Clubname	Hamburger SV
Fullname	Hamburger Sport-Verein e. V.
Nickname	Rothosen ("Red Shorts") (Der große) HSV The Dinosaur
Founded	29 September 1887
Ground	Imtech Arena
Capacity	57,274
Chrtitle	President
Chairman	Bernd Hoffmann
Mgrtitle	Head coach
Manager	Armin Veh
League	Bundesliga
Season	2009–10
Position	Bundesliga, 7th
Website	http://www.hsv.de/
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Current	2010–11 Hamburger SV season

Hamburger Sport-Verein 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-flight German football 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 1. Bundesliga since its foundation in 1963.

In the mid-1970s, HSV began a brilliant run that saw them capture numerous honors. 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 1983 they won the European Cup with a 1–0 win over Juventus, followed by another German Cup in 1987.

History

Early years

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

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.

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. 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.

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

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

The 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 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

:* Served as caretaker coach.

Hamburger SV in Europe

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" |- !Competition!!P!!W!!D!!L!!Source |- |UEFA Champions League||43||19||9||15||rowspan="5"| |- |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

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

Women's football

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

Baseball

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. The team plays their home games at Langenhorst Ballpark. The baseball team's season-by-season record in the first division: {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! Year !! Rank !! Games !! W !! L !! Win% !! Season Notes |- |2008 || 6 || 28 || 8 || 20 || .285 || |- |- bgcolor="#8C9FFF" |2009 || 4 || 24 || 11 || 13 || .458 || Lost to Regensburg Legionaere in Quarterfinals, 0–3 |- |- bgcolor="#8C9FFF" |2010 || 4 || 28 || 12 || 16 || .428 || Lost to Regensburg Legionaere in Quarterfinals, 1–3 |}

Other sports

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.

Rugby

The club's rugby department was established in 1925 but ceased operation in the 1990s. It was reestablished however in March 2006.

Rivals and affinities

HSV shares a cross-town rivalry with FC St. Pauli and contests the Nordderby with fellow Northern Germany side Werder Bremen. 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 the 1960's when the Hamburg Rangers Supporters' Club was set up by Rangers fans who had moved to the Hamburg-area. The links were further strengthened when Rangers signed Jörg Albertz from Hamburg, but this was not the start of it. A further point which reinforces the affinity is the link between St Pauli and Celtic, main rivals of HSV and Rangers, respectively. 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

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" |- !Year!!Ranking!!Value!!Value change!!Revenue!!Income!!Debt/Value ratio!!Source |- |2004||colspan="6"|Not Ranked|| |- |2005||colspan="6"|Not Ranked|| |- |2006||colspan="6"|Not Ranked|| |- |2007||16||$221 Million||NA||$130 Million||$31 Million||NA|| |- |2009||15||$330 Million||13%||$202 Million||$44 Million||0%|| |- |2010||14||$329 Million||0%||$206 Million||$41 Million||0%|| |}

References

External links

Official supporters club site

Abseits Guide to German Soccer

Team statistics

Fan site HSV Forever

Hamburger SV formations at football-lineups

Statistics, formations and historical data at worldfootball.net

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Playername	Marcell Jansen
Fullname	Marcell Jansen
Dateofbirth	November 04, 1985
Cityofbirth	Mönchengladbach
Countryofbirth	West Germany
Height
Position	Left wingback
Currentclub	Hamburger SV
Clubnumber	7
Youthyears1	–1993 |youthclubs1 = SV Mönchengladbach
Youthyears2	1993–2004 |youthclubs2 = Borussia Mönchengladbach
Years1	2004–2007 |clubs1 = Borussia Mönchengladbach |caps1 = 73 |goals1 = 5
Years2	2007–2008 |clubs2 = Bayern Munich |caps2 = 17 |goals2 = 0
Years3	2008– |clubs3 = Hamburger SV |caps3 = 51 |goals3 = 9
Years4	2009– |clubs4 = Hamburger SV II |caps4 = 1 |goals4 = 0
Nationalyears1	2004–2005 |nationalteam1 = Germany U21 |nationalcaps1 = 4 |nationalgoals1 = 1
Nationalyears2	2005– |nationalteam2 = Germany |nationalcaps2 = 35 |nationalgoals2 = 3
Pcupdate	03:02, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Ntupdate	23:52, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Marcell Jansen (; born 4 November 1985 in Mönchengladbach) is a German footballer who plays for Hamburger SV and the German national team. He is well known for his accurate crossing and pace, despite his tall stature. Jansen has represented his country on 35 occasions so far, scoring three times showing up as a left-back. On club level he has also played on the left of midfield and left wingback, back in his youth years, also featured as left winger and even striker, a term declaring his versatility. He appeared in injury time during UEFA Euro 2008 as striker.

