FC Liefering

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 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.

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 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 head coach of FC Liefering.

In April 2024, Daniel Beichler was named caretaker manager of FC Liefering, later he promoted to manager.

• Second League
  • Runner up: 2014–15, 2016–17, 2020–21
• 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 12 July 2026^[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  AUT Benjamin Ožegović 2 DF  AUT Rafael Feldinger 6 MF  LTU Dovas Grudzinskas 7 FW  VEN Yerwin Sulbarán(on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 8 MF  IRL Josh O'Dwyer 9 FW  AUT Phillip Verhounig 11 FW  AUT Oghenetejiri Adejenughure 13 DF  AUT Jakob Pokorny 15 FW  ESP Alexander Murillo 16 MF  AUT Ilia Ivanschitz 17 FW  AUT Raphael Kosakiewic 18 MF  COL Mayker Palacios(on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 20 MF  AUT Filip Aleksić 21 MF  CRO Oliver Lukić(on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 22 MF  SVN Miha Matjašec

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  GER Christoph Schaider 24 DF  AUT Jakob Zangerl 25 MF  BRA Riquelme(on loan from Red Bull Bragantino) 26 MF  AUT Benedict Scharner 27 DF  AUT Emil Ganser 28 DF  BFA Lassina Traoré(on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) 30 GK  AUT Teo Hupfauf 32 GK  AUT Alexander Hillebrand 34 GK  GER Jonas Winklhofer 37 FW  BRA Yuri Leles(on loan from Red Bull Bragantino) 42 MF  AUT Jakob Werner 44 DF  SUI Ifeanyichukwu Onwuzulike 45 DF  AUT Nico Masching 47 DF  AUT Julian Hussauf — FW  BIH Said Nišić

• FC Liefering page(in German)