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108-449: German football was, from its beginnings, divided into regional associations, each of which carried out their own championship matches. These often pre-dated the national German championship . With the inception of the latter in 1903, the former became qualifying tournaments. Regional championships still held a high value for the local clubs. The most important of these regional championships were: Regional championships were suspended with

216-416: A win. At the end of the first half of the season, HSV was in second last place in the table. After two defeats in the first two games of the second half, coach Markus Gisdol was dismissed. HSV hired Bernd Hollerbach , a former player of the club, as a new coach. After seven games without a win and a 6–0 defeat against Bayern Munich , he was also dismissed in 2018. A few days before the game against Bayern,

324-457: A 2–0 win over Anderlecht in the final of the 1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup . The club then signed English player Kevin Keegan from European champions Liverpool . After spending much of the previous decade in mid-table, HSV achieved their best Bundesliga position in 1974–75 by finishing fourth. The club bettered this in 1975–76 , with a second-place finish. Keegan's first season there saw

432-533: A 4–2 defeat of Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Ligapokal final. In August 2004, HSV lost in the early rounds of the DFB-Pokal by regional league side SC Paderborn . 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 HSV player Émile Mpenza . Another third-place finish in 2005–06 saw HSV qualify for

540-677: A HSV home match. Germany's first professional football league, the Bundesliga , was formed, with HSV one of 16 clubs invited to join that first season. Hamburger SV was the only original Bundesliga side to have played continuously in the top flight – without ever having been relegated – from when the league was formed in 1963, until they were relegated in the 2017–18 season, finishing in 17th place. They had shared that special status with Eintracht Frankfurt and 1. FC Kaiserslautern until 1996 , and with 1. FC Köln until 1998 . The Bundesliga celebrated its 40th anniversary on 24 August 2004 with

648-457: A century of German football competition, champions were not declared in several seasons for various reasons. No champion was declared in 1904 due to the DFB's inability to resolve a protest filed by Karlsruher FV over their 1–6 semi-final loss to Britannia Berlin to determine which of these sides would face defending champion Leipzig in that year's final. Karlsruhe's protest was over the failure to play

756-537: A knockout competition, with eleven clubs, enlarged to twelve the year after. In 1921, the competition returned to a league format. Two divisions, a northern and a southern, with ten clubs each, played a home-and-away format. The two divisional champions then played for the northern championship in a two-leg final. The competition was, for the first time, won by a new force in German football, the Hamburger SV . The club became

864-524: A match between "The Dinosaur", as the club has been nicknamed due to its old age, and Bayern Munich , the league's most successful side. In August 1963, HSV defeated Borussia Dortmund 3–0 at Hanover 's Niedersachsenstadion to win the club's first DFB-Pokal . In the same month, the club played its first Bundesliga match, drawing 1–1 with Preußen Münster . HSV finished the Bundesliga's first season in sixth place, with Uwe Seeler scoring 30 goals to secure

972-440: A nation of gymnasts and fencers . The earliest attempt at organizing some form of national championship came in 1894, when city champions Viktoria 89 Berlin invited FC Hanau 93 to play a challenge match. The Hanauers were unable to afford the cost of the trip and so were unable to take up the invitation. In 2007, the 1894 final was replayed and Viktoria were crowned the official 1894 champions. After its formation in 1900,

1080-408: A round-robin format in which each team plays every other club once at home and once away. There is no playoff, with the club having the best record at the end of the season claiming the German championship. 1. FC Köln captured the first-ever Bundesliga title in the league's inaugural 1963–64 season. Since then the competition has been dominated by Bayern Munich which has taken the championship in 32 of

1188-528: A seventh-place finish. During the season , however, the team equaled the club's record Bundesliga defeat, losing 9–2 at the Allianz Arena to Bayern Munich. Fink was replaced on 25 September 2013 by Bert van Marwijk , who in the same season was replaced by Mirko Slomka on 17 February 2014. Under Slomka, the club narrowly avoided its first relegation from the Bundesliga in May 2014, by defeating Greuther Fürth on

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1296-412: A single national championship was restored. Bayern Munich hold the record for the most championships with 33, yet all but one of these (1932) come in Bundesliga competition. BFC Dynamo claimed 10 titles in the former East Germany, winning these championships in consecutive seasons (1979–88). The new British game of football quickly caught on in late 19th-century Germany, which had previously been

1404-417: A third tier regional division within the existing German league structure under the DFB. FC Hansa Rostock captured the title in the transitional 1990–91 season, and alongside runners-up SG Dynamo Dresden, advanced to play in the Bundesliga, thereby fully integrating former Eastern clubs into a unified German championship. The performance of various clubs is shown in the following table: The formation of

1512-478: Is Bavaria with 45 championships. Bavaria is also home to the two individually most successful clubs, Bayern Munich and 1. FC Nürnberg. North Rhine-Westphalia follows with 26 championships. The state is home to the third and fourth most successful clubs, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04. No club from the Saarland, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has yet won the championship. In most cases

