2007–08 Hamburger SV season

Hamburger SV 2007–08 football season

Hamburger SV

2007–08 season

Manager

Huub Stevens

Stadium

Volksparkstadion

Bundesliga

4th

DFB-Pokal

Quarter-finals

Intertoto Cup

Winners

UEFA Cup

Round of 16

Top goalscorer

Ivica Olić & Paolo Guerrero (14)

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

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2008–09 →

During the 2007–08 German football season, Hamburger SV competed in the Bundesliga.

Season summary

Hamburg improved to finish fourth, though they were 10 points off Champions League qualification.

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	ARG	Juan Pablo Sorín
3	DF	CMR	Timothée Atouba
4	DF	GER	Bastian Reinhardt
5	DF	NED	Joris Mathijsen
6	MF	BEL	Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe
7	FW	EGY	Mohamed Zidan
8	MF	NED	Nigel de Jong
9	FW	PER	Paolo Guerrero
10	DF	BEL	Vincent Kompany
11	FW	CRO	Ivica Olić
12	GK	GER	Wolfgang Hesl
13	MF	GER	Mario Fillinger
14	MF	CZE	David Jarolím
15	MF	GER	Piotr Trochowski^{[notes 1]}


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	MF	BLR	Anton Putsila (on loan from Dinamo Minsk)
17	FW	NGA	Macauley Chrisantus
18	MF	NED	Romeo Castelen^{[notes 2]}
19	DF	GER	Jérôme Boateng
20	DF	CIV	Guy Demel^{[notes 3]}
22	FW	GER	Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting^{[notes 4]}
23	MF	NED	Rafael van der Vaart
24	DF	SVN	Mišo Brečko
26	DF	GER	Volker Schmidt
28	MF	GHA	Otto Addo^{[notes 5]}
29	GK	GER	Raphael Wolf
30	DF	NAM	Collin Benjamin
31	MF	GER	Timo Kunert
32	MF	GER	Änis Ben-Hatira^{[notes 6]}
34	FW	GER	Sidney Sam

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	SUI	Raphaël Wicky (to Sion)
16	FW	GER	Mustafa Kučuković^{[notes 7]} (to 1860 Munich)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	DF	GER	Sebastian Langkamp (to Karlsruhe)
25	MF	COD	Kosi Saka (on loan to Carl Zeiss Jena)

Competitions

Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
2	Werder Bremen	34	20	6	8	75	45	+30	66	Qualification to Champions League group stage
3	Schalke 04	34	18	10	6	55	32	+23	64	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Hamburger SV	34	14	12	8	47	26	+21	54	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	VfL Wolfsburg	34	15	9	10	58	46	+12	54	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
6	VfB Stuttgart	34	16	4	14	57	57	0	52	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round

Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Intertoto Cup

Third round

Dacia Chișinău

Hamburg

21 July 2007	Dacia Chișinău	1–1	Hamburg	Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău
	Boicenco 7'		van der Vaart 70' (pen.)	Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Bruno Paixão (Portugal)

Hamburg

Dacia Chișinău

29 July 2007	Hamburg	4–0 (5–1 agg.)	Dacia Chișinău	AOL Arena, Hamburg
	Kompany 50' van der Vaart 71' Benjamin 76' Jarolím 89'			Attendance: 51,000 Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

UEFA Cup

Second qualifying round

Honvéd

Hamburg

16 August 2007	Honvéd	0–0	Hamburg	Szusza Ferenc Stadium, Budapest
19:00 CET				Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Hamburg

Honvéd

30 August 2007	Hamburg	4–0 (4–0 agg.)	Honvéd	HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
20:30 CET	Guerrero 9', 38' Smiljanić 50' (o.g.) Choupo-Moting 90'			Referee: Julián Rodríguez Santiago (Spain)

First round

Litex Lovech

Hamburg

18 September 2007	Litex Lovech	0–1	Hamburg	Lovech Stadium, Lovech
			Castelen 75'	Referee: Tony Asumaa (Finland)

Hamburg

Litex Lovech

4 October 2007	Hamburg	3–1 (4–1 agg.)	Litex Lovech	Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
	Guerrero 40', 52' Van der Vaart 71'		R. Popov 38'	Referee: Paul Allaerts (Belgium)

