FC Augsburg

FC Augsburg
society
Surname	Football Club Augsburg 1907 e. V.
Seat	Augsburg , Bavaria
founding	August 8, 1907
Colours	Red, green, white
Members	19,137 (June 29, 2020)
Board	Klaus Hofmann Jakob Geyer Gerhard Ecker
Football company
Surname	Football Club Augsburg 1907 GmbH & Co. KGaA
Limited partners	99%: Hofmann Investors GmbH → 31.9%: Klaus Hofmann → 31.9%: Michael Reuss → 17.0%: Detlef Dinsel → 12.8%: Marcus Höfl → 06.4%: Thilo Sautter 0 1%: FC Augsburg e. V.
General partner GmbH	FCA Beteiligungs GmbH → 100%: FC Augsburg e. V.
Management (general partner GmbH)	Stefan Reuter (sports) Michael Ströll (commercial)
Website	fcaugsburg.de
First team
Head coach	Heiko Herrlich
Venue	WWK arena
Places	30,660
league	Bundesliga
2019/20	15th place
home Away Alternatively

Game of FC Augsburg

The FC Augsburg (officially football club Augsburg 1907 e. V. , shortly FCA ) is a sports club of Augsburg in Bavaria .

The club emerged in 1969 from the merger of BC Augsburg, which was founded on August 8, 1907 under the name FC Allemania , with the licensed players department of TSV Schwaben Augsburg . The club is divided into the main association Fußball-Club Augsburg 1907 e. V. , the outsourced professional football department Fußball-Club Augsburg 1907 GmbH & Co. KGaA and the outsourced ski department Ski- und Bergfreunde of FCA e. V. The club colors are red, green and white; The Swiss pine nut , which was taken from the city's coat of arms , is shown on the club's logo . The best-known personalities in the club's history include the coaches Max Merkel , Thomas Tuchel and Armin Veh as well as the players Ulrich Biesinger , Karl-Heinz Riedle , Bernd Schuster and Helmut Haller . The biggest successes in the club's history are the promotion to the Bundesliga in 2011 and the entry into the Europa League in 2015.

The first team of the FCA has played in the Bundesliga since the 2011/12 season and is in 28th place in their all-time table . The second team takes part in the regional league Bavaria , there is also a women's and a junior division and a traditional team. The first team plays its home games in the WWK-Arena . Other venues for the FCA are the Rosenaustadion and the Paul Renz district sports facility . The FCA has 19,137 members, around 17,500 season ticket holders, and more than 75 official fan clubs. The list of sports clubs with the largest number of members leads FC Augsburg to 29th place in Germany.

history

1907–1909: Foundation and beginnings

FC Allemania team photo in 1907

At the beginning of the 20th century there was already a club with a large football department in Augsburg , MTV Augsburg. This club was founded in 1889 by former members of TV Augsburg and played its games in Augsburg's Galgental in what is now the Kriegshaber district .

The games of this club excited almost 30 people so much that on August 8, 1907, the day of the Augsburg High Peace Festival , they founded the football club Allemania, the first predecessor of today's FCA. Fritz Käferlein was elected chairman of the association and the membership fee was set at 30 pfennigs. The games were initially played on the northern edge of the large parade ground in Augsburg-Oberhausen , the playing clothes consisted of a white shirt and black pants. The first game took place on October 20, 1907.

On February 4, 1908, another football club, FC Augsburg , was founded in the city ; it bore the current name of FCA. The Alemanni played games against several Augsburg clubs this year, but usually had no chance. A 0:27 bankruptcy against TV Augsburg went down as the biggest defeat in the club's young history.

1909–1914: Before the First World War

season	league	level	space	Squad
1910/11	B-Class Donaugau	II
1911/12	B-Class Donaugau	II
1912/13	B-Class Donaugau	III	1
1913/14	B-Class Donaugau	III

At the beginning of 1909, the military authorities forbade gaming on the large parade ground. Thereupon the Alemanni turned to the municipal authorities of the city of Augsburg for the allocation of a playground, but this request was rejected on May 4, 1909. Since there was no venue, numerous players left the club the following week, so that they were forced to call an extraordinary meeting on May 11, 1909. Under the direction of Martin Mahler, Josef Kammer and Xaver Kraus, the decision was made to join the TV Oberhausen and from now on entered under the name of Spielabteilung Turnverein Oberhausen . The question of the sports field was now solved, the games were played on a meadow in what is now the Bärenkeller district . On September 25, 1909, the decision was made to no longer compete in white, but in light blue jerseys. On October 12, 1909, the new square on "Gersthofer Straße" was inaugurated, where the game department played its games from now on. In the following year, the game department started the league game and started for the first time in the second-class B-class Donaugau.

In the 1912/13 season, the game department celebrated its first title with the championship in the B-Class Donaugau, but failed in the promotion games at TG Munich.

On July 28, 1914, the game department joined the German Football Association .

1914–1918: First World War

season	league	level	space	Squad
1914/15	no regular game operation
1915/16
1916/17
1917/18

The First World War lasted from 1914 to 1918. 22 members of the TVO died at the front.

In 1915 a "Gau War Championship" was held in Augsburg, in which the TVO won against TV Göggingen and KSG MTV / SV Augsburg and lost against FC Augsburg. In 1916 a tournament called "Iron Football" was held, in which the TVO could not assert itself in the Augsburg group. In 1917, a "Gau War Championship" was held in the Danubeau, in which the TVO won first in the spring round and later in the autumn round. In 1918, the TVO as a representative of the Donaugau lost in the semifinals of the "Eastern District Championship" against FC Bayern Munich as a representative of Upper Bavaria.

1918–1921: After the First World War

season	league	level	space	Squad
1918/19	no regular game operation
1919/20	A-class Swabia	II	1
1920/21	District League South Bavaria	I.	9

In 1919 the TV Oberhausen merged with the TV Augsburg II and the "Spielmannschaft des Turnverein Oberhausen" renamed itself to "Ballspiel-Club Augsburg im Turnverein founded 1871". In addition, a youth department was established for the first time. In September, the BCA could not prevail in the Augsburg qualifying round for the District League South Bavaria and consequently started in the 1919/20 season in the A-Class Swabia. There the BCA first celebrated the championship and later the promotion to the district league of Southern Bavaria.

1921–1939: Before the Second World War

season	league	level	space	Squad
1921/22	District League South Bavaria II	I.	7th
1922/23	Competence League South Bavaria	II	2
1923/24	District League Swabia	II	4th
1924/25	District League Swabia	II	4th
1925/26	District League Swabia	II	2
1926/27	District League Swabia	II	3
1927/28	District League Swabia	II	1
1928/29	District League Swabia	II	1
1929/30	District League Swabia	II	2
1930/31	District League Swabia	II	3
1931/32	District League Swabia	II	1
1932/33	District League Swabia	II	1
1933/34	District class Swabia	II	1
1934/35	Gauliga Bavaria	I.	7th
1935/36	Gauliga Bavaria	I.	5
1936/37	Gauliga Bavaria	I.	5
1937/38	Gauliga Bavaria	I.	6th
1938/39	Gauliga Bavaria	I.	8th

On August 30, 1921, an extraordinary general meeting took place under the direction of Ludwig Hillenbrand in the restaurant "Hohes Meer". This decided to separate from TSV 1871 Augsburg and set the new name BC Augsburg . From this time on, the club's bar was the restaurant "Gleich". In the 1921/22 season, the BCA was missing an important player in Hans Lang, who had switched to SpVgg Fürth at the beginning of the season, and so the club was relegated to the South Bavarian Competence League at the end of the season.

In 1924 the BCA was one of the first clubs in Swabia to set up a school department. A year later, SV Schwaben, which had split off from TV 1847 Augsburg in the previous year, merged with SSV Augsburg, which was founded in 1908 as FC Augsburg , to form SSV Schwaben Augsburg .

On May 1, 1927, Hans Semmler was hired as the first full-time trainer of the BCA. His area of ​​responsibility at that time also included the reserve, youth and student teams. Semmler led the BCA in the seasons 1927/28 and 1928/29 each to the championship title in the district league Swabia, but the club failed in both years in the promotion round.

