The 2022–23 Austrian Football Bundesliga, also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, was the 111th season of top-tier

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. Red Bull Salzburg were the nine-times defending champions. The season began on 22 July 2022. The regular season scheduled for November was postponed until the conclusion of the

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. The league resumed on 10 February and concluded on 3 June 2023. Red Bull Salzburg defended their title for the tenth consecutive season.

Teams

Changes

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Stadia and locations

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under

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eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Regular season

League table

Results

Results by round

Positions by round

Placement Progression

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 27, Sturm Graz 24, LASK 19, Austria Wien 16, Rapid Wien 16, and Austria Klagenfurt 15. The points of Red Bull Salzburg and Rapid Wien 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: Tirol 14, Lustenau 13, Wolfsberg 10, Hartberg 9, Ried 9, and Rheindorf Altach 8. The points of Lustenau, Hartberg 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 runner-up of the relegation round, the fifth-placed team from the championship round play to determine the qualifier to the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.

Semi-final

Final

Statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Discipline

Player

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Club

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Attendances

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drew the highest average home attendance in the 2022-23 edition of the Austrian Football Bundesliga.

References

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