LASK

LASK
Full name	Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub
Nickname(s)	Die Schwarz-Weißen; (The Black-Whites),; Die Laskler
Founded	7 August 1908 as Athletiksportklub Siegfried
Ground	Raiffeisen Arena
Capacity	19,080
Owner	LASK GmbH
President	Siegmund Gruber
Head coach	Thomas Sageder
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2022–23	Austrian Bundesliga, 3rd of 12
Website	Club website

Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as Linzer ASK (German pronunciation: [lask lɪnts] ^ⓘ) or simply LASK, is an Austrian professional football club based in Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, the top tier of Austrian football. The club's colours are black and white. The women's team plays in the second highest division of Austrian women's football.

LASK was founded on 7 August 1908. In 1965, the club became the first team outside Vienna to win the Austrian football championship. This is also its only championship to date. The club currently plays its home games at the Raiffeisen Arena in Linz.

History

Historical chart of LASK league performance

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 Vienna had ever won before. Additionally, the club won the domestic cup that same year.

In 1985–86's UEFA Cup, the side 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 club name.

In 1996, Werder Bremen was beaten away in the UI Cup.

In 1997, due to public pressure, LASK Linz officially merged with city rivals FC Linz (formerly known as SK VOEST Linz). The club name, colours, chairmen and members remained the same.

At the end of the 90s the club had great ambitions. However, the bank of the president slipped into insolvency and therefore the club also faced big financial problems. The president fled to the Côte d'Azur with a lot of cash and the club was on the verge of bankruptcy with several large debts. The club sold its training facilities and the best players. The result was a relegation to the Second Division (2. Liga) but also financial consolidation.

In 2007, after a long time in the second division, they were promoted to the highest division again. They were title contenders until ten rounds before the end, but, due to a dispute about the extension of the coach's contract, they only finished 5th.

Relegation to the 3. Liga in 2012 was accompanied by imminent bankruptcy. The club was taken over by a consortium of local entrepreneurs called "Friends of LASK" in December 2013. By this time the club was on the verge of being shut down. The players received no salary. They could not afford the city stadium, so they moved to a stadium 50 km away. It was only because of the tremendous cohesion of the coach and the team that the club was able to keep the championship going at that time.

After promotion to the 2. Liga, which was celebrated in front of 13,000 fans in the Linzer Stadion, the club was promoted to the highest division again in the third year after the takeover. During this time the coach Oliver Glasner built up a new team with Vice President Jürgen Werner with an unmistakable style of play.

In 2016, the club moved to Pasching after disagreements with the city council. In 2018, the club returned to the European competitions, but they were eliminated in qualifying for the Europa league after a 2–1 win in the second leg due to the away goals rule against Beşiktaş. In the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, LASK reached the round of 16, where they were eliminated by Manchester United.[1]

They are due to return to a new stadium built at the site of the Linzer Stadion in 2023.

LASK officially opened new stadium on 24 February 2023 against SC Austria Lustenau in Raiffeisen Arena.

Logos

Logo of the Linz Sports Club (LSK) 1908 - 1919 on the jerseys.
Old logo until 2017
Old logo 2017 - 2023
New Logo since May 2023

In 2017, the club removed the "Linz" part of their name and returned it to LASK. The merger with FC Linz has long fallen apart and the club have now removed "Linz" from the name.[2][3]

Players

Current squad

As of 17 August 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	AUT	Tobias Lawal
2	DF	USA	George Bello
4	DF	UKR	Maksym Talovyerov (on loan from Slavia Prague)
5	DF	GER	Philipp Ziereis
6	DF	AUT	Philipp Wiesinger
7	MF	AUT	Rene Renner
8	MF	AUT	Peter Michorl
9	FW	CRO	Marin Ljubičić
10	MF	AUT	Robert Žulj
11	FW	SEN	Moussa Koné
14	MF	AUT	Husein Balić
15	FW	AUT	Tobias Anselm
16	DF	PAN	Andrés Andrade
17	FW	NGA	Moses Usor (on loan from Slavia Prague)
18	MF	SRB	Branko Jovičić
19	FW	FRA	Lenny Pintor


