2015–16 Hamburger SV season

Hamburger SV
2015–16 season
President	Carl-Edgar Jarchow
Head coach	Bruno Labbadia
Stadium	Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
Bundesliga	10th
DFB-Pokal	First round
	← 2014–15 2016–17 →

The 2015–16 Hamburger SV season was the 128th season in the club's football history. In 2015–16 the club played in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It was the club's 53rd consecutive season in this league, being the only club to have played every season in the Bundesliga since its introduction in 1963.

First team squad

As of September 2015, according to the official website.

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	CZE	Jaroslav Drobný
2	DF	GER	Dennis Diekmeier
3	DF	BRA	Cléber
4	DF	BIH	Emir Spahić
5	DF	SUI	Johan Djourou (vice-captain)
7	MF	CRO	Ivo Iličević
8	MF	GER	Lewis Holtby
9	FW	GER	Sven Schipplock
10	FW	GER	Pierre-Michel Lasogga
11	FW	CRO	Ivica Olić
14	MF	GER	Aaron Hunt
15	GK	GER	René Adler
16	FW	LVA	Artjoms Rudņevs
17	MF	HUN	Zoltán Stieber
19	FW	GER	Abdullah Bidav


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	MF	SWE	Albin Ekdal
21	MF	CHI	Marcelo Díaz
22	DF	GER	Matthias Ostrzolek
23	FW	AUT	Michael Gregoritsch
24	DF	JPN	Gōtoku Sakai
26	FW	GER	Philipp Müller
27	MF	GER	Nicolai Müller
28	DF	GER	Gideon Jung
30	GK	SUI	Andreas Hirzel
31	DF	MOZ	Ronny Marcos
33	FW	TUR	Batuhan Altıntaş
34	MF	GER	Finn Porath
39	DF	GER	Ashton Götz
40	MF	SRB	Gojko Kačar

Transfers

In

Date	Position	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2015	MF	Lewis Holtby	Tottenham Hotspur	€6,500,000	^[1]
6 July 2015	DF	Gōtoku Sakai	VfB Stuttgart	€700,000	^[2]
	DF	Emir Spahić		Free transfer
	FW	Sven Schipplock	1899 Hoffenheim
	MF	Aaron Hunt	VfL Wolfsburg
	MF	Albin Ekdal	Cagliari
	FW	Michael Gregoritsch	VfL Bochum
	GK	Andreas Hirzel	Vaduz
	FW	Batuhan Altıntaş	Bursaspor

Loans in

Date	Position	Name	Club	Return	Ref.

Out

Date	Position	Name	To	Fee	Ref.
26 June 2015	MF	Maximilian Beister	Mainz 05	Contract terminated	^[3]^[4]
30 June 2015	DF	Heiko Westermann	Real Betis	Released	^[5]^[6]
11 July 2015	MF	Valon Behrami	Watford	Undisclosed	^[7]
16 July 2015	DF	Jonathan Tah	Bayer Leverkusen	€7,500,000	^[8]
24 August 2015	MF	Petr Jiráček	Sparta Prague	Contract terminated	^[9]
9 January 2016	DF	Ronny Marcos	Greuther Fürth	Undisclosed	^[10]
	DF	Marcell Jansen		Retired
	MF	Rafael van der Vaart	Real Betis
	DF	Slobodan Rajković		Released

Loans out

Date	Position	Name	Club	Return	Ref.
18 January 2016	FW	Zoltán Stieber	1. FC Nürnberg	End of season	^[11]

Competitions

Win Draw Loss

Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
8	VfL Wolfsburg	34	12	9	13	47	49	−2	45
9	1. FC Köln	34	10	13	11	38	42	−4	43
10	Hamburger SV	34	11	8	15	40	46	−6	41
11	FC Ingolstadt	34	10	10	14	33	42	−9	40
12	FC Augsburg	34	9	11	14	42	52	−10	38

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-offs.^[12]

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	11	8	15	40	46	−6	41	5	4	8	20	23	−3	6	4	7	20	23	−3

Last updated: 14 May 2016.
Source: Bundesliga

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	W	L	W	D	W	L	L	D	W	L	D	W	W	L	D	L	L	L	D	W	D	D	L	W	L	L	W	L	L	W	D	L	W
Position	18	10	13	12	10	6	10	11	12	10	10	11	10	7	9	9	10	11	11	13	11	12	11	11	10	12	12	10	10	12	11	11	12	10

Updated to match(es) played on 14 May 2016. Source: Bundesliga
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

