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 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

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

Current squad

As of 21 October 2024

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 Germany Tobias Lawal 2 DF United States George Bello 3 DF Finland Tomas Galvez (on loan from Manchester City U21) 4 DF Ukraine Maksym Talowjerow 5 DF Germany Philipp Ziereis 6 MF Netherlands Melayro Bogarde 7 DF Austria René Renner 8 FW Niger Moses Usor 9 FW Croatia Marin Ljubičić 10 MF Austria Robert Zulj 14 MF Kosovo Valon Berisha 16 DF Panama Andrés Andrade 17 DF Germany Jérôme Boateng 18 MF Serbia Branko Jovičić 19 FW France Lenny Pintor 20 DF Portugal Tomás Tavares (on loan from Spartak Moscow) 21 MF Austria Ivan Ljubic

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF Montenegro Filip Stojković 23 FW Ghana Ibrahim Mustapha 25 FW France Alexis Tibidi 26 DF Croatia Hrvoje Smolčić 27 FW Austria Maximilian Entrup 28 GK Austria Jörg Siebenhandl 29 MF Austria Florian Flecker 30 MF Austria Sascha Horvath 35 MF Austria Marco Sulzner 36 GK Austria Lukas Jungwirth 38 MF Austria Armin Haider 42 DF Austria Kevin Lebersorger 43 GK Austria Clemens Steinbauer 44 FW France Adil Taoui 45 MF Turkey Enis Safin 49 FW Canada 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