2008–09 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Austrian Football Bundesliga
Season	2008–09
Champions	Red Bull Salzburg 5th Austrian title
Relegated	SCR Altach
UEFA Champions League	Red Bull Salzburg
UEFA Europa League	Rapid Vienna Sturm Graz Austria Vienna (via domestic cup)
Goals scored	588
Average goals/game	3.27
Top goalscorer	Marc Janko (39)
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

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

Stadia and locations

Location of teams in the Austrian Football Bundesliga 2008–09

Team	City/Area	Venue	Capacity
Altach !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
Mattersburg !SV Mattersburg	Mattersburg	Pappelstadion	15,700
Rapid Vienna	Vienna	Gerhard Hanappi Stadium	18,442
Red Bull Salzburg	Salzburg	Red Bull Arena	31,895
Ried !SV Ried	Ried im Innkreis	Fill Metallbau Stadion	7,700
Sturm Graz	Graz	UPC-Arena	15,312

Personnel

Team	Manager	Team captain
Altach !SCR Altach	Georg Zellhofer	Kai Schoppitsch
Austria Kärnten	Frank Schinkels	Manuel Weber
Austria Vienna	Karl Daxbacher	Jocelyn Blanchard
Kapfenberger SV	Werner Gregoritsch	Dominique Taboga
LASK	Hans Krankl	Ivica Vastić
Mattersburg !SV Mattersburg	Franz Lederer	Carsten Jancker
Rapid Vienna	Peter Pacult	Steffen Hofmann
Red Bull Salzburg	Co Adriaanse	Alexander Zickler
Ried !SV Ried	Paul Gludovatz	Herwig Drechsel
Sturm Graz	Franco Foda	Mario Haas

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
SCR Altach	Heinz Fuchsbichler	Sacked	30 August 2008^[1]	Urs Schönenberger	4 September 2008^[2]
LASK Linz	Andrej Panadić	Sacked	27 October 2008^[3]	Klaus Lindenberger	27 October 2008^[3]
SCR Altach	Urs Schönenberger	Sacked	12 January 2009^[4]	Georg Zellhofer	12 January 2009^[5]
LASK Linz	Klaus Lindenberger	Resigned	21 March 2009^[6]	Hans Krankl	24 March 2009^[7]

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Bull Salzburg !Red Bull Salzburg (C)	36	23	5	8	86	50	+36	74	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Rapid Wien !Rapid Wien	36	21	7	8	89	43	+46	70	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
3	Austria Wien !Austria Wien	36	17	11	8	59	46	+13	62	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round ¹
4	Sturm Graz !Sturm Graz	36	17	9	10	68	45	+23	60	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
5	Ried !Ried	36	17	9	10	58	38	+20	60
6	Austria Kärnten !Austria Kärnten	36	11	8	17	47	57	−10	41
7	LASK Linz !LASK Linz	36	11	4	21	35	67	−32	37
8	Kapfenberger SV !Kapfenberger SV	36	10	6	20	48	81	−33	36
9	Mattersburg !Mattersburg	36	8	9	19	42	71	−29	33
10	Rheindorf Altach !Rheindorf Altach (R)	36	8	6	22	56	90	−34	30	Relegation to Austrian First League

Source: bundesliga.at (German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Austria Vienna won the Austrian Cup 2008–09 and therefore qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

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.

First half of season

Home ╲ Away	Austria Kärnten !AKÄ	Rheindorf Altach !ALT	Austria Wien !AWI	Kapfenberger SV !KAP	LASK Linz !LIN	Mattersburg !MAT	Rapid Wien !RWI	Ried !RIE	Red Bull Salzburg !RBS	Sturm Graz !STU
Austria Kärnten !Austria Kärnten		2–1	0–1	6–0	1–0	2–0	3–3	1–1	1–0	0–2
Rheindorf Altach !Rheindorf Altach	0–3		0–1	3–0	1–3	2–2	2–7	0–1	3–4	1–0
Austria Wien !Austria Wien	1–1	2–1		0–0	5–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	3–2	1–3
Kapfenberger SV !Kapfenberger SV	0–2	3–2	2–2		0–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	1–3
LASK Linz !LASK Linz	3–2	1–3	0–1	2–0		2–1	2–5	2–1	0–2	0–3
Mattersburg !Mattersburg	0–0	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–4		0–1	2–1	1–2	5–6
Rapid Wien !Rapid Wien	1–0	5–1	3–0	3–1	5–0	1–0		1–1	2–2	2–1
Ried !Ried	0–0	3–0	3–1	2–1	3–0	0–0	1–0		2–2	4–1
Red Bull Salzburg !Red Bull Salzburg	4–1	3–0	5–1	7–3	1–0	6–0	1–0	2–1		3–1
Sturm Graz !Sturm Graz	3–0	6–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	3–0	2–2

Source: bundesliga.at (German)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home ╲ Away	Austria Kärnten !AKÄ	Rheindorf Altach !ALT	Austria Wien !AWI	Kapfenberger SV !KAP	LASK Linz !LIN	Mattersburg !MAT	Rapid Wien !RWI	Ried !RIE	Red Bull Salzburg !RBS	Sturm Graz !STU
Austria Kärnten !Austria Kärnten		0–3	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	1–3	1–2	2–0	4–2
Rheindorf Altach !Rheindorf Altach	2–5		2–1	5–1	1–1	4–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1
Austria Wien !Austria Wien	4–1	4–1		2–1	4–0	0–0	2–2	3–1	1–1	2–0
Kapfenberger SV !Kapfenberger SV	2–1	1–1	1–2		4–1	3–1	0–4	2–1	0–2	3–3
LASK Linz !LASK Linz	0–2	2–0	4–0	2–2		0–0	0–2	0–3	0–3	1–0
Mattersburg !Mattersburg	3–2	5–4	0–2	3–1	3–1		0–3	2–2	2–4	0–0
Rapid Wien !Rapid Wien	4–2	8–1	3–2	6–0	1–1	2–3		1–0	4–2	0–1
Ried !Ried	2–0	3–2	0–0	3–0	1–0	4–0	3–0		3–0	3–2
Red Bull Salzburg !Red Bull Salzburg	6–0	1–4	4–1	2–5	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–0		2–1
Sturm Graz !Sturm Graz	0–0	3–1	2–2	1–3	2–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–0

Source: bundesliga.at (German)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Source: bundesliga.at (German)

39 goals

Marc Janko (RB Salzburg)

27 goals

Erwin Hoffer (Rapid Vienna)

23 goals

Stefan Maierhofer (Rapid Vienna)

15 goals

Mario Haas (Sturm Graz)

14 goals

12 goals

External links

References

↑ "Trennung von Heinz Fuchsbichler" (in German). SCR Altach official website. 30 August 2008. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
↑ "Trainer" (in German). SCR Altach official website. 4 September 2008. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
1 2 "Trainerwechsel beim LASK" (in German). LASK Linz official website. 27 October 2008. 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. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
↑ "Hans Krankl neuer LASK-Trainer" (in German). LASK Linz official website. 23 March 2009. Retrieved 25 March 2009.

Top division football seasons in Austria

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Football in Austria

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