RB Leipzig Quiz
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Timo Werner left RB Leipzig in 2020 for a reported fee of about €50 million. Which club signed him?
WhyWerner moved to Chelsea in 2020 and won the Champions League in his first season there, before returning to Leipzig in 2022. -
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RB Leipzig lifted their first major trophy in 2022. Which competition was it?
WhyThe 2022 DFB-Pokal was the club's first silverware of any real weight, and they retained it the following season. -
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Which defender did RB Leipzig sell to Manchester City in 2023 for a fee that made him one of the most expensive defenders in history?
WhyGvardiol arrived from Dinamo Zagreb, starred at the 2022 World Cup for Croatia and moved to City the following summer. -
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Who combined the jobs of sporting director and head coach to take RB Leipzig up to the Bundesliga in 2015-16?
WhyRangnick had run the sporting side since 2012 and stepped into the dugout himself for the promotion season, then handed the team over and went back upstairs. -
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Who was RB Leipzig's first head coach, in the 2009-10 Oberliga season?
WhyTino Vogel came over with the Oberliga side whose licence the new club took over. He won the Oberliga title and was released after the season. -
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Willi Orbán joined RB Leipzig in 2015 from which 2. Bundesliga rival?
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Which Premier League side did RB Leipzig eliminate 4-0 on aggregate in the 2019-20 Champions League round of 16?
WhyNagelsmann's side won 1-0 at Spurs through a Timo Werner penalty and then 3-0 in Leipzig, a tie billed as the young coach against José Mourinho. -
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Who managed RB Leipzig from 2012 until early 2015, winning promotion out of the Regionalliga and then out of the 3. Liga?
WhyZorniger's high-pressing side went up in 2013 and again in 2014; he left in early 2015 and took over at another Bundesliga club that summer. -
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Xavi Simons joined RB Leipzig on loan from PSG in 2023 and later signed permanently. Which club bought him in August 2025?
WhySimons spent 18 months on loan at Leipzig, signed permanently in January 2025 and moved to Tottenham that August. -
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Benjamin Šeško left RB Leipzig in August 2025. Which club signed him?
WhyManchester United paid a reported initial €76.5 million. Šeško had scored 39 goals in two seasons at Leipzig. -
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In summer 2015, RB Leipzig made which striker the most expensive signing in 2. Bundesliga history?
WhySelke joined from Werder Bremen for an estimated €8 million, the most expensive signing in 2. Bundesliga history at the time. -
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RB Leipzig's full name is RasenBallsport Leipzig rather than Red Bull Leipzig. Why?
WhyThe invented word 'RasenBallsport' (roughly 'lawn ball sports') exists purely so the initials could stay 'RB' — the club had to engineer a workaround for a restriction on what an official club name is permitted to contain. -
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Who was RB Leipzig's head coach when they finished second in their debut Bundesliga season?
WhyThe Austrian arrived in 2016 having just kept newly promoted Ingolstadt in the Bundesliga, and immediately steered Leipzig into the Champions League. -
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Where did RB Leipzig play their home games in their first season, 2009-10?
WhyLeipzig started at the Stadion am Bad in Markranstädt, the home of the club whose licence they had taken over. They moved into Leipzig itself in 2010. -
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Who scored RB Leipzig's first ever Champions League goal, in a 1-1 draw with Monaco in September 2017?
WhyEmil Forsberg scored against Monaco on 13 September 2017, in the club's first Champions League match. -
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Which coach replaced Domenico Tedesco at RB Leipzig in September 2022 and went on to win the 2023 DFB-Pokal?
WhyRose, previously in charge at Salzburg, Mönchengladbach and Dortmund, took over after a poor start to the season and beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 in the following June's final in Berlin. -
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Who scored twice as RB Leipzig beat Tottenham 3-0 in the second leg of their 2019-20 Champions League round-of-16 tie?
WhyMarcel Sabitzer scored in the 10th and 21st minutes in Leipzig before a late third sealed the tie. -
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RB Leipzig reached the Champions League semi-final in 2020. Who knocked them out?
WhyPSG won the one-off Lisbon semi-final 3-0; Bayern beat Lyon in the other half of the draw and went on to win the trophy. -
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Where did RB Leipzig finish in the 2024-25 Bundesliga, missing out on European football for the first time since promotion?
WhyThe coach was sacked in March 2025, and Leipzig finished seventh with 51 points, out of the European places. -
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Who scored RB Leipzig's winning goal in their 2-1 Champions League quarter-final victory over Atlético Madrid in Lisbon in 2020?
