LASK

LASK Linz

Full name	Linzer Athletik Sport Klub
Founded	1908
Ground	Raiffeisen Arena, Linz
Capacity	19 080
Chairman	Siegmund Gruber
Manager	João Sacramento
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2024-25	7th

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.

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

LASK (women)

The LASK women's team plays in the Austrian Women's Bundesliga.

Coaching staff

Position	Name	Date of birth	Country	with LASK since	Last team
Head coach	Dietmar Kühbauer	04. 04. 1971	Austria	10/2025	Wolfsberger AC
Assistance	Maximilian Ritscher	11.01.1994	Austria	01/2022	Caretaker coach
Assistance	Manfred Nastl	02.01.1972	Austria	10/2025	Wolfsberger AC
Goalkeeper coach	Philip Großalber	12.09.1989	Austria	07/2019	SK Vorwärts Steyr

Current squad

As of 1 February 2026

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 Austria Lukas Jungwirth 2 DF United States George Bello 3 DF Netherlands Xavier Mbuyamba 4 MF Mali Ismaila Coulibaly 5 MF Kosovo Art Smakaj 6 MF Netherlands Melayro Bogarde 7 FW United States Samuel Adeniran 8 FW Niger Moses Usor 9 FW Czech Republic Kryštof Daněk (on loan from Sparta Prague) 10 FW Austria Saša Kalajdžić (on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers ) 11 FW Austria Maximilian Entrup 13 MF Niger Adetunji Rasaq Adeshina 14 MF Kosovo Valon Berisha

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF Mali Mohamed Sanogo 16 DF Panama Andrés Andrade 20 DF Denmark Kasper Jørgensen 23 FW Cape Verde Bryan Teixeira 27 FW Austria Christoph Lang 29 MF Austria Florian Flecker 30 MF Austria Sascha Horvath 33 GK Austria Tobias Schützenauer 41 DF Nigeria Emmanuel Michael 43 DF Brazil João Victor Tornich (on loan from Portimonense SC) 44 MF Croatia Lukas Kačavenda (on loan from Dinamo Zagreb) 48 DF Senegal Modou Kéba Cissé

European cup history

As of 2020.

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 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
2018-19	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round		Lillestrøm SK	4-0	2-1	6-1
		3rd qualifying round		Beşiktaş J.K.	0–1	2–1	2-2
2019-20	UEFA Champions League	3rd qualifying round		FC Basel	2-1	3-1	5-2
		Play-offs		FC Brügge	0–1	1-2	1-3
2019-20	UEFA Europa League	Group stage		Rosenborg BK	1-0	2-1	3-1
		Group stage		Sporting CP	1-2	3-0	4-2
		Group stage		PSV Eindhoven	0–0	4-1	4-1
		Round of 32		AZ Alkmaar	1-1	2-0	3-1
		Round of 16		Manchester United	0-5	1-2	1-7
2020-21	UEFA Europa League	3rd qualifying round		DAC Dunajská Streda			7-0
		Play offs		Sporting CP			4-1
		Group stage		Tottenham Hotspur	0–3	3-3	3-6
		Group stage		Ludogorez Rasgrad	4-3	3-1	7-4
		Group stage		Royal Antwerp	1-0	0-2	1-2
2021-22	UEFA Conference League	3rd qualifying round		FK Vojvodina	1-0	6-1	7-1
		Play offs		St. Johnstone F.C.	1-1	2-0	3-1
		Group stage		HJK Helsinki	2-0	3-0	5-0
		Group stage		Maccabi Tel Aviv	1-1	1-0	2-1
		Group stage		FC Alaschkert Martuni	3-0	2-0	5-0
		Round of 16		Slavia Prague	1-4	4-3	5-7
2023-24	2023–24 UEFA Europa League	Play offs		HŠK Zrinjski Mostar	2-1	1-1	3-2
		Group stage		Liverpool F.C.	1-3	0-4	1-7
		Group stage		FC Toulouse	0-1	1-2	1-3
		Group stage		Royale Union Saint-Gilloise	1-2	3-0	4-2
2024-25	2024–25 UEFA Europa League	Play offs		FCSB Bucarest	1-1	0-1	1-2
2024-25	UEFA Conference League	League phase		Djurgårdens IF	2-2	H
		League phase		NK Olimpija Ljubljana	0-2	A
		League phase		Cercle Brügge	0-0	H
		League phase		FK Borac Banja Luka	1-2	H
		League phase		AC Fiorentina	0-7	A
		League phase		Víkingur Reykjavík	1-1	H

Honours

• Austrian League: 1964–65, 2025-26
• Austrian Cup: 1965, 2026, 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