1620-596: Is a German sports club based in Hamburg , with its largest branch being its football department. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three earlier clubs, it traces its origins to 29 September 1887 when the first of the predecessors, SC Germania , was founded. HSV has won the German national championship six times, the DFB-Pokal three times and the former League Cup twice. The team's most successful period

1728-615: Is considered to be a continuation of the Northern German football championship. It only included teams from West Germany and was disbanded with the introduction of the Fußball-Bundesliga in 1963. This event marked the end of the Northern German football championship. German football champions The German football champions are the annual winners of the highest association football competition in Germany . The history of

1836-688: Is recognized as the first postwar German national champion for its 2–1 victory over 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the Westzonen final staged on 8 August 1948 in Mannheim . In the Ostzone, SG Planitz beat SG Freiimfelde Halle 1–0 on 4 July 1948 in Leipzig to qualify for the scheduled national final, but were denied a permit to travel to play the match by Soviet authorities. In the aftermath of World War I, several lesser national football competitions emerged as outgrowths of

1944-553: The Torjägerkanone . He was also named Footballer of the Year for the second time. The DFB-Pokal victory enabled HSV to play in the 1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup , where they reached the quarter-final, falling to Lyon . In 1967, HSV again reached the final of the DFB-Pokal where they were defeated 4–0 by Bayern Munich. HSV, however, were admitted to the following season's European Cup Winners' Cup , where they lost to Milan in

2052-457: The was defunct at the time whereas the clubs in the played Rugby . The Northern German football championship was first contested in 1906 and won by Victoria Hamburg . Six clubs had qualified and the final stages were held as a knock-out competition with a one-off final at the end. The winner of this first competition then took part in the fourth edition of the national German championship. Northern German clubs had already taken part in each of

2160-451: The 2. Bundesliga for the first time in the Bundesliga's 55-year history, causing riots by Hamburg supporters. After the relegation Christian Titz was sacked in October 2018, and replaced by Hannes Wolf . Hamburg did not gain promotion back to the Bundesliga, and failed to reach the playoffs, with a one-point difference between them and Union Berlin . The team reached the semi-finals of

2268-424: The 2018–19 DFB-Pokal , before being defeated by RB Leipzig 1–3 at home. For the 2019–20 2. Bundesliga , their second year in the 2. Bundesliga, Wolf was laid-off and was replaced by Dieter Hecking . They did not get a return to the Bundesliga by one-point, and they were eliminated in the second round of the 2019–20 DFB Pokal by Vfb Stuttgart 1–2 in extra time. By again missing promotion, Hecking's contract

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2376-438: The Bundesliga in 1963 marked a significant change to the German football championship. The historical regional league and national playoff format was abandoned in favour of a single unified national league. Sixteen teams from the five Oberligen in place at the time were invited to be part of the new circuit – which also for the first time formally acknowledged the sport as professional rather than amateur. The new league adopted

2484-486: The Bundesliga , HSV lost their title by two points, finishing in second place behind champions Bayern Munich. In December 1980, HSV dismissed Zebec, who had been struggling with a drinking problem . His assistant Aleksandar Ristić was appointed caretaker for the remainder of the season and secured a second-place finish in the Bundesliga . In 1981, Austrian coach Ernst Happel was appointed as Zebec's permanent replacement. In his first season , his HSV side regained

2592-462: The Champions League for the second time. They finished bottom of Group G , with a solitary win against Russian club CSKA Moscow . In the league, the team was in 17th place going into the winter break, having won once in the league all season , leading to the dismissal of trainer Thomas Doll . Under new coach Huub Stevens , HSV advanced further away from the relegation zone and qualified for

2700-585: The European Cup for the first time since 1960–61 . As had happened 19 years previously, HSV faced Spanish opposition in the semi-finals. After losing the first leg at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium 2–0, HSV beat six-time winners Real Madrid 5–1 at the Volksparkstadion to qualify for the final. HSV returned to Madrid to play Nottingham Forest in the final , where they were beaten 1–0. In

2808-507: The Gauligen and took part in the regional qualifying rounds of the national championship, but without the same success as Austrian sides. Two trophies have been used for the official German and, during the era of the divided Germany, West German champions. The pre- Second World War trophy, the Viktoria , was awarded from 1903 to 1944, making Saxonian clubs VfB Leipzig the first and Dresdner SC

2916-541: The German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund) in 1900, the first recognized national championship match was hosted by Hamburg club Altona 93 in 1903 in which VfB Leipzig defeated DFC Prag 7–2, and was awarded the Viktoria , the championship trophy from 1903 to 1944. Before the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963, the championship format was based on a knockout competition, contested between

