2nd league (Austria)

This article deals with the Austrian men's 2nd league. For the Austrian 2nd women's league see 2nd women's league .

2nd league
Full name	2nd league
Association	Austrian Football League Association
First edition	August 10, 1974
hierarchy	2nd league
Teams	16
master	SV Ried
Record champions	LASK (4), Wacker Innsbruck (4)
Current season	2019/20
Website	2liga.at
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The 2nd league is the second highest division in Austrian professional football after the Bundesliga . From 2002 to 2018, the league was called - usually with title sponsor - First League . The organizer and sponsoring association is the Austrian Football League Association , the tenth full member of the ÖFB since December 1, 1991 . In the national league, one promoted player for the Bundesliga and three relegated teams for the regional leagues are played every year .

mode

Current mode

From the 2018/19 season , 16 clubs will play in the 2nd division. The championship is divided into an autumn and spring season. This means that every team competes twice against every other team in the course of a season. Thus, a championship year extends to 30 rounds with eight games each.

The champions of the 2nd division are promoted directly to the Bundesliga , in return the bottom of the table in the “qualification group” of the Bundesliga is relegated to the 2nd division. The bottom three of the 2nd league must relegate to the respective regional league, although there are just as many direct promoters from the regional leagues.

Up until the league reform in 2018, a regional league champion rose, while the two remaining regional league champions played in a play-off for the second promotion spot.

Alignment

The Austrian Football League (ÖFBL) is responsible and is the host or organizer for the championships of the two highest divisions, that is the Bundesliga and the 2nd league, in Austria, see also alignment .

Name history

With the reintroduction of a joint national second division in 1974, this took over the name Nationalliga from the first division, which from that point on was called the Bundesliga . However, this name only lasted for one season and the league was eventually renamed 2nd Division . In the course of the abolition of the play-off mode and the introduction of the Bundesliga as the top division in 1993, the name was extended to the 2nd division of the Bundesliga . At that time the league was also known colloquially as the 2nd Bundesliga. The second division was finally reformed in 1998, changing the name to First Division . In 2002, the Austrian electronic chain Red Zac was won as a league sponsor , so that from the 2002/03 season onwards, the division , which had been known as the First Division , was named Red Zac-First League . In spring 2008, the Austrian retail chain ADEG was won as a competition sponsor, and the first league was renamed ADEG Erste Liga with the 2008/09 season . From the 2010/11 season to the 2013/14 season there was no title sponsor and the league was called "Today for Tomorrow" First League . For the 2014/15 season , Sky Austria became the new competition sponsor and the league has been operating as Sky Go Erste Liga ever since . Since the reform of the Bundesliga in the 2018/19 season, the league has been called the 2nd division , with the sponsor name HPYBET 2nd division.

Name changes since the reintroduction:
1974/75 national league 1975/76 2nd division 1993/94 2nd division of the Bundesliga 1998/99 First division 2002/03 Red Zac First League 2008/09 ADEG First League 2010/11 "Today for Tomorrow" First League 2014/15 Sky Go First League 2018/19 HPYBet 2nd division

History of the league logo:

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  First division

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  Logo without name affix

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  Logo from 2008/09 to 2009/10

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  Logo from 2014/15 to 2017/18

history

First forerunners

Historically, the first league is not a new idea, it had already existed as a single-track second class when the Austrian football championship was introduced in 1911 by the ÖFV and was converted into the professional II. League in 1924 . At that time, however, the Austrian football championship was limited to the Vienna area.

season		master
State League B
1950/51		1. Simmeringer SC

With the introduction of a national football championship in the 1949/50 season , at the end of the individual championships in the federal states, a promotion relegation was established between the regional champions from Burgenland, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Styria, preliminary round relegation of the regional champions from Tyrol or Vorarlberg and the Tauern League ( Carinthia and Salzburg) played in two groups of three. The first placed from these groups of three was qualified for the state league A, the second placed for the state league B and the last had to play again in his national league. The champion of the Vienna League was directly eligible for promotion. In the following transition season 1950/51 the League B (also State League B ) was created. This extended geographically to Burgenland , Lower Austria , Upper Austria , Styria , Tyrol and Vienna , clubs from Carinthia , Salzburg and Vorarlberg could not qualify. After the system of a single-track professional league was finally overturned in 1959 in favor of the regional league , discussions were held for a long time about a reintroduction.

