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.

Austrian Bundesliga
Season2014–15
ChampionsRed Bull Salzburg
RelegatedWiener Neustadt
Champions LeagueRed Bull Salzburg
Rapid Wien
Europa LeagueSCR Altach
Sturm Graz
Wolfsberger AC
Matches played180
Goals scored527 (2.93 per match)
Top goalscorerJonathan Soriano (31)
Biggest home winSalzburg 8–0 Grödig (10 Aug 2014)
Biggest away winWiener Neustadt 0–5 Salzburg (26 Jul 2014)
Highest scoringWiener Neustadt 5–4 Admira (23 Aug 2014)
Longest winning runSalzburg
Wolfsberger AC (6)
Longest unbeaten runRheindorf Altach (9)
Longest winless runAdmira (10)
Longest losing runGrödig
Wiener Neustadt (4)
Location of teams in the 2014–15 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Division

The Bundesliga is the highest division in Austrian football which took place in the 2014–15 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
TeamChairmanManagerManufacturerSponsors
Admira Wacker Hubertus Thonhauser Walter KnallerNikeFlyeralarm
SCR Altach Johannes Engl Damir CanadiJakoCashpoint
Austria Wien Wolfgang Katzian Andreas OgrisNikeVerbund
SV Grödig Hannes Codalonga Michael BaurNikeScholz
Rapid Wien Michael Krammer Zoran BarisicadidasWien Energie
SV Ried Johann Willminger Oliver GlasnerhummelJosko
RB Salzburg Rudolf Theierl Adolf HütterNikeRed Bull
Sturm Graz Christian Jauk Franco FodaLottoPuntigamer
SC Wiener Neustadt Manfred Rottensteiner Helgi KolviðssonPumaERGE Beranek
Wolfsberger AC Dietmar Riegler Dietmar KühbauerJakoRZ 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 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 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 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 ALT GRÖ RWI RBS RIE STU WN WOL
Admira Wacker Mödling 2–1 0–2 0–0 1–1 0–3 0–0 0–2 1–1 1–4
Austria Wien 4–0 0–0 1–1 2–2 2–4 3–1 0–3 2–0 0–2
Rheindorf Altach 0–2 1–1 3–1 2–0 4–1 2–2 2–1 2–0 1–2
Grödig 5–0 0–0 3–3 3–1 2–2 0–1 2–1 3–0 0–2
Rapid Wien 0–0 2–3 0–1 2–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 3–0 3–0
Red Bull Salzburg 2–0 2–3 5–0 8–0 6–1 4–2 2–3 4–1 2–2
Ried 1–1 1–1 2–1 2–2 1–2 0–2 0–1 3–1 1–0
Sturm Graz 0–2 1–1 2–2 1–0 1–3 1–2 3–1 4–2 1–2
Wiener Neustadt 5–4 2–2 2–0 2–4 1–5 0–5 0–1 0–0 2–0
Wolfsberger AC 2–1 4–0 0–0 1–2 1–1 1–0 4–1 0–2 0–1
Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season
Home \ Away ADM AWI ALT GRÖ RWI RBS RIE STU WN WOL
Admira Wacker Mödling 1–1 2–2 2–3 1–1 1–4 1–0 1–2 0–0 2–1
Austria Wien 0–1 5–2 1–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–1 1–1
Rheindorf Altach 2–0 2–0 2–0 1–3 2–2 2–1 2–0 3–1 1–0
Grödig 0–1 1–1 0–1 0–2 0–3 3–2 0–2 1–3 2–0
Rapid Wien 1–1 4–1 1–0 4–0 3–3 3–0 1–0 0–0 4–1
Red Bull Salzburg 4–0 3–1 0–1 3–1 1–2 2–1 2–1 6–0 3–0
Ried 2–2 0–2 4–1 2–1 0–1 2–2 1–2 6–0 4–0
Sturm Graz 3–1 2–1 5–0 2–1 2–2 0–0 0–0 3–3 2–0
Wiener Neustadt 0–0 1–0 0–1 2–4 0–1 0–2 0–1 4–4 2–0
Wolfsberger AC 2–0 1–0 2–0 2–1 0–5 3–2 1–2 1–0 2–0
Updated to match(es) played on 31 May 2015. Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

References
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