HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst

history

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HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst is a German football club from the city of Hamburg. The club played as a second and third division side from the early 1960s on into the early 1980s before fading from sight into lower tier competition.

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History

The roots of the side are found in the merger on 10 July 1909 of the local gymnastics clubs Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst Turnverein 1876, Männer Turnverein 1888 Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst, and Barmbecker Turnverein 1902 to create Hamburger Turnerschaft Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst 1876 which formed a football department in 1911. The footballers went their own way as the independent side Hamburger Sportverein Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst on 15 November 1923, and played in lower level local competition over the next several decades.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9

During World War II, player rosters were depleted by the demands of armed forces service and HSV played in various combinations with other shorthanded clubs. In the 1943-44 season, HSV and Post SG Hamburg played as the wartime side Kriegspielgemeinschaft Post/BU Hamburg. On 23 June 1944, HSV and Post were joined with SV St. Georg and Sperber Hamburg to compete for a single season as KSG Alsterdorf in the Gauliga Hamburg (I). Following the conflict each of these clubs was re-established as a separate side with HSV taking on the name Hamburger Sportverein Barmbek-Uhlenhorst. In 1949, Fußball Club Rot-Weiß Hamburg 1923 became part of HSV.

The team captured the Amateurliga Hamburg (III) title in 1963 and beat Leu Braunschweig 3:1 to win its way to the Regionalliga Nord (II). They were quickly relegated, but earned a second Amateurliga title in 1966 to return to the second tier where they would play the next eight seasons as a mid- to lower table side. HSV made appearances in the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) tournament from 1973-76, but went out in the early going each time.

The country's football leagues were restructured in 1974 and Barmbek-Uhlenhorst found itself overmatched in the new 2nd Bundesliga Nord where they finished in 20th place. This second division adventure left the club crippled under a debt load of more than 500,000 DM. They were sent down to the Amateuroberliga Nord (III) where they struggled for a half dozen seasons until slipping to the Verbandsliga Hamburg (IV). Their fall continued, through the Landesliga Hamburg-Hansa (V) in 1982, to the Bezirksliga Hamburg-Nord (VI) in 1984.

BU clawed its way out of the sixth division with a Berzirksliga title in 1986 and played fourth and fifth tier football until league restructuring made the Landesliga Hamburg-Hansa a sixth division circuit again in 1994. Since 1999, the team has played in the Verbandsliga Hamburg (V) as an upper table side, earning a single season turn in the Oberliga Nord (IV) in 2004-05.

Honours

Famous Players

  • Andreas Brehme, playing for the youth and the Oberliga team until 1980

Current squad

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References

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