2014–15 Hamburger SV season

Hamburger SV
2014–15 season
President	Carl-Edgar Jarchow
Manager	Mirko Slomka; (until 15 September); Josef Zinnbauer; (16 September–22 March); Peter Knäbel (interim); (22 March–15 April); Bruno Labbadia; (since 15 April)
Stadium	Imtech Arena
Bundesliga	16th (win in relegation play-offs)
DFB-Pokal	Round 2
	← 2013–14 2015–16 →

The 2014–15 Hamburger SV season was the 127th season in the club's football history. In 2014–15, the club played in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It was the club's 52nd consecutive season in this league, being the only club to have played every season in the Bundesliga since its introduction in 1963.

First team squad

As of March 2015, according to the official website.^[1]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	CZE	Jaroslav Drobný
2	DF	GER	Dennis Diekmeier
3	DF	BRA	Cléber
4	DF	GER	Heiko Westermann (vice-captain)
5	DF	SUI	Johan Djourou (vice-captain)
7	DF	GER	Marcell Jansen (vice-captain)
8	FW	CRO	Ivica Olić
9	MF	GER	Maximilian Beister
10	FW	GER	Pierre-Michel Lasogga
11	MF	CRO	Ivo Iličević
15	GK	GER	René Adler
16	FW	LVA	Artjoms Rudņevs
17	MF	HUN	Zoltán Stieber
18	MF	GER	Lewis Holtby (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur)
19	MF	CZE	Petr Jiráček
20	MF	CHI	Marcelo Díaz


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	MF	SUI	Valon Behrami
22	DF	GER	Matthias Ostrzolek
23	MF	NED	Rafael van der Vaart (captain)
24	MF	GER	Matti Steinmann (also as Team II)
25	MF	FRA	Mohamed Gouaida (also as Team II)
26	FW	GER	Philipp Müller (also as Team II)
27	MF	GER	Nicolai Müller
28	MF	GER	Sven Mende
30	GK	GER	Alexander Brunst-Zöllner (also as Team II)
31	DF	MOZ	Ronny Marcos (also as Team II)
32	DF	SRB	Slobodan Rajković
33	DF	GER	Gideon Jung (also as Team II)
35	MF	TUR	Tolcay Ciğerci
37	MF	USA	Julian Green (on loan from Bayern Munich)
39	DF	GER	Ashton Götz (also as Team II)
40	MF	SRB	Gojko Kačar
41	FW	GER	Abdullah Bidav (also as Team II)

Out on loan

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	GER	Lasse Sobiech (on loan to FC St. Pauli until 30 June 2015)
—	DF	GER	Jonathan Tah (on loan to Fortuna Düsseldorf until 30 June 2015)
—	MF	TUR	Kerem Demirbay (on loan to 1. FC Kaiserslautern until 30 June 2015)
—	FW	CMR	Jacques Zoua (on loan to Kayseri Erciyesspor until 30 June 2015)

Transfers

In

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
3	DF	BRA	Cléber (from Corinthians)
5	DF	SUI	Johan Djourou (from Arsenal)
10	FW	GER	Pierre-Michel Lasogga (from Hertha BSC)
17	MF	HUN	Zoltán Stieber (from Greuther Fürth)
21	MF	SUI	Valon Behrami (from Napoli)
22	DF	GER	Matthias Ostrzolek (from FC Augsburg)
27	MF	GER	Nicolai Müller (from Mainz 05)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
33	DF	GER	Gideon Jung (from Rot-Weiß Oberhausen)
18	MF	GER	Lewis Holtby (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur)
37	MF	USA	Julian Green (on loan from Bayern Munich)
8	FW	CRO	Ivica Olić (from VfL Wolfsburg in winter)
20	MF	CHI	Marcelo Díaz (from Basel in winter)
28	MF	GER	Sven Mende (promoted from Team II)
35	MF	TUR	Tolcay Ciğerci (promoted from Team II)