The 1931/32 season ended the BCA with only one defeat again in first place. The 25th anniversary of the association in the summer was not celebrated due to the high unemployment among the members. In the following season, the BCA was champion of the district league Swabia and would have qualified for the top division for the first time since 1922, but the restructuring of the league system followed in the summer of 1933 by the National Socialists, who had now seized power, so that the club was promoted was denied again. In the 1933/34 season, the first after the introduction of the Gauligen as the new top division, the BCA started in the second-class district class Swabia. At the end of the season, the club was able to celebrate the championship and finally rose to the Gauliga Bayern . After the BCA had managed to stay in the league in the following season through a strong second half, the club joined in the summer of 1935 with the SV Kriegshaber, an old rival, which should strengthen the BCA's position in Augsburg over the long term.

In 1938, another club joined the BCA with TSV Stadtbach.

1939–1945: Second World War

season	league	level	space	Squad
1939/40	Gauliga Bavaria	I.	2
1940/41	Gauliga Bavaria	I.	3
1941/42	Gauliga Bavaria	I.	6th
1942/43	Gauliga South Bavaria	I.	2
1943/44	Gauliga South Bavaria	I.	2
1944/45	Gau class Swabia	I.	-

After the beginning of the Second World War , BC Augsburg and SSV Schwaben Augsburg initially merged to form a war sports community. However, this was forcibly dissolved on November 18, 1939, so that Ernst Lehner , the star of the previous city rivalry, only made a few appearances in the BCA jersey. Nevertheless, BC Augsburg took over the top of the table in the Gauliga Bayern for the first time in the club's history on December 10, 1939 with a 2-1 victory at Jahn Regensburg. At the end of the season, the club was runner-up behind 1. FC Nürnberg . In the following season the BCA u. a. at the later champions TSV 1860 Munich 5: 4 and finished third in the table at the end of the season.

In 1941, the merger of TV 1847 Augsburg with SSV Schwaben Augsburg to form TSV Schwaben Augsburg resulted in a new Augsburg club, which in the following years would develop into the most important local rival of the BCA. During the 1941/42 season, numerous BCA players were killed in the war. For the following season the Gauliga Bayern was divided into a north and a south relay due to the war , which should help the BCA to the runner-up in the Gauliga Südbayern behind 1860 Munich.

In the 1943/44 season, the BCA and the Post-SG Augsburg formed the war syndicate BC / Post Augsburg , as both clubs lacked players due to the Second World War. The KSG took over the place of the BCA in the Gauliga Südbayern. At the end of the season, KSG, whose striker Willy Dzirastek was the top scorer, became runner-up behind Bayern Munich, who they had defeated 5-2 in the second half of the season. For the following season, the Gauliga Bayern was divided even further due to the war. KSG competed in the Schwaben Gau class, one of a total of six seasons, and fought for the championship with local rivals Schwaben Augsburg, but the season was canceled due to the circumstances in the final phase of World War II.

1945–1969: After the Second World War

season	league	level	space	Squad
1945/46	Oberliga Süd	I.	8th
1946/47	Oberliga Süd	I.	17th
1947/48	Landesliga Südbayern	II	1
1948/49	Oberliga Süd	I.	14th
1949/50	Oberliga Süd	I.	11
1950/51	Oberliga Süd	I.	16
1951/52	II. Division South	II	2
1952/53	Oberliga Süd	I.	10
1953/54	Oberliga Süd	I.	12
1954/55	Oberliga Süd	I.	7th
1955/56	Oberliga Süd	I.	11
1956/57	Oberliga Süd	I.	13
1957/58	Oberliga Süd	I.	12
1958/59	Oberliga Süd	I.	15th
1959/60	II. Division South	II	6th
1960/61	II. Division South	II	1
1961/62	Oberliga Süd	I.	11
1962/63	Oberliga Süd	I.	16
1963/64	Regional league south	II	19th
1964/65	1st Amateur League Bavaria	III	2
1965/66	1st Amateur League Bavaria	III	1
1966/67	Regional league south	II	16
1967/68	1st Amateur League Bavaria	III	16
1968/69	1st Amateur League Bavaria	III	2

After the end of the Second World War, the war syndicate with the Post-SG Augsburg was dissolved again. In the 1945/46 season, the first after the introduction of the major leagues as the new top division, the BCA started in the Oberliga Süd and ended the season in eighth place. The newly built BCA stadium in Oberhausen was opened on September 29, 1946. This was a football stadium with a wooden grandstand called a bowling alley , it had a capacity of 20,000 seats. The associated club room was called Gifthütte . The BCA lost their first game in the new stadium 2-4 against VfB Stuttgart . At the end of the 1946/47 season, the club occupied 17th place in the table and thus rose to the second-rate Bayernliga Süd . In the following season, the BCA became champions of the Bayernliga Süd and won the Bavarian championship in direct comparison with the champions of the Bayernliga Nord, 1. FC 01 Bamberg . Thus, the club succeeded in the immediate return to the Oberliga Süd.

The 1950/51 season ended the BCA in 16th place in the table and thus rose to the II. Division South. In 1951, however, the club also celebrated winning the Bavarian Cup , in which non-amateur clubs were allowed to take part for the first and only time that year. On September 16, 1951, the newly built Rosenaustadion was opened in Augsburg's Antonsviertel . This is a classic football stadium with a running track, it has a capacity of 31,000 seats. At the end of the season, the BCA took second place in the table and again managed to immediately return to the Oberliga Süd.

In the 1958/59 season, the BCA occupied, despite the strong playing Helmut Haller , who made his debut in the national team in September , only the 15th place in the table and thus rose again from the II. Division South.

Two years later, the BCA was champion of the II. Division South and rose again to the Oberliga Süd.

In the 1962/63 season, the BCA was missing an important player in Helmut Haller, who was one of the first German footballers to move to Italy for FC Bologna in the summer . The BCA ended the season only in 16th place in the table and thus rose to the Regionalliga Süd , which replaced the II. Division as the second highest division. In the following season, the club occupied 19th place in the table and was thereby passed into the third-class Bayernliga.

In the 1964/65 season, the BCA was runner-up in the Bavarian League, the following year the club was able to celebrate the championship and thus rose again to the Regionalliga Süd. The 1966/67 season ended the club in 16th place in the table and thus rose again from the Bayern League.

Two years later, the BCA was again runner-up in the Bavarian League and narrowly missed promotion to the second-rate Regionalliga Süd.

1969–1979: From the third to the second division

season	league	level	space	Squad
1969/70	1st Amateur League Bavaria	III	4th
1970/71	1st Amateur League Bavaria	III	3
1971/72	1st Amateur League Bavaria	III	8th
1972/73	1st Amateur League Bavaria	III	1
1973/74	Regional league south	II	1
1974/75	2nd Bundesliga South	II	12
1975/76	2nd Bundesliga South	II	15th
1976/77	2nd Bundesliga South	II	9
1977/78	2nd Bundesliga South	II	14th
1978/79	2nd Bundesliga South	II	18th

On July 15, 1969, the BCA merged with the licensed players department of local rivals Swabia Augsburg to form the Augsburg 1907 football club , since since the introduction of the Bundesliga as a single-track top division in 1963 it seemed impossible to have two higher-class clubs in a city the size of Augsburg Establish football. The still existing amateur football department of the Swabians pledged to rule out promotion to professional football in the future.

In the 1972/73 season, the FCA finally celebrated the championship in the Bavarian League and thus rose again to the second-rate Regionalliga Süd. In the following season, the meanwhile world star Helmut Haller returned to the Lech , sparked an unprecedented enthusiasm for football in Augsburg and became the face of the new FCA. Completely surprisingly, the regional league newcomer FCA won the championship title at the end of the season and only failed in the promotion round to the Bundesliga. In the following year, the club therefore started in the southern season of the 2nd Bundesliga , which replaced the regional leagues as the second highest division.

The 1978/79 season ended the FCA in 18th place in the table and thus rose again to the third-class Bayernliga.

