- Rafael van der Vaart
Rafael Ferdinand van der Vaart (born 11 February 1983) is a Dutch footballer who captains Bundesliga side Hamburger SV and plays for the Dutch national team. Van der Vaart was born to a Spanish mother and a Dutch father in Heemskerk, in North Holland. He has scored 11 goals in 44 caps for the national team. His previous clubs were Ajax and De Kennemers in his hometown of Heemskerk. Van der Vaart played for the Netherlands in Euro 2004 and in the 2006 World Cup.
- Mehdi Mahdavikia
Mehdi Mahdavikia is an Iranian football player who currently plays for Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga. He is captain of the Iranian national football team and usually plays as a right winger or full-back.
- Manfred Kaltz
Manfred Kaltz (born January 6, 1953 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) is a former German football player and manager. Kaltz played in the Bundesliga for Hamburger SV and 13 times (1 goal) for FC Mulhouse in Ligue 1 after initially joining Mulhouse league rivals Girondins de Bordeaux 1989. He returned to Hamburg the season after, the consequence of the relegation of FC Mulhouse from Ligue 1 at the end of 1989-1990.
- Piotr Trochowski
Piotr Trochowski (Born March 22, 1984 in Tczew, Poland) is a German footballer of Polish origin who currently is an attacking midfielder for Hamburger SV and Germany. He is known for his powerful shots. He played for the Germany Under-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship. He started his career with St. Pauli, a regional team in Hamburg. He then transferred to the Amateur team of Bayern Munchen.
- Nigel de Jong
Nigel de Jong (born November 30, 1984 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) is a Dutch football player, currently playing for Hamburg. Nigel de Jong is the son of Dutch footballer Jerry de Jong. He began as a youth player for Ajax Amsterdam. In October 2002 he made his debut for Ajax's first team. He quickly made an impact and became a favourite with the fans.
- Joris Mathijsen
Joris Mathijsen (born 5 April 1980 in Goirle) is a professional Dutch footballer. He currently plays for Hamburger SV as a defender. Mathijsen came through the youth system of Willem II Tilburg, making his debut on 27 February 1999 in a match against FC Utrecht. After six seasons at Willem II, he was sold by manager Co Adriaanse to AZ Alkmaar. However he endured a harder time breaking into the first team at Alkmaar.
- Kevin Keegan
Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born February 14, 1951 in Armthorpe, South Yorkshire, England) is a former English football manager and is regarded as one of the all-time greatest football players. At every club that he managed, he won promotion as champions in his first season; and he is the only Englishman to be named European Footballer of the Year twice.
- Frank Rost
Frank Rost (born 30 June 1973) is a German professional footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Hamburger SV. Rost was born in Karl Marx Stadt (Chemnitz), Saxony. He comes from a famous family background; his father Peter won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in handball, and his mother Christina, also a handball player, won the silver at the 1976 Olympic Games and bronze at the 1980 Games. Rost was signed from Werder Bremen in 2002, …
- Boubacar Sanogo
Boubacar Sanogo is an Ivorian football player. Starting his career in Tunisia, he went to Al-Ain in UAE, where he became well-known winning the Asian Cup and being a top goalscorer in the UAE League. An attacker, he played for FC Kaiserslautern during the 2005/06 season, scoring 10 goals in 24 games, a performance that caught the attention of high level German clubs. Then he was transferred to Hamburger SV in the summer of 2006.
- Bastian Reinhardt
Bastian Reinhardt (born November 19, 1975 in Ludwigslust) is a German footballer who currently plays for Hamburger SV.
- Sergej Barbarez
Sergej Barbarez (born September 17, 1971 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a famous and popular Bosnian-Herzegovian football midfielder playing for Bayer Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga.
- Guy Demel
Guy Roland Demel is a French-born Ivorian football midfielder. Demel started his professional career in the French Ligue 2 with Olympique Nîmes. He was discovered and bought by the big English team Arsenal, and spent a year there before being transferred to Borussia Dortmund. He left Arsenal claiming he was homesick and therefore observers were baffled at his move to Borussia Dortmund.
- Mohamed Zidan
Mohamed Zidan (born December 11, 1981 in Port Said) is an Egyptian footballer who is currently a striker for German club Hamburger SV. Zidan has so far earned 6 caps for the Egypt national team.
