What is FC Linz?
[[File:Wappen des FC VOEST Linz.jpg|thumb|Season 1990-91]] [[File:FC Stahl Linz 2014.svg|thumb|FC Stahl Linz 2014]] '''FC Stahl Linz''' is a football club from the Upper Austrian capital of Linz, [[Austria]]. ==History== The club was founded in 1946 as [[sports club]] of the state steel company VÖEST as ''SK VÖEST Linz'' and played from 1969 in the highest Austrian football league. The greatest success of the team was the championship in 1974. After the sponsor VÖEST left the club in 1991, the club renamed itself ''FC Stahl Linz'' and in 1993 ''FC Linz''. The club played under this name until 1997, before it officially merged with Linzer ASK, but was actually wiped out.<ref>[https://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/spezial/art194059,2571796 OÖN (German)]</ref> [[FC Blau-Weiß Linz]] was founded as the successor club. The club came back in 2013. Since the 2014/15 season, the team has been playing as an independent club under the name FC Stahl Linz again within the [[Austrian Football Association]] and entered the Upper Austrian 2nd class middle - the 8th division. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Linz, FC Stahl}} [[Category:Austrian football clubs]] [[Category:Football clubs of Upper Austria|FC Linz]] [[Category:1946 establishments in Europe]] [[Category:1940s establishments in Austria]]