The

Austrian Football Bundesliga The Austrian Football Bundesliga (german: Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga, italic=no , "Austrian Football Federal League"), also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Austrian football league system. Th ...

2008–09 was the 97th season of top-tier football in

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. The competition is officially called ''tipp3-Bundesliga powered by T-Mobile'', named after the Austrian betting company tipp3 and the Austrian branch of German mobile phone company

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. The season started on 8 July 2008 with

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beating defending champions

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by 3–1. The 36th and last round of matches took place on 31 May 2009.

Team changes from last season

Fußballclub Wacker Innsbruck were relegated after finishing the 2007–08 season in 10th and last place. They were replaced by First League champions

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Overview

Stadia and locations

Personnel

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Teams played each other four times in the league. In the first half of the season each team played every other team twice (home and away), and then did the same in the second half of the season.

First half of season

Second half of season

Top goalscorers

''Source
bundesliga.at
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References

External links

Official website

oefb.at

soccerway.com
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