The 2020–21 Austrian Football Bundesliga, also known as Tipico Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, was the 109th season of top-tier
football
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in
Austria
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.
Red Bull Salzburg were the seven-times defending champions.
Teams
Changes
Mattersburg
Mattersburg (; formerly ''Mattersdorf'', hu, Nagymarton, Croatian: ''Matrštof'') is a town in Burgenland, Austria. It is the administrative center of the District of Mattersburg and was home to former Bundesliga football team, SV Mattersburg.
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withdrew from the Bundesliga after 17 seasons due to filing for insolvency, sparing
WSG Tirol from relegation.
SV Ried
SV Ried is an Football in Austria, Austrian association football club from Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria. The team plays its home matches at Josko Arena, a stadium with a capacity of 7,680. After being relegated from Austrian Football Bundesli ...
was promoted as champions of the
2019–20 Austrian Football Second League
The 2019–20 Austrian Football Second League is the 46th season of the Austrian second-level football league and the second one as the Second League. The league contains 16 teams with one team being promoted to the Austrian Football Bundesliga an ...
after having been relegated from the Bundesliga at the end of the
2016–17 season.
Stadia and locations
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
The 2020–21 Austrian Football Second League was the 47th season of the Austrian second-level football league and the third as the Second League. The league contains 16 teams with one team being promoted to the Austrian Football Bundesliga, and ...
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
Top assists
Awards
Annual awards
Team of the Year
References
External links
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