FC Augsburg
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| Full name | FC Augsburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1907 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Rosenaustadion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 32,400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Walther Seinsch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager |  Rainer Hörgl |
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| League | 2. Bundesliga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | Regionalliga Süd, 1st (promoted) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
- Bernd Schuster
- Karl-Heinz Riedle
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] External links
| German 2. Bundesliga Football Clubs (2006-07) |
| 1860 Munich | FC Augsburg | Carl Zeiss Jena | MSV Duisburg | Eintracht Braunschweig Erzgebirge Aue | Freiburg | Greuther Fürth | Hansa Rostock | Kaiserslautern | Karlsruhe Kickers Offenbach | Koblenz | FC Köln | Paderborn 07 | Rot-Weiss Essen | Unterhaching Wacker Burghausen |