Reintroduction as a 15/16 league

season		master
National league
1974/75		Graz AK
2nd division
1975/76		First Vienna FC 1894
1976/77		Viennese sports club
1977/78		SV Austria Salzburg
1978/79		LASK
1979/80		SC Eisenstadt
1980/81		S SW Innsbruck
1981/82		SK Austria Klagenfurt
1982/83		SV St. Veit / Glan
1983/84		SV Spittal / Drau
1984/85		Salzburg AK 1914

Ultimately, the decisive league reform was decided on April 21, 1974 and introduced with the 1974/75 season : The new national league started with 14 clubs, which consisted of seven relegated teams and seven regional league teams. It was only a transition season, with only one relegated team and the three promoted teams from the regional league, an increase to 16 teams was achieved, which now existed as such until 1985 , before the league system was completely reformed again. Eleven relegated teams from the 2nd division, three relegated teams from the regional leagues and five relegated teams from the 1st division created a very new composition for a twelve-league as the 2nd division, which merged with the 1st division into a play-off mode has been.

Time of the play-off leagues

season		master
Middle playoff
1985/86		First Vienna FC 1894
1986/87		VfB Mödling
1987/88		VSE St. Pölten
1988/89		SV Austria Salzburg
1989/90		Donawitzer SV Alpine
1990/91		FC VOEST Linz
1991/92		VfB Mödling
1992/93		Graz AK

The play-off leagues were introduced in 1985 and lasted until the 1992/93 season .

Return to the 16-league

season		master
2nd division of the Bundesliga
1993/94		LASK
1994/95		Graz AK
1995/96		FC Linz
1996/97		SC Austria Lustenau
1997/98		SK Forward Steyr

In 1993, the 2nd Division celebrated its return as the sixteen division, but it was radically downgraded to ten teams under the new name of the First Division in the 1998/99 season . This brought seven relegated teams in the 1997/98 season .

Introduction of the ten league

season		master
First division
1998/99		SC Black and White Bregenz
1999/2000		VfB Admira Wacker Mödling
2000/01		FC Carinthia
2001/02		ASKÖ Pasching
Red Zac First League
2002/03		SV Mattersburg
2003/04		FC Wacker Tirol
2004/05		SV Ried
2005/06		SCR Altach

From 1998 to the 2005/06 season comprised ten clubs and was played according to the same mode as is currently the case.

Relegation games from 1998 to 2004
With the introduction of the First Division as a division of ten, a relegation was also introduced. The champions of the regional leagues and the ninth place in the ten league played for two places in the second highest level. In the 04/05 season , the relegation was abolished in favor of a direct promotion of the regional league champions.

year		First leg	Return leg	Result
1998	SC Untersiebenbrunn - FC Austria / VSV Carinthia	2: 1	0: 2	2: 3
	SV Wörgl - VSE St. Pölten	1-0	0: 1 n.V. , 6: 5 n.E.	1: 1 n.V. , 6: 5 n.e.
1999	TSV Hartberg - WSG Wattens	0: 2	2: 3	2: 5
	SV Spittal / Drau - SC Untersiebenbrunn	1: 1	0-0	1: 1 ( A )
2000	FC Lustenau 07 - SV Mattersburg	1: 1	0: 5	1: 6
	BSV Bad Bleiberg - FC Lower Austria St. Pölten	1
2001	ASK Kottingbrunn - ASKÖ Pasching	0: 1	2: 2	2: 3
	FC Lustenau 07 - First Vienna FC 1894	3-0	3: 3	6: 3
2002	FC Hard - SV Kapfenberg	2-0	1: 5	3: 5
	Wiener Sportklub 2 - FC Lustenau 07	0-0	0: 4	0: 4
2003	FC Wacker Tirol - SV Schwechat	0-0	3: 2	3: 2
	BSV Bad Bleiberg - FC Blau-Weiß Linz	0: 2	4: 2	4: 4 ( A )
2004	FC Lustenau 07 - SCR Altach	2: 3	2: 3	4: 6
	ESV Parndorf - FC Gratkorn	1: 1	0-0	1: 1 ( A )

¹The BSV Bad Bleiberg was declared the winner due to the dissolution of the potential opponent FC Niederösterreich St. Pölten .

²The Wiener Sportklub was due to the bankruptcy of FC Tirol despite the defeat for the 2002/03 season in the second highest league.