Out

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	ENG	Michael Mancienne (to Nottingham Forest)
—	DF	GER	Dennis Aogo (to Schalke 04)
—	MF	TUR	Hakan Çalhanoğlu (to Bayer Leverkusen)
—	MF	CRO	Milan Badelj (to Fiorentina)
—	MF	NOR	Per Ciljan Skjelbred (to Hertha BSC)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	GER	Robert Tesche (to Nottingham Forest)
—	MF	VEN	Tomás Rincón (to Genoa)
—	FW	GER	Zhi-Gin Lam (to Greuther Fürth)
8	MF	GER	Tolgay Arslan (to Beşiktaş in winter)
34	FW	MKD	Valmir Nafiu (to APOEL in winter)

Competitions

Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
14	VfB Stuttgart	34	9	9	16	42	60	−18	36
15	Hertha BSC	34	9	8	17	36	52	−16	35
16	Hamburger SV (O)	34	9	8	17	25	50	−25	35	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
17	SC Freiburg (R)	34	7	13	14	36	47	−11	34	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
18	SC Paderborn 07 (R)	34	7	10	17	31	65	−34	31	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
32	8	8	16	22	48	−26	32	5	5	6	14	18	−4	3	3	10	8	30	−22

Last updated: 8 May 2015.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	D	L	L	D	L	L	W	D	L	W	L	W	L	W	D	L	D	L	W	W	L	D	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	W	W	D	L	W
Position	12	17	18	17	18	18	17	16	16	16	16	14	14	14	14	14	14	16	13	12	13	14	15	15	15	16	16	18	18	16	14	14	17	16

Updated to match(es) played on 20 December 2014. Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

23 September 2014 1	1. FC Köln	0–0	Hamburger SV	Cologne
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Lehmann 56' Risse 79'	Report	Djourou 72' Van der Vaart 79'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

30 August 2014 2	Hamburger SV	0–3	SC Paderborn	Hamburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Kachunga 29' Vrančić 68' Stoppelkamp 87'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 54,553 Referee: Bastian Dankert

14 August 2014 3	Hannover 96	2–0	Hamburger SV	Hanover
17:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Andreasen 13', 39' Sobiech 24' Bittencourt 45' Marcelo 69'	Report	Holtby 26' Diekmeier 73' Jiráček 89'	Stadium: Niedersachsenstadion Attendance: 49,000 Referee: Markus Schmidt

20 September 2014 4	Hamburger SV	0–0	Bayern Munich	Hamburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Arslan 45' Müller 59' Behrami 82' Drobný 90+1'	Report	Neuer 90+2' Højbjerg 90+4'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Christian Dingert

24 September 2014 5	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	Hamburger SV	Mönchengladbach
20:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Kramer 19' Kruse 25'	Report	Diekmeier 41'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 44,175 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

28 September 2014 6	Hamburger SV	1–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Hamburg
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Behrami 20' Müller 58' Jiráček 89'	Report	Medojević 25' Aigner 38' Seferovic 44' Piazon 90'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 47,643 Referee: Florian Meyer

4 October 2014 7	Borussia Dortmund	0–1	Hamburger SV	Dortmund
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Papastathopoulos 20' Jojić 62'	Report	Holtby 15' Lasogga 35' Müller 51' Drobný 61' Ostrzolek 67'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 80,667 Referee: Felix Zwayer

19 October 2014 8	Hamburger SV	1–1	1899 Hoffenheim	Hamburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Lasogga 34' Arslan 37'	Report	Modeste 15', 49' Volland 45' Rudy 77'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 49,003 Referee: Peter Sippel

25 October 2014 9	Hertha BSC	3–0	Hamburger SV	Berlin
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Ben-Hatira 59', 85' Heitinga 65'	Summary	Müller 53' Van der Vaart 57'	Stadium: Olypiastadion Attendance: 58,768 Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer

1 November 2014 10	Hamburger SV	1–0	Bayer Leverkusen	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Holtby 5' Van der Vaart 26' (pen.), 35' Behrami 41' Drobný 45+2' Diekmeier 45+5' Müller 52'	Report	Spahić 28' Donati 45+5' Toprak 88'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 52,990 Referee: Florian Meyer

9 November 2014 11	VfL Wolfsburg	2–0	Hamburger SV	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Olić 27' Naldo 62' Hunt 63', 66'	Report	Diekmeier 18' Ostrzolek 21' Lasogga 45'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Knut Kircher

