The 2020–21

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was the 47th season of the

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n second-level

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league and the third as the Second League. The league contains 16 teams with one team being promoted to the

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, and no teams being relegated to the

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after the 2020–21 Austrian Regionalliga season was abandoned.

Teams

Sixteen teams participated in the 2020–21 season. The only promoted team was Rapid Wien II from the

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. Due to the bankruptcy of

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, no club was relegated from the 2019–20 Austrian Football Bundesliga.

Personnel and kits

League table

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Top assists

References

External links

Official website

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