14 August 2015 (2015-08-14) 1	Bayern Munich	5–0	Hamburger SV	Munich
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Alonso 12' Boateng 18' Benatia 27' Lewandowski 53' Müller 69', 73' Douglas Costa 87'	Report	Diekmeier 25' Spahić 35'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Bastian Dankert

22 August 2015 (2015-08-22) 2	Hamburger SV	3–2	VfB Stuttgart	Hamburg
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gregoritsch 31' Iličević 34' Djourou 48', 89' Jung 73' Lasogga 84'	Report	Ginczek 23', 42' Rupp 33' Klein 52' 53' Kostić 68' Didavi 72'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 54,618 Referee: Günter Perl

29 August 2015 (2015-08-29) 3	1. FC Köln	2–1	Hamburger SV	Cologne
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Zoller 42' Vogt 68' Hosiner 76' Modeste 81' (pen.) Risse 83'	Report	Holtby 47' Schipplock 49' Ekdal 55' Spahić 79'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

11 September 2015 (2015-09-11) 4	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–3	Hamburger SV	Mönchengladbach
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Jantschke 58' Dahoud 88'	Report	Lasogga 11', 44' Ekdal 35' N. Müller 52'	Stadium: Stadion im Borussia-Park Attendance: 54,010 Referee: Tobias Welz

19 September 2015 (2015-09-19) 5	Hamburger SV	0–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Hamburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Hasebe 9' Seferovic 65' Russ 67' Oczipka 76'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 55,322 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

22 September 2015 (2015-09-22) 6	FC Ingolstadt	0–1	Hamburger SV	Ingolstadt
20:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Hinterseer 52' Roger 90+1'	Report	Lasogga 33' Gregoritsch 87'	Stadium: Audi Sportpark Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Knut Kircher

26 September 2015 (2015-09-26) 7	Hamburger SV	0–1	Schalke 04	Hamburg
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Djourou 83'	Report	Geis 19' Sané 60' Neustädter 64' Fährmann 90'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 53,192 Referee: Jochen Drees

3 October 2015 (2015-10-03) 8	Hertha BSC	3–0	Hamburger SV	Berlin
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Kalou 17' Haraguchi 53' Ibišević 76', 78'	Report	N. Müller 64'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 65,427 Referee: Felix Brych

17 October 2015 (2015-10-17) 9	Hamburger SV	0–0	Bayer Leverkusen	Hamburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Hunt 26' Lasogga 31' Ekdal 38' Iličević 59' Díaz 88' Spahić 90+1'	Report	Hernández 74' Jedvaj 75'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 54,957 Referee: Tobias Welz

23 October 2015 (2015-10-23) 10	TSG Hoffenheim	0–1	Hamburger SV	Sinsheim
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bičakčić 11' 68' Polanski 80' Volland 89'	Report	Holtby 26' Ostrzolek 57' Gregoritsch 77' Schipplock 84' Lasogga 88'	Stadium: Wirsol Rhein-Neckar-Arena Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Daniel Siebert

1 November 2015 (2015-11-01) 11	Hamburger SV	1–2	Hannover 96	Hamburg
17:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Gregoritsch 6'	Report	Kiyotake 59' (pen.) Sané 67'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 54,607 Referee: Sascha Stegemann

7 November 2015 (2015-11-07) 12	Darmstadt 98	1–1	Hamburger SV	Darmstadt
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Wagner 25' Gondorf 45' Heller 47' Niemeyer 52' Garics 56'	Report	Lasogga 29' (pen.) Djourou 57' Gregoritsch 85'	Stadium: Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

20 November 2015 (2015-11-20) 13	Hamburger SV	3–1	Borussia Dortmund	Hamburg
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Lasogga 19' (pen.) Holtby 41' Hummels 55' (o.g.)	Report	Bürki 19' Aubameyang 86'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Felix Zwayer

28 November 2015 (2015-11-28) 14	Werder Bremen	1–3	Hamburger SV	Bremen
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Bartels 30' Lukimya 54' Ujah 62'	Report	Iličević 3' Sakai 18' Gregoritsch 26' N. Müller 68'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 42,100 Referee: Knut Kircher

5 December 2015 (2015-12-05) 15	Hamburger SV	1–3	Mainz 05	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Jung 44' Djourou 84', 90'	Report	Jairo 16', 51' Baumgartlinger 43' Clemens 76'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 51,698 Referee: Benjamin Brand

12 December 2015 (2015-12-12) 16	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	Hamburger SV	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Draxler 71' Arnold 78'	Report	Lasogga 16' N. Müller 21' Jung 58' Ostrzolek 74' Gregoritsch 82'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

