RB Leipzig

RB Leipzig ( officially: RasenBallsport Leipzig eV ) is a German football club based in Leipzig.

Behind the club is the Red Bull GmbH, indicating a long-term goal club promotion to the Bundesliga. Since the Statute of the DFB prohibits advertising purposes a naming, Red Bull is not permitted as part of their name.

3.1 club line
3.2 Membership

4.1 Coaching staff
4.2 Squad 2013/14 season
4.3 Transfers 2013/14 season

5.1 Coaching staff
5.2 Squad 2013/14 season
5.3 Transfers 2013/14 season

History

Association was founded

In 2006, Red Bull took a first attempt to gain a foothold in Leipzig football. However, the entry at FC Sachsen Leipzig failed due to the denied approval of the German Football Association for naming rights disagreements and to Fanprotesten. The DFB feared too much influence by the investor.

Since the clubs are no longer subject to the DFB licensing process under the Regional, then the independent club RB Leipzig was founded on 19 May 2009. This should take over the starting right of the SSV Markranstadt for the league and in addition the first three men teams and the senior team of fifth-tier. The first men's team was together with the coaching staff completely taken over. At the urging of Saxony Football Association RB Leipzig also took over the first team in each of the four oldest youth departments of the insolvent FC Sachsen Leipzig.

After the East German Football Association 13 June 2009 agreed to the transfer of the league game right and the club name approved, RB Leipzig finally launched for season 2009/ 10 instead of the SSV Markranstadt in the south- season of the Oberliga Nordost. The association took the game operation first without official club crest on, as the proposed coat of arms was rejected by the Saxon Football Federation because of the similarity to the Red Bull corporate logo. The sponsor's logo is still as jersey advertising on the player jerseys and rejected the coat of arms was temporarily used among other memorabilia.

Oberliga

After some previously scheduled games had to be canceled due to safety concerns, the first game of RB Leipzig where as a venue for the stadium took place on 10 July 2009 as a friendly against the country's division side SV Bannewitz place and ended with a 5-0 home win for RB Leipzig, at the Bad in Markranstadt served. The first duty Game of the club on 31 July 2009 in the first round of Saxony Cup. After replacement of the home right team won on home court with 5-0 against the VfK Blue-White Leipzig. In the first league game RB Leipzig reached 8 August 2009 away against FC Carl Zeiss Jena II a 1-1 draw.

In the further course of the first round in 2009/10 the team was, despite minor setbacks such as the first defeat of the season on September 13, 2009 compared Budissa Bautzen, Autumn masters of their season. For the second round strengthened Leipzig particularly the obligation of previously playing in the 2nd Bundesliga Timo Rost, reaching on 25 matchday safe ascent after prosecutors Budissa Bautzen by calculation could no longer go by RB. Had targeted a place in the DFB Cup the following season 2010/11 from the Saxony Cup 2009 /10 on the RB Leipzig, the club resigned on 13 November 2009 by a defeat in the quarter-finals against FSV Zwickau with 2:3 from. On 4 May 2010 the club the Regionalliga license was issued by the German Football Association.

In January 2010, the incumbent since the club president Andreas Sadlo had left the club, whereupon Dietmar Beiersdorf took over the position of CEO and President. One day after the last season game gave birth Beiersdorf ascension coach Tino Vogel, assistant coach Lars Weißenberger and sporting director Joachim Krug of their duties. This was done against the background of a previously announced by the Red Bull CEO Dietrich Mateschitz change in strategy, according to which RB Leipzig will in future represent the key project in football commitment of the company in place of FC Red Bull Salzburg. It was then introduced as the new coach on 18 June 2010 Tomas Oral.

The player Christian middle two, Sebastian Hauck, Stefan Schumann, Toni Jurascheck and Michael Lerchl received no new contracts for the upcoming Regional season while with Frank Räbsch and Ronny Kujat two other players in the team's rise ended their careers.

