# 2008–09 Austrian Football Bundesliga

The Austrian Football Bundesliga 2008–09 was the 97th season of top-tier football in Austria. The competition is 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 started on 8 July 2008 with Sturm Graz beating defending champions Rapid Vienna by 3–1. The 36th and last round of matches took place on 31 May 2009.

## Team changes from last season

Fußballclub Wacker Innsbruck were relegated after finishing the 2007–08 season in 10th and last place. They were replaced by First League champions Kapfenberger SV.

## Overview
### Stadia and locations

| Team | City/Area | Venue | Capacity |
| SCR Altach | Altach | Stadion Schnabelholz | 8,500 |
| Austria Kärnten | Klagenfurt | Hypo-Arena | 32,000 |
| Austria Vienna | Vienna | Franz Horr Stadium | 13,000 |
| Kapfenberger SV | Kapfenberg | Franz Fekete Stadium | 12,000 |
| LASK | Linz | Linzer Stadion | 14,100 |
| SV Mattersburg | Mattersburg | Pappelstadion | 15,700 |
| Rapid Vienna | Vienna | Gerhard Hanappi Stadium | 18,442 |
| Red Bull Salzburg | Salzburg | Red Bull Arena | 31,895 / 30,188 |
| SV Ried | Ried im Innkreis | Fill Metallbau Stadion | 7,700 |
| Sturm Graz | Graz | UPC-Arena | 15,312 |

### Personnel

| Team | Manager | Team captain |
| SCR Altach | Georg Zellhofer | Kai Schoppitsch |
| Austria Kärnten | Frank Schinkels | Manuel Weber |
| Austria Vienna | Karl Daxbacher | Jocelyn Blanchard |
| Kapfenberger SV | Werner Gregoritsch | Dominique Taboga |
| LASK | Hans Krankl | Ivica Vastić |
| SV Mattersburg | Franz Lederer | Carsten Jancker |
| Rapid Vienna | Peter Pacult | Steffen Hofmann |
| Red Bull Salzburg | Co Adriaanse | Alexander Zickler |
| SV Ried | Paul Gludovatz | Herwig Drechsel |
| Sturm Graz | Franco Foda | Mario Haas |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
| SCR Altach | Heinz Fuchsbichler | Sacked | 30 August 2008 | Urs Schönenberger | 4 September 2008 |
| LASK Linz | Andrej Panadić | Sacked | 27 October 2008 | Klaus Lindenberger | 27 October 2008 |
| SCR Altach | Urs Schönenberger | Sacked | 12 January 2009 | Georg Zellhofer | 12 January 2009 |
| LASK Linz | Klaus Lindenberger | Resigned | 21 March 2009 | Hans Krankl | 24 March 2009 |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Red Bull Salzburg (C) | 36 | 23 | 5 | 8 | 86 | 50 | +36 | 74 | Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round |
| 2 | Rapid Wien | 36 | 21 | 7 | 8 | 89 | 43 | +46 | 70 | Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Austria Wien | 36 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 59 | 46 | +13 | 62 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Sturm Graz | 36 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 68 | 45 | +23 | 60 | Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round |
| 5 | Ried | 36 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 58 | 38 | +20 | 60 | |
| 6 | Austria Kärnten | 36 | 11 | 8 | 17 | 47 | 57 | −10 | 41 | |
| 7 | LASK Linz | 36 | 11 | 4 | 21 | 35 | 67 | −32 | 37 | |
| 8 | Kapfenberger SV | 36 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 48 | 81 | −33 | 36 | |
| 9 | Mattersburg | 36 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 42 | 71 | −29 | 33 | |
| 10 | Rheindorf Altach (R) | 36 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 56 | 90 | −34 | 30 | Relegation to Austrian First Football League |
* ↑ Austria Vienna won the 2008–09 Austrian Cup and therefore qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.

## Results

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

Source: bundesliga.at (in German)
| Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Marc Janko | Red Bull Salzburg | 39 |
| 2 | Erwin Hoffer | Rapid Vienna | 27 |
| 3 | Stefan Maierhofer | Rapid Vienna | 23 |
| 4 | Mario Haas | Sturm Graz | 15 |
| 5 | Milenko Ačimovič | Austria Vienna | 14 |
| 5 | Nacho | SV Ried | 14 |
| 5 | Rubin Okotie | Austria Vienna | 14 |
| 5 | Hamdi Salihi | SV Ried | 14 |
| 9 | Steffen Hofmann | Rapid Vienna | 12 |
| 9 | Ilčo Naumoski | SV Mattersburg | 12 |
| 9 | Robin Nelisse | Red Bull Salzburg | 12 |