HSV test matches 2026: Here is an overview of all dates, opponents and information on the HSV summer schedule including the three training camps.
HSV Friendlies & Dates | Summer timetable 2026
HSV summer schedule 2026: When does the pre-season begin?
Eintracht Frankfurt’s preparations for the new season will start on 6 and 7 July with performance diagnostics. This means that Hamburger SV’s pre-season preparations will begin during the 2026 World Cup.
Immediately afterwards, the official start of training will take place. However, this will not take place in Hamburg’s Volkspark, but in Denmark. More precisely, in Elsinore, where Merlin Polzin’s team is holding a training camp at the start of pre-season.
For the first time on the home training grounds at the Volksparkstadion, the Rothosen will train as planned on 13 July,
All HSV Summer Test Matches 2026
How many HSV friendlies will there be in the 2026 summer pre-season? On the HSV summer schedule 2026, only two test matches have been scheduled so far. Significantly fewer than can be found on the FC Bayern summer timetable or on the list of BVB test matches, for example.
The first of the HSV test matches 2026 will take place on July 18 in Vienna. The opponent in the Austrian capital is Rapid. The game starts at 19:00.
The next day, the second training camp of this summer preparation will take place. The Hamburger SV entourage will be visiting Oberlängenfeld in Austria from 19 to 25 July. It is not yet known whether there will be a test match this week.
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When is the HSV season opening 2026?
The next important date on the HSV summer timetable is at the beginning of August.
On 1 August, the official season opening of Hamburger SV will take place with the popular Volksparkfestival. The event will take place around the Volksparkstadion.
In this context, a top-class test match will also take place. Guest and opponent at the HSV season opener is FC Everton, the 13th in the table. of the past Premier League season. The game starts at 17:00.
Before that, the women’s teams of Hamburger SV and FC Everton will also play against each other at 1:30 p.m.
After that, Hamburger SV will go to a third training camp! In the first week of August, the HSV professionals in Herzogenaurach will be sworn in for the new season for several days. Last year, the HSV entourage had already met again shortly before the start of the season in the “Home Ground” of jersey sponsor adidas. This should once again prove to be a good omen.
HSV summer schedule: When is the start of the 2026 season?
When is the first competitive match date on the HSV summer schedule 2026?
The first competitive game of the new season is on the agenda for Hamburger SV in the 1st round of the DFB Cup on 24 August at 18:00 CET. The Rothosen have to play at third-division SC Verl on this day.
A week later, the Hamburg team will start in the Bundesliga – also away. The Hanseatic team have to play Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga opener (Saturday, 29 August, 20:30 CET).
