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SC Austria Lustenau were relegated to the 2024–25 Austrian Football Second League after finishing in last place in the 2023–24 Relegation Round, ending their two years stay in the top flight. Grazer AK was promoted as champions of the 2023–24 Austrian Football Second League , ending a seventeen year hiatus from the top flight.
In 2004, it was announced there are 285,000 players (both sexes) in Austria playing for 2,309 teams in the federation, although many more players play informally or for non-recognised teams. Thus the federation is the largest sporting organisation the country. Football is, perhaps with the exception of skiing, the most popular sport in Austria ...
This modus was used for the next eight seasons until 1993 when the league returned to the ten team format it originally operated in. [12] 26 years after dissolution of the independent Staatsliga on 17 November 1991, the Austrian Football Bundesliga was reconstituted as a federation and admitted on 1 December 1991 to the Austrian Football ...
The Austrian men's national team, in its different categories, is controlled by the Austrian Football Federation. The Austrian team played their first official game on October 12, 1902 in Vienna against Hungary, a match that was resolved with victory by the Austrians 5-0. This match was the first played between two non-British European teams.
This Austria team, coached by Helmut Senekowitsch, is widely regarded as the best post-World War II Austrian football team of all-time. [citation needed] In the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, the Austrians lost their first two matches but defeated defending champions West Germany 3–2 with goals from Hans Krankl, and an own goal.
Professionalism in football arrived in Austria with the Wiener Fußball-Verband, in 1924.But it was only after the Second World War, in 1949, that an organization bringing together the country's professional clubs was born: it was the Österreichische Fußball-Staatsliga, which governed the first (Staatsliga A) and second (Staatsliga B) division championships.
The 2024–25 Austrian Cup is the 94th edition of the national cup in Austrian football. The winners will qualify for the 2025–26 Europa League play-off round . Sturm Graz are the two-time defending champions, having defeated Rapid Wien in the 2023 and 2024 finals, but they were eliminated from Austria WIen in the quarter-finals. [ 1 ]
The Austrian Landesliga is the fourth tier of football in Austria. It is divided into nine conferences — one for each Austrian state: Burgenland: Landesliga Burgenland; Lower Austria: 1. Niederösterreichische Landesliga; Vienna: Wiener Stadtliga; The champions of each conference are promoted to the Regional League East.