Career

Borussia Mönchengladbach

Joining Borussia Mönchengladbach from local SV Lürrip in 1994, Jansen was already capped various times for Germany on youth level when then Mönchengladbach manager Ewald Lienen appointed him to act as an unused substitute in a Bundesliga fixture of the club against Hannover 96 (0-2) in September 2003. Ironically that remained Ewald Lienen's final game in charge of Mönchengladbach and Jansen had to go on playing for the U-19 of the club. The start of the 2004–05 season saw the player gaining senior status, getting his games with the U-23 of the club in the fourth German division under manager Horst Köppel. A change of manager in Borussia Mönchengladbach's professional squad saw Dick Advocaat taking charge and soon after the Dutchman relied on Jansen, giving the left-footed defender the opportunity to debut in Mönchengladbach's first team in an away fixture at Hertha BSC (0-6) in December 2004. When the result turned out to become a disaster in the second-half, Jansen even caused a foul inside the box, resulting in a penalty. However, Dick Advocaat kept faith in him despite this rather uninspiring debut. An injury that sidelined Borussia Mönchengladbach's skipper Christian Ziege in winter training worked out Jansen's big first-team opportunity. A string of impressive performances later he was even able to keep newly signed Belgian international Filip Daems (Ziege's proposed replacement) off the starting berth on left-back and enjoyed a bright debut season in the professional game, winning a key role for the German U21 as well.

His second season in the professional game worked out to be an even bigger success for the lanky starlet. Helping his club to a comfortable season without any relegation fear, Jansen signed a new three-year deal with Borussia Mönchengladbach after several big European sides had begun to scout him extensively then.

Bayern Munich

Regarded as a key player at his club already, Mönchengladbach fan favourite Jansen had been the subject of inquiries of other clubs (most notably Barcelona, Arsenal as well as fellow Bundesliga outfits Bayern Munich and Hamburg) throughout the summer months of 2006 with new Mönchengladbach manager Jupp Heynckes rebuffing all of them consequently in no time, explaining the player was not for sale. Nevertheless, Jansen moved in July 2007 to Bayern Munich for a fee of about €10 million.

Hamburg

In August 2008, Hamburg announced the transfer of Marcell Jansen. According to Bild, the transfer fee was €8 million. At Hamburg, his primary role is a left winger.

International career

Due to his good form at club level, Jansen, a former U21 international, was called-up to the senior side and made his debut, coming on as a half-time sub for Thomas Hitzlsperger on 3 September 2005, in a 0-2 defeat against Slovakia in Bratislava. Also cementing his undoubted talent in further internationals for Germany, Jansen was subsequently named in the final German squad for the 2006 World Cup. Jansen initially started out as first-choice on the left with usual left back Philipp Lahm being moved to right back to accommodate him. After some below-par performances prior to the tournament, Klinsmann eventually benched him and put Lahm in at left back again. With Lahm in good form, he was restricted to only one appearance, the third place match against Portugal. He eventually earned a recall for several Euro 2008 qualifiers. His first international goal came in the 6-0 hammering of San Marino in UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying.

