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BSG Chemie Leipzig is a German football club based in the locality of Leutzsch of the Alt-West borough of
Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
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Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...
. It continues the traditions of the original club of the same name and its successor
FC Sachsen Leipzig FC Sachsen Leipzig was a German football club from the Leutzsch district of Leipzig, Saxony. The club continued the traditions of BSG Chemie Leipzig. The club officially dissolved in 2011. Although several successor sides were established, onl ...
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History


Predecessors

The prewar identity of the club is rooted in the establishment of ''Britannia Leipzig'' in 1899 and its successor
TuRa Leipzig TuRa Leipzig was a German association football club active before World War II from the city of Leipzig, Saxony. Successor sides included '' BSG Chemie Leipzig'', which was part of East German football competition, and ''FC Sachsen Leipzig'', wh ...
. During the Soviet era the traditions of the club were continued in the
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teams BSG Chemie Leipzig and ''Lokomotive Leipzig'' before the emergence of
FC Sachsen Leipzig FC Sachsen Leipzig was a German football club from the Leutzsch district of Leipzig, Saxony. The club continued the traditions of BSG Chemie Leipzig. The club officially dissolved in 2011. Although several successor sides were established, onl ...
following
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, which continued the clubs traditions. BSG Chemie Leipzig shares the same logo and the same colours as the previously existing BSG Chemie Leipzig, founded on 16 August 1950.
FC Sachsen Leipzig FC Sachsen Leipzig was a German football club from the Leutzsch district of Leipzig, Saxony. The club continued the traditions of BSG Chemie Leipzig. The club officially dissolved in 2011. Although several successor sides were established, onl ...
was founded in 1990. The reunification of East and West Germany saw significant change in football in the eastern half of the country. At the end of May 1990, the club was renamed ''FC Grün-Weiß Leipzig'' and quickly merged with ''
SV Chemie Böhlen FC Sachsen Leipzig was a German football club from the Leutzsch district of Leipzig, Saxony. The club continued the traditions of BSG Chemie Leipzig. The club officially dissolved in 2011. Although several successor sides were established, onl ...
'' (formerly ''
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'') to create ''FC Sachsen'' in August of that year and took up play in the Oberliga Nordost (III). In March 2009, the club had to declare
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for the second time in its history before folding on 30 June 2011.


Establishment and race to become the successor club

Two new sides soon appeared, both claiming to be the rightful heirs of the tradition of ''FC Sachsen''. Founded on 21 May 2011, ''SG Leipzig Leutzsch'' took up the place of ''Sachsen'' in league play and moved into the ground at
Alfred-Kunze-Sportpark Alfred-Kunze-Sportpark is a multi-use stadium in Leipzig, Germany. It is used as the stadium of BSG Chemie Leipzig matches. The capacity of the stadium is 4,999 spectators. For the inaugural season of the new European League of Football the Leip ...
. In mid-2013 the club re-adopted the name ''SG Sachsen Leipzig'', but their financial difficulties continued and on 5 May 2014 the association went bankrupt again.SG Sachsen Leipzig: Aus und vorbei
However, the name ''Sachsen Leipzig'' was soon taken up again by a new club, the ''LFV Sachsen Leipzig'', founded in 2014. LFV Sachsen Leipzig is playing the 2015-16 season in the 3. Kreisklasse. The team secured promotion to the 2016-17 2. Kreisklasse on 1 May 2016. A new ''BSG Chemie Leipzig'' was founded in 1997 and the team began play in the lowest tier city competition, 3. Kreissklasse Leipzig, in 2008-09. That club won three successive promotions and quickly advanced to 6th-tier play after acquiring the place held by VfK Blau-Weiß Leipzig in the Sachsenliga with Blau-Weiß dropping down to 8th tier Stadtliga Leipzig, and by 2011-12 was playing alongside ''SG Sachsen'' in the regional Sachsenliga. Their progress stalled in 2013 when they slipped to Bezirkliga play for a single season. Despite the fact that both clubs see themselves as the sole legitimate successors to the club that failed in 2009, they have agreed to cooperate at the youth level to help ensure that sporting opportunities remain available to area youth. They also hope to preserve and build on the historical tradition represented by ''Chemie'' and ''Sachsen''. In May 2014 it was announced that both clubs cooperated in the future at the junior level, as the SG Sachsen (the main tenant in the stadium) is insolvent, and the employed administrators decided the ultimate direction of the club. The ultimate goal was the survival of the Association, so that at least the youth teams of SG Sachsen were secured. In their press release it was called among others: ''"No matter what decision the liquidator of SG Sachsen in terms of the insolvency proceedings: BSG Chemie Leipzig will ensure that children and young people can play football even after 30 June in the Alfred-Kunze-Sportpark!"''.


