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Active in the Bundesliga for nine years now, RB Leipzig has established itself as a permanent fixture in German professional football. 

Due to its club structure, founding history, and financial resources, the Saxon club continues to be scrutinized much more critically than any other Bundesliga team. However, this now happens in a much more moderate form than 10-15 years ago.

A look back at the Oberliga and Regionalliga shows just how massive the resistance was back then, especially at the local level. Far removed from large arenas and television cameras, the newly founded club was met with the most extreme form of rejection imaginable. 

One particularly striking scene from the first Oberliga year in 2009 was revealed by former sporting director Joachim Krug in his book “Die Stunde Null.” At an away match against the second team of Carl Zeiss Jena, tensions escalated even before kickoff.

“The players ducked down and kept their heads low, at any moment a heavy paving stone could have shattered the windows. On the passenger side, some hooligans tried to pry open the bus door with a crowbar. The agitated mob raged. No question, the people wanted blood,” Krug recounts, who witnessed the scene firsthand.

These hostilities were not limited to isolated incidents. The club was seen as an enemy image in many places, and the aversion was emotional and uncompromising. While RB gradually edged closer to professional football on a sporting level, the opposition’s rejection initially remained consistently strong.

At the same time, insights into the club’s structures at the time show how unusually the project was approached even in the Oberliga. “The base salary was an incredible 20,000 euros and increased to 25,000 euros in the Regionalliga,” Krug reports.

He continues: “With promotion to the 3. Liga, a further increase in the base salary by 5,000 euros was planned. In addition, there were bonuses per point, which at the time were 250 euros per point in the Oberliga and were supposed to be doubled in the Regionalliga.”

The sporting rise of RB is hardly surprising in light of these figures—but of course, this can never be used as justification for scenes like those described by Krug.

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