Austrian football championship 2008/09

This article covers the Austrian men's soccer championship of the 2008/09 season.
For the Austrian women's football championship of the 2008/09 season see under Austrian women's football championship 2008/09 .

Austrian football championship 2008/09

← 2007/08 2009/10 →

Bundesliga 2008/09
Champion Red Bull Salzburg
master	FC Red Bull Salzburg
Champions League qualification	FC Red Bull Salzburg
Europa League qualification	FK Austria Vienna SK Rapid Vienna SK Sturm Graz
Relegated	SCR Altach
Teams	10
Games	180
Gates	588  (ø 3.27 per game)
spectator	1,624,905  (ø 9027 per game)
Top scorer	Marc Janko

First division 2008/09
Master Magna Wiener Neustadt
master	SC Magna Wiener Neustadt
Relegated	SV Grödig DSV Leoben 1. FC Vöcklabruck
Teams	12
Games	198
Gates	553  (ø 2.79 per game)
spectator	294,175  (ø 1486 per game)
Top scorer	Diego Viana

The Austrian men's soccer championship 2008/09 consisted of the 97th edition of the highest Austrian professional championship (Bundesliga) and a 34th edition of a second highest division (first league) . The Bundesliga began on July 8, 2008 and ended on May 31, 2009 with the 36th Bundesliga round. The opening game was the match between SK Sturm Graz and the champions of the 2007/08 season SK Rapid Wien in the Graz UPC Arena . Last year's runner-up, FC Red Bull Salzburg , won the Austrian championship as the new title holder two rounds before the end of the season. It was the fifth title for Salzburg and the second since Red Bull took over the club . This season, a new season goal record of the top division and a new joint audience record of the highest and second highest level were achieved. The champions of the second highest division, which began on July 11, 2008 with all five games and ended on May 29, 2009, were the 2008 newly formed SC Magna Wiener Neustadt . Master of the ÖFB women's league was 2008/09 of SV Neulengbach .

Season course

In the top division, the tipp3 Bundesliga , ten teams played for three international starting places, one Champions League place (second qualifying round) and two Europa League places (second qualifying round). In addition, the last placed had to relegate to the second highest league, the ADEG Erste Liga . While Red Bull Salzburg secured the Champions League place with the championship title, runners-up Rapid Wien and fourth-placed Sturm Graz got a place in the newly designed Europa League qualification. The Grazers only got an international starting place because the championship third Austria Wien is automatically eligible to start in the Europa League qualification (third qualifying round) as the winner in the ÖFB Cup . In the fight against relegation there was a duel in the last quarter in which SV Mattersburg just got the upper hand over SCR Altach and thus remained in the top division. The top scorer was Marc Janko (Red Bull Salzburg), who narrowly missed Hans Krankl's previous Bundesliga record (41 goals) with 39 goals . Janko had scored the most goals in the UEFA division , but ended up “only” in third place in the European championship for the Golden Boot due to the point rule.

In the ADEG First League , twelve teams played for promotion to the Bundesliga. Furthermore, the last three clubs had to be relegated to the regional leagues East, Middle or West, depending on their affiliation. The SC Magna Wiener Neustadt , sponsored by the industrialist Frank Stronach , who took over the license from SC Schwanenstadt in the summer of 2008 , secured the championship title in the First League with one round before the end before FC Wacker Innsbruck , which was associated with promotion to the Bundesliga . Of the newcomers, only SKN St. Pölten held their own with a fifth place in the first division, while the other two climbers, SV Grödig and 1. FC Vöcklabruck , together with the traditional club DSV Leoben, which slipped into bankruptcy in February, paved the way had to go back to the respective regional leagues. The top scorer was the Brazilian Diego Viana from SV Grödig with 20 goals.

In the three regional leagues, 16 clubs each played for one promotion place to the first division. In addition, the three last-placed teams had to relegate to one of the nine national leagues after assignment. Since from the first division no club relegated to the Regionalliga Ost, but two relegated to the Regionalliga Mitte, there were only two relegation places in the Regionalliga Ost, while there were four in the Regionalliga Mitte. In the Regionalliga Ost, the traditional club First Vienna FC secured the championship title in 1894 and thus returns to the second highest division after eight years. In the Regionalliga Mitte there was a championship decision on the last match day in a long distance duel, which TSV Hartberg won against the Grazer AK thanks to the goal difference that was two better goals in the end. The Hartberger return there two years after their relegation from the first division. In the Regionalliga West, the championship title went to FC Dornbirn in 1913 , which again belongs to the second highest league after being relegated to lower regions in 1989. The top scorer of the Regionalliga Ost was Osman Bozkurt (First Vienna FC 1894) with 26 goals, the Regionalliga Mitte Robert Lenz ( FC Wels ) with 20 goals and the Regionalliga West Armin Hobel ( WSG Wattens ) with 35 goals.

First performance level - Bundesliga

SCR Altach Kapfenberger SV Red Bull Salzburg LASK Linz SK Austria Carinthia SK Sturm Graz SV Ried SK Rapid Vienna FK Austria Vienna SV Mattersburg

Clubs of the tipp3 Bundesliga 2008/09

Championship plate of the Austrian Bundesliga

The captain of FC Red Bull Salzburg, Alexander Zickler, lifts the championship plate in the air

The Bundesliga , the top division in Austrian football, was played for the 89th time in the 2008/09 season. As of this season, the sponsor name of the Bundesliga changed from T-Mobile Bundesliga to tipp3 -Bundesliga powered by T-Mobile , as the Austrian sports betting provider tipp3 replaced T-Mobile as the new main sponsor . The mobile communications company remained a sub-sponsor of the Bundesliga.

For the first time in 41 years , Kapfenberger SV was again represented in Austria's top division. The Obersteirer replaced FC Wacker Innsbruck , which was relegated from the Bundesliga in 2007/08 .

