The 2014–15 Austrian Football Bundesliga was the 103rd season of top-tier football in Austria. FC Red Bull Salzburg won their 9th title, and second in succession.
Division The Bundesliga is the highest division in Austrian football which took place in the 2014–15 season for the 41st time and determined the 103rd Austrian soccer champion. The main sponsor for this season, was for the first time, the sports betting company Tipico, that is why the official name changed to Tipico Bundesliga.
Lower Austria, Salzburg and Vienna each had two teams, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Styria and Vorarlberg each with one. Burgenland and Tyrol were not represented with a team in Austria's highest league. In the preseason, FC Wacker Innsbruck went down into the First League, and the SC Rheindorf Altach 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 2014/15 season, ten clubs played in 36 rounds against each other, as in previous years. Each team played twice against every other team, once at home and once away.
Due to the good European Cup results of the Austrian teams in the 2013/14 season, the ÖFB improved, placing 14th in the UEFA coefficient at the end of the season. Therefore, in the Bundesliga and Cup 2014/15 seasons teams were playing for two spots for the UEFA Champions League and three spots for the UEFA Europa League. Champion and runner up of the Bundesliga are entitled to participate in the qualifiers for the Champions League and then transfer into the third qualifying round; the third and fourth placed teams played in the qualifying for the Europa League and played in the 3rd or 2nd round. The Cup winner played in the play-offs of the Europa League. If the Cup winner qualified for the Champions League or the Europa League, by finishing in one of the top four positions of the Bundesliga, the international starting position of that season dropped and no longer went to the losers of the Cup finales but to the fifth-placed team of Bundesliga.
The last placed Bundesliga team went down into the second classed First League.
Teams
Stadia and locations TeamLocationVenueCapacityAdmiraMaria EnzersdorfBSFZ Arena12,000Austria ViennaViennaFranz Horr Stadium13,100GrödigGrödigDas Goldberg Stadium4,638Rapid WienViennaErnst Happel Stadium50,865Red Bull SalzburgWals-SiezenheimRed Bull Arena30,188Rheindorf AltachAltachCashpoint Arena8,900Ried im InnkreisKeine Sorgen Arena7,680Sturm GrazGrazUPC-Arena15,400Wiener NeustadtStadion Wiener Neustadt10,000Wolfsberger ACWolfsbergLavanttal-Arena8,000
Personnel and kits Team Chairman Manager Manufacturer Sponsors Admira Wacker Hubertus Thonhauser Walter Knaller Nike Flyeralarm SCR Altach Johannes Engl Damir Canadi Jako Cashpoint Austria Wien Wolfgang Katzian Andreas Ogris Nike Verbund SV Grödig Hannes Codalonga Michael Baur Nike Scholz Rapid Wien Michael Krammer Zoran Barisic adidas Wien Energie SV Ried Johann Willminger Oliver Glasner hummel Josko RB Salzburg Rudolf Theierl Adolf Hütter Nike Red Bull Sturm Graz Christian Jauk Franco Foda Lotto Puntigamer SC Wiener Neustadt Manfred Rottensteiner Helgi Kolviðsson Puma ERGE Beranek Wolfsberger AC Dietmar Riegler Dietmar Kühbauer Jako RZ Pellets
League table
Results
First half of season
Second half of season
Season statistics Top goalscorers
RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Jonathan SorianoRed Bull Salzburg312 Robert BerićRapid Wien273 Marcel SabitzerRed Bull Salzburg194 Marco DjuricinSturm Graz / Red Bull Salzburg135 Johannes AignerRheindorf Altach126 Yordy ReynaGrödig117 Denis ThomallaRied108 AlanRed Bull Salzburg9 Simon PiesingerSturm Graz9
Awards Annual awards Source: Player of the Year The Player of the Year awarded to Jonathan Soriano (Red Bull Salzburg)
Top goalscorer The Top goalscorer of the Year awarded to Jonathan Soriano (Red Bull Salzburg)
Goalkeeper of the Year The Goalkeeper of the Year awarded to Cican Stanković (Grödig) Team of the Season
Team of the YearGoalkeeper Cican Stanković (Grödig)Defence Stefan Lainer (SV Ried) Martin Hinteregger (Red Bull Salzburg) Mario Sonnleitner (Rapid Wien) Andreas Ulmer (Red Bull Salzburg)Midfield Boris Hüttenbrenner (Wolfsberger AC) Naby Keïta (Red Bull Salzburg) Marcel Sabitzer (Rapid Wien) Philipp Schobesberger (Rapid Wien)Attack Jonatan Soriano (Red Bull Salzburg) Robert Berić (Rapid Wien)
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Rapid 16,770 2 Sturm 10,132 3 Salzburg 10,013 4 Austria 6,773 5 Altach 5,357 6 WAC 5,279 7 Ried 4,128 8 Admira 3,168 9 Wiener Neustadt 2,526 10 Grödig 1,650
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