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·2 août 2025
HSV extend coaching team’s contracts with Polzin!

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Merlin Polzin led the HSV back to the Bundesliga together with his assistants. The club and the coach are now extending their cooperation.
On August 24, Hamburger SV will play its first Bundesliga game in 2,662 days at Borussia Mönchengladbach. Coach Merlin Polzin and his assistants Loic Favé and Richard Krohn have made a significant contribution to this. They enjoy the highest esteem internally, which the responsible parties have now underscored with a contract extension. However, there were no details on the term.
Instead, sports director Stefan Kuntz explained in the club's statement: "We are taking this step with full conviction, and our signal to the coaching team and the environment is clear: We want to give security and backing for the upcoming tasks." He is aware that HSV, as a promoted team, will also get into difficult situations. Nevertheless, he emphasized: "We are ready to tackle this challenge sustainably with Merlin, Loic, and Richi. Because we have proven in the preseason that we form a strong unit that finds common solutions even in setbacks."
Polzin himself, who accompanied HSV games as a fan in his youth, was very pleased with the trust of the club management: "We know firsthand what this club means to the people, and we are therefore very happy to have been strengthened once again by the responsible parties and committees in this constellation." Together with his coaching team, he is "maximally willing to establish HSV with our signature in the Bundesliga again."
This task may prove to be even more complicated than the promotion. The recent test matches – all ending in defeats – already indicated that HSV is still a long way from the required level in the Bundesliga. However, it looked similar when Polzin took over the professional team with Favé and Krohn on November 24, 2024. At that time, HSV was ranked eighth with a meager 20 points from 13 games. Half a year later, the long-awaited return to the Bundesliga followed thanks to a strong second half of the season.
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