Regional

Before the season 2010/11 RB Leipzig were the second, third and fourth team again at the SSV Markranstadt. As a new reserve, the first team was taken over by ESV Delitzsch. On July 24, 2010 took place on the occasion of moving into the new home stadium, which took Red Bull Arena, a friendly match against FC Schalke 04, the Leipzig lost with 1:2. Six days later Leipzig played for the last time in the stadium at Bath: The test match against Hertha BSC on 30 July 2010 ended in a 2-1 win for RB Leipzig.

The Regional began for RB Leipzig with a series of three draws in a row, one of which was first earned on 6 August 2010 against Türkiyemspor Berlin in front of 4,028 spectators. Only on the fourth matchday of the first victory of the season was achieved by 2-1 at Holstein Kiel, the Matchday they had their first home victory against 1 FC Magdeburg won Leipzig again 2-1. After a moderate start to the season is RB Leipzig located in the chasing role of the Chemnitz FC again, who was considered a possible candidate climb the North Season. At the end of RB Leipzig reaffirm his own ambitions rise again with the commitment of the Brazilian Thiago Rockenbach, after the club had attracted in the summer among other things, the transfer of Carsten Kammlott and Tim Sebastian attention. Finally, the team should terminate only as a table the fourth season but. The Saxony Cup in season 2010/11 RB Leipzig won under coach Tomas Oral first title as the club's June 1, 2011 with a 1-0 win against FC Chemnitz. Thus, they earned the right to participate in the DFB Cup the following season 2011/12.

Due to the advancement missed the second half Peter Pacult was announced on 4 May 2011 as a coach from the 2011/12 season already over, making the commitment Orals in Leipzig was terminated after only one season. Almost simultaneously came Thomas Linke, which had been used only in February 2011 as sports director from his post, which is why various media suspected a connection with the obligation Pacults. Previously, other Players Departures had ensured that were with Daniel Rosin, Timo Rost and Benjamin Bellot only three players from the former premier league team in Leipzig squad for the Regional League season 2011/12 remained, while Ingo Hertzsch a fourth of these players only was planned for the reserve team. In the DFB-Pokal 2011/12 Leipzig defeated in the first round of the Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg 3-2, retired in the second round but by a 0-1 defeat against FC Augsburg as other Bundesliga clubs from.

The highest ever victory in club history succeeded the RB Leipzig with a 8:2 against SV Wilhelmshaven, which was achieved on 19 February, 2012. Also missed in the season 2011/12 RB Leipzig promotion to the 3rd league with a 2-2 draw in the penultimate round against VfL Wolfsburg II and launched so 2012/13 in the new Regionalliga Nord.

The 2012/13 season in the Regionalliga Nord began for RB Leipzig with two crucial personal: end of June 2012 was Ralf Rangnick presented after his long break as the new sporting director. Right at the start of the beginning, he replaced former coach Peter Pacult by Alexander Angry. The season was then successful than the previous two. Already in the third- last game of the first round was assured by with a win against FSV Zwickau the autumn championship. The championship winning RB prematurely on 7 May, 2013, after the FC Carl Zeiss Jena lost a game in the 18th game day against the Berliner AK 07. In Saxony Cup 2012/13 RB Leipzig reached the finals for the second time and sat down 4-2 again against the Chemnitz FC by. In order for the club to have qualified for the DFB Cup again.

In the promotion round to the 3rd soccer league, the club continued with a total of 4-2 against Sportfreunde Lotte and first rose to third in the league. The first leg on May 29 was recovered in the home stadium in front of 30 104 spectators 2-0 - it is attendance record in the fourth- highest division. The return match on June 2, went 2-2 after extra time.

3 League

In the 2013/14 season RB Leipzig plays for the first time in the third league. During the summer break, the club Anthony Jung of FSV Frankfurt undertook Tobias Willers of Sportfreunde Lotte, Joshua Kimmich of the U19 VfB Stuttgart, André Luge from FSV Zwickau, Christos Papadimitriou AEK Athens, Yussuf Poulsen from Lyngby BK and Denis Thomalla of the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. In the first round of the DFB Cup RB Leipzig met on August 2, 2013, as early as 2011, the FC Augsburg and divorced again with a 0-2 defeat against the Bundesliga side from which the more than year-long unbeaten run ended in a competitive match. During the winter break broke up the association of Juri Judt, Carsten Kammlott, Christos Papadimitriou and Bastian Schulz and pledged in return Diego Demme from SC Paderborn 07, Federico Palacios - Martínez from VfL Wolfsburg, Mikko Sumusalo from HJK Helsinki and Georg Teigl FC Red Bull Salzburg.

