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Red Bull gives you wings!Salzburg, guided by high-profile coaching duo Giovanni Trapattoni and Lothar Matthaus, secured the Bundesliga title five games before the end of the 2006/07 season. They clinched the Austrian championship for the first time since 1997, their fourth title overall and the first since the takeover by billionaire and Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz. Here is a short summary of the 2006/07 Austrian Bundesliga campaign:
Despite their title success, Salzburg have sacked assistant coach Lothar Matthaus, citing "different ideas" over training and future planning. The former Germany international had another year on his contract, but was forced to "fly" from the club on the day the Austrian champions started their 2007/08 pre-season preparations. Reserve-team boss Thorsten Fink has been named as the replacement for Matthaus. Fink, also former Bayern Munich player, guided Salzburg's reserves to the Austrian third division title.
Early start of the seasonWith Austria preparing to co-host the EURO 2008 finals with Switzerland next summer, this is the earliest ever start to a Bundesliga campaign. Salzburg are widely expected to repeat their domination, while last season's surprise runners-up Ried and third-placed Mattersburg are unlikely to be threatening the Austrian champions. They will likely be happy though just to repeat the achievements of the last campaign. This page contains additional information about the 2007/2008 Austrian Bundesliga season. Latest news, statistics, results and predictions you can find on our main Euro Football > Austria page. Former champions Rapid and Austria Vienna will probably be better this season following their lowly fourth and sixth place finishes in 2006/07. Austria Karnten will play their first campaign under the new identity since abandoning their old name, FCS Pasching. In fact, FC Karnten are back onboard after controversially buying a playing licence from former top side Pasching and moving the newly-merged club to Klagenfurt.
Bet on SalzburgAccording to bookmakers, Salzburg will be overwhelming favourites to defend their title this season.
The Austrian Cup finals in the last five seasons2003 Austria Vienna - Karnten 3:0 |
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key playersAltachGoalkeeper Mario Krassnitzer (€0.6m); Defense: Pablo Chinchilla Vega (€0.8m), Stephan Kling (€0.3m), Fernando Carreno (€0.3m), Mario Bolter (€0.3m); Midfield: Bernardi (€0.7m), Kai Walter Schoppitsch (€0.6m), Muslum Atav (€0.4m), Roland Kirchler (€0.3m), Karsten Hutwelker (€0.3m); Forward: Leonardo da Silva (€1.3m). Austria KarntenGoalkeeper Andreas Schranz (€0.9m); Defense: Carlos Chaile (€1.1m), Manuel Ortlechner (€0.7m), Wolfgang Bubenik (€0.7m), Gernot Plassnegger (€0.6m); Midfield: Zlatko Junuzovic (€1.2m), Marcel Ketelaer (€0.7m), Adam Ledwon (€0.7m), Peter Kabat (€0.7m); Forward: Roland Kollmann (€0.7m), Thierry Fidjeu-Tazemeta (€0.5m). Austria ViennaGoalkeeper Szabolcs Safar (€1.1m); Defense: Jacek Bak (€1.8m), Ronald Gercaliu (€1m), Joachim Standfest (€1m), Franz Schiemer (€0.7m); Midfield: Milenko Acimovic (€2m), Jocelyn Blanchard (€1.3m), Andreas Lasnik (€1.2m), Yuksel Sariyar (€1m); Forward: Sanel Kuljic (€2m), David Lafata (€0.9m). LASK LinzGoalkeeper Silvije Cavlina (€0.2m); Defense: Thomasz Wisio (€0.6m), Michael Baur (€0.4m), Davorin Kablar (€0.4m), Gerald Gansterer (€0.3m); Midfield: Almedin Hota (€0.7m), Ivica Vastic (€0.7m), Florian Klein (€0.5m), Ralph Spirk (€0.4m), Matthias Dollinger (€0.3m); Forward: Christian Mayrleb (€0.7m). MattersburgGoalkeeper Thomas Borenitsch (€0.7m); Defense: Goce Sedloski (€1.4m), Csaba Csizmadia (€0.6m), Alexander Pollhuber (€0.3m); Midfield: Christian Fuchs (€1.4m), Michael Morz (€1.3m), Cem Atan (€1.1m), Dietmar Kuhbauer (€0.6m), Akos Kovrig (€0.4m); Forward: Thomas "Schutti" Wagner (€0.6m), Carsten Jancker (€0.4m). RapidGoalkeeper Helge Payer (€1.4m); Defense: Mario Tokic (€1.9m), Markus Katzer (€1.1m), Martin Hiden (€1m), Andreas Dober (€0.6m); Midfield: Steffen Hofmann (€2m), Branko Boskovic (€1.3m), Umit Korkmaz (€1m), Markus Heikkinen (€0.4m); Forward: Mario Bazina (€1.4m), Mate Bilic (€0.9m). Red Bull SalzburgGoalkeeper Timo Ochs (€1.9m); Defense: Alex (€2.2m), Jorge Vargas (€1.8m), Ibrahim Sekagya (€1.3m), Markus Steinhofer (€0.6m); Midfield: Sasa Ilic (€4m), Ezequiel Alejo Carboni (€2.2m), Christoph Leitgeb (€2.2m), Niko Kovac (€1.3m), Karel Pitak (€1.3m); Forward: Alexander Zickler (€2.6m). RiedGoalkeeper Hans-Peter Berger (€1.5m); Defense: Ernst Dospel (€0.7m), Tomasz Rzasa (€0.7m), Christoph Jank (€0.5m), Ewald Brenner (€0.5m); Midfield: Sebastian Martinez (€0.8m), Herwig Drechsel (€0.8m), Jurgen Gerhard Pichorner (€0.7m), Bozo Kovacevic (€0.6m); Forward: Hamdi Salihi (€0.6m), Jovan Damjanovic (€0.4m). Sturm GrazGoalkeeper Christian Gratzei (€0.5m); Defense: Fabian Lamotte (€0.6m), Mark Prettenthaler (€0.6m), Georgi Shashiashvili (€0.4m), Sebastian Prodl (€0.3m); Midfield: Samir Muratovic (€1.2m), Jurgen Saumel (€1m), Klaus Salmutter (€0.7m), Thomas Krammer (€0.6m); Forward: Mario Haas (€0.8m), Marko Stankovic (€0.5m). Wacker TirolGoalkeeper Zeljko Pavlovic (€0.8m); Defense: Ferdinand Feldhofer (€1.4m), Guillermo Imhoff (€0.7m), Dennis Mimm (€0.7m), Bernd Windisch (€0.4m); Midfield: Vaclav Kolousek (€1.3m), Matthias Hattenberger (€0.6m), Andreas Holzl (€0.6m), Florian Mader (€0.5m), Thomas Gunther Eder (€0.4m); Forward: Peter Orosz (€0.2m). |
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