Leipzig, city of heroes it is often referred to. The credit is due and well deserved as the city was the cradle from which the East German ‘velvet revolution’ began and spread across the GDR in 1989. In football however, the city resembles a working station, a lab, which experiments with football and produces new football clubs every other year it appears.

While the Milanello Football Lab aims to improve players performances and thus guarantee trophies for AC Milan, the city of Leipzig in Germany seems to be a fertile ground for football clubs to grow but also to vanish as the following will show. Leipzig was instrumental in German football history as the German FA, the Deutsche Fu