FC Liefering

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 matches they were promoted to the Austrian Football Second League.

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

In June 2015 coach Peter Zeidler 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 UEFA Youth League. Most of the players came from Liefering.

In the 2020–21 season Bo Svensson 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 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 Kilian Schröcker, Fabian Windhager, 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 Fabio Ingolitsch, the coach of the U18 team became new headcoach of FC Liefering.

• 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

As of 1 September, 2023[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  AUT Matteo Schablas 3 DF  AUT Sebastian Leitner 6 DF  SWE John Mellberg (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 7 MF  MLI Soumaila Diabate (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 8 MF  AUT Mohammad Sadeqi 9 FW  AUT Luka Reischl 10 MF  AUT Zeteny Jano 14 DF  BRA Douglas Mendes (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 15 FW  ESP Alexander Murillo 16 MF  GHA Lawrence Agyekum (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 18 MF  AUT Dominik Lechner 19 MF  AUT Marcel Moswitzer 20 DF  AUT Mario Pejazic 21 MF  AUT Oliver Lukić 22 MF  AUT Tolgahan Sahin

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 MF  AUT Tim Paumgartner 25 MF  AUT Moritz Neumann 26 MF  AUT Alparslan Baran 27 DF  AUT Benjamin Atiabou 30 GK  BIH Salko Hamzić 31 GK  AUT Valentin Oelz 34 GK  GER Jonas Krumrey 35 MF  GER Elione Fernandes Neto (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 37 MF  AUT Tim Trummer 38 DF  GER Leandro Morgalla (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 39 DF  CRO Rocco Žiković 42 FW  GHA Daniel Owusu (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 55 FW  DEN Ibitoye Stephen 45 FW  SUI Federico Crescenti — FW  DEN Adam Daghim

• FC Liefering page (in German)

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