1980–81 Austrian Football Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Championship 1980/81 was hosted by the Austrian Football Association. As a foundation for the single-track 1st Division 2nd Division served. As the third power level acted the Regionalliga West ( Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg) and the national leagues of Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Upper Austria and Styria.
1st Division
In the championship in 1980/81 Sturm Graz attacked led by top scorer Gernot Jurtin first time after the master plate. The Winter King had before the last game a point ahead of the Austria, and prepared himself for the home game before 22,000 spectators in the crowded Liebenauer Stadium against Rapid on the championship celebration before. But the Viennese clubs stood together, Rapid played the nervous Graz 4:1, while the Austria themselves at home in Dornbach GAK 6:1 defeated at the WSC site and so unexpectedly on the 15th celebrate the fourth Meisterschaftsgwewinn in series and total allowed. In addition to Austria in the European Cup Winners 'Cup in the European Cup Winners' Cup GAK went in 1982 and Rapid and Sturm Graz in the UEFA Cup in 1982 internationally into the race. Greatest success was about Rapid illuminated, the club came over Videoton Szekesfehervar and PSV Eindhoven to the second round and was defeated there barely Real Madrid.
Champion Team: Friedl Koncilia, Johannes Weninger - Erich Obermayer, Robert Sarah, Joseph, Sara, Günther Pospischil - Karl Daxbacher, Felix Gasselich, Franz Zore, Johann Dihanich, Harold Prince, Serious builder, Thomas Pfeiler, Petko Petkov, Walter Schachner, Gerhard Steinkogler, Fritz Borgan, Rubén Plaza, John Drabek, Erwin Jelinek - Coach: Erich Hof