in 2005 the red bull company bought the club because the owners were having problems with money. some traditional fans left the club and started a new club under the old name sv austria salzburg. ever since 2005, the club has been named fc red bull salzburg. one of the aims of the new owners was to form a team which can play in the uefa champions league regularly. this was not reached but the new club was nevertheless successful. in the national league they reached four titles and were four times second. in 2008, they beat fc banants of armenia 10-0 on aggregate as part of qualification for the 2008-09 europa league. in the 2009-10 europa league the club won their group with 6 victories over villarreal cf, ss lazio and levski sofia. in the round of 32 they lost versus standard lüttich. also the next two euro league group stages were reached. in the 2011–12 europa league they got second in the group stage behind athletic bilbao. although they ost 1-8 on aggregate to metalist kharkiv in the round of 32, they beat paris saint-germain 2-0 in the group stages.