Austrian Football First League

The First League is the second highest league in the Austrian professional football after the Bundesliga. The full name is since the season 2010/11 "Today for Tomorrow " First League. Host and sponsoring organization is the Association Austrian Football Bundesliga, since December 1, 1991, the Tenth Ordinary Member of the OFB. A climber for the Bundesliga and one relegated to the regional leagues are played annually in the nationwide discharged league. Another club in the first division playing in a relegation with the three masters of the regional leagues against relegation.

• 7.1 Relegation Games 1998-2004
• 7.2 Relegation Games since 2010

Current mode

Since the 2010/11 season playing ten clubs in the first division. The championship is divided into a fall and spring season, with one round-trip round is played. This means that each team competes in the course of a season four times against any other team. Thus, a championship year extends to 36 rounds with five games, which are usually held Tuesday and Friday evening.

The Master of the First League rises directly to the Bundesliga, and in return the table in the Bundesliga last descends into the First League. The tenth of the First League must descend into the respective Regional. The penultimate play in a relegation against relegation. Here, the club from the First Division and a Regional Champion and the remaining two masters of the regional leagues play in home and away leg against each other. The two winners of the relegation play in the following season in the First League and the two losers in each of the regional leagues. If the master of a Regional not eligible to play in the First League, the best- placed club takes this a Regional its place in the relegation. So the ESV Parndorf played in the season 2009/ 10 instead of FC Waidhofen / Ybbs in the relegation. According to the decision of the OFB Relegation will be abolished from the 2014/15 season and the champions of the ( then probably only two regional leagues ) will ascend directly to the First League.

Historical

Forerunners

Historically, the First League is not a new idea, they had already existed in the introduction of the Austrian Football Championship in 1911 by the ÖFV as a single-track Second Class in 1924 converted into the professional league II. At that time the Austrian Football Championship, however, was limited to the Vienna area.

With the introduction of an all- Austrian football championship over a transitional season 1949/50, the League B (also State League B ) was created. This extended geographically but only on Central and Eastern Austria ( Burgenland, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Vienna). After the system is a single-track professional league was established in 1959 finally tipped in favor of the Regional, discussed later you long time over a reintroduction.

Introduction and reforms

Ultimately, the decisive league reform was adopted on 21 April 1974, introduced with the season 1974/75: The new National League started with 14 clubs, which was composed of equal parts of seven losers, seven regional league. This was only a transitional season, with only one relegated and the three climbers from the Regional reached to an increase to 16 teams, which was now as such until 1985, before the league system was again reformed completely. DC eleven relegated from the second division, three climbers from the regional leagues and five relegated from the 1st Division took quite a new composition for a twelve- League as 2nd Division, which merged together with the 1st Division to a play-off mode been.

The playoff leagues had to season 1992/93 inventory before the 2nd Division as of sixteen League celebrated their return, already in the season 1998/99, but under the new name First Division radically ten teams was downgraded. This brought seven relegated in the 1997/98 season. The league consisted then up to the 2005/06 season ten clubs and was discharged on the same mode, as is currently the case.

Time than twelve League

With the increase in the second game to level twelve clubs in the mode of a round-trip round in autumn, and a simple first round was held in spring in the season 2006/ 07 for the first time. This meant that the clubs met three times the first time in a championship of each other with the award of the home right in the simple round based on the standings the previous season was.

During this time, the three last-place club were relegated from the First Division in the regional leagues, the masters of the third power level moved it to the second division after. Entitled to promotion to the First League were exclusively the respective champions of the regional leagues, provided the license is issued by the Senate 5 of the Bundesliga. An association has been denied a license for economic reasons, remained the best-placed of the supposed relegated to the higher-rank league, as the runner-up of a Regional basically approached not rise right.

During the First League was held with twelve clubs, it was second teams of the Bundesliga clubs allowed to participate in that. How played in this time, the Red Bull Juniors and Austria Wien Amateure in the First League.

The 2009/10 season, however, was the last in which the First League was played with this mode. At the end of this season was again reduced to ten teams, the second team of the Bundesliga had to descend into the respective Regional and no more second team from the Regional may ascend to the First League.

Name History

With the re- introduction of a common national second division in 1974, the name of this National League took over from the first division, which was called from this point Bundesliga. This name remained but only for a season and the league was eventually renamed in 2nd Division. In the wake of the abolition of the play-off mode and the introduction of the Bundesliga as a top division in 1993, the name was extended to second division of the Bundesliga. At that time, the league was known colloquially as 2nd Bundesliga. The second division was finally subjected to a reform in 1998, which changed the name in First Division. In 2002, the Austrian Electric Chain Red Zac was won as a league sponsor, so starting from the season 2002/ 03 the then first division league called the name Red wore Zac Erste Liga. In spring 2008, the Austrian retail chain ADEG was recovered as a contest sponsor, and the First League with the 2008/ 09 season renamed First League in ADEG. Since the season 2010/11 there is no title sponsor and the league is called " Today for Tomorrow " First League.

Clubs

Stadiums

Previous Winners

Play off

Relegation games from 1998 to 2004

With the introduction of the First Division as tens League Relegation also been introduced. The master of the regional leagues and the ninth -placed the tens League played at two places in the second-highest game level. In the season 04 /05 Relegation was abolished in favor of a direct ascent of the Regional Champion.

* The Wiener Sport Club was despite the defeat for the 02/ 03 season eligible to play in the second highest league because of the bankruptcy of the FC Tirol.

Relegation Games since 2010

With the abolition of the Twelve League Relegation was reintroduced. Here, the mode from the years 1998 to 2004 is applied.

* Canceled the score at 3-0 due to a space storm of GAK - trailers.