Home shirt as worn when HSV had a fight on to avoid relegation and maintain their 50 year stay in the Bundesliga, they again finished 16th in table and faced a relegation play-off. Having scraped through on away goals the previous year this time they left it until the final minutes of the second leg with Karlsruhe to score a dramatic equaliser sending the tie to extra-time. Nicolai Müller then bagged a 115th winner to secure top flight football for the club