The 2010-11
Austrian Football First League
The Second League (), commonly known as Admiral 2. Liga for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest professional division in Austrian football.
The division currently contains 16 teams, and the champion of the league is promoted to the Austr ...
(German: ''Erste Liga'', also known as ''
ADEG Erste Liga'' due to sponsorship) was the 37th season of the
Austria
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n second-level
football
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league. It began on 14 July 2010 and ended on 28 May 2011.
The size of the league was reduced from twelve to ten teams for this season after a reform of the second- and third-level tiers of the Austrian football league pyramid. Reserve teams from
Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...
clubs were excluded from competing in the First League, and relegation/promotion playoffs between the ninth-placed First League team and the two
Regionalliga
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The term is often associated with the Germa ...
champions missing out on direct promotion were introduced.
Teams
Wacker Innsbruck
FC Wacker Innsbruck was an Austrian association football club from Innsbruck, Tyrol.
History
The ''Fußball-Club Wacker'' ("Valiant") ''Innsbruck'' was established in 1915 by Jakob Hanspeter, Benedikt Hosp, Josef Leitner, Josef Albrecht and o ...
as
2009–10 First League champions were promoted to the
2010–11 Bundesliga
The 2010–11 Bundesliga was the 48th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. It began on 20 August 2010 and concluded on 14 May 2011. The winter break was in effect between weekends around 18 December 2010 and 15 January 20 ...
. Wacker were originally to be replaced by
SK Austria Kärnten
SK Austria Kärnten was an Austrian association football club, from Klagenfurt, Carinthia.
History
The club was formed on 1 June 2007 and took over the license of ASKÖ Pasching to play in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. SK Austria took ov ...
, who finished the
2009–10 Bundesliga season in last place; however, Kärnten were not awarded a professional licence by the
Bundesliga
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licensing board and hence relegated to the
Austrian Regionalliga
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.
As part of the reform of the Austrian second and third levels, the reserve teams of Bundesliga clubs
Red Bull Salzburg and
Austria Vienna were both relegated to the
Regionaliga at the end of the 2009–10 season. They were joined by
Dornbirn 1913, who finished the 2009–10 season in last place of the league table and hence were relegated as well.
Due to the decreased size of the league, only two teams from the Regionalliga were promoted.
WAC St. Andrä
Wolfsberger AC, commonly referred to as Wolfsberg or simply WAC, is an Austrian association football club from Wolfsberg, Carinthia, who currently play in the Austrian Bundesliga. Between the 2007–08 and 2011–12 seasons, Wolfsberger AC ente ...
as winners of the promotion playoff between the three Regionalliga champions were directly promoted, while
SV Grödig were scheduled to play in another playoff against 9th-placed First League team
First Vienna FC
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. The playoff was then cancelled and Grödig directly admitted to the First League after Austria Kärnten were denied their professional licence.
League table
See also
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2010–11 Austrian Football Bundesliga
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*
2010–11 Austrian Cup
External links
Official sitesoccerway.com
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Austria
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