The pay-TV broadcaster Premiere had the rights to show all games in full length. While on Fridays and Sundays a single game was shown live over the full length of the game, Premiere showed the remaining three Saturday games in a conference call. In addition, the public broadcaster ORF had the rights to broadcast the "top game of the round" as a single game on Sundays (for games during the week, this was the Tuesday game). Furthermore, the ORF was allowed to show a 45-minute summary of the remaining four games per round, which was mostly done in the context of the program Sport am Sonntag together with an ORF football expert.

In the “top game of the round”, Red Bull Salzburg was seen most often (18 times), while SV Mattersburg only appeared once, as little as any other team.

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In the 2008/09 season, as in previous years, ten clubs competed against each other in a total of 36 rounds. Each team played twice at home and twice away against each of the nine other teams. In the tipp3 Bundesliga, the ten teams played for three international starting places, one Champions League place and two Europa League places . In addition, the last placed had to relegate to the second highest league, the ADEG Erste Liga . The champions FC Red Bull Salzburg are eligible to qualify for the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League season (second qualifying round). Second placed SK Rapid Wien , fourth placed SK Sturm Graz (both in the second qualifying round) and the ÖFB Cup winner FK Austria Wien (third qualifying round) are allowed to qualify for the UEFA Europa League in the same season . Due to the cup victory of third-placed Austria Wien, the qualification place for the Europa League was passed on to fourth-placed Sturm Graz. The last placed SCR Altach rose to the second highest division, the first division .

Season course

The 2008/09 Bundesliga season was dominated by Red Bull Salzburg. If the club still had difficulties starting in the first quarter, the team settled in first place from the 14th round until the end of the season, whereby the club positioned itself a total of 25 times. Red Bull Salzburg's direct opponents in the championship match were the two Viennese clubs Rapid and Austria and Sturm Graz. However, in the 28th round, Red Bull Salzburg and Rapid Vienna were finally able to break away for the rest of the games. The Viennese did not make up for the small deficit in points and were therefore unable to successfully defend the title from the 2007/08 season .

The relegation battle was initially the SV Mattersburg, the Kapfenberger SV, Austria Carinthia and the SCR Altach. The Carinthians were able to break away after just a few laps and positioned themselves in the midfield for the rest of the season, so that the Carinthians ended up in sixth place at the end of the season despite a weak last quarter. The Kapfenberger SV team achieved significantly better results from the 19th round and the team was therefore increasingly able to set itself apart from the other two clubs. For the remainder of the season, the club dueled with LASK Linz for seventh place in the table, but in the end the Linzers placed ahead of Kapfenberger SV. SV Mattersburg and SCR Altach were able to improve significantly in the last quarter, but the Altachers, who wore the “red lantern” 26 times, had to relegate to the second highest division at the end of the season.

Over the course of the season, SV Ried mainly positioned itself in the midfield and almost qualified for an international starting position thanks to a very strong spring performance. The team remained unbeaten as the only one in their own stadium and was also the team with the fewest goals.

Transfers

Kapfenberger SV and Austria Kärnten recorded the most additions with 17 players each. 19 players left Kärntner Austria throughout the season, more than any other team. Austria Wien, Sturm Graz and Austria Kärnten presented a strongly changed team. It was the first time that a Chinese player, Sun Xiang, appeared in the Bundesliga.

Among the newcomers were players like Georg Koch (to Rapid Vienna), Kevin Bobson , Barry Opdam , Robin Nelisse , Anis Boussaïdi , Somen Tchoyi , Mejdi Traoui (all to Red Bull Salzburg), Mamadou Diabang , Sun Xiang (both to Austria Vienna ), Markus Weissenberger , Thomas Prager (both to LASK Linz), Stefan Lexa (to SV Ried), Aílton and Zé Elias (both to SCR Altach).

The departures included Jürgen Säumel (to FC Turin ), Christian Fuchs (to VfL Bochum ), Hans-Peter Berger (to Leixões SC ) and Roland Kirchler (to WSG Swarovski Wattens ). Dietmar Kühbauer (SV Mattersburg) ended his career before the start of the season. After the 35th round, Ivica Vastić and Michael Baur also ended their careers (both LASK Linz).

With Co Adriaanse (Red Bull Salzburg), Karl Daxbacher (Austria Wien) and Andrej Panadić (LASK Linz) three new coaches were represented at the beginning of the season. SV Ried parted ways with the designated new coach Georg Zellhofer before the first round, later assistant coach Gerhard Schweitzer took over for one game , and Paul Gludovatz signed on from round two . On September 4th, Urs Schönenberger took over the coaching position from Heinz Fuchsbichler at SCR Altach. This was replaced by Georg Zellhofer during the winter break on January 12, 2009. On October 27th, Panadić was dismissed as a trainer at LASK Linz and Klaus Lindenberger was hired in his place . The club removed him after a long series of negatives and replaced him with Hans Krankl towards the end of March .

