FC
Augsburg is a German
football club based in Augsburg
, Bavaria
. The
team was founded as
Fußball-Klub Alemania Augsburg in 1907
and played as
BC Augsburg from
1921 to 1969.
History

Logo of
BC Augsburg
1921-69.
In the face of impending financial collapse,
BC merged
with the football side of
TSV
Schwaben Augsburg in July 1969 to form
FC
Augsburg, however
Schwaben was unhappy with the
result and re-formed its own football team in 1970. For this
reason,
FCA is generally not considered to carry on the
traditions of
TSV Schwaben, only those of
BC
Augsburg.
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.
Play in the 2. Bundesliga
Since the formation of the
Bundesliga in 1963, the Augsburg
side has spent most of its time in tier III leagues. They managed
two seasons in the 1960s in the second division, and enjoyed
another eight seasons at that level in the mid-70s and early 80s.
The club's most successful season was undoubtedly 1973-74 when,
freshly promoted to
Regionalliga Süd, they won
the league with a team led by Helmut Haller and missed out on an
advance to the Bundesliga by only one point. A highlight of that
season was the away game at its old rival
TSV 1860 München which attracted
90,000 spectators. However, the club could not match this success
in the following seasons and was back in the
Bayernliga in 1979-80. They advanced to the
national amateur final that year where they dropped a 1:2 decision
to
VfB Stuttgart II.
In 1981 and 1983 the club returned once more to the 2nd Bundesliga,
just to be relegated straight away again. In 1983, a young
FCA team missed survival by just three goals, being on
equal points with the 16th placed
Union Solingen. In 1994 they had another
try at promotion in the last year of promotion play-offs to the 2nd
Bundesliga. However, the Bavarian champion was not grouped with the
other southern German clubs as in previous years and had to face
stronger clubs in the northern group that included
Eintracht Braunschweig and
Fortuna Düsseldorf.
Despite being overmatched and unable to advance, they still had
good support in the region with crowds of 20,000 plus turning up at
these games.
Financial crisis and return to the 2. Bundesliga
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 Süd (III).
FCA came achingly close to
advancing to 2.Bundesliga in 2005, but missed their opportunity
after giving up two goals to
Jahn
Regensburg in the last four minutes of their final game of
the season. The club dominated the Regionalliga Süd the next year,
winning the league and clinching a berth in the 2nd Bundesliga for
the 2006-07. This marked their first appearance in the 2nd
Bundesliga in 23 years. They finished the campaign in seventh place
on 52 points, only 8 points away from promotion to the top-flight.
One again, the game at
TSV 1860 was the highlight, with a
3-0 victory for
Augsburg in front of 69,000 in the Allianz
Arena.
Ralf Loose replaced
Rainer Hörgl as head coach in October 2007
when the club found itself in the relegation zone. Loose's contract
was terminated on 16 April 2008 after a string of bad results. He
was replaced with
Holger Fach two days
later. The club avoided relegation on goal average, being on equal
points with relegated side
Kickers
Offenbach at the end of the season.
The long time home ground of the FCA, Rosenau Stadion, built from
World War II rubble, may finally come
to its well deserved rest in 2009 when a new stadion is slated to
be completed.
The new Impuls Arena
is also scheduled to host games of the 2011 FIFA Women's World
Cup.
Youth and amateur sides
The historically indifferent performance of the senior side was
offset by the success of the club's youth team, which captured a
national championship in the under-18's in 1993, being the last
non-Bundesliga club to do so. They also took four Cup titles in the
early 1990s, all under the guidance of coach
Heiner Schuhmann. With Schuhmanns departure
for Bayern Munich, the golden age of
FCA youth football
ended and the club could not quite achieve so highly again. With
the formation of the
Under 19 Bundesliga
(2004) and
Under 17
Bundesliga (2007), the clubs youth teams slippt to second
division status and in 2008-09, the under-18's and under-16's youth
teams play in the
Under 19
Bayernliga and
Under 17
Bayernliga, the second tier of youth football.
FC Augsburg's reserve team currently plays in the
Landesliga Bayern-Süd (V), having
been promoted to the league in 2004. The club did not field a
reserves team at all between 1989 and 1997, preferring instead to
concentrate on its successful youth program.
