Today soccer is one of the most popular summer sports in Austria.
There are many divisions with different teams:
First division
Second division
Regional division
Country division
The most important league is the FIRST DIVISION, where 10 soccer
teams play against every other team four times. After 36 matches
the one with the most points is first is champion and has qualified
for the champions' league. The second and the third are qualified
for the UEFA CUP and the last descends into the second division.
But there is also the CUP, where teams from all the leagues are
playing according to a K.O.-system, and the winner is playing
the CUP OF CUPWINNERS the next season.
Record-champion: Rapid Wien: 31 titels
Record-cupwinner: Austria Wien: 23 titels
Greatest successes in the European cup:
| Rapid Wien: | Austria Wien: | SV Salzburg: |
| Final of the CUPWINNERS' CUP (85 and 96) | Final of the CUPWINNERS' CUP (84) | Final of the UEFA CUP (94) |
| Most famous soccer players: | Johann Krankl (Barcelona) | Bruno Pezzey (Frankfurt) | Herbert Prohaska (Inter Mailland) | Andreas Herzog (Bayern München, Werder Bremen) | Anton Polster (AC Torino, FC Sevilla, Valecano, 1. FC Köln) |
| Austrian soccer stadiums: | |
| Ernst-Happel-Stadion: | 48.000 places (Vienna) |
| Linzer Sportstadion: | 27.000 places (Linz) |
| Gerhard-Hanappi-Stadion: | 19.600 places (Vienna) |
| Tirol-Milch-Stadion: | 17.500 places (Innsbruck) |
| Stadion Lehen: | 14.500 places (Salzburg) |
| Soccer clubs in the first division and their most famous fanclubs: | |
| Rapid Wien | Ultras, Fanatics, Beinhart, Klempner,.aso. | Casino Salzburg | Absolut, Mozartknaben,.aso | Puntigamer Sturm | Brigatta,.aso | Tirol Milch IBK | Verrückte Köpfe, Wild Boys, Beinhart,.aso | Lask Linz | Fanklub Schwarz-Weiss |
| Casino Graz GAK | Red Devils | Keli Ried | Vikinger | Austria Memphis | Bulldogs, Atzgersdorf | FC Linz | Stahlfront | SCN Admira W. | Lonley Boys, Fanatics |
The best placement of the Austrian National Team was third place
in the World Cup in Switzerland in 1954
At the moment Herbert Prochaska is the coach of the Austrian National
Team.
Austria reached 6th place behind Scotland, Sweden, Lettlands,
Estonia, and White Russia in the qualification for the World Cup
taking place in France in 1998.
| Austria - Scotland | 0:0 | Sweden - Austria | 0 : 1 Herzog |
| Austria - Lettlands | 2 : 1 Polster, Herzog | Scotland - Austria | 2 : 0 | Austria - Estonia | 2 : 0 Vastic, Stöger |
Clemens Schneider, Christian Tarmann, Martin Mussak, Andreas Bacher, Sasa Ilicī
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