2021–22 Austrian Football Bundesliga

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Austrian Bundesliga 2021–22
Season information
Dates	23 July 2021–21 May 2022
Winners	Red Bull Salzburg (16th title)
Relegated	Admira Wacker Mödling
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Red Bull Salzburg Sturm Graz
Europa League	Austria Wien
Europa Conference League	Wolfsberger
Season statistics
Matches played	108
Goals scored	318
Average	(2.94 per match)
Top goalscorer	Karim Adeyemi (17 goals)
Biggest home win	Salzburg 7–1 Ried (1 August 2021)
Biggest away win	Klagenfurt 0–6 Salzburg (10 April 2022)
Highest scoring	Salzburg 7–1 Ried (1 August 2021)
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The 2021–22 Austrian Football Bundesliga, also known as Tipico Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the 109th season of top-tier football in Austria. Red Bull Salzburg are the eight-times defending champions.

Teams

Changes

St. Pölten was relegated to the 2021-22 Austrian Football Second League after finishing in last place in the 2020-21 Relegation Round SK Austria Klagenfurt was promoted as champions of the 2020–21 Austrian Football Second League, despite finishing third in that competition. FC Blau-Weiß Linz finished in first, but did not apply for a Bundesliga license and FC Liefering took second place, but as a feeder team for FC Red Bull Salzburg, were also ineligible for promotion.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Admira Wacker Mödling	Maria Enzersdorf	BSFZ-Arena	7,000
SK Austria Klagenfurt	Klagenfurt	Wörthersee Stadion	32,000
Austria Wien	Vienna	Generali Arena	17,500
LASK	Linz	Waldstadion Pasching	6,009
Rapid Wien	Vienna	Allianz Stadion	28,000
Red Bull Salzburg	Wals-Siezenheim	Red Bull Arena	30,188
Rheindorf Altach	Altach	Stadion Schnabelholz	8,500
Sturm Graz	Graz	Merkur-Arena	16,364
SV Ried	Ried im Innkreis	Keine Sorgen Arena	7,680
TSV Hartberg	Hartberg	Stadion Hartberg	4,635
Wolfsberger AC	Wolfsberg	Lavanttal-Arena	7,300
WSG Tirol	Innsbruck	Tivoli Stadion Tirol	16,008

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Bull Salzburg	22	17	4	1	50	13	+37	55	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Sturm Graz	22	10	7	5	46	32	+14	37
3	Wolfsberger	22	11	4	7	34	32	+2	37
4	Austria Wien	22	8	9	5	31	23	+8	33
5	Rapid Wien	22	8	7	7	35	31	+4	31
6	Austria Klagenfurt	22	7	9	6	31	33	−2	30
7	SV Ried	22	7	8	7	31	41	−10	29	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	LASK	22	6	7	9	28	29	−1	25
9	WSG Tirol	22	5	8	9	30	42	−12	23
10	Hartberg	22	5	7	10	29	35	−6	22
11	Admira Wacker Mödling	22	4	8	10	25	31	−6	20
12	Rheindorf Altach	22	3	4	15	10	38	−28	13

Source: Bundesliga
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Results

Home \ Away	ADM	KLA	AWI	ALT	HAR	LIN	RWI	RBS	STU	RIE	WAT	WOL
Admira Wacker Mödling	—	4–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	0–3	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–1
Austria Klagenfurt	3–3	—	0–0	2–0	4–3	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–3	1–1	2–1	1–1
Austria Wien	2–2	1–1	—	0–0	2–0	2–3	1–1	0–1	2–1	4–1	1–1	1–0
Rheindorf Altach	0–2	0–4	0–2	—	0–2	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–2
Hartberg	1–1	0–2	3–4	1–2	—	2–1	1–1	0–1	3–2	1–1	0–1	2–2
LASK	3–1	2–2	0–2	0–1	1–1	—	1–1	0–0	1–3	1–0	3–0	0–1
Rapid Wien	1–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–2	—	1–2	0–3	3–0	5–2	3–0
Red Bull Salzburg	0–0	3–1	1–0	4–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	—	4–1	7–1	5–0	2–0
Sturm Graz	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–1	3–0	3–3	2–2	1–3	—	1–0	5–0	0–3
SV Ried	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	2–2	—	3–2	3–3
WSG Tirol	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–2	1–3	2–2	4–2	—	5–1
Wolfsberger AC	3–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–3	1–0	4–1	0–2	1–4	2–1	2–2	—

