Boateng, Kostic, Tah: There is so much HSV in German football

One has since become world champion, a top scorer at the U21 European Championship and one has left his mark on the 2018 World Cup: would you have thought that of the 36 clubs in the 1st and 2nd league are only six clubs that have no player with a Hamburg past in their ranks? 25 of the 36 clubs alone currently employ at least one ex-HSV professional – many of them even several. MOPO shows you how much HSV is in German football.

At the forefront: 1. FC Nürnberg and VfL Bochum, each with three ex-HSVers who have the most professionals in their ranks. At the last meeting of the two teams on November 4, 2019 (then a 3: 1 for Bochum) there were four former HSV professionals on the pitch, another sat on the bench. And with Manuel Wintzheimer even an HSV loan came in that encounter.

Boateng, Kostic, Tah: There is so much HSV in German football

But it is not only in the second division that there is an abundance of HSV professionals. After leaving Hamburg, many ex-HSV players made the leap to a great career – such as Jerome Boateng, with whom former HSV professionals are even world champions. In addition to him, Luca Waldschmidt (became top scorer of the U21 European Championship in 2019) and Jonathan Tah (received the Fritz Walter Medal in gold in 2015) also became German international players in their time after HSV, Filip Kostic won the 2018 World Cup Russia also for its Serbian national team on the field.

HSV exit: Jonathan Tah and Filip Kostic increase market value

The step of turning its back on Hamburg has done good to its market value. Tah and Kostic, who were both worth six million euros each when they moved away from HSV, are now both among the 30 most valuable players in the Bundesliga. Tah (moved to Leverkusen in 2015) now comes to almost 30 million euros, five times as much, Kostic has even increased its market value to around 32 million euros since moving to Frankfurt in the summer of 2018.

Schalke, Leipzig, Cologne: HSV is in almost every club

In total there are only eleven clubs with Leipzig, Dortmund, Schalke, Mönchengladbach, Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim, Cologne and Paderborn (1st league) as well as Heidenheim, Aue and Dresden (2nd league) that have no ex-HSV professionals under contract. And even these clubs are not all HSV-free: In Cologne the former HSV trainer Markus Gisdol has been on the sidelines since November 2019, Schalke has a former HSV duo with Matthias Kreutzer and Frank Fröhling as co-trainer team and in Leipzig As of next season, the current HSV press officer Till Müller will be in the same position.

So it is already clear that there will be a lot of HSV in German football in the future.

Ex-HSV professionals in German football

1st League: Jerome Boateng, Fiete Arp (both FC Bayern), Jonathan Tah, Kerem Demirbay (both Bayer Leverkusen), Filip Kostic (Eintracht Frankfurt), Christian Groß (Werder Bremen), Jeffrey Bruma, Levin Öztunali (both Mainz 05), Luca Waldschmidt ( SC Freiburg), André Hahn (FC Augsburg), Raphael Wolf, Rouwen Hennings (both Fortuna Düsseldorf), Ken Reichel (Union Berlin), Per Skjelbred (Hertha BSC)

2nd league: Orel Mangala (VfB Stuttgart), Matthias Ostrzolek (Hannover 96), Christian Mathenia, Fabian Nürnberger, Hanno Behrens (all 1. FC Nürnberg), Brian Behrendt, Sven Schipplock (both Arminia Bielefeld), Young-Jae Seo, Finn Porath (both Holstein Kiel), Vitaly Janelt, Robert Tesche, Manuel Wintzheimer (all VfL Bochum), Florian Stritzel, Patric Pfeiffer (both SV Darmstadt 98), Mergim Mavraj, Julian Green (both Greuther Fürth), Manuel Farrona Pulido (VfL Osnabrück), Jeremy Dudziak (FC St. Pauli), Alexander Meyer, Jan-Marc Schneider (both Jahn Regensburg), Dennis Diekmeier, Markus Karl (both SV Sandhausen), Törles Knöll (Wehen Wiesbaden), Änis Ben-Hatira (Karlsruher SC)

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