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Red Bull Salzburg

Full name	FC Red Bull Salzburg
Nickname(s)	Die Bullen (The bulls)
Founded	September 13, 1933 as SV Austria Salzburg, 2005 as FC Red Bull Salzburg
Ground	Red Bull Arena, Wals-Siezenheim, Austria
Ground Capacity	31,895 (league matches), 29,800 (international matches)
Chairman	Rudi Theierl
Manager	Marco Rose
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2016/17	1st
Home colours Away colours

Red Bull Arena, home stadium of F.C. Red Bull Salzburg

F.C. Red Bull Salzburg is a football club from Salzburg that plays in the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was known as SV Austria Salzburg until 2005, when the club was bought by the Red Bull Company. They renamed the club and changed the colours from the traditional violet to red and white. Also, the company's logo was added. The club runs two academies in Ghana and in Brazil. Their home stadium is the Red Bull Arena which was opened in 2003 and was renovated for the 2008 Euro.

History

SV Austria Salzburg

The football club was started on September 13, 1933 by the unification of the two clubs FC Rapid Salzburg and FC Hertha Salzburg. During the time of the Nazi occupation of Germany the club was able to compete with SAK 1914. As Salzburg was champion they played for the promotion to the highest league, but failed. After the end of the war they started again as SV Austria Salzburg.

In 1952-53 they reached the A-Liga for the first time, the highest division of Austrian football then, beating Kapfenberger SV in the play-offs. They played there for 3 seasons but were relegated in 1959. To stay in the league they signed Erich Probst, who was the second best scorer in the FIFA World Cup 1954. In 20 matches he scored 14 goals, which helped Salzburg stay in the league. He was also the first player of SV Austria who played for the Austrian national football team. The next years were characterized by ups and downs. The first success was being second in the league in the 1971-72 season. This year was also their first year of playing in the UEFA Cup. The same year they made the Lehener Stadion their homeground. Two years later, in 1974, they reached the Austrian Cup final for the first time. However, the lost to FK Austria Wien 3-2 on global.

The best years of the club were between 1990 and 1997. In these years, the club reached the championship three times, played in the UEFA Champions League and played in the 1994 UEFA Cup final versus Inter Milan. They won their first Austrian Bundesliga title the same year, and the next year too. Their first Champions League in 1994 saw them reach the group stage, however, they were eliminated after finishing in third place out of four. In 2005 the Red Bull Company bought the club because the owners were having problems with money. Some traditional fans left the club and started a new club under the old name SV Austria Salzburg. Ever since 2005, the club has been named FC Red Bull Salzburg.

FC Red Bull Salzburg

In 2005 the Red Bull Company bought the club because the owners were having problems with money. Some traditional fans left the club and started a new club under the old name SV Austria Salzburg. Ever since 2005, the club has been named FC Red Bull Salzburg. One of the aims of the new owners was to form a team which can play in the UEFA Champions League regularly. This was not reached but the new club was nevertheless successful. In the national league they reached four titles and were four times second. In the 2009-10 Europa League the club won the group stage with 6 victories over FC Villarreal CF, SS Lazio and Levski Sofia. In the Round of 32 they lost versus Standard Lüttich. Also the next two Euro League group stages were reached. In the 2011-12 Europa League they got second in the group stage behind Athletic Bilbao.

In the 2012-13 Champions League they failed to beat F91 Dudelange from Luxembourg. So the team was changed and new players were bought. In the league they finished 2nd. In 2013/14 the team was very successful and came in first place in the league. In the 2017–18 Europa League, Salzburg reached the semi-finals where they lost to Olympique de Marseille 2-3 on aggregate. They had also beaten Lazio, Borussia Dortmund, and Real Sociedad.

European Competition History

As of 4 June 2020

• Q = Qualification
• PO = Play Off
• QF = Quarter Final
• SF = Semi Final
• till 2005 the name of the club was SV Austria Salzburg

