2021–22 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Austrian Bundesliga
Season	2021–22
Dates	23 July 2021 – 29 May 2022
Champions	Red Bull Salzburg; (16th title)
Relegated	Admira Wacker Mödling
Champions League	Red Bull Salzburg; Sturm Graz
Europa League	Austria Wien
Europa Conference League	Wolfsberger AC; Rapid Wien
Matches played	195
Goals scored	563 (2.89 per match)
Top goalscorer	Karim Adeyemi, Giacomo Vrioni; (19 goals)
Biggest home win	Red Bull Salzburg 7–1 Ried; (1 August 2021)
Biggest away win	Austria Klagenfurt 0–6 Red Bull Salzburg; (10 April 2022)
Highest scoring	Red Bull Salzburg 7–1 Ried; (1 August 2021)
Longest winning run	10 matches; Red Bull Salzburg
Longest unbeaten run	15 matches; Red Bull Salzburg
Longest winless run	8 matches; WSG Tirol; Admira Wacker Mödling
Longest losing run	6 matches; Rheindorf Altach
	← 2020–21 2022–23 →

The 2021–22 Austrian Football Bundesliga, also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, was the 110th season of top-tier football in Austria. The title was won by Red Bull Salzburg for the sixteenth time in their history, and ninth time in a row.^[1]

Teams

Changes

St. Pölten was relegated to the 2021-22 Austrian Football Second League after finishing in last place in the 2020-21 Relegation Round.^[2] SK Austria Klagenfurt was promoted as champions of the 2020–21 Austrian Football Second League, despite finishing third in that competition. FC Blau-Weiß Linz finished in first, but did not apply for a Bundesliga license ^[3] and FC Liefering took second place, but as a feeder team for FC Red Bull Salzburg, were also ineligible for promotion.

Stadia and locations

Location of teams in the 2021–22 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Admira Wacker Mödling	Maria Enzersdorf	BSFZ-Arena	7,000
SK Austria Klagenfurt	Klagenfurt	Wörthersee Stadion	29,863
Austria Wien	Vienna	Generali Arena	17,500
LASK	Linz	Waldstadion Pasching	6,009
Rapid Wien	Vienna	Allianz Stadion	28,000
Red Bull Salzburg	Wals-Siezenheim	Red Bull Arena	17,218 (30,188)
Rheindorf Altach	Altach	Stadion Schnabelholz	8,500
Sturm Graz	Graz	Merkur-Arena	16,364
SV Ried	Ried im Innkreis	Keine Sorgen Arena	7,680
TSV Hartberg	Hartberg	Profertil Arena Hartberg	4,635
Wolfsberger AC	Wolfsberg	Lavanttal-Arena	7,300
WSG Tirol	Innsbruck	Tivoli Stadion Tirol	16,008

Regular season

League table

Austrian Bundesliga regular season table
Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Red Bull Salzburg	22	17	4	1	50	13	+37	55	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Sturm Graz	22	10	7	5	46	32	+14	37
3	Wolfsberger AC	22	11	4	7	34	32	+2	37
4	Austria Wien	22	8	9	5	31	23	+8	33
5	Rapid Wien	22	8	7	7	35	31	+4	31
6	Austria Klagenfurt	22	7	9	6	31	33	−2	30
7	Ried	22	7	8	7	31	41	−10	29	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	LASK	22	6	7	9	28	29	−1	25
9	WSG Tirol	22	5	8	9	30	42	−12	23
10	Hartberg	22	5	7	10	29	35	−6	22
11	Admira Wacker Mödling	22	4	8	10	25	31	−6	20
12	Rheindorf Altach	22	3	4	15	10	38	−28	13

Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head record; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Matches won; 6) Away matches won; 7) Away goals scored.^[4]

