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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: 31,100)
Chairman	Rudi Theierl
Manager	Huub Stevens
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2008-09	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 5 times, and reached the final of the UEFA Cup in 1994.

[edit] 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.

[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 new colours of red and white, to the consternation of much of the club's traditional support.^{[citation needed]} 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.

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^[1]^[2] 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. Currently, the team is managed by Huub Stevens. 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

Winners - 1994*, 1995*, 1997*, 2007, 2009

Austrian Cup

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

Austria super Cup Winners: 1994, 95, 97.

UEFA Cup

Finalists - 1994*

* as Austria Salzburg

[edit] European competition history

As of November 2009.

Season	Competition	Round	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
		Group G	Villarreal	2-0
		Group G	Levski Sofia	1-0	1-0

Q = Qualification

[edit] Current squad

As of October 23, 2009.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Eddie Gustafsson (captain)
3	DF	Milan Dudić
4	MF	Mejdi Traoui
5	DF	Rabiu Afolabi
6	DF	Christian Schwegler
7	FW	Alexander Zickler
8	MF	Thomas Augustinussen
9	FW	Robin Nelisse
10	MF	Nikola Pokrivač
11	MF	Patrik Ježek
13	MF	Somen Tchoyi
14	DF	Barry Opdam
15	DF	Franz Schiemer
16	MF	Karel Piták

No.	Position	Player
17	DF	Andreas Ulmer
18	MF	Dušan Švento
19	MF	Simon Cziommer
20	DF	Anis Boussaidi
21	FW	Marc Janko
22	MF	Saša Ilić
23	DF	Ibrahim Sekagya
24	MF	Christoph Leitgeb
25	MF	Admir Vladavić
27	FW	Djordje Rakić
28	MF	René Aufhauser
29	FW	Louis Ngwat Mahop
30	GK	Wolfgang Schober
33	GK	Heinz Arzberger

[edit] Out on loan

No.		Position	Player
—		MF	Manuel Pamić (to Sparta Prague)
—		FW	Johan Vonlanthen (to F.C. Zurich)

[edit] Red Bull Salzburg Juniors squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Wolfgang Schober
3	DF	Lukas Neunteufel
4	DF	Maximilian Karner
5	MF	Raimund Friedl
6	DF	Sebastian Radakovics
7	DF	Harald Pichler
8	FW	Alexander Aschauer
9	MF	Richard Kitzbichler
10	DF	Rémo Meyer
11	FW	Marin Matoš
12	MF	Karel Piták
13	MF	Stefan Ilsanker
14	MF	Patrick Seeger
15	MF	Ingo Enzensberger
16	MF	Richard Wemmer
17	FW	Andreas Tiffner

No.	Position	Player
18	MF	Piero Minoretti
19	DF	Nenad Jovanović
20	FW	Issiaka Ouedraogo
21	GK	Michael Kaltenhauser
22	MF	Norman Prenn
23	FW	Stanislav Vasilj
26	FW	Marcel Holzmann
27	MF	Philipp Zulechner
28	DF	Jan Marc Riegler
30	GK	David Schartner
38	DF	Stefan Schwab
39	GK	Harold Matthew O'Connor