2020–21 Red Bull Salzburg season

season of football team

The 2020- 21 Red Bull Salzburg season was the 88th season in club history. It was the 32nd season in the highest Austrian football league. They could defend their title in the Austrian League and Austrian Cup. In the UEFA Champions League, they qualified for the group stage after defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv in the playoffs. In the Europa League knockout phase, they were defeated by Villarreal in the round of 32.

Matches

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Note: There were different restrictions for visitors due to the coronavirus pandemic. [1]

13 September 2020 1 Wolfsberger AC 1-3 FC Red Bull Salzburg Wolfsberg
17ː00
  • Vizinger   93'
Report
  • Peretz   21' (o.g.)
  • Daka   26'
  • Koita   82'
Stadium: Lavanttal Arena
Attendance: 2.500
Referee: Markus Hameter
19 September 2020 2 FC Red Bull Salzburg 4-1 SCR Altach Salzburg
17:00
  • Szoboszlai   35' (pen.)
  • Daka   40'
  • Koita   47'
  • Kristensen   63'
Report
  • Tartarotti   33'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 3.000
Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber
26 September 2020 3 SV Ried 1-3 FC Red Bull Salzburg Ried
17:00
  • Wießmeier   83'
Report
  • M. Berisha   4̹̹̹̹̹̹̹̹̹̘6'54'
  • Daka   96'
Stadium: Josko Arena
Attendance: 2.700
Referee: Felix Ouschan
4 October 2020 4 FC Red Bull Salzburg 7-1 TSV Hartberg Salzburg
14ː30
  • Onguene   15'
  • Vallci   26'
  • Koita   47'92'
  • Daka   70'79'
  • Okafor   88' (pen.)
Report
  • Rakowitz   84'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 3.000
Referee: Andreas Heiss
24 October 2020 5 FK Austria Wien 0-2 FC Red Bull Salzburg Vienna
17:00 Report
  • M. Berisha   62'
  • Daka   91'
Stadium: Viola Park
Attendance: 3.000
Referee: Walter Altmann
31 October 2020 6 FC Red Bull Salzburg 5-0 WSG Tirol Salzburg
17:00
  • Okafor   3'34'57'
  • Koita   74'83' (pen.)
Report Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 1.500
Referee: Christian-Petru Ciochirca
8 November 2020 7 SK Rapid Wien 1-1 FC Red Bull Salzburg Vienna
17:00
  • Knasmüllner   85'
Report
  • Koita   29'
Stadium: Allianz Stadion
Attendance: 0
Referee: Oliver Drachta
21 November 2020 8 FC Red Bull Salzburg 1-3 SK Sturm Graz Salzburg
17:00
  • M. Berisha   86'
Report
  • Ljubic   48'
  • Jantscher   52'59'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Josef Spurny
28 November 2020 9 SKN St. Pölten 2-8 FC Red Bull Salzburg St. Pölten
17:00
  • Hugi   32'
  • Schmidt   60'
Report
  • M. Berisha   7'
  • Szoboszlai   13' (pen.)25' (pen.)52'
  • Adeyemi   22'
  • Koita   70'77'89'
Stadium: NV Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber
5 December 2020 10 FC Admira Wacker Mödling 1-0 FC Red Bull Salzburg Südstadt
17:00
  • Kerschbaum   69'
Report Stadium: BSFZ Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Gerhard Grobelnik
13 December 2020 11 FC Red Bull Salzburg 3-1 LASK Salzburg
17:00
  • Daka   54'
  • M. Berisha   62'
  • Mwepu   90̹̹̹̹3'
Report
  • Eggestein   28'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Harald Lechner
20 December 2020 12 FC Red Bull Salzburg 2-3 Wolfsberger AC Salzburg
14ː30
  • M. Berisha   64'
  • Daka   69'
Report
  • Scherzer   50'
  • Joveljic   52'
  • Peretz   79'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Julian Weinberger
24 January 2021 13 SCR Altach 0-2 FC Red Bull Salzburg Altach
14ː30 Report ̽*Zwischenbrugger   48' (o.g.)
  • Daka   63'
Stadium: Stadion Schnabelholz
Attendance: 0
Referee: Walter Altmann
27 January 2021 14 FC Red Bull Salzburg 3-0 SV Ried Salzburg
18ː30
  • Kristensen   15'
  • Koita   29'
  • Daka   45'
Report Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Andreas Heiss
30 January 2021 15 TSV Hartberg 0-3 FC Red Bull Salzburg Hartberg
17:00 Report
  • Koita   14' (pen.)
  • Daka   35'
  • Mwepu   79'
Stadium: Stadion Hartberg
Attendance: 0
Referee: Markus Hameter
10 February 2021 16 FC Red Bull Salzburg 3-1 FK Austria Wien Salzburg
20:30
  • Koita   65'
  • Aaronson   72'
  • Sucic   94'
Report
  • Teigl   59'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Dieter Muckenhammer
13 February 2021 17 WSG Tirol 2-4 FC Red Bull Salzburg Innsbruck
17:00
  • Koch   10'
  • Baden Frederiksen   78' (pen.)
Report
  • Daka   31'89'
  • M. Berisha   79'
  • Koita   90'
Stadium: Tivoli
Attendance: 0
Referee: Christian-Petru Ciochirca
21 February 2021 18 FC Red Bull Salzburg 4-2 SK Rapid Wien Salzburg
17:00
  • Daka   30'63'70'
  • Adeyemi   92'
Report
  • Schuster   91'
  • Kara   94'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 3.416
Referee: Alexander Harkam
28 February 2021 19 SK Sturm Graz 2-1 FC Red Bull Salzburg Klagenfurt
17:00
  • Jäger   9'
  • Ljubic   22'
Report
  • Daka   78' (pen.)
Stadium: Wörthersee Stadion
Attendance: 0
Referee: Oliver Drachta
7 March 2021 20 FC Red Bull Salzburg 4-1 SKN St. Pölten Salzburg
14ː30
  • Daka   18'
  • Mwepu   33'
  • Aaronson   69'
  • M. Berisha   94' (pen.)
Report
  • Booth   12'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Harald Lechner
13 March 2021 21 FC Red Bull Salzburg 3-1 FC Admira Wacker Mödling Salzburg
19:00
  • Bernede   13'
  • Kristensen   23'
  • Daka   30'
Report
  • Datkovic   60'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Christian-Petru Ciochirca
20 March 2021 22 LASK 0-1 FC Red Bull Salzburg Pasching
14:30 Report Daka   13' Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 0
Referee: Markus Hameter

