FC Red Bull Salzburg

Red Bull Salzburg

Full name	FC Red Bull Salzburg
Nickname(s)	Die Bullen (The Bulls)
Founded	1933
Ground	Red Bull Arena Wals-Siezenheim Austria (Capacity: 31,895)
Chairman	Rudi Theierl
Manager	Huub Stevens
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2009–10	Austrian Bundesliga, 1st
Home colours Away colours

FC Red Bull Salzburg is an Austrian football club, based in Wals-Siezenheim. Their home ground is the Red Bull Arena. The club was known as SV Austria Salzburg before being bought by the Red Bull company in 2005 who renamed the club and changed the club's 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. The club has won the Austrian Bundesliga 6 times, and reached the final of the UEFA Cup in 1994.

History

FC Red Bull Salzburg was founded on 13 September 1933 as SV Austria Salzburg. In 1950, the club was dissolved but in the same year, it was re-founded for the first time. In 1978, the official name was changed to SV Casino Salzburg and in 1997, to SV Wüstenrot Salzburg, while the common calling name remained SV Austria Salzburg. The Red Bull company bought the club on 6 April 2005 and rebranded it.

The Red Bull takeover

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 F.A. The new authority removed all trace of violet from the club logo and the team now play in the new colours of red and white, to the consternation of much of the club's traditional support.^[1] 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: "It gives you wings." This complete rebranding 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.

EM-Stadion Wals-Siezenheim homeground of FC Red Bull Salzburg

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.

Recent history

In May 2006, Red Bull announced on its website that it had hired veteran coach Giovanni Trapattoni as new coach together with his ex-player Lothar Matthäus as co-trainer. The pair initially denied having reached a deal, but officially signed on 23 May 2006. Red Bull ultimately won the T-Mobile Bundesliga 2006-07 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^[2][3] of the UEFA Champions League 2007-08 and then knocked out of the UEFA Cup 2007-08 in the first round by AEK Athens. On 13 February 2008, Italian manager Giovanni Trappatoni confirmed that he would be taking over as the new Republic of Ireland manager in May. He was succeeded by Co Adriaanse, under whom they finished as champion, and he left after one year. His successor and the current manager of the team is Huub Stevens. Stevens won his first major title as the manager of a country's highest league on May 14th, 2010, which led the team to the title of the season 2009/10. In UEFA competitions, the team is referred to as FC Salzburg so as not to interfere with the federation's corporate sponsorship rules.

Ghana Academy

In 2008, Red Bull Salzburg opened their academy in Sogakope, Ghana.

On 27/8/10 Red Bull Salzburg were drawn alongside Manchester City in the Europa League Group A

Honours

Austrian Bundesliga

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

Austrian Cup

• Runners-up: 1974*, 1980*, 1981*, 2002*

Austrian Supercup

• Winners: 1994*, 1995*, 1997*

UEFA Cup

• Runners-up: 1994*

* as Austria Salzburg

Current squad

As of August 06, 2010

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Eddie Gustafsson (captain) 3 DF Milan Dudić 4 MF David Mendes da Silva 5 DF Rabiu Afolabi 6 DF Christian Schwegler 7 FW Roman Wallner 8 MF Thomas Augustinussen 9 FW Robin Nelisse 10 MF Nikola Pokrivač 11 FW Gonzalo Zárate 14 MF Jakob Jantscher 15 DF Franz Schiemer 17 DF Andreas Ulmer

No. Position Player 18 MF Dušan Švento 19 MF Simon Cziommer 20 GK Niclas Heimann 22 MF Stefan Hierländer 23 DF Ibrahim Sekagya 24 MF Christoph Leitgeb 26 FW Alexander Aschauer 27 FW Alan 28 GK Gerhard Tremmel 29 FW Louis Ngwat Mahop 32 MF Marco Meilinger 33 GK Alexander Walke 43 FW Joaquín Boghossian

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player 2 MF Christoph Kröpfl (to SV Kapfenberg) GK Wolfgang Schober (to TSV Hartberg)

Red Bull Salzburg Juniors squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Niclas Heimann 2 DF Stefan Lainer 3 DF Martin Hinteregger 4 DF Hannes Ganghofer 5 DF Martin Hiden 6 MF Matthias Öttl 7 MF Mehmet Bulut 8 FW Alexander Aschauer 9 FW Jonathan Rafael da Silva 11 FW Daniel Offenbacher 13 DF Florian Hofmann 14 DF Alexander Kober

No. Position Player 15 DF Alexander Staudecker 16 MF Marco Meilinger 17 MF Felix Adjei 18 MF Georg Teigl 19 FW Danijel Prskalo 20 FW Simon Handle 21 GK Thomas Dähne 22 MF Robert Völkl 23 MF Alexanda Simić 30 GK Heinz Arzberger 32 MF Christoph Mattes 36 FW Louis Ngwat-Mahop

Manager history

• August Starek (1980–81)
• Adolf Blutsch (1985–87)
• Kurt Wiebach (1988–91)
• Otto Barić (1991–95)
• Hermann Stessl (1995–96)
• Heribert Weber (1996–98)
• Hans Krankl (1998–00)
• Miroslav Polak (2000)
• Hans Backe (2000–01)
• Lars Søndergaard (2001–03)
• Walter Hörmann (2004, caretaker)
• Peter Assion (2004–05)
• Nikola Jurčević (2005)
• Manfred Linzmaier (2005, caretaker)
• Kurt Jara (2005–06)
• Giovanni Trapattoni (2006–08)
• Co Adriaanse (2008–09)
• Huub Stevens (2009–)

European competition history

As of July 30, 2010.

• Q = Qualification

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
		Group D		Milan	0–1	0–3
		Group D		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
		Play-off		Maccabi Haifa	1–2	0–3	1–5
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	Group G		Lazio	2–1	2–1
		Group G		Villarreal	2–0	1–0
		Group G		Levski Sofia	1–0	1–0
		Round of 32		Standard Liege	2–3	0–0	2–3
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	Q2		HB Tórshavn	5–0	0–1	5–1
		Q3		AC Omonia	4-1	1–1	5-2
		Play-off		Hapoel Tel Aviv	2-3	1-1	3-4

See also

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

References

External links

• (English) Official website
• FC Salzburg at UEFA.COM
• FC Salzburg at EUFO.DE
• FC Salzburg at Weltfussball.de
• FC Salzburg at Playerhistory.com
• FC Salzburg at Transfermarkt.de
• FC Salzburg at Football Squads.co.uk
• FC Salzburg at National Football Teams.com
• FC Salzburg at Football-Lineups.com
• Red Bull Salzburg at Wikimedia Commons