19 December 2015 (2015-12-19) 17	Hamburger SV	0–1	FC Augsburg	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report	Esswein 52' Caiuby 56' Morávek 76'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 49,726 Referee: Bastian Dankert

22 January 2016 (2016-01-22) 18	Hamburger SV	1–2	Bayern Munich	Hamburg
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Ostrzolek 20' Kačar 32' Adler 36' N. Müller 42' Alonso 53' (o.g.)	Report	Lewandowski 37' (pen.), 61' Lahm 45' Alonso 82'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Felix Zwayer

30 January 2016 (2016-01-30) 19	VfB Stuttgart	2–1	Hamburger SV	Stuttgart
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Großkreutz 20' Hunt 66' (o.g.) Kravets 88'	Report	Rudņevs 75' Adler 79' Hunt 84' Ostrzolek 90+4'	Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 46,600 Referee: Günter Perl

7 February 2016 (2016-02-07) 20	Hamburger SV	1–1	1. FC Köln	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Djourou 45' N. Müller 47' Kačar 56' Holtby 58' Spahić 65' Schipplock 89'	Report	Zoller 41' Mladenović 49' Risse 71'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 51,999 Referee: Felix Brych

14 February 2016 (2016-02-14) 21	Hamburger SV	3–2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Cléber 29' Hinteregger 38' (o.g.) Rudņevs 41' Iličević 80' Drmić 84' Jung 90+2'	Report	Johnson 14' Nordtveit 51' Raffael 88'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 56,706 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

19 February 2016 (2016-02-19) 22	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–0	Hamburger SV	Frankfurt
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Zambrano 62' Aigner 85'	Report	Djourou 21' Drmić 38' Lasogga 89'	Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena Attendance: 47,200 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

27 February 2016 (2016-02-27) 23	Hamburger SV	1–1	FC Ingolstadt	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Drmić 7' N. Müller 11' Spahić 15' Sakai 85'	Report	Hinterseer 37', 61' Hübner 45+2' Lezcano 47' Cohen 67' Bauer 85'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 50,675 Referee: Marco Fritz

2 March 2016 (2016-03-02) 24	Schalke 04	3–2	Hamburger SV	Gelsenkirchen
20:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Meyer 37' Neustädter 43' Caiçara 60' Huntelaar 66' Schöpf 77'	Report	N. Müller 4' Djourou 40' 45' Kačar 90+1'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 60,856 Referee: Günter Perl

6 March 2016 (2016-03-06) 25	Hamburger SV	2–0	Hertha BSC	Hamburg
17:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Rudņevs 18' Spahić 55' N. Müller 58', 75', 84' Ekdal 60'	Report	Pekarík 38'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 46,136 Referee: Felix Brych

13 March 2016 (2016-03-13) 26	Bayer Leverkusen	1–0	Hamburger SV	Leverkusen
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Ekdal 18' (o.g.) Frey 27' Toprak 34' Wendell 49' Jedvaj 90+5' 90+6' Kruse 90+7'	Report	Iličević 23' N. Müller 31'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Christian Dingert

19 March 2016 (2016-03-19) 27	Hamburger SV	1–3	TSG Hoffenheim	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Adler 19' Hunt 30' (pen.) Ostrzolek 35' Holtby 70'	Report	Kramarić 20' (pen.) Volland 23' Kadeřábek 49' Vargas 67'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 48,263 Referee: Knut Kircher

2 April 2016 (2016-04-02) 28	Hannover 96	0–3	Hamburger SV	Hanover
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Szalai 58'	Report	Cléber 61' Iličević 68', 73' N. Müller 75'	Stadium: HDI-Arena Attendance: 49,000 Referee: Robert Hartmann

9 April 2016 (2016-04-09) 29	Hamburger SV	1–2	Darmstadt 98	Hamburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	N. Müller 33' Spahić 90' Cléber 90+1' Holtby 90+1'	Report	Jungwirth 26' Sulu 38' Caldirola 45+1' Gondorf 54'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Peter Sippel

17 April 2016 (2016-04-17) 30	Borussia Dortmund	3–0	Hamburger SV	Dortmund
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Pulisic 38' Ramos 44', 86'	Report	Adler 52'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 81,359 Referee: Marco Fritz

22 April 2016 (2016-04-22) 31	Hamburger SV	2–1	Werder Bremen	Hamburg
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Lasogga 5', 32', 26' Gregoritsch 46' Drobný 79'	Report	Yatabaré 15' Fritz 35' Ujah 65' Djilobodji 76' Bartels 90+5'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

30 April 2016 (2016-04-30) 32	Mainz 05	0–0	Hamburger SV	Mainz
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Spahić 22' Bahoui 61' Kačar 63'	Stadium: Coface Arena Attendance: 34,000 Referee: Guido Winkmann

