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
TeamCity/AreaVenueCapacityAltachStadion Schnabelholz8,500Austria KärntenKlagenfurtHypo-Arena32,000Austria ViennaViennaFranz Horr Stadium13,000Kapfenberger SVKapfenbergFranz Fekete Stadium12,000LASKLinzLinzer Stadion14,100MattersburgPappelstadion15,700Rapid ViennaViennaGerhard Hanappi Stadium18,442Red Bull SalzburgSalzburgRed Bull Arena31,895 / 30,188Ried im InnkreisFill Metallbau Stadion7,700Sturm GrazGrazUPC-Arena15,312
Personnel TeamManagerTeam captain Georg Zellhofer Kai SchoppitschAustria Kärnten Frank Schinkels Manuel WeberAustria Vienna Karl Daxbacher Jocelyn BlanchardKapfenberger SV Werner Gregoritsch Dominique TabogaLASK Hans Krankl Ivica Vastić Franz Lederer Carsten JanckerRapid Vienna Peter Pacult Steffen HofmannRed Bull Salzburg Co Adriaanse Alexander Zickler Paul Gludovatz Herwig DrechselSturm 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
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
RankScorerClubGoals1 Marc JankoRed Bull Salzburg392 Erwin HofferRapid Vienna273 Stefan MaierhoferRapid Vienna234 Mario HaasSturm Graz155 Milenko AčimovičAustria Vienna14 NachoSV Ried Rubin OkotieAustria Vienna Hamdi SalihiSV Ried9 Steffen HofmannRapid Vienna12 Ilčo Naumoski SV Mattersburg Robin NelisseRed 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
See also 2008–09 Austrian Football First League 2008–09 Austrian Cup
References
External links Official website oefb.at soccerway.com