FC Liefering

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FC Liefering
FC Liefering logo.png
Full nameFootball Club Liefering GmbH
Founded20 May 1947;77 years ago (1947-05-20)
as USK Anif
Ground Untersberg-Arena, Grödig
Capacity4,330
Owner Red Bull GmbH
ChairwomanSusanne Billinger
Head coach Daniel Beichler (caretaker)
League 2. Liga
2023–24 2. Liga, 6th of 16
Website Club website
Soccerball current event.svg Current season
Historical chart of USK Anif and Liefering league performance Liefering Performance Graph.png
Historical chart of USK Anif and Liefering league performance
FC Liefering squad league match vs. SV Lafnitz (18 April 2022) FC Liefering gegen SV Lafnitz (2022-04-18) 12.jpg
FC Liefering squad league match vs. SV Lafnitz (18 April 2022)

FC Liefering GmbH is an Austrian association football club, originally from Liefering, Salzburg. It currently plays in the Second League, the second tier of Austrian football. Since 2012, Liefering has been a reserve team for Austrian Football Bundesliga side Red Bull Salzburg. [1]

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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. Liefering's ongoing presence in the Erste Liga continues to create unrest, with average an attendance of under 500, many people believe the club is not good for the league. However the club promotes youth and has been a key factor in Red Bull Salzburg's 2016–17 UEFA Youth League side, who ultimately won 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 playoff matches, they were promoted to the Austrian Football Second League.

They are the farm team of Red Bull Salzburg. They are not eligible for promotion. [2] In their first year, they finished third and, in the 2014–15 season, they finished second.

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

As a feeder club, the team fields very young players. In the next two seasons, the average age of the team was under twenty years old. 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, Red Bull Salzburg (U19) won the UEFA Youth League. Most of the players came from Liefering.

In the 2020–21 season, Bo Svensson became coach of FC Liefering. In the winter, he went to Mainz 05 and Matthias Jaissle became coach of the team. At the end of the season, he was promoted to Red Bull Salzburg as head coach. He followed Jesse Marsch, who went to RB Leipzig. The season was the most successful in history. The team ended as runner-up, only one scored goal behind the champion FC Blau-Weiß Linz.

After the season ended, Kilian Schröcker, Fabian Windhager, Antonin Svoboda and Alexander Prass left the club.

In the 2021–22 season, Rene Aufhauser, former assistant coach with Red Bull Salzburg, became new head coach of FC Liefering. He also is coach of the UEFA Youth League team of Red Bull Salzburg. After finishing sixth, Aufhauser left the club.

For the 2022–23 season, Fabio Ingolitsch, the coach of the U18 team, became new headcoach of FC Liefering.

SeasonFinal placeGoalsPointsLeague
2012–13194:23743rd league
2013–14372:48572nd league
2014–15270:55562nd league
2015–16465:49572nd league
2016–17258:49602nd league
2017–18558:44552nd league
2018–191050:54352nd league
2019–20373:47532nd league
2020–21269:31632nd league
2021–22656:43462nd league
2022–23952:54372nd league

Honours

* as USK Anif

Current squad

As of 6 October 2024 [3]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Benjamin Ozegovic
2 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Matteo Schablas
3 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Joane Gadou (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg )
4 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Jannik Schuster
5 DF Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE John Mellberg (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg )
6 MF Flag of Angola.svg  ANG Elione (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg )
7 DF Flag of Slovenia.svg  SVN Kristjan Bendra
8 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Tim Paumgartner
9 FW Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Phillip Verhounig
10 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Zeteny Jano
11 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Tolgahan Sahin
14 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Valentin Zabransky
15 FW Flag of Spain.svg  ESP Alexander Murillo
16 FW Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Luka Reischl
17 MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Quirin Rackl
19 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Marcel Moswitzer
20 FW Flag of Mali.svg  MLI Gaoussou Diakité (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg )
21 MF Flag of Croatia.svg  CRO Oliver Lukić
No.Pos.NationPlayer
22 FW Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Marco Brandt
24 DF Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  SUI Bryan Okoh (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg )
27 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Rüstü Erdogan
29 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Valentin Sulzbacher
30 GK Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Salko Hamzić
31 GK Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Valentin Oelz
32 GK Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Sebastian Künstner
36 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Marc Striednig
37 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Tim Trummer
38 FW Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Oghenetejiri Adejenughure
39 DF Flag of Croatia.svg  CRO Rocco Žiković
40 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Jakob Brandtner
41 GK Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Christian Zawieschitzky
43 FW Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  SUI Enrique Aguilar
44 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Raphael Hofer
45 MF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Alessandro Ciardi
47 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Julian Hussauf

Other players under contract

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
FW Flag of Ghana.svg  GHA Edmund Baidoo (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg )

Coaching staff

PositionStaff
Head coach Flag of Germany.svg Onur Çinel
Assistant coach Flag of Austria.svg Thomas Sageder
Assistant coach Flag of Austria.svg Zlatko Junuzovic
Goalkeeping coach Flag of Austria.svg Heinz Arzberger

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References

  1. "FC Liefering Homepage". Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  2. "Transfermarkt.at" . Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  3. "Team". FC Liefering (in German). Retrieved 18 March 2017.