Achievements

Rise in the 3rd League: 2013
Promotion to the Regionalliga Nord: 2010
Saxony Cup Winners: 2011, 2013

Club structure

Club line

The management of the Association consists of:

Membership

The annual fee for membership is 800 Euros, added a one-time admission fee of 100 euros. The Board may reject an application for membership by up to half a year of reflection and without giving reasons. According to the managing director Ulrich Wolter, the club do not aspire to the great number of members of other clubs, but currently have over 250 members. So that it complied with all requirements of the DFB and the law on associations in the Civil Code. According to Wolter are clubs where fans from the ultra scene have created structures, not in the sense of German football and they wanted to absolutely avoid such conditions. An exact and official number of the members of the association is not known.

First team

Coaching staff

Squad 2013/14 season

As of February 1, 2014

Transfers 2013/14 season

As of February 1, 2014

Anthony Young ( Defence, FSV Frankfurt)
Tobias Willers ( defense, Sportfreunde Lotte )
Joshua Kimmich (Midfield, VfB Stuttgart U 19)
André Luge (Midfield, FSV Zwickau )
Christos Papadimitriou (Midfield, AEK Athens )
Yussuf Poulsen (storm, Lyngby BK)
Denis Thomalla (storm, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim )

Pascal Borel (Tor, unknown, since the summer of 2012 exempted )
Patrick Koronkiewicz ( defense, Sportfreunde Siegen)
Tomasz Wisio ( defense, SKN St. Pölten )
Jeremy Karikari (Midfield, VfL Osnabrück)
Paul Schinke (midfielder, second team )
Stefan Kutschke (storm, VfL Wolfsburg)
Tom Nattermannallee (storm, second team )

Mikko Sumusalo ( defense, HJK Helsinki)
Georg Teigl ( Defence, FC Red Bull Salzburg)
Diego Demme (Midfield, SC Paderborn 07)
Federico Palacios - Martínez (storm, VfL Wolfsburg U19)

Juri Judt ( defense, 1.FC Saarbrücken)
Christos Papadimitriou (midfielder, FC Liefering )
Thiago Rockenbach (Midfield, Hertha BSC II, loan )
Bastian Schulz (Midfield, VfL Wolfsburg II )
Carsten Kammlott ( Striker, FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt)

Second Team

In the season 2010/11 U23 RB Leipzig with the game right and the majority of the team of the ESV Delitzsch in the district league Leipzig started. The season went very well, so that the championship was won on the penultimate day. In the meantime, it was assumed that RB Leipzig and could take the league game right of the dissolved club FC Sachsen Leipzig, but this offer was not perceived, so that the U23 rose by sporting success. In the 2011/12 season the team reached the fourth place in the Sachsen League at first attempt. In the following season missed the Second Team of the rise and finished the season in third place. The U23 wearing their home games at the training center of the Cottaweg.

Coaching staff

Squad 2013/14 season

As of March 24, 2014

Transfers 2013/14 season

Stand: August 8, 2013

Christian Hanne ( defense, FSV Luckenwalde )
Sebastian Henske ( defense, own youth )
Toni Majetschak ( defense, own youth )
Marc Böttger (Midfield, own youth )
Hannes Mietzelfeld (Midfield, own youth )
Maximilian Röhrborn (Midfield, own youth )
Peter Rölke (Midfield, own youth )
Paul Schinke (midfielder, first team )
Tom Schladitz (Midfield, own youth )
Friedrich Wolf (Midfield, own youth )
Daniel Barth ( Striker, FC Carl Zeiss Jena II)
Tom Nattermannallee (storm, first team )

