1978–79 Austrian Football Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Championship 1978/79 was hosted by the club Austrian Football Association. As a foundation for the single-track 1st Division 2nd Division served. As the third power level functioned Regional League East (Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland), the Alps League (Salzburg, Tyrol ) and the national league of Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Upper Austria and Styria.
- 2.1 General
- 2.2 final table
- 2.3 Rise Relegation to Division 2 2.3.1 Group Centre
- 2.3.2 Group West
1st Division
General
The championship in the 1st Division was contested by 10 teams, which met throughout the game four times each year to each other. Austria Vienna, could be Austrian football champions, as in the previous season and now 13 times. As Austrian Champion also could qualify for the European Cup in 1980, where the violets were eliminated in the first round. Cup winners and losers at the same time SpG Wattens Wacker Innsbruck was allowed to participate in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1980, where the team was eliminated in the first round as well. The two first division club Rapid Vienna and sports club representing Austria's football in the UEFA Cup in 1980, however, came not on the first round also.
With the gaming community between Wattens Wacker Innsbruck and the last placed the championship had to dismount. It was replaced with the Linzer ASK by the master of the second-class second division the following season.
Ending table
Leading scorers
The champion team of the Vienna Austria
Hubert Baumgartner, John Weninger - Erich Obermayer, Robert Sarah, Joseph, Sara, Günther Pospischil - Herbert Prohaska, Franz Zore, Karl Daxbacher, Serious builder, Fritz Borgan, Siegfried Aigner, Felix Gasselich, Franz Zach - Thomas Parits, Carlos Alberto Sintas, Thomas pillars, Walter Schachner, Harald Gamauf, Johann Dihanich, Heinz Horvath, Franz Weiss, Erwin Jelinek, Harold Prince - Coach: Hermann Stessl
2 Division
General
The championship in the 2nd Division was contested by 16 teams, who met during the entire game twice each year. The master of the 2nd Division, the LASK, rose to the 1st Division, the three last placed from. The FC Dornbirn had the aisle in the Vorarlberg State League start for the ASV Kittsee were relegated to the Regionalliga East and the UPS Anif in the Salzburger Land League. The rise in the 2nd Division was complicated regulated since this season an asymmetric third power level was: The master of the Regional League East, the ASV Stockerau, rose directly. The Master of the Alps League met in the play-off of the Western Group further on to the state's national champion, in the middle group played the national champion of Carinthia, Styria and Upper Austria their climber, the SK Vorwärts Steyr, from.