3024-706: The Nordderby , and Hamburg-based FC St. Pauli , with whom they contest the Hamburg derby . HSV is notable in football as a grassroots-oriented organisation which places strong emphasis on youth development. The club had a team in the Women's Bundesliga from 2003 to 2012 but it was demoted to Regionalliga level because of financial problems. Other club sections include badminton , baseball , basketball , bowling , boxing , cricket , darts , ice hockey , field hockey , golf , gymnastics , handball , and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation exercises. These sections represent about 10% of

3132-486: The Regionalliga Nord (fourth league), his team were the top of the table. With four wins and an offensively minded style of play, the coach convinced the club and received a two-year contract. After the low season in the 2017–18 Bundesliga under three different coaches, a final day win over Borussia Mönchengladbach was not enough to escape relegation after Wolfsburg won against Köln 4–1. They were relegated to

3240-529: The UEFA Champions League for the first time since the competition's expansion from the old European Cup . Their first match was a 4–4 draw against Juventus, with Tony Yeboah scoring the club's first Champions League goal. HSV failed to qualify for the second round, but managed a 3–1 win over Juventus in the return fixture at the Stadio delle Alpi . In July 2003, HSV won its first trophy in 16 years with

3348-566: The UEFA Cup via a seventh-place finish and victory in the Intertoto Cup . The following season, Stevens led the team to fourth place in the Bundesliga before leaving to take over at Dutch champions PSV Eindhoven . He was replaced by Martin Jol , who took HSV to the semi-finals of both the 2008–09 UEFA Cup and the 2008–09 DFB-Pokal , both of which die Rothosen lost to rivals Werder Bremen. In

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3456-511: The Verdiente Meistervereine system which permits the display of a star or stars on a club's jersey. This system allows for the recognition of both German and East German titles , although only German titles are listed in the table below. Clubs in bold currently play in the top division. Titles won by club (%) Notes : As of 2024, German football champions have come from 11 of the 16 German states. The most successful state

3564-628: The Volksparkstadion in Bahrenfeld , a western district of Hamburg. The club colours are officially blue, white and black but the home kit of the team is white jerseys and red shorts. The team's most common nickname is "die Rothosen" (the Red Shorts). As it is one of Germany's oldest clubs, it is also known as der Dinosaurier (the Dinosaur). HSV have rivalries with Werder Bremen , with whom they contest

3672-515: The annexation of Austria , which was incorporated into Nazi Germany in 1938, Austrian clubs became part of German competition; Admira Wien made a losing appearance in the German national final in 1939, Rapid Wien captured the championship in 1941, and First Vienna also lost in 1942. In each case their opposition was Schalke 04 . Throughout the course of World War II, clubs in German-occupied territories were made part of German competition in

3780-475: The away goals rule in a play-off. Hamburg once again changed managers due to a poor start of the season, firing Slomka in 2014. His successor Josef Zinnbauer held the job until March of said year and was replaced by interim coach Peter Knäbel , who was eventually replaced by returning Bruno Labbadia, who saved the club at the end of the season in the relegation play-off for the second year running against Karlsruher SC . Labbadia achieved only two points in

3888-408: The first edition of the DFB-Ligapokal , beating Borussia Mönchengladbach 4–0 in the final. A year later, they reached the DFB-Pokal final, where they were beaten by Eintracht Frankfurt. In 1976, HSV reached another DFB-Pokal final, beating 1. FC Kaiserslautern 2–0 to win the trophy for the second time in the club's history. The following year, HSV achieved its first international success with

3996-461: The league championship in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941 and 1945. At national level the club was unsuccessful, with semi-final losses in 1938 and 1939 their best performances in this period. Its main rival in the Gauliga in those years was Eimsbütteler TV . HSV's first post-war season was in the newly formed Stadtliga Hamburg , and they won its championship in 1946. The club also won the championship of

4104-456: The rugby version of football. The formation of the DFB helped establish for the first time a clear divide between association football and its close cousin. To qualify for the German championship finals, a club had to win one of the regional championships, which, in some cases, predate the national one. Those were: One other regional championships briefly existed: From 1925 onwards, the runners-up of those competitions were also qualified for

4212-552: The 1930 season, most DT teams became part of the mainstream DFB. German championships have included clubs from countries other than Germany. DFC Prag , vice-champions in the first national final and a founding member of the DFB, was an ethnically-German club from Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today part of the Czech Republic ) which did not at the time have its own national football federation. Following

4320-451: The 60 Bundesliga seasons played to 2023. Key Over the history of the German football championship, 30 different clubs have won the title. The most successful club is FC Bayern Munich, with 33 titles to its credit, 32 of those coming in Bundesliga competition. The most successful pre-Bundesliga club is 1. FC Nürnberg, who won eight titles in the era of knockout play amongst regional champions. Former German champions are recognized through

4428-583: The British occupation zone in 1947 and 1948, the only two seasons this competition was staged. In May 1950, HSV became the first German team to tour the United States after World War II , and came away with a 6–0 record. Playing in the Oberliga Nord after the resumption of league play in post-war West Germany in 1947, HSV became a dominant regional club. In 16 seasons from 1947 to 1948 to 1962–63, they won

