Stability is Augsburg’s creed — and in a league in which Schalke, Werder, Hamburg and Cologne all dropped into the second tier, the little FCA’s uninterrupted life in the Bundesliga is a considerable feat. Top-flight football since 2011, without interruption. All that while regularly operating with the smallest or second-smallest budget in the league.
That is no accident. That is Swabian persistence.