Jansen scored for Germany against Uruguay national football team in the third place play-off match in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

International goals

|- |1||2 June 2007||Frankenstadion, Nuremberg, Germany||||2-0||6-0||Euro 2008 Q |- |2|| 28 March 2009||Zentralstadion, Leipzig, Germany||||2-0||4-0||2010 WCQ |- |3|| 10 July 2010||Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa||||2-2||3-2||2010 FIFA World Cup |}

Honours

Club

Bayern Munich

*Bundesliga: 2007-08

*DFB-Pokal: 2008

*DFB-Ligapokal: 2007

National Team

FIFA Confederations Cup Third Place: 2005

FIFA World Cup Third Place: 2006

UEFA European Football Championship Runner-up: 2008

FIFA World Cup Third place: 2010

Career statistics

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References

External links

Marcell Jansen's official website Profile at Transfermarkt.de Career stats at Fussballdaten.de

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Dateofbirth	September 30, 1956
Cityofbirth	Copenhagen
Countryofbirth	Denmark
Currentclub	-
Position	Attacking midfielder
Years	1974–1975 1975–1981 1981–1983 1983–1985 1985–1988
Clubs	Fremad Amager Ajax Valencia CF RSC Anderlecht PSV Eindhoven
Caps(goals)	209 (75) 32 (13) 50 (15) 55 (11)
Nationalyears	1975–1976 1977–1987
Nationalteam	Denmark U-21 Denmark
Nationalcaps(goals)	4 (0) 52 (14)

Frank Arnesen (born 30 September 1956 in Copenhagen) is a Danish former football player and former Director of Football at English football clubs Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea F.C. As a player, he most notably played with Dutch clubs Ajax Amsterdam and PSV Eindhoven, winning the 1988 European Cup with PSV. Arnesen was capped 52 times and scored 14 goals for the Danish national team, and participated in the Euro 1984 and 1986 FIFA World Cup tournaments.

Playing career

Arnesen moved from childhood club Fremad Amager, in the lower leagues of Danish football, to the big Dutch team Ajax Amsterdam in November/December 1975. At the time he was only 19, and he made the move together with Fremad Amager teammate Søren Lerby, who was only 17. Arnesen got his debut with Ajax 3 or 4 months later, on 7 March 1976, in a 1–1 draw with FC Utrecht. It was also in his time at Ajax, that Arnesen debuted for the Danish national team, in a 1977 friendly 1–0 loss against Sweden, in Malmö. In Arnesen's six seasons at Ajax, he won three Dutch Eredivisie championship titles in 1977, 1979, and 1980, and won the KNVB Cup in 1979, beating FC Twente 3–0 in the final. In 1980, Arnesen and Ajax reached the semi-final of the European Cup, before they were eliminated by English team Nottingham Forest (2-0 away loss, 1-0 home win).

In the summer of 1981, Arnesen was bought by Spanish side Valencia CF, and two years later he went to Belgium to play for RSC Anderlecht. In November 1985, Arnesen returned to Holland to play for Ajax' rivals PSV Eindhoven. Here he saw three extremely successful seasons, winning the Eredivisie three years in a row, in 1986, 1987, and 1988, with fellow Danes Jan Heintze, Søren Lerby and Ivan Nielsen also in the team. Arnesen stopped his international career in 1987, after the Danish team qualified for the Euro 1988. In 1988, he won the KNVB Cup once more, and he was part of the PSV team that conquered the European Cup, though he did not play in the final match due to injury.

Managerial career

After his active career, Frank Arnesen was first appointed assistant coach at PSV under Bobby Robson from 1991 to 1993, and in 1994 he became the general manager of the club. Arnesen spent 10 years as director of football at PSV Eindhoven, and was credited with discovering major talents, such as Brazilian striker Ronaldo and Dutch players Jaap Stam, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Arjen Robben. In May 2004, Arnesen was brought to Tottenham Hotspur, replacing David Pleat. Arnesen was to function as the manager responsible for player transfers and scouting for new talent, while coach Jacques Santini handled the daily training sessions and match setups; an arrangement identical to Arnesen's days as PSV manager. Things didn't work out well, and Santini left within months citing "personal problems" as his reason for leaving. Arnesen's original hiring for assistant coach, Martin Jol, was put in charge of the club.