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4536-608: The Bundesliga title, and reached the UEFA Cup final , where they lost 4–0 on aggregate to Sweden's IFK Göteborg . Between 16 January 1982 and 29 January 1983, HSV went undefeated in the Bundesliga. The run stretched across 36 games and remained a Bundesliga record until November 2013, when it was broken by Bayern Munich. A third Meisterschale followed at the end of the 1982–83 season , with HSV defending their title against local rivals Werder Bremen on goal difference . The same year, HSV defeated Juventus 1–0 in Athens to win

4644-555: The DFB began to establish its authority over the myriad city and regional leagues springing up throughout the country and organized the first officially recognized national championship in 1903. The prize of German football was the Viktoria, a trophy statue of a seated Roman goddess of victory , donated by the committee that organized German participation in the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris – and originally intended to be shared with teams playing

4752-743: The Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB; German Football Association) in Leipzig on 28 January 1900. FC Falke was founded by students in Eppendorf on 5 March 1906, but it was never a successful team and played in lower leagues. The newly formed Hamburger SV contested in the 1922 national final against 1. FC Nürnberg , 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

4860-438: The German championship finals, which had been expanded to sixteen clubs. The two strongest regions, South and West were also allowed to send their third-placed team. This system of regional championships was abolished in 1933 and superseded by the Gauliga system. With the beginning of the 1933–34 season, top-flight German football was reorganized into 16 regional Gauligen with each of these leagues sending their champion to

4968-519: The German championship was enlarged and the runners-up of Northern Germany were also qualified for the national competition. The Northern German championship was replaced with two regional Gauligen by the Nazis in 1933, the Gauliga Niedersachsen and Gauliga Nordmark . In the era that followed, the clubs from Northern Germany saw only limited success in the national finals, Hannover 96 taking out

5076-410: The German football championship is complex and reflects the turbulent history of the country through the course of the 20th century. Brought to the country by English immigrants, the sport took root in the cities of Berlin , Hamburg , Stuttgart , and Leipzig in the 1890s, leading to the growth of city, regional, and academic leagues, each with their own championships. Following the establishment of

5184-511: The Meisterschale – was introduced in the west in 1949. The first post-war champions were 1. FC Nürnberg (2–1 over 1. FC Kaiserslautern in Köln) who were also, coincidentally, the first champions following World War I. Over time, the notion of professionalism – long anathema to German sports – made inroads in the country. A consequence of this was that by 1956, a distinct national amateur championship

5292-662: The Northern championship. The second edition was played out in the same modus but now with eight clubs, a system that remained in place for the following seasons. The northern champions experienced some first national success in 1910, when Holstein Kiel reached the German final, to lose 1–0 to Karlsruher FV . In 1912, the Holstein returned to the national final once more and became the first northern club to win it, this time beating Karlsruher FV 1–0. In its last pre- First World War season, 1914,

5400-469: The Oberliga title 15 times, only posting an 11th-place finish in 1953–54. During this period, they scored over 100 goals in each of the 1951, 1955, 1961 and 1962 seasons. In 1953, the club's all-time leading goalscorer Uwe Seeler debuted. In nine seasons, he scored 267 goals in 237 Oberliga matches. In 1956, HSV reached the DFB-Pokal final, but were beaten by Karlsruher SC . This was followed by losses in

5508-424: The champion once more in 1922, when seven clubs played a league format with a single round only. In 1923, a knock-out format was used once more, in 1924, five clubs played a championship round. From then on, league formats were used, where every club met the other only once, with varying numbers of clubs involved, four in 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, five in 1924, 1926, 1927, six in 1925 and seven in 1928. From 1925,

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5616-434: The club announced the dismissal of CEO Heribert Bruchhagen . Frank Wettstein, CFO of the club, was appointed as the new CEO. On the day of his appointment, he dismissed the sports director Jens Todt . The club hired former successful HSV player Thomas von Heesen as a sports consultant until the end of season. For the last eight games in the 2017–18 Bundesliga, the club promoted the coach of Hamburger SV II, Christian Titz. In

5724-477: The club for ten years and scored the winning goal in the 1983 European Cup Final , retired from professional football. In 1986–87 , HSV finished second in the Bundesliga and won a fourth DFB-Pokal , beating Stuttgarter Kickers 3–1 in the final at West Berlin 's Olympiastadion . After this success, Ernst Happel left the club to return to Austria. He remains HSV's most successful trainer, with two Bundesliga titles , one DFB-Pokal and one European Cup . In

5832-450: The club go down to tenth place, however, the player himself was named European Footballer of the Year . In 1978, Branko Zebec was appointed trainer of HSV. The Yugoslav led the club to its first Bundesliga title in his first season in charge . Keegan top scored for die Rothosen , and was awarded the Ballon d'Or for a second successive year. In the 1979–80 season , HSV returned to

