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Red Bull Salzburg has another nasty hurdle to overcome on its way to the Champions League. If the Austrian series champions were firmly qualified through the Bundesliga in their premier class debut last year, the “qualifying trauma” must be overcome once again this season. All eleven attempts to qualify for the premier class since he joined Red Bull in 2005 have so far failed.
Maccabi Tel Aviv is the first and only opponent to stand in the way of this year’s play-off. Salzburg will play the first leg against the Israeli champions on Tuesday (9 pm / DAZN live). A decade ago, the “policemen”, supervised by Huub Stevens, twice found themselves fighting Israeli teams.
Andreas Ulmer, the Salzburg veteran in the current squad, was already there against Maccabi Haifa in 2009/10. The current captain makes his tenth attempt. Jesse Marsch, on the other hand, can tackle the matter unimpeded. For the USA coach from Salzburg, it is the first attempt to reach the well-filled CL pits via the qualifying diversion. The entry fee only in the group stage is high THAN-Information for the previous year 15.25 million euros.
Marsch can rely on a practically unchanged team that has internalized his idea of the game and finally said: “I think in the past many in the club here were stressed and afraid of a qualifying round like this because they didn’t make it. But right now we have a group that understands what the Champions League is and what this game means.
Champion Salzburg’s eleven previous failed attempts to qualify for the Champions League in the Red Bull era.
Summary of Red Bull’s failed Champions League qualifiers Salzburg
| Season | round | Salzburg | adversary | First leg | Leg back |
| 2006/07 | Third round | Salzburg | Valencia cf | 1: 0 (h) | 0: 3 (a) |
| 2007/08 | Third round | Salzburg | Shakhtar Donetsk | 1: 0 (h) | 1: 3 (a) |
| 2009/10 | Play off | Salzburg | Maccabi Haifa | 1: 2 (h) | 0: 3 (a) |
| 2010/11 | Play off | Salzburg | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 2: 3 (h) | 1: 1 (a) |
| 2012/13 | 2nd round | Salzburg | F91 Dudelange | 0: 1 (a) | 4: 3 (h) |
| 2013/14 | Third round | Salzburg | Fenerbahce | 1: 1 (h) | 1: 3 (a) |
| 2014/15 | Play off | Salzburg | Malmö FF | 2: 1 (h) | 0: 3 (a) |
| 2015/16 | Third round | Salzburg | Malmö FF | 2: 0 (h) | 0: 3 (a) |
| 2016/17 | Play off | Salzburg | Dinamo Zagreb | 1: 1 (a) | 1: 2 nV (h) |
| 2017/18 | Third round | Salzburg | HNK Rijeka | 1: 1 (h) | 0: 0 (a) |
| 2018/19 | Play off | Salzburg | Red Star of Belgrade | 0: 0 (a) | 2: 2 (a) |
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