Hamburger SV II are the

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Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three ...

. Until 2005 the team played as Hamburger SV Amateure. The team has qualified for the first round of the

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, the German Cup, on five occasions. They currently play in the tier four

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, in the fourth tier of the

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History

The team first played in the highest football league in Hamburg when it won promotion to the tier two

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in 1955. The team was relegated from the league again in 1959 but returned in 1961. With the introduction of the

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in 1963 and the Regionalliga as the second tier below it the Amateurliga dropped to the third tier and was renamed to Landesliga Hamburg. HSV Amateure earned a runner-up finish in the league in 1964 but otherwise remained an undistinguished side in the Landesliga, eventually suffering another relegation in 1972.Historic German football league tables
Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 30 January 2015 The team returned to what had now become the Verbandsliga Hamburg in 1979, initially continuing its trend of mid-table finishes but improving from 1984 onwards. It won three league championships in 1986, 1987 and 1989 but failed to win promotion to the Oberliga Nord in the first two attempts, eventually succeeding in the third. The team played in the Oberliga from 1989 to 1994 as a mid-table side and qualified for the new

in 1994 when the league was established. The team played in the Regionalliga until 2000 when a sixteenth-place finish forced it down to the Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein for two seasons. A league title in the latter in 2002 allowed the club promotion back up to the Regionalliga Nord where it has been playing since, with a third-place finish in 2014–15 as its best result.Regionalliga Nord tables and results
Weltfussball.de, accessed: 30 January 2015 The team has also taken part in the DFB-Pokal on five occasions, courtesy to its Hamburger Pokal performance. On four occasions, in 1974–75, 1981–82, 1996–97 and 1997–98, the team was knocked out in the first round but in 1991–92 it advanced to the fourth round before losing 1–0 to

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Honours

The team's honours: * Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein ** Champions: 2002 * Verbandsliga Hamburg ** Champions: (3) 1986, 1987, 1989 * Hamburger Pokal ** Winners: (3) 1991, 1996, 1997

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club: * With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the

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in 2008 as the new third tier, below the

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, all leagues below dropped one tier.

Players

Current squad

Head coaches

* Christian Titz (2017–2018) * Steffen Weiß (2018, interim) *

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(2018, interim) * Achim Feifel (2018, interim) * Steffen Weiß (2018–2019) * Hannes Drews (2019–)

References

External links

Official team site

Hamburger SV II at Weltfussball.de
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