5940-495: The club membership. HSV is one of the biggest sports clubs in Germany with over 84,000 members total in all its sections, and according to Forbes it is among the 20 largest football clubs in the world. Hamburger Sport-Verein (HSV) traces its origin to the merger of Der Hohenfelder Sportclub and Wandsbek-Marienthaler Sportclub on 29 September 1887 to form Sport-Club Germania Hamburg , usually referred to as SC Germania . This

6048-487: The club president. Under the new regime, HSV finished fifth in the Bundesliga , securing European qualification for the first time in six years. The following season , HSV reached the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal . In May 1997, however, Magath was fired after a 4–0 defeat to 1. FC Köln, with the team one place above the relegation zone. HSV eventually finished in 13th place under reserve team coach Ralf Schehr . In 1997, HSV appointed Frank Pagelsdorf , who would coach

6156-476: The club the opportunity to play in the final , which was held at its home stadium. On 13 October 2011, Thorsten Fink was appointed as coach with the team in the relegation zone after losing six of their opening eight matches. In HSV's first nine games under Fink they were unbeaten, going into the winter break in 13th place. The team finished the season in 15th position, avoiding by five points what would have been its first relegation. In 2012–13 , HSV recorded

6264-550: The club's first European Cup. In December 1983, HSV traveled to Tokyo where they faced South American champions Grêmio in the Intercontinental Cup . The Brazilian club took home the trophy, with a 93rd minute winning goal. Back home, they lost the league championship to VfB Stuttgart on goal difference. Both 1984–85 and 1985–86 were low seasons for HSV, with the club finishing fifth and seventh respectively. In 1986, midfielder Felix Magath , who had played for

6372-506: The competition became a regional league ( Verbandsliga Norddeutschland or Norddeutsche Liga ). Ten clubs played a home-and-away season to determine the northern champions, an unusual concentration of clubs in one league for Germany at the time, where leagues were very much sub-regional, with regional leagues existing in Brandenburg but nowhere else. In 1914–15, football in Germany had come to an almost complete halt. As it became clear, that

6480-531: The country was divided as a result. The historical tradition of the DFB was continued in what was known as West Germany , while a second national championship was contested in Soviet-controlled East Germany under the auspices of the DFV (Deutscher Fußball-Verband or German Football Federation). Following the reunification of the country in 1990, the two separate football competitions were merged and

6588-446: The country. Play was tentatively resumed in various parts of the now-occupied country in early 1946 and the postwar Oberliga structure began to take shape in the 1946–47 season; no national champion was declared from 1945 to 1947. In 1947–48, qualification play took place to determine Westzonen (Western occupation zones) and Ostzone (Eastern occupation zone) representatives to meet in a national final that never took place. 1. FC Nürnberg

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6696-402: The decision. The DFB awarded the win to Hamburg under the condition that they renounce the title in the name of "good sportsmanship" – which they grudgingly did. Ultimately, the championship trophy was not officially presented that year. Competition for the national title was maintained through most of World War II and was supported by the regime for morale. Play became increasingly difficult as

6804-447: The early 1990s, HSV fell in financial trouble. Thomas Doll was sold to Lazio for a then record 16 million Deutsche Marks in June 1991. On the pitch, meanwhile, the team was in decline. After a fifth-place finish in 1990–91 , HSV finished in the bottom half of the Bundesliga in four consecutive seasons. In October 1995, Felix Magath returned to HSV to become the club's trainer . The following month, Uwe Seeler also returned as

6912-505: The eastern and western halves of the country quickly fell by the wayside in the context of the Cold War . An Ostzone champion was declared in each of the 1946–48 seasons and in 1949 the first division DDR-Oberliga was established under the DFV ( Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR ) as a distinct national sport governing body. From 1950 through to 1990 an East German football champion was declared, until

7020-542: The eastern competition was reintegrated into the German national competition under the DFB. In the first recognized East German national championship staged in 1949, ZSG Union Halle defeated SG Fortuna Erfurt 4–1. In 1990, the last East German champion was SG Dynamo Dresden . The following season the DDR-Oberliga (I) was redesignated the Nord-Ostdeutscher Fußball Verband Oberliga and became

7128-463: The final. In 1970, Seeler was named Footballer of the Year for the third time. He retired at the end of the 1971–72 season in front of 72,000 fans at the Volksparkstadion. He ended his career with 137 goals from 239 Bundesliga matches and 507 goals from 587 appearances in all competitions. In the same season, HSV played in the UEFA Cup for the first time, but were knocked out in the first round by Scottish side St Johnstone . In 1973, HSV won

7236-506: The finals of the national championship to Borussia Dortmund , in 1957 , and Schalke 04 , in 1958 . In 1960 , HSV became German champions for the first time since 1928, defeating 1. FC Köln 3–2 in the championship final. Seeler, who scored twice in the final, was named West German Footballer of the Year . As national champions, HSV represented West Germany in the 1960–61 European Cup . The club's first ever match in European competition

