football club
FC Red Bull Salzburg is an austrian professional football club based in Wals-Siezenheim, that competes in the austrian Bundesliga, the clear flight of austrian Football. Their home ground is the Red Bull Arena. Due to sponsorship restrictions, the club is known as FC Salzburg and wears a limited crest when play in UEFA competitions. [ 2 ]
Reading: FC Red Bull Salzburg
The club was known as SV Austria Salzburg, and had respective sponsored names, before being bought by Red Bull GmbH in 2005 who renamed the club and changed its colors from its traditional violet and egg white to red and white. The change resulted in some of the team ‘s fans forming a raw cabaret, SV Austria Salzburg. Founded in 1933, the golf club won its inaugural Bundesliga championship in 1994, which was the first of three in the span of four seasons which besides saw them reach the 1994 UEFA Cup final. The baseball club has won fifteen league titles and eight austrian Cups, all eight of which came as doubles, ampere well as three austrian Supercups .
history [edit ]
historic chart of league performance of Red Bull Salzburg and their predecessor
1933–1953, founding, promotion to A-league [edit ]
FC RB Salzburg was founded on 13 September 1933 as SV Austria Salzburg, after the fusion of the city ‘s two clubs, Hertha and Rapid. [ 3 ] In 1950, the club was dissolved but re-founded later the like year. It reached the austrian crown flight in 1953, and finished 9th of 14 clubs in its first season there, avoiding delegating by five points. [ 4 ]
Vienna -born Erich Probst was Salzburg ‘s first-ever international, earning the last of his 19 austrian caps on 27 March 1960. [ 5 ] Adolf Macek, who made the first of his four international appearances on 9 October 1965, was the club ‘s beginning local actor to earn a cap for Austria. [ 6 ]
Salzburg were top-flight runner-up for the first meter in the 1970–71 season, gaining 43 points to Wacker Innsbruck ‘s 44. [ 7 ] The club ‘s first-ever european campaign was in the 1971–72 UEFA Cup, and it was eliminated 5–4 on sum by romanian golf club UTA despite a 3–1 home victory in the moment leg. In 1974, Salzburg reached the austrian Cup final examination for the first time, losing 2–1 away to Austria Wien in the first leg before a 1–1 home draw in the second. [ 8 ]
Salzburg moved to their current stadium, now known as the Red Bull Arena in 2003. In 1978, the club ‘s official name was changed to SV Casino Salzburg and in 1997, to SV Wüstenrot Salzburg, due to a sponsorship deal with an austrian fiscal services corporation. The team frequently remained mention to as SV Austria Salzburg .
Salzburg reached their first and so far alone european final, the 1994 UEFA Cup final, where they lost both legs 1–0 to Inter Milan. [ 9 ] That lapp season, Salzburg won their first Bundesliga title, beating Austria Wien by 51 points to 49. [ 10 ] The title was retained the following season as Salzburg beat Sturm Graz on goal dispute. [ 11 ] The 1995–96 season saw a dribble to eighth place, one above a delegating play-off, [ 12 ] but the club ‘s third base title in four seasons was won in 1997 as they beat holders Rapid Wien by three points. [ 13 ] Salzburg ‘s inaugural address UEFA Champions League campaign in 1994–95 saw them reach the group stage by beating Israel ‘s Maccabi Haifa 5–2 on aggregate. [ 14 ] They were drawn into Group D with holders and eventual finalists Milan and eventual winners Ajax, vitamin a well as AEK Athens. Despite drawing both matches with Ajax, Salzburg picked up a solitary confinement 3–1 win away in Athens and were eliminated in third base position. [ 15 ] The clubhouse moved to its stream stadium in 2003. [ 16 ]
The Red Bull takeover [edit ]
The Red Bull caller headed by Dietrich Mateschitz purchased the Salzburg Sport AG on 6 April 2005. The clubs bylaws were amended so that the RedBull Salzburg GmbH has the sole mighty to appoint and recall board members of the club. After the coup d’etat, Mateschitz changed the cabaret ‘s name, management, and staff, declaring “ this is a new club with no history ”. The clubs website initially claimed that it was founded in 2005, but was ordered to remove this claim by the Austrian Football Association. The new authority removed all trace of purple from the club logo and the team now play in the color of crimson and white, to the alarm of much of the club ‘s traditional corroborate. [ 17 ] A humble pair of wings form the theme of the new clubhouse crest, displayed on the team jersey, in accord with Red Bull ‘s commercial motto at the clock time : “ gives you wings ”. This arrant re-branding of the team proved very alike to Red Bull ‘s discussion of its two Formula One racing teams, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Torro Rosso, now rebranded as Scuderia AlphaTauri. Red Bull, however, would not completely follow this common law when it acquired the MetroStars baseball club in Major League Soccer ( MLS ) in the United States ; while it rebranded the team as the New York Red Bulls, it chose to recognise the MetroStars ‘ history .
