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Historical chart of USK Anif and Liefering league performance
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]
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
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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 Schrocker
,
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.
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
|
2018?19
|
10
|
50:54
|
35
|
2nd league
|
2019?20
|
3
|
73:47
|
53
|
2nd league
|
2020?21
|
2
|
69:31
|
63
|
2nd league
|
2021?22
|
6
|
56:43
|
46
|
2nd league
|
2022?23
|
9
|
52:54
|
37
|
2nd league
|
Honours
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* as USK Anif
Current squad
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- As of 6 February 2024
[3]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules
. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Out on loan
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules
. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Coaching staff
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References
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