Champion stage

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4 April 2021 23 FC Red Bull Salzburg 3-1 SK Sturm Graz Salzburg
17ː00
  • Daka   3'5'11'
Report
  • Dante   13'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Julian Weinberger
11 April 2021 24 SK Rapid Wien 0-3 FC Red Bull Salzburg Vienna
17:00 Report
  • Ramalho   36'
  • Adeyemi   93'95'
Stadium: Allianz Stadion
Attendance: 0
Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber
11 April 2021 25 FC Red Bull Salzburg 2-0 LASK Salzburg
14:30
  • M. Berisha   87'
  • Okafor   93'
Report Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Alexander Harkam
21 April 2021 26 WSG Tirol 3-2 FC Red Bull Salzburg Innsbruck
18:30
  • Baden Frederiksen   29'76'
  • Smith   89'
Report
  • Mwepu   12'
  • Aaronson   58'
Stadium: Tivoli
Attendance: 0
Referee: Stefan Ebner
25 April 2021 27 Wolfsberger AC 1-2 FC Red Bull Salzburg Hartberg
14:30
  • Joveljic   29'
Report
  • Daka   13'
  • M. Berisha   48'
Stadium: Lavanttalarena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Harald Lechner
28 April 2021 28 FC Red Bull Salzburg 1-1 Wolfsberger AC Salzburg
18ː30
  • Adeyemi   86'
Report
  • Affengruber   69' (o.g.)
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Dieter Muckenhammer
9 May 2021 29 SK Sturm Graz 1-3 FC Red Bull Salzburg Graz
14:30
  • Kiteishvili   56'
Report
  • Aaronson   20'78'
  • Junuzovic   83'
Stadium: Liebenauer Stadium
Attendance: 0
Referee: Gerhard Grobelnik
12 May 2021 30 FC Red Bull Salzburg 2-0 SK Rapid Wien Salzburg
20ː30
  • Daka   32'56'
Report Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Markus Hameter
16 May 2021 31 LASK 2-5 FC Red Bull Salzburg Pasching
17ː00
  • Eggestein   19'
  • Reiter   84'
Report
  • Mwepu   20'
  • Okafor   21'
  • Daka   44'
  • Adeyemi  67'71'
Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 0
Referee: Harald Lechner
22 May 2021 32 FC Red Bull Salzburg 4-0 WSG Tirol Salzburg
17:00
  • Bernardo   8'
  • M. Berisha   26'43' (pen.)
  • Camara   66'
Report Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 3.000
Referee: Christian-Petru Ciochirca