crimson Bull Salzburg, October 2005 The traditional supporters tried to resist the radical changes and formed their own movement in regulate to regain some of the custom. respective fan-clubs throughout Europe voiced their support in what they saw as a fight against the growing commercialization of football. however, after five months of protests and talks between the golf 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 get up 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 fresh cabaret, Austria Salzburg after viewing Red Bull ‘s offer to maintain the original colours merely for the goalkeeper ‘s socks at off games as an insult. [ 18 ] The club ‘s history going back to 1933 was late restored on the baseball club web site. [ 19 ]
red Bull era [edit ]
Dutchman Ricardo Moniz coached Red Bull to a Bundesliga and cup double in the 2011–12 season . german Roger Schmidt was the team ‘s coach from 2012 until 2014. In May 2006, Red Bull announced on their web site that they had hired veteran italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni, in concert with his former player, german FIFA World Cup achiever Lothar Matthäus, as co-trainers. The pair initially denied having reached a deal, but officially signed on 23 May 2006. crimson Bull ultimately won the 2006–07 Bundesliga by a comfortable allowance with five games still left in the season after drawing 2–2 with previous season ‘s champions Austria Wien on 28 April 2007. loss Bull were beaten by Shakhtar Donetsk in the third modify round [ 20 ] [ 21 ] of the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League, and were then knocked out of the 2007–08 UEFA Cup in the beginning turn by AEK Athens. On 13 February 2008, Giovanni Trapattoni confirmed that he would be taking over as the new Republic of Ireland national team coach in May. In his final season, the club finished as runner-up, six points behind champions Rapid Wien. [ 22 ] 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. [ 23 ]
Stevens was replaced by Dutchman Ricardo Moniz at the end of the 2010–11 season, in which Red Bull were denied a third base straight title by Sturm Graz, who won the league by a three-point margin. [ 24 ] Red Bull finished second in the league, and qualified for the trace 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 beginning team. In the 2011–12 season, Red Bull won the Bundesliga league claim and Cup double. After the 2011–12 temper, Moniz departed his post despite having a year remaining on his sign. The new coach for the 2012–13 temper was Roger Schmidt, who came from SC Paderborn of the german 2. Bundesliga. In July 2012, Red Bull were knocked out of the Champions League in the moment qualify attack against F91 Dudelange of Luxembourg, losing the first leg 1–0 off, followed by a 4–3 base gain which saw the club eliminated on away goals. [ 25 ] After that, the team was changed basically. At the end of the transfer menstruation, newfangled players were purchased : Valon Berisha, Kevin Kampl, Håvard Nielsen, Sadio Mané, Isaac Vorsah, Rodnei. In the 2012–13 season, the team finished second in the league, behind champions Austria Wien. They recaptured the league title the following season with an 11-point gross profit over the runner-up. besides, in the 2014–15 season, they won both the Bundesliga and the cup as they did again in the 2015–16 season. In December 2014, the coach Peter Zeidler was dismissed and replaced for the last two matches in the first one-half of the temper by Thomas Letsch. then Óscar García took over. besides in the adjacent 2016–17 season, Salzburg won both the Bundesliga and the cup. In 2018, Salzburg lost the cup final against Sturm Graz. At the beginning of the 2017–18 season, Marco Rose became coach after Óscar García left the club. In the UEFA Europa League, Salzburg reached the semi-finals in which they lost to Olympique de Marseille 2–3 on aggregate after extra meter, having won during the campaign against Borussia Dortmund and Lazio. After eleven failed attempts to reach the group stagecoach, Red Bull only managed to qualify directly to the 2019–20 Champions League, since the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League winner, Liverpool, qualified to the rival via their domestic league. [ 26 ] In the years from 2013 to 2019, Salzburg earned €300 million from transfers of players like Munas Dabbur, Xaver Schlager, Stefan Lainer, Hannes Wolf, Diadie Samassekou, Takumi Minamino, Erling Haaland. [ 27 ]
