2015–16 Austrian Football Bundesliga

The 2015–16 Austrian Football Bundesliga was the 104th season of top-tier football in Austria. Red Bull Salzburg were the defending champions.

Austrian Bundesliga
Season2015–16
Dates25 July 2015 – 15 May 2016
ChampionsRed Bull Salzburg
RelegatedGrödig
Champions LeagueRed Bull Salzburg
Europa LeagueRapid Wien
Austria Wien
Admira Wacker Mödling
Matches played180
Goals scored477 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorerJonathan Soriano (21)
Biggest home winSalzburg 8–0 Admira
(17 October 2015)
Biggest away winMattersburg 0-9 Austria
(23 April 2016)
Highest scoringMattersburg 0-9 Austria
(23 April 2016)
Longest winning runAustria (5 games)
Rapid (5 games)
Longest unbeaten runRed Bull (14 games)
Longest winless runGrödig (11 games)
Longest losing runAltach (4 games)
Grödig (4 games)
All statistics correct as of 18 May 2016.

Division

The Bundesliga is the highest division in Austrian football. Which took place in the 2015/16 season for the 42nd time and determined the 104. Austrian soccer champion. The main sponsor was, as for the two previous years, the sports betting company Tipico, which is the reason why the official league name is Tipico Bundesliga.[1]

Salzburg and Vienna each had two teams, Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Vorarlberg each had one. Tyrol was the only state without a team in Austria's highest league. In the 2014/15 season, the SC Wiener Neustadt went down into the First League, while the SV Mattersburg moved up.

The TV provider Sky Germany AG had the rights to show all Bundesliga games in full-length which were broadcast on the Sky sport Austria pay television channel. The channel broadcast all games as conference calls and individually. In addition, the ORF had the rights to broadcast a game of their choice, which was as a single match labeled the "top match of the round" – which usually took place Sundays, when the midweek rounds were on Wednesdays. This was not possible though in the last two rounds where all games had to be broadcast simultaneously. In addition, the ORF was allowed to show a 45-minute summary of the remaining four games of each round.

Mode

In the 2015/16 season were ten clubs in 36 rounds against each other, as in previous years. Each team played twice at home and twice away against every other team.

Because the European Cup results of the Austrian team in the 2014–15 season, they fell at the end of the season back to 16th place of the UEFA coefficient. Therefore, the Bundesliga and the ÖFB Cup played only one starting position for the Champions League and two in the Europa League in the 2015/16 season. The champions of the Bundesliga is entitled to participate in the qualification for the UEFA Champions League and rises to the second qualifying round: The cup winners, runners-up and third place in the Bundesliga games, play in the qualification for the UEFA Europa League and depending on the results, get in the third, second or first round in the competition. The initial rounds can shift due to the selection of players in favor of the Austria national team, from the defending champion of the Champions League or Europa League. After the Cup victory went to FC Red Bull Salzburg, who qualified for the Champions League, the fourth international position fell to the fourth place team in the Bundesliga. Coincidentally, this was also the Cup finalist, FC Admira Wacker Mödling.[2] The last placed team in the top division, the Bundesliga, SV Grödig, should have relegated to the First League, but withdrew from the professional sector at the end of the season.[3]

Teams

SV Mattersburg, the 2014–15 First League champion, returned to the top level two years after their relegation.

Stadia and locations
Location of teams in the 2015–16 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Team

Location

Venue

Capacity

Admira Wacker Mödling Maria Enzersdorf BSFZ-Arena 10,800
Austria Wien Vienna Generali Arena 12,639
Grödig Grödig DAS.GOLDBERG Stadion 4,036
Rapid Wien Vienna Ernst-Happel-Stadion 50,865
Red Bull Salzburg Wals-Siezenheim Red Bull Arena 30,188
Rheindorf Altach Altach Cashpoint Arena 8,500
SV Ried Ried im Innkreis Keine Sorgen Arena 7,334
Sturm Graz Graz UPC-Arena 15,323
SV Mattersburg Mattersburg Pappelstadion 17,100
Wolfsberger AC Wolfsberg Lavanttal-Arena 7,300

Personnel and kits
TeamChairmanManagerManufacturerSponsors
Admira WackerAustria Philip ThonhauserAustria Ernst BaumeisterNikeFlyeralarm
SCR AltachAustria Johannes EnglAustria Damir CanadiJakoCashpoint
Austria WienAustria Wolfgang KatzianGermany Thorsten FinkNikeVerbund
SV GrödigAustria Anton HaasAustria Peter SchöttelNikeInterwetten
Rapid WienAustria Michael KrammerAustria Zoran BarisicadidasWien Energie
SV RiedAustria Johann WillmingerAustria Paul GludovatzhummelJosko
RB SalzburgAustria Rudolf TheierlSpain Óscar GarcíaNikeRed Bull
Sturm GrazAustria Christian JaukGermany Franco FodaLottoPuntigamer
SV MattersburgAustria Martin PucherAustria Ivica VastićUmbroBauwelt Koch
Wolfsberger ACAustria Dietmar RieglerAustria Heimo PfeifenbergerJakoRZ Pellets

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Red Bull Salzburg (C) 36 21 11 4 71 33 +38 74 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
2 Rapid Wien 36 20 5 11 66 42 +24 65 Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
3 Austria Wien 36 17 8 11 65 48 +17 59 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
4 Admira Wacker Mödling 36 13 11 12 45 51 −6 50 Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
5 Sturm Graz 36 12 12 12 40 40 0 48
6 Wolfsberger AC 36 11 10 15 33 36 −3 43
7 Ried 36 11 9 16 36 52 −16 42
8 Rheindorf Altach 36 11 7 18 39 49 −10 40
9 Mattersburg 36 10 9 17 40 70 −30 39
10 Grödig (R) 36 9 8 19 42 56 −14 35 Withdrawal to the regional leagues[lower-alpha 2]
Source: weltfussball.de (in German), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Less matches awarded against; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Matches won; 6) Away matches won; 7) Head-to-head points; 8) Head-to-head goal difference; 9) Head-to-head goals scored.[5]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Since the winners of the 2015–16 Austrian Cup, Red Bull Salzburg, qualified for European competition based on league position, the spot awarded to the Austrian Cup winners (Europa League third qualifying round) was passed to the second-placed team, the spot awarded to the second-placed team was passed to the third-placed team, and the spot awarded to the third-placed team was passed to the fourth-placed team.
  2. Grödig would have been relegated to the Austrian Football First League, but withdrew their application for First League licence.[4]

Results

Season statistics
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