The 2023–24 Austrian Football Bundesliga, also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, was the 112th season of top-tier

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. Red Bull Salzburg were the ten-times defending champions. The season began on 28 July 2023 and concluded on 28 May 2024.

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won their fourth Bundesliga title and first since 2011, ending Salzburg's ten-year streak.

Teams

Changes

SV Guntamatic Ried were relegated to the 2023–24 Austrian Football Second League after finishing in last place in the 2022–23 Relegation Round, ending their three years stay in the top flight. Blau-Weiß Linz promoted for the first time in history from this season, as champions of the 2022–23 Austrian Football Second League.

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.

Managerial changes

Regular season

League table

Results

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 25, Sturm Graz 23, LASK 17, Austria Klagenfurt 17, TSV Hartberg 17, and Rapid Wien 16. The points of LASK and Rapid Wien were rounded down – in the event of any ties on points at the end of the playoffs, a half point was 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: Austria Wien 16, Wolfsberg 15, Rheindorf Altach 9, Blau-Weiß Linz 9, Tirol 7, and Lustenau 5. The points of Austria Wien, Rheindorf Altach and Blau-Weiß Linz 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.

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 Conference League second qualifying round.

Semi-final

Final

Statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Discipline

Player

* Most yellow cards: 10 ** Mike-Steven Bähre (Rheindorf Altach) * Most red cards: 2 ** Pius Grabher (Austria Lustenau) ** Marvin Martins (Austria Wien) ** Terence Kongolo (SK Rapid)

Club

* Most yellow cards: 82 ** Rheindorf Altach * Most red cards: 5 ** Austria Wien * Fewest yellow cards: 52 ** SK Rapid * Fewest red cards: 0 ** Austria Klagenfurt

Attendances

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drew the highest average home attendance in the 2023-24 edition of the Austrian Football Bundesliga.

Notes

References

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