Football is a popular sport in Austria, second only to alpine skiing. The Austrian
Football Association, the ÖFB (Österreichischer Fußball-Bund),
was founded in 1904 and has been a member of FIFA since
then.
Despite the sport's popularity, except for a successful streak in the early 1930s,
the country's national
team has not been
successful in tournaments. Austria has never qualified for the European
championship. It did participate once in 2008 (when it co-hosted the championship
withSwitzerland and was thus exempt from
qualification), but was promptly eliminated at the group stage.
In the World Cup, Austria has a slightly
better record. Its biggest achievements to date remain the fourth and third
place in 1934 and 1954,
respectively. Other than that, Austria either did not enter (1930),
did not qualify (1966, 1970, 1974, 1986, 1994, 2002, 2006, 2010),
withdrew (1938, 1950,1962),
or was eliminated at the group stages (1958, 1978, 1982, 1990, 1998).
The Bundesliga is the highest national league-club
competition in Austria. It has ten teams. The second tier is the First
Division (Erste
Liga), which as of the 2006/7 season has twelve teams (up from ten the
previous season). The third tiers are the regional
leagues (Regionalliga),
which are split into three geographical divisions: the East (Regionalliga Ost), which
comprises teams from Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland; the Central (Regionalliga Mitte), featuring
teams from Styria, Carinthia, Upper Austria, and East Tyrol; and the West (Regionalliga West), competed
for by teams from Salzburg, Tyrol, and Vorarlberg. The fourth tier is the state
league (Landesliga),
with the 2.
Landesliga as the
fifth tier in some states. Most states have 7 or 8 official tiers, but in some
states (i.E. Vienna) unofficial tiers exist under the normal tiers. They are
not organized by theÖFB, but theoretically the
champions of these tiers can promote to the official ÖFB-tiers.
Below shows how the current system works.
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Level
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Division
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I
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Bundesliga
10 clubs |
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↓↑ 1 club
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II
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Erste Liga
(First League) 10 clubs |
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↓↑ 1-2 clubs
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↑ 0-1 club
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↑ 0-1 club
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↑ 0-1 club
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III
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Regionalliga Ost
(Regional League East) 16 clubs |
Regionalliga Mitte
(Regional League Central) 16 clubs |
Regionalliga West
(Regional League West) 16 clubs |
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↓ 2-5 clubs
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↓ 2-5 clubs
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↓ 2-5 clubs
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↑ 1 club
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↑ 1 club
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↑ 1 club
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↑ 1 club
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↑ 1 club
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↑ 1 club
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↑ 1 club
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↑ 1 club
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↑ 1 club
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IV
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Landesliga Burgenland
16 clubs |
Landesliga Niederösterreich
16 clubs |
Wiener Stadtliga
16 clubs |
Landesliga Steiermark
16 clubs |
Landesliga Oberösterreich
14 clubs |
Landesliga Kärnten
16 clubs |
Landesliga Salzburg
16 clubs |
Tiroler Liga
16 clubs |
Landesliga Vorarlberg
14 clubs |
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