FC Stahl Linz

VÖEST Linz is a redirect to this article. For further meanings see SK VÖEST Linz .

FC Stahl Linz
Basic data
Surname	ASKÖ football club Stahl Linz
Seat	Linz , Austria
founding	June 30, 1946
Colours	blue White
Board	Manfred Wolfsegger, Robert Scheidl
Website	stahl-linz.at
First soccer team
Head coach	Endrico Schmoll
Venue
Places	nb
league	2nd class middle
2017/18	3 of 13
home Away

The FC Linz is a football club from the Upper Austrian capital Linz in Austria .

The club was founded in 1946 as a factory sports club of the state steel company VÖEST as SK VÖEST Linz and played in the highest Austrian football league from 1969. The team's greatest success was the championship title in 1974 . After VÖEST left the club in 1991, the club was initially renamed FC Stahl Linz and then in 1993 FC Linz . The club played under this name until 1997, before it officially merged with Linzer ASK to LASK Linz , but was actually wiped out. FC Blau-Weiß Linz was founded as the successor club.

The team has been back since 2013, developed from SK VÖEST's company football. Since the 2014/15 season, the team has been playing as an independent club under the name FC Stahl Linz again within the Austrian Football Association , where it entered the Upper Austrian 2nd class middle - the 8th division.

history

Coat of arms of SK VÖEST Linz in blue and white

Coat of arms of FC VOEST Linz (season 1990/91)

Coat of arms of FC Stahl Linz (1991–1993)

FC Linz coat of arms (1993)

FC Linz coat of arms (1996-97 season)

The club was founded on June 30, 1946 as SV Eisen und Stahl 1946 Linz with the club colors black and white. On November 10, 1949, the company sports club was renamed SK VÖEST Linz .

The club was twice the Upper Austrian regional champion. While in 1958 the promotion to the then State League B failed in the relegation games at KSV Ankerbrot Vienna , SK VÖEST was directly eligible to participate in 1961 as champions for the Regionalliga Mitte ( Upper Austria , Styria and Carinthia ), which was newly established as a substructure for the National League .

After the season 1968/69, in which they played regularly for the first time in the Linz stadium on the Gugl - before that they played the preludes to the first division matches of SV nitrogen Linz , with which they had entered into a short-lived cooperation in 1963/64 - rose after an outstanding autumn season (with 12 wins, including a 9-0 win against Klagenfurt AC, and a draw from 13 games) as champions of the Middle Regional League in the National League.

In the summer of 1972 the club colors were changed to blue and white. Under this name, the club secured its only Austrian championship title in the 1973/74 season. In 1978 the name of the club was changed to SK VOEST Linz .

In 1980 they took part in the European Cup for the last time and, like three times before ( Dynamo Dresden , FC Barcelona , Vasas Budapest ), they were eliminated in the first round, this time against TJ Zbrojovka Brno .

After a series of rather dreary seasons in the 1980s, the club found itself in the middle or promotion play-off at the time in 1988 and, despite a relatively successful first half of the season after a 3-0 defeat at SK Austria Klagenfurt, had to end up for the first time in the club's history relegated to the Austrian 2nd division. The re-promotion succeeded only after two unsuccessful attempts in the 1990/91 season, by sovereignly winning the promotion play-off and at the same time being able to secure the championship title of the 2nd division.

In 1990 the football department split off from the regular club and became independent as FC VOEST Linz . After the withdrawal of the "United Austrian Iron and Steel Works" ( VÖEST ) from the club, the club was called FC Stahl Linz from 1991 . Since many still associated the name "Stahl Linz" with the former sponsor VÖEST, it was decided in 1993 to rename the club to FC Linz .

The then second division club delivered a remarkable success by reaching the cup final in the 1993/94 season, which was clearly lost 4-0 to FK Austria Wien on June 11, 1994 in the Ernst Happel Stadium in front of only 6000 spectators . After the end of the 1996/97 season , the "merger" with city rivals LASK Linz was decided for economic reasons under pressure from politics , but this resulted in the dissolution of FC Linz. In the same year, FC Blau-Weiß Linz, a successor club to the former works sports club in the moral, but not in the legal sense, was founded, which is supported by the majority of the former FC Linz supporters.

After a long break, the football section of SK VÖEST decided in May 2013 to build a new team again. The team has been playing as FC Stahl Linz since the beginning of 2014. The independent club was necessary because a presidium decision of the SK VÖEST did not allow any further appearances of the team under the SK VÖEST. 2013/14 was still played in the DSG League Upper Austria outside of the Austrian Football Association . Since the 2014/15 season, FC Stahl Linz has been playing in the OÖFV championship - 2nd class middle, the 8th division in Austrian football. In the 2016/17 season, the club formed a community of players with ESV Westbahn Linz , which was dissolved again in the following season.

Sponsors in the club name

Up until 1986 the budget provided by the factory was sufficient to keep the game going. It was not until the 86/87 season that the textile rental company "Salesianer Miettex" appeared for the first time as an external company as the main sponsor and thus also in the club name. The sponsorship remained upright even after relegation to the 2nd division, but after being promoted again in 1991 they withdrew. In the late autumn of 1993, when the club, which had meanwhile been renamed FC Linz, was relegated to the 2nd division again, the Upper Austrian beverage manufacturer Keli bought into the club name, a collaboration that also began with the renewed promotion to the 1st division in June 1996 Ended.

Known players

Zoran Barišić Ronald Brunmayr Herwig Drechsel Radek Drulák Norbert Ebster Ove Flindt-Bjerg Didier Frenay Erwin Fuchsbichler Edgar García de Dios Koloman Gögh

Gerald Haider Reinhold Hintermaier Willi Kreuz Heinz Libuda Daniel Madlener Ferdinand Milanovich Hans-Dieter Mirnegg Erik Mykland Peter Pacult Hans Reich Herbert Rettensteiner Hugo Sánchez Manfred Seber

Frenk Schinkel Josef Stering Christian Stumpf Walter Waldhör Jürgen Werner I Jürgen Werner II Günther Zeller Georg Zellhofer Manfred Zsak Alfred Gert Frano Poparic

successes

SK VÖEST Linz

• Austrian champion : 1973/74
• Austrian runner-up: 1974/75
• Austrian cup finalist : 1977/78
• Upper Austrian regional champion : 1957/58 and 1960/61
• Champion of the Regionalliga Mitte : 1968/69

SK VOEST Linz

• Austrian runner-up: 1979/80

FC VOEST Linz

• 2nd division champions: 1990/91

FC Stahl Linz

• 6th place as a climber in the 1991/92 season

FC Linz

• Austrian cup finalist : 1993/94
• 2nd division champions: 1995/96

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1972/73	Uefa cup	1 round	Dynamo Dresden	2: 4	0: 2 (A)	2: 2 (H)
1974/75	European Champions Cup	1 round	FC Barcelona	0: 5	0: 0 (H)	0: 5 (A)
1975/76	Uefa cup	1 round	Vasas Budapest	2: 4	2: 0 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1980/81	Uefa cup	1 round	TJ Zbrojovka Brno	1: 5	1: 3 (A)	0: 2 (H)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 8 games, 1 win, 2 draws, 5 defeats, 5:18 goals (goal difference −13)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presidium resolution NAME CHANGE !!! SK VÖEST LINZ BECOMES FC ???
2. ↑ DSG football championship DSG homepage
3. ^ After a failed marriage: FC Stahl Linz with a new beginning , Ligaportal.at, accessed on August 15, 2017.