MSV Duisburg
Full name	Meidericher Spielverein Duisburg 02 e.V.
Nickname(s)	Zebras
Founded	1902
Ground	MSV Arena
Capacity	31,500
Chairman	Walter Hellmich
Manager	Rudi Bommer
League	1. Bundesliga
2006-07	2. Bundesliga, 3rd (promoted)
Home colours Away colours

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History

Early years

The sports club was founded in 1902 as Meidericher SV representing that district of the city. Three years later they absorbed the club SC Viktoria Meiderich. In 1967, they took on their current name, acknowledging their role as the city's most popular and successful side. 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

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. Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ...

Entry to the Bundesliga

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 FC Koln. 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. The official Bundesliga logo. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1. ... The official Bundesliga logo. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...

Current

For the 2007-2008 season MSV Duisburg has again been promoted to the 1.Bundesliga by finishing third in the 2006-07 2. Fußball-Bundesliga, behind Karlsruher SC and Hansa Rostock. MSV defeated Rot-Weiss Essen in a dramatic last day by three goals to none, securing promotion for the fifth time in the last two decades and relegating Essen. The 2007/08 season of the Fußball-Bundesliga (German premier football league) will begin some time near the middle of August. ... The title of this article contains the character ß. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Fussball-Bundesliga. ... FC Hansa Rostock Eintracht Braunschweig FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Erzgebirge Aue MSV Duisburg Rot-Weiß Essen SC Paderborn 07 1. ... Karlsruher SC is a German football club, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. ... FC Hansa Rostock is a German football club of the Bundesliga (premier league), based in the City of Rostock. ... Rot-Weiss Essen is a German football club based in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen. ...

Honours

Duisburg's honours are limited to their second-place finish in 1963, a UEFA Cup semi-final appearance in 1977-78, three losing appearances in the German Cup final (1966, 1975 and 1998), and a title as German amateur champions in 1987-88 when they played in 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 UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams, organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... The German Cup trophy The German Cup (official German name: DFB-Pokal, after Deutscher Fußball Bund Pokal or German Football Association Cup) is an elimination football (soccer) tournament held annually. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Logo of Tasmania 1900 Berlin / Bundesliga 1965-66 Tasmania 1900 Berlin was a German football club based in the Berlin district of Neukölln. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ...

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

Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Sven Beuckert 2 DF Christian Weber 3 DF Iulian Filipescu 4 DF Björn Schlicke 5 DF Alexander Meyer 6 DF Fernando 7 MF Blagoy Georgiev 8 MF Mihai Tararache 9 FW Klemen Lavric 10 FW Mohamadou Idrissou 11 MF Christian Tiffert 13 DF Adam Bodzek 14 MF Andreas Voss 15 DF Michael Lamey 16 MF Youssef Mokhtari 17 FW Markus Daun

No. Position Player 18 FW Markus Kurth 19 FW Manasseh Ishiaku 20 MF Ivica Grlic 21 MF Markus Neumayr 22 DF Pablo Cáceres 23 FW Simon Terodde 25 FW Sascha Mölders 26 GK Marcel Herzog 27 GK Tom Starke 28 DF Necat Aygün 29 MF Tobias Willi 30 MF Maicon 31 MF Nils-Ole Book 33 DF Stefan Blank 34 FW Ailton

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Famous players

• Michael Bella
• Bernard Dietz
• Kurt Jara
• Detlef Pirsig
• Helmut Rahn
• Rudolf Seliger
• Ronald Worm
• Klaus Wunder
• Ahn Jung-Hwan

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Selected Former Coaches

• Gyula Lóránt
• Uwe Reinders
• Friedhelm Funkel
• Pierre Littbarski
• Norbert Meier
• Jürgen Kohler

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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.

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External links

• Official team site
• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• Duisburg statistics