WhyThe American midfielder's deflected strike late on sent Leipzig into a European semi-final for the first time, after João Félix had equalised from the penalty spot. -
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Which Germany international played for RB Leipzig in the third and second tiers before Bayern Munich signed him in 2015?
WhyKimmich spent two seasons at Leipzig from 2013, and Bayern agreed to buy him in January 2015 — before Leipzig had ever played a Bundesliga game. -
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Who scored a hat-trick as RB Leipzig beat Bayern Munich 3-0 in Munich to win the 2023 DFL-Supercup?
WhyDani Olmo scored after three minutes, again before half-time and then from the penalty spot, giving Leipzig their first Supercup. -
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In their first ever DFB-Pokal tie, in 2011, fourth-tier RB Leipzig knocked out a Bundesliga club 3-2. Which one?
WhyDaniel Frahn scored a first-half hat-trick as Leipzig beat Wolfsburg in front of 31,212 at the Red Bull Arena — the young club's first genuine headline. -
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Which club knocked RB Leipzig out of the semi-finals of the 2021-22 Europa League?
WhyLeipzig won the first leg 1-0 at home but lost 3-1 at Ibrox, so Rangers went through 3-2 on aggregate. -
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RB Leipzig sold Dominik Szoboszlai in 2023 to which club?
WhyLiverpool triggered the Hungarian's release clause, following the same Salzburg-to-Leipzig-to-Anfield path Naby Keïta had taken years earlier. -
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RB Leipzig won promotion to the 3. Liga in 2013 through a two-legged play-off. Who did they beat?
WhyLeipzig won 2-0 at home in front of 30,104, a record crowd for the fourth tier, and then drew 2-2 in Lotte after extra time. -
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RB Leipzig reached the 2017-18 Europa League quarter-finals. Which club knocked them out?
WhyMarseille knocked out Leipzig in the quarter-finals and then beat Red Bull Salzburg in the semi-finals. -
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RB Leipzig signed Christopher Nkunku in 2019 for around €13 million. Which club did he join from?
WhyNkunku came through the PSG academy. At Leipzig he scored 70 goals and won two DFB-Pokals before leaving for the Premier League in 2023. -
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In their first Bundesliga season, RB Leipzig set a record for a promoted Bundesliga team by staying unbeaten for how many league games at the start of the season?
WhyLeipzig were unbeaten in their first 13 Bundesliga games. In November 2016 they went top, the first former East German side to do so since Hansa Rostock in 1991. -
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RB Leipzig won their first DFB-Pokal in 2022 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Berlin. Who were their opponents?
WhyA 76th-minute equaliser against Freiburg forced extra time, and Domenico Tedesco's side won the shoot-out 4-2. -
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Julian Nagelsmann arrived at RB Leipzig in 2019 from which club?
WhyNagelsmann made his name at Hoffenheim, where he took charge as a rookie in 2016 and reached the Champions League, before the Leipzig move was agreed a year in advance. -
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Which player was in RB Leipzig's squad in the third tier in 2013 and was still at the club for their run to the Champions League semi-final in 2020?
WhyPoulsen joined from Lyngby in 2013 when Leipzig were a 3. Liga side and rose with them all the way; Forsberg, Gulácsi and Orban all arrived in 2015, by which time the club were in the 2. Bundesliga. -
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Timo Werner joined RB Leipzig in 2016, in time for their first Bundesliga season. Which club did he sign from?
WhyWerner came from boyhood club VfB Stuttgart, who had just been relegated, and promptly scored 21 Bundesliga goals in his first season at Leipzig. -
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RB Leipzig's home, a 2006 World Cup venue, was renamed Red Bull Arena in 2010. What was it called before?
WhyRed Bull bought the naming rights and the Zentralstadion became the Red Bull Arena on 1 July 2010, when RB Leipzig moved in. -
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In which season did RB Leipzig play their first Bundesliga match?
WhyPromotion from the 2. Bundesliga in May 2016 put them in the top flight for 2016-17, where they finished second at the first attempt. -
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RB Leipzig were created when Red Bull bought the playing rights of which existing club?
WhyRed Bull paid a reported 350,000 euros for the licence of SSV Markranstädt, a small side from a town just west of Leipzig, and built a new club around it. -
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When RB Leipzig began playing in 2009, which tier of German football were they in?