Closing table

	society	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	+/-	Points
01.	FC Red Bull Salzburg	36	23	05	08th	86:50	+36	74
02.	SK Rapid Vienna (M) (S)	36	21st	07th	08th	89:43	+46	70
03.	FK Austria Vienna	36	17th	11	08th	59:46	+13	62
04th	SK Sturm Graz	36	17th	09	10	68:45	+23	60
05.	SV Ried	36	17th	09	10	58:38	+20	60
06th	SK Austria Carinthia	36	11	08th	17th	47:57	−10	41
07th	LASK Linz	36	11	04th	21st	35:67	−32	37
08th.	Kapfenberger SV (N)	36	10	06th	20th	48:81	−33	36
09.	SV Mattersburg	36	08th	09	19th	42:71	−29	33
10.	SCR Altach	36	08th	06th	22nd	56:90	−34	30th

Legend for the Bundesliga

Austrian champion
and participation in the 2nd qualifying round for the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League

Participation in the 3rd qualifying round for the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League
ÖFB Cup winners 2008/09

Participation in the 2nd qualifying round for the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League

Relegation to the first division

(M)	Austrian champion 2007/08
(C)	The 2007/08 ÖFB Cup was held as an ÖFB Amateur Cup
(S)	ÖFB Supercup winner 2008 of the 2007/08 season (against the ÖFB Amateur Cup winner SV Horn)
(N)	Newcomer of the 2007/08 season

Results

There were a total of 143 wins or losses and 37 draws. With 23 wins, Red Bull Salzburg was the most successful. In contrast, SV Mattersburg and SCR Altach only won eight times each. The SCR Altach suffered the most defeats (23), Red Bull Salzburg, Rapid Wien and Austria Wien the least (8 each). Most of the draws reached SV Mattersburg with 14, the fewest Rapid Wien with six.

Red Bull Salzburg (10th to 16th rounds) and Sturm Graz (12th to 18th rounds) claimed the longest winning streak with seven wins in a row. Sturm Graz also reached the longest draw series between the 32nd and 34th round with three draws in a row. LASK Linz, on the other hand, suffered nine defeats in a row between the 12th and 20th round.

The cross table shows the individual results. The home team is in the middle column and the away team is in the top row.

First round (rounds 1–18)										2008/09	Second half of the season (rounds 19-36)
										society
	2: 2	3-0	2: 1	1-0	5-0	1: 1	5: 1	1-0	3: 1	SK Rapid Vienna		4: 2	3: 2	0: 1	2: 3	1: 1	1-0	8: 1	4: 2	6-0
1-0		5: 1	3: 1	6-0	1-0	2: 1	3-0	4: 1	7: 3	Red Bull Salzburg	2: 1		4: 1	2: 1	2-0	2: 1	2-0	1: 4	6-0	2: 5
2-0	3: 2		1: 3	2: 1	5-0	3: 1	2: 1	1: 1	0-0	FK Austria Vienna	2: 2	1: 1		2-0	0-0	4-0	3: 1	4: 1	4: 1	2: 1
3: 1	2: 2	0-0		3-0	2-0	3-0	6-0	3-0	2-0	SK Sturm Graz	2: 2	2-0	2: 2		1-0	2-0	1: 1	3: 1	0-0	1: 3
0: 1	1: 2	0-0	5: 6		1: 4	2: 1	3: 1	0-0	2: 1	SV Mattersburg	0: 3	2: 4	0: 2	0-0		3: 1	2: 2	5: 4	3: 2	3: 1
2: 5	0: 2	0: 1	0: 3	2: 1		2: 1	1: 3	3: 2	2-0	LASK Linz	0: 2	0: 3	4-0	1-0	0-0		0: 3	2-0	0: 2	2: 2
1-0	2: 2	3: 1	4: 1	0-0	3-0		3-0	0-0	2: 1	SV Ried	3-0	3-0	0-0	3: 2	4-0	1-0		3: 2	2-0	3-0
2: 7	3: 4	0: 1	1-0	2: 2	1: 3	0: 1		0: 3	3-0	SCR Altach	1: 1	1: 2	2: 1	1: 1	4: 1	1: 1	1: 1		2: 5	5: 1
3: 3	1-0	0: 1	0: 2	2-0	1-0	1: 1	2: 1		6-0	SK Austria Carinthia	1: 3	2-0	1: 1	4: 2	0-0	0: 1	1: 2	0: 3		0: 2
0: 2	1: 1	2: 2	1: 3	2: 1	0: 1	2-0	3: 2	0: 2		Kapfenberger SV	0: 4	0: 2	1: 2	3: 3	3: 1	4: 1	2: 1	1: 1	2: 1

Andreas Ulmer , who played 37 games during the entire season , achieved something extraordinary , although usually only 36 games are possible. The reason for this is his move from SV Ried to Red Bull Salzburg. Since he played through all 22 games for SV Ried during the autumn season and Red Bull Salzburg had to play one supplementary game in the spring season, Ulmer played in this supplementary game of the 22nd round of Salzburg at two different clubs.

Goal statistics

Austria's most successful goalscorer Marc Janko (FC Red Bull Salzburg)

In the 2008/09 season, the season record of 1980/81 (509 goals) with 588 goals was exceeded by 79 goals. This resulted in an average of 3.27 goals per game. Rapid Wien scored the most goals with 89 goals and Mattersburg the fewest goals with 42. The fewest goals were scored by SV Ried (38), while SCR Altach scored the most goals with 90 goals. The game with the most goals was SV Mattersburg against Sturm Graz in the 13th round, which the Graz team won 6-5. Rapid Wien celebrated their biggest win in the 20th round against SCR Altach (8: 1). The biggest draw was 3: 3 and was reached in the 13th round in the game Austria Kärnten against Rapid Vienna and in the 34th round in the game Kapfenberger SV egegn Sturm Graz . The round with the highest number of goals was the 13th, in which a total of 31 goals (average = 6.2) were scored. The fewest goals were scored one round before, in the 12th round, with eight goals (average = 1.6).

Mario Sonnleitner (Sturm Graz) scored the first goal of the season in the 33rd minute in the game Sturm Graz against Rapid Wien , the last goal was scored by Herwig Drechsel (SV Ried) in the 94th minute with a penalty in the game SV Ried against Sturm Graz .

LASK Linz suffered the longest series without a goal with eight consecutive games between the 13th and 20th round. On the other hand, SCR Altach scored 18 times in a row between the 15th and 32nd rounds, something that no other club could do. Kapfenberger SV had the longest series of conceding a goal with a total of 19 times in a row between the 14th and 32nd round. On the other hand, Austria Kärnten was able to score six times in a row between the 5th and 10th round.

