FC Liefering

FC Liefering
Full name	Fussballclub Liefering
Founded	20 May 1947; 77 years ago; as USK Anif
Ground	Untersberg-Arena, Grödig
Capacity	4,330
Owner	Red Bull GmbH
Manager	Gerhard Struber, Janusz Gora
League	Austrian Football First League
2017–18	Austrian Football First League, 5th
Website	http://redbulls.com/soccer/salzburg/de/fc-liefering.html
Home colours	Away colours

FC Liefering is an Austrian association football club. It currently plays in the First League, the second tier of Austrian football. Since 2012, Liefering has been a feeder club for Austrian Football Bundesliga side FC Red Bull Salzburg.^[1]

In December 2011 Red Bull Salzburg 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. After the 2011/12 season the new coach Peter Hyballa left the club and became new head coach of SK Sturm Graz. Lieferings ongoing presence in the Erste Liga continues to create unrest, with average an attendance of sub 500, many people believe the club isn't good for the league. However the club promotes youth and has been a key factor in FC Red Bull Salzburgs 2016/17 UEFA Youth League side, who would ultimately go on to win the tournament.

Seasons

From the 2012/13 season the club, formerly known as USK Anif, changed its name to FC Liefering. Liefering are sometimes called Red Bull Liefering as they adapted the jerseys and team colors from Red Bull Salzburg and RB Leipzig. In the 2012/13 season they won the Regionalliga West and after two relegation matches they were promoted to the First league.

They are the farm team of FC Red Bull Salzburg. Because they play under the licence of USK Anif, Liefering are eligible for promotion to Bundesliga. In their first year, they finished 3rd, in the 2014/15 season they finished 2nd.

In June 2015 coach Peter Zeidler left the team and became coach of FC Red Bull Salzburg. He was succeeded by Thomas Letsch, who also followed Zeidler to Salzburg for two matches after Zeidler was fired there.

As feeder club the team became very young. In the next two seasons the average age of the team was under twenty years. Players like Samuel Tetteh or Gideon Mensah came to Salzburg from Ghana, other talented players came from the Red Bull Football Academy like Hannes Wolf or Luca Meisl.

In the 2016/17 season FC Red Bull Salzburg (U19) won the UEFA Youth League. Most of the players came from Liefering.

Season	Final place	Goals	Points	League
2012/13	1	94:23	74	3rd league
2013/14	3	72:48	57	2nd league
2014/15	2	70:55	56	2nd league
2015/16	4	65:49	57	2nd league
2016/17	2	58:49	60	2nd league
2017/18	5	58:44	55	2nd league

Honours

Regionalliga West

Champions: 2012–13

Alpenliga

Champions: 1978–79*

Austrian Landesliga

Champions: 1988–89*

Salzburger Liga

Champions: 1988–89*, 1992–93*, 2002–03*, 2006–07*

1. Klasse Nord

Champions: 1965*, 1974*

2. Klasse B

Champions: 1950*

Salzburg Cup

Winners: 1978*

Salzburg Indoor Cup

Winners: 1990*, 2001*, 2002*, 2005*, 2009*

* as USK Anif

Current squad

As of 24 June, 2018^[2]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	BIH	Jusuf Gazibegovic
6	DF	SVK	Peter Pokorny
7	MF	MLI	Sékou Koïta
8	DF	FRA	Abdourahmane Barry
9	MF	AUT	Philipp Sturm
11	FW	CIV	Anderson Niangbo
14	DF	GHA	Gideon Mensah
15	MF	MLI	Ousman Diakite
17	MF	AUT	David Schnegg
20	MF	AUT	Rami Tekir
23	FW	GER	Karim Adeyemi
24	MF	KOR	Kim Jung-min
26	MF	AUT	Dominik Stumberger
27	DF	FRA	Mahamadou Dembélé


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
28	MF	AUT	Romano Schmid
32	FW	AUT	René Hellermann
33	GK	AUT	Felix Wilfing
34	GK	AUT	Daniel Antosch
35	FW	AUT	Alexander Schmidt
36	MF	MLI	Mohamed Camara
40	FW	ZAM	Patson Daka
42	DF	AUT	Lorenz Leskosek
44	DF	AUT	Alois Oroz
45	MF	ZAM	Enock Mwepu
46	FW	AUT	Aldin Aganovic
48	MF	AUT	Tobias Anselm
49	DF	CMR	Jérôme Onguéné
—	DF	GER	Kilian Ludewig