VfB Leipzig
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| Full name | 1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. |
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| Nickname(s) | Loksche |
| Founded | 1893 (as VfB Leipzig) 1966 (as Lokomotive Leipzig) 2004 (re-founded) |
| Ground | Bruno-Plache-Stadion |
| Capacity | 15,600 |
| Chairman | Jens Kesseler |
| Coach | Heiko Scholz |
| League | Regionalliga Nordost (IV) |
| 2015–16 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd (V), 1st (Promoted) |
| Website | Club home page |
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig is a German football club based in the city of Leipzig in Saxony and may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Leipzig, the first national champions of Germany. The team won the 2015-16 NOFV-Oberliga Süd and qualified for the 2016–17 Regionalliga Nordost, where it will face former East German champions FC Carl Zeiss Jena and BFC Dynamo.
The club was formed on 26 May 1896 out of the football department of gymnastics club Allgemeine Turnverein 1845 Leipzig. However, they lay claim to an earlier date of origin by reaching back to a club that was incorporated into VfB in 1898 – Sport Club Sportbrüder Leipzig – which was one of four football clubs formed in Leipzig in 1893. The union lasted until 2 May 1900 when the two sides went their separate ways again.
VfB Leipzig was one of the original eighty-six teams that came together in the city in 1900 to form the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund). They were immediately successful at their chosen sport and made their way to the first German national championship final held in 1903. Their opponents were DFC Prag, an ethnically German side from Prague, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. The DFB had invited "German" clubs of this sort from other countries in order 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 game, while VfB Leipzig had come through some hard fought matches. Arriving in Hamburg for the match, the heavily favoured Pragers took themselves off on an ill-advised pub crawl the night before the contest and so arrived to the pitch in less than ideal game-shape. The contest against was delayed 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 eleven 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.
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