FC Red Bull Salzburg

Red Bull Salzburg

Full name	Football Club Red Bull Salzburg
Nickname(s)	Die Roten Bullen (The Red Bulls)
Founded	1933 (1933) (2005 (2005) as Red Bull Salzburg)
Ground	Red Bull Arena Wals-Siezenheim Austria
Ground Capacity	31,000
Owner	Red Bull GmbH
Chairman	Georgios Esplandatkoulos
Manager	Óscar García
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2015–16	Austrian Bundesliga, 1st
Home colours Away colours

FC Red Bull Salzburg is an Austrian association football club, based in Wals-Siezenheim. Their home ground is the Red Bull Arena. Due to sponsorship restrictions, the club is known as FC Salzburg and wears a modified crest when playing in UEFA competitions.

The club was known as SV Austria Salzburg, and had several sponsored names, before being bought by Red Bull GmbH in 2005 who renamed the club and changed its colours from its traditional violet and white to red and white. The change resulted in some of the team's fans forming a new club, SV Austria Salzburg.

Founded in 1933, the club won its first Austrian Bundesliga in 1994, which was the first of three in the space of four seasons which also saw them reach the 1994 UEFA Cup Final. The team currently has 10 league titles to its name, and three Austrian Cups, all of which came as doubles.

History

Pre-Red Bull

FC Red Bull Salzburg was founded on 13 September 1933 as SV Austria Salzburg, after the merger of the city's two clubs, Hertha and Rapid. In 1950, the club was dissolved but re-founded later the same year. It reached the Austrian top flight in 1953, and finished 9th of 14 clubs in its first season there, avoiding relegation by five points. Vienna-born Erich Probst was Salzburg's first-ever international, earning the last of his 19 Austrian caps on 27 March 1960. Adolf Macek, who made the first of his four international appearances on 9 October 1965, was the club's first local player to earn a cap for Austria.

Salzburg were top-flight runners-up for the first time in the 1970–71 season, gaining 43 points to Wacker Innsbruck's 44. The club's first-ever European campaign was in the 1971-72 UEFA Cup, and it was eliminated 5–4 on aggregate by Romanian club UTA despite a 3–1 home victory in the second leg. In 1974, Salzburg reached the Austrian Cup final for the first time, and lost 2–1 away to Austria Vienna in the first leg before a 1–1 home draw in the second.

Salzburg moved to their current stadium, now known as the Red Bull Arena in 2003

In 1978, the official name was changed to SV Casino Salzburg and in 1997, to SV Wüstenrot Salzburg, due to a sponsorship deal with an Austrian financial services corporation. The team often remained referred to as SV Austria Salzburg. During the Casino era, Salzburg reached their first and so far only European final, the 1994 UEFA Cup Final, where they lost both legs 1–0 to Italian club Inter Milan. That same season, Salzburg won their first Bundesliga title, beating Austria Vienna by 51 points to 49. The title was retained the following season as Salzburg beat Sturm Graz on goal difference. The 1995–96 season saw a drop to eighth place, one above a relegation play-off, but the club's third title in four seasons was won in 1997 as they beat holders Rapid Vienna by three points.

Salzburg's inaugural UEFA Champions League campaign in 1994–95 saw them reach the group stage by beating Israel's Maccabi Haifa 5–2 on aggregate. They were drawn into Group D with holders and eventual finalists AC Milan and eventual winners Ajax Amsterdam, as well as AEK Athens. Despite drawing both matches with Ajax, Salzburg picked up a solitary 3–1 win away in Athens and were eliminated in third place.

The club moved to its current stadium in 2003.

The Red Bull takeover

Due to UEFA regulations, Red Bull Salzburg use a modified crest and the name "FC Salzburg" when playing European matches.

The Red Bull company bought the club on 6 April 2005 and rebranded it. After the takeover, Red Bull changed the club's name, management, and staff, declaring "this is a new club with no history." Red Bull initially claimed on the club website that the club was founded in 2005, but was ordered to remove this claim by the Austrian Football Association. The new authority removed all trace of violet from the club logo and the team now play in the colours of red and white, to the consternation of much of the club's traditional support. A small pair of wings form the motif of the new club crest, displayed on the team jersey, in accordance with Red Bull's commercial slogan at the time: "gives you wings." This complete re-branding of the team proved very similar to Red Bull's treatment of its two Formula One racing teams, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso. However, Red Bull would not completely follow this precedent when it acquired the MetroStars club in Major League Soccer in the United States; while it rebranded the team as the New York Red Bulls, it chose to recognise the MetroStars' history.

