FC Augsburg

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FC Augsburg

Full name

FC Augsburg

Founded

1907

Ground

Rosenaustadion

Capacity

32,400

Chairman

Walther Seinsch

Manager

Rainer Hörgl

League

2. Bundesliga

2005-06

Regionalliga Süd, 1st (promoted)





Home colours





Away colours

FC Augsburg is a German football club based in Augsburg, Bavaria. The team was founded as FC Alemannia in 1907 and played as BC Augsburg from 1921 to 1969. In the face of impending financial collapse, they merged with the football side of TSV 1847 Schwaben Augsburg in July 1969 to form FC Augsburg. Schwaben was unhappy with the result and re-formed its own football team in 1970.

Prior to World War II the club's best performance came as a second place finish in the Gauliga Bayern in 1940. After the war it played regularly in the top-flight Oberliga Süd with occasional laspes which dropped it to the second division.

Since the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963, FC Augsburg has spent most of its time in tier III leagues. They managed two seasons in the 1960s in 2.Bundesliga, and enjoyed another eight seasons at that level in the mid-70s and early 80's. When a potential investor backed out, the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB or German Football Association) denied the debt-laden team a license, and as a result, the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons were spent in the Oberliga Bayern (IV) before a return to the Regionalliga Sud (III). The club came achingly close to advancing to 2.Bundesliga in 2005, but missed their oppourtunity after giving up two goals to Jahn Regensburg in the last four minutes of their final game of the season. In the 2005-2006 season, the club dominated the Regionalliga Süd throughout the season, winning the league and clinching a berth in the 2. Bundesliga for the 2006-07 season. It marks their first appearance in the 2. Bundesliga in 23 years.

The historically indifferent performance of the senior side was offset by the success of the club's youth team, which captured a national championship and several Cup titles in the early 1990's.

[edit] Famous players

Helmut Haller, who scored against England in the 1966 World Cup final, made 19 appearances for the West German national team while playing for Augsburg from 1958 to 1970.

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Zdenko Miletić
3	DF	Sören Dreßler
4	DF	Benjamin Kern
5	DF	Ingo Hertzsch
6	DF	Timo Wenzel
7	FW	Momo Diabang
8	MF	Karsten Hutwelker
9	FW	Axel Lawaree
10	MF	Elton da Costa
11	MF	Leonhard Haas
13	DF	Patrick Pircher
14	DF	Ivan Knez
15	DF	Torsten Traub

No.	Position	Player
16	MF	Saša Radulović
17	MF	Lars Müller
18	MF	Mourad Hdiouad
19	FW	Florian Galuschka
20	MF	Sebastian Becker
21	MF	Roland Benschneider
22	MF	Patrick Mölzl
23	FW	Angelo Vaccaro
25	GK	Christian Krieglmeier
26	MF	Marco Löring
27	DF	Eugen Hecker
28	MF	Robert Strauß
30	GK	Sven Neuhaus