Hamburger SV (HSV) is a German professional football team based in Hamburg, football is the largest department of a multi-sport club. The club played football since it was named HSV in 1919, after a merger of three clubs. The HSV was invited to join the Bundesliga for the first season in 1963.

Famous players as Franz Beckenbauer played for the club, but he had only 28 appearances. Uwe Seeler made 239 appearances and shot 137 goals during his career for the HSV. Seeler also played 72 times for the Germany national team and won the German Footballer of the Year award three times. Manfred Kaltz had the most appearances for Hamburg with 581 matches during his 20 years long career. Kevin Keegan won the Ballon D’or twice at the club.

Players

This list includes players with 50 or more appearances. Current players are in bold.

Position key: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

Name	Nationality	Position	HSV career	Apps.	Goals	Notes
Jörg Albertz	Germany Germany	MF	1993–1996 2001–2003	99 28	22 6
Timothée Atouba	Camerun Cameroon	DF	2005–2009	83	1
Markus Babbel	Germany Germany	DF	1992–1994	60	1
Harry Bähre	Germany Germany	MF	1963–1967	78	2
Sergej Barbarez	Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina	MF/FW	2000–2006	174	65
Lars Bastrup	Denmark Denmark	FW	1981–1983	59	18
Franz Beckenbauer	Germany Germany	MF	1980–1982	28	0
Dietmar Beiersdorfer	Germany Germany	FW	1981–1983	174	14
Uwe Bein	Germany Germany	MF	1987–1989	52	22
Stefan Beinlich	Germany Germany	MF	2003–2006	68	5
Collin Benjamin	Namibia Namibia	DF	2001–2011	146	13
Horst Bertl	Germany Germany	MF	1974–1979	104	25
Ole Bjørnmose	Denmark Denmark	FW/MF	1971–1977	186	13
Jörg Bode	Germany Germany	MF	1989–1994	82	3
Khalid Boulahrouz	Netherlands Netherlands	DF	2004–2006	52	2
André Breitenreiter	Germany Germany	FW/MF	1994–1997	71	12
Daniel Van Buyten	Belgium Belgium	DF	2004–2006	61	7
Ivan Buljan	Yugoslavia Yugoslavia	DF	1977–1981	103	22
Hans-Jörg Butt	Germany Germany	GK	1997–2001	103	19
Rodolfo Esteban Cardoso	Argentina Argentina	MF	1997–2001	111	17
Bernardo Daniel Romeo	Argentina Argentina	FW	2001–2005	78	36
Detlev Dammeier	Germany Germany	MF	1989–1992	51	2
Guy Demel	Côte d'Ivoire Ivory Coast	MF	2005–2011	131	2
Jacek Dembiński	Poland Poland	MF	1997–2000	69	11
Johan Djourou	Switzerland  Switzerland	DF	2013–	104	2
Thomas Doll	Germany Germany	MF	1990–1991 1998–2001	33 41	4 0
Bernd Dörfel	Germany Germany	FW	1963–1968	88	17
Gert Dörfel	Germany Germany	FW	1960–1972	300	94
Armin Eck	Germany Germany	FW	1989–1994	129	19
Kurt Eigl	Germany Germany	??	1974–1978	66	13
Andreas Fischer	Germany Germany	MF/DF	1994–2001	152	7
Milan Fukal	Czech Republic Czech Republic	DF	2000–2004	67	8
Jan Furtok	Poland Poland	FW	1988–1993	135	51
Willi Giesemann	Germany Germany	DF	1963–1968	104	3
Richard Golz	Germany Germany	GK	1987–1998	273	0
Thomas Gravesen	Denmark Denmark	MF	1997–2000	54	5
