2009-10 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Austrian Bundesliga

Season	2009–10
Champions	RB Salzburg
Relegated	Austria Kärnten
Matches played	180
Goals scored	528 (2.93 per match)
Top goalscorer	Steffen Hofmann (20)
Biggest home win	RB Salzburg 7–1 A. Kärnten
Biggest away win	Mattersburg 1–6 RB Salzburg
Highest scoring	Kapfenberger SV 7-2 LASK LASK 4–5 A. Vienna
← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The 2009–10 Austrian Football Bundesliga is the 98th season of top-tier football in Austria. The competition is officially called tipp3-Bundesliga powered by T-Mobile, named after the Austrian betting company tipp3 and the Austrian branch of German mobile phone company T-Mobile. The season began on the weekend of 18 July 2009 and ended on 13 May 2010. RB Salzburg claimed the championship on the last matchday, their second consecutive title.

SC Rheindorf Altach were relegated after finishing the 2008–09 season in 10th and last place. They were replaced by First League champions SC Wiener Neustadt.

Source: bundesliga.at (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹per 2009–10 Austrian Cup
²Austria Kärnten were not granted a professional license for the 2010–11 season and thus were demoted to the Regionalliga.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Teams played each other four times in the league. In the first half of the season each team played every other team twice (home and away), and then did the same in the second half of the season.

Source: bundesliga.at (in German)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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