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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 ...
The Austrian Football Federation (ÖFB) is the highest professional football organization in Austria and was founded in 1904, although it joined FIFA in 1905 and UEFA in 1954. The ÖFB organizes the Bundesliga - the first and highest league competition of the country- and the Austrian Cup, and manages the national men's and women's national team.
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 ...
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 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.
The Austrian Cup (German: ÖFB-Cup), known as UNIQA ÖFB Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual football competition held by the Austrian Football Association, the ÖFB. During the 2008–09 season, Austria Wien won the tournament for a record 27th time. [ 1 ]
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 ]