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	MF	AUT	Ivan Ljubic
22	DF	MNE	Filip Stojković
23	FW	GHA	Ibrahim Mustapha
24	FW	AUT	Elias Havel
25	DF	GER	Sanoussy Ba (on loan from RB Leipzig)
26	MF	CZE	Filip Twardzik
27	MF	AUT	Thomas Goiginger
28	GK	AUT	Jörg Siebenhandl
29	FW	AUT	Florian Flecker
30	MF	AUT	Sascha Horvath
31	DF	GUF	Yannis Letard
33	DF	AUT	Felix Luckeneder
37	GK	AUT	Lukas Jungwirth
44	FW	FRA	Adil Taoui
55	MF	GAM	Ebrima Darboe (on loan from Roma)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	AUT	Marco Sulzner (at Amstetten until 30 June 2024)

Club Officials

Position	Staff
President	Siegmund Gruber
Vice Presidents	Christoph Königslehner Barbara Niedermayr
Chief Financial Officer	Hans Jürgen Jandrasits
Sporting Director	Radovan Vujanović
Head Coach	Thomas Sageder
Assistant Head Coach	Maximilian Ritscher
First-Team Coach	Manfred Nastl
Goalkeeper Coach	Philip Großalber
Athletic Coach	Jan Kollmann
Video Analyst	Daniel Rozsa
Sports Coordinator	Dino Buric
Senior Team Doctor	Mag. Dr. Rainer Hochgatterer
Team Doctor	Dr. David Haslhofer Dr. Matthias Kirchmayr
Physiotherapist	Ivan Porobija Julia Berger Elisabeth Kasbauer
Masseur	Michael Spreitzer Vernes Sijak
Head of Physical Condition and Rehabilitation	Divan Augustyn
Kitman	Michael Foissner
Busdrive	Gerhard Gruber
Team Manager	Thomas Gebauer

Coach history

As of 10 June 2023[4]

Georg Braun (1946–1952)
Walter Alt (1950–1953)
Ernst Sabeditsch (1953–1955)
Josef Epp (1958–1960)
Pál Csernai (1960–1962)
Karl Schlechta (1962–1964)
František Bufka (1965–1968)
Vojtech Skyva (1969–1970)
Wilhelm Kment (1970–1972)
Otto Barić (1972–1974)
Felix Latzke (1974–1976)
Wilhelm Huberts (1976–1978)
Wolfgang Gayer (1978)
Laszlo Simko (1978)
Adolf Blutsch (1978–1983)
Johann Kondert (1983–1987)
Adolf Blutsch (1987)
Ernst Hložek (1987–1988)
Ernst Knorrek (1988)
Lothar Buchmann (1989)
Adam Kensy (1989)
Aleksander Mandziara (1989–1990)
Erwin Spiegel (1990)
Adolf Blutsch (1990)
Ernst Weber (1990)
Erwin Spiegel (1990–91)
Helmut Senekowitsch (1991–1993)
Dietmar Constantini (1993)
Walter Skocik (1993–1995)
Günter Kronsteiner (1995–1996)
Max Hagmayr (1996)
Friedel Rausch (1996–1997)
Per Brogeland (1997–1998)
Adam Kensy (1998, caretaker)
Otto Barić (1998–1999)
Marinko Koljanin (1999–2000)
Johann Kondert (2000–2001)
František Cipro (2001)
Johann Kondert (2001)
Dieter Mirnegg (2001–2002)
Norbert Barisits (2003–2004)
Klaus Lindenberger (2004)
Werner Gregoritsch (2004–2006)
Karl Daxbacher (2006–2008)
Andrej Panadić (2008)
Klaus Lindenberger (2008–2009)
Hans Krankl (2009)
Matthias Hamann (2009–2010)
Helmut Kraft (2010)
Georg Zellhofer (2010–2011)
Walter Schachner (2011–2012)
Karl Daxbacher (2012–2015)
Martin Hiden (2015)
Alfred Olzinger (2015)
Oliver Glasner (2015–2019)
Valérien Ismaël (2019–2020)
Dominik Thalhammer (2020–2021)
Andreas Wieland (2021–2022)
Dietmar Kühbauer (2022–2023)
Thomas Sageder (2023–present)

