Lüneburger SK Hansa is a football club from the Lower Saxon

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Lüneburg Lüneburg, officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg and also known in English as Lunenburg, is a town in the German Bundesland (Germany), state of Lower Saxony. It is located about southeast of another Hanseatic League, Hanseatic city, Hambur ...

in Northern Germany. The club was founded in spring 2008 as part of the planned merger of the football divisions of the two sports clubs

Lüneburger SK Lüneburger Sport-Klub von 1901 e. V. was one of the oldest and most successful football clubs from the Lüneburg area until it merged with Lüneburger SV in 2008 to become Lüneburger SK Hansa. History The club was established on 1 April 1901 ...

and Lüneburger SV.

History

The former Oberliga team,

, got into financial difficulties after its relegation from Regional League North (''

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'') in 2001, which eventually led in 2002 to the initiation of

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proceedings. To resolve the club's debts its president, Manfred Harder, looked for suitable partners. After three months of negotiations he announced in early 2008 with the committee of the district league team, Lüneburger SV, the foundation of a new club, ''FC Hansa Lüneburg''. In the 2008–09 season the new club merged the football divisions of both clubs fully. FC Hansa Lüneburg took over the position held by Lüneburger SK in the Lower Saxony League (''

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'') and its right to participate in the first main round of the

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, playing

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(result 0–5). In the Lower Saxony League the club achieved 4th place in its first season. In the 2013–14 season of the

, Lüneburg SK Hansa was the champion and have thus played since the 2014–15 season again in the 4th league, the

. In the 2017–18 season, LSK again played in the

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. The club were beaten in the first main round, with a 1–3 defeat against Bundesliga side

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, however midfielder Felix Vobejda scored the first goal for the club in the cup's history. The first team has been using the Heinrich-Langeloh-Platz (shared with TSV Bardowick) since 2014, after Wilschenbruch stadium was demolished following its sale to make way for new residential homes.

Current squad

Honours

The club's honours: *

** Champions: 2014

Name

Team manager, Christos Dovas, and the president of Lüneburger SK, Manfred Harder, chose the name of the newly founded football club, FC Hansa Lüneburg. The name was supposed to reflect Lüneburg's past as a member of the

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– since 2007 Lüneburg has once again been officially recognised as a

. After the first critical comments about the club name were made, especially its similarity to the name of

F.C. Hansa Rostock FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from ...

, in February 2008 a local paper, ''Landeszeitung für die Lüneburger Heide'', ran a poll in which over 700 readers took part. 59% voted against the name ''FC Hansa'', 33% for and 8% had no view either way. On 1 July 2011, the club was officially renamed ''Lüneburger SK Hansa''.lsk-hansa.de
Der FC Hansa heißt wieder Lüneburger SK! (in German)

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