Goalscorer table

The top scorer in the top division was Marc Janko (FC Red Bull Salzburg), who with his 39 goals narrowly missed Hans Krankl's record from the 1977/87 season (41 goals from the 1977/78 season ). Janko had scored the most goals in the UEFA division , but ended up “only” in third place in the European championship for the Golden Boot due to the point rule. The UEFA point rule is a coefficient by which each goal scorer in a league is multiplied (e.g. Austria 1.5 or Spain 2.0). The coefficient is based on the strength of the league (the strongest leagues with a 2.0 rate include those from Spain, Italy, England, Germany and France). The winner of the Golden Boot was Diego Forlán ( Atlético Madrid ), second was Samuel Eto'o ( FC Barcelona )

Second place in the goalscorer table was Erwin Hoffer with 27 goals and third was Stefan Maierhofer with 23 goals (both Rapid Vienna).

League leader of the Bundesliga

rank	Goals (penalties)	Surname	country	society
01	39 (4)	Marc Janko	Austria	Red Bull Salzburg
02	27 00	Erwin Hoffer	Austria	Rapid Vienna
03	23 00	Stefan Maierhofer	Austria	Rapid Vienna
04th	15 (1)	Mario Haas	Austria	Storm Graz
05	14 (4)	Milenko Ačimovič	Slovenia	Austria Vienna
	14th 00	Nacho	Spain	SV Ried
	14th 00	Ruby Okotie	Austria	Austria Vienna
	14th 00	Hamdi Salihi	Albania	SV Ried
09	12 (4)	Steffen Hofmann	Germany	Rapid Vienna
	12 (1)	Ilco Naumoski	North Macedonia	SV Mattersburg
	12 00	Robin Nelisse	Netherlands Antilles	Red Bull Salzburg

Goals scored after minutes

rank	society	01-15	15-30	30-45	45-60	60-75	75-90	> 90	1. Hz	2. Hz	total
01	FC Red Bull Salzburg	15th	10	13	19th	13	13	3	038	048	086
02	SK Rapid Vienna	12	10	18th	20th	14th	12	3	040	049	089
03	FK Austria Vienna	05	04th	16	07th	12	12	3	025th	034	059
04th	SK Sturm Graz	08th	12	18th	07th	14th	06th	3	038	030th	068
05	SV Ried	10	07th	07th	13	11	08th	2	024	034	058
06th	SK Austria Carinthia	05	05	11	06th	07th	12	1	021st	026th	047
07th	LASK Linz	01	07th	08th	02	05	08th	4th	016	019th	035
08th	Kapfenberger SV	04th	05	13	08th	09	06th	3	022nd	026th	048
09	SV Mattersburg	05	08th	04th	07th	06th	10	2	017th	025th	042
10	SCR Altach	06th	11	09	13	07th	08th	2	026th	030th	056
-	total	71	79	117	102	98	95	26th	267	321	588

referee

Surname	born	Country / State	Games
Thomas Einwaller	04/25/1977	Tyrol	14th	67	4th	2
Konrad Plautz	October 16, 1964	Tyrol	14th	54	1	-
Robert Schörgenhofer	02/21/1973	Vorarlberg	14th	79	1	-
Fritz Stuchlik	02/11/1966	Vienna	13	53	4th	-
Stefan Messner	December 13, 1964	Styria	12	57	-	-
Thomas Gangl	04.10.1971	Vorarlberg	11	36	2	2
Gerhard Grobelnik	07/10/1975	Vienna	11	40	-	2
Louis Hofmann	01/08/1965	Salzburg	11	76	3	1
Bernhard Brugger	December 25, 1966	Salzburg	10	46	1	-
Dietmar Drabek	06/30/1965	Upper Austria	10	33	2	-
Oliver Drachta	05/15/1977	Upper Austria	10	39	-	2
Manfred Krassnitzer	02/16/1968	Carinthia	10	32	2	-
Harald Lechner	07/30/1982	Vienna	10	46	1	2
Thomas Prammer	05/17/1973	Upper Austria	10	35	3	-
René Eisner	09/02/1975	Styria	09	32	2	-
Thomas Steiner	03/25/1963	Lower Austria	06th	28	-	-
Claudio Circhetta	11/18/1970	Switzerland	01	02	-	-
Nikolaj Hänni	03/02/1976	Switzerland	01	07th	-	-
Rene Rogalla	December 19, 1963	Switzerland	01	02	-	-
Michael Schmid	07/11/1980	Lower Austria	01	05	-	-
Stephan Studer	10/09/1975	Switzerland	01	05	1	-
		total	1800	7740	270	110

Stadiums and spectators

This year's season achieved the highest average attendance after the 2007/2008 season . A total of 1,624,905 million people attended the 180 Bundesliga games, which was 2.8 percent less than the previous season. The average was 9,027 viewers per game. Rapid Vienna had the best average with 15,777 spectators, which meant that almost every game was sold out. In contrast, the Kapfenberger SV recorded an average of only 3,658 spectators, which is relatively little for the highest level in football. The goal of the Bundesliga is, according to Bundesliga chairman Georg Pangl , to increase spectator interest to more than two million stadium visitors in the future: “Another goal is to further improve and improve the quality in the stadiums - as has already happened this season to offer the viewers even more service and comfort and thereby break the two million mark. "

