FC Red Bull Salzburg

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
Capacity	31,895 (league matches),; 29,800 (international matches)
Chairman	Rudi Theierl
Manager	Matthias Jaissle
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2022/23	1st
Home colours	Away colours

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[change | change source]

SV Austria Salzburg[change | change source]

The club was formed on September 13, 1933 by the unification of the cities two clubs: FC Rapid Salzburg and FC Hertha 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[change | change source]

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 2008, they beat FC Banants of Armenia 10-0 on aggregate as part of qualification for the 2008-09 Europa League. In the 2009-10 Europa League the club won their group with 6 victories over 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. Although they lost 1-8 on aggregate to Metalist Kharkiv in the Round of 32, they beat Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 in the group stages.

In the 2013–14 season the team was very successful: They came in first place in the league and got to the round of 16 of the Europa League. In the Europa League, the club won all 6 of their group stage matches. Then they beat AFC Ajax 6-1 on aggregate in the round of 32, but unfortunately lost 1-2 to Basel in the round of 16. 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.

In the 2019-20 season Salzburg reached for the first time the Championsleague group stage. They played versus Liverpool F.C., S.S.C. Napoli and K.R.C. Genk. They reached the 3rd place with seven points. In the following round of 32 in the Euroleague they lost versus Eintracht Frankfurt 3:6. The next season they had to play a playoff-match versus Maccabi Tel-Aviv. With a 5:2 Salzburg qualified for the group stage and played against FC Bayern München, Atletico Madrid and Lok Moskau. As 3rd they played in the Euroleague versus Villareal but lost. In the 2021-22 season they were qualified versus Brøndby IF (4:2). In the group stage they played versus Sevilla F.C., Lille OSC and VfL Wolfsburg. As 2nd they were qualified for the Round of 16 for the first time in club history. There they lost versus FC Bayern München. (Home:1-1, Away: 1-7)

In the Championsleague group stage 2022-23 they played versus Chelsea, AC Milan and Dinamo Zagreb. They reached the 3rd place and played in the Europa Leage play off versus the later finalist AS Roma (1-0, 0-2). In the league they reached the 10th championtitel in a row. So they were qualified again for the UEFA Champions League. In the Cup they lost in the quarterfinals versus SK Sturm Graz. This team was also a hard opponent in the league. On 19 July 2023 it was offialy announced that sporting director Christoph Freund left the club after 17 years and moved to FC Bayern München. ^[1] On 28 July Jaissle was released from office because of negotiations with the Saudi club Al-Ahli SFC shortly before the start of the championship. In a press conference on July 31, 2023, Gerhard Struber was introduced as the new head coach. He received a two-year contract. He was a coach at the Red Bull Football Academy and at FC Liefering for eight years earlier. He has already worked once for Salzburg as an assistant coach.

FC Red Bull Salzburg (women)[change | change source]

With the 2023/24 season, FC Red Bull Salzburg will enter women's football .As first step, a U16 team will start championship at Bergheim. There will be a cooperation with FC Bergheim because there were good structures and several years of experience in women's football. ^[2]

On 4 August 2023 the girls played their first official match versus LASK. The score was 5:0.

Supporters[change | change source]

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 67 official fan clubs all over Austria.^[3]

Social media[change | change source]

On Social Media the club has over one million followers.

Facebook: 464.000
Instagram: 253.300
TikTok: 183.100
Twitter: 85.900
YouTube: 40.200
LinkedIn: 5.500^[4]

Second Squad[change | change source]

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

European competition history[change | change source]