Florian Groß (Tor )
Matthias Hamrol (Tor )
Ingo Hertzsch (Defence, End of career )
Felix New (Defence)
Tom Dietze (Midfield)
Marco Jerome Amborn (Midfield)
Alexander Laas (Midfield, End of career )
Jentzsch Mirko (Sturm, ZFC Meuselwitz )

Youth teams

The A youth of RB Leipzig plays in the second division, the Regionalliga Nord. The Youth B in 2011 rose up in the U-17 Bundesliga and played there ever since. Like the other youth teams of the club they play their home games at the training center of the Cottaweg.

Stadium

RB Leipzig plays its home games in the 44,345 -seat Red Bull Arena, the former Central Stadium, from. The contract for the naming rights of the stadium will initially run until 2020, with the option of an extension until 2040. During the first season 2009/10 the club wore their home games in the 5,500 -seat stadium at Bath in Markranstadt from.

Attendance Records

To the first leg of their relegation to the third league against Sportfreunde Lotte on May 29, 2013 30 104 visitors came to the Red Bull Arena, which is the attendance record for a fourth league game in Germany. The attendance record of an RB -Leipzig- home game is 34 341 spectators who saw the DFB-Pokal match against FC Augsburg on 25 October 2011.

Training Center

Red Bull was known in 2010, intending to be longer-term exposure in Leipzig, and studied in this context, a location for a training ground with several natural and artificial turf fields and a youth academy. Towards the end of the year the decision was made on the area of Leipzig small fair on Cottaweg where an area of 92,000 square meters by 2013 [ deprecated] for 30 million euros, the club facilities to be built. After objections of several environmental organizations and tough negotiations, the planning of RB Leipzig by the City on 15 December 2010 was approved.

The expansion began in March 2011 and takes place in two steps. During the first phase of construction at the site were written directly three natural grass pitches and artificial turf. Out of crew quarters and sanitary facilities are housed in containers. This completed section was opened on 12 August 2011.

Since the City Council end of November 2012 the development plan approved west of Cotta path, the plans may now be interpreted again. If the approval process is successfully completed, could the end of 2013 [ deprecated] the conditions for the start of construction to be created. Then more soccer fields and a youth academy to be built. It is also planned a grandstand for 1,000 spectators, presumably for home games of the II team and the youth teams of RB Leipzig. The building next to the football pitches are between autumn 2013 [ deprecated] and summer will be built in 2015 and cost 35 million euros.

Criticism

Even before the first games was faced with the club massive protests and hostility. After the takeover of the SSV Markranstadt there were in the Leipzig suburb protests, in which damaged advertising boards, among others, and the grass of the playing field was destroyed with weedkillers. Supporters of football clubs FC Sachsen Leipzig and FC first locomotive Leipzig feared by the establishment of the new association the decline of traditional fan culture and the commercialization of football in the region. Nevertheless, advocated in a non-representative survey of the local newspaper Leipziger people about 70 percent of readers the commitment of Red Bull

Nationwide, the association met with football fans criticism. Clubs such KSV Hessen Kassel and the first FC Union Berlin said after Fanprotesten from planned friendly matches. As part of preparations for season 2012/ 13 more scheduled friendlies against Erzgebirge Aue, Kickers Offenbach and the Chemnitz FC were canceled after Fanprotesten. Reason for the Fanproteste is amongst the club and personnel policies and the influence of the Group Red Bull So fans can request that a club membership, but this request must accept the Honorary Council. On the board of the football club are solely the company Red Bull employees

The Leipzig Fangruppierung Rasenballisten criticized the external representation of RB Leipzig, especially in the logo, " not the RasenBallsport Leipzig eV, but only the donors ' representative.

The economist Tobias Kollmann, then president of FC Viktoria Köln, saw 2011 in Red Bull a company that " clear economic and marketing goals for its products " follow at RB Leipzig and so is RB Leipzig the first " Marketing Club " in German football. He described the activities of the Red Bull RB Leipzig as a " political earthquake sport in German football ."

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