Austrian Football Bundesliga
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| Country | Austria |
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| Confederation | UEFA |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Number of teams | 10 |
| Level on pyramid | 1 |
| Relegation to | Austrian Football First League |
| Domestic cup(s) |
Austrian Cup Austrian Supercup |
| International cup(s) |
Champions League Europa League |
| Current champions |
Red Bull Salzburg (2015–16) |
| Most championships | Rapid Wien (32 titles) |
| TV partners | ORF, Sky Sport Austria |
| Website | www.bundesliga.at |
 2016–17 season
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The Austrian Football Bundesliga (German: Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga [ˈøːstɐʁaɪ̯çɪʃə ˈfuːsbal ˈbʊndəsliːɡa]) is the highest-ranking national league club competition in Austrian football. It is the competition which decides the Austrian national football champions, as well the country's entrants for the various European cups run by UEFA. Since Austria stayed in sixteenth place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2015–16 season, the league gained its first spot for the UEFA Champions League.
The Austrian Bundesliga, which began in the 1974–75 season, has been a separate registered association since 1 December 1991. It has been most won by the two Viennese giants Austria Wien, who were national champions 23 times, and Rapid Wien, who won the national title 32 times. The current champions are Red Bull Salzburg. Hans Rinner is president of the Austrian Bundesliga.
The Austrian Football Bundesliga is currently known as tipico Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons.
Football has been played in Austria since around 1890. Around the turn of the twentieth century two attempts were made to start a national championship. From 1900 onwards, a cup competition was played in Vienna, the Neues Wiener Tagblatt Pokal. This cup was actually played in league format.
The efforts to create a football league succeeded in 1911, with the introduction of the first Austrian football championship. The competition for this championship, the 1. Klasse (First Class), was created and organized by the Niederösterreichischer Fußball-Verband (the Lower Austrian Football Federation), and the participants played for the title of Niederösterreichische Landesmeister (Lower Austrian National Champion). From 1924, the league was considered professional and changed its name to I. Liga (First League).
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