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| Full name | 1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. | ||
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| Nickname | Loksche[citation needed] | ||
| Founded | 11 November 1893; 132 years ago (1893-11-11) (asSC Sportbrüder Leipzig) | ||
| Ground | Bruno-Plache-Stadion | ||
| Capacity | 12,321[1] | ||
| Chairman | Thomas Löwe[citation needed] | ||
| Coach | Jochen Seitz | ||
| League | Regionalliga Nordost (IV) | ||
| 2024–25 | Regionalliga Nordost, 1st of 18 | ||
| Website | http://www.lok-leipzig.com/ | ||
1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. is aGerman football club based in Probstheida in the Südost borough ofLeipzig,Saxony. The club was previously known asVfB Leipzig and was the first national champion of Germany. It has also been known asSC Leipzig. The club won four titles in theFDGB-Pokal and the1965–66 Intertoto Cup during the East German era. It also finished runner-up in the1986–87 European Cup Winners' Cup. 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was renamed VfB Leipzig afterGerman re-unification and managed to qualify for theBundesliga in 1993. However, like many clubs of the formerDDR-Oberliga, VfB Leipzig faced financial difficulties in reunified Germany and a steady decline soon followed. 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was relaunched in 2003 and began climbing through the divisions. As of 2021, the team competes in the fourth-tier division,Regionalliga Nordost. The1. in front of the club's name indicates that it was the first to be founded in the city.
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig claims to be the successor to the VfB Leipzig and SC Sportbrüder Leipzig teams, established in 1896 and 1893, respectively, and therefore, one of the oldest clubs of theGerman Football Association. However, they are not nominal successors. In 2018, 1. FC Lokomotive announced a merger with the formally extant but dormant VfB Leipzig in order to be entitled to the forerunner's titles.[2] Due to the significant breaks and turmoil in the club's history, especially during the post-World War II era, their exact establishment date remains a source of contention.
The club was formed as VfB Leipzig on 13 May 1896, out of the football department of the gymnastics club Allgemeine Turnverein 1845 Leipzig. However, the club laid claim to an earlier date of origin by referring back to a club that was merged with VfB Leipzig in 1898, theSC Sportbrüder Leipzig, which was one of four football clubs formed in Leipzig in 1893.
Following the merger with SC Sportbrüder Leipzig, the club competed under the name VfB Sportbrüder 1893 Leipzig. VfB Sportbrüder 1893 Leipzig was one of theoriginal 86 teams that came together in the city on 28 January 1900 to form theGerman Football Association (DFB). On 2 May 1900, the Sportbrüder 1893 part of the name was dropped, and the team became again known as VfB Leipzig.
VfB Leipzig were immediately successful at their chosen sport and made their way to the first German national championship final held in 1903. Their opponents wereDFC Prag, a German-Jewish side fromPrague, which was then part ofAustria-Hungary. The DFB had invited "German" clubs of this sort from other countries to boost numbers in their new national association.
DFC Prag had made their way to the final under circumstances that had allowed them to avoid playing a single playoff match, while VfB Leipzig had come through some hard-fought matches. Arriving inHamburg for the match, the heavily favoured Pragers took themselves off on an ill-advised pub crawl the night before the contest and so arrived on the pitch in less than ideal match shape. The contest was delayed by half an hour as officials scrambled to find a football that was in good condition. The host,FC 93 Altona Hamburg, provided a new ball, and 11 minutes in, DFC Prag scored the first goal. At the end of the first half, the score stood at 1–1, but VfB Leipzig then pulled away to emerge as the first winners of the Viktoria Meisterschaftstrophäe ("Victoria Championship Trophy"), representative of German football supremacy, on the strength of a decisive 7–2 victory.
VfB Leipzig played themselves into another final appearance in 1904, but the match was never contested. A protest byFV Karlsruhe over their disputed semi-final withBritannia Berlin was never resolved, and the DFB called off the final only hours before its scheduled start. There would be no champion that year. The following season, VfB Leipzig found themselves unable to cover the expense of travelling to participate in their scheduled first-round playoff match and so were eliminated from that year's competition. However, they did go on to raise the Viktoria again in 1906 and 1913 and also played in the 1911 and 1914 finals.
In the period leading up to World War II, VfB Leipzig was unable to repeat its early success.Gyula Kertész coached the side from 1932 to 1933.[3]
After the reorganization of German football leagues under theThird Reich in 1933, the club found itself inGauliga Sachsen, one of the 16 upper-tier divisions. While they earned strong[vague] results within their own division, they were unable to advance in the playoff rounds. In 1937, they won the Tschammerpokal, known today as theDFB-Pokal, in a match againstSchalke 04, the dominant side of the era.
