LASK

LASK
Full name	Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub
Nickname(s)	Die Schwarz-Weißen; (The Black-Whites),; Die Laskler
Founded	7 August 1908; 113 years ago as Athletiksportklub Siegfried
Ground	Waldstadion & Linzer Stadion for UEFA competitions
Capacity	6,009
Owner	LASK GmbH
President	Siegmund Gruber
Head coach	Dominik Thalhammer
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2020–21	Austrian Bundesliga, 4th
Website	Club website
Home colours	Away colours
	Current season

Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as Linzer ASK (German pronunciation: [lask lɪnts] (listen)) or simply LASK, is an Austrian professional football club, from the 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 league fixtures at the Waldstadion in Pasching, but at the 14,000 capacity Linzer Stadion in UEFA competitions.

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 stadium, 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. They are due to return to the rebuilt Linzer stadium in mid-2022. 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]

Logo[]

Old logo

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 19 June 2021

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	Alexander Schlager
4	DF	FRA	Yannis Letard
5	DF	CRO	Petar Filipović
6	DF	AUT	Philipp Wiesinger
7	MF	AUT	Rene Renner
8	MF	AUT	Peter Michorl
9	FW	FRA	Mamoudou Karamoko
10	FW	AUT	Marko Raguž
11	FW	PER	Matías Succar
14	MF	AUT	Husein Balić
16	DF	AUT	Marvin Potzmann
17	FW	AUT	Andreas Gruber
18	DF	AUT	Gernot Trauner
19	MF	AUT	Valentino Müller
20	MF	AUT	Patrick Plojer


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	MF	KOR	Hong Hyun-seok
22	FW	AUT	Christoph Monschein
23	FW	AUT	Alexander Schmidt
24	GK	AUT	Tobias Lawal
25	MF	AUS	James Holland
27	MF	AUT	Thomas Goiginger
28	FW	SVK	Adam Griger
29	MF	AUT	Florian Flecker
30	DF	PAN	Andrés Andrade
31	MF	AUT	Lukas Grgić
32	DF	SUI	Enrique Wild
34	DF	GER	Jan Boller
36	GK	AUT	Thomas Gebauer
44	DF	AUT	Dario Marešić (on loan from Stade Reims)
45	MF	COL	Fredy Valencia

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
—	DF	UKR	Yevhen Cheberko (at NK Osijek until 30 June 2021)
—	MF	ISR	Yoav Hofmayster (at Hapoel Tel Aviv until 30 June 2022)
—	MF	GER	Daniel Jelisić (at FC Juniors OÖ until 30 June 2021)

Coach history[]

As of 27 June 2016^[4]

Georg Braun (1946–1952)
(1950–1953)
Ernst Sabeditsch (1953–1955)
Josef Epp (1958–1960)
Pál Csernai (1960–1962)
Karl Schlechta (1962–1964)
(1965–1968)
(1969–1970)
Wilhelm Kment (1970–1972)
Otto Barić (1972–1974)
Felix Latzke (1974–1976)
Wilhelm Huberts (1976–1978)
Wolfgang Gayer (1978)
(1978)
(1978–1983)
(1983–1987)
(1987)
Ernst Hložek (1987–1988)
(1988)
Lothar Buchmann (1989)
(1989)
Aleksander Mandziara (1989–1990)
Erwin Spiegel (1990)
(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)
(1998, caretaker)
Otto Barić (1998–1999)
Marinko Koljanin (1999–2000)
(2000–2001)
František Cipro (2001)
Johann Kondert (2001)
Dieter Mirnegg (2001–2002)
(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)
(2015)
Oliver Glasner (2015–2019)
Valérien Ismaël (2019–2020)
Dominik Thalhammer (2020–present)

Honours[]

Source:^[5]

Domestic[]

League[]

Austrian League

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

European competition history[]

As of match played 19 August 2021

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	N/A	2nd
			NK Zagreb	N/A	0–0
			Keflavík	2–1	N/A
			Metz	N/A	0–1
1996	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 2	Djurgårdens IF	2–0	N/A	1st
			B68 Toftir	N/A	4–0
			Apollon Limassol	2–0	N/A
			Werder Bremen	N/A	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	N/A	N/A
		PO	Sporting CP	N/A	4−1	N/A
		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
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	PO	St Johnstone	1–1

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 27 June 2016.
^ "LASK Linz – Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news". Us.soccerway.com. 29 August 2012. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2019.

[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 27 June 2016.

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

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