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Austrian football/soccer: Austrian Bundesliga 2009/2010 season preview

Salzburg clinch Austrian title

Salzburg celebrated their fifth Bundesliga crown with two games remaining last season. Titleholders and closest rivals Rapid Vienna suffered a 3-0 loss at Ried that left them unable to bridge the seven-point gap. Salzburg have won more matches than any other team throughout a season which they have dominated almost from the start. They have earned a place in this season's UEFA Champions League qualifying competition while Rapid and third-placed Austria Vienna will go into the UEFA Europa League. Here is a short summary of the 2008/09 Austrian Bundesliga campaign:

  • Champions: Salzburg (Champions League 2nd qualifying round)
  • Runners-up: Rapid Vienna (UEFA Europa League)
  • Third place and Cup winners: Austria Vienna (UEFA Europa League)
  • Fourth place: Sturm Graz (UEFA Europa League)
  • Relegated: Altach
  • Promoted: Wiener Neustadt
teamstitles2004/052005/062006/072007/082008/09
Rapid3215512
Austria Vienna2331633
Salzburg592121
Sturm Graz278744
LASK Linz1---67
Austria Karnten-43496
Mattersburg-57359
Ried--4275
Kapfenberg-----8
Wiener Neustadt------
* The table shows the overall number of titles for each club in Austrian Bundesliga since 1911/12 and their league standings in the last five seasons.

Huub Stevens named new Salzburg coach

Much of Salzburg's success was down to striker Marc Janko, who has notched 39 league goals in 34 games last season. The 25-year-old has been named Austrian Bundesliga Player of the Year for 2008/09 by the coaches, directors and presidents of the top-flight clubs. Janko has a new coach this campaign, Huub Stevens. In April, Salzburg announced that Stevens would succeed compatriot Co Adriaanse this summer as the club look to make an impact in Europe this season. The 55-year-old Stevens, who resigned from the PSV Eindhoven helm in January, has agreed a two-year contract.

#teampoints g.dif. win-draw-loss
1Salzburg743623-5-8 (36)
2Rapid704621-7-8 (36)
3Austria Vienna621317-11-8 (36)
4Sturm602317-9-10 (36)
5Ried602017-9-10 (36)
6Austria Karnten41-1011-8-17 (36)
7LASK Linz37-3211-4-21 (36)
8Kapfenberg36-3310-6-20 (36)
9Mattersburg33-298-9-19 (36)
10Altach30-348-6-22 (36)
* The table displays Austrian Bundesliga standings for the 2007/2008 season.

This page contains additional information about the 2009/2010 Austrian Bundesliga season. Latest news, statistics, results and predictions you can find on our main Euro Football > Austria page.

Salzburg again

According to bookmakers, Salzburg will be favorites to win the Austrian Bundesliga title this season.

teamoddsteamodds
Salzburg1.25Rapid Vienna5.25
Austria Vienna10Sturm Graz16
Wiener Neustadt75Ried151
LASK Linz501Austria Karnten501
Kapfenberger751Mattersburg751
The preseason odds for the outright winner of the 2009/10 Austrian Bundesliga.

Austrian Cup finals in last five seasons

2005   Austria Vienna - Rapid   3:1
2006   Austria Vienna - Mattersburg   3:0
2007   Austria Vienna - Mattersburg   2:1
2008   Not held
2009   Austria Vienna - Admira   3:1

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key players

Austria Karnten

Goalkeeper Andreas Schranz (€0.8m); Defense: Martin Zivny (€0.7m), Oliver Pusztai (€0.5m), Christian Prawda (€0.4m), Fernando Ariel Troyansky (€0.4m), Sandro (€0.7m), Jocelyn Blanchard (€0.6m), Thomas Hinum (€0.4m), Thomas Riedl (€0.4m); Forward: Andre Schembri (€0.4m), Modou Jagne (€0.3m).

Austria Vienna

Goalkeeper Szabolcs Safar (€1.3m); Defense: Aleksandar Dragovic (€1m), Joachim Standfest (€0.9m), Jacek Bak (€0.8m), Manuel Ortlechner (€0.7m); Midfield: Milenko Acimovic (€2.9m), Zlatko Junuzovic (€1m), Petr Vorisek (€0.9m), Matthias Hattenberger (€0.7m); Forward: Rubin Rafael Okotie (€1.4m), Tomas Jun (€0.7m).

