SV Austria Salzburg

SV Austria Salzburg is an Austrian association football club, based in the city of Salzburg. The club was formed in 2005 by some supporters of the original SV (Austria) Salzburg after it was renamed FC Red Bull Salzburg by its new owners, who also changed the club's colours from its traditional violet and white to red and white. The club commenced participation in the seventh tier of Austria's national league system in 2006, then rose through four successive championships to the third tier, Regionalliga West, in 2010. In 2015, the club gained promotion to the Erste Liga, one tier below the Austrian Bundesliga, only to be relegated a year later.[1]

Austria Salzburg
Full nameSportverein Austria Salzburg
Nickname(s)Violette (Violet-Whites), Austrianer (SV Austria supporters), Die Mozartstädter
Founded19 September 1933 (1933-09-19)
GroundMy Phone Austria Stadion
Capacity1,600
Obmann/ChairmanWalter Windischbauer
Head coachDietmar Emich (interim)
LeagueRegionalliga West (III)
2018–192nd
WebsiteClub website

History
Historical chart of Austria Salzburg league performance

The original club was formed in 1933. It was subject to a takeover by the Red Bull company in 2005. They renamed the club FC Red Bull Salzburg, changed the team colours and claimed that it was a new team. As a concession to pleas to keep the old colours, Red Bull offered to allow the goalkeeper's socks to be purple for away matches. This was viewed as an insult by fans caused a group of supporters, known as the "Violet-Whites", to want to preserve the 72-year-old traditions of their club which they felt had been ignored by Red Bull.[2]

On 7 October 2005, the Violet-Whites successfully registered the old club's original name "SV Austria Salzburg" and the old club emblem. For the second half of the 2005–06 season SV Austria fielded a unified team with the football section of the PSV Schwarz-Weiß Salzburg, which played in the 1. Salzburg Landesliga, the fourth tier of Austrian football, but at the end of the season the PSV members voted against continuing the link. Thus, the Violet-Whites formed a completely new team, which entered 2. Klasse Nord, the seventh tier of Austrian football, for the 2006–07 season.

The first match of the relaunched SV Austria Salzburg was played on 29 July 2006 against Lieferinger SV, another Salzburg football club. SV Austria Salzburg won 6–0, and went on to win the championship and promotion to 1. Klasse Nord. This was the first of four successive championships & promotions for SV Austria Salzburg. They won the 1. Klasse Nord in 2007–08, the 2. Salzburg Landesliga in 2008–09 and the 1. Landesliga in 2009–10. The latter secured the club's promotion to Austria's third tier of football, the Regionalliga West for the 2010–11 season. The club finished fifth in the 2010–2011 season, and eighth in the 2011–2012 season.

In the 2014–15 season, the club was promoted to the First League, the second tier of Austrian football, by winning the Regionalliga West, after a change in the rules that see an automatic promotion place for one of the Regionalligas being rotated each season.

The promotion to the First League forced the club into debt of €900,000 by November 2015, caused by an increased budget for the players as well as a security requirement to holding certain home games without spectators. The club indicated it was willing to sell up to 51 percent of its ownership of the team to an investor, as long as its name, colours, and crest would not be altered, but the Austrian Bundesliga announced that the sale of a majority of the team would be violating the league's rules.[3] Due to breach of league licence, in November 2015 they were fined €40,000 and had 6 points deducted. This was due to their failure to adhere to the league's stadium requirements.[4]

Club honours
  • Regionalliga West: Champions 2014, 2015
  • Landescup: Winners 2012, 2013, 2014
  • 1. Landesliga: Champions 2010
  • 2. Landesliga: Champions 2009
  • 1. Klasse Nord: Champions 2008
  • 2. Klasse Nord A: Champions 2007

League history
Season
 League Contested Level
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
 League
Position		 Notes Average
Attendance
2006–07 2. Klasse Nord A 72624111098+101731st of 14Promoted
2007–08 1. Klasse Nord 62625019410+84751st of 14Promoted
2008–09 2. Landesliga Nord 52621419028+62671st of 14Promoted
2009–10 1. Landesliga 42619346824+44601st of 14Promoted
2010–11 Regionalliga West 33015966137+24545th of 161,290
2011–12 Regionalliga West 3301241454540408th of 161,194
2012–13 Regionalliga West 33021547721+56682nd of 161,291
2013–14 Regionalliga West 33025419615+81791st of 16Defeated in playoffs1,298
2014–15 Regionalliga West 33023437123+48731st of 16Promoted1,332
2015–16 Erste Liga 236711184573−28269 of 10Relegated1,171
2016–17 Regionalliga West 330411154362−192315th of 16Relegated
2017–18 Salzburger Liga 4301181157507417th of 16
2018–19 Salzburger Liga 4302172923161702nd of 16Promoted
  • Seekirchen 1b vs. Austria
    2006
  • TSV Unken vs. Austria
    2007
  • Austria vs. Schleedorf
    2007

See also

References
  1. "SV Austria Salzburg feiert den Aufstieg in die Sky Go Erste Liga". Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga (in German). 29 May 2015.
  2. "FEATURE – Austria hope to make purple reign in Salzburg". In.reuters.com. 26 May 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  3. Wird Austria Salzburg verkauft? (in German) Weltfussball.de, published: 5 November 2015, accessed: 7 November 2015
  4. "Punkteabzug und 40.000 Euro Strafe für Austria Salzburg". DiePresse.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
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