In 2021, Salzburg had a transfer balance of +218 Mio EUR for the last 5 seasons, and was third gear of the champions league participants behind Benfica ( +335 Mio EUR ) and Ajax ( +242 Mio EUR ). Salzburg had a positive balance in every year. [ 28 ]
relationship with RB Leipzig [edit ]
In 2009, Red Bull bought an amateur club in Leipzig, Germany and re-named them RasenBallsport Leipzig ( so named to circumvent local rules on bodied name rules ) with the calculate of establishing a leading stigmatize team in that nation [ 29 ] [ 30 ] in a like cast to its existing franchises in Salzburg and early locations. [ 31 ] Over the adjacent ten, Leipzig became the owners ‘ main football project, and the close kinship between the teams was exemplified by the number of players moving between them ( Georg Teigl, Marcel Sabitzer, Yordy Reyna and Stefan Ilsanker all transferred from Salzburg to Leipzig ) with some of the austrian fans becoming increasingly annoyed at their best players being signed by the ‘step-sibling ‘ club in their mission to climb through the levels of german football. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] There are besides links between their youth systems [ 34 ] and scouting networks. [ 35 ] Having finished as runner-up in their debut temper in the german acme fledge, RB Leipzig gained entrance to continental football for the first prison term, specifically the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League for which Red Bull Salzburg had besides qualified as austrian champions ; this raised the publish of a possible conflict of interest between the clubs due to the grade of determine exerted by Red Bull over both teams and the close frolic relationship between them in versatile aspects. [ 36 ] [ 30 ] [ 37 ] After examining the operational structures during June 2017, UEFA declared themselves satisfied under their regulations that the two clubs ( particularly Salzburg ) were appropriately independent from the Red Bull corporation, and sufficiently clear-cut from one another, for both to be admitted to their competitions. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] In the first season following that ruling, both reached the quarter-finals of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League but did not play each other, with RB Leipzig eliminated by Olympique de Marseille who then besides knocked out Salzburg in the semi-finals. however, in the next edition of the same contest, RB Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg were drawn together in Group B to meet competitively for the beginning clock time. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Salzburg were the victors in both fixtures between the clubs ( 3–2 in Germany, 1–0 in Austria ) [ 42 ] [ 43 ] and besides won all their other matches to top the group, while Leipzig failed to progress after dropping far points against Celtic and Rosenborg. [ 44 ] On 17 December 2020, Dominik Szoboszlai poised to become the moment RB Salzburg actor to move to RB Leipzig in quad of 6 months after Hwang Hee-chan completed the switch in summer. [ 45 ]
Honours [edit ]
Austrian Bundesliga
Austrian Cup
Austrian Supercup
Austrian First League
- Winners: 1977–78*, 1986–87*
UEFA Cup
* as SV Austria Salzburg
UEFA Youth League
european contest history [edit ]
overall record [edit ]
- Accurate as of 23 November 2021
Competition
Played
Won
Drew
Lost
GF
GA
GD
Win%
UEFA Champions League
77
33
18
26
117
98
+19
0
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42.86
Cup Winners’ Cup
2
0
0
2
0
8
−8
00 0.00
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
120
62
17
41
196
144
+52
0 51.67
UEFA Intertoto Cup
12
4
3
5
22
19
+3
0 33.33
sum
211
99
38
74
335
269
+66
0 46.92
legend : GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference .
- Q = Qualification
- PO = Play-Off
- QF = Quarter-final
- SF = Semi-final
Matches [edit ]
UEFA coefficient ranking [edit ]
- As of 16 September 2021[46]
Rank
Country
Team
Points
21
FC Salzburg
59.000
Players [edit ]
current squad [edit ]
- As of 3 September 2021[47]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Out on loan [edit ]
- As of 3 September 2021[48]
bill : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Coaching staff [edit ]
FC Liefering [edit ]
Since 2012, FC Liefering, presently participating in the austrian First League, has been a farm team for Red Bull Salzburg. [ 49 ]