Time as a twelve-league

season		master
First division
2006/07		LASK
2007/08		Kapfenberger SV
ADEG First League
2008/09		SC Wiener Neustadt
2009/10		FC Wacker Innsbruck

With the increase in the second stage to twelve clubs, the mode of a round trip round in autumn and a simple first round in spring was played for the first time in the 2006/07 season . This meant that the clubs met for the first time in a championship three times, with the award of home rights in the simple round after the placements of the previous season.

During this time, the three last-placed clubs rose from the first division to the regional leagues , while the champions of the third level moved up to the second division. Only the respective champions of the regional leagues were entitled to promotion to the first league, provided that a license was granted by Senate 5 of the Bundesliga. If a club was refused a license for economic reasons, the top-ranked of the alleged relegated members remained in the higher-ranking league, as the runner-up in a regional league basically had no right of promotion.

While the first league was played with twelve clubs, second teams of the Bundesliga clubs were allowed to participate in that. During this time the Red Bull Juniors and Austria Wien amateurs played in the first division.

The 2009/10 season , however, was the last in which the first division was played with this mode. At the end of this season it was again reduced to ten clubs, whereby the second teams in the Bundesliga had to be relegated to the respective regional league and no second team from the regional league was allowed to be promoted to the first division.

Return to the ten league

season		master
"Today for tomorrow" First division
2010/11		FC Admira Wacker Mödling
2011/12		WAC / St. Andrä
2012/13		SV Grödig
2013/14		SCR Altach
Sky Go First League
2014/15		SV Mattersburg
2015/16		SKN St. Pölten
2016/17		LASK
2017/18		FC Wacker Innsbruck

With the renewed reduction to a division of ten, the relegation mode was adjusted again. The tenth of the first division had to relegate to the respective regional league. The penultimate played in a relegation against relegation. Here, the club from the first division and a regional league champion as well as the remaining two champions of the regional leagues played against each other in a return match. The two winners of the relegation played in the first division in the following season and the two losers each in one of the regional leagues. If the champion of a regional league was not eligible to play in the first division, the top-ranked club in this regional league took its place in the relegation. So who played ESV Parndorf in the 2009/10 season in place of FC Waidhofen / Ybbs in the relegation.

According to the decision of the ÖFB, the relegation for the penultimate of the first division was abolished in the 2014/15 season and the current mode with two permanent relegators was introduced. Since then, a regional league champion has been promoted to the first division and only the two remaining regional league champions play in a play-off for the second promotion spot.

Relegation games from 2010 to 2014
With the abolition of the twelve league, relegation was reintroduced. The mode from 1998 to 2004 was used.

year		First leg	Return leg	Result
2010	ESV Parndorf - WAC / St. Andrä	1-0	1: 4	2: 4
	SV Grödig , First Vienna FC 1894	3
2011	First Vienna FC - ESV Parndorf	3-0	2: 1	5: 1
	FC Blau-Weiß Linz - WSG Wattens	0: 1	1: 0 a.d. , 4: 3 a.d.	1: 1 a.d. , 4: 3 a.d.
2012	Graz AK - TSV Hartberg	0-0	0: 3 4	0: 3
	WSG Wattens - SV Horn	1: 5	0: 4	1: 9
2013	FC Liefering - LASK	2-0	3-0	5-0
	ESV Parndorf - FC Blau-Weiß Linz	2: 1	1-0	3: 1
2014	LASK - ESV Parndorf	1-0	1: 1	2: 1
	SV Austria Salzburg - FAC Team for Vienna	2: 2	0: 3	2: 5

³Due to the bankruptcy of SK Austria Kärnten there was no second relegation game. Both SV Grödig (champion of the Regionalliga West ) and Vienna (ninth-placed team in the First League ) were therefore eligible to play in the First League for the 10/11 season .

^4th At the score of 3: 0 canceled due to a storm by GAK supporters.

Relegation games until 2018
In the 2014/15 season , relegation for the penultimate of the first division was abolished. Since then, a regional league champion has been promoted to the first division and only the two remaining regional league champions play in relegation.
A special situation arose at the end of the 2015/16 season : the relegated from the Bundesliga , SV Grödig , did not participate in the second performance class, SV Austria Salzburg and SK Austria Klagenfurt received no license, so everyone three champions of the regional leagues ( WSG Wattens , Blau-Weiß Linz and SV Horn ) rose without relegation.

year		First leg	Return leg	Result
2015	SC-ESV Parndorf 1919 5 - SK Austria Klagenfurt	2: 1	1: 2 a.d. , 1: 4	3: 5
2016	no relegation games
2017	no relegation games
2018	SC Wiener Neustadt - SKN St. Pölten	0: 2	1: 1	1: 3

⁵ Since the SC Ritzing as champions of the Regionalliga Ost in 2015 did not receive a license for the first division, the SC-ESV Parndorf played second place in the relegation for promotion.