WhyThey started in the fifth-tier NOFV-Oberliga Süd and won it at the first attempt, the first of four promotions in seven years. -
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In what year was RB Leipzig founded?
WhyThe club was formally founded on 19 May 2009, making it one of the youngest sides ever to reach the Bundesliga. -
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Péter Gulácsi, RB Leipzig's goalkeeper from 2015 to 2026, played international football for which country?
WhyGulácsi joined from Red Bull Salzburg in 2015 and won 58 caps for Hungary, going to the 2016, 2020 and 2024 European Championships.
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About RB Leipzig
They were founded on 19 May 2009, when Red Bull bought the playing rights of SSV Markranstädt — a small side from a town just west of Leipzig — for a reported 350,000 euros and built a new club around the licence. Even the name is a piece of engineering: German football's rules did not allow a company name inside a club's name, so the invented word 'RasenBallsport', roughly 'lawn ball sports', exists purely so the initials could stay RB. They started in the fifth-tier NOFV-Oberliga Süd and won it at the first attempt.
The first night that really announced them came in 2011, in the club's first ever DFB-Pokal tie: fourth-tier Leipzig beat Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg 3-2, Daniel Frahn helping himself to a first-half hat-trick in front of 31,212 at the Red Bull Arena. Alexander Zorniger's high-pressing team then went up out of the Regionalliga in 2013 and out of the 3. Liga in 2014, before Ralf Rangnick — the sporting director and architect of the whole project since 2012 — stepped into the dugout himself for the 2015-16 promotion season and handed the team to Ralph Hasenhüttl for the top flight. Four promotions in seven years took them to their first Bundesliga match in 2016-17, and Hasenhüttl's side finished second at the first attempt, with Timo Werner, signed from boyhood club VfB Stuttgart, scoring 21 Bundesliga goals.
Then came Europe. Julian Nagelsmann arrived in 2019 from Hoffenheim, where he had taken charge as a rookie in 2016, and in 2019-20 his side knocked Tottenham out of the Champions League 4-0 on aggregate — a Werner penalty in London, then 3-0 in Leipzig against José Mourinho. In Lisbon they beat Atlético Madrid 2-1, Tyler Adams' deflected late strike sending them into a European semi-final for the first time, before Paris Saint-Germain won the one-off semi 3-0 and Bayern, who had beaten Lyon in the other half of the draw, went on to lift the trophy. Silverware followed in 2022, when the DFB-Pokal became the club's first trophy of real weight; Marco Rose, who had replaced Domenico Tedesco in September 2022, retained it by beating Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 in Berlin the following June.
There is a whole other quiz hiding in the players who passed through. Joshua Kimmich spent two seasons at Leipzig from 2013 in the third and second tiers, with Bayern agreeing to sign him in January 2015 — before Leipzig had ever played a Bundesliga game. Yussuf Poulsen joined from Lyngby the same year in the 3. Liga and was still there for that 2020 semi-final. Later the club became a selling machine: Dominik Szoboszlai left for Liverpool in 2023 when his release clause was triggered, following the Salzburg-to-Leipzig-to-Anfield path Naby Keïta had taken years earlier, while Joško Gvardiol moved to Manchester City that same summer for a fee that made him, in 2023, one of the most expensive defenders in history. Every question here carries a short explanation, so one you miss still teaches you the fact behind it. Play the sample set free in your browser, no sign-up, then open the Ball IQ app for the full RB Leipzig set, daily challenges and head-to-head multiplayer.
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Timo Werner left RB Leipzig in 2020 for a reported fee of about €50 million. Which club signed him?
Chelsea. Werner moved to Chelsea in 2020 and won the Champions League in his first season there, before returning to Leipzig in 2022.
RB Leipzig lifted their first major trophy in 2022. Which competition was it?
The DFB-Pokal. The 2022 DFB-Pokal was the club's first silverware of any real weight, and they retained it the following season.
Which defender did RB Leipzig sell to Manchester City in 2023 for a fee that made him one of the most expensive defenders in history?
Joško Gvardiol. Gvardiol arrived from Dinamo Zagreb, starred at the 2022 World Cup for Croatia and moved to City the following summer.
Who combined the jobs of sporting director and head coach to take RB Leipzig up to the Bundesliga in 2015-16?
Ralf Rangnick. Rangnick had run the sporting side since 2012 and stepped into the dugout himself for the promotion season, then handed the team over and went back upstairs.
