LASK

LASK Linz
Full name	Linzer Athletik Sport Klub
Founded	1908
Ground	Raiffeisen Arena, Linz; (capacity: 19 080)
Chairman	Siegmund Gruber
Manager	Thomas Sageder
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2022-23	Austrian Bundesliga, 3rd

L.A.S.K. Linz is a football club which plays in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. They are playing in the First League, the second division in Austria's league system.

History

The club was founded on 7 August 1899 as Athletiksportclub Siegfried, the football section was founded in February 1919. The first match was on 4 May 1919 against Fußballverein Wels . LASK lost 1:4. Being the most successful section of the Athletiksportclub it was decided that the name of the club should be Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub (Linzer ASK). Till the occupation by Germany in 1938 they reached many titels in the Upper Austrian league. In the 1938/39 season they were promoted to the Gauliga XVII, which was then the highest class in Austrian football. But they were relegated the same season.

After the Second World War LASK reached the title in Austrian highest class in the 1964/65 season. The LASK was the first team which came not from Vienna to do so. The same season they also won the Autrian Cup. The next decades were partly successful but also by relegetions to the second division. In 1997, due to public pressure, LASK Linz 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.

In the 2010/11 season they were relegated. 2017 they were promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga again.

Name

1908-1996 Linzer ASK
1996-present LASK Linz

European cup history

As of December 2008.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
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

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, 2016

LASK Media

Historical chart of LASK league performance