Thursday 29 April 2010

Football In Austria

The football season starts in July in Austria, and there are two divisons the Bundesliga (premier division) and the Ersten Liga (First Division). Like some other countries in Europe, Austria have a winters break from almost the end of November (sometimes later) to March. The Bundesliga was founded in 1974, but there has been football in Austria with First Vienna being the earliest team formed in 1894.

Below the First two divisons there are regional leagues Regionalliga Ost (east), Regionalliga Mitte (Middle) and Regionalliga West. In addition to these there are feeders that are the County leagues (much like London, Surrey, Hertfordshire etc.) There is also the Austrian equivilent of the FA Cup the ÖFB-Stiegl-Cup.

Champions Of Austria:
32 Titles
Rapid Wien
23 Titles
Austria Wien
10 Titles
FC Wacker Innsbruck (5) / FC Swarovski Tirol (2) / FC Tirol Innsbruck (3) - all teams are continuation of the other.
9 Titles
SK Admira Wien
6 Titles
First Vienna
5 Titles
Austria/Red Bull Salzburg
3 Titles
Wiener Sport-Club
2 Titles
Sturm Graz
1 Title
Wiener AF, Wiener AC, Floridsdorfer AC, SC Hakoah Wien, SC Wacker Wien, Linzer ASK, SK VÖEST Linz, Grazer AK
The Austrian League website: http://www.bundesliga.at/home/index.php?SID

Vienna Teams:
Austria Vienna:
FK Austria Wien play their home games at the Franz Horr Stadium which has a total capacity of 12,500 with the new East-Stand. Tt is on U1 (red line) to station Reumannplatz, Straßenbahn: Line 67 to Altes Landgut, Bus: Line 15A to station Altes Landgut

Rapid Veinna:
Rapid Wien now plays at the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium which was opened on 10 May 1977 in a game against FK Austria. The nearest station is Hütteldorf which is on the OBB servies and on the U-Bhan (Line U4).

First Vienna:
The club's home venue is the Hohe Warte Stadium built in 1921 and having a current capacity of 5,000 spectators. at the end of the U-Bhan (line U4) at Heiligenstadt.

Klagenfurt Team:
SK Austria Kelag Kärnten:
Austria Kärnten plays its home games at Hypo-Arena in the south-west end of Klagenfurt.

Stats and info in this article have been found on both Wikipedia and RSSSF websites.
EDIT: The new season fixtures are out on June 25th 2010. :)

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