The 2020–21 Austrian Football Bundesliga, also known as Tipico Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, was the 109th season of top-tier football in Austria. Red Bull Salzburg were the seven-times defending champions.
Teams Changes Mattersburg withdrew from the Bundesliga after 17 seasons due to filing for insolvency, sparing WSG Tirol from relegation. SV Ried was promoted as champions of the 2019–20 Austrian Football Second League after having been relegated from the Bundesliga at the end of the 2016–17 season.
Stadia and locations
TeamLocationVenueCapacityAdmira Wacker MödlingMaria EnzersdorfBSFZ-Arena7,000Austria WienViennaGenerali Arena17,500LASKLinzWaldstadion Pasching6,009Rapid WienViennaAllianz Stadion28,000Red Bull SalzburgWals-SiezenheimRed Bull Arena17,218 (30,188)Rheindorf AltachAltachStadion Schnabelholz8,500St. Pölten Sankt Pölten NV Arena 8,000Sturm GrazGrazMerkur-Arena16,364SV Ried Ried im Innkreis Keine Sorgen Arena 7,680TSV Hartberg Hartberg Stadion Hartberg 4,635Wolfsberger ACWolfsbergLavanttal-Arena7,300WSG TirolInnsbruckTivoli Stadion Tirol 16,008
Managerial changes
Regular season League table
Results
Championship round The points obtained during the regular season were halved (and rounded down) before the start of the playoff. As a result, the teams started with the following points before the playoff: Red Bull Salzburg 26, Rapid Wien 22, LASK 21, Sturm Graz 19, Wolfsberger AC 16, and WSG Tirol 15. The points of Rapid Wien, Sturm Graz and Wolfsberger AC were rounded down – in the event of any ties on points at the end of the playoffs, a half point will be added for these teams.
Relegation round The points obtained during the regular season were halved (and rounded down) before the start of the playoff. As a result, the teams started with the following points before the playoff: Hartberg 14, Austria Wien 12, St. Pölten 10, Rheindorf Altach 10, Ried 8, and Admira Wacker Mödling 7. The points of Hartberg, Austria Wien, St. Pölten and Rheindorf Altach were rounded down – in the event of any ties on points at the end of the playoffs, a half point will be added for these teams.
Europa Conference League play-offs The winner and the runner-up of the relegation round played a one-legged play-off semi-final match against each other. The winner played a two-legged final against the fifth-placed team from the championship round to determine the qualifier to the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.
Semi-final
Final
Austria Wien won 5–1 on aggregate.
Relegation play-offs Since the top two teams of the 2020–21 Austrian Football Second League did not receive a license for the Bundesliga, relegation play-offs were played between the last-placed club from the Bundesliga and the best-placed club with a license from the Second League.
Austria Klagenfurt won 5–0 on aggregate.
Statistics Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals1 Patson Daka Red Bull Salzburg272 Nikolai Baden Frederiksen WSG Tirol18 Dejan Joveljić Wolfsberger AC4 Ercan Kara Rapid Wien155 Mërgim Berisha Red Bull Salzburg14 Sékou Koïta Red Bull Salzburg7 Alexander Schmidt St. Pölten138 Johannes Eggestein LASK12 Christoph Knasmüllner Rapid Wien10 Marco Grüll Ried11
Awards Annual awards AwardWinnerClubPlayer of the Year Patson Daka Red Bull SalzburgTop goalscorer Manager of the Year Jesse Marsch Red Bull SalzburgBreakthrough of the Year Saša Kalajdžić VfB Stuttgart
Team of the YearGoalkeeper Patrick Pentz (Austria Wien)Defence Rasmus Kristensen (Red Bull Salzburg) André Ramalho (Red Bull Salzburg) David Nemeth (Sturm Graz) Andreas Ulmer (Red Bull Salzburg)Midfield Enock Mwepu (Red Bull Salzburg) Jon Gorenc Stanković (Sturm Graz) Zlatko Junuzović (Red Bull Salzburg) Jakob Jantscher (Sturm Graz)Attack Patson Daka (Red Bull Salzburg) Ercan Kara (Rapid Wien)
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