2007–08 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Austrian Bundesliga
Season	2007–08
Dates	10 July 2007 – 26 April 2008
Champions	Rapid Wien
Relegated	Wacker Innsbruck
Champions League	Rapid Wien
UEFA Cup	Red Bull Salzburg; Austria Wien
Intertoto Cup	Sturm Graz
Matches played	180
Goals scored	480 (2.67 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alexander Zickler (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Austria Wien 6–1 Wacker Innsbruck; Sturm Graz 6–1 Altach
Biggest away win	Salzburg 0–7 Rapid Wien
Highest scoring	Ried 5–3 Sturm Graz
	← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 Austrian Football Bundesliga was the 96th season of top-tier football in Austria. The competition is officially called T-Mobile Bundesliga, named after the Austrian branch of German mobile phone company T-Mobile. The season started on 8 July 2007, and the 36th and last round of matches took place on 26 April 2008.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rapid Wien (C)	36	21	6	9	69	36	+33	69	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Red Bull Salzburg	36	18	9	9	63	42	+21	63	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round^[a]
3	Austria Wien	36	15	13	8	46	33	+13	58	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round^[a]
4	Sturm Graz	36	15	11	10	60	41	+19	56	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
5	Mattersburg	36	13	14	9	55	43	+12	53
6	LASK Linz	36	14	11	11	54	47	+7	53
7	Ried	36	10	8	18	38	53	−15	38
8	Rheindorf Altach	36	8	12	16	37	64	−27	36
9	Austria Kärnten	36	8	9	19	26	58	−32	33
10	Wacker Innsbruck (R)	36	6	11	19	32	63	−31	29	Relegation to Austrian First Football League

Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ According to the UEFA coefficients, only the 2nd place team would qualify for the UEFA Cup Qualification. This season, however, the UEFA Cup Qualification spot that would usually be awarded to the Austrian Cup winner will be given to the 3rd place team of the Bundesliga.

Results

Teams played each other four times in the league. In the first half of the season each team played every other team twice (home and away), and then did the same in the second half of the season.

First half of season

Home \ Away	AKÄ	ALT	AWI	LIN	MAT	RWI	RIE	RBS	STU	WKR
Austria Kärnten		1–1	2–1	1–4	1–1	1–2	0–3	1–0	0–0	2–0
Rheindorf Altach	4–1		1–0	2–2	0–0	0–1	2–3	1–1	0–0	2–1
Austria Wien	1–0	1–0		1–1	2–2	2–2	2–1	2–2	1–0	6–1
LASK Linz	1–0	2–0	1–1		0–2	2–0	1–0	4–1	2–2	5–0
Mattersburg	5–2	4–1	0–1	0–0		3–2	5–1	1–1	2–2	3–1
Rapid Wien	4–0	0–2	0–0	4–4	1–0		4–0	1–0	1–5	3–1
Ried	3–1	3–1	0–1	3–0	1–2	0–3		2–0	5–3	0–0
Red Bull Salzburg	3–0	4–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–0		4–1	3–1
Sturm Graz	1–3	3–1	2–2	4–0	0–0	1–0	5–0	0–0		3–0
Wacker Innsbruck	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–2	2–2	1–1	0–1	3–1	0–0

Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home \ Away	AKÄ	ALT	AWI	LIN	MAT	RWI	RIE	RBS	STU	WKR
Austria Kärnten		1–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–2
Rheindorf Altach	0–1		0–4	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–2	1–1	1–2	1–1
Austria Wien	0–1	1–1		0–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	3–1	1–2	2–1
LASK Linz	4–0	3–0	2–1		2–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	3–3
Mattersburg	1–0	3–3	1–1	1–0		1–0	1–1	3–2	1–1	2–1
Rapid Wien	2–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	3–1		4–0	1–3	2–1	4–1
Ried	3–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1		1–2	0–0	0–0
Red Bull Salzburg	1–1	4–0	2–0	4–0	4–0	0–7	2–0		3–0	2–0
Sturm Graz	3–1	6–1	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–2	2–0	1–1		2–0
Wacker Innsbruck	0–0	1–1	1–2	2–0	0–5	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0

Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Alexander Zickler	Red Bull Salzburg	16
2	Mario Haas	Sturm Graz	14
3	Ivica Vastić	LASK Linz	13
4	Carsten Jancker	SV Mattersburg	12
4	Hamdi Salihi	SV Ried	12
6	Sanel Kuljic	Austria Wien	11
	Christian Mayrleb	LASK Linz
	Samir Muratović	Sturm Graz
9	Erwin Hoffer	Rapid Wien	10
9	Steffen Hofmann	Rapid Wien	10

Top assist providers

Steffen Hofmann was the assist leader of the league, having provided a total of 25 assists (both Austrian and European record).

External links

Bundesliga website (in German)
OEFB Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine
Soccerway

[table_note_res_UC10.65474260070116-1] According to the UEFA coefficients, only the 2nd place team would qualify for the UEFA Cup Qualification. This season, however, the UEFA Cup Qualification spot that would usually be awarded to the Austrian Cup winner will be given to the 3rd place team of the Bundesliga.

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v t e 2007–08 in Austrian football
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Domestic leagues	Bundesliga First League Regional League
European competitions	Champions League UEFA Cup Intertoto Cup
Club seasons
Bundesliga	Austria Kärnten Austria Wien LASK Linz Mattersburg Rapid Wien Red Bull Salzburg Rheindorf Altach Ried Sturm Graz Wacker Innsbruck
List of Austrian football transfers 2007–08

v t e 2007–08 in European men's football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '07 '08 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '07 '08 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '07 '08 Faroe Islands '07 '08 Finland '07 '08 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '07 '08 Latvia '07 '08 Lithuania '07 '08 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '07 '08 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Romania Russia '07 '08 San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '07 '08 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '07 '08 Finland '07 '08 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '07 '08 Latvia '07 '08 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '07 '08 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '07 '08 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
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UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying rounds, Group stage, Knockout stage, Final) UEFA Cup (Qualifying rounds, First round, Group stage, Knockout stage, Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup