2009–10 Austrian Football Bundesliga Explained

Competition:Austrian Bundesliga
Season:2009–10
Dates:17 July 2009 – 13 May 2010
Winners:RB Salzburg
Relegated:Austria Kärnten
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:RB Salzburg
Continentalcup2:Europa League
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Austria Wien
Rapid Wien
Sturm Graz
League Topscorer:Steffen Hofmann (20)
Biggest Home Win:RB Salzburg 7–1 A. Kärnten
Biggest Away Win:Mattersburg 1–6 RB Salzburg
Highest Scoring:Kapfenberger SV 7-2 LASK
LASK 4–5 A. Vienna
Matches:180
Total Goals:528
Prevseason:2008–09
Nextseason:2010–11

The 2009–10 Austrian Football Bundesliga was the 98th 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 began on the weekend of 18 July 2009 and ended on 13 May 2010. RB Salzburg claimed the championship on the last matchday, their second consecutive title.

Team changes from last season

SC Rheindorf Altach were relegated after finishing the 2008–09 season in 10th and last place. They were replaced by First League champions SC Wiener Neustadt.

Overview

Stadia and locations

TeamCity/AreaVenueCapacity
Austria KärntenKlagenfurtHypo Group Arena32,000
Austria ViennaViennaFranz Horr Stadium13,000
Kapfenberger SVKapfenbergFranz-Fekete-Stadion12,000
LASKLinzLinzer Stadion14,100
MattersburgPappelstadion15,700
Rapid ViennaViennaGerhard-Hanappi-Stadion18,442
Red Bull SalzburgSalzburgRed Bull Arena30,188
Ried im InnkreisFill Metallbau Stadion7,700
Sturm GrazGrazUPC-Arena15,312
Wiener NeustadtStadion Wiener Neustadt10,000

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.

Second half of season

Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 13 May 2010; Source:Austrian Bundesliga

Top scorers

RankScorerClubGoals
1 Steffen HofmannRapid Vienna20
2 Roman WallnerLASK Linz/Red Bull Salzburg19
3Red Bull Salzburg18
Nikica JelavićRapid Vienna
5 Hamdi SalihiRapid Vienna17
6 Róbert WaltnerSV Mattersburg14
7 Daniel BeichlerSturm Graz11
8 Milenko AčimovičAustria Wien10
Johannes AignerSC Wiener Neustadt
Christian MayrlebLASK Linz

See also

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