Rise through the leagues

The club had the overwhelming vast majority of the support of the traditional fans of Chemie, unlike the other attempted successor sides. After starting in the 12th division, the club rose through the amateur divisions, winning promotion to the 4th division in the 2016–17 season in front of officially 4999 fans in a match against
SV Schott Jena SV Schott Jena (styled as SV SCHOTT Jena) is a German football club located in Jena, Thuringia. It currently plays in NOFV-Oberliga Süd. The team's colours are blue and white. History ''SV Schott Jena'' was founded in 1896 as ''TV Glashütte Jen ...
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Supporters

The launch of the new BSG Chemie was mostly pushed ahead by younger fans of FC Sachsen Leipzig, especially the
ultras Ultras are a type of association football fans who are renowned for their fanatical support. The term originated in Italy, but is used worldwide to describe predominantly organised fans of association football teams. The behavioural tende ...
group ''Diablos Leutzsch'', who are expressly
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and tend to hold
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views. They were rejected by more seasoned FC Sachsen fans and the club management who described themselves as apolitical but were accused by ''Diablos'' and others from the younger, leftist field of being lenient toward racists. These elder supporters denied the new BSG's claim of being the legitimate heir to the original club of the same name active in the pre-1990 era. FC Sachsen and BSG Chemie fans both used the sobriquet ''Chemiker'' (i.e. "chemists"). The club's fans share a fierce and often violent rivalry with the supporters of
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. is a German football club based in the locality of Probstheida in the Südost borough of Leipzig, Saxony. The club may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Lei ...
. When both teams met in the quarter finals of the
Sachsenpokal The Saxony Cup (''Sachsenpokal'') is a regional German football competition established in 1991 for clubs from Saxony who play in the 3. Liga, Regionalliga Nordost, the NOFV-Oberliga, the Landesliga Sachsen (the Saxon League), the four Landeskl ...
in 2016, German daily newspaper
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called the match the "German
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summit". An additional reason for the enmity between certain fans of the two clubs is a political one. The above-mentioned leftist and anti-fascist Chemie supporters and ultras are confronted with vocal groups of Lok fans from the
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and
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of the political spectrum. Chemie also have lesser local rivalry with
RB Leipzig RasenBallsport Leipzig e.V. (), commonly known as RB Leipzig, and colloquially referred to as Red Bull Leipzig, is a German professional football club based in Leipzig, Saxony. The club was founded in 2009 by the initiative of the company Red Bu ...
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Current squad


Honours

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Sachsenliga The Sachsenliga, formerly referred to as ''Landesliga Sachsen'', is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Saxony (German: ''Sachsen''). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was ...
** Champions: 2015–16 *
NOFV-Oberliga Süd The NOFV-Oberliga Süd is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the southern states of the former East Germany. It covers the German states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Saxony and southern Brandenburg. It is one of fourteen Oberl ...
** Champions: 2016–17, 2018–19 *
Saxony Cup The Saxony Cup (''Sachsenpokal'') is a regional German football competition established in 1991 for clubs from Saxony who play in the 3. Liga, Regionalliga Nordost, the NOFV-Oberliga, the Landesliga Sachsen (the Saxon League), the four Landesk ...
** Champions: 2017-18


League history


References


External links

* {{in lang, de Leipzig Chemie Football clubs in Saxony Sport in Leipzig Association football clubs established in 1997 1997 establishments in Germany