1979–2000: From the second to the fourth division

season	league	level	space	Squad
1979/80	Bayern League	III	1
1980/81	2nd Bundesliga South	II	18th
1981/82	Bayern League	III	1
1982/83	2nd Bundesliga	II	17th
1983/84	Bayern League	III	7th
1984/85	Bayern League	III	2
1985/86	Bayern League	III	3
1986/87	Bayern League	III	6th
1987/88	Bayern League	III	6th
1988/89	Bayern League	III	4th
1989/90	Bayern League	III	3
1990/91	Bayern League	III	8th
1991/92	Bayern League	III	4th
1992/93	Bayern League	III	6th
1993/94	Bayern League	III	1
1994/95	Regional league south	III	9
1995/96	Regional league south	III	11
1996/97	Regional league south	III	11
1997/98	Regional league south	III	10
1998/99	Regional league south	III	14th
1999/00	Regional league south	III	8th

The direct resurgence in 1979/80 was followed by another descent in 1980/81. In the following season, the FCA was again champions of the Bayern League and prevailed in the promotion round to the now single-track 2nd Bundesliga. But even in the 1982/83 season, the club could not hold the class and rose again to the third-class Bayernliga.

In the 1984/85 season, the FCA was runner-up in the Bayern League and qualified for the German amateur championship .

Two years later, the club had to compete in the first round of the DFB Cup at its eternal rival 1860 Munich and was able to put it in its place with a 5-1 success. In the second round, the FCA received Hamburger SV in the Rosenaustadion, they lost after a fighting performance with 1: 2, but the game went down in the football history books because HSV goalkeeper Uli Stein saw the red card after he had shown the finger of the finger to the Augsburg fans who had previously provoked him.

In the 1990/91 season, the A-Juniors of coach Heiner Schuhmann celebrated winning the DFB-Juniors-Club Cup . They were able to defend this title in the following season. In the 1992/93 season the A-Juniors won the final of the German A-Juniors championship in front of 12,000 spectators in the Rosenaustadion against 1. FC Kaiserslautern 3-1. In the following season, the first team was champions of the Bayern League, but missed promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in the promotion round. The A-Juniors again won the DFB Junior Club Cup, which they were able to defend in the 1994/95 season.

In the 1999/2000 season, the FCA was eighth in the Regionalliga Süd, which had replaced the Bayernliga in 1994 as the third highest division, and would have qualified for the now only two-pronged Regionalliga, Gruppe Süd. The DFB refused the FCA after the withdrawal of its main sponsor but the license for the new season because the club did not meet the financial criteria for a license, so that the FCA had to relegate to the fourth-class Bayernliga.

2000–2011: From the Bayern League to the Bundesliga

season	league	level	space	Squad
2000/01	Bayern League	IV	4th
2001/02	Bayern League	IV	1
2002/03	Regional league south	III	3
2003/04	Regional league south	III	4th
2004/05	Regional league south	III	4th
2005/06	Regional league south	III	1
2006/07	2nd Bundesliga	II	7th
2007/08	2nd Bundesliga	II	14th
2008/09	2nd Bundesliga	II	11
2009/10	2nd Bundesliga	II	3
2010/11	2nd Bundesliga	II	2

In 2000, a group of investors around the former textile entrepreneur Walther Seinsch , who took over the presidency of the FCA, started the economic restructuring of the FCA. In the 2001/02 season, the club was champions of the Bavarian League and thus managed to return to the third-class Regionalliga Süd.

In the 2004/05 season, the FCA was on the verge of promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. To return to professional football after 22 years of abstinence, the only thing missing was a win on the last match day against Jahn Regensburg, but the guests turned a 1-0 lead for FCA into a 1-2 defeat in the final minutes. The game is considered the bitterest defeat in the club's recent history. In the following season, however, the FCA finally celebrated the championship in the Regionalliga Süd and thus rose again to the 2nd Bundesliga after 23 years in amateur football. The professional football game was then spun off into a GmbH & Co. KGaA , under the new manager Andreas Rettig , the club was significantly professionalized in the following years.

On July 26th, 2009 the newly built Augsburg Arena , then called impuls arena , opened in Augsburg-Göggingen . This is a modern football arena, it has a capacity of 30,660 seats. The FCA won the opening game 2-0 against a Swabian selection. In the first season in the new stadium, the club under coach Jos Luhukay moved into the semi-finals of the DFB Cup for the first time in the club's history with a 2-0 victory in the quarter-finals against Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln . The FCA lost this at Werder Bremen with 0-2. At the end of the season, the club also took third place in the table in the 2nd Bundesliga, but lost the relegation games for promotion against 1. FC Nürnberg.

In the following season, the FCA had another chance of promotion on matchday 33 against FSV Frankfurt . The guests took the lead early on, but Michael Thurk scored the equalizer before half-time. The decision was made by Stephan Hain in the 85th minute of the game , whose 2-1 goal meant FCA's first promotion to the Bundesliga. The rise went down as the greatest success in the club's history to date.

Since 2011: present

season	league	level	space	Squad
2011/12	Bundesliga	I.	14th	Squad
2012/13	Bundesliga	I.	15th	Squad
2013/14	Bundesliga	I.	8th	Squad
2014/15	Bundesliga	I.	5	Squad
2015/16	Bundesliga	I.	12	Squad
2016/17	Bundesliga	I.	13	Squad
2017/18	Bundesliga	I.	12	Squad
2018/19	Bundesliga	I.	15th	Squad
2019/20	Bundesliga	I.	15th	Squad

In the 2011/12 season, FC Augsburg played in the Bundesliga for the first time . The FCA played the first Bundesliga game in the club's history on August 6, 2011 against SC Freiburg . The game ended 2: 2, Sascha Mölders scored the first Bundesliga goal for FCA. However, the club had to wait until the ninth matchday for their first victory in the upper house, Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker scored the 1-0 winner in the 88th minute of the game at 1. FSV Mainz 05 with a penalty. In the DFB Cup, the FCA was eliminated in the round of 16 after a 1: 2 defeat at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . After the first half of the Bundesliga, the club was in 17th place, the Bundesliga club with the lowest budget was threatened with relegation.

During the winter break, manager Andreas Rettig announced that he would be leaving FCA in the summer. In the second half of the season the team was u. a. by midfielder Koo Ja-cheol , who together with Daniel Baier and Hajime Hosogai , on loan from Bayer 04 Leverkusen , made a decisive contribution to the success of the FCA. With a 0-0 draw on matchday 33 at Borussia Mönchengladbach , the club finally secured relegation. After the end of the season, coach Jos Luhukay surprisingly announced his resignation, according to media reports because Rettig's successor as manager, Manfred Paula , delayed extending the contract with Luhukay's assistant coach and took action on the transfer market without consulting the coach.

In the 2012/13 season Markus Weinzierl took over the coaching position. Manager Manfred Paula was replaced by Jürgen Rollmann in autumn, and Paula switched to the junior division. In the round of 16 of the DFB Cup, FCA met Bayern Munich and were eliminated after a 2-0 defeat. The club finished the first half of the Bundesliga with only nine points in 17th place, whereupon Jürgen Rollmann was replaced by Stefan Reuter . Thereupon Weinzierl, who was left in his office, switched to the previous extremely defensive style of play and relied on offensive football for the second half of the season. During the winter break, Reuter signed André Hahn and Ji Dong-won, on loan from AFC Sunderland , two new top performers in the offensive area, goalkeeper Alexander Manninger and playmaker Daniel Baier also played a strong second half of the season, so that the FCA with a 3: 1- Victory on the last matchday against SpVgg Greuther Fürth surprisingly even celebrated the direct relegation by leaving the relegation places or relegation place for the first time in the season. The nine points from the first half of the season had meant a negative record for a team that was not relegated, while the return of the second half of the season corresponded to a European Cup aspirant.

For the following season, the Augsburg midfield was reinforced by Halil Altıntop and Kevin Vogt . Together with Daniel Baier, André Hahn and Tobias Werner , they formed a pillar of the new Augsburg success and continued the playful development of the previous season. The back four of the FCA with captain Paul Verhaegh , Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker, Ragnar Klavan and Matthias Ostrzolek also managed almost without rotations. In the round of 16 of the DFB Cup they met again on Bayern Munich and were eliminated again after a 2-0 defeat. The well-harmonized FCA team finished eighth in the table both at the winter break and at the end of the season and had the chance to move into the UEFA Europa League after two years in a relegation battle until the last match day . In the second half of the season, FCA was the first team of the season to beat Bayern Munich 1-0. Paul Verhaegh, Hong Jeong-ho and Ji Dong-won were rewarded with nominations for the 2014 World Cup for a successful season.

