The 2017–18 Austrian Football First League (German: Erste Liga, also known as Sky Go Erste Liga due to sponsorship) was the 44th season of the Austrian second-level football league and the last one as the First League. It began on 21 July 2017 and ended on 25 May 2018. The fixtures were announced on 21 June 2017.
Teams Ten teams participated in the 2017–18 season. TSV Hartberg was promoted after winning the 2016–17 Regionalliga Mitte without having to compete in promotion play-offs as no team from the Regionalliga West or Ost applied for promotion. They replaced SV Horn who finished last in the 2016–17 First League. SV Ried were relegated from the 2016–17 Bundesliga, replacing 2016–17 First League champions LASK Linz.
Club NameCityStadiumCapacityAustria Lustenau Lustenau Reichshofstadion 8,800FC Blau-Weiß Linz Linz Donauparkstadion 2,000Floridsdorfer AC Vienna FAC-Platz 3,000TSV Hartberg Hartberg Profertil Arena Hartberg 4,500Kapfenberger SV Kapfenberg Franz-Fekete-Stadion 12,000Liefering Salzburg Untersberg-Arena 4,128SV Ried Ried im Innkreis Keine Sorgen Arena 7,680Wacker Innsbruck Innsbruck Tivoli-Neu 30,000Wiener Neustadt Wiener Neustadt Stadion Wiener Neustadt 10,000WSG Wattens Wattens Alpenstadion 5,500
Personnel and kits Club Manager Captain Kit Manufacturer SponsorsAustria Lustenau Andreas Lipa Christoph Kobleder UhlsportMohren Daniel Ernemann Martin Grasegger Gernot Plassnegger & Michael Kopf Marco Krainz Ronivaldo Sandro Djurić FC Blau-Weiß Linz Günther Gorenzel Florian Maier UhlsportLinz AG David Wimleitner Lukas Gabriel Thomas Sageder Thomas Hinum Daniel Kerschbaumer Floridsdorfer Thomas Eidler Martin Fraisl PumaWiener Städtische & Wien Energie Martin Handl Mario Kröpfl Robert Völkl Marco Sahanek TSV Hartberg Christian Ilzer Siegfried Rasswalder JakoProlacta, Admiral, Egger Glass & Profertil Manfred Gollner Roko Mišlov Kapfenberger Robert Pflug David Sencar ErimaMurauer Bier Stefan Rapp Paul Gartler Karl-Heinz Kubesch Tobias Kainz Liefering Janusz Góra & Gerhard Struber Luca Meisl NikeRed Bull Emir Karic Carlos Miguel Coronel Mahamadou Dembélé SV Ried Lassaad Chabbi Thomas GebauerHummelJosko Franz Schiemer Thomas Weissenböck Wacker Innsbruck Karl Daxbacher Christoph Freitag MacronTiroler Wasserkraft Florian Jamnig Roman Kerschbaum Harald Pichler WSG Wattens Thomas Silberberger Ferdinand Oswald ErimaPAPSTAR Benjamin Pranter Sandro Neurauter Florian Buchacher Wiener Neustadt Roman Mählich Sargon Duran PumaBaumit Mario Ebenhofer Remo Mally Hamdi Salihi
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
Season statistics
Top goalscorers Up to 25 May 2018.
RankScorerClubGoals1 Seifedin ChabbiSV Ried22 Hamdi SalihiSC Wiener Neustadt3 Zlatko DedićFC Wacker Innsbruck194 Dario TadićTSV Hartberg165 RonivaldoSC Austria Lustenau12 Milan JurdíkWSG Wattens7 Florian JamnigFC Wacker Innsbruck11 Roko MišlovTSV Hartberg9 Thomas FröschlSV Ried10 Dominik SzoboszlaiFC Liefering
Top assists Up to 25 May 2018.
RankPlayerClubAssists1 Dario TadićTSV Hartberg142 Christopher DrazanSC Austria Lustenau113 Daniele GabrieleFC Wacker Innsbruck104 İlkay DurmuşSV Ried95 Mario EbenhoferSC Wiener Neustadt86 Zlatko DedićFC Wacker Innsbruck7 Manfred FischerTSV Hartberg Zakaria SanogoTSV Hartberg9 Thomas MayerSV Ried6 Christoph KröpflTSV Hartberg Julian WießmeierSV Ried Manuel KerheSV Ried
Discipline Up to 25 May 2018.
RankPlayerClubTotal1 Peter HaringSV Ried1500152 Manuel HaasKapfenberger SV1030133 Fabian MiesenböckSC Wiener Neustadt1300134 Florian BuchacherWSG Wattens1200125 Lucas RangelKapfenberger SV920116 Daniel KerschbaumerFC Blau-Weiß Linz910107 Daniel RaischlFloridsdorfer AC1000108 David GugganigWSG Wattens9009 PescaKapfenberger SV9009 Daniel GeisslerKapfenberger SV9009 Christopher CvetkoFC Blau-Weiß Linz9009
See also 2017–18 Austrian Football Bundesliga 2017–18 Austrian Cup
References
External links Austrian Football First League at Bundesliga.at