TuRa Leipzig was a German association football club active before

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from the city of

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

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. Successor sides included '' BSG Chemie Leipzig'', which was part of

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football competition, and ''

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, on ...

'', which emerged following

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in 1990. __TOC__

History

The club was established in 1932 as ''Sportverein für Turnen und Rasenspiel Leipzig'' and advanced out of local play in 1936 to join the Gauliga Sachsen, one of 16 top-flight regional leagues established under the

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. In November 1938, ''TuRa 32'' was joined by ''Leipziger Sportverein 1899'' which was the product of the 1919 union of ''FC Britannia 1899 Leipzig'', established on 30 August 1899, and ''FC Hertha 1905 Leipzig'', established 13 March 1905 as ''FC Hohenzollern Leipzig''. ''TuRa 1899 Leipzig'' continued to play in the Gauliga Sachsen through to the end of the 1941–42 campaign when they were relegated. The team made a single appearance in 1940 in play for the Tschammerpokal, predecessor to the modern-day

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(German Cup). They returned to first division play after a single season absence before being paired with ''

SpVgg Leipzig SpVgg Leipzig is a German association football club from the city of Leipzig, Saxony. It was formed on 15 February 1899 as the football department of gymnastics club ''ATV Leipzig-Lindenau'' and became independent as ''Spielvereinigung Leipzig'' ...

'' to form the wartime side ''Kriegspielgemeinschaft Leipzig''. The 1944–45 season ended prematurely as

overtook the country and the team was lost at war's end. Organizations throughout the country, including sports and football clubs, were disbanded after the conflict as part of the process of

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. New clubs soon emerged from the remnants of the pre-war associations and former ''TuRa'' members established ''SG Leutzsch'', named for the club's home district, in 1945. In early 1949, ''SG'' and a number of other clubs including ''SG Lindenau-Hafen'' (out of the former membership of ''SpVgg Leipzig ''), ''SG Lindenau-Aue'', ''SG Leipzig-Mitte'', and ''SG Böhlitz-Ehrenberg'' were merged to create ''Zentral Sportgemeinschaft Industrie Leipzig'' which later in the year became ''ZSG Industrie Leutsch'' before disappearing in another merger of several city sides.

References

External links

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