2008–09 Austrian Football Bundesliga

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	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

Altach

Sturm Graz

Kapfenberg

Kärnten

LASK

Mattersburg

Ried

Salzburg

Austria
Rapid

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Location of teams in the Austrian Football Bundesliga 2008–09

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

Team	Manager	Team captain
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
SV Mattersburg	Franz Lederer	Carsten Jancker
Rapid Vienna	Peter Pacult	Steffen Hofmann
Red Bull Salzburg	Co Adriaanse	Alexander Zickler
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	Urs Schönenberger	4 September 2008
LASK Linz	Andrej Panadić	Sacked	27 October 2008	Klaus Lindenberger	27 October 2008
SCR Altach	Urs Schönenberger	Sacked	12 January 2009	Georg Zellhofer	12 January 2009
LASK Linz	Klaus Lindenberger	Resigned	21 March 2009	Hans Krankl	24 March 2009

League table

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
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

Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

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

Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

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

Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Source: bundesliga.at (in German)

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Marc Janko	Red Bull Salzburg	39
2	Erwin Hoffer	Rapid Vienna	27
3	Stefan Maierhofer	Rapid Vienna	23
4	Mario Haas	Sturm Graz	15
5	Milenko Ačimovič	Austria Vienna	14
	Nacho	SV Ried
	Rubin Okotie	Austria Vienna
	Hamdi Salihi	SV Ried
9	Steffen Hofmann	Rapid Vienna	12
	Ilčo Naumoski	SV Mattersburg
	Robin Nelisse	Red Bull Salzburg

See also

• 2008–09 Austrian Football First League
• 2008–09 Austrian Cup

External links

• Official website (in German)
• oefb.at Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
• soccerway.com