Red Bull Salzburg, October 2005

The traditional supporters tried to resist the radical changes and formed their own movement in order to regain some of the tradition. Several fan-clubs throughout Europe voiced their support in what they saw as a fight against the growing commercialisation of football. However, after five months of protests and talks between the club owners and traditional fans, no compromise was reached. On 15 September 2005, the 'violet' supporters stated that the talks had irreversibly broken down and efforts to reach an agreement would be terminated.

This gave rise to two separate fan groups: the 'Red-Whites', who support 'Red Bull Salzburg' and the 'Violet-Whites', who want to preserve the 72-year-old tradition and refuse to support the rebranded club. The Violet-Whites ultimately formed a new club, SV Austria Salzburg.

Red Bull era

Dutchman Ricardo Moniz coached Red Bull to a Bundesliga and Cup double in the 2011–12 season.

German Roger Schmidt was coach from 2012 until 2014

Adolf Hütter – Coach from 2014 to 2015

In May 2006, Red Bull announced on their website that they had hired veteran Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni, together with his former player, German World Cup winner Lothar Matthäus, as co-trainers. The pair initially denied having reached a deal, but officially signed on 23 May 2006. Red Bull ultimately won the 2006–07 T-Mobile Bundesliga by a comfortable margin with five games still left in the season after drawing 2–2 with previous season's champions Austria Wien on 28 April 2007.

Red Bull were beaten by Shakhtar Donetsk in the third qualifying round of the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League, and were then knocked out of the 2007–08 UEFA Cup in the first round by AEK Athens. On 13 February 2008, Italian manager Giovanni Trapattoni confirmed that he would be taking over as the new Republic of Ireland manager in May. In his final season, the club finished as runners-up, six points behind champions Rapid Vienna. Trapattoni was succeeded by Co Adriaanse, under whom they finished as champions, but he left after one year. His successor was Huub Stevens. On 14 May 2010, Stevens' Red Bull retained the Bundesliga.

Stevens was replaced by Dutchman Ricardo Moniz at the end of the 2010–11 season, in which Red Bull were denied a third consecutive title by Sturm Graz, who won the league by a three-point margin. Red Bull finished second in the league, and qualified for the following season's UEFA Europa League. Moniz was ordered to integrate young players from the Junior squad: at the beginning of the 2011–12 season Daniel Offenbacher, Martin Hinteregger, Georg Teigl and Marco Meilinger were promoted to the first team. In the 2011–12 season Red Bull won the Austrian Bundesliga league title and Cup double.

After the 2011–12 season Moniz departed his post despite having a year remaining on his contract. The new coach for the 2012–13 season was Roger Schmidt, who came from Paderborn of the German 2. Bundesliga. In July 2012, Red Bull were knocked out of the Champions League in the second qualifying round against F91 Dudelange of Luxembourg, losing the first leg was lost 1–0 away, followed by a 4–3 home win which saw the club eliminated on away goals.

After that, the team was changed fundamentally. At the end of the transfer period new players were bought (Valon Berisha, Kevin Kampl, Håvard Nielsen, Sadio Mané, Isaac Vorsah, Rodnei). In the 2012–13 season the team finished second in the league behind champion FK Austria Wien. They recaptured the league title the following season, with an 11-point margin over the runners-up. Also in the 2014/15 season they won both the league and the cup.

Honours

Austrian Bundesliga

• Champions (10): 1993–94*, 1994–95*, 1996–97*, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
• Runners-up (4): 2005–06, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2012–13

Austrian Cup

• Winners (4): 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
• Runners-up (4): 1973–74*, 1979–80*, 1980–81*, 1999–2000*