city	Residents	society	Stadion	capacity	total	cut	± to 2008
Vienna	1,691,468	Rapid Vienna	Gerhard Hanappi Stadium	18,442	283,983	15,777	+ 10.0%
Salzburg	0.149,470	Red Bull Salzburg	Red Bull Arena	31,063	256.069	14,226	+ 02.3%
Graz	0.255.354	Storm Graz	UPC arena	15,400	231,947	12,886	+ 07.6%
Klagenfurt	0.093,306	Austria Carinthia	Hypo Group Arena	30,461	177.119	09,840	-12.7%
Linz	0.189,500	LASK Linz	Linz stadium	20,104	162.102	09.006	-15.5%
Vienna	1,691,468	Austria Vienna	Franz Horr Stadium	12,500	137.182	07,621	+ 13.6%
Mattersburg	0.006,861	SV Mattersburg	Poplar Stadium	15,700	112,936	06,274	-20.3%
Altach	0.006,302	SCR Altach	Cashpoint arena	08,500	104,386	05,799	+ 08.1%
Ried im Innkreis	0.011,577	SV Ried	Fill Metallbau Stadium	07,680	093,337	05,185	+ 16.6%
Kapfenberg	0.021,928	Kapfenberger SV	Franz Fekete Stadium	12,000	065,844	03,658	Climbers

The championship team of FC Red Bull Salzburg

(The stakes and goals are given in brackets.)

FC Red Bull Salzburg

Goal : Heinz Arzberger (13 / -); Eddie Gustafsson (9 / -); Timo Ochs (15 / -) Defense : László Bodnár (28/2); Anise Boussaïdi (28/1); Milan Dudić (9/1); Ronald Gercaliu (23 / -); Rémo Meyer (10 / -); Barry Opdam (25 / -); Ibrahim Sekagya (34/1); Andreas Ulmer (15 / -) Midfield : René Aufhauser (25/2); Vladimír Janočko (16/5); Patrik Ježek (15/2); Niko Kovač (12 / -); Christoph Leitgeb (16 / -); Louis Ngwat-Mahop (27/3); Ernst Öbster (5 / -); Karel Piták (16/4); Somen Tchoyi (32/6) Attack : Marc Janko (34/39); Robin Nelisse (32/12); Johan Vonlanthen (29/3); Alexander Zickler (24/5) Coach : Co Adriaanse

* Saša Ilić (3 / -) and Mejdi Traoui (2 / -) left the club during the season.

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  Martin Pucher , President of the Bundesliga

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  Anton Hirschmann , former Vice President of the Bundesliga

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  Georg Pangl - board member of the Bundesliga

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  Herbert Prohaska , First Division Patron

Second performance level - First League

Leoben Austria Lustenau FC Lustenau Red Bull Juniors Grödig Burr grain Wiener Neustadt Vöcklabruck Admira Austria Vienna (A) St. Polten innsbruck

Clubs of the ADEG First League 2008/09

With one round before the end, SC Magna secured the much-acclaimed championship title in the first division

Champion plate of the Austrian First League

The first league , which was held for the 34th time in the 2008/09 season and represents the second highest level in Austrian football, began on July 11, 2008 with five games and ended on May 29, 2009. The sponsor name of the first division This season changed from Red Zac -Erste Liga to ADEG Erste Liga , as ADEG was hired as the new main sponsor in spring 2008. In addition to Bundesliga relegated Wacker Innsbruck , the three regional league promoters completed the twelve teams in the first division . These are from the Regionalliga West of SV Grödig from Salzburg , from the Regionalliga Mitte the 1. FC Vöcklabruck from Upper Austria and from the Regionalliga Ost the SKN St. Pölten from Lower Austria . In addition to these four newcomers, SC Schwanenstadt was renamed FC Magna Wiener Neustadt and ASK Schwadorf was renamed FC Admira Wacker Mödling after the 2007/08 season .

As in the Bundesliga, the TV rights belonged to Premiere. In addition to the Friday games conference, the pay TV broadcaster was also able to choose a game that was shown as the “top game of the round” as a single game, mostly on Saturdays. The ORF had the right to show a summary of all six games per round.

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In the 2008/09 season, as in previous years, twelve clubs competed against each other in a total of 33 rounds. Since 33 is an odd number, the second to sixth-placed clubs from the previous season and the relegated Bundesliga (FC Wacker Innsbruck, FC Gratkorn , SC Austria Lustenau , FC Lustenau , Austria Wien Amateurs and Red Bull Juniors ) had one home game more than the other six clubs (Magna Wiener Neustadt, DSV Leoben, Trenkwalder Admira, SV Grödig, 1. FC Vöcklabruck and SKN St. Pölten). Each team played against each other three times.

The champions of the season, SC Magna Wiener Neustadt , were promoted to the tipp3-Bundesliga. However, if one of the two amateur clubs had been in first place at the end of the season, the second-placed club would have been promoted to the top division, unless it had been an amateur club, so that the third-placed club would have been eligible for promotion. However, if the professional team of the respective amateur team had been in last place in the Bundesliga at the same time, this club would have been allowed to stay in the top division and thus there would have been no relegated or promoted team. The three last-placed teams, in this case SV Grödig (West), 1. FC Vöcklabruck and DSV Leoben (both in the middle), had to be relegated to the respective regional league. However, due to the lack of a license application for the next season, the DSV Leoben would have had to go to the Middle Regional League instead of the club in the relegation ranks, even if they had not occupied a relegation place.

The clubs could only qualify for the UEFA Europa League by winning the ÖFB Cup (third qualifying round). The Admira managed to reach the final, but failed there because of Vienna Austria from the Bundesliga.

Season course

The heavily sponsored clubs SC Wiener Neustadt (from Magna) and FC Admira Wacker Mödling (from Trenkwalder) started as title favorites, although both, and especially Admira, had difficulties at the beginning. The clubs Wacker Innsbruck and SKN St. Pölten take advantage of these problems, both of which settled at the top of the table until the beginning of the second third. As both clubs subsequently did not achieve such good results, Wiener Neustadt took over the championship lead until the end of the season, constantly followed by Admira. Wacker Innsbruck was able to overtake Admira, who was weak at the end of the season. The SKN St. Pölten placed in the front midfield.

