1993–94 Austrian Football Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Championship 1993/94 was hosted by the club Austrian Football Association. As a foundation to the tens League (1st Bundesliga) the single-track second division of the Bundesliga served. 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.
Ten league (1st Bundesliga)
Mode and General
The championship in the ten league (1st Bundesliga) was contested by 10 teams that met throughout the game four times each year to each other. The Salzburg Austria was Austrian football champions for the first time. As a master you participated in the qualification for the Champions League 1995 part, this graduated successfully and so reached the main round. Runner- Austria was allowed to participate thanks to the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1995 Cupsieges on where the team reached the knockout stages. Rapid and emerged from the gambling now in the Regional FC Wacker Innsbruck FC Tirol Innsbruck in Austria representing football in the UEFA Cup in 1995; Storm reached the round of Rapid came down to the last sixteen. With the Wiener Sport - Club the last placed the championship had to dismount. For financial reasons, the club even had to be demoted to the Regionalliga. The space in the ten league with the Linzer ASK by the Master of the 2nd Bundesliga replaced the following season. In addition, a relegation between the penultimate of the 1st Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga runners-up was held. Here the FC Linz won the day and thus also rose on.
Highlights
SV Austria Salzburg was first time this season are Austrian champion, the duel with the former model and this year's persecutor, Austria Vienna, he could clearly decide for themselves: in four games it got four wins for the Salzburg, the last two matches against Wiener Violet ended even 4-0 and 6-0 for Salzburg. The qualification for the Champions League was made with two victories over Maccabi Haifa, in the group stage you failed narrowly in third place in the rise of AEK Athens, AC Milan and Ajax Amsterdam. Sporty also convinced of FC Admira / Wacker by reaching the UEFA Cup second round via AS Cannes, failed there at Juventus. Runner Austria difference in the European Cup with two draws against Chelsea also only in the second round. In this season also numerous clubs attended with their financial descent stir. Tirol - patron and board member Klaus Mair was arrested for embezzling half a billion shillings. Rapid, in debt with over 100 million shillings was, however, taken over by Bank Austria, while the 30 million shillings in the minus -standing sports club was forcibly transferred to the Regionalliga.
Ending table
Leading scorers
The champion team of Salzburg Austria
Otto Konrad - Heribert Weber, Kurt Garger, Christian Fürstaller - Thomas Winklhofer, Hermann Stadler, Peter Artner, Wolfgang Feiersinger, Franz Aigner, Adolf Hütter, Damir Muzek, Andreas Reisinger, Leo Lainer, Marquinho - Heimo pipes Berger, Martin Amerhauser, Nikola Jurčević Herfried Sabitzer, Michael Steiner, Christian Kraiger, Otari Korgalidze - Coach: Otto Barić