DFC LUV Graz is an

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n women's football club from

Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popul ...

playing in the

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. Founded in 1978 as a section of LUV Graz, it became an independent team twenty years later. LUV Graz won in 1979 the

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, its only national title to date. The team played five more unsuccessful finals between 1984 and 2007, and it was the runner-up of both the Championship and the Cup in 1986 and 2007. From 2009 on it has ended in the championship's bottom half. From summer 2014 to summer 2017 it cooperated with 1. DFC Leoben (founded in 1976) and participated as ''SPG LUV Graz/DFC Leoben''.LUV/Leoben: Scheidung vollzogen
der Grazer, 11 June 2017

Titles

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(1979)

References

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