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.

Contents

History

Honours

Current Squad

Famous Players

External links

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.

Current Squad

''As of September 7, 2007. Players in 'bold' have international caps.

Famous Players

★ Besian Idrizaj

★ Peter Stöger

★ Ivica Vastić

★ Markus Weissenberger

★ Klaus Lindenberger

★ Hugo Sanchez

★ Erik Mykland (FC Linz)

★ Tolunay Kafkas

★ Geir Frigård

★ Christian Stumpf

External links

★ Official Homepage