LASK Linz
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| Full name | Linzer-Athletik-Sport-Klub | ||
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| Nickname(s) |
Die Schwarz-Weißen (The Black-Whites), Die Laskler | ||
| Founded | 7 August 1908 | ||
| Ground | Linzer Stadion | ||
| Capacity | 18,000 | ||
| Chairman | Wolf Dieter Holzhey | ||
| Manager | Karl Daxbacher | ||
| League | First League | ||
| 2013–14 | Regionalliga Central, 1st (promoted) | ||
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LASK Linz is an Austrian association football club, from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club hailing from that region, and currently plays in the Austrian Football First League, the second tier of Austrian football. The club's colours are black and white. The women's football section, LASK Ladies, currently plays in the second highest division of Austrian women's football.
LASK Linz was founded on 7 August 1908. In 1965, the club became the first team outside of Vienna to win the Austrian football championship. This is also its only championship to date.
History
In the winter of 1908, Albert Siems, head of the royal post-office garage at Linz, who had already been a member of an 1899-founded club for heavy athletics, Linzer Athletik Sportklub Siegfried, decided to establish a football club. At that time, the side already played in the black-and-white lengthwise-touched shirts.
The club's first name was Linzer Sportclub. During an extraordinary general meeting on 14 September 1919, the final change of name, to Linzer Athletik Sport-Klub (short form Linzer ASK) took place, its forerunner setting the example. Nevertheless, the public denomination of the team was largely Lask. The club first appeared in top-flight competition in the Gauliga Ostmark in 1940–41, coming last and being relegated.
LASK achieved its greatest success, in winning the Austrian League in 1965. No club outside of Vienna had ever won before. Additionally, the club won the domestic cup that same year.
In 1985-86's UEFA Cup, the side managed to beat European giants Internazionale Milan at home (1–0), on 23 October 1985, eventually bowing out 4–1 on aggregate (second round).
In 1995, the official name became LASK Linz, as officials wanted to bring out the city's name as a complement to the LASK designation, which had constituted itself as a brand name. It is one of the few clubs of the country's higher divisions that, since coming in existence, never exhibited a sponsor in the official clubname.
In 1997, due to public pressure, LASK Linz officially merged with city rivals FC Linz (formerly known as SK VOEST Linz) which, however, resulted in the cancellation of the latter. Club name, colors, chairmen and members remained the same.
Honours
- Austrian League: 1964–65
- Austrian Cup: 1965, runner-up 1963, 1967, 1970, 1999
- Austrian Amateur Championship: 1931
- Upper-Austrian Championship: 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1950
- Upper-Austrian Cup: 1929, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1946
- Upper-Austrian Championship (reserves): 2001, 2003
- Second Division: 1958, 1979, 1994, 2007
Current squad
- As of 3 March, 2015.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Manager history
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Otto Barić (1972–1974) -
Adolf Blutsch (1979–1984) - Dietmar Constantini (1993)
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Per Brogeland (1997–1998) - Adam Kensy (1998, caretaker)
- Norbert Barisits (2003–2004)
- Werner Gregoritsch (2004–2006)
- Karl Daxbacher (2006–2008)
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Andrej Panadić (2008) - Klaus Lindenberger (2008–2009)
- Hans Krankl (2009)
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Matthias Hamann (2009–2010) - Helmut Kraft (2010)
- Georg Zellhofer (2010–)
European cup history
As of December 2008.
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 1963/64 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 | |
Dinamo Zagreb | 1–0 | 0–1, 1–1 AET in 3rd game | 1–1 (Zagreb progressed after a coin toss) |
| 1965/66 | UEFA Champions League | 1 |  |
Gornik Zabrze | 1–3 | 1–2 | 2–5 |
| 1969/70 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1 |  |
Sporting Lisbon | 2–2 | 0–4 | 2–6 |
| 1977/78 | UEFA Cup | 1 |  |
Újpest FC | 3–2 | 0–7 | 3–9 |
| 1980/81 | UEFA Cup | 1 |  |
Radnicki Nis | 1–2 | 1–4 | 2–6 |
| 1984/85 | UEFA Cup | 1 |  |
Östers IF | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| 2 |  |
Dundee United | 1–2 | 1–5 | 2–7 | ||
| 1985/86 | UEFA Cup | 1 |  |
Banik Ostrava | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| 2 |  |
Inter | 1–0 | 0–4 | 1–4 | ||
| 1986/87 | UEFA Cup | 1 | |
Widzew Lodz | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 |
| 1987/88 | UEFA Cup | 1 |  |
FC Utrecht | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 |
| 1995 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | Group 6, 1st game | |
Partick Thistle | 2–2 | ||
| Group 6, 2nd game | |
NK Zagreb | 0–0 | ||||
| Group 6, 3rd game |  |
Keflavík | 2–1 | ||||
| Group 6, 4th game |  |
FC Metz | 0–1 | ||||
| 1996 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | Group 2, 1st game | |
Djurgårdens IF | 2–0 | ||
| Group 2, 2nd game |  |
B68 Toftir | 4–0 | ||||
| Group 2, 3rd game |  |
Apollon Limassol | 2–0 | ||||
| Group 2, 4th game | |
Werder Bremen | 3–1 | ||||
| Semifinals |  |
Rotor Volgograd | 2–2 | 0–5 | 2–7 | ||
| 1999/00 | UEFA Cup | 1 |  |
Steaua Bucuresti | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–5 |
| 2000 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 1R |  |
Hapoel Petah-Tikva | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 |
| 2R | |
FC Marila Pribram | 1–1 | 2–3 | 3–4 | ||
External links
- Official website (German)
- UEFA.com club profile
- EUFO.de club profile
- Weltfussball.de club profile (German)
- Squad at FootballSquads
- NationalFootballTeams data
- LASK Linz at Football-Lineups.com
- Inofficial weblog about LASK Linz (German)
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