Who was RB Leipzig's first head coach, in the 2009-10 Oberliga season?
Tino Vogel. Tino Vogel came over with the Oberliga side whose licence the new club took over. He won the Oberliga title and was released after the season.
Willi Orbán joined RB Leipzig in 2015 from which 2. Bundesliga rival?
1. FC Kaiserslautern. Orbán came through the Kaiserslautern academy and had captained them.
Which Premier League side did RB Leipzig eliminate 4-0 on aggregate in the 2019-20 Champions League round of 16?
Tottenham Hotspur. Nagelsmann's side won 1-0 at Spurs through a Timo Werner penalty and then 3-0 in Leipzig, a tie billed as the young coach against José Mourinho.
Who managed RB Leipzig from 2012 until early 2015, winning promotion out of the Regionalliga and then out of the 3. Liga?
Alexander Zorniger. Zorniger's high-pressing side went up in 2013 and again in 2014; he left in early 2015 and took over at another Bundesliga club that summer.
Xavi Simons joined RB Leipzig on loan from PSG in 2023 and later signed permanently. Which club bought him in August 2025?
Tottenham Hotspur. Simons spent 18 months on loan at Leipzig, signed permanently in January 2025 and moved to Tottenham that August.
Benjamin Šeško left RB Leipzig in August 2025. Which club signed him?
Manchester United. Manchester United paid a reported initial €76.5 million. Šeško had scored 39 goals in two seasons at Leipzig.
In summer 2015, RB Leipzig made which striker the most expensive signing in 2. Bundesliga history?
Davie Selke. Selke joined from Werder Bremen for an estimated €8 million, the most expensive signing in 2. Bundesliga history at the time.
RB Leipzig's full name is RasenBallsport Leipzig rather than Red Bull Leipzig. Why?
German football's rules did not allow a company name in a club's name. The invented word 'RasenBallsport' (roughly 'lawn ball sports') exists purely so the initials could stay 'RB' — the club had to engineer a workaround for a restriction on what an official club name is permitted to contain.
Who was RB Leipzig's head coach when they finished second in their debut Bundesliga season?
Ralph Hasenhüttl. The Austrian arrived in 2016 having just kept newly promoted Ingolstadt in the Bundesliga, and immediately steered Leipzig into the Champions League.
Where did RB Leipzig play their home games in their first season, 2009-10?
Stadion am Bad. Leipzig started at the Stadion am Bad in Markranstädt, the home of the club whose licence they had taken over. They moved into Leipzig itself in 2010.
Who scored RB Leipzig's first ever Champions League goal, in a 1-1 draw with Monaco in September 2017?
Emil Forsberg. Emil Forsberg scored against Monaco on 13 September 2017, in the club's first Champions League match.
Which coach replaced Domenico Tedesco at RB Leipzig in September 2022 and went on to win the 2023 DFB-Pokal?
Marco Rose. Rose, previously in charge at Salzburg, Mönchengladbach and Dortmund, took over after a poor start to the season and beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 in the following June's final in Berlin.
Who scored twice as RB Leipzig beat Tottenham 3-0 in the second leg of their 2019-20 Champions League round-of-16 tie?
Marcel Sabitzer. Marcel Sabitzer scored in the 10th and 21st minutes in Leipzig before a late third sealed the tie.
RB Leipzig reached the Champions League semi-final in 2020. Who knocked them out?
Paris Saint-Germain. PSG won the one-off Lisbon semi-final 3-0; Bayern beat Lyon in the other half of the draw and went on to win the trophy.
Where did RB Leipzig finish in the 2024-25 Bundesliga, missing out on European football for the first time since promotion?
7th. The coach was sacked in March 2025, and Leipzig finished seventh with 51 points, out of the European places.
Who scored RB Leipzig's winning goal in their 2-1 Champions League quarter-final victory over Atlético Madrid in Lisbon in 2020?
Tyler Adams. The American midfielder's deflected strike late on sent Leipzig into a European semi-final for the first time, after João Félix had equalised from the penalty spot.
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Which Germany international played for RB Leipzig in the third and second tiers before Bayern Munich signed him in 2015?
Joshua Kimmich. Kimmich spent two seasons at Leipzig from 2013, and Bayern agreed to buy him in January 2015 — before Leipzig had ever played a Bundesliga game.
Who scored a hat-trick as RB Leipzig beat Bayern Munich 3-0 in Munich to win the 2023 DFL-Supercup?