In the relegation battle, both clubs from Lustenau and Admira, SV Grödig, DSV Leoben and 1. FC Vöcklabruck were initially represented, but Admira was able to break away towards the end of the first period and turn to the fight for the title. The two clubs from Lustenau became significantly stronger from the second third and thus saved themselves from relegation. The three other clubs, on the other hand, gained fewer and fewer points and had to relegate to the respective regional leagues. The forced relegation of DSV Leoben was also fixed in advance due to the bankruptcy filed in February 2009.

The two amateur teams from Red Bull Salzburg and Austria Wien as well as FC Gratkorn placed themselves in the midfield between fifth and eighth place throughout the season.

Closing table

	society	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	+/-	Points
01.	SC Magna Wiener Neustadt	33	21st	06th	06th	65:26	+39	69
02.	FC Wacker Innsbruck (A)	33	18th	08th	07th	65:44	+21	62
03.	FC Admira Wacker Mödling	33	18th	06th	09	55:36	+19	60
04th	SC Austria Lustenau	33	14th	06th	13	52:47	+ 05	48
05.	SKN St. Pölten (N)	33	13	08th	12	51:46	+ 05	47
06th	FK Austria Wien amateurs	33	13	06th	14th	44:43	+ 01	45
07th	Red Bull Juniors	33	12	07th	14th	41:56	−15	43
08th.	FC Gratkorn	33	11	07th	15th	39:55	−16	40
09.	FC Lustenau 07	33	09	11	13	34:37	- 03	38
10.	SV Grödig (N)	33	09	08th	16	37:52	−15	35
11.	DSV Leoben 1st prize	33	08th	08th	17th	30:55	−25	32
12.	1. FC Vöcklabruck (N)	33	07th	09	17th	40:56	−16	30th

¹ Fixed relegation because of the bankruptcy filed on February 16, 2009

Legend for the first division

Promotion to the Bundesliga

Relegation to the regional league

(A)	Relegated in the 2007/08 season
(N)	Newcomers of the 2007/08 season

Goalscorer table

League leader of the first division

rank	Goals (penalties)	Surname	country	society
01	20 (6)	Diego Viana	Brazil	SV Grödig
02	18 (4)	Michael Wojtanowicz	Austria	SKN St. Pölten
03	16 (4)	Mirnel Sadović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	SKN St. Pölten (12) SC Magna Wiener Neustadt (4)
04th	15 (2)	Hannes Aigner	Austria	SC Magna Wiener Neustadt
	15th 00	Günter Friesenbichler	Austria	FC Admira Wacker Mödling
	15 (3)	Fabiano	Brazil	FC Wacker Innsbruck
07th	12 00	Marko Vujic	Austria	Red Bull Juniors
08th	10 00	Rade Đokić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1. FC Vöcklabruck
	10 00	Sanel Kuljic	Austria	SC Magna Wiener Neustadt
	10 (1)	Marcel Schreter	Austria	FC Wacker Innsbruck
	10 00	Markus Unterrainer	Austria	FC Wacker Innsbruck

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  Top scorer Diego Viana (SV Grödig)

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  Michael Wojtanowicz (SKN St. Pölten)

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  Mirnel Sadović (SKN St. Pölten / SC Magna Wiener Neustadt)

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  Hannes Aigner (SC Magna Wiener Neustadt)

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  Günter Friesenbichler (FC Admira Wacker Mödling)

Stadiums and spectators

In the current season, a total of 295,109 visitors (an average of 1,490 per game) was achieved, an increase of 62.2 percent in viewers compared to the previous season. At the top of the table is Wacker Innsbruck with an average of 4,523 viewers per game. On the other hand, the amateurs of Austria Wien are far behind the other clubs with only 284 visitors per game. The former Schwanenstadters, who now played in Wiener Neustadt, recorded the greatest increase with 396.5 percent.

city	Residents	society	Stadion	capacity	total	cut	± to 2008
innsbruck	0.119,250	Wacker Innsbruck	Tivoli New	17,400	76,898	4,523	Bundesliga
Lustenau	0.020,843	Austria Lustenau	Reichshof Stadium	11,000	53,323	3.137	+ 2.4% 00
Wiener Neustadt	0.040,533	Magna Wiener Neustadt	Wiener Neustädter Stadium	03,000	41,505	2,594	+ 396.5%
Maria Enzersdorf	0.008,752	Trenkwalder Admira	Bundesstadion Südstadt	12,000	28,232	1,762	+ 057.8%
St. Polten	0.051,530	SNKV St. Pölten	Voithplatz	08,000	26,964	1,685	Regional league
Lustenau	0.020,843	FC Lustenau	Reichshof Stadium	11,000	20,409	1,201	+ 036.6%
Vöcklabruck	0.011,896	1. FC Vöcklabruck	Pre-Alpine Stadium	04,400	11,229	0.702	Regional league
Salzburg	0.149,470	Red Bull Salzburg A.	Red Bull Arena	31,063	08,218	0.483	+ 2.2% 00
Leoben	0.024,999	DSV Leoben	Donawitz Stadium	06,000	07,907	0.494	- 045.6%
Burr grain	0.007,316	FC Gratkorn	Gratkorn sports stadium	02,500	07,471	0.439	- 030.8%
Grödig	0.006,877	SV Grödig	Untersberg Arena	02,500	07.193	0.450	Regional league
Vienna	1,691,468	Austria Vienna A.	Franz Horr Stadium	12,500	04,826	0.284	- 028.2%

