Even Werder will be jealous: HSV fans are everywhere | OneFootball

Love for HSV knows no national borders. Matches at the Volksparkstadion are followed from just about every time zone. Current figures show just how global the club from the Elbe really is.

All in all, HSV supporters are represented in 54 countries outside Germany. This is according to a recent report by Mopo.

It makes perfect sense, really, because the northern club’s membership growth has been impressive: in September 2023, it surpassed 100,000 for the first time, and not even three years later, more than 50,000 more have joined.

HSV clearly beats Werder

HSV is one of the strongest communities in German sport – that’s how club president Henrik Köncke described it. For comparison: northern rival Werder Bremen had just under 68,000 members in July 2026, according to information from the Weser Kurier. And the trend is downward.

As the figures obtained by Mopo from HSV show, around two percent of all members come from abroad. That’s still more than 3,000 people. And they are spread all across the world.

At the top of the ranking outside Germany are Switzerland and Denmark. The summer training camp in Helsingør, Denmark, made it clear that the club’s leadership is well aware of this. In addition, HSV fans maintain a friendship with FC Copenhagen, which will soon come into play again: during the international break (4 October), the record champions will come to Hamburg for a friendly.

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There are also numerous supporters of the Rothosen in Austria, another country bordering Germany. Next come the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Great Britain, and Sweden, where membership numbers are each above 100.

HSV fans on the other side of the world

And this is where it gets really exciting: people Down Under are also showing their blue-white-black colors – seven people in Australia are HSV members.

In some countries, a single passionate fan is enough to get the nation onto the ranking. The most exotic countries on the list are probably the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, South Africa, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Russia.

There are also HSV members in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru), China, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Montenegro, Scotland, and Turkey.

So when it comes to global presence, the Hamburg club can quite confidently call itself a world club – even if, sportingly speaking, it is not currently among the world’s elite, and many of the fans mentioned in the Mopo ranking can probably only dream of visiting their “living room,” the Volksparkstadion.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.