosip Skoblar	1 July 1987	9 November 1987	131	700115000000000000015	70005000000000000005	70004000000000000004	70006000000000000006	700133330000000000033.33	1987 DFB-Supercup – runners-up
Reimann, WilliWilli Reimann	11 November 1987	4 January 1990	785	700175000000000000075	700132000000000000032	700119000000000000019	700124000000000000024	700142670000000000042.67
Schock, Gerd-VolkerGerd-Volker Schock	5 January 1990	10 March 1992	795	700173000000000000073	700128000000000000028	700122000000000000022	700123000000000000023	700138360000000000038.36
Coordes, EgonEgon Coordes	12 March 1992	21 September 1992	193	700119000000000000019	70003000000000000003	70008000000000000008	70008000000000000008	700115790000000000015.79
Möhlmann, BennoBenno Möhlmann	23 September 1992	5 October 1995	1107	7002105000000000000105	700131000000000000031	700136000000000000036	700138000000000000038	700129520000000000029.52
Magath, FelixFelix Magath	6 October 1995	18 May 1997	590	700158000000000000058	700121000000000000021	700118000000000000018	700119000000000000019	700136210000000000036.21
Schehr, RalfRalf Schehr*	19 May 1997	30 June 1997	42	70002000000000000002	70001000000000000001	70001000000000000001	50000000000000000000	700150000000000000050.00
Pagelsdorf, FrankFrank Pagelsdorf	1 July 1997	17 September 2001	1593	7002142000000000000142	700151000000000000051	700146000000000000046	700145000000000000045	700135920000000000035.92
Hieronymus, HolgerHolger Hieronymus*	18 September 2001	3 October 2001	15	70002000000000000002	50000000000000000000	70001000000000000001	70001000000000000001	&050000000000000000000.00
Jara, KurtKurt Jara	4 October 2001	22 October 2003	748	700169000000000000069	700126000000000000026	700120000000000000020	700123000000000000023	700137680000000000037.68	2003 DFB-Ligapokal – winner
Toppmöller, KlausKlaus Toppmöller	23 October 2003	17 October 2004	360	700133000000000000033	700114000000000000014	70005000000000000005	700114000000000000014	700142420000000000042.42
Doll, ThomasThomas Doll	18 October 2004	1 February 2007	836	700179000000000000079	700136000000000000036	700120000000000000020	700123000000000000023	700145570000000000045.57	2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup – winner
Stevens, HuubHuub Stevens	2 February 2007	30 June 2008	514	700149000000000000049	700123000000000000023	700115000000000000015	700111000000000000011	700146940000000000046.94	2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup – winner
Jol, MartinMartin Jol	1 July 2008	26 May 2009	329	700134000000000000034	700119000000000000019	70004000000000000004	700111000000000000011	700155880000000000055.88
Labbadia, BrunoBruno Labbadia	1 July 2009	25 April 2010	298	700132000000000000032	700112000000000000012	700112000000000000012	70008000000000000008	700137500000000000037.50
Moniz, RicardoRicardo Moniz*	26 April 2010	30 June 2010	65	70002000000000000002	70001000000000000001	70001000000000000001	50000000000000000000	700150000000000000050.00
Veh, ArminArmin Veh	1 July 2010	13 March 2011	255	700126000000000000026	700111000000000000011	70004000000000000004	700111000000000000011	700142310000000000042.31
Oenning, MichaelMichael Oenning	14 March 2011	19 September 2011	189	700115000000000000015	70002000000000000002	70006000000000000006	70007000000000000007	700113330000000000013.33
Cardoso, Rodolfo EstebanRodolfo Esteban Cardoso*	19 September 2011	17 October 2011	28	70003000000000000003	70002000000000000002	50000000000000000000	70001000000000000001	700166670000000000066.67
Arnesen, FrankFrank Arnesen*	10 October 2011	16 October 2011	6	70001000000000000001	70001000000000000001	50000000000000000000	50000000000000000000	7002100000000000000100.000
Fink, ThorstenThorsten Fink	17 October 2011							—	2012 Peace Cup – winner

* Served as caretaker coach.

Hamburger SV in Europe

Competition	P	W	D	L	Source
UEFA Champions League	43	19	9	15
UEFA Europa League	124	67	20	37
UEFA Super Cup	4	0	2	2
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	34	20	7	7
UEFA Intertoto Cup	26	15	7	4

Other departments

Hamburger SV II

Main article: Hamburger SV II

The reserve team serves mainly as the final stepping stone for promising young players before being promoted to the main team.

Women's football

Main article: Hamburger SV (women)

The women's section was created in 1970. The team plays in the Bundesliga continuously since the 2003–04 season.

Other sports

The club's rugby department was established in 1925 but ceased operation in the 1990s. It was reestablished however in March 2006. The club's men's baseball section, HSV Hamburg, known as the Stealers, was established in 1985 and plays in the first division of the Baseball Bundesliga. Other important departments are volleyball and cricket. Okka Rau was qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics of volleyball. HSV Cricket is playing in the league of the North German Cricket Federation (Norddeutscher Cricket Verband) and won several first places.

Rivals and affinities

HSV shares a cross-town rivalry with FC St. Pauli and contests the Nordderby with fellow Northern Germany side Werder Bremen. In the Spring of 2009 HSV headed Werder Bremen four times, in only three weeks, and defeated in UEFA-Cup semi-final, as if in the DFB-Pokal semi-final. HSV have an affinity with Scottish club Rangers. HSV fans unfurl their club logo at Rangers' away European matches. The link between Rangers and Hamburg dates back to 1977 when the Hamburg Rangers Supporters' Club was set up by HSV fans who had visited Rangers matches before and were thrilled by the atmosphere at Ibrox. The links were further strengthened when Rangers signed Jörg Albertz from Hamburg. The friendship between Celtic FC and Hamburg's rivals FC St. Pauli has no influence on this friendship though. HSV have a friendship bond with Hannover 96, due to both being known as HSV. Their meetings involve the visitors' club song to be played, and fans chanting HSV from each end of the stadium.

Hamburger SV in Forbes Magazine

Year	Ranking	Value	Value change	Revenue	Income	Debt/Value ratio	Source
2004	Not Ranked
2005	Not Ranked
2006	Not Ranked
2007	16	$221 Million	NA	$130 Million	$31 Million	NA
2008	17	$293 Million	32%	$163 Million	$41 Million	0%
2009	15	$330 Million	13%	$202 Million	$44 Million	0%
2010	14	$329 Million	0%	$206 Million	$41 Million	0%
2011	14	$340 Million	3%	$179 Million	NA	0%
2012	16	$355 Million	NA	$187 Million	$17 Million	0%

External links

• Official website
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• Team statistics
• Hamburger SV formations at football-lineups
• Statistics, formations and historical data at worldfootball.net

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
Preceded by Newcastle United	UEFA Intertoto Cup Overall Winner 2007	Succeeded by Braga