MSV Duisburg

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MSV Duisburg is a Germany football (soccer) :Category:German football clubs based in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. Nicknamed "the Zebras" for their traditional striped jerseys, MSV Duisburg was one of the original members of the Bundesliga (football) when it was formed in 1963.

History

Early years

MSV Duisburg was founded in 1902 as Meidericher Spielverein representing the city of Meiderich, which became a district of Duisburg in 1905. In 1905 they absorbed MSV Duisburg 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, MSV Duisburg 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 MSV Duisburg 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

Current

For the Fußball-Bundesliga 2007–08 MSV Duisburg has again been promoted to the Fußball-Bundesliga by finishing third in the Second Fußball-Bundesliga 2006-07, behind Karlsruher SC and Hansa Rostock. 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.

Recent seasons

Honours

Duisburg's honours are limited to their second-place finish in 1963, a UEFA Cup semi-final appearance in 1978–79, three losing appearances in the German Cup final (1966, 1975 and 1998), and a title as German amateur champions in 1986-87 when they played in the tier III Amateur Oberliga Nordrhein. They are however, the answer to a Bundesliga trivia question: they were the victors in the most lopsided Bundesliga away win ever played when they beat sad-sacks Tasmania 1900 Berlin 0:9 in Berlin in 1966.

The club's youth side has won several national championships.

Titles

- German amateur football championship: 1987
- German Under 19 championship (football): 1972, 1977, 1978

For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers summer 2009

Out on loan

MSV Duisburg II squad

Manager: Uwe Schubert

Famous players

- Michael Bella
- Bernard Dietz
- Stefan Emmerling
- Ditmar Jakobs
- Werner Krämer
- Ewald Lienen
- Manfred Manglitz
- Detlef Pirsig
- Michael Preetz
- Helmut Rahn
- Rudolf Seliger
- Michael Tarnat
- Torsten Wohlert
- Carsten Wolters

- Ronald Worm
- Klaus Wunder
- Kurt Jara
- Peter Van Houdt
- Claudiu Niculescu
- Iulian Filipescu
- Miroslav Bičanić
- Tomislav Erceg
- Martin Frýdek
- Stig Tøfting
- Hans Sarpei
- Ahn Jung-Hwan
- Gintaras Staučė
- Abdelaziz Ahanfouf
- Razundara Tjikuzu

- Kees Bregman
- Thomas Gill (footballer)
- Tomasz Hajto
- Piotr Reiss
- Ľubomír Moravčík
- Roger Ljung
- Bachirou Salou
- Ali Bilgin
- Sercan Güvenışık
- Steven Tweed
- Blagoy Georgiev

Manager History

- Rudi Gutendorf (1963-1965)
- Wilhelm Schmidt (footballer) (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 (football manager) (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-present)

Team trivia

- 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.

1.FC Kaiserslautern, 1.FC Nürnberg, Alemannia Aachen, FC Augsburg, FSV Mainz 05, Greuther Fürth, Hansa Rostock, LR Ahlen, MSV Duisburg, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, SC Freiburg, St. Pauli, SV Wehen, TSV 1860 München, TuS Koblenz, VfL Osnabrück