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| Full name | Meidericher Spielverein Duisburg 02 e.V. | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Zebras | ||
| Founded | 1902 | ||
| Ground | MSV Arena | ||
| Capacity | 31,000 | ||
| Chairman | Walter Hellmich | ||
| Manager | Rudi Bommer | ||
| League | 2.Bundesliga | ||
| 2005-06 | Bundesliga, 18th (relegated) | ||
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MSV Duisburg is a German football club based in Duisburg, in the Ruhr valley of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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.
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 one undefeated season when they scored 113 goals while only giving up 12. In the early 30's, the club went into a tailspin from which they didn't really recover until the 1950's when they began once again to field decent sides. In 1951, Duisburg earned promotion to the top-flight Oberliga West, the most competitive division of German football at the time, and except for the 1954-55 season would play first division football right up to the time of the formation of the Bundesliga.
Entry to the Bundesliga
They played well 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 champion 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.
Current
As 2005-06 season draws to a close Duisburg once again finds itself relegated to the 2.Bundesliga.
Honours
Duisberg'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 club's youth side has won several national championships.
2005/06 Squad
As of March 1, 2006 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Famous players
- Michael Bella
- Bernard Dietz
- Kurt Jara
- Detlef Pirsig
- Helmut Rahn, who scored the winning goal in West Germany's 1954 World Cup victory, known as The Miracle of Bern, finished his career with Meidericher SV (1963-65).
- Rudolf Seliger
- Ronald Worm
- Klaus Wunder
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.