In July 2014, the newly built youth training center was inaugurated, which cost around € 2.5 million; the fire protection entrepreneur Klaus Hofmann donated one million euros for it. In the 2014/15 season, the FCA had to replace three previous regular players who had aroused covetousness at other clubs through their good performances: top scorer André Hahn moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach , Matthias Ostrzolek to Hamburger SV and Kevin Vogt to 1. FC Köln . On the part of the media, the club was therefore again assigned a significantly weaker role for this season. At the same time, however, FCA succeeded in signing three players, left-back Abdul Rahman Baba , two midfielders Markus Feulner and Dominik Kohr , who is on loan from Bayer Leverkusen , who will play key roles in the new season.

In addition to the newcomers and the proven top performers, goalkeeper Marwin Hitz and the new top scorer Raúl Bobadilla also knew how to convince, so that the FCA was eliminated in the DFB Cup in the first round at the fourth division club 1. FC Magdeburg after a 0-1 defeat, but in the meantime climbed to third place in the Bundesliga and wintered in sixth place in the table. In December 2014, President Walther Seinsch resigned from his office after he had sold his investor shares back to the FCA in August. His successor was Klaus Hofmann. Midfielder Pierre Emile Højbjerg was loaned from Bayern Munich during the winter break . In the second half of the season, another surprising 1-0 win at German champions Bayern Munich paved the way for the European Cup. After a 3-1 win at Borussia Mönchengladbach on the last day of the match, the FCA finished the season in fifth place in the table and qualified for the Europa League for the first time in the club's history. The qualification had already been determined a week earlier, but the Augsburgers pushed themselves into the only safe place for the group stage before FC Schalke 04 .

For the 2015/16 season, Abdul Rahman Baba moved to Chelsea for a record fee , and the loaned Pierre Emile Højbjerg returned to Bayern after a half series that was also personally successful. The FCA then signed the left-backs Philipp Max and Konstantinos Stafylidis , the previously loaned defensive midfielder Dominik Kohr and the attacking midfielders Piotr Trochowski and Koo Ja-cheol . On September 17th, the FCA played the first European Cup game in the club's history at Athletic Bilbao . Despite an early opening goal by Halil Altıntop, the FCA lost 3-1 in the end, but the team and fans received international recognition for their performance. The FCA also lost their first home game in the European Cup with 1: 3 against Partizan Belgrade . The team finally achieved their first victory in the Europa League on matchday three at AZ Alkmaar . The long-injured and recovered Piotr Trochowski scored the 1-0 winner with a free kick. This was followed by another 4-1 win against Alkmaar and a late 2-3 defeat against Bilbao, so that the FCA had to win at least 3-1 on the last matchday of the preliminary round in Belgrade in order to match the direct comparison and goal difference To turn in favor. After an early lead for Belgrade, FCA was able to turn the game around with goals from Hong Jeong-ho, Paul Verhaegh and Raúl Bobadilla and thus caused the “miracle of Belgrade” shortly before the end of the game. In the following sixteenth-finals, the team was eliminated from the eventual finalists Liverpool FC by just 0-0 and 0-1. While the club was eliminated in the round of 16 of the DFB Cup against Borussia Dortmund after a 2-0 defeat, it made the turn in the Bundesliga after a long weak start to the season and ended the season in 12th place. After four successful years, Markus Weinzierl announced his departure from FC Schalke 04 in May 2016 and commented on his time in Augsburg: "We have achieved everything we could achieve together, now someone has to take over with new ideas and new visions."

His successor was Dirk Schuster , who in the past few years had managed to march through from the 3rd division to the Bundesliga with SV Darmstadt 98 and to keep relegation, which was not considered possible from outside. On December 14, 2016, Dirk Schuster was surprisingly released from work, and Manuel Baum was his successor . The FCA finally finished the season in 13th place. In the following season, the FCA improved by one place and finished twelfth.

On the 8th matchday of the 2018/19 season , on the occasion of the 111th birthday in the home game against RB Leipzig , the team wore specially made retro jerseys, which were intended to remind of the founding year of FC Allemania . Even coach Manuel Baum stood on the line in a contemporary trench coat . At the beginning of April, Manuel Baum was dismissed after disputes with management after a fluctuating performance and seven points before relegation place 16. Under his successor Martin Schmidt , two wins were achieved at the start, including the 6-0 home win against VfB Stuttgart , the highest Augsburg Bundesliga win to date. In 14th place in the table, FC Augsburg ended the 2018/2019 Bundesliga season with an 8-1 defeat at VfL Wolfsburg , the highest Bundesliga defeat in the club's history to date. In the 2018/19 season, the FCA also took part in the Virtual Bundesliga in e-sports for the first time. In the 2019/20 season, Martin Schmidt was sacked after a 2-0 defeat at Bayern Munich on matchday 25. At this point in time, the FCA was in 14th place in the table and had only won one point from the last 5 games. Heiko Herrlich became the new head coach.

structure

Football Club Augsburg 1907 e. V.

The football club Augsburg 1907 e. V. was created in 1969 through the merger of BC Augsburg with the licensed players department of TSV Schwaben Augsburg . The women's, junior and female teams of FC Augsburg are organized in the club. The association has around 19,100 members (as of June 29, 2020).

The board consists of:

• Klaus Hofmann
• Jakob Geyer
• Gerhard Ecker

The supervisory board consists of:

• Thomas Müller
• Gerhard Wiedemann
• Johannes Hintersberger
• Walter Sianos
• Manfred Ringer

Football Club Augsburg 1907 GmbH & Co. KGaA

The football club Augsburg 1907 GmbH & Co. KGaA was created in 2005 through the spin-off of the first team from the football club Augsburg 1907 e. V. The men's teams of FC Augsburg are organized in society. 99 percent of the limited shareholders are Hofmann Investors GmbH (31.9% each: Klaus Hofmann and Michael Reuss, 17%: Detlef Dinsel, 12.8%: Marcus Höfl, 6.4%: Thilo Sautter) and one percent is the Football Club Augsburg 1907 e. V. The general partner authorized to manage the company and personally liable is the club's own FCA Beteiligungs GmbH .

The management consists of:

• Stefan Reuter
• Michael Ströll

The supervisory board consists of:

• Stefan Frederking
• Marcus Höfl
• Thilo Sautter
• Detlef Dinsel
• Jan-Ginger Callsen-Bracker

Ski and mountain friends of the FCA e. V.

The ski and mountain friends of the FCA e. V. was established in 1990 through the spin-off of the ski department from the Augsburg 1907 football club. V. The club does not take part in sporting competitions, serves exclusively for social maintenance and owns the Leo-Schindler-Hütte in Oberjoch . The association has around 120 members.

identity

logo

The FCA logo in its current form was introduced in 2002 and is a modification of the traditional logo that was used between 1969 and 1996. The logo has the shape of a Spanish shield , in the upper field there is the abbreviation of the club name "FCA" in red, the letters "F" and "C" are underlined by a tricolor in the club colors red, green and white. The lower field is split into red and white based on the Augsburg city arms , it shows a green pine nut on a golden capital, underneath is the founding year of the association "1907".

A newly designed, round coat of arms was used between 1996 and 2002, but it was not very popular with fans. Little is known about the coat of arms about the time before the merger in 1969 and the emergence of the modern FC Augsburg. The BC Augsburg used different coat of arms variants with several interruptions since 1921. The last variant was a blue, diamond-shaped shield with white lettering and pine nut, which was used from the mid-1950s to 1969.

• Logo history
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  Coat of arms of FC Allemania 1907

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  Coat of arms of the TV Oberhausen

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  older coat of arms of BC Augsburg

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  older coat of arms of BC Augsburg

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  Coat of arms of BC Augsburg between the mid-1950s and 1969

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  Coat of arms of FC Augsburg between 1969 and 1996

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  Coat of arms of FC Augsburg 1996/97

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  Coat of arms of FC Augsburg 1997 to 2002

Jerseys

classic jersey

After the merger of BC Augsburg with the other large Augsburg club, TSV Schwaben Augsburg , in 1969, the colors of the city of Augsburg, i.e. red, green and white, were set as the new club colors. The colors red and white go back to the banner of the Bishop of Augsburg and the standard of the Duchy of Swabia . The color green is the color of the stone pine nut , which was originally the field symbol of the Roman camp Augusta Vindelicorum , from which today's Augsburg emerged.

