State Chess League 1978/79

The 1978/79 season was the fourth season of the Austrian State Chess League .

After last year's champions SK Austria Wien withdrew their participation before the start and no team could be nominated for organizational reasons, only nine clubs took part.

The championship was SK Hietzing Wien , which distanced SK VÖEST Linz by two board points. In third place was the newcomer SK Merkur Graz . The second promoted SV Amstetten was able to maintain relegation.

Since the SK municipality Graz withdrew its team from the state league at the end of the season, the last placed SV ATSV Ranshofen was allowed to remain in the league. In order to add ten teams to the field of participants in the 1979/80 season, two teams were again allowed to climb into the state league.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	Board P.	MP
01.	SK Hietzing Vienna	8th				41.5: 22.5
02.	SK VÖEST Linz	8th				39.5: 24.5
03.	SK Merkur Graz (N)	8th				38.0: 26.0
04th	Union Styria Graz	8th				34.5: 29.5
05.	Linz SV	8th				34.5: 29.5
06th	SV Amstetten (N)	8th				29.5: 34.5
07th	ASK Klagenfurt	8th				25.0: 39.0
08th.	SK municipality Graz	8th				23.0: 41.0
09.	SV ATSV Ranshofen	8th				22.5: 41.5

Remarks:

	Austrian champion: SK Hietzing Vienna
	Relegated: SK municipality Graz (voluntary withdrawal)
(N)	Promoted last season

Qualification for the State League 1979/80

The ATUS Judenburg and the first SSK Mozart failed to qualify for the following season. The venue, date and results of the qualifying tournament are also unknown, as are the other participating clubs.

Web links

• Archives State Masters of the Austrian Chess Federation