Kapfenberg

Goalkeeper Martin Eisl (€0.4m); Defense: Dominique Taboga (€0.5m), Milan Fukal (€0.4m), Patrick Osoinik (€0.4m), Mario Majstorovic (€0.4m); Midfield: Patrik Siegl (€0.5m), Markus Felfernig (€0.4m), David Sencar (€0.3m), Robert Schellander (€0.3m); Forward: Marek Heinz (€0.8m), Pero Pejic (€0.3m).

LASK Linz

Goalkeeper Silvije Cavlina (€0.6m); Defense: Vidas Alunderis (€0.5m), Georg Margreitter (€0.4m), Wolfgang Bubenik (€0.4m); Midfield: Thomas Pragueer (€0.7m), Christoph Saurer (€0.7m), Jurgen Panis (€0.7m), Markus Weissenberger (€0.7m), Wendel (€0.6m); Forward: Roman Wallner (€0.5m), Christian Mayrleb (€0.5m).

Magna Viennaer Neustadt

Goalkeeper Saso Fornezzi (€0.5m); Defense: Pavel Kostal (€0.8m), Ronald Gercaliu (€0.8m), Petr Johana (€0.4m); Midfield: Vaclav Kolousek (€0.6m), Patrick Wolf (€0.5m), Yuksel Sariyar (€0.5m), Mario Reiter (€0.4m); Forward: Sanel Kuljic (€0.6m), Hannes Aigner (€0.5m), Diego Viana (€0.4m).

Mattersburg

Goalkeeper Thomas Borenitsch (€0.4m); Defense: Goce Sedloski (€0.6m), Alexander Pollhuber (€0.5m), Josef Hamouz (€0.4m), Nedejko Malic (€0.4m); Midfield: Michael Morz (€0.6m), Cem Atan (€0.6m), Manuel Seidl (€0.4m), Markus Schmidt (€0.4m); Forward: Robert Waltner (€0.4m), Thomas Wagner (€0.4m).

Rapid

Goalkeeper Helge Payer (€1.5m); Defense: Mario Tokic (€1m), Andreas Dober (€0.7m), Jurgen Patocka (€0.6m); Midfield: Steffen Hofmann (€3m), Branko Boskovic (€2m), Markus Heikkinen (€1.3m), Veli Kavlak (€1m), Yasin Pehlivan (€0.9m); Forward: Erwin Hoffer (€2.6m), Stefan Maierhofer (€1.6m).

Red Bull Salzburg

Goalkeeper Eddie Gustafsson (€1.3m); Defense: Ibrahim Sekagya (€1.8m), Franz Schiemer (€1.3m), Christian Schwegler (€1.2m); Midfield: Somen Tchoyi (€2.5m), Dusan Svento (€2.2m), Simon Cziommer (€2.2m), Sasa Ilic (€1.8m), Christoph Leitgeb (€1.8m); Forward: Marc Janko (€5m), Robin Nelisse (€1.5m).

Ried

Goalkeeper Thomas Gebauer (€0.8m); Defense: Martin Stocklasa (€0.7m), Thomas Burgstaller (€0.6m), Oliver Glasner (€0.5m), Ewald Brenner (€0.5m); Midfield: Stefan Lexa (€0.8m), Peter Hackmair (€0.6m), Florian Mader (€0.5m), Herwig Drechsel (€0.5m); Forward: Hamdi Salihi (€0.9m), Nacho Rodriguez (€0.8m).

Sturm Graz

Goalkeeper Christian Gratzei (€0.9m); Defense: Ferdinand Feldhofer (€0.9m), Ilia Kandelaki (€0.7m), Mario Sonnleitner (€0.7m); Midfield: Samir Muratovic (€2m), Petr Hlinka (€1m), Andreas Holzl (€1m), Manuel Weber (€0.8m), Mario Kienzl (€0.8m); Forward: Mario Haas (€0.9m), Daniel Beichler (€0.9m).

 
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