7344-477: The first ten games of the 2016–17 season, and was replaced by Markus Gisdol , reached 20 points in 9 games from the 19th match day to the 28th match day. On the last match day, Hamburg avoided the relegation play-offs and stayed in the Bundesliga. In the 2017–18 Bundesliga , after a 3–1 defeat in the first round of DFB-Pokal against the third-division team VfL Osnabrück , HSV had two wins against FC Augsburg and 1. FC Köln . However, eight games followed without

7452-421: The head of academy Horst Hrubesch for the final three games of the season. At that point, HSV were in third place with 52 points, five points from a spot guaranteeing direct promotion. In the 2021–22 season , HSV reached the promotion playoff spot, finishing third on goal difference over Darmstadt 98 . Once again, however, the season ended with HSV losing to Bundesliga's 16th place side Hertha Berlin 1–2 in

7560-599: The ideologies they represented, they were considered politically unpalatable by the regime and disappeared in the 1933 reorganization of German football under Nazi Germany that consolidated competition in state-sanctioned leagues. These clubs were forced into mergers with other mainstream sides or saw their assets seized by the state. Antisemitism in Germany led to the creation of Jewish sports associations as Jews were forced out of mainstream clubs. These associations, including Sportbund Schild and Makkabi, staged their own national championships from 1933–38. Key Following

7668-464: The last club to receive it. The trophy disappeared during the final stages of the war and would not resurface until after the German reunification . A new trophy, the Meisterschale , was commissioned after the war but was not ready for the first post-war champions in 1948. Instead it was first awarded to VfR Mannheim in 1949. While the original trophy has only the champions from 1903 to 1944 engraved

7776-483: The league , they did not qualify for the Champions League on the final day of the season. In the summer of 2009, after only one season, Jol departed to become coach of Ajax . Under new coach Bruno Labbadia , HSV reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (now renamed the UEFA Europa League ) for the second season in a row. However, a defeat in the away leg to Fulham , days after the firing of Labbadia, denied

7884-525: The match at neutral venue. The national championship was suspended in October 1915 due to World War I. Limited play continued on a regional basis in many parts of the country, while competition was abandoned in other areas. Several regional leagues continued to declare champions or cup winners. The national championship was reinstated with the 1919–20 season that was concluded with a 2–0 victory by 1. FC Nürnberg over SpVgg Fürth in Frankfurt . The 1922 final

7992-487: The most dominating team in the competition from then on, also reaching the national final in 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1928. In 1923 and 1928, it won the championship, in 1922, no champions was determined and only in 1924 did the club actually lose the finals game. Apart from HSV , only Holstein Kiel could achieve success in the north, reaching the German final for a third time in 1930 but losing to Hertha BSC Berlin . The Northern German championship changed its system to determine

8100-498: The national playoffs. New Gauligen were created as the Reich expanded its border through the Anschluss with Austria. This expanded the national championship competition with the addition of regional champions from the new circuits. It also introduced previously foreign clubs into German domestic competition where Viennese Austrian sides made a notable impression. Competition during the war

8208-432: The new one lists all the German champions since 1903 and has had to be enlarged on occasion. Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. ( German: [ˈhambʊʁɡɐ ˈʃpɔʁtfɛɐ̯ˌʔaɪ̯n] ), commonly known as Hamburger SV ( pronounced [ˈhambʊʁɡɐ ʔɛsˈfaʊ] ) or Hamburg ( pronounced [ˈhambʊʁk] ), or HSV ( pronounced [ˌhaːʔɛsˈfaʊ] ),

8316-508: The playoff, losing 0–2 at home, despite winning the first leg in Berlin . In the DFB-Pokal , Hamburg reached the semi-finals, where they lost 1–3 to SC Freiburg . In the 2022–23 season , their fifth season in the 2. Bundesliga, the club had the highest spectator average of any second-division club in Europe. During that season, Hamburger SV were in the top three places since matchday 6, and finished

8424-471: The previous three national championships. To qualify for the Northern German championship, a club had to take out the title in its local or district competition or league. This remained unchanged through 1920 (with the one exception of the 1913–14 season) but, as more football clubs were formed in Germany and the NFV grew bigger, the number of its districts increased and thereby also the numbers of clubs taking part in

8532-657: The regional associations of the DFB align with state borders in Germany. However, the DFB has two regional associations in Rhineland-Palatinate, and three each in North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg. For the champions of these states the regional associations are mentioned as well. From 1938 to 1945 Austria was part of Germany, and Austrian clubs were thus allowed to compete in the German football championship. Rapid Wien won one championship in that period. In over

8640-637: The rise of the Nazis to power in 1933. At the end of the Second World War, some resumed, but in league format. In the North, a championship had been started in the summer of 1946 but it had to be stopped during the quarter-finals when the British Military Government intervened. Subsequently, the Oberliga Nord was established in 1947. Others, such as the Baltic championship, completely disappeared because