The club, like most other organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs, was dissolved by the occupying Allied authorities in the aftermath of the war. Club members reconstituted the team in 1946 asSG Probstheida under the auspices of the occupying Soviets. After playing asBSG Erich Zeigner Probstheida and thenBSG Einheit Ost, the club merged withsports club SC Rotation Leipzig in 1954 and played in theDDR-Oberliga,East Germany's top-flight league, but earned only mediocre results. In 1963, the city of Leipzig's two most important sports clubs, SC Rotation and SC Lokomotive Leipzig, were merged, resulting in the founding of two new sides: SC Leipzig and BSG Chemie Leipzig.
East German football went through a general reorganization in 1965, creatingfootball clubs as centres of high-level football, during which the football department ofSC Leipzig was separated from the sports club and reformed into football club1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig, while rivalChemie Leipzig continued as aBetriebssportgemeinschaft (BSG), or corporate team. Like most East German clubs, it was assigned to apublicly owned enterprise as its "sponsor". In the case of Lokomotive, the providing enterprise wasDeutsche Reichsbahn—the East German state railways—hence the name. The club's fortunes improved somewhat[vague] as they almost always finished well up the league table, but they were unable to win the top honour in theDDR-Oberliga, with losing final appearances in 1967, 1986, and 1988.
Lok earned a clutch ofEast German Cups(FDGB Pokal) with victories in 1976, 1981, 1986, and 1987, against failed appearances in the Cup final in 1970, 1973, and 1977. They also won theUEFA Intertoto Cup in 1966 and made an appearance in the1987 final of theEuropean Cup Winners' Cup, falling 0–1 toJohan Cruyff'sAjax after aMarco van Basten goal.
There-unification in 1990 was followed by the merger of the football leagues of the two Germanies[4] a year later. A poor season led to a seventh-place finish in the transitional league, but an unexpectedly strong playoff propelled[tone] the club into the2. Bundesliga.
1. FC Lokomotive grasped at their former glory by reclaiming the nameVfB Leipzig. A third-place finish in 1993 advanced the team to the top-flightBundesliga, where they finished last in the1994 season. The new VfB began a steady slide down through the 2. Bundesliga into theRegionalliga Nordost (III) by 1998 and then further still to theNOFV-Oberliga Süd (IV) by 2001. They were bankrupted in 2004, their results were annulled, and the club was dissolved.
In late 2003, the club was re-established by a group of fans as1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. The renewed side had to start in the lowest league, eleventh-tier 3. Kreisklasse, Staffel 2, in 2004–05. Even so, they continued to receive solidly enthusiastic fan support: their match against Eintracht Großdeuben's second team in the LeipzigZentralstadion on 9 October 2004, broke the world record for lower-league attendance with 12,421 spectators. Thanks to a merger with SSV Torgau, the club could play in the seventh-tier Bezirksklasse Leipzig, Staffel 2, in 2005–06. Finishing this league as champions, the team qualified for the sixth-tier Bezirksliga. In 2006, 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig also played a friendly match againstFC United of Manchester (4–4) and qualified for the 2006–07 Landespokal by winning the Bezirkspokal. 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig finished as champions of their group and were promoted to the fifth-tier Landesliga Sachsen Group for the 2007–08 season. The club finished second toErzgebirge Aue and missed out on direct promotion to theNOFV-Oberliga Süd by two points in the 2007–08 season. It still had the chance to regain Oberliga status through a relegation play-off withSchönberg, winning the first leg 2–1 at Schönberg. In the return leg, in front of almost 10,000 spectators, the club lost 0–1 but still gained Oberliga promotion via the away goals rule.[5]
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig finished the Oberliga in third place in 2008–09, 12th in 2009–10, and eighth in 2010–11. 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was promoted to Regionalliga Nordost after finishing Oberliga sixth due to the reserve teams ofFC Rot-Weiß Erfurt,Dynamo Dresden, andFC Carl Zeiss Jena being ineligible for promotion. Lokomotive finished in tenth place in the 2012–13 season but were relegated to Oberliga Nordost after finishing 15th in 2013–14.[6][7]
The club stayed in contention for promotion back up to the Regionalliga during the 2014–15 season, having hired former German internationalMario Basler as director of sports in early 2015. In the final match of the season, Lok supporters stormed the field after their club had fallen behind 2–0, forcing the match to be abandoned and the club to finish outside of the promotion ranks.[8] The club finished in first place in the southern group of the NOFV-Oberliga and returned to the Regionalliga Nordost for the 2016–17 season.
The club's fans share a fierce and often violent rivalry with the supporters ofChemie Leipzig. When both teams met in the quarter finals of theSachsenpokal in 2016, German daily newspaperDie Welt called the match the "Germanhooligan summit".[9] An additional reason for the enmity between some fan groups (namely theirultras) is a political one. Whereas certain Chemie fan clubs expressleft-wing andanti-fascist political views, Lok has vocal supporters from theright andfar-right of the political spectrum.[10][11] Lok also have lesser local rivalry withRB Leipzig.
