FC Sachsen Leipzig

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Sachsen Leipzig
Full name	Fussball-Club Sachsen Leipzig 1990 e.V.
Founded	1 August 1990
Ground	Zentralstadion (Capacity 44,193)
Chairman	Jens Ellinger
Manager	Hans-Jörg Leitzke
League	NOFV-Oberliga Süd
2006-07	NOFV-Oberliga Süd, 4th
Home colours 　 Away colours

FC Sachsen Leipzig is a German football club playing in Leipzig, Saxony.

The roots of the club go back to 1899 and the founding of Britannia Leipzig. A merger in 1919 with FC Hertha 05 Leipzig created Leipziger Sportverein 1899. Another predecessor side, SV Tura Leipzig, was formed in 1932 and just six years later in 1938 fused with Leipziger to create Tura 1899 Leipzig.

German football was re-organized in 1933 under the Third Reich into sixteen premier divisions. Tura 32 had been competing in the top flight Gauliga Sachsen since 1936 and the newly combined side continued in the top flight as SV Tura 1899. The team escaped relegation in 1939 only because of the restructuring of the Gauliga Sachsen into two divisions. However, by 1942 the club's continued lacklustre performance saw them in last place and relegated from the top flight. They earned a return in 1943, but World War II made play untenable and the Gauliga Sachsen broke up into a number of small local city-based leagues. Tura merged with SpVgg Leipzig to briefly form the wartime side KSG Tura / SpVgg Leizig.

Logos of Sachsen's earliest predecessors Britannia, Tura 32, and Tura 99.

Following the war a number of new sports and football clubs were formed, often built around the cores of pre-war clubs: SG Leipzig-Leutzsch was the closest descendant of the old Tura side. In March 1949, Leutzsch, SG Lindenau-Hafen, SG Lindenau-Aue, SG Leipzig-Mitte, and SG Böhlitz-Ehrenberg were united to form ZSG Industrie Leipzig. In August the next year, the club was re-named BSG Chemie Leipzig.

Chemie was dissolved in September 1954 when its players were assigned to Lokomotive Leipzig. In 1963, East German football was re-organized with a view towards fostering the development of talent for the country's national side. This time Lok was disassembled to help re-create the club BSG Chemie Leipzig. At the end of May 1990, the club was re-named FC Grün-Weiß Leipzig and in quick succession merged with FSV Olefine Böhlen, forming the current club in August that year.

The club competes in the fourth tier NOFV-Oberliga Süd and plays its home matches at the Zentralstadion in Leipzig, which is one of twelve 2006 FIFA World Cup venues. The stadium is the only World Cup venue in the former East Germany.

[edit] Honors

• East German Champions: 1951, 1964
• East German Cup Winners: 1957, 1966
• Sachsenpokal: 1993, 1994, 1995, 2005

[edit] External links

• Official team site
• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer