1987–88 Austrian Football Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Championship 1987/88 was hosted by the club Austrian Football Association. The first class first division and the second-class second division were fused by a playoff mode with each other this season. As the third power level functioned Regional League East (Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland) and West ( Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg ) and the national league of Carinthia, Upper Austria and Styria.
Playoff leagues (1st and 2nd Division )
Mode
The championship in the 1st and 2nd Division was first held in the fall with 12 teams in a single pass, so that each team first completed 22 games. The division ( Division 1 and 1-4, 9-12. 2. Division ) was then carried out in the Championship Playoffs (1-8. 1st Division), Middle playoff and relegation play-off. This meant that now Master and European Cup starting positions were determined in the Champions Playoff, the Middle Play-Off ascents and descents 1 to 2 Division and in the relegation playoff relegated into the Regional and National leagues. The teams in the Middle Playoff took as the only teams naturally not the points from the fall into the spring season with.
General
Rapid was Austrian football champions 29 times and qualify as an Austrian champion for the European Cup in 1989, where the Hütteldorfer but were eliminated in round 1 this season. The Zweitdivisionär Kremser SC was allowed to participate as a European Cup Winners 'Cup Winners' Cup in 1989, where the team also failed in the first round. Austria, Vienna and Sturm represented Austria football in the UEFA Cup in 1989, the two Viennese teams made it to the Round of Storm failed in the first round.
In the Middle Playoff however, the decision was made about the rise and descent: VSE Sankt Pölten and SK Vorwärts Steyr could play in the 1st Division, in turn increased the SK VOEST Linz and VfB Mödling in the 2nd Division from. In relegation playoff opted for SC Eisenstadt, the SV Kapfenberg and the Salzburger AK 1914, the relegation to the Regionalliga Ost, the Styrian League as well as in the Regionalliga West. In the second division of the SV Stockerau rose from the Regional League East and the SV Dornbirn from the West Regional on directly. The Wolf Berger AC as the third climber was in the middle group, a Relegation Tournament of Champions of Carinthia, Upper Austria and Styria, determined.
Highlights
The championship of 1988 was quite one-sided, Rapid went with 8 points ahead of Austria into the Champions Playoff and it was already decided four laps before the season as the new and old masters. This green- white vision was clouded, however, by the fact that the Hütteldorfer suffered three of their four season defeats in Vienna derby against the violets. The Rapidler Zoran Stojadinović was the Admiraner Walter Pops still snatch the top scorer at the last minute: In the last game against GAK he met four times ( 6:1). The sensation of the season fell in the Cup: The Zweitdivisionär Kremser SC defeated in the final Happel Swarovski Tirol. Could also cause a stir with the VSE St. Pölten another small club. The Lower Austrian, three years before playing even in the fourth division national league, could be elevated to the first division thanks to Mario Kempes.
Ending table
Leading scorers
The champion team of the Vienna Rapid
Michael Konsel, Herbert Feurer - Heribert Weber (C ), Kurt Garger, Franz Weber, Robert Pecl - Reinhard Kienast, Andreas Heraf, Andreas Herzog, Karl Braun Eder, Rudolf wine Hofer, Peter Schöttel, Peter Hrstic, Leo Lainer, Gerald Willfurth - Zlatko Kranjcar Sulejman Halilović, Sergei Schawlo, Franz Blizenec, Peter Wurz, Zoran Stojadinović - Coach: Otto Baric