The club colors are also reflected in the jerseys. A white shirt with a red-green stripe is considered a classic jersey. This design was taken up again for the first Bundesliga season and the first European Cup season.

anthem

The FCA anthem was sung after promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2006 and is entitled Red, Green, White . During the recording, u. a. Helmut Haller , who is still considered the club's greatest player today. The first two stanzas of the hymn are about the long way to the "football miracle" resurgence in professional football. In the last stanza, a children's choir sings about Augsburg's hospitality, before the stanza ends with the lines "But when the ball is in play, the flag is hoisted, because we are Augsburgers ...", whereupon the fans in the stadium head towards the Guest fans answer "And you don't!"

An instrumental version of the song An Island with Two Mountains is used as the goal hymn .

Stadium magazine

The FCA's stadium magazine is called Stadionkurier and is co-designed by the club's fans. It costs one euro on a regular basis and is free for members.

Augsburger doll crate

The FCA has been cooperating with the nationwide known marionette theater Augsburger Puppenkiste since 2009 . As part of this cooperation, the Kasperle types the result before each home game. In addition, the captain of the FCA gives the opposing captain an annually changing puppet instead of a pennant. In the 2015/16 season, Mikesch the cat was the present for the guests, in the years before, Urmel, Jim Knopf and Lukas, the locomotive driver, were presented among others. After every goal by the FCA, the melody "An island with two mountains" from the film adaptation by Jim Knopf and Lukas the locomotive driver is played.

Josef Wagner

Before moving to the new arena in summer 2009, Josef Wagner, who died on April 21, 2014, operated the manual display panel in the Rosenaustadion for over three decades . In his honor, after every goal by the FCA in the new arena, a video clip is shown of how he is hanging the board with the new score.

Personalities

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Trainer

(As of April 9, 2019)

1927-1930	Hans Semmler
1934-1937	Hans Semmler
1937-1939	Conny Heidkamp
1939-1940	Franz Schebian
1940-1941	Conny Heidkamp
1945	Karl Weber
1946	Josef Pöttinger
1946-1947	Karl Huiras
1947-1948	Georg Ertl
1948-1949	Ludwig Tretter
1949-1951	Josef Pöttinger
1951-1952	Karl Striebinger
1952-1953	Karl Sesta
1953-1956	Hans Hipp
1956-1957	Fritz Rebel
1957-1959	Ernst Reitermaier
1959-1960	Karl Striebinger
1960-1961	Robert Gebhardt
1961-1963	Hans Hipp
1963-1964	Karl-Heinz Spikofski
1964-1967	Fritz Schollmeyer
1967-1968	Kurt Helbig and Horst Bachmann
1968-1970	Herbert Erhardt
1970-1971	Georg Lechner
1971	Slobodan Čendić
1971-1973	Kurt Schwarzhuber
1973-1975	Milovan Beljin
1975	Volker Kottmann
1975-1976	Gerd Menne
1976-1977	Max Merkel
1977-1988	Werner Olk
1978	Heiner Schuhmann
1978	Werner Sterzik
1979	Hans Cieslarczyk
1979-1980	Heiner Schuhmann
1980-1981	Heinz Elzner
1981	Heiner Schuhmann
1981-1984	Hannes Baldauf
1984-1986	Paul Sauter
1986-1988	Heiner Schuhmann
1988-1989	Hans-Joachim Greben
1989	Helmut Haller
1989	Jimmy Hartwig
1989-1990	Dieter Schatzschneider
1990	Gernot Fuchs
1990-1995	Armin Veh
1995-1996	Karsten Wettberg
1996	Helmut Riedl
1997-1998	Hubert Müller
1998	Helmut Riedl
1998-1999	Gerd Schwickert
1999	Alfons Higl
1999	Heiner Schuhmann
2000	Hans-Jürgen Boysen
2000-2002	Gino Lettieri
2002-2003	Ernst Middendorp
2003-2004	Armin Veh
2004-2007	Rainer Hörgl
2007-2008	Ralf Loose
2008-2009	Holger Fach
2009–2012	Jos Luhukay
2012-2016	Markus Weinzierl
2016	Dirk Schuster
2016-2019	Manuel Baum
2019-2020	Martin Schmidt
2020–	Heiko Herrlich

Players with national and / or international merits

Helmut Haller statue

The following alphabetically sorted list contains former or current players of FC Augsburg with national and / or international titles; it does not claim to be complete.

