The 2024–25 Austrian Football Bundesliga, also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the 113th season of top-tier
football
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in
Austria
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.
Sturm Graz
Sportklub Sturm Graz is an Austrian professional association football club, based in Graz, playing in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909. Its colours are black and white.
In its history, Sturm Graz has won the Austr ...
successfully defended their championship. The season began on 2 August 2024 and concluded on 25 May 2025.
Teams
SC Austria Lustenau
Sportclub Austria Lustenau is a professional association football club based in the town of Lustenau, Vorarlberg, Austria, that competes in the 2. Liga (Austria), 2. Liga, the second tier of the Austrian football league system. Founded in 1914, ...
were relegated to the
2024–25 Austrian Football Second League after finishing in last place in the 2023–24 Relegation Round, ending their two years stay in the top flight.
Grazer AK
Grazer Athletiksport Klub (; abbreviated as GAK), better known simply as Grazer AK, is an Austrian sports club based in the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria. The football section was once among Austria's most popular clubs, enjoying s ...
was promoted as champions of the
2023–24 Austrian Football Second League, ending a seventeen-year hiatus from the top flight.
Stadia and locations
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA
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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: Sturm Graz 23, Austria Wien 23, Red Bull Salzburg 19, Wolfsberger 18, Rapid Wien 17, and Blau-Weiß Linz 16. The points of 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 them.
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: LASK 15, TSV Hartberg 13, Austria Klagenfurt 10, WSG Tirol 9, Grazer AK 8, and Rheindorf Altach 8. The points of LASK, Austria Klagenfurt, and WSG Tirol were rounded down – in the event of any ties on points at the end of the playoffs, a half point will be added for those teams.
Conference League play-offs
The winner and runner-up of the relegation round and 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
See also
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2024–25 Austrian Football Second League
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2024–25 Austrian Cup
Notes
References
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Austria
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Austrian Football Bundesliga
The Bundesliga ( , "Federal League"), also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Austria and the highest level of the Austrian football league system. The competition decides the A ...