2015–16 Austrian Football Bundesliga

The 2015–16 Austrian Football Bundesliga was the 104th season of top-tier football in Austria. Red Bull Salzburg were the defending champions.

Division

The Bundesliga is the highest division in Austrian football. Which took place in the 2015/16 season for the 42nd time and determined the 104. Austrian soccer champion. The main sponsor was, as for the two previous years, the sports betting company Tipico, which is the reason why the official league name is Tipico Bundesliga.^[1]

Salzburg and Vienna each had two teams, Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Vorarlberg each had one. Tyrol was the only state without a team in Austria's highest league. In the 2014/15 season, the SC Wiener Neustadt went down into the First League, while the SV Mattersburg 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 2015/16 season were ten clubs in 36 rounds against each other, as in previous years. Each team played twice at home and twice away against every other team.

Because the European Cup results of the Austrian team in the 2014–15 season, they fell at the end of the season back to 16th place of the UEFA coefficient. Therefore, the Bundesliga and the ÖFB Cup played only one starting position for the Champions League and two in the Europa League in the 2015/16 season. The champions of the Bundesliga is entitled to participate in the qualification for the UEFA Champions League and rises to the second qualifying round: The cup winners, runners-up and third place in the Bundesliga games, play in the qualification for the UEFA Europa League and depending on the results, get in the third, second or first round in the competition. The initial rounds can shift due to the selection of players in favor of the Austria national team, from the defending champion of the Champions League or Europa League. After the Cup victory went to FC Red Bull Salzburg, who qualified for the Champions League, the fourth international position fell to the fourth place team in the Bundesliga. Coincidentally, this was also the Cup finalist, FC Admira Wacker Mödling.^[2] The last placed team in the top division, the Bundesliga, SV Grödig, should have relegated to the First League, but withdrew from the professional sector at the end of the season.^[3]

Teams

SV Mattersburg, the 2014–15 First League champion, returned to the top level two years after their relegation.

Stadia and locations

Admira

Austria

Graz

Grödig

Rapid

Ried

Salzburg

Mattersburg

Wolfsberger AC

Altach

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Location of teams in the 2015–16 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Personnel and kits

Team	Chairman	Manager	Manufacturer	Sponsors
Admira Wacker	Philip Thonhauser	Ernst Baumeister	Nike	Flyeralarm
SCR Altach	Johannes Engl	Damir Canadi	Jako	Cashpoint
Austria Wien	Wolfgang Katzian	Thorsten Fink	Nike	Verbund
SV Grödig	Anton Haas	Peter Schöttel	Nike	Interwetten
Rapid Wien	Michael Krammer	Zoran Barisic	adidas	Wien Energie
SV Ried	Johann Willminger	Paul Gludovatz	hummel	Josko
RB Salzburg	Rudolf Theierl	Óscar García	Nike	Red Bull
Sturm Graz	Christian Jauk	Franco Foda	Lotto	Puntigamer
SV Mattersburg	Martin Pucher	Ivica Vastić	Umbro	Bauwelt Koch
Wolfsberger AC	Dietmar Riegler	Heimo Pfeifenberger	Jako	RZ Pellets

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top goalscorers As of 15 May 2016.[6] Rank Scorer Club Goals 1 Jonathan Soriano Red Bull Salzburg 21 2 Alexander Gorgon Austria Wien 19 3 Olarenwaju Kayode Austria Wien 13 4 Naby Keïta Red Bull Salzburg 12 5 Johannes Aigner SC Rheindorf Altach 10 Takumi Minamino Red Bull Salzburg Lucas Venuto SV Grödig/Austria Wien 8 Alexander Grünwald Austria Wien 9 Issiaka Ouédraogo Wolfsberger AC 10 Dieter Elsneg SV Ried 8 Roman Kienast Sturm Graz Markus Pink SV Mattersburg Stefan Schwab Rapid Wien Positions by round The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16. Team \ Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Red Bull Salzburg 7 9 7 7 5 6 5 5 4 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rapid Wien 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Austria Wien 2 1 2 4 3 3 2 3 5 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Admira Wacker Mödling 5 3 4 3 2 2 3 1 2 4 4 4 6 4 5 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 5 5 4 5 4 4 Sturm Graz 5 6 6 2 4 4 6 7 6 6 6 6 5 6 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 6 6 5 5 4 4 5 4 5 5 Wolfsberger AC 9 7 8 9 8 8 9 10 10 10 10 9 9 10 9 10 10 10 9 10 10 10 10 9 8 7 7 8 8 7 8 6 6 6 6 6 Ried 10 8 9 10 10 9 10 9 9 9 9 10 10 9 10 9 9 9 10 9 9 8 7 7 7 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 7 7 7 7 Rheindorf Altach 7 10 10 8 9 10 8 6 8 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 6 6 7 8 8 9 9 8 7 7 8 7 8 9 8 8 8 Mattersburg 3 5 3 5 6 5 4 4 3 5 5 5 4 5 6 6 6 7 6 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 6 6 6 7 8 9 9 9 Grödig 3 3 4 6 7 7 7 8 7 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Leader / 2016–17 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2016–17 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round 2016–17 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round Relegation to 2016–17 First League Awards Annual awards Source:[7] Player of the Year The Player of the Year awarded to Naby Keïta (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 Alexander Walke (Red Bull Salzburg) Attendances Pos Team Total High Low Average Change 1 Rapid Wien 303,484 31,700 12,300 16,860 +0.5%† 2 Sturm Graz 152,910 14,876 5,129 8,495 −16.2%† 3 Red Bull Salzburg 152,694 16,405 3,755 8,483 −15.3%† 4 Austria Wien 129,636 12,500 5,493 7,202 +6.7%† 5 Mattersburg 88,495 9,645 2,605 4,916 +36.9%1 6 Rheindorf Altach 86,018 7,268 3,071 4,779 −10.8%† 7 Ried 72,576 5,541 2,978 4,032 −2.3%† 8 Wolfsberger AC 64,019 5,933 2,692 3,557 −32.5%† 9 Admira Wacker Mödling 51,293 5,487 1,604 2,850 −10.0%† 10 Grödig 28,199 2,845 1,028 1,567 −5.0%† League total 1,129,324 31,700 1,142 6,274 −4.6%† Updated to games played on 22 May 2016 Source: bundesliga.at Notes: 1: Team played last season in Erste Liga References ^ "Tabelle" (in German). Bundesliga. Retrieved 2016-09-05. ^ "Cupfinal-Verlierer nicht in EL" (in German). Laola1. 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2016-09-05. ^ "Lizenzverzicht – SV Grödig nicht mehr Mitglied der Bundesliga" (in German). Bundesliga. 2016-09-05. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-05. ^ "Lizenzverzicht – SV Grödig nicht mehr Mitglied der Bundesliga" (in German). 17 May 2016. ^ "Bundesliga 2015/2016 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 27 July 2015. ^ "Tore" (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 15 May 2016. ^ "FC Red Bull Salzburg – Austrian Player and Goalkeeper of 2015/16 from FC Red Bull Salzburg". External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Österreichische Fußballmeisterschaft 2015/16. Official website (in German)