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1971–72	UEFA Cup	1		UT Arad	3–1	1–4	4–5
1976–77	UEFA Cup	1		Adanaspor	5–0	0–2	5–2
		2		Crvena Zvezda	2–1	0–1	2–2
1980–81	European Cup Winners' Cup	1		Fortuna Düsseldorf	0–3	0–5	0–8
1992–93	UEFA Cup	1		Ajax	0–3	1–3	1–6
1993–94	UEFA Cup	1		DAC Dunajska Streda	2–0	2–0	4–0
		2		Royal Antwerp	1–0	1–0	2–0
		3		Sporting CP	3–0 (a.e.t.)	0–2	3–2
		QF		Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	0–1	1–1 (5–4 p.)
		SF		Karlsruher SC	0–0	1–1	1–1
		Final		Internazionale	0–1	0–1	0–2
1994–95	UEFA Champions League as Casino Salzburg	Q1		Maccabi Haifa	3–1	2–1	5–2
		Group D		AEK Athens	0–0	3–1	3rd Place
				Milan	0–1	0–3
				Ajax	0–0	1–1
1995–96	UEFA Champions League	Q1		Steaua București	0–0	0–1	0–1
1997–98	UEFA Champions League	Q1		Sparta Prague	0–0	0–3	0–3
1997–98	UEFA Cup	1		Anderlecht	4–3	2–4	6–7
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2		St. Gallen	3–1	0–1	3–2
		3		Twente	3–1	2–2	5–3
		4		Fortuna Sittard	3–1	1–2	4–3
		5		Valencia	0–2	1–2	1–4
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2		Nistru Otaci	1–1	6–2	7–3
		3		Standard Liège	1–1	1–3	2–4
2003–04	UEFA Cup	1		Udinese	0–1	2–1	2–2
		2		Parma	0–4	0–5	0–9
2006–07	UEFA Champions League	Q2		Zürich	2–0	1–2	3–2
		Q3		Valencia	1–0	0–3	1–3
2006–07	UEFA Cup	1		Blackburn Rovers	2–2	0–2	2–4
2007–08	UEFA Champions League	Q2		Ventspils	4–0	3–0	7–0
		Q3		Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	1–3	2–3
	UEFA Cup	1		AEK Athens	1–0	0–3	1–3
2008–09	UEFA Cup	Q1		Banants	7–0	3–0	10–0
		Q2		Sūduva Marijampolė	0–1	4–1	4–2
		1		Sevilla	0–2	0–2	0–4
2009–10	UEFA Champions League	Q2		Bohemians	1–1	1–0	2–1
		Q3		Dinamo Zagreb	1–1	2–1	3–2
		PO		Maccabi Haifa	1–2	0–3	1–5
	UEFA Europa League	Group G		Lazio	2–1	2–1	1st Place
				Villarreal	2–0	1–0
				Levski Sofia	1–0	1–0
		Round of 32		Standard Liège	0–0	2–3	2–3
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	Q2		HB Tórshavn	5–0	0–1	5–1
		Q3		Omonia	4–1	1–1	5–2
		PO		Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–3	1–1	3–4
	UEFA Europa League	Group A		Manchester City	0–2	0–3	4th Place
				Lech Poznań	0–1	0–2
				Juventus	1–1	0–0
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	Q2		Liepājas Metalurgs	4–1	0–0	4–1
		Q3		Senica	1–0	3–0	4–0
		PO		Omonia	1–0	1–2	2–2
		Group F		Slovan Bratislava	3–0	3–2	2nd Place
				Athletic Bilbao	0–1	2–2
				Paris Saint-Germain	2–0	1–3
		Round of 32		Metalist Kharkiv	0–4	1–4	1–8
2012–13	UEFA Champions League	Q2		Dudelange	4–3	0–1	4–4
2013–14	UEFA Champions League	Q3		Fenerbahçe	1–1	1–3	2–4
	UEFA Europa League	PO		Žalgiris Vilnius	5–0	2–0	7–0
		Group C		Elfsborg	4–0	1–0	1st Place
				Esbjerg	3–0	2–1
				Standard Liège	2–1	3–1
		Round of 32		Ajax	3–1	3–0	6–1
		Round of 16		Basel	1–2	0–0	1–2
2014–15	UEFA Champions League	3Q		Qarabağ	2–0	1–2	3–2
		PO		Malmö FF	2–1	0–3	2–4
	UEFA Europa League	Group D		Celtic	2–2	3–1	1st Place
				Astra Giurgiu	5–1	2–1
				Dinamo Zagreb	4–2	5–1
		Round of 32		Villarreal	1–3	1–2	2–5
2015–16	UEFA Champions League	3Q		Malmö FF	2–0	0–3	2–3
	UEFA Europa League	PO		Dinamo Minsk	2–0	0–2	2–2 (2–3 p.)
2016–17	UEFA Champions League	2Q		FK Liepāja	1–0	2–0	3–0
		3Q		Partizani	2–0	1–0	3–0
		PO		Dinamo Zagreb	1–2 (a.e.t.)	1–1	2–3
	UEFA Europa League	Group I		Schalke	2–0	1–3	3rd Place
				Krasnodar	0–1	1–1
				Nice	0–1	2–0
2017–18	UEFA Champions League	2Q		Hibernians	3–0	3–0	6–0
		3Q		Rijeka	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
	UEFA Europa League	PO		Viitorul Constanța	4–0	3–1	7–1
		Group I		Olympique Marseille	1–0	0–0	1st Place
				Vitória S.C.	3–0	1–1
				Konyaspor	0–0	2–0
		Round of 32		Real Sociedad	2–1	2–2	4–3
		Round of 16		Borussia Dortmund	0–0	2–1	2–1
		QF		Lazio	4–1	2–4	6–5
		SF		Olympique Marseille	2–1 (a.e.t.)	0–2	2–3
2018–19	UEFA Champions League	3Q		Shkëndija	3–0	1–0	4–0
		PO		Red Star Belgrade	2–2	0–0	2–2 (a)
	UEFA Europa League	Group B		Rosenborg	3–0	5–2	1st Place
				Celtic	3–1	2–1
				RB Leipzig	1–0	3–2
		Round of 32		Club Brugge	4–0	1–2	5–2
		Round of 16		Napoli	3–1	0–3	3–4
2019–20	UEFA Champions League	Group E		Genk	6–2	4–1	3rd Place
				Napoli	2–3	1–1
				Liverpool	0–2	3–4
	UEFA Europa League	Round of 32		Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	1–4	3–6