Austrian Supercup

• Winners (3): 1994*, 1995*, 1997*

Austrian First League

• Winners (2): 1977–78*, 1986–87*

UEFA Cup

• Runners-up (1): 1993–94*

* as Casino Salzburg

European competition history

• Q = Qualification
• PO = Play-Off
• QF = Quarter-final
• SF = Semi-final

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	UEFA 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 (aet)	0–2	3–2
		QF		Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	5–4 (pen.)	6–4
		SF		Karlsruhe	0–0	1–1	1–1
		Final		Internazionale	0–1	0–1	0–2
1994–95	UEFA Champions League	Q1		Maccabi Haifa	3–1	2–1	5–2
		Group D		AEK Athens	0–0	3–1
				Milan	0–1	0–3
				Ajax	0–0	1–1
1995–96	UEFA Champions League	Q1		Steaua Bucureşti	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 Liége	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
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1		AEK Athens	1–0	0–3	1–3
2008–09	UEFA Cup	Q1		Banants	7–0	3–0	10–0
		Q2		Suduva Marijampole	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
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	Group G		Lazio	2–1	2–1
				Villarreal	2–0	1–0
				Levski Sofia	1–0	1–0
		Round of 32		Standard Liege	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
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	Group A		Manchester City	0–2	0–3
				Lech Poznan	0–1	0–2
				Juventus Turin	1–1	0–0
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	Q2		FK Liepājas Metalurgs	4–1	0–0	4–1
		Q3		FK Senica	1–0	3–0	4–0
		PO		Omonia	1–0	1–2	2–2
		Group F		Slovan Bratislava	3–0	3–2
				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
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	PO		Žalgiris Vilnius	5–0	2–0	7–0
		Group C		IF Elfsborg	4–0	1–0
				Esbjerg fB	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
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	Group D		Celtic	2–2	3–1
				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
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	PO		Dinamo Minsk	2–0	0–2	2–2 (2–3 p.)
2016–17	UEFA Champions League	2Q			–	–	–

Gallery

• 

  Champions 2006–07

• 

  Champions 2008–09

• 

  Champions 2009–10

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  Champions 2011–12

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  Champions 2013-14

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  Champions 2014-15

• 

  Austrian Cup 2012

• 

  Austrian Cup 2015

Players

Current squad

As of 20 January 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Cican Stankovic 2 DF Benno Schmitz 3 DF Paulo Miranda 4 DF Dayot Upamecano 5 DF Duje Ćaleta-Car 6 DF Christian Schwegler 7 MF Reinhold Yabo 8 MF Naby Keïta 9 FW Moanes Dabour 10 FW Valentino Lazaro 14 MF Valon Berisha 15 FW Yordy Reyna 16 FW Omer Damari (on loan from RB Leipzig) 17 DF Andreas Ulmer 18 FW Takumi Minamino

No. Position Player 20 MF David Atanga 22 DF Stefan Lainer 23 MF Hany Mukhtar (on loan from Benfica) 24 MF Christoph Leitgeb 26 FW Jonatan Soriano (Captain) 27 MF Konrad Laimer 28 DF Asger Sørensen 31 GK Airton 33 GK Alexander Walke 34 GK Lawrence Ati-Zigi 37 FW Dimitri Oberlin 46 FW Smail Prevljak 48 FW Hwang Hee-chan 55 MF Yasin Pehlivan 95 DF Bernardo

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 9 FW Marco Djuricin (to Brentford) 36 DF Martin Hinteregger (to Borussia Mönchengladbach)

No. Position Player MF Taxiarchis Fountas (to Asteras Tripoli) MF Ante Roguljić (to Hajduk Split)

Coaching staff

Óscar García	Head coach
Ruben Martinez	Assistant coach
Richard Kitzbichler	Assistant coach
Gerhard Struber	Assistant coach
René Aufhauser	Assistant coach
Herbert Ilsanker	Goalkeeper coach
Christof Elser	Athletical coach

Management

Christoph Freund	Sports head
Jochen Sauer	Business leader
Ernst Tanner	Trainees head

Chairmen

Dietrich Mateschitz	Investor

Scouting

Gérard Houllier	Global sports director
Manfred Linzmaier	Scout
Leo Lainer	Scout
Heiko Laessig	Scout
Roman Szewczyk	Scout
Piet Hamberg	Scout
Benoît Thans	Scout

Medical department

Helmut Klampfer	Club doctor
Jürgen Herfert	Club doctor
Dr. Thomas Frölich	Club doctor
Patrick Rottenhofer	Physiotherapist
Wolfgang Schwertl	Masseur

Public work

Sharif Shoukry	Publicist
Christian Kircher	Publicist

Other work

Thomas Strasser	Kitman
Helmut van der Vorle	Kitman
Georg Wimmer	Busman
Hans Leitert	Coordinator of goalkeeper division
Alexander Zickler	Youth coach

FC Liefering squad

Main article: FC Liefering

As of 10 January 2015

FC Liefering is the reserve team of FC Red Bull Salzburg, and plays in the Austrian First League

