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Hamburg, who play a Europa League semi-final against Fulham on Thursday, have sacked coach Bruno Labbadia after the team were handed a 5-1 Bundesliga drubbing by Hoffenheim on the weekend.

Labbadia, 43, joined Hamburg last summer from Bayer Leverkusen, becoming the sixth coach in six years and impressing in the first half of the season before seeing the team fall away.

The defeat against Hoffenheim was Hamburg's eighth of the season and sixth since January.

The club, sitting seventh in the Bundesliga on 48 points, has now slipped out of reckoning for even qualifying for the Europa League next season -- apart from if it wins this season's edition.

In the first leg of the semi-final at home last week, Hamburg were held to a 0-0 draw with English Premiership club Fulham.