MSV Duisburg

MSV Duisburg

Full name	Meidericher Spielverein 02 e. V. Duisburg
Nickname(s)	Zebras
Founded	1902
Ground	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena, Duisburg, Germany (Capacity: 31,500)
Chairman	Dieter Steffen
Manager	Oliver Reck (caretaker)
League	2. Bundesliga
2010–11	8th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours
Current season

MSV Duisburg is a German association football club based in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. Nicknamed "the Zebras" for their traditional striped jerseys, the club was one of the original members of the Bundesliga when it was formed in 1963.

History

Early years

The club was founded in 1902 as Meidericher Spielverein representing the city of Meiderich, which became a district of Duisburg in 1905. In 1905 they absorbed the club Sport Club Viktoria Meiderich. In 1967, they took on their current name, acknowledging their role as the city's most popular and successful side.

While Duisburg has always been a competitive side, real success has so far eluded them. Early in their history they captured a number of local championships, and even enjoyed a pair of undefeated seasons (1913–14) when they scored 113 goals while only giving up 12. In 1929 they won the first Niederrhein championship and qualified for the first time for the national championship rounds, repeating the feat in 1931.

However, the club then went into a tailspin from which they didn't really recover until the 1950s when they began once again to field decent sides. During World War II the club came close to folding, but returned to play after the war emerging as city champions in 1946. In 1951, Duisburg earned promotion to the top-flight Oberliga West with their first place finish in the 2. Oberliga West. The Oberliga West was the most competitive division of German football at the time, and except for the 1954–55 season, Duisburg would play first division football there right up to the time of the formation of the Bundesliga.

Entry to the Bundesliga

Historical logos of MSV Duisburg.

The club's play was good enough to earn a place as one of the original sixteen teams in Germany's new professional league, the Bundesliga, in 1963. That first season was their most successful as they went on to a second place finish to champions 1. FC Köln. The "Zebras" spent nearly twenty years in the upper league before slipping to the 2. Bundesliga in 1982–83 and then becoming one of German football's "elevator teams", named for their frequent up and down moves between divisions. Even so, they managed another eight seasons in the Bundesliga over two-and-half decades.

Current

MSV Duisburg won promotion to the Bundesliga for the 2007–08 season by way of a third place finish in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga, behind Karlsruher SC and Hansa Rostock. The MSV defeated Rot-Weiss Essen in a dramatic contest on the last day of the season by three goals to none, which secured their promotion for the fifth time in the last two decades while relegating Essen. However, the club fared poorly in top flight play and was again relegated after an 18th place result. In 2008–09 they focused on the re-promotion, but although they lost under their new coach Peter Neururer only two times und were unbeaten in 12 matches since his taking office they missed the promotion. The next season they focused on the promotion again, but after a 0–5 disgrace in the DFB-Pokal against Augsburg, Peter Neururer got sacked. On 2 November 2009, Milan Šašić was presented as new coach. The Croat became the third foreign coach in the club history. They finished the season like the previous one as 6th.

In 2010–11 MSV Duisburg reached surprisingly their 4th DFB-Pokal Final after 1966, 1975 and 1998 where they played against FC Schalke 04. The game was lopsided, with MSV Duisburg conceding early on. The game finished 5–0 in favor of Schalke.

Recent seasons

Year	Division	Position
1999–2000	1. Bundesliga (I)	18th (relegated)
2000–01	2. Bundesliga (II)	11th
2001–02	2. Bundesliga	11th
2002–03	2. Bundesliga	8th
2003–04	2. Bundesliga	7th
2004–05	2. Bundesliga	2nd (promoted)
2005–06	1. Bundesliga (I)	18th (relegated)
2006–07	2. Bundesliga (II)	3rd (promoted)
2007–08	1. Bundesliga (I)	18th (relegated)
2008–09	2. Bundesliga (II)	6th
2009–10	2. Bundesliga	6th
2010–11	2. Bundesliga	8th

Honours

Championship

• German championship runners-up: 1964

Cup

• German Cup finalists: 1966, 1975, 1998, 2011

Tournaments

• Intertoto Cup winners: 1974, 1977, 1978

Amateur Honours

• German amateur championship winners: 1987

Youth teams honours

• German Under 19 champions: 1972, 1977, 1978

Current squad

For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers summer 2010 and List of German football transfers winter 2010–11.

