1986–87 Austrian Football Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Championship 1986/87 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 champions 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 play-off the losers in the Regional and National leagues. The teams in the Middle playoff teams took the only course not the points from the fall into the spring season with.
General
Rapid was Austrian football champions 28 times and qualify as an Austrian champion for the European Cup in 1988, where the Hütteldorfer reached the knockout stages of this season. Cupfinalist, the newly founded Swarovski Tirol, was allowed to participate in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1988, where the team was also eliminated in the first round. Austria, Admira / Wacker and VOEST Linz Austria representing football in the UEFA Cup in 1988, but all three teams also failed in round 1
In the Middle Playoff however, the decision was made about the rise and descent: VfB Mödling could play in the 1st Division, in turn, the SC Eisenstadt descended into the 2nd division. In relegation playoff SW Bregenz- Dornbirn 1913, Union Voecklamarkt and SV Sankt Veit decided to SpG an der Glan, the descent into the Regional League West and the Upper Austrian or Carinthian provincial league. In the second division of VSE St. Pölten rose from the Regional League East and the UPS Salzburg from the Regional League West directly. The Kapfenberg SV as a third climber was in the middle group, a Relegation Tournament of Champions of Carinthia, Upper Austria and Styria, determined.
Highlights
The Austrian championship in 1987 was only decided in the final minutes of the final round. The Austria had led after 35 laps with a point before Rapid, after 55 minutes of game time was between Rapid Sports Club 0:1, and in storm -Austria 1:2. After a penalty Peter Hrstic scored the equalizer for Hütteldorfer six minutes later Reinhard Kienast brought the Green-Whites in the lead. In addition, a short time later shot Teskeredzic to leveling the storm. Rapid was a master, with equal points as Austria Vienna, who complained excessively about the refereeing. Still made a violet headlines: Toni Polster was with 39 of Europe 's top scorer and was honored for this performance with the Golden Boot. The newly formed FC Swarovski Tirol, he took over the license, the FC Wacker Innsbruck, was third championship in his debut season. The club was also able to provide with the obligation of Ernst Happel, who replaced after the season coach Felix Latzke, stir.
Ending table
Leading scorers
The champion team of SK Rapid Wien
Michael Konsel, Herbert Feurer - Heribert Weber (C ), Kurt Garger, Leo Lainer, Franz Weber, Robert Pecl - Petar Brucic, Reinhard Kienast, Andreas Heraf, Andreas Herzog, Karl Braun Eder, Rudolf wine Hofer, Peter Schöttel, Peter Hrstic, Gerald Willfurth - Zlatko Kranjcar, Sulejman Halilović, Richard Niederbacher, Hermann Stadler, Alexander Krautgartner, Michael Horak - Coach: Otto Baric