2008–09 Hamburger SV season

During the 2008–09 German football season, Hamburger SV competed in the Bundesliga.

Hamburger SV
2008–09 season
Manager Martin Jol
StadiumVolksparkstadion
Bundesliga5th
DFB-PokalSemi-finals
UEFA CupSemi-finals

Season summary

Hamburg finished fifth, eight points off first. They also made it to the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal and the UEFA Cup, but were beaten by Werder Bremen in both competitions, on penalties and away goals respectively.

Players

First-team squad
Squad at end of season[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  GER Frank Rost
2 DF  BRA Alex Silva
3 DF  CMR Timothée Atouba
4 DF  GER Bastian Reinhardt
5 DF  NED Joris Mathijsen
7 DF  GER Marcell Jansen
8 MF  GER Albert Streit[notes 1] (on loan from FC Schalke 04)
9 FW  PER Paolo Guerrero
10 FW  CRO Mladen Petrić[notes 2]
11 FW  CRO Ivica Olić
12 GK  GER Wolfgang Hesl
14 MF  CZE David Jarolím
15 MF  GER Piotr Trochowski[notes 3]
16 DF  DEN Michael Gravgaard (on loan from Nantes)
17 FW  NGA Macauley Chrisantus
18 MF  NED Romeo Castelen[notes 4]
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 DF  GER Jérôme Boateng
20 DF  CIV Guy Demel[notes 5]
21 MF  BFA Jonathan Pitroipa
22 FW  GER Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting[notes 6]
24 FW  CMR Marcel Ndjeng[notes 7] (on loan from Borussia Mönchengladbach)
25 MF  VEN Tomás Rincón
26 DF  GER Volker Schmidt
28 MF  SEN Mickaël Tavares[notes 8]
29 GK  GER Raphael Wolf
30 DF  NAM Collin Benjamin
31 MF  GER Timo Kunert
33 GK  MAR Khalid Sinouh[notes 9]
34 DF  GER Kai-Fabian Schulz
35 FW  TUR Tunay Torun[notes 10]
36 MF  GER Hanno Behrens
40 DF  GER Dennis Aogo

Left club during season

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
6 MF  BEL Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe (to Club Brugge)
7 FW  EGY Mohamed Zidan (to Borussia Dortmund)
8 DF  NED Nigel de Jong (to Manchester City)
10 DF  BEL Vincent Kompany (to Manchester City)
16 MF  BLR Anton Putsila (on loan from Dinamo Minsk)
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 DF  CZE Miroslav Štěpánek (on loan to Kapfenberger SV)
27 MF  BRA Thiago Neves (on loan to Fluminense)
32 MF  GER Änis Ben-Hatira[notes 11] (on loan to MSV Duisburg)
33 FW  USA Preston Zimmerman (to Kapfenberger SV)
34 MF  GER Sidney Sam (on loan to Kaiserslautern)

Transfers

Out

Results

First round
18 September 2008 Hamburg 0–0 Unirea Urziceni HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
19:00 CET Report Attendance: 39,010
Referee: Fırat Aydınus (Turkey)
2 October 2008 Unirea Urziceni 0–2 Hamburg Stadionul Tineretului, Urziceni
18:00 Report Petrić  27', 51' Attendance: 5,500
Referee: Sten Kaldma (Estonia)

Hamburg won 2–0 on aggregate.

Group stage
23 October 2008 Žilina 1–2 Hamburg Stadium Pod Dubňom, Žilina
18:30 UTC+2 Rilke  69' Report Petrić  15'
Olić  45+1'		 Attendance: 9,871
Referee: Tony Asumaa (Finland)
27 November 2008 Hamburg 0–1 Ajax HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
21:00 UTC+1 Report Leonardo  77' Attendance: 51,200
Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)
4 December 2008 Slavia Prague 0–2 Hamburg Synot Tip Arena, Prague
20:45 UTC+1 Report Olić  30'
Petrić  90+4' (pen.)		 Attendance: 17,368
Referee: Selçuk Dereli (Turkey)
17 December 2008 Hamburg 3–1 Aston Villa HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
20:45 UTC+1 Petrić  18'
Olić  30', 57'		 Report Delfouneso  83' Attendance: 49,121
Referee: Aleksei Nikolaev (Russia)

Round of 32
18 February 2009 NEC 0–3 Hamburg Stadion de Goffert, Nijmegen
20:45 Report Trochowski  41'
Silva  45'
Olić  75'		 Attendance: 12,500
Referee: Darko Ceferin (Slovenia)
26 February 2009 Hamburg 1–0 NEC HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
18:15 Olić  9' Report Attendance: 31,537
Referee: Tony Chapron (France)

Hamburg won 4–0 on aggregate.

Round of 16
12 March 2009 Hamburg 1–1 Galatasaray HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
18:00 Jansen  50' Report Akman  33' Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)
19 March 2009 Galatasaray 2–3 Hamburg Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul
20:30 Kewell  42' (pen.)
Baroš  49'		 Report Guerrero  57', 60'
Olić  90'		 Attendance: 23,500
Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

Hamburg won 4–3 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals
16 April 2009 Manchester City 2–1 Hamburg City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester
20:45 Elano  17' (pen.)
Caicedo  50'		 Report Guerrero  12' Attendance: 47,009
Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)

Hamburg won 4–3 on aggregate.

Semi-finals
30 April 2009 Werder Bremen 0–1 Hamburg Weserstadion, Bremen
20:45 Report Trochowski  28' Attendance: 37,500
Referee: Howard Webb (England)
7 May 2009 Hamburg 2–3 Werder Bremen HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
20:45 Olić  13', 87' Report Diego  29'
Pizarro  66'
Baumann  83'		 Attendance: 51,000
Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

Werder Bremen 3–3 Hamburg on aggregate. Werder Bremen won on away goals.

References
  1. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/ger/2008-2009/bundes/hamburg.htm

Notes
  1. Streit was born in Bucharest, Romania, but also qualified to represent Germany internationally and represented them at U-16, U-17, U-18, and B level.
  2. Petrić was born in Brčko, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), but was raised in Switzerland and also qualified to represent Croatia internationally and represented Switzerland at U-17 and U-21 level before making his international debut for Croatia in November 2001.
  3. Trochowski was born in Tczew, Poland, but was raised in Germany from the age of 5 and made his international debut for Germany in October 2002.
  4. Castelen was born in Paramaribo, Suriname, but also qualified to represent the Netherlands internationally and made his international debut for the Netherlands in August 2004.
  5. Demel was born in Orsay, France, but also holds an Ivory Coast passport and made his international debut for the Ivory Coast in 2004.
  6. Choupo-Moting was born in Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany), and represented Germany at U-19 and U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Cameroon internationally through his father and made his international debut for Cameroon in June 2010.
  7. Ndjeng was born in Bonn, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Cameroon internationally through his father and made his international debut for Cameroon in May 2008.
  8. Tavares was born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France, but also qualified to represent Cape Verde and Senegal internationally through his mother and father respectively and was called up by Cape Verde in May 2008 before making his international debut for Senegal in 2009.
  9. Sinouh was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, but also qualified to represent Morocco internationally and made his international debut for Morocco in 2004.
  10. Torun was born in Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Turkey internationally and represented them at U-15, U-16, U-17, U-18, U-21 and B level before making his international debut for Turkey in February 2011.
  11. Ben-Hatira was born in West Berlin, West Germany (now Berlin, Germany), and represented Germany at U-19, U-20, and U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Tunisia internationally and made his international debut for Tunisia in February 2012.
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