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FC Red Bull Salzburg is an austrian professional football club based in Wals-Siezenheim, that competes in the austrian Bundesliga, the top 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 modify cap when meet in UEFA competitions. [ 2 ]

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 baseball club and changed its tinge from its traditional violet and white to loss and white. The change resulted in some of the team ‘s fans forming a modern baseball club, SV Austria Salzburg. Founded in 1933, the club won its inaugural Bundesliga title 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 clubhouse has won fifteen league titles and eight austrian Cups, all eight of which came as doubles, a well as three austrian Supercups .

history [edit ]

diachronic chart of league operation 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 amalgamation of the city ‘s two clubs, Hertha and Rapid. [ 3 ] In 1950, the club was dissolved but re-founded subsequently the same year. It reached the austrian top flight in 1953, and finished 9th of 14 clubs in its foremost season there, avoiding relegation 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 first local player to earn a cap for Austria. [ 6 ]
Salzburg were top-flight runner-up for the beginning time in the 1970–71 season, gaining 43 points to Wacker Innsbruck ‘s 44. [ 7 ] The baseball 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 second stage. In 1974, Salzburg reached the austrian Cup final for the first time, losing 2–1 away to Austria Wien in the first leg before a 1–1 home draw in the second base. [ 8 ]
Salzburg moved to their current stadium, now known as the Red Bull Arena in 2003. In 1978, the golf 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 pot. The team much remained refer to as SV Austria Salzburg .
Salzburg reached their inaugural and thus far lone european final examination, the 1994 UEFA Cup final examination, 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 deviation. [ 11 ] The 1995–96 season saw a drop to one-eighth place, one above a relegation play-off, [ 12 ] but the cabaret ‘s third gear 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 degree 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, a well as AEK Athens. Despite drawing both matches with Ajax, Salzburg picked up a nongregarious 3–1 win away in Athens and were eliminated in third base place. [ 15 ] The club moved to its current stadium in 2003. [ 16 ]

The Red Bull coup d’etat [edit ]

The Red Bull company headed by Dietrich Mateschitz purchased the Salzburg Sport AG on 6 April 2005. The clubs bylaws were amended thus that the RedBull Salzburg GmbH has the sole veracious to appoint and recall display panel members of the club. After the takeover, Mateschitz changed the club ‘s name, management, and staff, declaring “ this is a modern 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 decipher of violet from the club logo and the team now play in the colors of crimson and whiten, to the alarm of a lot of the baseball club ‘s traditional support. [ 17 ] A small match of wings form the motif of the new club crest, displayed on the team jersey, in accord with Red Bull ‘s commercial motto at the clock : “ gives you wings ”. This complete re-branding of the team proved very similar to Red Bull ‘s discussion of its two Formula One racing teams, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Torro Rosso, immediately rebranded as Scuderia AlphaTauri. Red Bull, however, would not wholly follow this precedent when it acquired the MetroStars 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 .
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 custom. respective fan-clubs throughout Europe voiced their defend in what they saw as a fight against the growing commercialization of football. however, after five months of protests and talks between the clubhouse owners and traditional fans, no compromise was reached. On 15 September 2005, the “ purple ” supporters stated that the talks had irreversibly broken down and efforts to reach an agreement would be terminated. This gave ascent to two separate winnow groups : the “ Red-Whites ”, who support “ Red Bull Salzburg ” and the “ Violet-Whites ”, who want to preserve the 72-year-old custom and refuse to support the rebranded baseball club. The Violet-Whites ultimately formed a modern golf club, Austria Salzburg after viewing Red Bull ‘s offer to maintain the original colours alone for the goalkeeper ‘s socks at away games as an abuse. [ 18 ] The baseball club ‘s history going back to 1933 was later restored on the club web site. [ 19 ]

crimson 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, together with his early player, german FIFA World Cup achiever Lothar Matthäus, as co-trainers. The pair initially denied having reached a conduct, but officially signed on 23 May 2006. red Bull ultimately won the 2006–07 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 passing round [ 20 ] [ 21 ] of the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League, and were then knocked out of the 2007–08 UEFA Cup in the first round off 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 baseball 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 temper, in which Red Bull were denied a third gear consecutive 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 pursue season ‘s UEFA Europa League. Moniz was ordered to integrate young players from the Junior team : 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 Bundesliga league title and Cup doubling. After the 2011–12 temper, Moniz departed his post despite having a class remaining on his abridge. The new coach for the 2012–13 season 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 second modification round of golf against F91 Dudelange of Luxembourg, losing the first gear leg 1–0 away, followed by a 4–3 home gain which saw the club eliminated on off goals. [ 25 ] After that, the team was changed basically. At the end of the transfer period, fresh 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 margin 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 base half of the season 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 begin 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 time, having won during the crusade against Borussia Dortmund and Lazio. After football team failed attempts to reach the group stage, Red Bull merely managed to qualify directly to the 2019–20 Champions League, since the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League achiever, Liverpool, qualified to the competition 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 survive 5 seasons, and was third of the champions league participants behind Benfica ( +335 Mio EUR ) and Ajax ( +242 Mio EUR ). Salzburg had a positive proportion 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 ( indeed named to circumvent local rules on corporate list rules ) with the calculate of establishing a leading branded team in that nation [ 29 ] [ 30 ] in a alike mold to its existing franchises in Salzburg and other locations. [ 31 ] Over the future decade, Leipzig became the owners ‘ main football project, and the close kinship between the teams was exemplified by the numeral of players moving between them ( Georg Teigl, Marcel Sabitzer, Yordy Reyna and Stefan Ilsanker wholly transferred from Salzburg to Leipzig ) with some of the austrian fans becoming increasingly annoyed at their best players being signed by the ‘step-sibling ‘ cabaret 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 season in the german top flight, RB Leipzig gained entry to continental football for the first clock time, specifically the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League for which Red Bull Salzburg had besides qualified as austrian champions ; this raised the topic of a possible battle of matter to between the clubs due to the level of influence exerted by Red Bull over both teams and the close sporting 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 ( peculiarly Salzburg ) were appropriately freelancer from the Red Bull pot, and sufficiently distinct from one another, for both to be admitted to their competitions. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] In the first gear temper 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 future edition of the lapp competition, RB Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg were drawn together in Group B to meet competitively for the first 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 early 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 second RB Salzburg player to move to RB Leipzig in outer space of 6 months after Hwang Hee-chan completed the switch over in summer. [ 45 ]

Honours [edit ]

Austrian Bundesliga
Austrian Cup
Austrian Supercup
Austrian First League

  • Winners: 1977–78*, 1986–87*

UEFA Cup
UEFA Youth League
* as SV Austria Salzburg

european competition history [edit ]

overall phonograph 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

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
entire 211 99 38 74 335 269 +66 0 46.92

caption : 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 Austria FC Salzburg 59.000

Players [edit ]

stream team [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 6 December 2021[48]

eminence : Flags indicate national 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 ]

Coaching history [edit ]

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]