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2008–09 Austrian Football Bundesliga

97th season of top-tier football league in Austria

Field	Value
competition	Austrian Football Bundesliga
season	2008–09
dates	8 July 2008 – 31 May 2009
winners	Red Bull Salzburg
5th Austrian title
relegated	SCR Altach
continentalcup1	[Champions League](2009-10-uefa-champions-league)
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Red Bull Salzburg
continentalcup2	[Europa League](2009-10-uefa-europa-league)
continentalcup2 qualifiers	Rapid Vienna
Sturm Graz
Austria Vienna (via [domestic cup](2008-09-austrian-cup))
league topscorer	Austria Marc Janko (39)
biggest home win	Rapid 8–1 Altach
biggest away win	Altach 2–7 Rapid
highest scoring	Mattersburg 5–6 Sturm
matches	180
total goals	588
prevseason	[2007–08](2007-08-austrian-football-bundesliga)
nextseason	[2009–10](2009-10-austrian-football-bundesliga)

5th Austrian title Sturm Graz Austria Vienna (via domestic cup)

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

Team	City/Area	Venue	Capacity
	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	Pappelstadion	15,700
Rapid Vienna	Vienna	Gerhard Hanappi Stadium	18,442
Red Bull Salzburg	Salzburg	Red Bull Arena	31,895 / 30,188
	Ried im Innkreis	Fill Metallbau Stadion	7,700
Sturm Graz	Graz	UPC-Arena	15,312

Personnel

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

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
SCR Altach	Austria Heinz Fuchsbichler	Sacked	30 August 2008	Switzerland Urs Schönenberger	4 September 2008
LASK Linz	Croatia Andrej Panadić	Sacked	url=http://lask.at/content/lask/aktuell/news_archiv/2008/oktober/trainerwechsel_beim_lask/index_ger.html	title=Trainerwechsel beim LASK	date=27 October 2008	publisher=LASK Linz official website	language=de	access-date=19 March 2009	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215092255/http://lask.at/content/lask/aktuell/news_archiv/2008/oktober/trainerwechsel_beim_lask/index_ger.html	archive-date=15 December 2010	url-status=dead}}	Austria Klaus Lindenberger	27 October 2008
SCR Altach	Switzerland Urs Schönenberger	Sacked	12 January 2009	Austria Georg Zellhofer	12 January 2009
LASK Linz	Austria Klaus Lindenberger	Resigned	21 March 2009	Austria Hans Krankl	24 March 2009

League table

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

Second half of season

Top goalscorers

*Source: bundesliga.at *

Rank	Scorer	Club
AUT Marc Janko	Red Bull Salzburg	39
AUT Erwin Hoffer	Rapid Vienna	27
AUT Stefan Maierhofer	Rapid Vienna	23
AUT Mario Haas	Sturm Graz	15
SLO Milenko Ačimovič	Austria Vienna	14
ESP Nacho	SV Ried
AUT Rubin Okotie	Austria Vienna
ALB Hamdi Salihi	SV Ried
GER Steffen Hofmann	Rapid Vienna	12
MKD Ilčo Naumoski	SV Mattersburg
ANT Robin Nelisse	Red Bull Salzburg

Attendances

Source:

No.	Club	Average attendance
1	Rapid Wien	15,777
2	RB Salzburg	14,099
3	Sturm Graz	12,830
4	Austria Kärnten	9,879
5	LASK	9,006
6	Austria Wien	7,672
7	SV Mattersburg	6,274
8	Rheindorf Altach	5,799
9	SV Ried	5,134
10	Kapfenberger SV	3,662

References

(30 August 2008). "Trennung von Heinz Fuchsbichler". SCR Altach official website.
(4 September 2008). "Trainer". SCR Altach official website.
(27 October 2008). "Trainerwechsel beim LASK". LASK Linz official website.
(12 January 2009). "Trainerwechsel". SCR Altach official website.
(12 January 2009). "Georg Zellhofer neuer Trainer". SCR Altach official website.
(21 March 2009). "Teamchef Lindenberger nicht mehr Trainer". LASK Linz official website.
(23 March 2009). "Hans Krankl neuer LASK-Trainer". LASK Linz official website.
https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/aut/aveaut09.htm

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