FC Red Bull Salzburg under 19s squad

As of September 16, 2015

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Valentino Jović 2 DF Florian Wiedl 3 DF Thomas Ettl 4 DF Branimir Kuhar 5 DF Luca Meisl 6 MF Dominik Stumberger 7 MF Marvin Schöpf 8 MF Nico Gorzel 9 MF Hannes Wolf 10 FW Mergim Berisha 11 MF Oliver Filip 12 FW Randy Montie 13 FW Nicolas Meister 14 DF Julian Gölles

No. Position Player 15 MF Steven Schmidt 16 MF Mario Andric 17 DF Christian Kappacher 18 MF Maximilian Mayer 19 MF Kenan Kirim 20 MF Can Cakir 21 GK Lukas Fuchs 22 FW Christoph Halper 23 MF Maximilian Schuster 24 DF Juhani Pikkarainen 25 MF Philipp Sturm 26 DF Alexander Burgstaller 27 MF Martin Pajaczkowski 28 GK Bartlomiej Zynel

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Mario Schragl (to Dortmund Under 17)

Under 18s coaching staff

Thomas Letsch	Head coach
Janusz Gora	Assistant coach
Arno Herzog	Fitness coach
Stefan Loch	Goalkeeping coach

Managerial history

• K. Bauer (1933–??)
• Wache (1945)
• Anton Janda (1946–??)
• Ernst Schönfeld (1952)
• Max Breitenfelder (1953)
• Karl Sesta (1954–55)
• Josef Graf (1955)
• Gyula Szomoray (1956–57)
• Günter Praschak (1957)
• Franz Feldinger (1958)
• Karl Humenberger (1959)
• Erich Probst (1959–60)
• Karl Vetter (1960–61)
• Ignac Molnár (1962–63)
• Günter Praschak (1965–69)
• Karl Schlechta (1969–71)
• Erich Hof (July 1, 1971 – Dec 31, 1971)
• Michael Pfeiffer (1972)
• Josip Šikić (1972–73)

• Günter Praschak (1973–75)
• Alfred Günthner (1975)
• Hans Reich (1976)
• Günter Praschak (1977)
• Alfred Günthner (1977–80)
• Rudolf Strittich (1980)
• August Starek (Oct 5, 1980 – June 30, 1981)
• Joszef Obert (July 1, 1981 – May 11, 1984)
• Hannes Winklbauer (May 13, 1984 – Nov 2, 1985)
• Adolf Blutsch (Nov 6, 1985 – June 30, 1986)
• Hannes Winklbauer (July 1, 1986 – April 16, 1988)
• Kurt Wiebach (April 18, 1988 – June 30, 1991)
• Otto Barić (July 11, 1991 – Aug 29, 1995)
• Hermann Stessl (Aug 29, 1995 – March 2, 1996)
• Heribert Weber (March 7, 1996 – March 31, 1998)
• Hans Krankl (April 2, 1998 – Jan 9, 2000)
• Miroslav Polak (Jan 10, 2000 – June 30, 2000)
• Hans Backe (July 1, 2000 – Sept 10, 2001)
• Lars Søndergaard (Sept 11, 2001 – Oct 29, 2003)

• Peter Assion (interim) (Nov 1, 2003 – Dec 31, 2003)
• Walter Hörmann (interim) (Jan 1, 2004 – March 15, 2004)
• Peter Assion (March 16, 2004 – March 31, 2005)
• Nikola Jurčević (March 7, 2005 – April 18, 2005)
• Manfred Linzmaier (int.) (April 18, 2005 – June 30, 2005)
• Kurt Jara (July 1, 2005 – May 31, 2006)
• Giovanni Trapattoni (June 1, 2006 – April 30, 2008)
• Co Adriaanse (July 1, 2008 – June 15, 2009)
• Huub Stevens (June 15, 2009 – April 8, 2011)
• Ricardo Moniz (April 8, 2011 – June 12, 2012)
• Roger Schmidt (July 1, 2012 – May 31, 2014)
• Adolf Hütter (June 1, 2014 – June 15, 2015)
• Peter Zeidler (June 22, 2015 – December 3, 2015)
• Thomas Letsch (interim) (December 3, 2015 – December 28, 2015)
• Óscar García (December 28, 2015 – Present)

See also

• Red Bull Brasil
• Red Bull Ghana
• RB Leipzig
• New York Red Bulls
• EC Red Bull Salzburg

External links

• (English) Official website
• Red Bull Salzburg at Wikimedia Commons
• (German) Official Fanblog