1994–95 Austrian Football Bundesliga Explained

Competition:Austrian Bundesliga
Season:1994–95
Winners:SV Austria Salzburg
League Topscorer:Souleyman Sané (20)
Prevseason:1993–94
Nextseason:1995–96

The Austrian Football Bundesliga of 1994–95 was organised by the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB). The Austrian First League served as a stepping stone for promotion to the 1. Bundesliga. The Regional Leagues acted as a third step on the footballing ladder, East (Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland), Central (Mitte) (Carinthia, Upper Austria, and Styria) and West (Salzburg, Tirol, and Vorarlberg).

Bundesliga

The Bundesliga was contest by 10 teams, who played against each other four times. SV Austria Salzburg won the Austrian Football Bundesliga for the second time. As champions they were able to take part in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League the following season, but they were knocked out in the qualifying rounds. Rapid Vienna were able to take part in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup due to their cup victory, where they played in the final in Brussels. Sturm Graz as well as Austria Vienna represented Austrian football in UEFA Cup 1996, where Austria Vienna made Round 1. FC Tirol Innsbruck, Linz ASK and SK Vorwärts Steyr all took part in the UEFA Intertoto Cup of 1995, where Tirol made the final. VfB Mödling were relegated for finishing bottom. A play-off for the final relegation place occurred between FC Linz and SV Ried, which saw SV Ried win 3–0 over two legs, thereby relegating FC Linz to the Austrian First League and promoting Ried into the Bundesliga.

Teams and location

Teams of 1994–95 Austrian Football Bundesliga

League standings

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.

Second half of season

Top goalscorers

RankScorerClubGoals
1 Souleyman SanéTirol Innsbruck20
2 Mons Ivar MjeldeAustria Wien17
3 Mario HaasSturm Graz13
Thomas JaneschitzTirol Innsbruck
Marcus PürkRapid Wien
6 Christian StumpfFC Linz12
7 Heimo PfeifenbergerAustria Salzburg11
Herfried SabitzerLinzer ASK
Christoph WesterthalerVorwärts Steyr

Austria Salzburg's Team

Otto Konrad, Herbert IlsankerChristian Fürstaller, Leo Lainer, Peter Artner, Wolfgang FeiersingerThomas Winklhofer, Hermann Stadler, Franz Aigner, Adi Hütter, Tomislav Kocijan, Mladen Mladenović, Arnold Freisegger, Martin HidenHeimo Pfeifenberger, Martin Amerhauser, Nikola Jurčević, Eduard Glieder, Ralph Hasenhüttl, Klaus Dietrich, Dean Računica, Helmut Rottensteiner, Gerhard Struber – Manager: Otto Barić

Relegation play-offs

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First League

Top goalscorers

RankScorerClubGoals
1 Marcel OerlemansFirst Vienna20
2 Matthias BleyerSV Braunau16
3 Herbert WiegerGrazer AK15
Markus WeissenbergerSV Spittal
5 Peter PospisilFirst Vienna14
Manfred WachterFirst Vienna
7 Eduard GliederGrazer AK13
Joachim MoitziAustria Lustenau
Zoran ToskićFC Kufstein

Regional Leagues

Literature

References

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