Salzburg’s huge 20-game European run
It started on 11 Jul in front of 1,452 spectators during Hibernians Stadium in Malta and could finish 309 days after during a full Stade de Lyon for a UEFA Europa League final: Salzburg are on a record-breaking European run.
Salzburg’s debate began opposite Hibernians in a UEFA Champions League second subordinate turn and after an away-goals detriment to Rijeka during a subsequent hurdle, they eliminated to a UEFA Europa League play-offs. With Real Sociedad, Borussia Dortmund and Lazio all dispatched in a knockout rounds, Salzburg’s semi-final second leg on 3 May will be their 20th diversion in Europe this season.
That equals a record series of games in a singular debate set in 1995/96 by Bordeaux when they went from a UEFA Intertoto Cup (8 matches) to a two-legged UEFA Cup final (12 matches). This was also replicated in 2012/13 when Basel progressed from UEFA Champions League second subordinate turn to UEFA Europa League semis, only like Salzburg this term.
It is a method that has taken Salzburg to Malta, Croatia, Romania, Portugal, France, Turkey, Spain, Germany, Italy and behind to France (which they will wish to revisit for a Lyon final). By a time they lapse from Marseille for a second time they will have trafficked over 21,000km to pursue their UEFA Europa League dream (21,414km, by UEFA.com’s calculations).
They did not ambience better until diversion 17 when they fell 4-2 during Lazio, a quarter-final necessity brilliantly overturned when they scored 3 goals in 5 mins a week later.
- Salzburg are a initial Austrian semi-finalists in a vital UEFA bar foe given Rapid Wien in a 1995/96 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup. Salzburg themselves got to a 1993/94 UEFA Cup final.
- Salzburg are a initial organisation to strech a vital semi-final after personification Maltese antithesis given Porto in a 1993/94 UEFA Champions League. In that initial turn Porto knocked out Floriana, who had met contingent UEFA Cup runners-up Borussia Dortmund a deteriorate before.
Here is a full run – that Salzburg will bid to extend to an rare 21st compare by winning their semi-final with Marseille, whom they formerly faced in a organisation stage.
UEFA Champions League
Second subordinate round
11 July: Hibernians 0-3 Salzburg
19 July: Salzburg 3-0 Hibernians (agg: 6-0)
Third subordinate round
26 July: Salzburg 1-1 Rijeka
2 August: Rijeka 0-0 Salzburg (agg: 0-0, Rijeka win on divided goals)
UEFA Europa League
Play-offs
17 August: Viitorul 1-3 Salzburg
24 August: Salzburg 4-0 Viitorul (agg: 7-1)
Group stage
14 September: Vitória SC 1-1 Salzburg
28 September: Salzburg 1-0 Marseille
19 October: Konyaspor 0-2 Salzburg
2 November: Salzburg 0-0 Konyaspor
23 November: Salzburg 3-0 Vitória SC
7 December: Marseille 0-0 Salzburg (Salzburg initial in Group I)
Round of 32
15 February: Real Sociedad 2-2 Salzburg
22 February: Salzburg 2-1 Real Sociedad (agg: 4-3)
Round of 16
8 March: Borussia Dortmund 1-2 Salzburg
15 March: Salzburg 0-0 Borussia Dortmund (agg: 2-1)
Quarter-finals
5 April: Lazio 4-2 Salzburg
12 April: Salzburg 4-1 Lazio (agg: 6-5)
Semi-finals
26 April: Marseille v Salzburg
3 May: Salzburg v Marseille