Hamburg hope Jol effect has not worn off

Yet to taste defeat against either Manchester City FC or their manager Mark Hughes since his days as a Premier League coach, Hamburger SV's Martin Jol will look to continue his excellent run in the sides' UEFA Cup quarter-final opener.

1) Match background

Previous meetings: none

Hamburg's record against English clubs: P10 W3 D2 L5
Hamburg's record at home against English clubs: P5 W3 D1 L1
City's record against German clubs: P5 W2 D1 L2
City's record away against German clubs: P3 W1 D0 L2

• Two of Hamburg's most painful European defeats have come against English sides. The 6-0 loss at Liverpool FC in the second leg of the 1977 UEFA Super Cup was their heaviest European defeat to date, while Nottingham Forest FC denied them in the 1979/80 European Champion Clubs' Cup final with a 1-0 win at the Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid.

• City overcame FC Schalke 04 in the semi-finals en route to winning their only European trophy to date – the 1969/70 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. They beat Górnik Zabrze 2-1 in the final at Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion.

• City have already faced German opponents once this campaign. Having lost their previous two competitive games on German soil, they beat Schalke 2-0 in Gelsenkirchen in this season's UEFA Cup group stage.

• City lost 4-2 on aggregate against VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1978/79 in their only previous UEFA Cup quarter-final appearance.

• Hamburg's Dutch coach Jol, once a midfielder with English sides Coventry City FC and West Bromwich Albion FC, knows City well from his time in charge of Premier League rivals Tottenham Hotspur FC. He coached Spurs in six league games against City and won all of them, home and away.

• Jol also coached Tottenham in four Premier League games against City manager Hughes while the latter was at the helm of Blackburn Rovers FC. Spurs won two of these matches, with the other two ending 0-0.

• However, Jol has lost all three of his European games against English clubs – one as a player and two as a coach. On the losing side during his playing days when ADO Den Haag went down 3-1 to West Ham United FC in the 1975/76 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, his RKC Waalwijk charges were beaten 2-0 away and 1-0 at home by Bradford City AFC in the 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup.

• Jol and Hughes are both former FC Bayern München players. Jol represented the Bavarian giants in the 1978/79 season while Hughes was in Munich from 1986 to 1988.

• Hughes was only involved in one tie against a German side during his playing career, when FC Barcelona met KFC Uerdingen 05 in the 1986/87 UEFA Cup. The Catalan outfit won 2-0 at home and 2-0 in Germany, with the Welshman among the scorers.

• His only previous meetings with a German side as a coach came with Blackburn in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup Round of 32. Rovers went out against Bayer 04 Leverkusen after losing 3-2 in Germany and drawing 0-0 at home.

• Belgian defender Vincent Kompany knows Hamburg well, having spent three seasons at the club prior to last summer's move to the City of Manchester Stadium. Dutch midfielder Nigel de Jong, for his part, left Hamburg for City during the winter transfer window but is ineligible to play for his new side in the UEFA Cup.

• Hamburg's Thimothée Atouba (Tottenham 2004-05) and Guy Demel (Arsenal FC 2000-01) also have experience of English football, though the latter never played a Premier League game. Atouba was on the winning side in both his games against City.

• City's Berti Glauber (1. FC Nürnberg 2005-08) and Martin Petrov (VfL Wolfsburg 2001-05) have both played in Germany.

• City forward Benjani Mwaruwari and Hamburg striker Mladen Petrić were team-mates at Zurich-based Grasshopper-Club in the 2001/02 season. Petrić and City midfielder Felipe Caicedo won the Swiss Cup together at FC Basel 1893 in the 2006/07 season.

• Hamburg, fourth in the Bundesliga in 2007/08, topped UEFA Cup Group F and beat NEC Nijmegen comfortably in the Round of 32, winning 3-0 in the Netherlands and 1-0 at home. They then ousted Galatasaray AŞ to reach the quarter-finals, drawing 1-1 at home and winning 3-2 in Istanbul.

• City qualified for the UEFA Cup through the UEFA Fair Play system and reached the Round of 32 as Group A winners. They beat FC København to reach the Round of 16, drawing 2-2 in Copenhagen and winning 2-1 at home, but needed a penalty shoot-out to overcome Aalborg BK in the next round after trading 2-0 home wins, eventually prevailing 4-3 on spot-kicks in Denmark.

• The second leg will be played at the City of Manchester Stadium on 16 April. The winners of this tie will meet either Werder Bremen or Udinese Calcio in the semi-finals on 30 April and 7 May, playing the second leg at home. The victors of that semi-final will be the nominal away side in the final at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium in Istanbul on 20 May.

2) Form book
Hamburg: The German club are appearing in the UEFA Cup quarter-finals for a fifth time (W2 L2). Hamburg are unbeaten in their last six European games since a 1-0 home defeat by AFC Ajax in this season's group stage. That was their only defeat in their last 13 European home outings.

Last five European games: WWWDW
Last five European home games: DLWWD
Top scorer (Europe): Ivica Olić (7)

Last five domestic games: LLWWW
Last five domestic home games: WWLWW
Top scorer (Bundesliga): Mladen Petrić (10)

City: This is City's 15th UEFA Cup game of the season and they are the only side left in the competition to have competed in the qualifying phase. Yet they have not won on their last three UEFA Cup away days, and this after emerging victorious in their first four European away games this campaign.

Last five European games: LDWWL
Last five European away games: WWLDL
Top scorer (Europe): Shaun Wright-Phillips (3)

Last five domestic games: LWLWL
Last five domestic away games: LDLLL
Top scorer (Premier League): Robinho (11)

Disciplinary information:
Hamburg: Jerome Boateng is suspended. José Paolo Guerrero and Frank Rost are within a caution of a one-match lay-off.

City: Elano Blumer, Vincent Kompany, Micah Richards and Pablo Zabaleta are within a booking of one-match bans.

3) Who are...

Hamburg

Honours
• European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1982/83
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1976/77
• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2005, 2007
• Domestic honours: 6 German titles, 3 German Cups

Trivia
• Hamburg have played in the highest tier of German football since their foundation in 1919, the only team to have done so. They are also the only club to have been involved in every Bundesliga season to date.

• Iconic Hamburg striker Uwe Seeler was Germany's first Player of the Year in 1960. He scored 404 goals in 476 league games for the club between 1953 and 1972.

• From 16 January 1982 to 29 January 1983, Hamburg went unbeaten for 36 league games – a Bundesliga record which has yet to be broken.

City

Honours
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1969/70
• Domestic honours: 2 English titles, 4 FA Cups

Trivia
• City were founded in 1880 as St Marks (West Gorton), and were later known as Ardwick AFC before adopting their current name in 1894.

• The club are famous for their pale blue home shirts, but adopted black-and-red striped away kits in a nod to AC Milan at the suggestion of future manager Malcolm Allison.

• City fans' keynote song is the mournful ballad Blue Moon. The wistful lyrics are generally regarded as having special significance for a club used to dramatic turns of fortune.