Austrian Football Bundesliga 2008–09
| Season | 2008–09 |
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| Champions |
Red Bull Salzburg 5th Austrian title |
| Relegated | SCR Altach |
| UEFA Champions League | Red Bull Salzburg |
| UEFA Europa League |
Rapid Vienna Sturm Graz Austria Vienna (via domestic cup) |
| Goals scored | 588 |
| Average goals/game | 3.27 |
| Top goalscorer |
 Marc Janko (39) |
| Biggest home win | Rapid 8–1 Altach |
| Biggest away win | Altach 2–7 Rapid |
| Highest scoring | Mattersburg 5–6 Sturm |
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The Austrian Football Bundesliga 2008–09 was the 97th 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 started on 8 July 2008 with Sturm Graz beating defending champions Rapid Vienna by 3–1. The 36th and last round of matches took place on 31 May 2009.
Fußballclub Wacker Innsbruck were relegated after finishing the 2007–08 season in 10th and last place. They were replaced by First League champions Kapfenberger SV.
Source: bundesliga.at (German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1Austria Vienna won the Austrian Cup 2008–09 and therefore qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
(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.
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