2008–09 Austrian Football Bundesliga
Season | 2008–09 |
---|---|
Dates | 8 July 2008 – 31 May 2009 |
Champions | Red Bull Salzburg 5th Austrian title |
Relegated | SCR Altach |
Champions League | Red Bull Salzburg |
Europa League | Rapid Vienna Sturm Graz Austria Vienna (via domestic cup) |
Matches played | 180 |
Goals scored | 588 (3.27 per match) |
Top goalscorer | ![]() |
Biggest home win | Rapid 8–1 Altach |
Biggest away win | Altach 2–7 Rapid |
Highest scoring | Mattersburg 5–6 Sturm |
← 2007–08 2009–10 → |
The Austrian Football Bundesliga 2008–09 was the 97th season of top-tier football in Austria. The competition is officially called tipp3-Bundesliga powered by T-Mobile, named after the Austrian betting company tipp3 and the Austrian branch of German mobile phone company T-Mobile. The season started on 8 July 2008 with Sturm Graz beating defending champions Rapid Vienna by 3–1. The 36th and last round of matches took place on 31 May 2009.
Team changes from last season
[edit]Fußballclub Wacker Innsbruck were relegated after finishing the 2007–08 season in 10th and last place. They were replaced by First League champions Kapfenberger SV.
Overview
[edit]Stadia and locations
[edit]Team | City/Area | Venue | Capacity |
---|---|---|---|
SCR Altach | Altach | Stadion Schnabelholz | 8,500 |
Austria Kärnten | Klagenfurt | Hypo-Arena | 32,000 |
Austria Vienna | Vienna | Franz Horr Stadium | 13,000 |
Kapfenberger SV | Kapfenberg | Franz Fekete Stadium | 12,000 |
LASK | Linz | Linzer Stadion | 14,100 |
SV Mattersburg | Mattersburg | Pappelstadion | 15,700 |
Rapid Vienna | Vienna | Gerhard Hanappi Stadium | 18,442 |
Red Bull Salzburg | Salzburg | Red Bull Arena | 31,895 / 30,188 |
SV Ried | Ried im Innkreis | Fill Metallbau Stadion | 7,700 |
Sturm Graz | Graz | UPC-Arena | 15,312 |
Personnel
[edit]Managerial changes
[edit]Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SCR Altach | ![]() | Sacked | 30 August 2008[1] | ![]() | 4 September 2008[2] |
LASK Linz | ![]() | Sacked | 27 October 2008[3] | ![]() | 27 October 2008[3] |
SCR Altach | ![]() | Sacked | 12 January 2009[4] | ![]() | 12 January 2009[5] |
LASK Linz | ![]() | Resigned | 21 March 2009[6] | ![]() | 24 March 2009[7] |
League table
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Red Bull Salzburg (C) | 36 | 23 | 5 | 8 | 86 | 50 | +36 | 74 | Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round |
2 | Rapid Wien | 36 | 21 | 7 | 8 | 89 | 43 | +46 | 70 | Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round |
3 | Austria Wien | 36 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 59 | 46 | +13 | 62 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round[a] |
4 | Sturm Graz | 36 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 68 | 45 | +23 | 60 | Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round |
5 | Ried | 36 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 58 | 38 | +20 | 60 | |
6 | Austria Kärnten | 36 | 11 | 8 | 17 | 47 | 57 | −10 | 41 | |
7 | LASK Linz | 36 | 11 | 4 | 21 | 35 | 67 | −32 | 37 | |
8 | Kapfenberger SV | 36 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 48 | 81 | −33 | 36 | |
9 | Mattersburg | 36 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 42 | 71 | −29 | 33 | |
10 | Rheindorf Altach (R) | 36 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 56 | 90 | −34 | 30 | Relegation to Austrian First Football League |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- ^ Austria Vienna won the 2008–09 Austrian Cup and therefore qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
Results
[edit]Teams played each other four times in the league. In the first half of the season each team played every other team twice (home and away), and then did the same in the second half of the season.
Top goalscorers
[edit]Source: bundesliga.at (in German)
Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | Red Bull Salzburg | 39 |
2 | ![]() | Rapid Vienna | 27 |
3 | ![]() | Rapid Vienna | 23 |
4 | ![]() | Sturm Graz | 15 |
5 | ![]() | Austria Vienna | 14 |
![]() | SV Ried | ||
![]() | Austria Vienna | ||
![]() | SV Ried | ||
9 | ![]() | Rapid Vienna | 12 |
![]() | SV Mattersburg | ||
![]() | Red Bull Salzburg |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Trennung von Heinz Fuchsbichler" (in German). SCR Altach official website. 30 August 2008. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ^ "Trainer" (in German). SCR Altach official website. 4 September 2008. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ^ a b "Trainerwechsel beim LASK" (in German). LASK Linz official website. 27 October 2008. Archived from the original on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ^ "Trainerwechsel" (in German). SCR Altach official website. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ^ "Georg Zellhofer neuer Trainer" (in German). SCR Altach official website. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ^ "Teamchef Lindenberger nicht mehr Trainer" (in German). LASK Linz official website. 21 March 2009. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
- ^ "Hans Krankl neuer LASK-Trainer" (in German). LASK Linz official website. 23 March 2009. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in German)
- oefb.at Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- soccerway.com