Austrian Football Bundesliga

Austrian Bundesliga is a football league which is top division in Austria. The Bundesliga was founded in 1911 under the name Erste Klasse. Till the season 1949/50 it was only played with teams from Vienna and Lower Austria. The official name is now tipp3-Bundesliga powered by T-Mobile (two sponsors of the league)

History
Football started in Austria around 1890. In 1924 a professional league started and the champion was called "Austrian Champion", although only teams of the metropolitan area of Vienna played here. It was the first professional league outside of the United Kingdom. An amateur league was founded in 1928. From 1938 till 1945 Austria was occupied by Nazi Germany and there was no Austrian league. After the Second World War an Austria-wide league was founded in 1948. The league had different numbers of members (10 to 18) and names (Nationalliga, Bundesliga...).

Records
The player with the record of games is Robert Sara. He played 581 matches in the league. Top scorer is Robert Dienst He scored 323 goals in the league matches. The first champion outside Vienna was LASK Linz in 1964/65. The highest victory was an 18:0 of Vienna versus Ostbahn IX in the 1945/46 season.The match with the highest number of visitors was Austria Wien versus LASK with 75 000. The best average of visitors was 26 500 (Rapid Wien season 1948). Marc Ziegler, goalkeeper of FC Tirol, was 1085 minutes without goal. The longest serial victories is reached by Wiener Sportklub with 41 victories, in home matches. Vienna also reached 41 in a row.

Gallery

Club 2010/11
Red Bull Salzburg
Rapid Wien
Austria Wien
Sturm Graz
SV Ried
FC Wacker Innsbruck
LASK Linz
Kapfenberger SV
Mattersburg
Magna Wiener Neustadt

Club 2011/12
Red Bull Salzburg
Rapid Wien
Austria Wien
Sturm Graz (Champion)
SV Ried (Cup winner)
F.C. Wacker Innsbruck
FC Admira Wacker Mödling (promoted)
Kapfenberger SV
Mattersburg
Magna Wiener Neustadt

Club 2012/13
Red Bull Salzburg (Cup winner)
Rapid Wien
Austria Wien
Sturm Graz (Champion)
SV Ried 
F.C. Wacker Innsbruck
WAC (promoted)
Mattersburg
Magna Wiener Neustadt
FC Admira Wacker Mödling

Club 2013/14
Red Bull Salzburg 
Rapid Wien
Austria Wien (Champion)
Sturm Graz 
SV Ried 
F.C. Wacker Innsbruck
WAC 
SV Grödig (promoted)
Magna Wiener Neustadt
FC Admira Wacker Mödling

Club 2014/15
Red Bull Salzburg (Champion) (Cup winner)
Rapid Wien
Austria Wien 
Sturm Graz 
SV Ried 
SCR Altach (promoted)
WAC 
SV Grödig 
Magna Wiener Neustadt
FC Admira Wacker Mödling

Club 2015/16
Red Bull Salzburg (Champion) (Cup winner)
Rapid Wien
Austria Wien 
Sturm Graz 
SV Ried 
SCR Altach 
WAC 
SV Grödig 
SV Mattersburg (promoted)
FC Admira Wacker Mödling

Club 2016/17
Red Bull Salzburg (Champion) (Cup winner)
Rapid Wien
Austria Wien 
Sturm Graz 
SV Ried 
SCR Altach 
WAC 
SV Grödig 
SKN St. Pölten (promoted)
FC Admira Wacker Mödling

Club 2017/18
Red Bull Salzburg (Champion) (Cup winner)
Rapid Wien
Austria Wien 
Sturm Graz 
WSG Tirol (promoted)
SCR Altach 
WAC 
SV Mattersburg 
SKN St. Pölten 
FC Admira Wacker Mödling

Grounds

Champions
SK Rapid Wien: 	32 (16 nationwide)	
FK Austria Wien: 	23 (21 nationwide)	
F.C. Red Bull Salzburg: 	15 (3 as SV Austria Salzburg)	
FC Tirol Innsbruck: 	10 	
VfB Admira Wacker Mödling: 	9 	
First Vienna FC 1894: 	6 	
Wiener Sportklub: 	3 	
SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz: 	3	
GAK :	1 	
WAC :	1 	
LASK Linz: 	1 	
WAF :	1 	
FAC :	1 			
SK Voest Linz :	1 			
Hakoah Wien :	1 (Hakoah won the first title of a professional league in Austria)	
Until the  1949–1950 season, only clubs from Vienna and Lower Austria played in the league.

References

Football leagues
Football in Austria
1911 establishments