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FC Liefering

Full name	Football Club Liefering GmbH
Founded	20 May 1947; 76 years ago (1947-05-20) as USK Anif
Ground	Untersberg-Arena, Grödig
Ground Capacity	4,330
Owner	Red Bull GmbH
Chairwoman	Susanne Billinger
Head coach	Onur Çinel
League	Austrian Football Second League
2021–22	Austrian Second League, 6th
Home colours Away colours

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.

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. 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.

Honours

• 2. Liga
  • Runner up: 2015, 2017, 2021
• 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

No. Position Player 2 DF Matteo Schablas 6 DF John Mellberg (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 7 MF Soumaila Diabate (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 9 FW Luka Reischl 10 MF Zeteny Jano 15 FW Alexander Murillo 16 MF Lawrence Agyekum (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 18 MF Dominik Lechner 19 MF Marcel Moswitzer 21 MF Oliver Lukić 22 MF Tolgahan Sahin 23 FW Phillip Verhounig 24 MF Tim Paumgartner 25 MF Moritz Neumann 26 MF Alparslan Baran

No. Position Player 27 DF Benjamin Atiabou 28 FW Nicolò Turco (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 29 MF Valentin Sulzbacher 30 GK Salko Hamzić 31 GK Valentin Oelz 34 GK Jonas Krumrey 35 MF Elione Fernandes Neto (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 37 MF Tim Trummer 38 DF Leandro Morgalla (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 39 DF Rocco Žiković 44 DF Mark Gevorgyan 47 FW Adam Daghim 49 MF Moussa Kounfolo Yeo MF Raphael Hofer (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 55 FW Ibitoye Stephen (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg)

Out on loan

No. Position Player DF Mario Pejazić (at SV Lafnitz until 30 June 2024)

No. Position Player MF Mohammad Sadeqi (at SV Horn until 30 June 2024)

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Fabio Ingolitsch
Assistant coach	Thomas Sageder
Assistant coach	Zlatko Junuzovic
Goalkeeping coach	Heinz Arzberger

See also

In Spanish: Fussballclub Liefering para niños