Arnesen was suspended by Spurs on 4 June 2005 for expressing a desire to move to rival club Chelsea F.C., after Chelsea allegedly made an illegal approach to sign him as manager. Arnesen was photographed aboard one of Roman Abramovich's three luxury yachts on 22 June 2005 thus reinforcing Tottenham's compensation claim. Arnesen was recommended to Abramovich by Piet de Visser, in a move which was opposed by Jose Mourinho. On 24 June, both clubs announced that they had reached a financial settlement, later disclosed to be £5 million but widely reported to be closer to £8 million, and Arnesen would move to Chelsea, filling in the role of head talent scout, in charge of uncovering footballing talents. Arnesen has since played a key role in bringing Salomon Kalou and John Obi Mikel to Chelsea. Recently it has been reported that former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has blamed Arnesen for the lack of talented youth in the Chelsea ranks. On 27 November 2010 Chelsea announced that Arnesen had resigned as sporting director and will be leaving the club at the end of the 2010-11 season.

Honours

Dutch Eredivisie

*1977, 1979, and 1980, with Ajax

*1986, 1987, and 1988, with PSV

Dutch Cup

*1979, with Ajax

*1988, with PSV

1988 European Cup with PSV

References

External links

Denmark national team profile

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Armin Veh (born 1 February 1961) is a German former footballer and current manager of Hamburger SV. He won the German championship with Bundesliga team VfB Stuttgart on May 19, 2007. Veh and his team also had the chance to win "the double" by winning the DFB-Cup on 26 May 2007 in Berlin, but lost 2–3 in overtime against 1. FC Nuremberg.

Playing career

Born in Augsburg, Veh played as a midfielder from 1979 to 1983 in Bundesliga at Borussia Mönchengladbach. With Gladbach Veh played in the 1980 UEFA Cup final, losing against Eintracht Frankfurt. In 1984 a broken leg ended his career as a Bundesliga-level pro.

In 1985, Veh resumed playing in his home town for FC Augsburg, moving in 1987 for a few months to local rival TSV Schwaben Augsburg. Due to injuries he played only eight games in second Bundesliga for SpVgg Bayreuth before retiring in November 1990.

He scored two goals in 65 Bundesliga games, one goal in 60 second Bundesliga games, and appeared in 18 games of Swiss NLA.

Managerial career

Back at his home town, he coached FC Augsburg from 1990 to 1995, leading the team from Oberliga to Regionalliga in 1994. Having moved in 1996 to SpVgg Greuther Fürth, he led the team 1997 into 2. Bundesliga before being sacked in October 1997. From July 1998 to December 2001 he coached SSV Reutlingen, leading them in 2000 also into 2. Bundesliga.

From January 2002 on, Veh coached Hansa Rostock in Bundesliga, resigning in October 2003 from the north eastern team to focus on his family in southern Germany. After coaching local FC Augsburg until September 2004, he was unemployed until 11 February 2006 when he was hired by VfB Stuttgart to replace Giovanni Trapattoni as a stop-gap until the end of that season in June 2006. Yet, on 18 April 2006 his contract was extended until summer 2007, and on 19 January 2007 for another year.

In May 2007, Veh and VfB Stuttgart scored their biggest successes by winning the German championship on 19 May 2007 and qualifying for the DFB Cup final of 26 May 2007 in Berlin, which gave Veh and his team the chance to win "the double". The opponent, 1. FC Nuremberg, had beaten Stuttgart twice in regular season, and prevailed again by beating VfB Stuttgart 3–2 in overtime. In the 2007–08 season Stuttgart found it tougher as champions and finished sixth.

On 23 November 2008 Veh parted ways with VfB Stuttgart, due to the club's current performances. His dismissal came in the wake of a 4–1 defeat away at VfL Wolfsburg and a 5 match winless streak.

On 23 May 2009 it was announced that Veh will take over newly-crowned Bundesliga champions VfL Wolfsburg from the hands of Felix Magath in July.

On 25 January 2010 Veh was sacked as manager of Wolfsburg.

On 24 May 2010, he was announced as the new manager of Hamburger SV.

References

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