2007–08 Austrian Football Bundesliga

96th season of top-tier football league in Austria
Football league season
Austrian Bundesliga
Season2007–08
Dates10 July 2007 – 26 April 2008
Champions Rapid Wien
Relegated Wacker Innsbruck
Champions League Rapid Wien
UEFA Cup Red Bull Salzburg
Austria Wien
Intertoto Cup Sturm Graz
Matches played180
Goals scored480 (2.67 per match)
Top goalscorer Alexander Zickler (16 goals)
Biggest home winAustria Wien 6–1 Wacker Innsbruck
Sturm Graz 6–1 Altach
Biggest away win Salzburg 0–7 Rapid Wien
Highest scoring Ried 5–3 Sturm Graz

The 2007–08 Austrian Football Bundesliga was the 96th season of top-tier football in Austria. The competition is officially called T-Mobile Bundesliga, named after the Austrian branch of German mobile phone company T-Mobile. The season started on 8 July 2007, and the 36th and last round of matches took place on 26 April 2008.

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Rapid Wien (C) 36 21 6 9 69 36 +33 69 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2 Red Bull Salzburg 36 18 9 9 63 42 +21 63 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round[a]
3 Austria Wien 36 15 13 8 46 33 +13 58
4 Sturm Graz 36 15 11 10 60 41 +19 56 Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
5 Mattersburg 36 13 14 9 55 43 +12 53
6 LASK Linz 36 14 11 11 54 47 +7 53
7 Ried 36 10 8 18 38 53 −15 38
8 Rheindorf Altach 36 8 12 16 37 64 −27 36
9 Austria Kärnten 36 8 9 19 26 58 −32 33
10 Wacker Innsbruck (R) 36 6 11 19 32 63 −31 29 Relegation to Austrian First Football League
Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ According to the UEFA coefficients, only the 2nd place team would qualify for the UEFA Cup Qualification. This season, however, the UEFA Cup Qualification spot that would usually be awarded to the Austrian Cup winner will be given to the 3rd place team of the Bundesliga.


Results

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.

First half of season

Home \ Away AKÄ ALT AWI LIN MAT RWI RIE RBS STU WKR
Austria Kärnten 1–1 2–1 1–4 1–1 1–2 0–3 1–0 0–0 2–0
Rheindorf Altach 4–1 1–0 2–2 0–0 0–1 2–3 1–1 0–0 2–1
Austria Wien 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–2 2–2 2–1 2–2 1–0 6–1
LASK Linz 1–0 2–0 1–1 0–2 2–0 1–0 4–1 2–2 5–0
Mattersburg 5–2 4–1 0–1 0–0 3–2 5–1 1–1 2–2 3–1
Rapid Wien 4–0 0–2 0–0 4–4 1–0 4–0 1–0 1–5 3–1
Ried 3–1 3–1 0–1 3–0 1–2 0–3 2–0 5–3 0–0
Red Bull Salzburg 3–0 4–1 0–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 2–0 4–1 3–1
Sturm Graz 1–3 3–1 2–2 4–0 0–0 1–0 5–0 0–0 3–0
Wacker Innsbruck 1–1 0–1 2–0 1–2 2–2 1–1 0–1 3–1 0–0
Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home \ Away AKÄ ALT AWI LIN MAT RWI RIE RBS STU WKR
Austria Kärnten 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–0 0–2 0–0 0–0 0–2 0–2
Rheindorf Altach 0–1 0–4 0–0 2–0 2–1 3–2 1–1 1–2 1–1
Austria Wien 0–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 3–1 1–2 2–1
LASK Linz 4–0 3–0 2–1 2–1 1–2 1–0 1–1 1–2 3–3
Mattersburg 1–0 3–3 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 3–2 1–1 2–1
Rapid Wien 2–1 3–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 4–0 1–3 2–1 4–1
Ried 3–0 3–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–2 0–0 0–0
Red Bull Salzburg 1–1 4–0 2–0 4–0 4–0 0–7 2–0 3–0 2–0
Sturm Graz 3–1 6–1 1–2 1–2 2–1 0–2 2–0 1–1 2–0
Wacker Innsbruck 0–0 1–1 1–2 2–0 0–5 1–1 1–0 1–2 1–0
Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Germany Alexander Zickler Red Bull Salzburg 16
2 Austria Mario Haas Sturm Graz 14
3 Austria Ivica Vastić LASK Linz 13
4 Germany Carsten Jancker SV Mattersburg 12
Albania Hamdi Salihi SV Ried
6 Austria Sanel Kuljic Austria Wien 11
Austria Christian Mayrleb LASK Linz
Bosnia and Herzegovina Samir Muratović Sturm Graz
9 Austria Erwin Hoffer Rapid Wien 10
Germany Steffen Hofmann Rapid Wien

Top assist providers

  • Steffen Hofmann was the assist leader of the league, having provided a total of 25 assists (both Austrian and European record).

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  • Bundesliga website (in German)
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