The championship team of SC Magna Wiener Neustadt

Status after the end of the championship

Goalkeepers: Sašo Fornezzi (28 games), Manfred Razenböck (4), Udo Siebenhandl (1) Defenders: Daniel Dunst (31), Petr Johana (30), Georg Margreitter (30), Mario Reiter (28), Wolfgang Klapf (27), Taner Ari (11), Tomislav Micanovic (3) Midfielder: Václav Koloušek (27), Guido Burgstaller (26), Sebastián Martínez (23), Michael Stanislaw (22), Alexander Hauser (18), Tomas Šimkovič (18), Alexander Grünwald (13), Partick Wolf (13), Harun Erbek (5), Yüksel Sariyar (5), Manuel Hartl (4) Forwards: Hannes Aigner (23), Sanel Kuljic (23), Mensur Kurtisi (20), Gerald Krajic (17), Mirnel Sadović (10), Thomas Helly (1), Matt Luzunaris (1) Sports direction: Helmut Kraft (trainer), Manfred Schmid and Klaus Schmidt (assistant trainer), Günter Kreissl (goalkeeper trainer ), Hannes Gasselseder (fitness trainer ) and Gernot Knapp-Felver (mental supervisor)

Third level - regional leagues

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The regional leagues, which represent the third highest division, are divided into East, West and Middle, depending on the federal states. The regional league east includes the federal states of Burgenland , Lower Austria and Vienna , the regional league middle the regional associations Upper Austria , Carinthia and Styria , and the regional league west the federal states Tyrol , Salzburg and Vorarlberg . In each of these three leagues, a direct promotion place to the first division was played, provided that a license was granted by Senate 5 of the Bundesliga. If a club had been refused a license for economic reasons, the top ranked among the alleged relegated members would have remained in the higher-ranking league, since the runner-up in a regional league has no right of promotion. In the Regionalliga Ost, the traditional club First Vienna FC secured the championship title in 1894 and thus returns to the second highest division after eight years. In the Regionalliga Mitte there was a championship decision in the very last game in a long-distance duel, which TSV Hartberg ultimately won against the Grazer AK thanks to the goal difference that was ultimately two hits better. The Hartberger return there two years after their relegation from the first division. In the Regionalliga West, the championship title went to FC Dornbirn in 1913 , which again belongs to the second highest league after being relegated to lower regions in 1989.

The number of relegated teams is basically three per regional league. However, this can change if, on the one hand, the master does not advance to the first division or if the relegation ranks are influenced by the classification of the relegated teams. In any case, the last placed must always leave the league. This was true in the Regionalliga Ost and Mitte, as two clubs from the First League had to relegate to the Regionalliga Mitte and none to the Regionalliga Ost. Thus there were only two relegation places in the Regionalliga Ost and four in the Regionalliga Mitte.

Regional League East

Closing table

	society	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	+/-	Points
01.	First Vienna FC 1894	30th	18th	09	03	60:27	+33	63
02.	SV Horn (C)	30th	17th	09	04th	51:26	+25	60
03.	SC-ESV Parndorf 1919 (A)	30th	17th	05	08th	49:23	+26	56
04th	Viennese sports club	30th	15th	09	06th	53:42	+11	54
05.	FC Waidhofen / Ybbs	30th	15th	08th	07th	40:32	+ 08	53
06th	SK Rapid Wien amateurs	30th	14th	07th	09	54:40	+14	49
07th	SV Wienerberg	30th	12	07th	11	45:47	- 02nd	43
08th.	FC Admira Wacker amateurs	30th	12	05	13	51:47	+ 04	41
09.	FAC team for Vienna	30th	12	05	13	44:42	+ 02	41
10.	SV Mattersburg amateurs	30th	11	05	14th	59:53	+ 06	38
11.	SC Zwettl	30th	08th	07th	15th	36:62	−26	31
12.	SV Würmla	30th	08th	05	17th	41:58	−17	29
13.	SC Ostbahn XI (N)	30th	06th	09	15th	40:71	−31	27
14th	SC Neusiedl am See 1	30th	05	12	13	37:50	−13	27
15th	SKU Amstetten (N)	30th	06th	08th	16	44:61	−17	26th
16	SV Stegersbach (N)	30th	08th	02	20th	43:65	−22	26th

¹ Notarization of punishment (return if there are equal points)

Since this season no club was relegated from the first division to the Regionalliga Ost, only two clubs had to relegate from this.

Legend for the regional league

Promotion to the first division

Relegation to the regional league

(C)	ÖFB Amateur Cup winner 2007/08
(A)	Relegated in the 2007/08 season
(N)	Newcomers of the 2007/08 season

Goalscorer table

• 26 goals: Osman Bozkurt (Vienna)
• 20 goals: Goran Aleksić (Horn), Ronald Spuller (Mattersburg Amateure)
• 16 goals: Juraj Skripec (Neusiedl am See)
• 15 goals: Thomas Zemann (Waidhofen / Ybbs)
• 14 goals: Jailson Severiano Alves (Parndorf), Klaus Strobl (Stegersbach)
• 12 goals: Roman Koller (Admira Wacker Amateure)
• 11 goals: Andreas Fading (Vienna), Thomas Helly (Wienerberg), Matthias Lindner (Mattersburg Amateure), Michael Pittnauer (Parndorf), Vadim Slavov (Ostbahn XI)
• 10 goals: Ingomar Szabo (Wiener Sportklub), Christopher Trimmel (Rapid Wien Amateure)

Newcomers from the national leagues

• Vienna City League : SV Schwechat
• Regional league Lower Austria : SV Gaflenz
• Burgenland League : ASK Baumgarten