- Danijel Ljuboja
Danijel Ljuboja is a Serbian football forward who is under contract with Bundesliga team VfB Stuttgart, and is possibly best known for his Mohawk inspired hairstyle. In August 2006, German club Hamburger SV signed the Serb on a season-long loan. Ljuboja was born in Vinkovci, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia, where he played in the youth teams of NK Dinamo Vinkovci, NK Osijek and in FK Crvena zvezda in Belgrade.
- Stefan Wächter
Stefan Wächter is a German football goalkeeper who currently plays for Hansa Rostock. He lost his starting job at Hamburg to ex-Schalke 04 keeper Frank Rost, and after the season it was announced he had joined Rostock as their starting keeper, to accompany them in the Bundesliga.
- Vincent Kompany
Vincent Kompany (born April 10, 1986 in Uccle) is a Belgian football defender, who plays for the German club Hamburger SV and the Belgian national team. He is considered "one of Europe's premier talents". Kompany won several awards in Belgium when he played for RSC Anderlecht, including the Belgian Golden Shoe and the Belgian Ebony Shoe. Another player, Aruna Dindane, decided to wear the number 27 on his shirt at his arrival at RC Lens in the summer of 2005, …
- Collin Benjamin
Collin Benjamin is a Namibian football (soccer) midfielder. He plays for German Bundesliga side Hamburg SV and Namibia.
- Khalid Boulahrouz
Khalid Boulahrouz is a Dutch footballer of Moroccan descent, who plays for the Netherlands and Sevilla of the La Liga, on loan from Premier League side Chelsea. His nickname is "Khalid the Cannibal" for his ability to "eat up" his opposition. He joined Chelsea in August 2006 from Hamburger SV. However, due to his lack of form at Chelsea he was linked with moves to Atlético Madrid, Sevilla, Bayern Munich and Newcastle United, before moving to Sevilla on loan.
- Benny Feilhaber
Benny Feilhaber (born January 19, 1985 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an American professional soccer player. He currently plays for Hamburg SV in the German Bundesliga.
- Benjamin Lauth
Benjamin Lauth (born August 4, 1981 in Hausham) is a German footballer who currently plays for Hannover 96. Lauth began his career with TSV 1860 Munich, where he had played in his youth years. He gradually established himself as their leading striker and was called up into the German national team for the first time in 2003. In 2004 TSV got relegated, and he moved to Hamburger SV. However, his progress was hampered by a string of nagging injuries, …
- Alexander Laas
Alexander Laas (b. May 5, 1984 in Hamburg-Niendorf) is a German attacking midfielder for Hamburger SV. He's been at HSV since July 2000. Before then he played for Niendorfer SV and Hamburger SV A-Jugend *Bundesliga matches: 9 *Bundesliga goals: 0 *Shirt no: 27 *Position: Midfield *Height: 1,75 cm *Weight: 73 kg *Marital status: Single
- Stéphane Henchoz
Stéphane Henchoz is a Swiss international footballer who is a defender currently playing for Blackburn Rovers in the FA Premier League. He has been capped 68 times and played for his country at Euro 1996 and Euro 2004. Henchoz first came to notice playing in the German Bundesliga for Hamburger SV. After signing for Blackburn Rovers in 1997, Henchoz enjoyed two personally successful seasons in a relatively underperforming Rovers team.
- Jörg Albertz
Jörg Albertz is a German former professional footballer whose career spanned seventeen years. Between 1996 and 1998 he played three international games for the German national football team. As both a youth player and apprentice he played for PSV Mönchengladbach and Borussia Mönchengladbach. His first professional contract was signed in 1990 for Fortuna Düsseldorf. When the team from the Rhineland were relegated to the second tier of the Bundesliga, …
- Felix Magath
Wolfgang-Felix Magath is a German-Puerto Rican football manager. Magath was born in a military base in Germany, the son of a Puerto Rican soldier in the United States Army and a German mother. His father decided to return to Puerto Rico after his duty in Germany was over in 1954. He started his career playing for local club Viktoria Aschaffenburg. From 1974 - 1976, he played for 1. FC Saarbrücken, at that time in the second professional league, …
- Lars Jacobsen
Lars Christian Jacobsen, is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a defender for 1. FC Nürnberg. He is the first choice on the right full back position for country, and Jacobsen has played more than ten games for the Danish national team.
