LASK

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.

LASK Linz
Full nameLinzer Athletik Sport Klub
Founded1908
GroundRaiffeisen Arena, Linz
(capacity: 19 080)
ChairmanSiegmund Gruber
ManagerThomas Sageder
LeagueAustrian Bundesliga
2022-23Austrian Bundesliga, 3rd

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

Coaching staff

Position Name Date of birth Country with LASK since Last team
Head coach Markus Schopp 22.02.1974   Austria 09/2024 TSV Hartberg
Assistance Maximilian Ritscher 11.01.1994   Austria 01/2022 FC Juniors OÖ
Assistance Danijel Zenkovic 31.03.1987   Austria 07/2024 RB Leipzig U-19
Goalkeeper coach Philip Großalber 12.09.1989   Austria 07/2019 SK Vorwärts Steyr

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Current squad

As of 21 October 2024[2]
No. Position Player
1   GK Tobias Lawal
2   DF George Bello
3   DF Tomas Galvez (on loan from Manchester City U21)
4   DF Maksym Talowjerow
5   DF Philipp Ziereis
6   MF Melayro Bogarde
7   DF René Renner
8   FW Moses Usor
9   FW Marin Ljubičić
10   MF Robert Zulj
14   MF Valon Berisha
16   DF Andrés Andrade
17   DF Jérôme Boateng
18   MF Branko Jovičić
19   FW Lenny Pintor
20   DF Tomás Tavares (on loan from Spartak Moscow)
21   MF Ivan Ljubic
No. Position Player
22   DF Filip Stojković
23   FW Ibrahim Mustapha
25   FW Alexis Tibidi
26   DF Hrvoje Smolčić
27   FW Maximilian Entrup
28   GK Jörg Siebenhandl
29   MF Florian Flecker
30   MF Sascha Horvath
35   MF Marco Sulzner
36   GK Lukas Jungwirth
38   MF Armin Haider
42   DF Kevin Lebersorger
43   GK Clemens Steinbauer
44   FW Adil Taoui
45   MF Enis Safin
49   FW Oumar Diallo

European cup history

As of December 2008.

Season Competition Round Country 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

References

  1. LASK: Kader Profis
  2. "Team". LASK. Retrieved 21 October 2024.