Regional league middle

Closing table

	society	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	+/-	Points
01.	TSV Hartberg	30th	20th	04th	06th	63:25	+38	64
02.	GAK	30th	19th	07th	04th	68:32	+36	64
03.	SK Sturm Graz amateurs	30th	17th	05	08th	52:32	+20	56
04th	ASK Voitsberg (N)	30th	15th	09	06th	65:37	+28	54
05.	SK St. Andrä	30th	16	06th	08th	41:30	+11	54
06th	FC Wels	30th	13	08th	09	62:51	+11	47
07th	FC Blau-Weiß Linz (N)	30th	11	10	09	50:35	+15	43
08th.	Union St. Florian	30th	12	04th	14th	49:41	+ 08	40
09.	SAK Klagenfurt	30th	09	11	10	46:46	± 00	38
10.	SV All Saints' Day	30th	10	08th	12	38:38	± 00	38
11.	SC Weiz	30th	08th	010	12	48:52	- 04th	34
12.	FC St. Veit (N)	30th	07th	09	14th	43:62	−19	30th
13.	SV Bad Aussee	30th	07th	07th	16	29:66	−37	28
14th	SV Feldkirchen	30th	06th	09	15th	39:66	−27	27
15th	FC Carinthia 1 (A)	30th	06th	05	19th	22:70	−48	23
16.	SV Spittal / Drau	30th	03	10	17th	31:63	−32	19th

¹ Notarization of punishment (return if there are equal points)

Legend for the Regionalliga Mitte

Promotion to the first division

Relegation to the regional league

(A)	Relegated in the 2007/08 season
(N)	Newcomers of the 2007/08 season

Since two clubs were relegated from the First League to the Middle Regional League this season, a fourth club had to relegate to one of the respective national leagues. At first this was SV Bad Aussee, which occupied a relegation place. But after the first league relegated 1. FC Vöcklabruck announced that they would start again in the 2nd class , the Bad Ausseers replaced the Upper Austrians.

After FC Kärnten had to file for bankruptcy in December 2008 due to over-indebtedness amounting to 5.8 million euros , games had to be stopped in February 2009. For this reason, all games not yet played by FC Kärnten were rated 3-0 for the respective opponent.

Goalscorer table

• 20 goals: Robert Lenz (FC Wels)
• 14 goals: Harald Feichter (Allerheiligen), Patrick Hierzer (Voitsberg), David Witteveen (St. Andrä im Lavanttal)
• 13 goals: Dario Jelcic (BW Linz), Mathias Roidinger (FC Wels), Grega Triplat (SAK)
• 12 goals: Auron Miloti (SV Feldkirchen), Stefan Spanninger (TSV Hartberg), Robert Statthaler (Voitsberg)
• 11 goals: Herbert Rauter (Grazer AK)
• 10 goals: Patrick Bürger (TSV Hartberg), Mihret Topčagić (FC Kärnten)

Newcomers from the national leagues

• Carinthia: SC St. Stefan / Lavantal
• Upper Austria: FC Pasching
• Styria: SVL Flavia Solva

Regionalliga West

Closing table

	society	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	+/-	Points
01.	FC Dornbirn 1913	30th	19th	06th	05	62: 025	+ 037	63
02.	WSG Wattens	30th	16	010	04th	85: 039	+ 046	58
03.	USK Anif	30th	17th	07th	06th	52: 029	+ 023	58
04th	FC Hard	30th	16	08th	06th	77: 035	+ 042	56
05.	SC Bregenz	30th	16	05	09	77: 046	+ 031	53
06th	FC Kufstein	30th	13	010	07th	66: 046	+ 020	49
07th	SVG Reichenau	30th	13	05	12	63: 055	+ 8 00	44
08th.	SPG Axams / Götzens	30th	13	04th	13	62: 061	+ 1 00	43
09.	TSV St. Johann im Pongau (N)	30th	12	05	13	43: 041	+ 2 00	41
10.	VfB Hohenems (N)	30th	11	08th	11	48: 048	± 0 00	41
11.	SV Seekirchen 1945	30th	11	04th	15th	49: 053	- 4th 00	37
12.	SC Schwaz (N)	30th	11	04th	15th	42: 050	- 8 00	37
13.	FC Blau-Weiß Feldkirch	30th	09	06th	15th	36: 056	- 020	33
14th	SV Hall	30th	010	02	18th	36: 060	- 024	32
15th	FC Höchst	30th	09	04th	17th	34: 059	- 025	31
16.	FC Rot-Weiß Rankweil	30th	00	00	30th	13: 142	−129	00

Legend for the Regionalliga West

Promotion to the first division

Relegation to the regional league

(A)	Relegated in the 2007/08 season
(N)	Newcomers of the 2007/08 season

Goalscorer table

• 35 goals: Armin Hobel (Wattens)
• 23 goals: Dogan Uyar (SC Bregenz)
• 22 goals: Mathias Mayer (FC Dornbirn)
• 20 goals: Herbert Sutter (Hard)
• 17 goals: Igor Manojlović (SC Bregenz)
• 16 goals: Tamás Tiefenbach (Hohenems)
• 15 goals: Thomas Beck (Hard), Jasmin Celebic (SPG Axams / Götzens), Alexander Gruber (SPG Reichenau / Union), Christian Kellner (Wattens)
• 14 goals: Elvir Karahasanovic (SPG Reichenau / Union), Mario Krimbacher (TSV St. Johann), Amir Lelic (TSV St. Johann)
• 13 goals: Alexander Kögl (Kufstein)
• 12 goals: Bojan Stojadinovic (SPG Axams / Götzens)
• 11 goals: Josip Čorić (SV Seekirchen), Samir Garci (Feldkirch), Christian Schöpf (FC Dornbirn)
• 10 goals: Roland Kirchler (Wattens), Tobias Klein (USK Anif), Martin Krismer (Hall), Marco Mietschnig (Kufstein), Semih Yasar (Hard)

Newcomers from the national leagues

• 1. Salzburg State League : TSV Neumarkt am Wallersee
• Tyrol: FC Wacker Innsbruck amateurs
• Vorarlberg: SCR Altach amateurs

Web links

• bundesliga.at
• laola1.at

Individual evidence

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