- Thomas von Heesen
Thomas von Heesen (born October 1, 1961) is a former Bundesliga player. He is the current head coach of German soccer team Arminia Bielefeld. As a youth player, he played for Hamburger SV. Like many youth players from the club, he has made his high school graduation at the Gymnasium Heidberg in Hamburg-Langenhorn. In his career as a midfielder for the club, he played 378 games, 368 of which were in the Bundesliga.
- Thomas Doll
Thomas Doll (born 9 April 1966 in Malchin, Germany) is a former footballer and coach. He played as an attacking midfielder. Doll began his career with local side BSG Lokomotiv Malchin, before joining East German first-division DDR-Oberliga side Hansa Rostock. In 1986 he was moved to BFC Dynamo, the country's dominant, Stasi-supported club, where he won two titles, in 1987 in 1988.
- Franz Beckenbauer
Franz Anton Beckenbauer (born September 11, 1945) is a German football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed "der Kaiser" ("the emperor") because of his elegant style, his leadership qualities, his first name "Franz" (reminiscent of the Austrian emperors), and his dominance on the football pitch. He is generally regarded as the greatest German footballer of all time and also as one of the greatest footballers in the history of the game.
- Naohiro Takahara
is a Japanese footballer. Born in Mishima, Shizuoka, he is a striker and currently plays for Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga. He has previously played for Júbilo Iwata in Japan, Boca Juniors in Argentina and Hamburger SV in Germany. He played for Japan in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney but missed the 2002 World Cup, co-hosted by his home country and South Korea, because of injury.
- Amir Shapourzadeh
Amir Shapourzadeh (born September 19, 1982 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian football player who plays in the striker position. He currently plays for Bundesliga club, FC Hansa Rostock. He also has German citizenship.
- Mark McGhee
Mark Edward McGhee (born 25 May 1957 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a former professional footballer and current manager of Scottish club Motherwell.
- Besart Berisha
Besart Berisha is a Kosovar Albanian footballer. A striker, 1.84m tall and weighing 77kg, he plays for the Albania national football team and Burnley F.C. of the English Football League Championship at club level.
- Andreas Reinke
Andreas Reinke is a German soccer goalkeeper currently a free agent. He most recently played for SV Werder Bremen, where he had been since the 2003/04 season.
- Stefan Beinlich
Stefan Beinlich (born January 13, 1972 in East Berlin) is a German footballer. The midfielder began his career at Berlin clubs BFC Dynamo and SG Bergmann-Borsig. For SG, he played 20 times in the 1990-91 season, scoring 5 goals. During the 1991-92 season he signed for English Premiership side Aston Villa in his first professional contract. In total Beinlich played sixteen times for Aston Villa, scoring one goal.
- Daniel van Buyten
Daniel Van Buyten (born February 7, 1978 in Chimay) is a Belgian international footballer who currently plays as a defender for Bayern Munich, following a June 2006 transfer from Hamburger SV. His father Franz was a popular catcher/wrestler in Europe from 1960 to 1980. His mother Renate is German. In the 2003-04 season Van Buyten, then of Olympique Marseille, had a short term loan spell in England with Manchester City but did not make a full time move to the Premiership.
- Alexander Meier
Alexander Meier (born 17 January 1983 in Buchholz in der Nordheide, Lower Saxony) is a German footballer. He currently plays for Eintracht Frankfurt, in attacking midfield. He began his career with FC St. Pauli in 2001, before moving to local rivals Hamburger SV in 2003. However, he did not find success at the club, and was dropped to their reserves before moving to Eintracht in 2004, where he made his breakthrough.
- Sasan Gouhari
Sasan Gouhari (born September 30, 1985) is an Iranian-German defender who currently plays for Hamburger SV.
- Francisco Copado
Francisco Copado (born July 19 1974 in Kiel) is a professional Spanish football player who currently plays for TSG Hoffenheim.
- Uli Stein
Ulrich "Uli" Stein is a former German football player. He was a goalkeeper and played from 1978 to 1997 512 times in the German Bundesliga. He started his career in 1978 for Arminia Bielefeld. After two years, he was transferred to Hamburger SV, where he played from 1980 to 1987. From 1987 to 1994 he played for Eintracht Frankfurt, but at 1994 he came back to Hamburger SV. One year later, he changed to Arminia Bielefeld again.
- Uwe Seeler
Uwe Seeler (born November 5 1936 in Hamburg) is a German football manager and retired football player. He played for Hamburger SV and also made 72 appearances for the West German national team.