FC Augsburg, formed on 1 June 1969 when the BC Augsburg and the football department of TSV Schwaben Augsburg merged, is a German football club from Augsburg, Bavaria.[1]

The main reason behind the merger was the decline of both clubs, BCA having been relegated from professional football in 1967 and Schwaben two years later in 1969.[2] The new club was formed with the aim to make a return to the second division Regionalliga Süd but it took until 1973 to achieve this. FCA had an outstanding season in this league in 1973–74, coming close to promotion to the Bundesliga; widely considered to be the greatest performance by the club in the 20th century.[3]

In the years that followed, the club stagnated and existed in the 2. Bundesliga Süd as a lower table side and was relegated from professional football once more in 1979.[3] After a season in the Bayernliga, it returned but missed the cut-off when the new single-division 2. Bundesliga was formed in 1981.

FCA won the league title in the Bayernliga once more in 1982 and returned to the 2. Bundesliga for one more season, missing survival there by only three goals. A 23-year-long stint in amateur football followed. The club had another good season in 1994, winning the league and taking part in the promotion round to the 2. Bundesliga, but failed. Instead, it gained entry to the re-formed Regionalliga Süd that year.

The club's most difficult moment came in 2000, when it was refused a Regionalliga licence and came close to bankruptcy.[4] It recovered, winning the Bayernliga once more in 2002 and continued an upwards trend when it won the Regionalliga in 2006 to return to professional football, where it plays now.[5]

After a successful 2009–10 season, when the club reached the semi-finals of the German Cup for the first time in its history and came third in the 2. Bundesliga, the team achieved even higher in 2010–11, earning promotion to the Bundesliga, where it finished 14th in its inaugural season. In 2012–13 it set a new Bundesliga record when it managed to avoid relegation despite having only accumulated nine points in the first half of the season.[6] In 2014–15 the club played its most successful Bundesliga season, finishing fifth in the league and qualifying for the UEFA Europa League for the first time.

Key

Key to competitions

Seasons

The club's seasons since 1969:

