RB Leipzig

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

## 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.

## Coach history

||Head coach|Nationality|From|Until|Days|Notes||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|1|align=left||align=left||align=left|1 July 2009|align=left|30 May 2010|align=left||
|align=left|2|align=left||align=left||align=left|1 July 2010|align=left|30 June 2011|align=left||
|align=left|3|align=left||align=left||align=left|1 July 2011|align=left|30 June 2012|align=left||
|align=left|4|align=left||align=left||align=left|1 July 2012|align=left|10 February 2015|align=left||
|align=left|5|align=left||align=left||align=left|11 February 2015|align=left|30 June 2015|align=left|<sup>Note 1</sup>|
|align=left|6|align=left||align=left||align=left|1 July 2015|align=left|30 June 2016|align=left||
|align=left|7|align=left||align=left||align=left|1 July 2016|align=left|16 May 2018|align=left||
|align=left|8|align=left||align=left||align=left|9 July 2018|align=left|30 June 2019|align=left||
|align=left|9|align=left||align=left||align=left|1 July 2019|align=left|30 June 2021|align=left||
|align=left|10|align=left||align=left||align=left|1 July 2021|align=left|5 December 2021|align=left||
|align=left|11|align=left||align=left||align=left|5 December 2021|align=left|9 December 2021|align=left|<sup>Note 1</sup>|
|align=left|12|align=left||align=left||align=left|9 December 2021|align=left||align=left||

<span id="Notes ></span>**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

## Infobox (football club)

- **clubname**: RB Leipzig
- **fullname**: 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
- **season**: RB Leipzig 2021-22 Season, 2021-22
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