The
FC Augsburg II finished fourth in their league in the
2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons and remains at this level for the
2008-09 season.
Honours
FC Augsburg
- Cup
- Schwaben Cup winners: 1969-1972,
1980, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005
- Schwaben Cup runners-up: 1992
- Youth
- German Under
19 champions: 1993
- German Under
17 championship runners-up: 1979
- German Under 19 Cup winners: 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995
- Bavarian Under 19
championship winners: 1978, 1990, 1993, 1997
- Bavarian Under 19 championship runners-up: 1976, 1979, 1989,
2005, 2009
- Bavarian Under 17
championship winners: 1979, 1981, 1995, 2003, 2006
- Bavarian Under 17 championship runners-up: 1976-78, 1984, 1985,
1991, 2008
- Bavarian Under 15
championship winners: 1996
- Bavarian Under 15 championship runners-up: 1981, 1983, 1985,
1997
FC Augsburg II
- Cup
- Schwaben Cup winners: 1977
- Schwaben Cup runners-up: 1983, 2007
FC Augsburg seasons
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Year |
Division |
Position |
1969-70 |
Amateurliga
Bayern |
4th |
|
1970-71 |
Amateurliga Bayern |
3rd |
|
1971-72 |
Amateurliga Bayern |
8th |
|
1972-73 |
Amateurliga Bayern |
1st  |
|
1973-74 |
Regionalliga Süd |
1st |
|
1974-75 |
2nd
Bundesliga Süd |
12th |
|
1975-76 |
2nd Bundesliga Süd |
15th |
|
1976-77 |
2nd Bundesliga Süd |
9th |
|
1977-78 |
2nd Bundesliga Süd |
14th |
|
1978-79 |
2nd Bundesliga Süd |
18th  |
|
1979-80 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
1st  |
|
1980-81 |
2nd Bundesliga Süd |
18th  |
|
1981-82 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
1st  |
|
1982-83 |
2nd Bundesliga |
17th  |
|
Year |
Division |
Position |
|
|
1983-84 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
7th |
|
1984-85 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
2nd |
|
1985-86 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
3rd |
|
1986-87 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
6th |
|
1987-88 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
6th |
|
1988-89 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
4th |
1989-90 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
3rd |
|
1990-91 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
3rd |
|
1991-92 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
4th |
|
1992-93 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
6th |
|
1993-94 |
Amateur Oberliga Bayern |
1st  |
|
1994-95 |
Regionalliga
Süd |
9th |
|
1995-96 |
Regionalliga Süd |
11th |
|
1996-97 |
Regionalliga Süd |
11th |
|
Year |
Division |
Position |
1997-98 |
Regionalliga Süd |
10th |
|
1998-99 |
Regionalliga Süd |
14th |
|
1999-2000 |
Regionalliga Süd |
8th  |
|
2000-01 |
Oberliga Bayern |
4th |
|
2001-02 |
Oberliga Bayern |
1st  |
|
2002-03 |
Regionalliga Süd |
3rd |
|
2003-04 |
Regionalliga Süd |
4th |
|
2004-05 |
Regionalliga Süd |
4th |
|
2005-06 |
Regionalliga Süd |
1st  |
|
2006-07 |
2nd
Bundesliga |
7th |
|
2007-08 |
2nd Bundesliga |
14th |
|
2008-09 |
2nd Bundesliga |
11th |
|
2009-10 |
2nd Bundesliga |
|
2010-11 |
|
|
|
FC Augsburg II
All-time tables
In the overall tables of the Oberliga Süd (1945-63), 2nd Bundesliga
(1974-2007), Regionalliga Süd (1963-74/1994-2007) and Bayernliga
(1963-2007) the FC Augsburg ranks as follows:
League |
Place |
Seasons |
Games |
Win |
Draw |
Lose |
GF |
GA |
Points |
Oberliga Süd |
14th |
14 |
432 |
138 |
77 |
217 |
737 |
983 |
353 |
|
2nd Bundesliga |
36th |
8 |
300 |
96 |
73 |
131 |
432 |
509 |
361 |
|
Regionalliga Süd |
8th |
12 |
378 |
148 |
92 |
138 |
567 |
528 |
536 |
|
Bayernliga |
5th |
19 |
646 |
341 |
151 |
154 |
1273 |
730 |
1174 |
|
Source:
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Managers
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Famous players
Current squad
For recent transfers, see List of German
football transfers summer 2009 and List of German
football transfers winter 2008-09.