In the club	player	Nat.	Greatest successes
2016	Albian Ajeti		Swiss champions 2014 and 2015
1976-1980	Raimond Aumann		World Champion 1990 , German Champion 1985 , German Champion 1986 , German Champion 1987 , German Champion 1989 , German Champion 1990 , German Champion 1994 , Turkish Champion 1995
2014-2015	Abdul Rahman Baba		Vice African Champion 2015
2011-2013	Dawda Bah		Finnish champion 2009 and 2010 , Finnish cup winner 2008
since 2008	Daniel Baier		German champion 2009
2012-2014	Aristide Bancé		Finnish champion 2014
1952-1960 1963-1965	Ulrich Biesinger		World Champion 1954
2013-2017	Raúl Bobadilla		Swiss champion 2013
2009–2012	Daniel Brinkmann		Vice champion of the 2nd Bundesliga 2011 and champion of the 3rd soccer league in 2015
since 2014	Caiuby		German champion 2009
2008-2010	Wassil Chamutouski		Romanian champion 2005, Romanian cup winner 2013, Belarusian champion 1999
2002-2004	Miguel Coulibaly		WFV Cup winner 2001 and 2002
2003-2004	Daniel Damm		Champion of the Regionalliga Süd 2007
2013–2014 2015–2019	Ji Dong-won		Third in the 2011 Asian Cup , third in the 2012 Olympics
1999	Daniel Ernemann		DFB Cup finalist 2001, Vice Cup winner in the ÖFB Samsung Cup 2011
2014-2016	Alexander Esswein		German champion 2009
since 2014	Markus Feulner		German champion 2003 , German champion 2011
2016-2018	Marvin Friedrich		West German U19 Champion 2014, Westphalia Cup Winner 2014 , DFB Junior Club Cup Finalist 2014 , U19 European Champion 2014
1992-1994	Frank Gerster		German A-Junior Champion 1993 , DFB-Jugend-Kicker-Pokal -Winner 1994 , German Champion 1997 , League Cup- Winner 1997 , DFB-Pokal- Winner 1998
1980-1981	Joachim Goldstein		1981 Junior European Champion U-18 ( U-18 European Football Championship 1981 )
1982-1983	Roland Grahammer		Olympic bronze medal 1988 , German champion 1989 , 1990 , 1994 , DFB Supercup winner 1990, runner-up in the B-Junior Championship 1979
2015-2018	Julian Günther-Schmidt		* Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga 2015
1948-1962 1973-1976 1978-1979	Helmut Haller		Vice World Champion 1966 , World Cup Third 1970 , Italian Champion 1964 , Italian Champion 1972 , Italian Champion 1973
2003-2004	Marco Haller (soccer player)		Winner of the Bavarian Toto Cup 2014, champion of the Regionalliga Bayern 2015
1993-1995	Michael Hecht		Bayern league champions 1984 and 1994
2009-2010	Jens Hegeler		German A-Junior Champion 2007
2012-2018	Marwin Hitz		German champion 2009
1981-1982	Christian Hochstätter		DFB Cup 1995
1974-1977	Willi Hoffmann		European championship champion 1974 , German champion 1972 , 1973 , 1974
2011–2012	Hajime Hosogai		Asian champions 2011 , AFC Champions League winners 2007 , Japanese champions 2006
2015	Pierre Emile Højbjerg		Champions League winner 2013 , club world champion 2013 , German champion 2013 , German champion 2014
2012–2013 since 2015	Koo Ja-cheol		2008 East Asian champion , third in the 2011 Asian championship , second in the 2010 championship , 2012 Olympic bronze medal
1986-1988	Jan Jałocha		Polish champion (1978), World Cup third (1982)
2009-2013	Simon Jentzsch		U-18 Vice European Champion in 1994
2013-2016	Hong Jeong-ho		Third in the 2011 Asian Cup
1973-1981	Hans Jörg		German champion 1973 , regional league champion South 1974 , national cup winner 1971
2008-2009	Francis Kioyo		African Champion 2002
2008-2009	Thomas Kläsener		2005 DFL league cup winner
2012-2017	Ragnar Klavan		Estonian champion 2003 , Norwegian champion 2005 , Dutch champion 2009
2005-2007	Ivan Knez		Swiss cup finalist 1997, Swiss champion , 2002 , Swiss cup winner : 2002, Swabian cup winner 2005
2006-2007	Axel Lawarée		Austrian champion 2005, ÖFB cup finalist 2005
2011	Moritz Leitner		German champion 2011/12 , DFB Cup winner 2011/12
2007-2008	Felix Luz		DFB junior cup winner 2001
2012-2016	Alexander Manninger		English champion 1998 , Italian champion 2012
1992-1994	İlhan Mansız		A junior champion in 1993 , third in the 2002 World Cup
2014-2017	Tim Matavž		KNVB Cup 2012
1974-1988	Heinz Michallik		DFB Cup winner 1973
2002-2003	Markus Miller		Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga 2007
1974-1977	Walter Modick		German champion 1974 , European champion cup 1974 , Regional cup winner 1979, champion of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 1979
2004-2009	Patrick Mölzl		German B-Junior Champion 1997
since 2012	Jan Moravek		2011 DFL Supercup winner
2006-2009	Lars Muller		German champion 1996 , champion of the Oberliga Nordost 2010
2007-2008	Julian Nagelsmann		German A-youth champion 2014 , runner-up 2015 , champion of the south / south-west relay of the U-19 Bundesliga 2014, 2015
2009–2012	Marcel Ndjeng		Second division champions 2008 , second division champions 2013
2012-2014	Andreas Ottl		German champion 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , DFB-Pokal -winner 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , DFL-Supercup -winner 2010 , league cup -winner 2007 , champion of the Regionalliga Süd 2004 , German junior champion 2002 , 2004 . German B-Junior Champion 2001
2012-2013	Milan Petržela		Czech champion 2016
2008	Patrick Platinum		Runner-up in the 2nd Bundesliga 2015 , runner-up in the 3rd soccer league in 2013 , Westphalia Cup winner 2012, 2013
2008-2009	Mark Prettenthaler		Austrian cup winner 2010, 2011 and 2013
2004-2005	Milaim Rama		Challenge League Champion 2010
2002-2004	Jörg Reeb		German runner-up in 1999 and 2000
2010-2015	Dominik Reinhardt		German cup winner 2007
1983-1986	Karl-Heinz Riedle		World champion 1990 , Champions League winner 1997 , European runner-up in 1992 , German champion 1988 , German champion 1995 , German champion 1996
2003	Stefan Riess		German A-Junior Vice -Champion 2006 , 2007
1993-1994	Michael Rösele		German A-Junior Champion 1993 , 1992: DFB Junior Club Cup winner 1992
1996-1997	Jürgen Rollmann		Champion of the Oberliga Hessen 1986, second place DFB-Pokal 1989 and 1990, German Cup winner 1991, winner of the European Cup Winners' Cup 1992
2009	Kevin Schindler		Bundesliga runner-up in 2008 , Bremen Cup winner 2007
2004-2006	Oliver Schmidt		DFB Cup Final 1993, Indoor Masters Winner 2000
1973-1978	Edgar Schneider		DFB-Pokal 1971 , German champions 1972 and 1973
1976-1988	Bernd Schuster		European Champion 1980 , winner of the European Cup Winners' Cup 1982 , Spanish Champion 1985 , Spanish Champion 1989 , Spanish Champion 1990
1986-1987 1994-1995	Roland Seitz		Rhineland Cup winner 2010, 2011 and 2013
2008–2012	Andrew Sinkala		German champion 2000 , DFB Cup winner 2000 , DFL league cup winner 1999 , 2000
2012-2013	Giovanni Sio		Swiss Cup winner 2011 , Swiss champion 2014
2002-2003	Joachim Stadler		DFB-Pokal 1990 and DFB-Pokal 1995 , German champion 1991
2015-2019	Konstantinos Stafylidis		Runner-up in the 2012 U-19 European Championship
2004-2005	Alexander Strehmel		German champion 1992
2012-2014	Matthias Strohmaier		Regional league champions 2014
2007-2010	Imre Szabics		Austrian champion 2010
2007-2010	Somen Tchoyi		Norwegian champion 2008 , Austrian champion 2009 , 2010
2015-2016	Piotr Trochowski		Vice European champion 2008 , World Cup third 2010 , Europa League winner 2014 , German champion 2003 , A junior champion 2001 , A junior champion 2002
2010-2017	Paul Verhaegh		U-21 European Champion 2006 , U-21 European Champion 2007 , third place in the 2014 World Cup
2013	Panagiotis Vlachodimos		Rookie of the Year (Greece) 2012, champion U-19 Bundesliga season south / southwest 2010
1973-1976	Klaus Walleitner		European champions Cup Winners' Cup in 1967 , the German Cup winner in 1967 , Berlin cup winner in 1970 and 1971, Master of the Regionalliga Süd 1974
2006-2008	Timo Wenzel		German runner-up 2003 , Cypriot championship 2010, Cypriot soccer cup 2011, Cypriot Supercup 2010, UI-Cup winner 2000 , 2002

successes

(since the introduction of the Gauligen in 1933)

Championships

• 3 × champions of the 2nd division ( 1947/48 , 1960/61 , 1973/74 )
• 6 × champions of the 3rd division ( 1965/66 , 1972/73 , 1979/80 , 1981/82 , 1993/94 , 2005/06 )
• 1 × champions of the 4th division ( 2001/02 )

Ascents

• 1 × promoted to the Bundesliga 2011/12
• 5 × promoted second division ( 1933/34 , 1947/48 , 1951/52 , 1960/61 , 2006/07 )
• 5 × promoted third division ( 1965/66 , 1972/73 , 1979/80 , 1981/82 , 2005/06 )
• 1 × promoted fourth division ( 2001/02 )

Cup victories

• 1 × Bavarian Cup winner ( 1950/51 )
• 13 × Swabian Cup winners ( 1964/65 , 1968/69 , 1969/70 , 1970/71 , 1971/72 , 1976/77 , 1979/80 , 1985/86 , 1987/88 , 1992/93 , 1995/96 , 1998 / 99 , 2001/02 )

Participation

• 1 × participant in the DFB Cup semi-finals ( 2009/10 )
• 1 × participant in the Europa League ( 2015/16 )

Junior championships

• 1 × German A-Juniors Champion ( 1992/93 )

Junior cup victories

• 4 × DFB Junior Cup winners ( 1990/91 , 1991/92 , 1993/94 , 1994/95 )

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
2015/16	UEFA Europa League	Group stage	Athletic Bilbao	3: 6	1: 3 (A)	2: 3 (H)
			FK Partizan Belgrade	4: 4	1: 3 (H)	3: 1 (A)
			AZ Alkmaar	5: 1	1: 0 (A)	4: 1 (H)
		Round of 16	Liverpool FC	0: 1	0: 0 (H)	0: 1 (A)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 8 games, 3 wins, 1 draw, 4 defeats, 12:12 goals (goal difference ± 0)