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| Season | Competition | Round | Nation | Club | Score |
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| 1963–64[a] | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1R |  | Újpesti Dózsa | 0–0, 2–3 |
| 1964–65[a] | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1R |  | Wiener Sport-Club | 1–2, 0–1 |
| 1965–66[a] | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 2R |  | Leeds United | 1–2, 0–0 |
| 1966–67 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1R |  | Djurgårdens IF | 3–1, 2–1 |
| 2R |  | RFC Liège | 0–0, 2–1 | ||
| 1/8 |  | Benfica | 3–1, 1–2 | ||
| 1/4 |  | Kilmarnock | 1–0, 0–2 | ||
| 1967–68 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1R |  | Linfield | 5–1, 0–1 |
| 2R |  | Vojvodina | 0–0, 0–2 | ||
| 1968–69 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1R |  | KB | Walkover |
| 2R | | Hibernian | 1–3, 0–1 | ||
| 1973–74 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  | Torino | 2–1, 2–1 |
| 2R | | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 3–0, 1–4 | ||
| 1/8 |  | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 1–2, 3–0 | ||
| 1/4 | | Ipswich Town | 0–1, 1–0 (4–3 a.p.) | ||
| 1/2 | | Tottenham Hotspur | 1–2, 0–2 | ||
| 1976–77 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | | Hearts | 2–0, 1–5 |
| 1977–78 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | | Coleraine | 4–1, 2–2 |
| 1/8 |  | Real Betis | 1–1, 1–2 | ||
| 1978–79 | UEFA Cup | 1R | | Arsenal | 0–3, 1–4 |
| 1981–82 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | Q |  | Politehnica Timișoara | 0–2, 5–0 |
| 1R |  | Swansea City | 1–0, 2–1 | ||
| 1/8 | | Velež Mostar | 1–1, 1–1 (a.e.t.)(4–1p) | ||
| 1/4 | | Barcelona | 0–3, 2–1 | ||
| 1982–83 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  | Viking | 0–1, 3–2 |
| 1983–84 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  | Bordeaux | 3–2, 4–0 |
| 2R | | Werder Bremen | 1–0, 1–1 | ||
| 1/8 | | Sturm Graz | 0–2, 1–0 | ||
| 1984–85 | UEFA Cup | 1R | | Lillestrøm | 7–0, 0–3 |
| 2R |  | Spartak Moscow | 1–1, 0–2 | ||
| 1985–86 | UEFA Cup | 1R | | Coleraine | 1–1, 5–0 |
| 2R | | Milan | 0–2, 3–1 | ||
| 1986–87 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | | Glentoran | 1–1, 2–0 |
| 1/8 | | Rapid Wien | 1–1, 2–1 | ||
| 1/4 |  | Sion | 2–0, 0–0 | ||
| 1/2 | | Bordeaux | 1–0, 0–1 (a.p.) | ||
| Final |  | Ajax | 0–1 | ||
| 1987–88 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | | Marseille | 0–0, 0–1 |
| 1988–89 | UEFA Cup | 1R | | Aarau | 3–0, 4–0 |
| 2R | | Napoli | 1–1, 0–2 |
| Competition | Record | ||||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| UEFA Cup | 32 | 15 | 4 | 13 | 046.88 | ||
| UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 25 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 040.00 | ||
| Inter-Cities Fairs Cup[a] | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 036.36 | ||
| Total | 79 | 33 | 16 | 30 | 041.77 | ||
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1. FC Lok Leipzig
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1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig has undergone several reorganizations during its history and has taken several different forms and names. The club was a football department ofsports clubs SC Rotation Leipzig and later SC Leipzig, before being reorganized asfootball club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in 1966.
| Date | Name | Note |
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| 13 May 1896 | VfB Leipzig | |
| 15 June 1898 | VfB 1893 Sportbrüder Leipzig | Merger withSC Sportbrüder Leipzig, founded on 11 November 1893. |
| 2 November 1900 | VfB Leipzig | The name 1893 Sportbrüder was dropped. |
| 1946 | SG Probstheida | VfB Leipzig was dissolved in 1946. The remains were reorganized as SG Probstheida. |
| 31 July 1950 | BSG Erich Zeigner Probstheida | The club was renamed. |
| 1953 | BSG Einheit Ost | The club was again renamed. |
| November 1954 | SC Rotation Leipzig | |
| July 1963 | SC Leipzig | |
| 20 January 1966 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | Football department of SC Leipzig was reorganized as a football club. |
| 1 July 1991 | VfB Leipzig | Renamed. |
| 10 December 2003 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | Refounded as 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. VfB Leipzig became defunct on 1 July 2004. |
At Leipzig right-wing supporters of Lok Leipzig prey on left-wing supporters of Chemie Leipzig.
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