Hamburg last won a trophy on 28 July 2003
2003-04 German League Cup final (DFL-Ligapokal)
Bruchwegstadion, Mainz (att: 16,700)
28 July 2003
Ref: Jürgen Aust
Hamburger SV - Borussia Dortmund 4-2
1-0 Hoogma (3)
2-0 Cardoso (12)
3-0 Takahara (18)
3-1 Amoroso (24 pen)
3-2 Koller (61)
4-2 Beinlich (68)
Hamburg: Martin Pieckenhagen - Lars Jacobsen, Nico Jan Hoogma, Tomás Ujfalusi, Christian Rahn - Marcel Maltritz, Stefan Beinlich (Björn Schlicke 89) - Rodolfo Cardoso (Raphaël Wicky 59) - Sergej Barbarez (Stephan Kling 77), Mehdi Mahdavikia, Naohiro Takahara
Subs not used: S. Wächter, B. Reinhardt, F. Bröcker, Eren Sen
Manager: Kurt Jara
Dortmund: R. Weidenfeller - S. Reuter (O. Addo 70), C. Wörns, A. Madouni, Dedê - L. Ricken (G. Reina 66), Guy Demel (D. Odonkor 81), S. Kehl, Tomás Rosicky - J. Koller, M. Amoroso
Subs not used: M. Kleinsteiber, N. Jensen, Leandro, Sahr Senesie
Manager: Matthias Sammer
Yellow cards: Hoogma, Rahn, Maltritz - Dedê, Demel, Wörns
Red cards: Addo (90), Kehl (90)
Bruchwegstadion, Mainz (att: 16,700)
28 July 2003
Ref: Jürgen Aust
Hamburger SV - Borussia Dortmund 4-2
1-0 Hoogma (3)
2-0 Cardoso (12)
3-0 Takahara (18)
3-1 Amoroso (24 pen)
3-2 Koller (61)
4-2 Beinlich (68)
Hamburg: Martin Pieckenhagen - Lars Jacobsen, Nico Jan Hoogma, Tomás Ujfalusi, Christian Rahn - Marcel Maltritz, Stefan Beinlich (Björn Schlicke 89) - Rodolfo Cardoso (Raphaël Wicky 59) - Sergej Barbarez (Stephan Kling 77), Mehdi Mahdavikia, Naohiro Takahara
Subs not used: S. Wächter, B. Reinhardt, F. Bröcker, Eren Sen
Manager: Kurt Jara
Dortmund: R. Weidenfeller - S. Reuter (O. Addo 70), C. Wörns, A. Madouni, Dedê - L. Ricken (G. Reina 66), Guy Demel (D. Odonkor 81), S. Kehl, Tomás Rosicky - J. Koller, M. Amoroso
Subs not used: M. Kleinsteiber, N. Jensen, Leandro, Sahr Senesie
Manager: Matthias Sammer
Yellow cards: Hoogma, Rahn, Maltritz - Dedê, Demel, Wörns
Red cards: Addo (90), Kehl (90)
- When Hamburg last won a trophy Gerhard Schröder was German Chancellor and George W. Bush was the US President.
- The 2003-04 German League Cup was Hamburg's first trophy in 16 years. The League Cup was abolished in 2008.
- When Hamburg last won a trophy, Danish hip-hop group Outlandish topped Germany's official singles chart with the song Aicha.
- Hamburg was the only German team that played in every season of the Bundesliga since its foundation in 1963 until 2018. Since 2018-19 Hamburg is playing in the 2. Bundesliga.
- Current Hamburg manager Steffen Baumgart is the 20th manager to follow 2003 League Cup winner Kurt Jara.
- When Hamburg last won a trophy, current German chancellor Olaf Scholz was 44 (Angela Merkel was 49; she was then the leader of the opposition and CDU's first female leader in the party's history).
- In the 37 years after winning the European Cup and Bundesliga double (1982-83), Hamburg only managed to win two trophies: the 1986-87 German Cup and this 2003-04 League Cup.