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hamburg	4	3	1	0	7	1	+6	10	Advance to knockout stage
2	Basel	4	2	2	0	3	1	+2	8
3	Brann	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	4
4	Dinamo Zagreb	4	0	2	2	2	5	−3	2
5	Rennes	4	0	2	2	2	6	−4	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Brann

Hamburg

25 October 2007	Brann	0–1	Hamburg	Brann Stadion, Bergen
19:00		Report	Kompany 62'	Attendance: 13,029 Referee: Georgios Kasnaferis (Greece)

Hamburg

Rennes

29 November 2007	Hamburg	3–0	Rennes	HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
19:00	Van der Vaart 30' Choupo-Moting 84' Zidan 90'	Report		Attendance: 36,472 Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

Dinamo Zagreb

Hamburg

5 December 2007	Dinamo Zagreb	0–2	Hamburg	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb
20:45		Report	De Jong 88' Trochowski 90+3' (pen.)	Attendance: 18,870 Referee: Douglas McDonald (Scotland)

Hamburg

Basel

20 December 2007	Hamburg	1–1	Basel	HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
20:45	Olić 73'	Report	Ergić 58'	Attendance: 48,917 Referee: Nicolai Vollquartz (Denmark)

Round of 32

Zürich

Hamburg

14 February 2008	Zürich	1–3	Hamburg	Letzigrund, Zürich
20:30	Hassli 88'	(Report)	Jarolím 49' Olić 67' Trochowski 77'	Attendance: 16,800 Referee: Alan Kelly (Ireland)

Hamburg

Zürich

21 February 2008	Hamburg	0–0 (3–1 agg.)	Zürich	Arena Hamburg, Hamburg
17:00		(Report)		Attendance: 33,586 Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)

Round of 16

Bayer Leverkusen

Hamburg

6 March 2008	Bayer Leverkusen	1–0	Hamburg	BayArena, Leverkusen
21:05	Gekas 77'	(Report)		Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

Hamburg

Bayer Leverkusen

12 March 2008	Hamburg	3–2 (3–3a agg.)	Bayer Leverkusen	Arena Hamburg, Hamburg
17:45	Trochowski 53' Guerrero 65' Van der Vaart 81'	(Report)	Barbarez 19' Gekas 55'	Attendance: 37,083 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

References

^ "FootballSquads - Hamburger SV - 2007/08".

Notes

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Demel was born in Orsay, France, but also holds an Ivory Coast passport and made his international debut for the Ivory Coast in 2004.
^ Choupo-Moting was born in Hamburg, Germany, and represented them at U-19 and U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Cameroon internationally and would make his international debut for Cameroon in 2010.
^ Addo was born in Hamburg, Germany, but also qualified to represent Ghana internationally and made his international debut for Ghana in February 1999.
^ Ben-Hatira was born in West Berlin, Germany, and represented them at U-19, U-20, and U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Tunisia internationally and would make his international debut for Tunisia in February 2012.
^ Kučuković was born in Novi Grad, SFR Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), but also qualified to represent Germany internationally and represented them at U-19, U-20, and U-21 level.

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2007–08 in German football

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League competitions

Men

Level 1 & 2	Bundesliga 2. Bundesliga
Level 3	Regionalliga
Level 4	Baden-Württemberg Bayern Hessen Nord Nordrhein Nordost Südwest Westfalen

Women

Cup competitions

Men	DFB-Pokal (Final) DFL-Ligapokal (Final)
Women	DFB-Pokal

European competitions

Men	Champions League UEFA Cup Intertoto Cup
Women	UEFA Women's Cup (Final)

Related to national teams

Men	UEFA Euro 2008 (Group B * Final) (Qualifying Group D) Joachim Löw
Women	2007 FIFA Women's World Cup (Group A * Final) UEFA Women's Euro 2009 (Qualifying) 2008 Algarve Cup Silvia Neid

Transfers

Team seasons
Men's Bundesliga	Arminia Bielefeld Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich VfL Bochum Borussia Dortmund MSV Duisburg Eintracht Frankfurt Energie Cottbus Hamburger SV Hannover 96 Hansa Rostock Hertha BSC Karlsruher SC 1. FC Nürnberg Schalke 04 VfB Stuttgart Werder Bremen VfL Wolfsburg
Men's 2. Bundesliga	Hoffenheim Kaiserslautern