The 2008–09
Austrian Cup
The Austrian Cup (german: ÖFB-Cup), known as UNIQA ÖFB Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual football competition held by the Austrian Football Association, the ÖFB. During the 2008–09 season, Austria Wien won the tournament for 27th t ...
(german: ÖFB-Cup, also ''Stiegl-Cup'' for sponsoring purposes) was the 75th season of
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
's nationwide football cup competition. It started on July 18, 2008 with the first game of the preliminary round. The final was held at the
Pappelstadion,
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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on 16 May 2009.
The competition was won by
Austria Vienna after beating
Trenkwalder Admira 3–1
after extra time
Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a Draw (tie), tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is ...
. It was the 27th Austrian Cup title for the team from
Vienna
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, who also qualified for the
third qualifying round of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League in the process.
Preliminary round
The Preliminary Round involved 58 amateur clubs from all regional federations, divided into smaller groups according to the Austrian federal states. Twenty-nine games were played between July 18 and August 3, 2008, with the winners advancing to the first round.
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