[1]

Team M W D L Goals Points
1. FC Red Bull Salzburg 32 25 2 5 94ː33 51 (26)
2. SK Rapid Wien 32 17 8 7 64ː40 36 (22)
3. SK Sturm Graz 32 16 8 8 52ː34 36 (19)
4. LASK 32 15 6 11 55ː41 30 (21)
5. Wolfsberger AC 32 13 5 14 52ː62 27 (14)
6. WSG Tirol 32 10 8 14 53ː60 23 (15)

[1] The halved points from the basic round are in brackets.

Austrian Cup

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The number of visitors was limited to 1200 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. From the Round of 16 onwards no visitors were allowed.

9 September 2020 1 Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz 0-10 FC Red Bull Salzburg Bregenz
20:25 Report
  • Koita   13'
  • Daka   17' (pen.)22'38'39'
  • Camara   28'
  • Mwepu   34'
  • Sucic   43' (pen.)
  • Okugawa   49'
  • Wöber   56'
Stadium: Bodenseestadion
Attendance: 1.200
Referee: Walter Altmann
17 October 2020 SKN St. Pölten 0-3 FC Red Bull Salzburg St. Pölten
14:45 Report
  • Vallci   22'
  • Mwepu   77'
  • Ramalho   89'
Stadium: NV Arena
Attendance: 1.200
Referee: Julian Weinberger
16 December 2020 Round of 16 FC Red Bull Salzburg 6-2 SK Rapid Wien Salzburg
18:00
  • Szoboszlai   16'
  • M. Berisha   19'
  • Koita   23'
  • Daka   74'
  • Camara   83' (pen.)
  • Kristensen   88'
Report
  • Fountas   45̟1' (pen.)
  • Ullmann   78'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Walter Altmann
6 February 2021 Quarterfinals FC Red Bull Salzburg 2-0 FK Austria Wien Salzburg
17:00
  • Koita   41'
  • Adeyemi   89'
Report Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber
3 March 2021 Semifinals SK Sturm Graz 0-4 FC Red Bull Salzburg Klagenfurt
21ː05 Report
  • Mwepu   36'54'
  • M. Berisha   72'
  • Aaronson   79'
Stadium: Wörthersee Stadion
Attendance: 0
Referee: Julian Weinberger
1 May 2021 Final FC Red Bull Salzburg 3-0 LASK Klagenfurt
20:45
  • M. Berisha   45'
  • Aaronson   67'
  • Mwepu   88'
Report Stadium: Wörthersee Stadion
Attendance: 0
Referee: Walter Altmann

Champions League qualification

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22 September 2020 Playoff 1st leg Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. 1-2 FC Red Bull Salzburg Tel Aviv
21ː00
  • Biton   10'
Report
  • Szoboszlai   50' (pen.)
  • Okugawa   58'
Stadium: Bloomfield stadium
Attendance: 0
Referee: Michael Oliver
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic
30 September 2020 Playoff 2nd leg FC Red Bull Salzburg 3-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Salzburg
21ː00
  • Daka   16'68'
  • Szoboszlai   45̟4' (pen.)
Report
  • Karzev   30'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Felix Brych
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic

Champions League, Group A

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21 October 2020 1 FC Red Bull Salzburg 2-2 FC Lokomotiv Moscow Salzburg
18ː55
  • Szoboszlai   45'
  • Junuzovic   50'
Report
  • Eder   19'
  • Lisakovich   75'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 3.000
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic
2 October 2020 2 Atlético Madrid 3-2 FC Red Bull Salzburg Madrid
21:00
  • Llorente   29'
  • Felix   52'85'
Report
  • Szoboszlai   40'
  • Almeida   47' (o.g.)
Stadium: Estadio Metropolitano
Attendance: 0
Referee: Ovidiu Alin Hategan
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic
3 November 2020 3 FC Red Bull Salzburg 2-6 FC Bayern Munich Salzburg
21:00
  • M. Berisha   4'
  • Okugawa   66'
Report
  • Lewandowski   21'88'
  • Kristensen   44' (o.g.)
  • Boateng   79'
  • Sané   83'
  • Hernández   92'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Danny Desmond Makkelie
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic
25 November 2020 4 FC Bayern Munich 3-1 FC Red Bull Salzburg Munich
21:00
  • Lewandowski   43'
  • Coman   52'
  • Sane   68'
Report
  • M. Berisha   73'
Stadium: Allianz Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Orel Grinfeld
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic
1 December 2020 5 FC Lokomotiv Moscow 1-3 FC Red Bull Salzburg Moscow
18ː55
  • Miranchuk   79' (pen.)
Report
  • M. Berisha   28'41'
  • Adeyemi   81'
Stadium: Lok-Arena
Attendance: 7.000
Referee: Ali Palabiyik
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic
10 December 2019 6 FC Red Bull Salzburg 0-2 Atlético Madrid Salzburg
18:55 Report
  • Hermoso   39'
  • Carrasco   86'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Anthony Taylor
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic


Rank Team W D L Goals Points
1 FC Bayern Munich 5 1 0 18ː5 16
2 Atlético Madrid 2 3 1 7ː8 9
3 FC Salzburg 1 1 4 10ː17 4
4 FC Lokomotiv Moscow 0 3 3 5:10 3

Europa League, Round of 32

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18 February 2021 Round of 32, 1st leg FC Red Bull Salzburg 0-2 Villarreal CF Salzburg
21ː00 Report
  • Alcácer   41'
  • Niño   71'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 0
Referee: Andris Treimanis
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic
25 February 2021 Round of 32, 2nd leg Villarreal CF 2-1 FC Red Bull Salzburg Villarreal
18:55
  • Moreno   40' (pen.)89'
Report
  • M. Berisha   17'
Stadium: Estadio de la Ceramica
Attendance: 0
Referee: Felix Zwayer
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic

UEFA Youth League

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A week before the start of the competition, the organizing UEFA announced that it would not be holding the competition. This was due to the critical COVID-19 situation, due to which Europe-wide travel restrictions were imposed.

Friendly matches

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3 August 2020 Friendly FC Red Bull Salzburg 2-2 NK Bravo Laibach Bramberg
17:00
  • Szoboszlai   18'
  • Adeyemi   48'
Report
  • Zinko   4'78'
Referee: Thomas Hochstaffl
8 August 2020 Friendly FC Red Bull Salzburg 4-1 OGC Nice Zell am See
16ː00
  • Koita   49'
  • Junuzovic   55'
  • M. Berisha   59'62'
Report
  • Gouiri   6'
Stadium: Alois Latini Stadion
Referee: Stefan Eder
14 August 2020 Friendly FC Red Bull Salzburg 2-0 Dynamo České Budějovice Salzburg
18:00
  • Koita   1'
  • Daka   76'
Report Stadium: Akedemie Liefering
Referee: Marina Aufschnaiter
22 August 2020 Friendly FC Red Bull Salzburg 1-4 AFC Ajax Salzburg
16ː00
  • Koita   9'
Report
  • Gravenberch   2'
  • Antony   15'
  • Van de Beek   67'
  • Rensch   82'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 1.250
Referee: Sebastian Gishamer
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic
25 August 2020 Friendly FC Red Bull Salzburg 2-2 Liverpool F.C. Salzburg
16ː00
  • Daka   3'13'
Report
  • Brewster   72'81'
Stadium: Red Bull Arena
Attendance: 1.250
Referee: Dieter Muckenhammer
Note: Restrictions due to Coronavirus pandemic
4 September 2020 Friendly FC Red Bull Salzburg 3-0 Chelsea Salzburg
14:00
  • Mwepu   5'
  • Adeyemi   13'
  • Daka   36'
Report Stadium: Akedemie Liefering

Top scorers

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Goals Name
1 27 Patson Daka
2 14 Sekou Koita Mërgim Berisha
3 7 Karim Adeyemi


References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Fussball in Österreich ™1 (Bundesliga) 2020/21". www.austriasoccer.at. Retrieved 22 February 2024.