RB Leipzig

RB Leipzig
Full name	RasenBallsport Leipzig e. V.
Founded	19 May 2009
Ground	Red Bull Arena; (capacity: 44.345)
Chairman	Ulrich Wolter/ Frank Zimmermann
Manager	Domenico Tedesco
League	Bundesliga

RB Leipzig (RasenBallsport Leipzig e.V.) is a German football club from Leipzig.

History

The club was founded on 19 May 2009 by the Red Bull Company. It was formed out of the SSV Markranstädt. Due to the regulations of the DFB the name Red Bull Leipzig for marketing reasons was forbidden so they were called RB (short for RasenBallsport). Also the logo was forbidden.

The company was sure that there is a great chance to form a new club, because with the Zentralstadion (now Red Bull Arena) there was a good stadium and there is no club in professional football in the area. The club is now in the Bundesliga. Like in Salzburg many fans protested against this deal because they had the fear that the fanculture will vanish and football will be only a business. So they wanted a "normal" football club.

They started in the Oberliga Nordost-Süd(5th level) and became 1st in the 2009/10 season. But the next season they failed to gain promotion to the 3. Bundesliga. So the coach was changed, the new one is the Austrian Peter Pacult. The first match under the new coach was a 3:2 win in the German Cup (1st round) versus VfL Wolfsburg from the Bundesliga.

Players

Current squad

As of 16 December 2021^[1]

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Péter Gulácsi (captain)
2	DF	Mohamed Simakan
3	DF	Angeliño
4	DF	Willi Orbán (vice-captain)
8	MF	Amadou Haidara
9	FW	Yussuf Poulsen (3rd captain)
10	MF	Emil Forsberg
13	GK	Philipp Tschauner
14	MF	Tyler Adams
16	DF	Lukas Klostermann
17	MF	Dominik Szoboszlai
18	MF	Christopher Nkunku
21	FW	Brian Brobbey
22	DF	Nordi Mukiele
23	DF	Marcel Halstenberg

No.	Position	Player
25	MF	Dani Olmo
26	MF	Ilaix Moriba
27	MF	Konrad Laimer
31	GK	Josep Martínez
32	DF	Joško Gvardiol
33	FW	André Silva
35	DF	Solomon Bonnah
37	MF	Sidney Raebiger
38	FW	Hugo Novoa
39	DF	Benjamin Henrichs
43	DF	Marcelo Saracchi
44	MF	Kevin Kampl (4th captain)
45	MF	Mehmet Ibrahimi
46	MF	Ben Klefisch
47	MF	Joscha Wosz

Players out on loan

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Yvon Mvogo (at PSV until 30 June 2022)
		GK	Tim Schreiber (at Hallescher FC until 30 June 2022)
		DF	Luan Cândido (at Red Bull Bragantino until 30 June 2022)
		DF	Frederik Jäkel (at Oostende until 30 June 2022)
		DF	Eric Martel (at Austria Vienna until 30 June 2022)
		MF	Caden Clark (at New York Red Bulls until 31 December 2021)
		MF	Tom Krauß (at 1. FC Nürnberg until 30 June 2022)

No.		Position	Player
		FW	Dennis Borkowski (at 1. FC Nürnberg until 30 June 2022)
		FW	Fabrice Hartmann (at SC Paderborn until 30 June 2022)
		FW	Hwang Hee-chan (at Wolverhampton Wanderers until 30 June 2022)
		FW	Ademola Lookman (at Leicester City until 30 June 2022)
		FW	Noah Ohio (at Austria Wien until 30 June 2022)
		FW	Alexander Sørloth (at Real Sociedad until 30 June 2022)

Coach history

No.	Head coach	Nationality	From	Until	Days	Notes
1	Vogel, TinoTino Vogel	Germany	1 July 2009	30 May 2010	333	^[2]
2	Oral, TomasTomas Oral	Germany	1 July 2010	30 June 2011	364	^[2]
3	Pacult, PeterPeter Pacult	Austria	1 July 2011	30 June 2012	365	^[2]
4	Zorniger, AlexanderAlexander Zorniger	Germany	1 July 2012	10 February 2015	954	^[2]
5	Beierlorzer , AchimAchim Beierlorzer	Germany	11 February 2015	30 June 2015	139	^[2]^{Note 1}
6	Rangnick, RalfRalf Rangnick	Germany	1 July 2015	30 June 2016	365	^[2]
7	Hasenhüttl, RalphRalph Hasenhüttl	Austria	1 July 2016	16 May 2018	684	^[2]^[3]
8	Rangnick, RalfRalf Rangnick	Germany	9 July 2018	30 June 2019	356	^[2]
9	Nagelsmann, JulianJulian Nagelsmann	Germany	1 July 2019	30 June 2021	730	^[2]
10	Marsch, JesseJesse Marsch	United States	1 July 2021	5 December 2021	157	^[2]
11	Beierlorzer, AchimAchim Beierlorzer	Germany	5 December 2021	9 December 2021	4	^[2]^{Note 1}
12	Tedesco, DomenicoDomenico Tedesco	Italy	9 December 2021		994