Teams

First team

Squad 2020/21

Goalkeeper Tomáš Koubek

Goalkeeper Rafał Gikiewicz

Standard specialist Philipp Max

• As of August 22, 2020

number	Surname	Date of birth	nationality	in the club since	Contract until
goal
01	Rafał Gikiewicz	October 26, 1987		2020	2022
21st	Tomáš Koubek	August 26, 1992		2019	2024
39	Benjamin Leneis II	March 8, 1999		2015	2023
Defense
03	Mads Pedersen	September 1, 1996		2019	2024
04th	Felix Gotze	February 11, 1998		2018	2022
05	Marek Suchý	March 29, 1988		2019	2021
06th	Jeffrey Gouweleeuw	July 10, 1991		2016	2024
19th	Felix Uduokhai	September 9, 1997		2019	2020
22nd	Iago	March 23, 1997		2019	2024
31	Philipp Max	September 30, 1993		2015	2020
32	Raphael Framberger	September 6, 1995		2004	2021
midfield
08th	Rani Khedira	January 27, 1994		2017	2021
14th	Jan Moravek	November 1, 1989		2012	2022
16	Ruben Vargas	August 5, 1998		2019	2024
17th	Noah Sarenren Bazee	August 21, 1996		2019	2024
20th	Daniel Caligiuri	January 15, 1988		2020	2023
23	Marco Richter	November 24, 1997		2017	2023
24	Fredrik Jensen	September 9, 1997		2018	2023
25th	Carlos Gruezo	April 19, 1995		2019	2024
28	André Hahn	August 13, 1990		2018	2022
29	Eduard Löwen	January 28, 1997		2020	2021
33	Tobias Strobl	May 12, 1990		2020	2023
36	Reece Oxford	December 16, 1998		2019	2023
attack
07th	Florian Niederlechner	October 24, 1990		2019	2022
11	Michael Gregoritsch	April 18, 1994		2017	2022
27	Alfreð Finnbogason	February 1, 1989		2016	2022

• under contract, but not in the squad : Simon Asta , Julian Schieber , Georg Teigl

Transfers of the 2020/21 season

Accesses
time	player	Transferring club
Summer break	Daniel Caligiuri	FC Schalke 04
	Rafał Gikiewicz	1. FC Union Berlin
	Michael Gregoritsch	FC Schalke 04 (loanee)
	Mads Pedersen	FC Zurich (loanee)
	Tobias Strobl	Borussia Monchengladbach

Departures
time	player	Receiving club
Summer break	Daniel Baier	Termination of contract; destination unknown
	Sergio Cordova	Arminia Bielefeld (loan)
	Kevin Danso	Fortuna Düsseldorf (loan)
	Fabian Giefer	Würzburger Kickers
	Tin Jedvaj	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (loanee)
	Stephan Lichtsteiner	End of career
	Andreas Luthe	1. FC Union Berlin
	Maurice Malone	SV Wehen Wiesbaden (loan)
	Tim Rieder	1. FC Kaiserslautern
	Jozo Stanic	FSV Zwickau (loan)

^*Due to the postponement of the end of the 2019/20 season and the start of the 2020/21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DFB, together with the DFL and in consultation with FIFA, adjusted the summer transfer period (generally July 1 to August 31). The transfer window is open on July 1st (changeover period I.1) and from July 15 to October 5, 2020 (changeover period I.2). The first, one-day phase is intended in particular for the registration of contracts that have already been concluded starting on July 1st.

Coaching team

Heiko Herrlich has been the head coach of the professional team since March 10, 2020

Surname	function
Heiko Herrlich	Head coach
Iraklis Metaxas	Assistant coach
Jonas Scheuermann	Assistant coach
Tobias Zellner	Assistant coach
Kristián Barbuščák	Goalkeeping coach
Andreas Bäumler	Rehabilitation and athletics trainer

Functional team

Surname	function
Florian Elser	Team doctor
Peter Stiller	Team doctor
Andreas Weigel	Team doctor
Rudi Ehmann	Physiotherapist
Martin Miller	Physiotherapist
Markus Zeyer	Physiotherapist
Salvatore Belardo	Kit manager
Christian Schneider	Kit manager
Zdenek Vidrman	Kit manager

Second team

Scene immediately before the start of the game of the Bayern Regional Football League between the second team of FC Augsburg and VfB Eichstätt (2: 3) on March 23, 2019 in the Rosenaustadion

Squad 2019/20

• As of July 19, 2019

Surname	Date of birth	nationality	in the club since	Contract until
goal
Benjamin Leneis	March 8, 1999		2018	2023
Marc Richter	December 31, 1999		2019	2020
Daniel Witetschek	July 25, 2000			2021
Defense
Marcel Bahm	February 12, 2000		2017	2020
Nikola Gavrić	January 30, 1998		2017	2020
Kilian Jakob	January 25, 1998		2017	2022
Benedikt Lobenhofer	September 8, 1998		2017	2020
Christian Miller	January 19, 1999		2018	2020
Nicola Della Schiava	June 24, 1997		2016	2020
Jannik Schuster	January 19, 1999		2018	2021
Jozo Stanic	April 6, 1999		2018	2022
Leonhard von Schroetter	March 27, 1999		2018	2020
midfield
Hrvoje Ćuljak	February 8, 2000			2020
David Deger	February 13, 2000			2021
Hendrik Hofgärtner	January 17, 1996		2019	2021
Leave Juergensen	February 16, 1998		2017	2020
Christopher Lannert	June 8, 1998		2017	2020
Marcel Leib	March 3, 1997		2018	2020
Josué Mbila	August 21, 1999		2018	2020
Artur Mergel	August 28, 1997		2017	2019
Sebastiano Nappo	September 15, 1995		2018	2020
Markus Pöllner	June 8, 1998		2019	2021
Stefano Russo	June 29, 2000		2018	2020
Felix Schwarzholz	September 24, 1999		2018	2022
attack
Seong-Hoon Cheon	September 21, 2000		2019	2023
Robin Glöckle	April 3, 2000		2018	2020
Maurice Malone	August 17, 2000			2020
Lukas Petkov	November 1, 2000			2020

Coaching team

Surname	function
Josef Steinberger	Trainer
Janosch Landsberger	Assistant coach
Felix Kling	Assistant coach
Christian Krieglmeier	Goalkeeping coach

Functional team

Surname	function
Harald Mack	supervisor
Albert Walter	Team doctor
Alexander indulgences	Physiotherapist

Women

team	league
Women I.	District league
Women II	District class south

Juniors

team	league
A juniors	Bundesliga South / Southwest
B juniors	Bundesliga South / Southwest
B-Juniors II	Bayern League
C juniors	Regionalliga Bayern
C-Juniors II	Support league BuLi / NLZ
D juniors	District Oberliga Swabia
D-Juniors II	Support league BuLi / NLZ
D-Juniors III	District League Augsburg
E-Juniors	Augsburg 1 HR

Juniors

team	league
B juniors	District League South
C juniors	Small field
D juniors	Small field
D-Juniors II	Small field (without rating)

Venues

WWK arena

Rose Stadium

District sports facility Paul Renz

WWK arena

→ Main article : WWK arena

Since 2009, the first FCA team has played their home games in the newly built football arena in the Augsburg-Göggingen district . This is a pure football stadium with a capacity of 30,660 seats.

The stadium was planned and built under the name Augsburg Arena , after the sale of the rights to the stadium name it was called impuls arena from 2009 to 2011 and SGL arena from 2011 to 2015 . It is currently called WWK ARENA . Fans who refuse to sell the naming rights also refer to the arena as the Schwabenstadion . The media have already referred to the arena as “ Anfield Road on the B17 ” due to the unconditional support of the fans .

Construction of the arena began in 2007 and cost around € 45 million. The costs were borne by a group of investors around the then FCA President Walther Seinsch and the Free State of Bavaria , and a loan of € 15 million was taken out. The city ​​of Augsburg made the property available and invested around € 13 million in the necessary infrastructure. For cost reasons, the FCA had to forego the construction of the planned glass facade, instead a model with lightable aluminum tubes, a model with a steel cable construction and a model with photovoltaic modules were tested. On July 26, 2009, the arena was opened with a game between the FCA and a Swabian selection, which the FCA won 2-0. In 2011, the FCA was finally relieved of the obligation to erect a facade.

With financial support from the WWK insurance group , a facade was finally erected, which was completed in September 2017. The new external facade is a mesh of anodized aluminum rods. The lighting takes place with LED bars and spotlights integrated into the facade. Since September 2017, the facade has been shining in red, green and white, after a home win in green.

The arena was the venue of an international match of the men of the German national football team (Germany - Slovakia), the German national football team of women , several games of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Women 2010 , the DFL-Supercup in 2010 and several matches of the football World Cup Women 2011 .

Rose Stadium

→ Main article : Rosenaustadion

From 1951 to 2009, the first FCA team played their home games in the Rosenaustadion in Augsburg's Antonsviertel , currently the Rosenaustadion is the venue for the second team and the A-Juniors. The Rosenaustadion is a multi-purpose stadium with an athletics facility in a classic elliptical shape with a current capacity of 28,000 seats.