Results

Home \ Away	ADM	KLA	AWI	ALT	HAR	LIN	RWI	RBS	STU	RIE	WAT	WOL
Admira Wacker Mödling	—	4–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	0–3	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–1
Austria Klagenfurt	3–3	—	0–0	2–0	4–3	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–3	1–1	2–1	1–1
Austria Wien	2–2	1–1	—	0–0	2–0	2–3	1–1	0–1	2–1	4–1	1–1	1–0
Rheindorf Altach	0–2	0–4	0–2	—	0–2	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–2
Hartberg	1–1	0–2	3–4	1–2	—	2–1	1–1	0–1	3–2	1–1	0–1	2–2
LASK	3–1	2–2	0–2	0–1	1–1	—	1–1	0–0	1–3	1–0	3–0	0–1
Rapid Wien	1–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–2	—	1–2	0–3	3–0	5–2	3–0
Red Bull Salzburg	0–0	3–1	1–0	4–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	—	4–1	7–1	5–0	2–0
Sturm Graz	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–1	3–0	3–3	2–2	1–3	—	1–0	5–0	0–3
SV Ried	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	2–2	—	3–2	3–3
WSG Tirol	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–2	1–3	2–2	4–2	—	5–1
Wolfsberger AC	3–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–3	1–0	4–1	0–2	1–4	2–1	2–2	—

Source: soccerway.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship round

The points obtained during the regular season were halved (and rounded down) before the start of the playoff. As a result, the teams started with the following points before the playoff: Red Bull Salzburg 27, Sturm Graz 18, Wolfsberger AC 18, Austria Wien 16, Rapid Wien 15, and Austria Klagenfurt 15. The points of all teams but Austria Klagenfurt were rounded down – in the event of any ties on points at the end of the playoffs, a half point will be added for these teams.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	RBS	STU	AWI	WOL	RWI	KLA
1	Red Bull Salzburg (C)	32	25	5	2	77	19	+58	52	Qualification for the Champions League group stage	—	1–0	5–0	4–0	2–1	1–1
2	Sturm Graz	32	16	8	8	62	46	+16	37	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round	2–1	—	1–0	1–4	2–1	3–1
3	Austria Wien	32	11	13	8	44	39	+5	29	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round	1–2	4–2	—	2–1	1–1	1–1
4	Wolfsberger AC	32	14	5	13	48	53	−5	28	Qualification for the Europa Conference League third qualifying round	1–4	0–2	1–1	—	2–1	1–2
5	Rapid Wien (O)	32	10	11	11	48	45	+3	25	Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-offs	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	—	2–2
6	Austria Klagenfurt	32	8	12	12	43	57	−14	21		0–6	1–2	1–2	2–3	1–3	—

Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points with (possible) half points subtracted due to rounding; 3) Head-to-head points ; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Goal difference; 8) Goals scored; 9) Matches won; 10) Away matches won; 11) Away goals scored.^[5]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners

Relegation round

The points obtained during the regular season were halved (and rounded down) before the start of the playoff. As a result, the teams started with the following points before the playoff: Ried 14, LASK 12, Tirol 11, Hartberg 11, Admira Wacker 10, and Rheindorf Altach 6. The points of Ried, LASK, Tirol, and Rheindorf Altach were rounded down – in the event of any ties on points at the end of the playoffs, a half point will be added for these teams.

Austrian Bundesliga relegation round table
Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	WAT	LIN	ALT	RIE	HAR	ADM
1	WSG Tirol	32	10	10	12	46	58	−12	28	Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-offs	—	4–0	0–3	2–0	4–2	0–0
2	LASK	32	9	12	11	44	42	+2	26	Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-offs	6–0	—	2–1	0–2	3–3	3–1
3	Rheindorf Altach	32	7	8	17	24	49	−25	22		2–1	0–0	—	1–1	0–0	2–2
4	Ried	32	8	13	11	40	54	−14	22		2–3	1–1	1–2	—	0–0	1–1
5	Hartberg	32	7	12	13	43	47	−4	22		0–1	0–0	4–0	1–1	—	1–2
6	Admira Wacker Mödling (R)	32	6	13	13	36	46	−10	21	Relegation to Austrian Football Second League	1–1	1–1	0–3	2–0	1–3	—

Source: Austrian Bundesliga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points with (possible) half points subtracted due to rounding; 3) Head-to-head points ; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Goal difference; 8) Goals scored; 9) Matches won; 10) Away matches won; 11) Away goals scored.^[4]
(R) Relegated

Europa Conference League play-offs

The winner and runner-up of the relegation round, the fifth-placed team from the championship round play to determine the qualifier to the Europa Conference League second qualifying round.