Source: soccerway.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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 18, Wolfsberger AC 18, Austria Wien 16, Rapid Wien 15, and Austria Klagenfurt 15. The points of all teams but Austria Klagenfurt 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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Bull Salzburg  (C)	32	25	5	2	77	19	+58	52	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Sturm Graz	32	16	8	8	62	46	+16	37	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Austria Wien	32	11	13	8	44	39	+5	29	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
4	Wolfsberger	32	14	5	13	48	53	−5	28	Qualification to Europa Conference League third qualifying round
5	Rapid Wien	32	10	11	11	48	45	+3	25	Qualification to Europa Conference League play-offs
6	Austria Klagenfurt	32	8	12	12	44	56	−12	21

Source: [ ]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

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: Ried 14, LASK 12, Tirol 11, Hartberg 11, Admira Wacker 10, and Rheindorf Altach 6. The points of Ried, LASK, Tirol, 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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	WSG Tirol	32	10	10	12	46	58	−12	28	Qualification to Europa Conference League play-offs
2	LASK	32	9	12	11	44	42	+2	26
3	Hartberg	32	7	12	13	43	47	−4	22
4	SV Ried	32	8	13	11	40	54	−14	22
5	Rheindorf Altach	32	7	8	17	24	49	−25	22
6	Admira Wacker Mödling  (R)	32	6	13	13	36	46	−10	21	Relegation to the Austrian Football Second League

Source: [ ]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Europa Conference League play-offs

The winner and the runner-up of the relegation round played a one-legged play-off semi-final match against each other. The winner played a two-legged final against the fourth-placed team from the championship round to determine the qualifier to the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.

Semi-final

23 May 2022 18:00	WSG Tirol	2–1	LASK	Tivoli Stadion Tirol, Innsbruck Referee: Rene Eisner
	Vrioni  22' Sabitzer  45+1'	Report	Goiginger  88' (pen.)

Final

26 May 2022 17:00	WSG Tirol	–	Rapid Wien	Tivoli Stadion Tirol, Innsbruck
		Report

29 May 2022 17:00	Rapid Wien	–	WSG Tirol	Allianz Stadion, Vienna
		Report

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 27 April 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Karim Adeyemi	Red Bull Salzburg	17
2	Giacomo Vrioni	WSG Tirol	15
3	Markus Pink	Austria Klagenfurt	12
	Manprit Sarkaria	Sturm Graz
	Jakob Jantscher	Sturm Graz
6	Kelvin Yeboah	Sturm Graz	11
7	Dario Tadić	Hartberg	10
8	Tai Baribo	Wolfsberger AC	9
	Marco Djuricin	Austria Wien
	Sascha Horvath	LASK
	Ercan Kara	Rapid Wien
	Roman Kerschbaum	Admira Wacker Mödling
	Noah Okafor	Red Bull Salzburg

Top assists

As of 24 April 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Jakob Jantscher	Sturm Graz	12
	Stefan Nutz	Ried
3	Noah Okafor	Red Bull Salzburg	8
	Nicolas Seiwald	Red Bull Salzburg
5	Marco Grüll	Rapid Wien	7
6	Eliel Peretz	Wolfsberger AC	6
7	Michael Liendl	Wolfsberger AC	5
8	Eight players		4

External links

• Official website (German)

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2021–22 in Austrian football
Domestic leagues
Bundesliga · Second League · Regional League
Domestic cups
Austrian Cup
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final)
2020–21                                                        2022–23