RB Leipzig

RB Leipzig (RasenBallsport Leipzig e.V.) is a German football club from Leipzig.

RB Leipzig

Full name	RasenBallsport Leipzig e. V.
Founded	19 May 2009
Ground	Red Bull Arena
Capacity	44.345
Chairman	Ulrich Wolter/ Frank Zimmermann
Manager	Domenico Tedesco
League	Bundesliga
Home colours Away colours Third colours

History

The club was founded on 19 May 2009 by the Red Bull Company. It was formed out of the SSV Markranstädt. Due to the regulations of the DFB the name Red Bull Leipzig for marketing reasons was forbidden so they were called RB (short for RasenBallsport). Also the logo was forbidden.

The company was sure that there is a great chance to form a new club, because with the Zentralstadion (now Red Bull Arena) there was a good stadium and there is no club in professional football in the area. The club is now in the Bundesliga. Like in Salzburg many fans protested against this deal because they had the fear that the fanculture will vanish and football will be only a business. So they wanted a "normal" football club.

They started in the Oberliga Nordost-Süd(5th level) and became 1st in the 2009/10 season. But the next season they failed to gain promotion to the 3. Bundesliga. So the coach was changed, the new one is the Austrian Peter Pacult. The first match under the new coach was a 3:2 win in the German Cup (1st round) versus VfL Wolfsburg from the Bundesliga.

Players

Current squad

As of 16 December 2021^[1]

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  Hungary Péter Gulácsi (captain) 2 DF  France Mohamed Simakan 3 DF  Spain Angeliño 4 DF  Hungary Willi Orbán (vice-captain) 8 MF  Mali Amadou Haidara 9 FW  Denmark Yussuf Poulsen (3rd captain) 10 MF  Sweden Emil Forsberg 13 GK  Germany Philipp Tschauner 14 MF  United States Tyler Adams 16 DF  Germany Lukas Klostermann 17 MF  Hungary Dominik Szoboszlai 18 MF  France Christopher Nkunku 21 FW  Netherlands Brian Brobbey 22 DF  France Nordi Mukiele 23 DF  Germany Timo Werner

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 MF  Spain Dani Olmo 26 MF  Guinea Ilaix Moriba 27 MF  Austria Konrad Laimer 31 GK  Spain Josep Martínez 32 DF  Croatia Joško Gvardiol 33 FW  Portugal André Silva 35 DF  Netherlands Solomon Bonnah 37 MF  Germany Sidney Raebiger 38 FW  Spain Hugo Novoa 39 DF  Germany Benjamin Henrichs 43 DF  Uruguay Marcelo Saracchi 44 MF  Slovenia Kevin Kampl (4th captain) 45 MF  Germany Mehmet Ibrahimi 46 MF  Germany Ben Klefisch 47 MF  Germany Joscha Wosz

Players out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  Switzerland Yvon Mvogo (at PSV until 30 June 2022) — GK  Germany Tim Schreiber (at Hallescher FC until 30 June 2022) — DF  Brazil Luan Cândido (at Red Bull Bragantino until 30 June 2022) — DF  Germany Frederik Jäkel (at Oostende until 30 June 2022) — DF  Germany Eric Martel (at Austria Vienna until 30 June 2022) — MF  United States Caden Clark (at New York Red Bulls until 31 December 2021) — MF  Germany Tom Krauß (at 1. FC Nürnberg until 30 June 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  Germany Dennis Borkowski (at 1. FC Nürnberg until 30 June 2022) — FW  Germany Fabrice Hartmann (at SC Paderborn until 30 June 2022) — FW  South Korea Hwang Hee-chan (at Wolverhampton Wanderers until 30 June 2022) — FW  England Ademola Lookman (at Leicester City until 30 June 2022) — FW  England Noah Ohio (at Austria Wien until 30 June 2022) — FW  Norway Alexander Sørloth (at Real Sociedad until 30 June 2022)

Coach history

No.	Head coach	Nationality	From	Until	Days	Notes
1	Tino Vogel	Germany	1 July 2009	30 May 2010	333	[2]
2	Tomas Oral	Germany	1 July 2010	30 June 2011	364	[2]
3	Peter Pacult	Austria	1 July 2011	30 June 2012	365	[2]
4	Alexander Zorniger	Germany	1 July 2012	10 February 2015	954	[2]
5	Achim Beierlorzer	Germany	11 February 2015	30 June 2015	139	[2]Note 1
6	Ralf Rangnick	Germany	1 July 2015	30 June 2016	365	[2]
7	Ralph Hasenhüttl	Austria	1 July 2016	16 May 2018	684	[2][3]
8	Ralf Rangnick	Germany	9 July 2018	30 June 2019	356	[2]
9	Julian Nagelsmann	Germany	1 July 2019	30 June 2021	730	[2]
10	Jesse Marsch	United States	1 July 2021	5 December 2021	157	[2]
11	Achim Beierlorzer	Germany	5 December 2021	9 December 2021	4	[2]Note 1
12	Domenico Tedesco	Italy	9 December 2021		1333

Notes

1. Interim coach.

Honours

• 2010 Champion Oberliga Nordost

2017 DFB Pokal Runners up

2017 Bundesliga Runners up

2016 Bundesliga 2 Champions

2014 3.Liga Champions