Augsburg Derby
- See also:Bavarian
football derbys
The Augsburg derby was last played at the league level on 25
November 2000 when both
Schwaben and
FCA were in
the Bayernliga with
Schwaben winning 2-1. Considering the
opposite directions the two clubs have since taken, it is hard to
imagine
FCA avenging this defeat in the near future.
Matches between the two sides are generally regarded as a
continuation of the old
BCA versus
Schwaben
rivallry.
The league derbys since 1945:
Season |
League |
Teams |
Home |
Away |
1945-46 |
Oberliga Süd (I) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
3-0 |
2-2 |
1946-47 |
Oberliga Süd (I) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
1-1 |
1-0 |
1948-49 |
Oberliga Süd (I) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
2-3 |
4-0 |
1949-50 |
Oberliga Süd (I) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
1-1 |
0-3 |
1950-51 |
Oberliga Süd (I) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
1-1 |
0-5 |
1954-55 |
Oberliga Süd (I) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
1-4 |
1-2 |
1955-56 |
Oberliga Süd (I) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
2-1 |
3-2 |
1956-57 |
Oberliga Süd (I) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
5-2 |
1-3 |
1960-61 |
2nd Oberliga Süd (II) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
0-1 |
0-3 |
1961-62 |
Oberliga Süd (I) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
2-0 |
1-0 |
1962-63 |
Oberliga Süd (I) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
0-1 |
2-3 |
1963-64 |
Regionalliga Süd (II) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
0-0 |
1-1 |
1966-67 |
Regionalliga Süd (II) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - BC Augsburg |
1-0 |
2-0 |
1981-82 |
Bayernliga (III) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - FC Augsburg |
1-2 |
0-3 |
1983-84 |
Bayernliga (III) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - FC Augsburg |
0-2 |
0-3 |
1988-89 |
Bayernliga (III) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - FC Augsburg |
1-1 |
0-0 |
1989-90 |
Bayernliga (III) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - FC Augsburg |
0-0 |
2-2 |
1991-92 |
Bayernliga (III) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - FC Augsburg |
1-3 |
3-2 |
2000-01 |
Bayernliga (IV) |
TSV Schwaben Augsburg - FC Augsburg |
2-3 |
2-1 |
|
Source:
The FCA versus TSV 1860 rivalry
The
rivalry of those two clubs results in part from their close
proximity, Augsburg being only 64 km from Munich
via the
Autobahn. It began in earnest in
1973-74 when both clubs played for
Bundesliga promotion in
the
Regionalliga Süd and carried on in the
2nd
Bundesliga Süd. It heated up again in the
Bayernliga
from 1983 to 1993 when both tried unsuccessfully for years to
return to professional football. After this, their ways parted for
13 years, till
FCA regained its
2nd Bundesliga
status in 2006. Since then, their games against each other have
become huge crowd magnets for the region, well above 2nd Division
standards.
The Rosenaustadion
with its current capacity of 28.000 has both times
been sold out and the Allianz Arena
in Munich with a capacity of 69.000 comes
close.
The games since 2005:
Season |
League |
Teams |
Result |
Spectators |
Date |
2006-07 |
2nd Bundesliga |
FC Augsburg - TSV 1860 München |
3 - 0 |
28,000 |
27-10-2006 |
2006-07 |
2nd Bundesliga |
TSV 1860 München - FC Augsburg |
0 - 3 |
69,000 |
16-03-2007 |
2007-08 |
2nd Bundesliga |
FC Augsburg - TSV 1860 München |
2 - 6 |
28,000 |
12-08-2007 |
2007-08 |
2nd Bundesliga |
TSV 1860 München - FC Augsburg |
0 - 3 |
57,400 |
03-02-2008 |
2008-09 |
2nd Bundesliga |
TSV 1860 München - FC Augsburg |
0 - 1 |
42,000 |
14-11-2008 |
2008-09 |
2nd Bundesliga |
FC Augsburg - TSV 1860 München |
3 - 0 |
28,000 |
01-05-2009
|
|
Source:
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