7 May 2016 (2016-05-07) 33	Hamburger SV	0–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Hamburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Luiz Gustavo 73'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Benjamin Brand

14 May 2016 (2016-05-14) 34	FC Augsburg	1–3	Hamburger SV	Augsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Finnbogason 11', 52' Janker 35' Kohr 50'	Report	Gregoritsch 33', 36', 74' N. Müller 62' Holtby 64' Altıntaş 66'	Stadium: WWK ARENA Attendance: 30,660 Referee: Florian Meyer

DFB-Pokal

9 August 2015 (2015-08-09) Round 1	Carl Zeiss Jena	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Hamburger SV	Jena
14:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gerlach 15' Krstić 30' Bär 39' Koczor 49' Jovanović 58' Pieles 106' Wolfram 108'	Report	Spahić 14' Olić 49' Holtby 58' Gregoritsch 90+4'	Stadium: Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld Attendance: 13,800 Referee: Frank Willenborg

Statistics

Appearances and goals

As of 14 May 2016^[update]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	CZE	Jaroslav Drobny	10	0	10	0	0	0
15	GK	GER	René Adler	25	0	24	0	1	0
30	GK	SUI	Andreas Hirzel	1	0	1	0	0	0
36	GK	GER	Tom Mickel	1	0	1	0	0	0
2	DF	GER	Dennis Diekmeier	22	0	22	0	0	0
3	DF	BRA	Cléber	24	1	23	1	1	0
4	DF	BIH	Emir Spahic	27	0	26	0	1	0
5	DF	SUI	Johan Djourou	26	2	26	2	0	0
22	DF	GER	Matthias Ostrzolek	33	0	32	0	1	0
24	DF	JPN	Gōtoku Sakai	23	0	22	0	1	0
28	DF	GER	Gideon Jung	20	0	19	0	1	0
7	MF	CRO	Ivo Iličević	32	4	31	4	1	0
8	MF	GER	Lewis Holtby	35	3	34	3	1	0
14	MF	GER	Aaron Hunt	21	2	21	2	0	0
17	MF	HUN	Zoltán Stieber	2	0	2	0	0	0
20	MF	SWE	Albin Ekdal	15	0	14	0	1	0
21	MF	CHI	Marcelo Díaz	12	0	11	0	1	0
21	MF	SWE	Nabil Bahoui	6	0	6	0	0	0
27	MF	GER	Nicolai Müller	29	9	29	9	0	0
40	MF	SRB	Gojko Kačar	19	1	19	1	0	0
33	FW	GER	Sven Schipplock	21	0	20	0	1	0
35	FW	GER	Pierre-Michel Lasogga	31	8	30	8	1	0
11	FW	CRO	Ivica Olić	10	1	9	0	1	1
17	FW	LVA	Artjoms Rudņevs	11	2	11	2	0	0
18	FW	SUI	Josip Drmić	6	1	6	1	0	0
20	FW	AUT	Michael Gregoritsch	26	6	25	5	1	1
44	FW	TUR	Batuhan Altıntaş	1	0	1	0	0	0

References

^ Hytner, David (1 July 2015). "Tottenham Hotspur sell Lewis Holtby to Hamburg for £4.6m". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
^ "HSV-Trainingslager: Bruno Labbadia – „Seine Mentalität ist überragend"". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2025.
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[1] Hytner, David (1 July 2015). "Tottenham Hotspur sell Lewis Holtby to Hamburg for £4.6m". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[2] "HSV-Trainingslager: Bruno Labbadia – „Seine Mentalität ist überragend"". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[3] "Beister und HSV gehen getrennte Wege". kicker (in German). 26 June 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[4] "Beister kommt ablösefrei" (in German). 1. FSV Mainz 05. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[5] "Westermann sagt dem HSV Tschüss". kicker (in German). 25 June 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[6] "Westermann misst sich mit den "Allergrößten"". kicker (in German). 6 August 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[7] "Valon Behrami signs for Watford from Hamburg on three-year deal". The Guardian. 11 July 2015. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[8] "Perfekt: Tah wechselt vom HSV zu Bayer". kicker (in German). 16 July 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[9] "Jiráček podle Bildu přestupuje z Hamburku do Sparty". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 24 August 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[10] ""Talent und Schnelligkeit": Fürth baut auf Marcos". kicker (in German). 9 January 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[11] "Club verpflichtet Zoltan Stieber" (in German). 1. FC Nürnberg. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

[12] "Bundesliga 2015/2016 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 19 August 2015.

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