8748-425: The team for over four years, making him the longest serving trainer since Ernst Happel. A ninth-place finish in 1997–98 was followed by seventh in 1998–99 and third in 1999–2000 , the team's best performance since 1986–87 . On 2 September 2000, the new Volksparkstadion was officially opened as the national team played its first 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier , against Greece . In 2000–01, HSV competed in

8856-405: The team relegated for the first time in history, HSV's football team had the distinction of being the only team that had played continuously in the top tier of the German football league system since the founding of the club at the end of World War I . It was subsequently the only team that had played in every season of the Bundesliga since its foundation in 1963. HSV play their home games at

8964-517: The territories they were held in were no longer part of Germany. With the South West German football championship , a new regional competition also appeared in 1945 in the French Zone. Ultimately, with the formation of the Bundesliga , regional championships ceased altogether. When the Northern German championship was established in 1906, the region of Northern Germany (German: Norddeutschland )

9072-445: The third oldest club of the country which became part of São Paulo FC , one of the major sports clubs of Brazil, in 1938 and SC Germânia of São Paulo, which later became EC Pinheiros . Hamburger SC 1888 was founded by students on 1 June 1888. It later had links with a youth team called FC Viktoria 95 and, during World War I , was temporarily known as Viktoria Hamburg 88. SC Germania and Hamburger SC 1888 were among 86 clubs who founded

9180-641: The title in 1938 and the German Luftwaffe team LSV Hamburg losing the 1944 final against Dresdner SC . After the end of the Second World War , Germany remained divided until 1991 and the new Oberliga Nord , formed in 1947, became the replacement for the old Northern German championship. It did, however, not include the clubs from Mecklenburg any more as those now became part of the East German football league system . The Oberliga Nord, formed in 1947,

9288-603: The tumultuous German political situation. These included the left-leaning workers' ATSB (Arbeiter-Turn- und Sport-Bund), the Catholic-sponsored DJK (Deutschen Jugendkraft), the Protestant-backed DT (Deutsche Turnerschaft), and the Communist KG (Kampfgemeinschaft für Rote Sporteinheit). Through the 1920s and 1930s, each of these leagues staged their own national championships or fielded national sides. Because of

9396-504: The war drew to its conclusion due to manpower shortages, bombed-out stadiums, and the hardship and expense of travel. In the era's final championship match Dresdner SC beat the military club LSV Hamburg 4–0 on 18 June 1944 in Berlin's Olympiastadion . The 1944–45 season kicked off ahead of schedule in November; however, by March 1945 play had collapsed throughout Germany as Allied armies overran

9504-571: The war would last longer than anticipated, local competitions restarted in 1915. In most regions of Germany, like the South , the championships were restarted from 1915 onwards but in the North , this was not so. A northern championship was played in 1916 again, but only for selections, not clubs. In 1917, a club championship was played once more but in 1918, the competition returned to selections rather than clubs. The Northern German championship resumed in 1919, as

9612-416: The winners of each of the country's top regional leagues. Since 1963, the first-place finisher in the Bundesliga has been recognized as the national champion. Championship play was suspended twice; from 1915 to 1919 due to World War I and again from 1945 to 1947 due to World War II . Following World War II, Germany was occupied by the victorious Allies and two German football competitions emerged when

9720-432: The winter break. HSV ended the season as first in the league table. From matchday 20 and onwards, HSV were again winless for 5 games. After 2 wins, another winless series of 5 games followed from matchday 27 and onwards, during which, the club drew against Hannover 96 3–3. The club also lost to relegation candidates SV Sandhausen . Due to this development, Thioune was released at the beginning of May 2021, and replaced by

9828-478: The year 2022 in second place. On the last matchday, HSV played an away match against SV Sandhausen , where they won 1–0, and as SSV Jahn Regensburg were leading 2–1 against second-place 1. FC Heidenheim , HSV were about to be promoted to Bundesliga. However, during eleven minutes of stoppage time, Heidenheim scored two goals to finish top; hence, Hamburger SV had to play the promotion/relegation play-offs against VfB Stuttgart. They lost both legs, missing promotion to

9936-445: Was a 5–0 defeat of Swiss club Young Boys in Bern , with HSV winning the tie 8–3 on aggregate. In the quarter-finals, they beat English champions Burnley before being defeated by Barcelona at the semi-final stage in a playoff game after the scores were level over two legs. The crowd of 77,600 at the Volksparkstadion for the first leg against Barcelona remains the record attendance for

10044-649: Was achieved in the 1923 German football championship , when they won the national title against Union Oberschöneweide . They lost the title in 1924 , losing the final to Nuremberg. They lifted the Viktoria again in 1928 , when they defeated Hertha BSC 5–2 at the Altonaer Stadion in the final. During the Third Reich , HSV had local success in the Gauliga Nordmark , also known as the Gauliga Hamburg, winning

