About FC Augsburg

FC Augsburg is a German professional football club from Augsburg in Bavaria, founded on 8 August 1907 as FK Alemannia Augsburg. From 1921 to 1969 it played as BC Augsburg, and it took its present name in 1969 after a merger with TSV Schwaben Augsburg's football department. Since 2009 it has played at the WWK Arena south of the city centre, which holds about 30,600 spectators.

For most of its history the club moved between the second and third tiers, and in the early 2000s it even dropped to the fourth division for two seasons. It then recovered quickly, won promotion to the Bundesliga for the first time in 2011, and has stayed in the top flight ever since.

Augsburg's fifth place in the 2014–15 Bundesliga took it into the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, its first European campaign. It finished second in a group with Athletic Bilbao, Partizan and AZ, then lost narrowly to Liverpool in the round of 32 after a goalless first leg at home.