As of 9 September 2022

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

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1971–72	UEFA Cup	1	UTA Arad	3–1	1–4	4–5
1976–77	UEFA Cup	1	Adanaspor	5–0	0–2	5–2
1976–77	UEFA Cup	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
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3	Standard Liège	1–1	1–3	2–4
2003–04	UEFA Cup	1	Udinese	0–1	2–1	2–2
2003–04	UEFA Cup	2	Parma	0–4	0–5	0–9
2006–07	UEFA Champions League	Q2	Zürich	2–0	1–2	3–2
2006–07	UEFA Champions League	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
	UEFA Champions League	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 (a)
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
	UEFA Champions League	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
2015–16	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
	UEFA Champions League	3Q	Rijeka	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
	UEFA Europa League	PO	Viitorul Constanța	4–0	3–1	7–1
		Group I	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	Marseille	2–1 (a.e.t.)	0–2	2–3
2018–19	UEFA Champions League	3Q	Shkëndija	3–0	1–0	4–0
	UEFA Champions League	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
2020–21	UEFA Champions League	PO	Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–1	2–1	5–2
		Group A	FC Lokomotiv Moscow	2–2	3–1	3rd Place
			Bayern Munich	2–6	1–3
			Atlético Madrid	0–2	2–3
	UEFA Europa League	Round of 32	Villarreal	0–2	1–2	1–4
2021–22	UEFA Champions League	PO	Brøndby	2–1	2–1	4–2
		Group G	Sevilla	1–0	1–1	2nd Place
			Lille	2–1	0–1
			VfL Wolfsburg	3–1	1–2
	Knock-out stage		FC Bayern München	1-1	1–7	2–8
2021–22	UEFA Champions League	PO	Brøndby	2–1	2–1	4–2
		Group G	Sevilla	1–0	1–1	2nd Place
			Lille	2–1	0–1
			VfL Wolfsburg	3–1	1–2
		Round of 16	Bayern Munich	1–1	1–7	2–8
2022–23	UEFA Champions League	Group E
			AC Milan	1–1	0-4	1-5
			Chelsea	1–2	1-1	2-3
			Dinamo Zagreb	1–0	1-1	2-1
2022-23	Europa League	Play off	AS Roma	1-0	0-2	1-2

Statistics[change | change source]

League Position[change | change source]

Season	Pos.	Points
2005/06	2	63
2006/07	1	75
2007/08	2	63
2008/09	1	74
2009/10	1	76
2010/11	2	63
2011/12	1	68
2012/13	2	77
2013/14	1	80
2014/15	1	73
2015/16	1	74
2016/17	1	81
2017/18	1	83
2018/19	1	52^[5]
2019/20	1	50
2020/21	1	51
2021/22	1	52
2022/23	1	49

Players[change | change source]

Current squad[change | change source]

As of 31 July 2023^[6]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	Germany	Nico Mantl
3	DF	Serbia	Aleksa Terzić
4	DF	Poland	Kamil Piątkowski
5	DF	Switzerland	Bryan Okoh
6	DF	Austria	Samson Baidoo
7	MF	Argentina	Nicolas Capaldo
8	MF	Austria	Dijon Kameri
10	MF	Croatia	Luka Sučić
11	FW	Brazil	Fernando
14	MF	Denmark	Maurits Kjaergaard
15	MF	Mali	Mamady Diambou
17	DF	Austria	Andreas Ulmer (captain)
18	MF	Denmark	Mads Bidstrup
19	FW	Ivory Coast	Karim Konaté


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	FW	Mali	Sekou Koita
21	FW	Serbia	Petar Ratkov
22	DF	France	Oumar Solet
23	FW	Croatia	Roko Šimić
24	GK	Austria	Alexander Schlager
27	MF	France	Lucas Gourna-Douath
29	DF	Mali	Daouda Guindo
30	MF	Israel	Oscar Gloukh
31	DF	Serbia	Strahinja Pavlović
36	MF	Austria	Justin Omoregie
44	MF	Nigeria	Samson Tijani
45	FW	Mali	Nene Dorgeles
55	MF	Austria	Lukas Wallner
70	DF	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Amar Dedić

Out on loan[change | change source]

As of 17 January 2023^[7]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	Ghana	Lawrence Agyekum (at FC Liefering until 30 June 2023)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	Belgium	Ignace Van Der Brempt (at Hamburger SV until 30 June 2024)
—	MF	Mali	Mamadou Sangare (at TSV Hartberg until 30 June 2023)

Coaching staff[change | change source]

Position	Staff
Manager	Gerhard Struber
Assistant managers	Florens Koch
Assistant coaches	Alexander Hauser
Additional coaches	Herbert Ilsanker
Sporting Director	Christoph Freund

Gallery[change | change source]

Champion 2006/07
Champion 2008/09
Champion 2009/10
Champion 2011/12
Champion 2017/18
Champion 2018/19
Champion 2020/21
Champion 2021/22
Champion 20222/23