Semi-final			Finals

			7	WSG Tirol	1	0	1
7	WSG Tirol	2	5	Rapid Wien	2	2	4
8	LASK	1

Semi-final

23 May 2022

18:00

WSG Tirol	2–1	LASK
Vrioni 22' Sabitzer 45+1'	Report	Goiginger 88' (pen.)

Tivoli Stadion Tirol, Innsbruck

Referee: Rene Eisner

Final

26 May 2022

17:00

WSG Tirol	1–2	Rapid Wien
Vrioni 27'	Report	Grüll 10' Auer 13'

Tivoli Stadion Tirol, Innsbruck

Referee: Sebastian Gishamer

29 May 2022

17:00

Rapid Wien	2–0	WSG Tirol
Ljubičić 29' Binder 87'	Report

Allianz Stadion, Vienna

Referee: Stefan Ebner

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 29 May 2022^[6]^[7]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Karim Adeyemi	Red Bull Salzburg	19
1	Giacomo Vrioni	WSG Tirol	19
3	Jakob Jantscher	Sturm Graz	14
4	Manprit Sarkaria	Sturm Graz	13
5	Markus Pink	Austria Klagenfurt	12
6	Kelvin Yeboah	Sturm Graz	11
6	Tai Baribo	Wolfsberger AC	11
8	Dario Tadić	Hartberg	10
8	Sascha Horvath	LASK	10
10	8 players		9

Awards

Annual awards

Award^[8]	Winner	Club
Player of the Year	Jakob Jantscher	Sturm Graz
Top goalscorer	Karim Adeyemi	Red Bull Salzburg
Manager of the Year	Matthias Jaissle	Red Bull Salzburg
Breakthrough of the Year	Nicolas Seiwald	Red Bull Salzburg

Team of the Year

Team of the Year^[9]
Goalkeeper	Patrick Pentz (Austria Wien)
Defence	Rasmus Kristensen (Red Bull Salzburg)	Maximilian Wöber (Red Bull Salzburg)	Gregory Wüthrich (Sturm Graz)	Andreas Ulmer (Red Bull Salzburg)
Midfield	Manprit Sarkaria (Sturm Graz)	Mohamed Camara (Red Bull Salzburg)	Nicolas Seiwald (Red Bull Salzburg)	Marco Grüll (Rapid Wien)
Attack	Karim Adeyemi (Red Bull Salzburg)	Jakob Jantscher (Sturm Graz)

References

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^ ^a ^b "Bundesliga.at - Tabelle" [Bundesliga.at - Table] (in German). Austrian Football Bundesliga. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
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^ "Bundesliga.at - Torschützenliste". www.bundesliga.at.
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[1] "Austrian Bundesliga". bundesliga.at/de (in German). Bundelisga. 12 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.

[2] "Davies SKN St. Pölten relegated to Hybet Liga". footballsierraleone.net/. Football Sierra Leone. 30 May 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.

[3] "Der FC Blau Weiß Linz ist Meister in der 2. Liga". Österreichische Fußball-Bundeslig. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.

[Bundesliga.at_-_Table-4] "Bundesliga.at - Tabelle" [Bundesliga.at - Table] (in German). Austrian Football Bundesliga. Retrieved 6 March 2021.

[Bundesliga.at_-_Table2-5] "Bundesliga.at - Tabelle" [Bundesliga.at - Table] (in German). Austrian Football Bundesliga. Retrieved 24 April 2022.

[6] "Bundesliga 2021/2022 live scores, results, Football Austria - Flashscore". www.flashscore.com.

[7] "Bundesliga.at - Torschützenliste". www.bundesliga.at.

[8] Salzburg24 (2022-09-20). "Bruno-Gala: Preise für Salzburg, Jaissle und Seiwald". www.salzburg24.at (in German). Retrieved 2022-12-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[9] "Bundesliga.at - Team der Saison - ADMIRAL Bundesliga". www.bundesliga.at. Retrieved 2022-12-28.

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