Jürgen Groh	Germany Germany	DF	1980–1985	154	4
Martin Groth	Germany Germany	MF	1998–2003	79	10
Heinz Gründel	Germany Germany	MF	1985–1988	62	14
Paolo Guerrero	Peru Peru	FW	2006–2012	134	37
Jürgen Hartmann	Germany Germany	MF	1991–1997	189	7
Jimmy Hartwig	Germany Germany	DF/MF	1978–1984	182	47
Marek Heinz	Czech Republic Czech Republic	FW	2000–2002	52	5
Son Heung-min	Korea Republic South Korea	FW	2010–2013	73	20
Ingo Hertzsch	Germany Germany	DF	1997–2003	151	1
Peter Hidien	Germany Germany	DF	1972–1982	214	9
Holger Hieronymus	Germany Germany	DF/MF	1979–1984	121	7
Lewis Holtby	Germany Germany	MF	2014–	74	3	As of 23 March 2017
Petar Houbchev	Bulgaria Bulgaria	DF	1993–1996	65	2
Horst Hrubesch	Germany Germany	FW	1978–1983	159	96
Ditmar Jakobs	Germany Germany	DF	1979–1989	323	27
Nigel de Jong	Netherlands Netherlands	MF	2006–2009	66	2
Manfred Kaltz	Germany Germany	DF	1971–1989 1990–1991	581 13	76 0
Rudolf Kargus	Germany Germany	GK	1971–1980	254	0
Kevin Keegan	England England	FW	1977–1980	90	32
Vincent Kompany	Belgium Belgium	DF	2006–2008	49	3
Pierre-Michel Lasogga	Germany Germany	FW	2013–	108	33	As of 12 August 2016
Yordan Letchkov	Bulgaria Bulgaria	DF	1992–1996	101	11
Felix Magath	Germany Germany	MF	1976–1986	306	46
Mehdi Mahdavikia	Iran Iran	MF	1999–2007	211	26
Joris Mathijsen	Netherlands Netherlands	DF	2006–2011	145	6
Peter Nogly	Germany Germany	DF/MF	1969–1980	320	38
Miroslav Okonski	Poland Poland	FW	1986–1988	62	15
Ivica Olić	Croatia Croatia	FW	2007–2009 2015–2016	143	51
Arkoç Özcan	Turkey Turkey	GK	1967–1975	159	0
Josef Posipal	Germany Germany	GK	1949–1958	250	13
Zé Roberto	Brazil Brazil	MF	2009–2011	54	7
Hasan Salihamidžić	Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina	MF/DF	1995–1998	72	19
Willi Schulz	Germany Germany	DF	1965–1973	211	3
Uwe Seeler	Germany Germany	FW	1953–1972	239	137
Uli Stein	Germany Germany	GK	1980–1987 1994–1995	203 19	0 0
Klaus Stürmer	Germany Germany	FW	1953–1961	158	114
Naohiro Takahara	Japan Japan	FW	2002–2006	97	13
Stig Tøfting	Denmark Denmark	MF	1993–1995 2000–2002	8 48	0 2
Piotr Trochowski	Germany Poland	MF	2005–2011	180	20
Tomáš Ujfaluši	Czech Republic Czech Republic	DF	2000–2004	105	2
Rafael van der Vaart	Netherlands Netherlands	MF	2005–2008 2012–2015	74 78	29 16
Thomas von Heesen	Germany Germany	MF	1980–1994	300	99
Jürgen Werner	Germany Germany	DF	1955–1963	169	14
Raphaël Wicky	Switzerland  Switzerland	MF	2001–2007	126	4
Wolfram Wuttke	Germany Germany	MF	1983–1985	58	15
Tony Yeboah	Ghana Ghana	FW	1997–2001	100	28
Valdas Ivanauskas	Lithuania Lithuania	FW	1993–1997	91	13

Club captains

Name	Period
Nico-Jan Hoogma	2001–2004
Tomáš Ujfaluši	2004
Daniel Van Buyten	2004–2006
Rafael van der Vaart	2006–2008
David Jarolím	2008–2010
Heiko Westermann	2010–2013
Rafael van der Vaart	2013–2015
Johan Djourou	2015–2017
Gotoku Sakai	2017–2019

References