Salaries revealed: these are the top earners at HSV | OneFootball

There’s a good mood at HSV these days. And despite the last-minute draw against BVB, this is only secondarily due to the sporting situation.

The real reason is the newly released annual report. Thanks to the club’s return to the Bundesliga and the financial recovery that has progressed in recent years, revenues are growing—and with them, the scope for personnel expenses.

Already in the last financial year, personnel costs rose above the 45 million euro mark for the first time in five years, reaching 46.8 million. For the coming season, those responsible expect a further increase.

The current situation is as follows: Instead of a single superstar, HSV, according to a report from the Hamburger Abendblatt, has a sextet of high earners. Leading the group is new signing Yussuf Poulsen, who reportedly earned up to seven million euros in Leipzig. At HSV, however, his salary is in a much more moderate range.

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Also among the top earners: striker Robert Glatzel, creative player Jean-Luc Dompé, as well as the English newcomers Fabio Vieira, Albert Sambi Lokonga, and Luka Vuskovic. Their base salaries are each estimated at 1.5 to 2 million euros. In some cases, generous signing bonuses are not included in this figure.

But you can also earn well off the pitch on the Elbe. Although HSV does not disclose executive board salaries, industry insiders assume that sporting director Stefan Kuntz receives a little more and CFO Eric Huwer a little less than one million euros annually. For their successful work, they received recognition and salary adjustments to the level of other traditional clubs like Stuttgart or Frankfurt. Even performance bonuses are part of the contracts.

Most of the 217 employees can only dream of such sums, but they too benefit from the sporting and financial upswing. All received at least a voluntary bonus of 1,000 euros. Around 20% of employees also received an additional bonus in the four-digit range. This is due to a bonus model called the Scorecard System. This is contractually stipulated and partly depends on how well HSV performs on and off the pitch.

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