FC Blau-Weiß Linz

The FC Blau-Weiss Linz is a football club based in Linz and is in the 2013/14 season in the regional center (ie, the third division of the Austrian men's soccer ) represented.

History

The FC Blau- Weiss Linz was founded on 2 July 1997 by Hermann Schell man, Wilhelm Holzleitner and Willi Katschthaler as the successor club of clubs FC Linz and SV Austria Tabak Linz. Their first championship game under this name graduated from the team in the 1997/98 season in the 1 Upper Austrian State League on August 19, 1997 compared to ASKOE Danube Linz and won 2-1. After three years in the fourth highest Austrian league succeeded with a final 4-2 victory at Union St. Florian finally the championship and at the same time the long awaited promotion to the third-class Regional center, where the club spent from the 2000/01 season seven seasons. In the season 2002/03 league title could be won there again. The first qualification game for the promotion to the second highest Austrian league was won away in Villach against BSV Bad Bleiberg 2-0, but the return match in Linz Stadium before 8,000 spectators went to a 2-1 half-time lead yet lost with 2:4. Due to the away goals rule, the FC Blau- Weiss Linz thus remained in the regional center.

After the missed rise followed by a steady decline of sports. Did the Linzer in the following season 2003/ 04 with a long front, you already had been involved in a relegation battle in 2005 and 2006. This development culminated in the 2006/07 season, as the Linz actually had to leave the league down - just the ten-year club anniversary. However, it managed its chances of promotion and thus the club was from the 2008/09 season back in the regional center. In the 2010/11 season they managed to climb behind the not legitimate LASK Juniors the runner-up title in the regional center and thus qualifying for the play-offs against WSG Swarovski Wattens. After a 0-1 home defeat you won 1-0 away and secured with a 4-3 win on penalties promotion to the First League. The following season in professional football was finished in 6th place. The following season 2012/13 was much less enjoyable, Linz won the fewest points all first division. Since the FC Lustenau but got no license for the 2013/14 season, the Vorarlberg, the class were back ranked in the last place, and Blau-Weiss Linz was given a chance in relegation matches against SC -ESV Parndorf 1919, the master of the Regional League East, to true. The Linz lost the away game in Parndorf with 1:2 and the home game 0-1 and therefore had to take the bitter transition to the regional center. Thus the Bundesliga in 1974 is the first time the city of Linz represented neither in the first nor in the second performance class since inception.

Achievements

• Upper Austrian national champion: 2000, 2008
• Master of Regional center: 2003
• Promotion to the First League: 2011

Seasons

Fight team

Sports Management

As of July 6, 2013

Stadium

From the 2011/12 season, the club plays in the Linzer stadium. It offers in the current configuration 20,104 spectators, making it Upper Austria's largest stadium. Used, it is in some ways as the local rivals LASK Linz. Earlier, it was already the home of the predecessor club FC Blau-Weiss Linz, FC Linz.

Prior to the rise in the First League in the 2010/11 season, the club played in the Danube Park Stadium (originally tobacco - sports court, on 1 August 1997 officially renamed). This is located between Voest and railway bridge, directly on the Danube. Since the 2012/13 season, the first team trained on the artificial turf of the Linzer stadium, the Danube Park Stadium is used as a training ground for amateur team as well as for test matches .. It has a capacity of 2,000 spectators, including 400 seats.

While initially up to 2,000 spectators attended the Games of Linz, and this declined with the time of encouragement at a lower level. Nevertheless, the FC Blau- Weiss Linz was one of the crowd pullers of the Regional Center; to away games, the Linzer are often accompanied by hundreds of fans.

Fans

The best-known fan of the association are founded in 1991, Linz steel front, which was founded in 1999 in Linz pyromaniac, and founded in 2003, Linz Blue Helmets. As Überorgansation for followers called Steel City Collective, which is a platform for any fan of the Royal Blues and among others to contribute to a better communication between the various fan groups exist.

No fan club in the traditional sense is the Tribune East. Their visitors - mostly over 30 -year-old - are among the longest established clubs, from their environment come the makers of more or less regularly published since 1991 fanzines " STEEL EXPRESS".