FC Red Bull Salzburg

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Red Bull Salzburg
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Full name FC Red Bull Salzburg
Nickname(s) Die Bullen (The Bulls)
Founded 1933; 78 years ago (1933)
Ground Red Bull Arena
Wals-Siezenheim
Austria
(Capacity: 31,000[1])
Owner Red Bull GmbH
Chairman Rudi Theierl
Manager Ricardo Moniz
League Austrian Bundesliga
2010–11 Austrian Bundesliga, 2nd
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. 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. They also played in the 1994–95 edition of the UEFA Champions League as Casino Salzburg, being the only team not defeated by eventual champions Ajax Amsterdam.

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[edit] History

FC Red Bull Salzburg was founded on 13 September 1933 as SV Austria Salzburg. In 1950, the club was dissolved but later that year 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.

[edit] 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 colours of red and white, to the consternation of much of the club's traditional support.[2] 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.

[edit] 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[3][4] 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 is Huub Stevens. Stevens won his first major title as the manager of a country's highest league on 14 May 2010, which led the team to the title of the season 2009/10.

[edit] New start under Ricardo Moniz

In the 2010/11 season Stevens was replaced by Ricardo Moniz at the end of the season. Red Bull finished second in the league and plays in the UEFA Euro League qualification. Despite the recent philosophy the team announced that the qualification for the Champion League is not a must. Moniz was ordered to integrate young players of 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 squad.


In UEFA competitions, the team is referred to as FC Salzburg so as not to interfere with the federation's corporate sponsorship rules.

[edit] Ghana Academy

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

[edit] Honours

Austrian Bundesliga

Austrian Cup

Austrian Supercup

UEFA Cup

* as Austria Salzburg

[edit] Gallery

  • Champions 2006/07

  • Champions 2008/09

  • Champions 2009/10

[edit] Current squad

As of August 15 2011[5]

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 Sweden GK Eddie Gustafsson (captain)
3 Brazil DF Douglas da Silva
4 Netherlands MF David Mendes da Silva
5 Spain DF Chema Antón
6 Switzerland DF Christian Schwegler
8 Finland DF Petri Pasanen
9 Austria FW Stefan Maierhofer
10 Brazil MF Cristiano
11 Argentina FW Gonzalo Zárate
14 Austria MF Jakob Jantscher
15 Austria DF Franz Schiemer
17 Austria DF Andreas Ulmer
18 Slovakia MF Dušan Švento
19 Germany MF Simon Cziommer
No. Position Player
20 Germany GK Niclas Heimann
21 Sweden MF Rasmus Lindgren
22 Austria MF Stefan Hierländer
23 Uganda DF Ibrahim Sekagya
24 Austria MF Christoph Leitgeb
25 Brazil DF Jefferson Cardoso
26 Spain FW Jonathan Soriano
27 Brazil FW Alan
30 Brazil FW Leonardo (on loan from NAC Breda)
32 Austria MF Marco Meilinger
33 Germany GK Alexander Walke
35 Austria MF Daniel Offenbacher
36 Austria DF Martin Hinteregger
39 Austria MF Georg Teigl


[edit] 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 Austria MF Christoph Kröpfl (to SV Kapfenberg)
26 Austria MF Alexander Aschauer (to VfB Stuttgart)
43 Uruguay FW Joaquín Boghossian (to Nacional Montevideo)
— Denmark MF Brian Nielsen (to New York Red Bulls)
 

[edit] Coaching staff

 Netherlands Ricardo Moniz Coach
 Croatia Niko Kovac Assistance coach
 Netherlands Piet Hamberg Assistance coach
 Austria Herbert Ilsanker Goalkeeper coach

[edit] 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 Germany GK Niclas Heimann
3 Austria DF Daniel Hölzl
4 Austria DF Pascal Scheucher
6 Germany MF Matthias Öttl
7 Austria FW Mehmet Bulut
8 Croatia MF Ilija Ivic
13 Austria DF Christoph Martschinko
14 Austria MF Nikola Dovedan
No. Position Player
17 Ghana MF Felix Adjei
21 Germany GK Thomas Dähne
23 Austria MF Daniel Krenn
24 Austria MF Stefan Savić
25 Austria MF Sandro Djurić
26 Brazil DF André Ramalho Silva
27 Brazil FW Gabriel Alleoni
Austria FW Elvis Alibabic
32 Austria DF Emre Uygur
Junior squad July 2011
Football academy Liefering-homeground of the Juniors

The Red Bull Juniors are playing in the Regionalliga West, which is one of the three 3rd level leagues in Austria. In December 2011 the club signed a cooperation with FC Pasching (Regionalliga Mitte) and USK Anif (Regionalliga West) The coach of the Juniors, Gerald Baumgartner, left Salzburg and became new coach of FC Pasching. Also players went to Pasching and Anif.

[edit] Out on loan

  • Simon Handle (on loan USK Anif)
  • Lukas Katnik (on loan FC Pasching)
  • Daniel Krenn (on loan FC Pasching)
  • Alexander Staudecker (on loan FC Pasching)
  • Robert Völkl (on loan USK Anif)

[edit] Coaching staff

 Germany Peter Hyballa Coach
 Netherlands Chris Kronshorst Assistance coach
 Austria Heinz Arzberger Goalkeeper coach

[edit] Manager history

[edit] European competition history

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

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/StatDoc/competitions/-Publications/01/67/58/96/1675896_DOWNLOAD.pdf
  2. ^ Initiative Violett-Weiß
  3. ^ Salzburg – Shakhtar Donetsk : 1 – 0 Match report from ScoresPro.com
  4. ^ Shakhtar Donetsk – Salzburg : 3 – 1 Match report from ScoresPro.com
  5. ^ [1]

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