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2013–14 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Austrian Bundesliga
Season 2013–14
Champions Red Bull Salzburg
Relegated Wacker Innsbruck
Champions League Red Bull Salzburg
Europa League Rapid Wien
Grödig
Matches played 180
Goals scored 595 (3.31 per match)
Top goalscorer Jonathan Soriano (31)
Biggest home win Salzburg 8–1 Wiener Neustadt
Biggest away win Grödig 0–6 Sturm Graz
Highest scoring Salzburg 8–1 Wiener Neustadt
Salzburg 6–3 Rapid Wien

The 2013–14 Austrian Football Bundesliga is the 102nd season of top-tier football in Austria.

On 30 April 2013, the Bundesliga awarded the licenses for the 2013–14 championship. Only 18 out of the 24 clubs that had applied for a license were granted. The Bundesliga teams FC Admira Wacker Mödling and FC Wacker Innsbruck, the First League clubs First Vienna FC and TSV Hartberg, as well as the regional league teams LASK Linz and SV Austria Salzburg were denied the license. First league team SKN St. Pölten received the license through financial conditions. FC Lustenau 07, who had to forcibly withdraw from the First League due to multiple violations of the licensing procedure, did not apply for the license.

All six clubs, which were denied the license in the first place, filed a complaint with the protest committee of the Bundesliga. The protest of the Hartberger team was granted; as well as the protests of FC Admira Wacker Mödling, FC Wacker Innsbruck and First Vienna FC, the latter only under financial conditions. In addition, Vienna was deducted five points for the 2013–14 season for violations of the license terms and conditions.

The Bundesliga, which is sponsored by tipp3 as the main sports sponsor, is the highest division in Austrian football and was played for the 40th time in the 2013–14 season and determined the 102nd Austrian Football Champion. Subsponsor was the mobile provider T-Mobile Austria, which is why the official league designation was tipp3-Bundesliga powered by T-Mobile.

Lower Austria, Salzburg and Vienna each have two clubs, and Carinthia, Upper Austria, Styria and Tyrol each one club. The Burgenland and Vorarlberg are not represented with any team in Austria's highest league. In the pre-season, the SV Mattersburg went down to the First League, and SV Grödig took their place.


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