Honours

League

Austrian League[5]

Winners (1): 1964–65
Runners-up: 1961–62, 2018–19

Austrian Second Division

Winners (5): 1957–58, 1978–79, 1993–94, 2006–07, 2016–17

Cups

Austrian Cup

Winners (1): 1964–65
Runners-up: 1962–63, 1966–67, 1969–70, 1998–99, 2020–21

European competition history

As of match played 31 August 2023

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1963–64	European Cup Winners' Cup	1	Dinamo Zagreb	1–0	0–1	2–2 c (po 1–1 (a.e.t.))
1965–66	European Cup	PR	Górnik Zabrze	1–3	1–2	2–5
1969–70	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1	Sporting CP	2–2	0–4	2–6
1977–78	UEFA Cup	1	Újpest	3–2	0–7	3–9
1980–81	UEFA Cup	1	Radnički Niš	1–2	1–4	2–6
1984–85	UEFA Cup	1	Östers IF	1–0	1–0	2–0
1984–85	UEFA Cup	2	Dundee United	1–2	1–5	2–7
1985–86	UEFA Cup	1	Baník Ostrava	2–0	1–0	3–0
1985–86	UEFA Cup	2	Inter Milan	1–0	0–4	1–4
1986–87	UEFA Cup	1	Widzew Łódź	1–1	0–1	1–2
1987–88	UEFA Cup	1	Utrecht	0–0	0–2	0–2
1995	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 6	Partick Thistle	2–2	—	2nd
			NK Zagreb	—	0–0
			Keflavík	2–1	—
			Metz	—	0–1
1996	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 2	Djurgårdens IF	2–0	—	1st
			B68 Toftir	—	4–0
			Apollon Limassol	2–0	—
			Werder Bremen	—	3–1
		Semi-finals	Rotor Volgograd	2–2	0–5	2–7
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	1	Steaua București	1–3	0–2	1–5
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Hapoel Petah-Tikva	3–0	1–1	4–1
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2R	FC Marila Pribram	1–1	2–3	3–4
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	2QR	Lillestrøm	4–0	2–1	6–1
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	3QR	Beşiktaş	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
2019–20	UEFA Champions League	3QR	Basel	3–1	2–1	5–2
	UEFA Champions League	PO	Club Brugge	0–1	1–2	1–3
	UEFA Europa League	Group D	Sporting CP	3–0	1–2	1st
			PSV Eindhoven	4–1	0–0
			Rosenborg	1–0	2–1
		R32	AZ	2–0	1–1	3–1
		R16	Manchester United	0–5	1–2	1–7
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	3QR	DAC Dunajská Streda	7−0	—	—
		PO	Sporting CP	—	4−1	—
		Group J	Tottenham Hotspur	3–3	0–3	3rd
			Ludogorets Razgrad	4–3	3–1
			Antwerp	0–2	1–0
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	3QR	Vojvodina	6–1	1–0	7–1
		PO	St Johnstone	1–1	2–0	3–1
		Group A	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–1	1–0	1st
			Alashkert	2–0	3–0
			HJK	3–0	2–0
		R16	Slavia Prague	4–3	1–4	5–7
2023–24	UEFA Europa League	PO	Zrinjski Mostar	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Group E	Liverpool	1–3
			Union Saint-Gilloise
			Toulouse

References

"Man. United 2–1 LASK". UEFA. 5 August 2020. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
"Zurück in die Zukunft: Neues Wappen für den LASK". Nachrichten.at. 4 May 2017. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
"LASK bekommt neues Wappen" (in German). Skysportaustria.at. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
"LASK Linz " Manager history". worldfootball.net. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
"LASK Linz – Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news". Soccerway. 29 August 2012. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2019.

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[1] "Man. United 2–1 LASK". UEFA. 5 August 2020. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.

[2] "Zurück in die Zukunft: Neues Wappen für den LASK". Nachrichten.at. 4 May 2017. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.

[3] "LASK bekommt neues Wappen" (in German). Skysportaustria.at. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.

[4] "LASK Linz " Manager history". worldfootball.net. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2023.

[5] "LASK Linz – Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news". Soccerway. 29 August 2012. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2019.

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