LASK_Linz

LASK Linz

LASK Linz is an Austrian Football Club from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. Club colors are black and white. LASK is the oldest football club of the federal State Upper-Austria and at present (2007/08) plays in the 1st division of the Austrian league ("T-mobile Bundesliga"). The women's football section plays as LASK Ladies in the season 2006/07 in the OEFB Frauenliga, the highest division of Austrian Women's football.

History

In winter 1908 Albert Siems, head of the royal Post-office garage Linz, who had already been a member of a 1899-founded Club for heavy athletics Linzer Athletik Sportklub Siegfried, decided to establish a footballclub. At that time, they were already playing in the black-and-white lengthwise-touched shirts. First the name was Linzer Sportclub, when in an extraordinary general meeting on 14 September 1919 the final change of name in Linzer Athletik Sport-Klub (short form Linzer ASK) took place , its forerunner setting the example. Nevertheless, in public use the name has always just been Lask.

Since 1995 the official name has been LASK Linz, because officials wanted to bring out the city's name additionally to the designation Lask, which had constituted itself as a brand name. LASK Linz is one of the few clubs of the higher divisions of Austria that since it came in existence has never exhibited a sponsor in the official clubname.

The biggest success was the winning of the Austrian Championship 1965, which no club outside of Vienna had won before; additionally, in 1965 Lask won the Cup.

In 1997, due to public pressure, LASK Linz officially merged with the city rival FC Linz (formerly known as SK VOEST Linz), which, however, resulted in the cancellation of the FC Linz, named as merger by politicians. Clubname, colors, chairmen and members remained the same.

Honours

Austrian Championship: 1965

Austrian Cup: 1965

Austrian Championship of amateurs: 1931

Upper-Austrian Championships (13): 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1950

Upper-Austrian Cup (6): 1929, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1946

Upper-Austrian Championships (2) with the Reserve team: 2001, 2003

Austrian cup-finalist: 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1999

Champion of 2nd Division: 1958, 1979, 1994, 2007

Biggest International Success: 1:0 against Inter Milan at UEFA Cup on 23. October 1985.

European cup history

Season	Competition	Round	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	Ujpest 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	Osters 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 ÍF	2-1
		Group 6, 4th game	FC Metz		0-1
1996	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 2, 1st game	Djurgardens 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