Season League DFB-
Pokal
Continental / Other Average
attendance
Top goalscorer(s)
Div League Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. Player(s) Goals
1969–70[7] 3 ALB 34 20 6 8 71 34 +37 46 4th DNQ DNQ Germany Kurt Haseneder 19
1970–71[8] ALB 34 18 8 8 77 41 +36 44 3rd
1971–72[9] ALB 34 13 11 10 57 45 +12 37 8th
1972–73[10] ALB 34 19 10 5 79 36 +43 48 1st Germany Meyer 25
1973–74[11][12] [D] 2 RLS 34 20 8 6 79 47 +32 48 1st Germany Karl Obermeier 25
1974–75[13] 2. BL 38 12 12 13 61 63 –2 37 12th R3 Germany Helmut Haller
Germany Wilhelm Hoffmann
9
1975–76[14] 2. BL 38 12 8 18 57 56 +1 32 15th R1 Germany Wilhelm Hoffmann 11
1976–77[15] 2. BL 38 17 6 15 72 73 –1 40 9th R4 Germany Harald Aumeier 16
1977–78[16] 2. BL 38 12 10 16 57 54 +3 34 14th R3 [C] Germany Georg Beichle 21
1978–79[17] 2. BL 38 11 6 21 55 89 –34 28 18th R2 Germany Georg Beichle 12
1979–80[18] [D] 3 AOLB 34 20 7 7 70 29 +41 47 1st R2 Germany Wolfgang Ruhdorfer 27
1980–81[19] 2 2. BL 38 7 10 21 55 88 –33 24 18th R3 Germany Hans Jörg 18
1981–82[20][21] [D] 3 AOLB 38 26 8 4 80 32 +48 60 1st R1 Germany Nicolaus Katsaros 14
1982–83[22] 2 2. BL 38 11 10 17 32 54 –22 32 17th DNQ Germany Klaus Perrey 3
1983–84[23] 3 AOLB 38 16 11 11 66 44 +22 43 7th R2 Germany Jürgen Kedrusch 16
1984–85[24] AOLB 34 22 5 7 71 36 +35 49 2nd DNQ Germany Hans-Joachim Schnürer 20
1985–86[25] AOLB 34 18 10 6 74 38 +36 46 3rd Germany Karl-Heinz Riedle 21
1986–87[26] AOLB 36 13 11 12 48 36 +12 37 6th R2
1987–88[27] AOLB 32 11 11 10 57 40 +17 33 6th DNQ Germany Jürgen Kedrusch 13
1988–89[28] AOLB 32 14 11 7 68 41 +27 39 4th R1
1989–90[29] AOLB 30 16 7 7 49 33 +16 39 3rd DNQ
1990–91[30] AOLB 32 13 6 13 51 47 +4 32 8th
1991–92[31] AOLB 32 16 8 8 60 42 +18 40 4th
1992–93[32] AOLB 32 14 9 9 58 40 +18 37 6th Germany Christian Radlmaier 18
1993–94[33][34] [D] AOLB 32 23 5 4 70 29 +41 51 1st QF Germany Christian Radlmaier 22
1994–95[35] RLS 34 14 6 14 48 52 –4 34 9th DNQ Germany Franz Becker 11
1995–96[36] RLS 34 11 8 15 42 47 –5 41 11th Germany Bernhard Weis 11
1996–97[37] RLS 34 9 11 14 46 50 –4 38 11th Germany Michael Fersch 12
1997–98[38] RLS 32 10 12 10 51 47 +4 42 10th Germany Dieter Eckstein 21
1998–99[39] RLS 34 10 8 16 42 57 –15 38 14th Turkey Sercan Güvenisik 10
1999–2000[40] RLS 34 12 10 12 43 43 0 46 8th [F] Germany Werner Rank 6
2000–01[41] 4 OLB 38 20 5 13 74 51 +23 65 4th Germany Oliver Remmert 11
2001–02[42] OLB 36 29 2 5 93 34 +59 89 1st Serbia Vladimir Manislavić
Georgia (country) Mikheil Sajaia
23
2002–03[43] 3 RLS 36 17 8 11 55 39 +16 59 3rd Germany Jörg Reeb 15
2003–04[44] RLS 34 15 7 12 57 41 +16 52 4th Germany Miguel Coulibaly 10
2004–05[45] RLS 34 17 10 7 62 36 +26 61 4th Germany Mark Römer 17
2005–06[46] RLS 34 23 7 4 73 26 +47 76 1st Switzerland Christian Okpala 16
2006–07[47] 2 2. BL 34 14 10 19 43 32 +11 52 7th R1 Belgium Axel Lawarée 15
2007–08[48] 2. BL 34 10 8 16 39 51 –12 38 14th R1 Germany Michael Thurk 5
2008–09[49] 2. BL 34 10 10 14 43 46 –3 40 11th R2 Germany Michael Thurk 14
2009–10[50] 2. BL 34 17 11 6 60 40 +20 62 3rd SF Germany Michael Thurk 23
2010–11[51] 2. BL 34 19 8 7 58 27 +31 65 2nd R3 Angola Nando Rafael 14
2011–12[52] 1 1. BL 34 8 14 12 36 49 –13 38 14th R3 Germany Sascha Mölders
South Korea Koo Ja-Cheol
5
2012–13[53] 1. BL 34 8 9 17 33 51 –18 33 15th R3 Germany Sascha Mölders 10
2013–14[54] 1. BL 34 15 7 12 47 47 0 52 8th R3 Germany André Hahn 12
2014–15[55] 1. BL 34 15 4 15 43 43 0 49 5th R1 Paraguay Raúl Bobadilla 10
2015–16[56] 1. BL 34 9 11 14 42 52 –10 38 12th QF UEFA Europa League Ro32 South Korea Koo Ja-cheol 8
2016–17[57] 1. BL 34 9 11 14 35 51 –16 38 13th R2 DNQ Turkey Halil Altıntop 6
2017–18[58] 1. BL 34 10 11 13 43 46 –3 41 12th R1 Austria Michael Gregoritsch 13
2018–19[59] 1. BL 34 8 8 18 51 71 –20 32 15th QF Iceland Alfreð Finnbogason 10
2019–20[60] 1. BL 34 9 9 16 45 63 –18 36 15th R1 Germany Florian Niederlechner 13
2020–21[61] 1. BL 34 10 6 18 36 54 –18 36 13th R2 Germany André Hahn 8
2021–22[62] 1. BL 34 10 8 16 39 56 –17 38 14th R2 Austria Michael Gregoritsch 9
2022–23[63] 1. BL 34 9 7 18 42 63 –21 34 15th R2 Austria Mërgim Berisha 9
Total 1,864 771 460 641 2,995 2,532 +463 2,366

Notes

A. ^ Commonly referred to as the Bayernliga.
B. ^ Two separate leagues under this name existed, the first from 1963 to 1974 and the second from 1994 to 2012.
C. ^ In 1977–78, both the first and second team of FC Augsburg reached the third round of the German Cup.
D. ^ In 1973–74, 1979–80, 1981–82 and 1993–94, the club remained unbeaten at home.
E. ^ League top scorer.
F. ^ Club was denied a Regionalliga licence and relegated.
G. ^ Until 1995, two points for a win, thereafter three points.
H. ^ The club's first-ever game was a qualifying match to the German Cup, held in Augsburg on 30 July 1969, in front of 13,000. FCA lost 3–0 aet against 1. FC Nürnberg.

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