23 November 2014 12	Hamburger SV	2–0	Werder Bremen	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Diekmeier 32' Westermann 37' Van der Vaart 62' Ostrzolek 80' Rudņevs 84' Wolf 90+3' (o.g.)	Report	García 20' Fritz 72' 89' Makiadi 89' Bartels 90+5'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Felix Zwayer

29 November 2014 13	FC Augsburg	3–1	Hamburger SV	Augsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Altıntop 50' Bobadilla 62' Verhaegh 70' (pen.) Rahman 89'	Report	Van der Vaart 45+1' Ostrzolek 49' Götz 69' Cléber 70' Green 90+1'	Stadium: SGL arena Attendance: 30,321 Referee: Jochen Drees

7 December 2014 14	Hamburger SV	2–1	Mainz 05	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Cléber 32' Van der Vaart 54' (pen.) Rudņevs 78'	Report	Okazaki 89'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 45,968 Referee: Sascha Stegemann

13 December 2014 (2014-12-13) 15	SC Freiburg	0–0	Hamburger SV	Freiburg im Breisgau
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Torrejón 39' Günter 53'	Report	Cléber 54' Behrami 68'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

16 December 2014 16	Hamburger SV	0–1	VfB Stuttgart	Hamburg
20:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Van der Vaart 66'	Report	Klein 42' Niedermeier 53' Harnik 66' Hloušek 77'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 48,223 Referee: Felix Brych

20 December 2014 17	Schalke 04	0–0	Hamburger SV	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Höger 69'	Report	Behrami 42' Cléber 81'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 61,973 Referee: Markus Schmidt

31 January 2015 18	Hamburger SV	0–2	1. FC Köln	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Van der Vaart 16' Rajković 62' Djourou 82'	Report	Peszko 16' Risse 62', 78'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 56,053 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

4 February 2015 19	SC Paderborn	0–3	Hamburger SV	Paderborn
20:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Ziegler 1'	Report	Van der Vaart 2' (pen.) Stieber 15' 90+1' Jiráček 31' Jansen 72'	Stadium: Benteler Arena Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Peter Gagelmann

7 February 2015 20	Hamburger SV	2–1	Hannover 96	Hamburg
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Marcelo 26' (o.g.) Jansen 50', 90'	Report	Sobiech 66'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 51,779 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

14 February 2015 21	Bayern Munich	8–0	Hamburger SV	Munich
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Müller 21' (pen.), 55' Götze 23', 88' Robben 36', 47' Lewandowski 56' Ribéry 69'	Report	Van der Vaart 29'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Michael Weiner

22 February 2015 22	Hamburger SV	1–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Djourou 39' Kačar 49' Stieber 73' Jiráček 90+3'	Report	Traoré 9' Jantschke 90' Kruse 90' Hrgota 90+2'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 52,105 Referee: Felix Zwayer

28 February 2015 23	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	Hamburger SV	Frankfurt
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Meier 12' (pen.), 54' Madlung 31' Piazon 88'	Report	Stieber 45+2' Ostrzolek 53' 64' Drobný 74' Gouaida 82' Djourou 90+2'	Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena Attendance: 50,500 Referee: Florian Meyer

7 March 2015 24	Hamburger SV	0–0	Borussia Dortmund	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Behrami 31' Müller 41' Diekmeier 67' Cléber 73' Van der Vaart 83'	Report	Mkhitaryan 63' Subotić 83'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Peter Gagelmann

14 March 2015 (2015-03-14) 25	1899 Hoffenheim	3–0	Hamburger SV	Sinsheim
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Polanski 22' (pen.), 81' Schwegler 56' Rudy 87'	Report	Drobný 19' Iličević 75' Jiráček 81'	Stadium: Rhein-Neckar Arena Attendance: 30,150 Referee: Günter Perl

20 March 2015 (2015-03-20) 26	Hamburger SV	0–1	Hertha BSC	Hamburg
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Behrami 66' Cléber 69' 81' Holtby 90+2'	Report	Langkamp 18', 84'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 53,640 Referee: Christian Dingert

