F.C. Blau-Weiß Linz

FC Blau-Weiß Linz is an Austrian football club from Linz, Upper Austria. The team is playing in the Austrian Football Bundesliga after promotion in the 2023-24 season.

FC Blau-Weiß Linz

Full name	Fußballclub Blau-Weiß Linz
Founded	2. July 1997
Ground	Hofmann-Personal Stadion
Chairman	Hermann Schellmann
Manager	Mitja Mörec
League	Austrian Football Bundesliga
2024-2025	6th

Celebrating the title 2021

History

The club was founded in 1997 as follow up team for FC Linz and SV Austria Tabak Linz. They played with the licence of SV Tabak in the Upper Austrian Landesliga (4th division). After three years they reached the title and were promoted to the Regionalliga Mitte. In the 2003/04 season the won this league but failed in the relegation matches versus BSV Bad Bleiberg, so they stayed in the league. After this there was a decline they were even relegated to the Landesliga, but came back the following season. In the 2010/11 season they finished second behind the LASK Juniors, which were not allowed to promote. In the relegation matches they won versus WSG Wattens after penalty shooting and were promoted to the First League. 2012/13 they lost the Relegationmatches versus SC-ESV Parndorf 1919 and were relegatet into the Regionalliga Mitte. 2015/16 they were champions in the Regionalliga Mitte and were promoted again to the First League. In the 2020-21 season the became Champion of the 2. Liga. They had not asked for a licence for the Bundesliga so they stayed in 2. Liga. In the 2022-23 season they were promoted to the Bundesliga

Since spring 2021 they play in the Hofmann-Personal Stadion because the Donauparkstadion, their traditional homeground, will be new built till 2023. After almost two years of construction, the stadium was opened by the city of Linz with a celebration on 5 July 2023.^[1] The opening game between FC Blau-Weiß Linz and PSV Eindhoven (1:2) took place ten days later.^[2]

Fans

The club is thought as successor to the former club VOEST Linz.This team merged with LASK to FC Linz but soon was inhaled by LASK. The club colours blue and white are that of former VOEST Linz. Also the fans see themself in this tradition.

Current squad

• as 19 October 2023

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 Nicolas Schmid 2 DF  Austria Fabio Strauss 3 DF  Austria Erwin Softic 4 MF  Austria Marco Krainz 5 DF  Serbia Danilo Mitrović 6 MF  Austria Tobias Koch 7 FW  Germany Conor Noß 8 DF  Austria Simon Pirkl 9 FW  Brazil Ronivaldo Bernardo Sales 11 MF  Austria Raphael Hofer 12 GK  Austria Andreas Lukse 13 MF  Austria Michael Brandner 14 DF  Austria Julian Gölles

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  Austria Manuel Maranda 17  Austria Alem Pasic 18 MF  Ghana Paul Mensah 19 MF  Austria Alexander Briedl 21 GK  Austria Felix Gschossmann 22 DF  Austria Fabian Windhager 23 DF  Austria Lukas Tursch 26 MF  Turkey Yunus Karakaya 27 MF  Austria Stefan Haudum 28 MF  Austria Simon Seidl 29 FW  Austria Mehmet Ibrahimi 30 MF  Austria Kristijan Dobras 31 GK  Austria Kevin Radulovic

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Coaching staff

•  Slovenia Mitja Mörec Headcoach
•  Austria Daniel Rozsa Assistant coach
•  Austria Andreas Gahleitner Assistant coach
•  Austria Christoph Eglseer Goalkeeper coach
•  Austria Ronald Riepl Teammanager

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Honours

• Champion Upper Austria: 2000, 2008
• Champion Regionalliga Mitte: 2003, 2016
• Promotion to the First league: 2011
• Champion 2. Liga: 2021, 2023