2010–11 Austrian Football Bundesliga

The 2010–11 Austrian Football Bundesliga is the 99th season of top-tier football in Austria. The competition was 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 in July 2010 and ended in May 2011. Red Bull Salzburg are the defending champions, having won their sixth title last season.

Austrian Bundesliga
Season2010–11
Dates17 July 2010 – 25 May 2011
ChampionsSturm Graz
RelegatedLASK Linz
Champions LeagueSturm Graz
Europa LeagueRed Bull Salzburg
Austria Vienna
Matches played180
Goals scored467 (2.59 per match)
Top goalscorerRoman Kienast (14 goals)
Biggest home winW. Neustadt 5–0 LASK
Biggest away winLASK 0–4 A. Vienna
Highest scoringMattersburg 1–4 Ried
W. Neustadt 5–0 LASK

Teams edit

Austria Kärnten were relegated after finishing the 2009–10 season in 10th and last place. They were replaced by First League champions Wacker Innsbruck.

Location of teams in the 2010–11 Austrian Football Bundesliga
Team City/Area Venue Capacity
Austria Wien Vienna Franz Horr Stadium 13,000
Kapfenberger SV Kapfenberg Franz-Fekete-Stadion 12,000
LASK Linz Linzer Stadion 14,100
SV Mattersburg Mattersburg Pappelstadion 15,700
Rapid Wien Vienna Gerhard-Hanappi-Stadion 18,442
Red Bull Salzburg Salzburg Red Bull Arena 30,188
SV Ried Ried im Innkreis Keine Sorgen Arena 7,700
Sturm Graz Graz UPC-Arena 15,312
Wacker Innsbruck Innsbruck Tivoli Neu 16,008
SC Wiener Neustadt Wiener Neustadt Stadion Wiener Neustadt 10,000

League table edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Sturm Graz (C) 36 19 9 8 66 33 +33 66 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2 Red Bull Salzburg 36 17 12 7 53 31 +22 63 Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
3 Austria Wien 36 17 10 9 65 37 +28 61
4 Ried 36 16 10 10 51 38 +13 58 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round[a]
5 Rapid Wien 36 14 11 11 52 42 +10 53[b]
6 Wacker Innsbruck 36 13 11 12 43 42 +1 50
7 Wiener Neustadt 36 14 8 14 44 52 −8 50
8 Kapfenberger SV 36 9 11 16 42 61 −19 38
9 Mattersburg 36 7 10 19 29 56 −27 31
10 LASK Linz (R) 36 3 10 23 22 75 −53 19 Relegation to Austrian Football First League
Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ As winners of the 2010–11 Austrian Cup.
  2. ^ According to the competition rules of the Austrian FA, Rapid will always be ranked below any club with equal points due to the forced suspension of a match by the club.

Results edit

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.

Top goalscorers edit

Including matches played on 25 May 2011; Source:Austrian Bundesliga

Rank Player Club Goals
1   Roland Linz Austria Vienna 21
2   Roman Kienast Sturm Graz 19
3   Hamdi Salihi Rapid Vienna 18
  Roman Wallner Red Bull Salzburg
5   Deni Alar Kapfenberger SV 14
  Patrick Bürger SV Mattersburg
7   Johannes Aigner Wiener Neustadt 11
8   Marcel Schreter Wacker Innsbruck 10
  Alan Carvalho Red Bull Salzburg
10   Imre Szabics Sturm Graz 9
  Guillem SV Ried
  Zlatko Junuzovic Austria Vienna
  Samir Muratovic Sturm Graz

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Derby SK Rapid Wien gegen FK Austria Wien 0:3 strafverifiziert". official website. Austrian Football Bundesliga. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Platzsturm sorgte für Abbruch des Derbys Rapid-Austria". official website. Austrian Football Bundesliga. Retrieved 22 May 2011.

External links edit