2002–03 Austrian Football Bundesliga

The matches in the Austrian Football Championship 2002/ 03 were held in the "T -Mobile Bundesliga ", the top division in Austria. The second division was called the 1st Division, including the third division played in the three regional leagues West, Central and East for the promotion to the second highest league, which was renamed from the following season 2003/ 04 in Red Zac Erste Liga.

T-Mobile Bundesliga

The championship was contested in the Austrian Bundesliga with 10 teams that met throughout the game four times each year to each other. FK Austria Wien managed to get away from the competitors already during the first half of the spring passage and won superior to their 22 league titles. The final title of the Vienna violets previously dated from the year 1993. Additionally, came for the Wiener this season also her 24th Cup win ( 3-0 against FC Kärnten ), as well as their sixth title Supercup ( 2-1 against FC Kärnten ) and won Above and to the faithful also the Wiener Stadthalle tournament. Despite these great successes of the club by his coach Walter Schachner separated even during the season, because you wanted to use the chance to win Christoph Daum as manager. Walter Schachner finally took over in October, the bottom club Grazer AK, with whom he still won the first runner-up title in the club's history and was in the following season by a single point on the master Austria.

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Since the FC Tirol Innsbruck at the end of the previous season 2001/ 02 ceased the operation of gambling, this was classified as Fixabsteiger. Therefore, the Admiralty, the descent was spared, and so remained in the Bundesliga.

The master Austria Wien and the runner- Grazer AK played in the qualifying round of the Champions League 2003/ 04, but both failed before the group stage, however, qualified as well as Austria Salzburg and the Cup finalist FC Kärnten for the UEFA Cup.

Champion team of FK Austria Wien ( In brackets appearances and goals be specified. )

• Tor: Thomas Mandl (35 / - ); Marc Ziegler ( 1 / -)
• Defense: Éric Akoto (23/ 3); Júlio César ( 9/1); Didier Dheedene (29/ 2); Ernst Dospel (26 / - ); Martin Hiden (15 / - ); Jürgen Panis (19 / - ); Patrick Pircher (8 / - ); Paul Scharner (28 /1)
• Midfielders: Djalminha ( 10/2); Thomas Flögel (33/ 1); Martin Hašek (13/ 1); Wolfgang Hopfer (7/1 ); Vladimír Janočko (30/ 12); Volkan Kahraman (7 / - ); Raymond Kvisvik (21/ 3); Krzysztof Ratajczyk (32 / - ); Manfred Roth Bauer ( 5/1); Michael Wagner (30/ 5)
• Storm Radosław Gilewicz (29/ 11); Thorstein Helstad (29/ 6); Roland Linz (21/ 3); Joachim Parapatits (9/ 1); Sascha Pichler (1 / - ); Sigurd Rushfeldt (25/ 5)
• Coach: Walter Schachner / Christoph Daum

* Adam Ledwoń (1 / - ) and Christian Mayrleb (3/2 ) have left the club during the season.

Leading scorers

First Division

In the 2002/03 season of the First Division of the SV Mattersburg superior Meistermit could be 14 -point lead for the first time in the club's history thus securing promotion to the highest Austrian league. Matter castle was after SC Eisenstadt and SC Neusiedl am See in Burgenland only the third club to have managed this. Stay out of the league had the Movers Sports Club. After the Senate 5 of the Bundesliga in the first instance the clubs LASK Linz and DSV Leoben refused the license for the next game season, there was speculation at the mandrel Bachern with the League whereabouts. However, the constant neutral arbitration of the League issued as a last resort both LASK and the Leobenern the license for the 1st Division in 2003/ 04 and thus condemned the sports club to relegation to the Regionalliga Ost.

BSV Bad Bleiberg was able to prevail in a total score of 4:4 only on away goals against FC Blau-Weiss Linz in the relegation matches. After the relegation matches, the club was taken over by FC Kärnten due to financial difficulties and played the following season as a satellite club under the new name BSV Junios Villach in the First League. The SPG WSG Wattens / FC Wacker Tirol secured with a total score of 3-2 against the SV Schwechat promotion to the First League. After the relegation play the game community was dissolved. The right ascension for the First League took the FC Wacker Tirol claim that WSG Wattens played after the rise of II.Mannschaft in the Tyrolean league.

Regional leagues

First Class ( hosted by the Lower Austrian Football Association ) in 1911/12 ∙ 1912/13 ∙ 1913/14 ∙ 1914/15 ∙ 1915/16 ∙ 1916/17 ∙ 1917/18 ∙ 1918/19 ∙ 1919/20 ∙ 1920/21 ∙ 1921/22 ∙ 1922/23,

First Class ( Vienna Football Association): 1923/24 ∙ 1924/25 ∙ 1925/26 ∙ 1926/27 ∙ 1927/28 ∙ 1928/29 ∙ 1929/30 ∙ 1930/31 ∙ 1931/32 ∙ 1932/33 ∙ 1933/34, ∙ 1934/35 ∙ 1935/36,

National Football League ( Vienna Football Association): 1936/37 ∙ 1937/38,

Gauliga ( NS time ): 1938/39 ∙ 1939/40 ∙ 1940/41 ∙ 1941/42 ∙ 1942/43 ∙ 1943/44 ∙ 1944/45,

League ( Vienna Football Association): 1945/46 ∙ 1946/47 ∙ 1947/48 ∙ 1948/49,

State League ( gesamtösterreichisch ): 1949/50 ∙ 1950/51 ∙ 1951/52 ∙ 1952/53 ∙ 1953/54 ∙ 1954/55 ∙ 1955/56 ∙ 1956/57 ∙ 1957/58 ∙ 1958/59 ∙ 1959/60 ∙ 1960 / 61 ∙ 1961/62 ∙ 1962/63 ∙ 1963/64 ∙ 1964/65

National League: 1965/66 ∙ 1966/67 ∙ 1967/68 ∙ 1968/69 ∙ 1969/70 ∙ 1970/71 ∙ 1971/72 ∙ 1972/73 ∙ 1973/74

Bundesliga: 1974/75 ∙ 1975/76 ∙ 1976/77 ∙ 1977/78 ∙ 1978/79 ∙ 1979/80 ∙ 1980/81 ∙ 1981/82 ∙ 1982/83 ∙ 1983/84 ∙ 1984/85 ∙ 1985/86 ∙ 1986/87 ∙ 1987/88 ∙ 1988/89 ∙ 1989/90 ∙ 1990/91 ∙ 1991/92 ∙ 1992/93 ∙ 1993/94 ∙ 1994/95 ∙ 1995/96 ∙ 1996/97 ∙ 1997/98 ∙ 1998 / 99 ∙ 1999/2000 ∙ 2000/ 01 ∙ 2001/ 02 ∙ 2002/ 03 ∙ 2003/ 04 ∙ 2004/ 05 ∙ 2005/ 06 ∙ 2006/ 07 ∙ 2007/ 08 ∙ 2008/ 09 ∙ 2009/10 ∙ 2010/11 ∙ 2011/12 ∙ 2012/13 ∙ 2013/14

• Football in 2002
• Football in 2003
• Austrian Football Championship