2010–11 Austrian Football First League

Austrian Football First League
Season 2010–11
Promoted FC Trenkwalder Admira
Relegated FC Gratkorn
Matches played 165
Goals scored 514 (3.12 per match)

The 2010-11 Austrian Football First League (German: Erste Liga, also known as ADEG Erste Liga due to sponsorship) is the 36th season of the Austrian second-level football league. It began on 14 July 2010 and will end on 28 May 2011.

The size of the league was reduced from twelve to ten teams for this season after a reform of the second- and third-level tiers of the Austrian football league pyramid. Reserve teams from Bundesliga clubs were excluded from competing in the First League, and relegation/promotion playoffs between the ninth-placed First League team and the two Regionalliga champions missing out on direct promotion were introduced.

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Teams

Wacker Innsbruck as 2009–10 First League champions were promoted to the 2010–11 Bundesliga. Wacker were originally to be replaced by SK Austria Kärnten, who finished the 2009–10 Bundesliga season in last place; however, Kärnten were not awarded a professional licence by the Bundesliga licensing board and hence relegated to the Austrian Regionalliga.

As part of the reform of the Austrian second and third levels, the reserve teams of Bundesliga clubs Red Bull Salzburg and Austria Vienna were both relegated to the Regionaliga at the end of the 2009–10 season. They were joined by Dornbirn 1913, who finished the 2009–10 season in last place of the league table and hence were relegated as well.

Due to the decreased size of the league, only two teams from the Regionalliga were promoted. WAC St. Andrä as winners of the promotion playoff between the three Regionalliga champions were directly promoted, while SV Grödig were scheduled to play in another playoff against 9th-placed First League team First Vienna FC. The playoff was then cancelled and Grödig directly admitted to the First League after Austria Kärnten were denied their professional licence.

Club Name Stadium Capacity
Austria Lustenau Reichshofstadion 12,500
FC Gratkorn Sportstadion Gratkorn 3,000
FC Lustenau Reichshofstadion 12,500
FC Trenkwalder Admira Bundesstadion Südstadt 12,000
First Vienna FC Hohe Warte Stadium 5,000
SC Rheindorf Altach Stadion Schnabelholz 8,900
SKN St. Pölten Voith-Platz 10,000
SV Grödig Untersburg Arena 1,500
TSV Hartberg Stadion Hartberg 6,000
WAC St. Andrä Sportstadion Wolfsberg 8,000

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 FC Trenkwalder Admira (C) 36 23 6 7 85 45 +40 75 Promotion to the Bundesliga
2 SC Rheindorf Altach 36 22 8 6 76 37 +39 74
3 Austria Lustenau 36 16 6 14 55 51 +4 54
4 WAC St. Andrä 36 15 7 14 56 50 +6 52
5 SKN St. Pölten 36 13 12 11 55 55 0 51
6 SV Grödig 36 12 10 14 51 60 −9 46
7 FC Lustenau 36 11 9 16 51 60 −9 42
8 TSV Hartberg 36 10 9 17 44 60 −16 39
9 First Vienna FC (O) 36 9 7 20 47 67 −20 34 Relegation playoffs
10 FC Gratkorn (R) 36 9 6 21 47 82 −35 33 Relegation to the Regionalliga

Updated to games played on 24 May 2011
Source: soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

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