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FC Liefering GmbH is an Austrian association football club, originally from Liefering, a section of

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. It currently plays in the Second League, the second tier of Austrian football. Since 2012, Liefering has been a

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for Austrian Football Bundesliga side FC Red Bull Salzburg. In December 2011 Red Bull Salzburg signed a cooperation with

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( 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

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left the club and became new head coach of

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. 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 FC Red Bull Salzburg's 2016–17

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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

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. In the 2012–13 season they won the Regionalliga West and after two relegation matches they were promoted to the

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. They are the farm team of FC Red Bull Salzburg. They are not eligible for promotion. In their first year, they finished 3rd, in the 2014–15 season they finished 2nd. In June 2015 coach

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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 a feeder club the team fields very young players. 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

. Most of the players came from Liefering. In the 2020–21 season

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became coach of FC Liefering. In winter he went to Mainz 05 and Matthias Jaissle became coach of the team. At the end of the season he was promoted to FC Red Bull Salzburg as head coach. He followed

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, 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

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. After the season Kilian Schröcker,

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, Antonin Svoboda and Alexander Prass left the club. In the 2021–22 season Rene Aufhauser, former assistant coach with FC 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 6th Aufhauser left the club. For the 2022–23 season

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, the coach of the U18 team became new headcoach of FC Liefering.

Honours

2. Liga *Runner up: 2015,

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*Champions:

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*Champions: 1978–79*

Austrian Landesliga The Austrian Landesliga is the fourth tier of professional football in Austria. It is divided into nine conferences — one for each Austrian state: *Burgenland: '' Landesliga Burgenland'' *Lower Austria: '' 1. Niederösterreichische Landesli ...

*Champions: 1988–89*

Salzburger Liga The Salzburger Liga, is since the 2010/2011 season, the top division in Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. Th ...

*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

Coaching staff

References

External links

FC Liefering page
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