The word "Rosenau" is made up of the words "Röse", a name for the former water arms of the Wertach , and "Au", a name for a lowland along a river, characterized by alternating high and low water levels, and describes the area on which the Rosenaustadion was built.

Construction of the stadium began in 1949 and cost around 1.5 million DM. The costs were borne by the city of Augsburg. The back straight of the stadium was built on a mountain of rubble, and the main stand followed later. The stadium was officially opened on September 16, 1951.

The stadium was the venue of several Athletics -Länderkämpfe, several international matches of the men's German national football team , several field handball -Länderspiele, two German Track and Field Championships , the DFB Cup final in 1957 , several games of the Olympic football tournament in 1972 and an international match of the German national football team of women .

District sports facility Paul Renz

→ Main article : Paul Renz district sports facility

From 1958 to 2012 the first FCA team used the district sports facility in the Augsburg-Oberhausen district as a training ground. The Paul Renz district sports facility is currently the venue for the B to E juniors and the location of the youth training center. It was also the seat of the office.

The Paul Renz district sports facility is a sports facility with three soccer fields and an artificial turf field; the grandstands on the main field have a capacity of 10,000 seats. The sports facility was inaugurated in 1958 under the name District Sports Facility North . In 1994 it was renamed after Paul Renz , who was youth leader of the FCA from 1953 to 1990.

Other venues

Other venues are the Karl Mögele district sports facility (women I) and the south district sports facility (women II and B to D juniors). In the past, v. a. the Ernst Lehner Stadium was also used for the youth department .

Following

Spectators and members

Audience numbers
season	Average audience	sold out
2000/01	.00563	00
2001/02	.00986	00
2002/03	02,032	00
2003/04	02,791	00
2004/05	04,205	00
2005/06	04,565	00
2006/07	12,661	02
2007/08	16,223	01
2008/09	14,882	01
2009/10	17,320	01
2010/11	19,226	03
2011/12	27,611	10
2012/13	26,818	06th
2013/14	27,311	06th
2014/15	29.163	05
2015/16	27,356	04th
2016/17	26,111	05
2017/18	26,953	03
2018/19	26,535	05

In the 1970s, Helmut Haller's return to FCA triggered the first big audience boom in Augsburg . For example, the FCA regional derby at TSV 1860 Munich took place in front of more than 90,000 spectators in the 1973/74 season , which is still a record attendance at a second division game. The Munich Olympic Stadium was stormed by thousands of fans shortly after kick-off, injuring 136 people. The record number of spectators at a home game for FCA also came from the same season: 42,000 spectators attended the game against 1. FC Nürnberg in the Rosenaustadion . On average, more than 20,000 spectators came to the club's home games this season.

Due to the increasing failure of the FCA, the number of viewers fell significantly in the 1980s and 1990s. During this time, the average attendance leveled off at around 2,000 viewers per game. On the other hand, the final of the German A-Juniors championship in 1992/93 in the Rosenaustadion attracted a lot of interest , when around 12,000 spectators attended the FCA-Juniors game, which was a record in youth football at the time.

With the increasing success of the FCA, the number of spectators rose again rapidly in the 2000s: while in the first Bayern League season 2000/01 an average of around 500 spectators came to the club's home games, it was in the first Regionalliga season in 2002 / 03 already about four times as many. For the first season in the 2nd Bundesliga 2006/07 there was an average of more than 12,000 spectators, since the promotion to the Bundesliga in 2011 the average attendance has been between 26,000 and 30,000 spectators per game.

Parallel to the increasing utilization of the stadium capacity, the number of season tickets sold also increased significantly: around 6,000 season tickets were still sold for the 2006/07 season, and around 18,000 season tickets were already sold for the 2011/12 season. Around 17,500 season tickets were sold for the 2017/18 season.

The number of members also increased significantly in the 2000s: while there were around 1,000 members in 2006, only five years later there were around ten times as many. At the beginning of May 2020, the association reached the mark of 19,000 members.

Groups and organizations

Fans of FC Augsburg

The oldest fan group are the Augsburg boys , who were founded in 2000. The leading ultra group is the Legio Augusta , which was founded in 2007.

With the Fuggerstadt scene and the M-Block collective, there are two organizations that want to promote cooperation and cohesion within the active scene and repeatedly carry out different activities.

Fan project and Augsburg Calling

The Augsburg fan project, whose tasks include advising and supporting fans as well as organizing prevention offers and mediating in conflict situations, was founded in 2007. The sponsor of the fan project is the Augsburger Stadtjugendring.

In the same year, Gerhard “General” Seckler launched the Augsburg Calling fan initiative , the aim of which is to enable FCA and guest fans to meet in peace. The name of the project goes back to the song " London Calling " by the band The Clash , which was a call to left and right-wing extremists to end their violent clashes. As part of the initiative, Seckler organizes rock concerts and other events for FCA and guest fans. In return, the Augsburg fans have already been invited to "recall" several times during the second leg. The project was funded in 2014 by the German Football League with a record amount of € 50,000. When fans of the unpopular club RB Leipzig were invited to Augsburg for the first time in 2017 , this caused criticism from within their own ranks.

Friendships

The first friendship between the Augsburg fans and the fans of SpVgg Oberfranken Bayreuth arose . Even if the friendship has hardly been cultivated in recent years, the relationship between the two fan scenes can still be described as positive.

Some fan groups are now friends with fan groups of the Würzburger Kickers and SC Austria Lustenau . Fans of Kickers and Austria regularly visit FCA games and vice versa.

Rivalries

The games between FCA and TSV Schwaben Augsburg are considered to be the most important Augsburg city derbies. Until the merger of the BCA with the licensed players department of the Swabians to form the FCA in 1969, the two clubs competed for the position as number one in the city. Since then, the FCA has rarely met with the Swabians, whose football department has pledged to rule out promotion to professional football in the future. The last league game between the FCA and the Swabians in the 2000/01 Bayern League season, the Swabians won 2-1.

The games between FCA and TSV 1860 Munich are considered the most important regional derbies for the FCA. As early as the 1930s, a sporting rivalry developed between the BCA and the sixties. The rivalry is exacerbated by historical, cultural and political tensions between Swabia and Bavarians , which are particularly emphasized by the respective fan scenes. For example, today's administrative district of Swabia only fell to Bavaria through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803 , accordingly there are great cultural differences between the cities to the west and east of the Lech . The weak representation of Swabia in the Bavarian capital of Munich also contributes to the tension. While the FCA emphasizes the long history of Augsburg compared to Munich, the Sechzger particularly emphasize the long history of their club compared to the FCA. Another cause for provocation was again and again the political developments at both clubs, such as the entry of the investor Walther Seinsch into the FCA in 2000, the imprisonment of the Sechzger President Karl-Heinz Wildmoser in 2003, the sale of all of the stadium shares of the Sechzger to their city rivals FC Bayern Munich in 2006 or the entry of Jordanian investor Hasan Ismaik into the sixties in 2011. The last league game between the sixties and FCA in the 2nd Bundesliga 2010/11 was won by FCA 2-0.

There are also isolated rivalries with the supporters of some other clubs, mostly from southern Germany. For example to the fans of VfB Stuttgart as part of the so-called “Schwabenderby”.

Movies

• FC Augsburg: Jos, we can! Augsburg 2011.
• FC Augsburg: #KEINESAU. Augsburg 2016.
• FC Augsburg: More than just 90 minutes. Augsburg 2018.

literature

• BC Augsburg: 50 years BCA . Augsburg 1957.
• FC Augsburg: 75 years of FCA . Augsburg 1982.
• FC Augsburg: 100 years of FCA . Augsburg 2007.
• Horst Eckert, Werner Klinger: Augsburg football history . Augsburg 2006, ISBN 3-938332-08-5 .
• Augsburger Allgemeine: Above . Augsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813819-7-9 .
• Walter Sianos, Markus Krapf: 111 reasons to love FC Augsburg . Augsburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86265-410-9 .
• Andreas Schäfer, Franz Neuhäuser, Herbert Schmoll, Florian Eisele: one hundred11 . Augsburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-946282-06-8 .

Web links

Commons : FC Augsburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

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