Players who played for Bayer Leverkusen and Hamburg

17 players have played for both Bayer Leverkusen and Hamburg, according to Wikidata. The best known include Son Heung-min, Hakan Çalhanoğlu and Niko Kovač. 8 of them moved straight from one club to the other, including Son Heung-min. The earliest arrival at one of the two clubs was in 1982 (Wolfgang Rolff), the most recent in 2014 (Kyriákos Papadópoulos).

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The full list (17 players)

PlayerPositionNationalityBayer LeverkusenHamburg
Son Heung-minForwardSouth Korea2013–20152010–2013
Hakan ÇalhanoğluMidfielderTurkey2014–20172013–2014
Niko KovačMidfielderCroatia1996–19991999–2001
Jonathan TahDefenderGermany2015–20252013–2015
Hans-Jörg ButtGoalkeeperGermany2001–20071997–2001
Emir SpahićDefenderBosnia and Herzegovina2013–20152015–2017
Zé RobertoMidfielderBrazil1998–20022009–2011
René AdlerGoalkeeperGermany2002–2012since 2012
Tom StarkeGoalkeeperGermany1999–20062004
Josip DrmićForwardSwitzerland2014–20152016
Kyriákos PapadópoulosDefenderGreece2014–20172017–2020
Sergej BarbarezMidfielderBosnia and Herzegovina2006–20082000–2006
Sidney SamMidfielderGermany2010–20142007–2010
Wolfgang RolffMidfielderGermany1986–19891982–1986
Pierre-Michel LasoggaForwardGermany2009–20102013–2014
Stefan BeinlichMidfielderGermany1997–20002003–2006
Erik MeijerForwardNetherlands1996–19992000–2003

Players ranked from best known to least known (number of language editions of their Wikipedia page). Data from Wikidata: spotted a mistake? Let us know.

Other club pairs

With Bayer Leverkusen

Bayern Munich22Hertha BSC18Borussia Dortmund16Fortuna Düsseldorf16Mainz15Nuremberg15Eintracht Frankfurt15Borussia Mönchengladbach14

With Hamburg

Bayern Munich23Werder Bremen19Schalke 0418Nuremberg15Hertha BSC14VfB Stuttgart14Eintracht Frankfurt14Köln13