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Also known as HSV, Hamburger Sport-Verein, Hamburger, Hamburg SV, Hamburg Sport Club, Hamburg, H.S.V., Hamburger S.V.

German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football department

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Hamburger SV is a German sports club based in Hamburg whose most prominent part is its football (soccer) team. The club is significant as one of the major football institutions in Germany with a substantial following and history in the sport.

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Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. ( German: [ˈhambʊʁɡɐ ˈʃpɔʁtfɛɐ̯ˌʔaɪ̯n] ), commonly known as Hamburger SV (pronounced [ˈhambʊʁɡɐ ʔɛsˈfaʊ] ) or Hamburg (pronounced [ˈhambʊʁk] ), or HSV (pronounced [ˌhaːʔɛsˈfaʊ] ), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football department. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three earlier clubs, it traces its origins to 29 September 1887 when the first of the predecessors, SC Germania, was founded.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hamburger SV” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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