10152-542: Was also characterized by the formation of military-based clubs including the Luftwaffe side LSV Hamburg which appeared in the era's last national championship match at the end of the 1943–44 season. Unlike the United Kingdom, where play was suspended early on, national football competition continued on in Germany in some form through the course of the war. Play finally collapsed as the war drew to its conclusion and no champion

10260-436: Was called off at 2–2 when Nuremberg were 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 DFB awarded the win to HSV, 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. HSV's first success

10368-446: Was contested by 1. FC Nürnberg and Hamburger SV , but never reached a conclusion on the pitch. The match 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, the 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

10476-534: Was declared in 1944–45. It was also during this period that a national cup competition was introduced; the Tschammerpokal was named for Reichssportführer (Sports Chief of the Reich) Hans von Tschammer und Osten and is predecessor to the modern-day DFB-Pokal (German Cup). The first cup competition was staged in 1935 and won by 1. FC Nürnberg. Key In the immediate aftermath of World War II, German football

10584-406: Was encouraged after the foundation of Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB) in 1900 and maintained throughout Germany although the regional federations were later called Landesverbände (state associations) which they weren't. The Northern German Football Association (NFV, see above) was formed on 15 April 1905, thereby in cooperating six regional associations: Two others could not, or did not, join as

10692-402: Was established, open to teams playing below the Oberliga level in second- and third tier leagues. The post-war occupation of Germany by the victorious Allies eventually led to the de facto partition of the country and the emergence of two separate German states, each with its own government and institutions. Early plans to maintain a national championship to be contested by representatives from

10800-462: Was formed originally as an athletics club, and did not begin to play football until 1891, when some Englishmen joined the club and introduced it. SC Germania had its first success in 1896, winning the Hamburg-Altona championship for the first of five times. Germania player Hans Nobiling  [ de ] emigrated to Brazil at the end of the 19th century, in the foundation of SC Internacional ,

10908-500: Was from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s when, in addition to several domestic honours, they won the 1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 1982–83 European Cup . The outstanding players of this period were Horst Hrubesch , Manfred Kaltz , and Felix Magath , all regulars in the West German National Team. To date, HSV's last major trophy was the 1986–87 DFB-Pokal . Up until the 2017–18 Bundesliga season , which found

11016-546: Was in French-occupied Saarland where attempts by France to annex the state were manifested in the formation of a separate, but short-lived, football competition that staged its own championship. Saarland briefly had its own representation under FIFA , forming Olympic and World Cup sides, before re-joining German competition in 1956. In the Soviet-occupied East zone, a more enduring separation took place that

11124-562: Was in complete disarray. Occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of most organizations in the country. However, many football clubs were soon re-established and new sides formed; play was tentatively resumed. By 1948, a new first division league structure, the Oberligen, was in place in most of the Western zone of occupation. The restored competition maintained the German game's historical practice of play in regional leagues. An exception

11232-463: Was not extended. For the 2020–21 season , Daniel Thioune was brought in as the new head coach from league rivals VfL Osnabrück . The season began with a 1–4 first-round knockout loss in the DFB-Pokal to 3. Liga club Dynamo Dresden . Despite this loss, HSV then started the season and won the first 5 games. After a subsequent winless streak of 5 games, 3 of which were lost in a row, the team stabilised again from matchday 11 and went undefeated until

11340-561: Was not mended until the reunification of Germany in 1990. As a result, Eastern-based clubs did not take part in the German national championship under the DFB, vying instead for a different prize. The country's capital city of Berlin was similarly divided and clubs based in West Berlin took part in western-based competition. The Viktoria disappeared at war's end, although it would eventually reappear and be held in East Germany. A new trophy –

11448-445: Was not really relevant in the field of football because from the start, most regional associations ignored Länder (state) boundaries and established themselves within reasonable geographic regions (e.g. there was never a Prussian Football Federation ). The very first federation in the North, inaugurated in 1894, incorporated clubs from Hamburg (Free Hanseatic City) as well as Altona and Wandsbek (both of which were Prussian). This policy

11556-727: Was politically divided into a number of territories, the first two being part of the Kingdom of Prussia : With the defeat of the German Empire in 1918 and the formation of a Republic, the former Kingdoms and Principalities became states. For the two Prussian provinces, this only meant that the Kingdom was replaced with the Free State of Prussia , while the Free Cities remained as they were. The former Principalities became free states: All this, however,

11664-565: Was the first of three clubs that merged on 2 June 1919 to create HSV in its present form. HSV in its club statute recognises the founding of SC Germania as its own date of origin. The other two clubs in the June 1919 merger were Hamburger FC founded in 1888 and FC Falke Eppendorf dating back to 1906. The merger came about because the three clubs had been severely weakened by the impact of the First World War on manpower and finance, and they could not continue as separate entities. SC Germania

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