2014–15 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Austrian Bundesliga
Season 2014–15
Champions Red Bull Salzburg
Relegated Wiener Neustadt
Champions League Red Bull Salzburg
Rapid Wien
Europa League SCR Altach
Sturm Graz
Wolfsberger AC
Matches played 180
Goals scored 527 (2.93 per match)
Top goalscorer Jonathan Soriano (31)
Biggest home win Salzburg 8–0 Grödig (10 Aug 2014)
Biggest away win Wiener Neustadt 0–5 Salzburg (26 Jul 2014)
Highest scoring Wiener Neustadt 5–4 Admira (23 Aug 2014)
Longest winning run Salzburg
Wolfsberger AC (6)
Longest unbeaten run Rheindorf Altach (9)
Longest winless run Admira (10)
Longest losing run Grödig
Wiener Neustadt (4)
Location of teams in the 2014–15 Austrian Football Bundesliga

The 2014–15 Austrian Football Bundesliga was the 103rd season of top-tier football in Austria. FC Red Bull Salzburg won their 9th title, and second in succession.

Division

The Bundesliga is the highest division in Austrian football which took place in the 2014/2015 season for the 41st time and determined the 103rd Austrian soccer champion. The main sponsor for this season, was for the first time, the sports betting company Tipico, that is why the official name changed to Tipico Bundesliga.[1]

Lower Austria, Salzburg and Vienna each had two teams, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Styria and Vorarlberg each with one. Burgenland and Tyrol were not represented with a team in Austria's highest league. In the preseason, FC Wacker Innsbruck went down into the First League, and the SC Rheindorf Altach moved up.

The TV provider Sky Germany AG had the rights to show all Bundesliga games in full-length which were broadcast on the Sky sport Austria pay television channel. The channel broadcast all games as conference calls and individually. In addition, the ORF had the rights to broadcast a game of their choice, which was as a single match labeled the "top match of the round" – which usually took place Sundays, when the midweek rounds were on Wednesdays. This was not possible though in the last two rounds where all games had to be broadcast simultaneously. In addition, the ORF was allowed to show a 45-minute summary of the remaining four games of each round.

Mode

In the 2014/15 season, ten clubs played in 36 rounds against each other, as in previous years. Each team played twice against every other team, once at home and once away.

Due to the good European Cup results of the Austrian teams in the 2013/14 season, the ÖFB improved, placing 14th in the UEFA coefficient at the end of the season. Therefore, in the Bundesliga and Cup 2014/15 seasons teams were playing for two spots for the UEFA Champions League and three spots for the UEFA Europa League. Champion and runner up of the Bundesliga are entitled to participate in the qualifiers for the Champions League and then transfer into the third qualifying round; the third and fourth placed teams played in the qualifying for the Europa League and played in the 3rd or 2nd round. The Cup winner played in the play-offs of the Europa League. If the Cup winner qualified for the Champions League or the Europa League, by finishing in one of the top four positions of the Bundesliga, the international starting position of that season dropped and no longer went to the losers of the Cup finales but to the fifth-placed team of Bundesliga.[2]

The last placed Bundesliga team went down into the second classed First League.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Team

Location

Venue

Capacity

Admira Maria Enzersdorf BSFZ Arena 12,000
Austria Vienna Vienna Franz Horr Stadium 13,100
Grödig Grödig Das Goldberg Stadium 4,638
Rapid Wien Vienna Ernst Happel Stadium 50,000
Red Bull Salzburg Wals-Siezenheim Red Bull Arena 31,000
Rheindorf Altach Altach Cashpoint Arena 8,900
SV Ried Ried im Innkreis Keine Sorgen Arena 7,680
Sturm Graz Graz UPC-Arena 15,400
SC Wiener Neustadt Wiener Neustadt Stadion Wiener Neustadt 10,000
Wolfsberger AC Wolfsberg Lavanttal-Arena 8,000

Personnel and kits

Team Chairman Manager Manufacturer Sponsors
Admira Wacker Austria Hubertus Thonhauser Austria Walter Knaller Nike Flyeralarm
SCR Altach Austria Johannes Engl Austria Damir Canadi Jako Cashpoint
Austria Wien Austria Wolfgang Katzian Austria Andreas Ogris Nike Verbund
SV Grödig Austria Hannes Codalonga Austria Michael Baur Nike Scholz
Rapid Wien Austria Michael Krammer Austria Zoran Barisic adidas Wien Energie
SV Ried Austria Johann Willminger Austria Oliver Glasner hummel Josko
RB Salzburg Austria Rudolf Theierl Austria Adolf Hütter Nike Red Bull
Sturm Graz Austria Christian Jauk Germany Franco Foda Lotto Puntigamer
SC Wiener Neustadt Austria Manfred Rottensteiner Iceland Helgi Kolviðsson Puma ERGE Beranek
Wolfsberger AC Austria Dietmar Riegler Austria Dietmar Kühbauer Jako RZ Pellets

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Red Bull Salzburg (C) 36 22 7 7 99 42 +57 73 Qualification to UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
2 Rapid Wien 36 19 10 7 68 38 +30 67
3 SCR Altach 36 17 8 11 50 49 +1 59 Qualification to UEFA Europa League third qualifying round
4 Sturm Graz 36 16 10 10 57 41 +16 58
5 Wolfsberger AC 36 16 4 16 44 50 6 52 Qualification to UEFA Europa League second qualifying round
6 Ried 36 12 8 16 49 51 2 44
7 Austria Wien 36 10 13 13 45 51 6 43
8 Grödig 36 10 7 19 46 65 19 37
9 Admira Wacker 36 7 13 16 32 61 29 34
10 Wiener Neustadt (R) 36 7 8 21 37 79 42 29 Relegation to Austrian Football First League
Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

Results

First half of season

Home ╲ Away ADM AWI ALTGRÖRWIRBSRIESTUWNWOL
Admira Wacker Mödling 21 02 00 11 03 00 02 11 14
Austria Wien 40 00 11 22 24 31 03 20 02
Rheindorf Altach 02 11 31 20 41 22 21 20 12
Grödig 50 00 33 31 22 01 21 30 02
Rapid Wien 00 23 01 20 12 10 11 30 30
Red Bull Salzburg 20 23 50 80 61 42 23 41 22
Ried 11 11 21 22 12 02 01 31 10
Sturm Graz 02 11 22 10 13 12 31 42 12
Wiener Neustadt 54 22 20 24 15 05 01 00 20
Wolfsberger AC 21 40 00 12 11 10 41 02 01

Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga
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 ADM AWI ALTGRÖRWIRBSRIESTUWNWOL
Admira Wacker Mödling 11 22 23 11 14 10 12 00 21
Austria Wien 01 52 10 21 11 01 00 21 11
Rheindorf Altach 20 20 20 13 22 21 20 31 10
Grödig 01 11 01 02 03 32 02 13 20
Rapid Wien 11 41 10 40 33 30 10 00 41
Red Bull Salzburg 40 31 01 31 12 21 21 60 30
Ried 22 02 41 21 01 22 12 60 40
Sturm Graz 31 21 50 21 22 00 00 33 20
Wiener Neustadt 00 10 01 24 01 02 01 44 20
Wolfsberger AC 20 10 20 21 05 32 12 10 20

Updated to games played on 31 May 2015.
Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

References

  1. ""Bundesliga seriös" - tipico neuer Sponsor" (in German). News. 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
  2. "Cupfinal-Verlierer nicht in EL" (in German). LAOLA1. 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
  3. "Torschützenliste". Weltfussball (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  4. "Assists". Weltfussball (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2015.

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