Dani Olmo. Dani Olmo scored after three minutes, again before half-time and then from the penalty spot, giving Leipzig their first Supercup.
In their first ever DFB-Pokal tie, in 2011, fourth-tier RB Leipzig knocked out a Bundesliga club 3-2. Which one?
VfL Wolfsburg. Daniel Frahn scored a first-half hat-trick as Leipzig beat Wolfsburg in front of 31,212 at the Red Bull Arena — the young club's first genuine headline.
Which club knocked RB Leipzig out of the semi-finals of the 2021-22 Europa League?
Rangers. Leipzig won the first leg 1-0 at home but lost 3-1 at Ibrox, so Rangers went through 3-2 on aggregate.
RB Leipzig sold Dominik Szoboszlai in 2023 to which club?
Liverpool. Liverpool triggered the Hungarian's release clause, following the same Salzburg-to-Leipzig-to-Anfield path Naby Keïta had taken years earlier.
RB Leipzig won promotion to the 3. Liga in 2013 through a two-legged play-off. Who did they beat?
Sportfreunde Lotte. Leipzig won 2-0 at home in front of 30,104, a record crowd for the fourth tier, and then drew 2-2 in Lotte after extra time.
RB Leipzig reached the 2017-18 Europa League quarter-finals. Which club knocked them out?
Marseille. Marseille knocked out Leipzig in the quarter-finals and then beat Red Bull Salzburg in the semi-finals.
RB Leipzig signed Christopher Nkunku in 2019 for around €13 million. Which club did he join from?
Paris Saint-Germain. Nkunku came through the PSG academy. At Leipzig he scored 70 goals and won two DFB-Pokals before leaving for the Premier League in 2023.
In their first Bundesliga season, RB Leipzig set a record for a promoted Bundesliga team by staying unbeaten for how many league games at the start of the season?
13. Leipzig were unbeaten in their first 13 Bundesliga games. In November 2016 they went top, the first former East German side to do so since Hansa Rostock in 1991.
RB Leipzig won their first DFB-Pokal in 2022 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Berlin. Who were their opponents?
SC Freiburg. A 76th-minute equaliser against Freiburg forced extra time, and Domenico Tedesco's side won the shoot-out 4-2.
Julian Nagelsmann arrived at RB Leipzig in 2019 from which club?
1899 Hoffenheim. Nagelsmann made his name at Hoffenheim, where he took charge as a rookie in 2016 and reached the Champions League, before the Leipzig move was agreed a year in advance.
Which player was in RB Leipzig's squad in the third tier in 2013 and was still at the club for their run to the Champions League semi-final in 2020?
Yussuf Poulsen. Poulsen joined from Lyngby in 2013 when Leipzig were a 3. Liga side and rose with them all the way; Forsberg, Gulácsi and Orban all arrived in 2015, by which time the club were in the 2. Bundesliga.
Timo Werner joined RB Leipzig in 2016, in time for their first Bundesliga season. Which club did he sign from?
VfB Stuttgart. Werner came from boyhood club VfB Stuttgart, who had just been relegated, and promptly scored 21 Bundesliga goals in his first season at Leipzig.
RB Leipzig's home, a 2006 World Cup venue, was renamed Red Bull Arena in 2010. What was it called before?
Zentralstadion. Red Bull bought the naming rights and the Zentralstadion became the Red Bull Arena on 1 July 2010, when RB Leipzig moved in.
In which season did RB Leipzig play their first Bundesliga match?
2016-17. Promotion from the 2. Bundesliga in May 2016 put them in the top flight for 2016-17, where they finished second at the first attempt.
RB Leipzig were created when Red Bull bought the playing rights of which existing club?
SSV Markranstädt. Red Bull paid a reported 350,000 euros for the licence of SSV Markranstädt, a small side from a town just west of Leipzig, and built a new club around it.
When RB Leipzig began playing in 2009, which tier of German football were they in?
The fifth tier. They started in the fifth-tier NOFV-Oberliga Süd and won it at the first attempt, the first of four promotions in seven years.
In what year was RB Leipzig founded?
2009. The club was formally founded on 19 May 2009, making it one of the youngest sides ever to reach the Bundesliga.
Péter Gulácsi, RB Leipzig's goalkeeper from 2015 to 2026, played international football for which country?
Hungary. Gulácsi joined from Red Bull Salzburg in 2015 and won 58 caps for Hungary, going to the 2016, 2020 and 2024 European Championships.
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