4 April 2015 (2015-04-04) 27	Bayer Leverkusen	4–0	Hamburger SV	Leverkusen
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Castro 7', 63' Toprak 21' Kießling 44', 56', 50' Papadopoulos 77'	Report	Westermann 25' Diekmeier 42'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

11 April 2015 (2015-04-11) 28	Hamburger SV	0–2	VfL Wolfsburg	Hamburg
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Díaz 44' Olić 57' Müller 72' Djourou 85' 88'	Report	Guilavogui 10' Arnold 71' Caligiuri 73'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Felix Zwayer

19 April 2015 (2015-04-19) 29	Werder Bremen	1–0	Hamburger SV	Bremen
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Di Santo 84' (pen.) Öztunalı 90+4'	Report	Westermann 36' Behrami 82' Müller 84' Holtby 90+2'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 42,100 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

25 April 2015 (2015-04-25) 30	Hamburger SV	3–2	FC Augsburg	Hamburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Olić 11' Lasogga 19', 71', 75' Van der Vaart 26' Kačar 67'	Report	Bobadilla 25' Werner 69' Ji 78'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 51,321 Referee: Tobias Welz

3 May 2015 (2015-05-03) 31	Mainz 05	1–2	Hamburger SV	Mainz
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bungert 46' Baumgartlinger 53' Mallı 76' De Blasis 80' Brosinski 89' Allagui 90+2'	Report	Baumgartlinger 37' (o.g.) Olić 50' Kačar 81', 87'	Stadium: Coface Arena Attendance: 34,000 Referee: Peter Sippel

8 May 2015 (2015-05-08) 32	Hamburger SV	1–1	SC Freiburg	Hamburg
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Kačar 90'	Report	Mehmedi 25' Kempf 86'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Knut Kircher

16 May 2015 (2015-05-16) 33	VfB Stuttgart	2–1	Hamburger SV	Stuttgart
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gentner 27' Harnik 35' Didavi 69'	Report	Kačar 12', 69' Adler 56' Olić 58' Van der Vaart 90+3' Westermann 90+4'	Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

23 May 2015 (2015-05-23) 34	Hamburger SV	2–0	Schalke 04	Hamburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Díaz 39' Olić 49' Rajković 58'	Report	Kolašinac 26' Höger 66'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Tobias Welz

Relegation play-offs

28 May 2015 (2015-05-28) First leg	Hamburger SV	1–1	Karlsruher SC	Hamburg
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Westermann 26' Holtby 59' Iličević 73' Diekmeier 83' Kačar 83'	Report	Hennings 4' Valentini 13' Peitz 78'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 56,615 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

1 June 2015 (2015-06-01) Second leg	Karlsruher SC	1–2 (a.e.t.) (2–3 agg.)	Hamburger SV	Karlsruhe
19:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Yabo 78' Krebs 87' Meffert 90' Gulde 90+2' Gordon 118' Nazarov 120+1'	Report	Van der Vaart 48' Díaz 55', 90+1' Rajković 63' Beister 90+2' Cléber 101' Müller 115' Jiráček 115'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 27,986 Referee: Manuel Gräfe
Note: Hamburger SV won on aggregate to secure a spot in the 2015–16 Bundesliga.

DFB-Pokal

18 August 2014 Round 1	Energie Cottbus	2–2 (a.e.t.) (1–4 p)	Hamburger SV	Cottbus
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Zeitz 10' (pen.), 60' Mimbala 35' Holz 44' Michel 54', 105' Kleindienst 102'	Report	Adler 9' Iličević 14' Djourou 49' Westermann 70' Van der Vaart 96'	Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft Attendance: 16,184 Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer
	Penalties
	Pawela Holz Michel		Van der Vaart Djourou Jansen Rudņevs

29 October 2014 Round 2	Hamburger SV	1–3	Bayern Munich	Hamburg
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Götz 16' Djourou 33' Lasogga 85'	Report	Lewandowski 7' Alaba 44' Ribéry 55'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Marco Fritz

References

^ "HSV: Spieler" (in German). hsv.de. Archived from the original on 2009-10-16. Retrieved 5 April 2014.

[1] "HSV: Spieler" (in German). hsv.de. Archived from the original on 2009-10-16. Retrieved 5 April 2014.

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