Honours[change | change source]

Austrian Bundesliga

Champions (17): 1993–94*, 1994–95*, 1996–97*, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011 –12,^[8] 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020- 21, 2021-22, 2022-23
Runners-up (4): 2005–06, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2012–13

Austrian Cup

Winners (9): 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22
Runners-up (5): 1973–74*, 1979–80*, 1980–81*, 1999–2000*, 2017–18

Austrian Supercup

Winners (3): 1994*, 1995*, 1997*

UEFA Cup

Runners-up: 1994*

* as Austria Salzburg

UEFA Youth League

Winners: 2016-17
Semifinals: 2019-20
Runner-up: 2021-22

UEFA Champions League

Round of 16: 2021-22

Manager history[change | change source]

Austria K. Bauer (1933–?)
Austria Wache (1945)
Austria Anton Janda (1946–?)
Austria Ernst Schönfeld (1952)
Austria Max Breitenfelder (1953)
Austria Karl Sesta (1954–1955)
Austria Josef Graf (1955)
Austria Gyula Szomoray (1956–1957)
Austria Günter Praschak (1957)
Austria Franz Feldinger (1958)
Austria Karl Humenberger (1959)
Austria Erich Probst (1960)
Austria Karl Vetter (1960–1961)
Austria Ignac Molnár (1962–1963)
Austria Günter Praschak (1965–1969)
Austria Karl Schlechta (1969–1971)

Austria Erich Hof (1971)
Germany Michael Pfeiffer (1972)
Austria Josip Šikić(1972–1973)
Austria Günter Praschak (1973–1975)
Austria Alfred Günthner (1975)
Germany Hans Reich (1976)
Austria Günter Praschak (1977)
Austria Alfred Günthner (1977–1980)
Austria Rudolf Strittich (1980)
Austria August Starek (1980–1981)
Austria Joszef Obert (1981–1984)
Austria Hannes Winklbauer (1984–1985)
Austria Adolf Blutsch (1986)
Austria Hannes Winklbauer (1986–1988)
Austria Kurt Wiebach (1988–1991)
Croatia Otto Barić (1991–1995)

Austria Hermann Stessl (1995–1996)
Austria Heribert Weber (1996–1998)
Austria Hans Krankl (1998–2000)
Serbia Miroslav Polák (2000)
Sweden Hans Backe (2000–2001)
Denmark Lars Søndergaard (2001–2003)
Germany Peter Assion (2003)
Austria Walter Hörmann (2004)
Germany Peter Assion (2004–2005)
Nikola Jurčević (2005)
Austria Manfred Linzmaier (2005)
Austria Kurt Jara (2005–2006)
Italy Giovanni Trapattoni (2006–2008)
Netherlands Co Adriaanse (2008–2009)
Netherlands Huub Stevens (2009–2011)

Netherlands Ricardo Moniz (2011 - 2012)
Germany Roger Schmidt (2012–2014)
Austria Adi Hütter (2014–2015)
Germany Peter Zeidler (2015)
Germany Thomas Letsch (2015)
Spain Óscar García (2016–2017)
Germany Marco Rose (2017-2019)
United States Jesse Marsch (2019-2021)
Germany Matthias Jaissle (2021-2023 )
Austria Gerhard Struber (2023-)

Giovanni Trapattoni
Co Adriaanse
Huub Stevens
Ricardo Moniz
Roger Schmidt
Adolf Hütter
Peter Zeidler
Thomas Letsch
Oscar Garcia
Marco Rose
Jesse Marsch
Matthias Jaissle
Gerhard Struber
Herbert Ilsanker - Goalkeeper coach since 2005

Red Bull Salzburg Academy[change | change source]

The Red Bull Football and Icehockey Academy is the training center for the junior teams of FC Red Bull Salzburg and the EC Red Bull Salzburg. It was built from 2012 to 2014.It has training opportunities for 200 footballers and 200 icehockey players. You can find six football field and one indoor field.^[9] 120 footballers are in the boarding school. The Academy is connected with five schools. The principle of the Academy is 51% education and 49% sport.^[9]

The Academy has 8 youth teams (from U7 to U14) and three Academy teams (U15, U16, U18) which are playing in the Toto Jugendliga.