Statistics

League Position

Top Scorers

Best scorers since 2005
Season	Name	BL	Cup	EC	Goals	Further Information
2005/06	Austria Marc Janko	11	0	0	11
2006/07	Germany Alexander Zickler	22	2	2	26	Best scorer BL
2007/08	Germany Alexander Zickler	16	0	1	17	Best scorer BL
2008/09	Austria Marc Janko	39	1	2	42	Best scorer BL
2009/10	Austria Marc Janko	18	0	4	22
2010/11	Austria Roman Wallner	18	2	2	22
2011/12	Austria Jakob Jantscher	14	0	3	17
2011/12	Austria Stefan Mairhofer	14	0	0	14
2012/13	Spain Jonathan Soriano	26	3	0	29
2013/14	Spain Jonathan Soriano	31	3	11	45	Best scorer BL
2014/15	Spain Jonathan Soriano	31	7	?	?	Best scorer BL/ÖFB Cup
2015/16	Spain Jonathan Soriano	21	10	?	?
2014/15	South Korea Hee-Chan Hwang	12	0	?	?

Players

Current Squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Cican Stanković 4 MF Majeed Ashimeru 5 DF Albert Vallçi 6 DF Jérôme Onguéné 7 FW Sékou Koïta 8 FW Mërgim Berisha 9 FW Hwang Hee-chan 14 MF Dominik Szoboszlai 15 DF André Ramalho 16 MF Zlatko Junuzović 17 DF Andreas Ulmer (captain) 19 MF Mohamed Camara

No. Position Player 20 FW Patson Daka 23 GK Philipp Köhn 25 DF Patrick Farkas 27 FW Karim Adeyemi 28 MF Antoine Bernède 31 GK Carlos Miguel Coronel 33 GK Alexander Walke 37 MF Masaya Okugawa 39 DF Maximilian Wöber 43 DF Rasmus Nissen Kristensen 45 MF Enock Mwepu 77 FW Noah Okafor

Loaned Players

No. Position Player 3 DF Jasper van der Werff (at FC Basel) — MF Youba Diarra (at FC St. Pauli) — DF Darko Todorović (at Holstein Kiel) — DF Luca Meisl (at SKN St. Pölten) — DF Asger Sørensen (at Jahn Regensburg) — MF Mathias Honsak (at Holstein Kiel)

No. Position Player — DF Gideon Mensah (at SV Zulte Waregem) — FW David Atanga (at SpVgg Greuther Fürth) — FW Samuel Tetteh (at LASK Linz)

Coaching staff

Name	Name
Jesse Marsch	Head Coach
Rene Aufhauser	Assistant coach
Franz Schiemer	Assistant coach
Herbert Ilsanker	Goalkeeper coach
Heinz Arzberger	Goalkeeper coach

Gallery

Second Squad

FC Liefering, which currently plays in the Austrian Second League, has been a reserve team for Salzburg.

Honours

Austrian Bundesliga

• Champions: 1993–94*, 1994–95*, 1996–97*, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011-12

Austrian Cup

• Winners: 2012
• Runners-up: 1974*, 1980*, 1981*, 2000Austrian Supercup
• Winners: 1994*, 1995*, 1997UEFA Cup
• Runners-up: 1994* as Austria Salzburg

Manager history

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  Giovanni Trapattoni

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  Co Adriaanse

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  Huub Stevens

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  Ricardo Moniz

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  Roger Schmidt

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  Adolf Hütter

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  Peter Zeidler

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  Thomas Letsch

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  Oscar Garcia

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  Marco Rose

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  Herbert Ilsanker - Goalkeeper coach since 2005

Supporters

After the Red Bull take over of SV Austria Salzburg some group of fans were unhappy because the new club has other colours and did not accept the history of the club. After some negotiations these fans left the club and founded a new one under the name SV (Sportverein) Austria Salzburg. The new club is playing in the Regionalliga West

In the meantime Red Bull Salzburg has 44 official fan clubs all over Austria.

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