As of 1 July 2011 Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Roland Müller 2 MF Vasileios Pliatsikas (on loan from Schalke 04) 3 DF Markus Bollmann 4 DF Džemal Berberović 6 MF Benjamin Kern 7 MF Daniel Brosinski 8 FW Maurice Exslager 9 FW Valeri Domovchiyski 10 MF Jürgen Gjasula 11 FW Srđan Baljak (captain) 13 DF Sergei Karimov 14 DF Bruno Soares 15 MF Goran Šukalo 17 MF Kevin Wolze

No. Position Player 19 MF Zvonko Pamić (on loan from Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 20 MF Ivica Grlić 21 DF André Hoffmann 22 MF János Lázok 23 GK Florian Fromlowitz 25 DF Branimir Bajić (vice captain) 26 MF Tanju Öztürk 27 FW Emil Jula 28 MF Daniel Beichler (on loan from Hertha BSC) 29 MF Burakcan Kunt 30 GK Marcel Lenz 32 FW Flamur Kastrati 33 MF Shao Jiayi

MSV Duisburg II squad

As of 17 September 2011 (2011 -09-17)^[update]

Manager: Đurađ Vasić

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Marcel Lenz 2 DF Samed Basol 3 DF Damir Kurtović 4 DF Burak Akarca 5 DF Daniel Reiche 5 MF Marko Martinović 6 DF Tanju Öztürk 7 FW Bünyamin Aksoy 8 MF Ekin Yolasan 9 MF Göksel Durmus 10 FW Haluk Türkeri

No. Position Player 11 FW Mike Hibbeln 12 DF Stephan Hennen 13 MF Dominik Reinert 14 DF Dustin Bomheuer 15 DF Henning Schöne 16 DF Tobias Portmann 17 MF André Dej 18 DF Michael Laletin 19 FW Maik Goralski 22 GK Patrick Knieps

Manager history

Hermann Lindemann (1955–1957) Rudi Gutendorf (1963–1965) Wilhelm Schmidt (1965) Hermann Eppenhoff (1965–1967) Gyula Lóránt (1967–1968) Robert Gebhardt (1968–1970) Rudolf Fassnacht (1970–1973) Willibert Kremer (1973–1976) Rolf Schafstall (1976) Otto Knefler (1976–1977) Carl-Heinz Rühl (1977–1978) Rolf Schafstall (1978–1979) Heinz Höher (1979–1980) Friedhelm Wenzlaff (1980–1981)

Kuno Klötzer (1981–1982) Siegfried Melzig (1982–1983) Luis Zacharias (1983–1985) Günter Preuß (1985) Helmut Witte (1985–1986) Friedhelm Vos (1986) Detlef Pirsig (1986–1989) Willibert Kremer (1989–1992) Uwe Reinders (1992–1993) Ewald Lienen (1993–1994) Hans Bongartz (1994–1996) Friedhelm Funkel (1996–2000) Josef Eichkorn (2000)

Wolfgang Frank (2000) Josef Eichkorn (2000–2001) Pierre Littbarski (2001–2002) Bernard Dietz (2002–2003, caretaker) Norbert Meier (2003–2005) Heiko Scholz (2005, caretaker) Jürgen Kohler (2005–2006) Rudolf Bommer (2006–2008) Heiko Scholz (2008, caretaker) Peter Neururer (2008–2009) Uwe Speidel (2009, caretaker) Milan Šašić (2009–2011) Oliver Reck (2011–present, caretaker)

In popular culture

Tatort, a popular crime series in Germany, features an episode entitled Zweierlei Blut (Blood of Two Kinds) which deals with a murder in the MSV Duisburg hooligan scene. In one scene, Inspector Horst Schimanski is beaten to a pulp, and dragged naked into the centre circle of the Wedaustadion.

External links

• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• Duisburg statistics