Return to the 16-league as the 2nd division

season		master
HPYBET 2nd division
2018/19		WSG Wattens
2019/20

In the 2018/19 season, following the reform of the Bundesliga, the second highest division will be played in a second division with 16 teams.

societies

The following clubs are playing in the league for the 2019/20 season (sorted by their debut season).

FC Liefering BW Linz Kapfenberger SV FC Dornbirn Floridsdorfer AC SV Lafnitz Austria Lustenau Forward Steyr Juniors Upper Austria SV Horn Wacker Innsbruck Amstetten Young Violets Austria Klagenfurt SV Ried GAK

Clubs of the 2nd division 2018/19

society	Seat	Participation since
SC Austria Lustenau	Lustenau	2000/01
Kapfenberger SV	Kapfenberg	2012/13
FC Liefering	Salzburg	2013/14
Floridsdorfer AC	Vienna	2014/15
FC Blau-Weiß Linz	Linz	2016/17
SV Ried	reed	2017/18
SKU Amstetten	Amstetten	2018/19
SV Horn	horn	2018/19
FC Juniors Upper Austria	Pasching	2018/19
SK Austria Klagenfurt	Klagenfurt	2018/19
SV Lafnitz	Lafnitz	2018/19
SK Forward Steyr	Steyr	2018/19
Young Violets Austria Vienna	Vienna	2018/19
Graz AK	Graz	2019/20
FC Dornbirn 1913	Dornbirn	2019/20
FC Wacker Innsbruck	innsbruck	2019/20

Venues

The venues are arranged according to capacity.

society	Stadion	City / place	opening	capacity
FC Liefering	Red Bull Arena	Wals-Siezenheim	2003	30,188
	The Goldberg Stadium	Grödig	1989	4.036
SK Austria Klagenfurt	Wörthersee Stadium	Klagenfurt am Wörthersee	2007	30,000
FC Blau-Weiß Linz	Linz stadium	Linz	1952	21.005
Young Violets Austria Vienna	Generali Arena	Vienna	1925	17,500
Graz AK	Mercury Arena	Graz	1997	16,364
FC Wacker Innsbruck	Tivoli	innsbruck	2000	16.008
FC Dornbirn 1913	Birkenwiese Stadium	Dornbirn	1935	12,000
Kapfenberger SV	Franz Fekete Stadium	Kapfenberg	1950	9,640
SK Forward Steyr	Forward stadium	Steyr	1986	9,000
SC Austria Lustenau	Planet Pure Stadium	Lustenau	1953	8,800
SV Ried	Don't worry arena	reed	2003	7,334
FC Juniors Upper Austria	Waldstadion (TGW Arena)	Pasching	1990	6.009
SV Horn	Waldviertel Volksbank Arena	horn	1958	3,500
SV Lafnitz	Lafnitz soccer arena	Lafnitz		3,000
SKU Amstetten	Ertl Glas Stadium	Amstetten		3,000
Floridsdorfer AC	FAC place	Vienna	1933	3,000

See also

• Eternal table of the 2nd division

Web links

• 2liga.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The details of the league reform: this is how the game will be played from 2018/19 bundesliga.at, on December 2, 2016, accessed on June 4, 2018
2. ↑ Bundesliga specifies direct promoters from regional leagues. Der Standard , May 13, 2014, accessed July 16, 2014 . 
3. ↑ bundesliga.at: Sky Go Erste Liga: Sky is the official competition sponsor of the second highest division ( Memento from July 11, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), July 10, 2014
4. ↑ The hub of Austrian football - the new 2nd league from 2018/19 ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bundesliga.at, February 20, 2018, accessed February 20, 2018 
5. ↑ HPYBET new competition sponsor of the 2nd league laola1.at, on February 2019, accessed on February 27, 2019
6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Waidhofen / Ybbs Ostliga-Meister - Parndorf in relegation.
7. ↑ ÖFB Bureau decided leagues format. ÖFB , March 27, 2013, accessed on July 16, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Bundesliga.at - Regulations 2nd league from 2018/19. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 8, 2017 ; accessed on November 8, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Data from bundesliga.at (as of July 31, 2019). This is the official number of visitors who are allowed to play a Bundesliga game per stadium. At some stadiums there are more seats, which are currently not released.