1996–97 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Statistics of Austrian Football Bundesliga in the 1996–97 season.

Austrian Bundesliga

Season	1996–97
Champions	SV Austria Salzburg
← 1995–96 1997–98 →

Overview

It was contested by 10 teams, and SV Austria Salzburg won the championship.

Teams and location

Admira

LASK
FC Linz

SV Ried

Austria

Salzburg

Tirol Innsbruck

Sturm
Grazer AK

Rapid

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Location of teams in the 1996–97 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Teams of 1996–97 Austrian Football Bundesliga

• FC Admira/Wacker
• Austria Salzburg
• Austria Wien
• Grazer AK
• LASK
• FC Linz
• Rapid Wien
• SV Ried
• Sturm Graz
• Tirol Innsbruck

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Austria Salzburg (C)	36	19	12	5	54	25	+29	69	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Rapid Wien	36	18	12	6	69	36	+33	66	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
3	Sturm Graz	36	14	13	9	50	31	+19	55	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
4	Tirol Innsbruck	36	16	7	13	49	40	+9	55	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
5	Grazer AK	36	11	14	11	39	42	−3	47	Qualification to Intertoto Cup group stage
6	Austria Wien	36	12	10	14	41	51	−10	46
7	LASK Linz	36	9	17	10	38	47	−9	44
8	Ried	36	12	6	18	44	59	−15	42	Qualification to Intertoto Cup group stage
9	FC Linz (R)	36	6	13	17	30	47	−17	31	Merged with LASK Linz after the season
10	Admira/Wacker (O)	36	6	10	20	35	71	−36	28	Qualification for relegation play-offs

Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

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	ADM	ASZ	AWI	FCL	GAK	LIN	RIE	RWI	STU	TIR
Admira/Wacker		1–1	3–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	2–1	0–2	0–3	2–2
Austria Salzburg	1–0		3–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–0
Austria Wien	1–0	0–4		2–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	3–2	2–1
FC Linz	1–1	0–1	0–1		2–1	0–0	0–4	0–1	0–3	3–0
Grazer AK	3–0	0–0	2–2	1–0		3–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1
LASK Linz	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1		0–0	3–0	3–1	1–3
Ried	0–1	0–4	3–2	4–1	2–1	2–0		3–3	1–2	1–2
Rapid Wien	4–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	4–0	3–1	6–0		3–1	4–2
Sturm Graz	1–3	0–0	4–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	3–0	0–0		0–1
Tirol Innsbruck	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	4–0	1–1	2–0

Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home \ Away	ADM	ASZ	AWI	FCL	GAK	LIN	RIE	RWI	STU	TIR
Admira/Wacker		1–1	3–2	0–3	1–2	1–3	3–1	1–2	0–2	0–1
Austria Salzburg	4–0		1–0	2–0	3–1	6–2	4–2	2–0	0–0	2–1
Austria Wien	2–1	3–1		2–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0
FC Linz	2–2	2–2	1–1		0–1	3–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–1
Grazer AK	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1		1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1
LASK Linz	2–2	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–0		3–0	1–1	0–0	0–4
Ried	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–0		3–0	1–0	2–1
Rapid Wien	7–0	2–0	3–0	4–2	2–1	0–0	2–2		0–2	3–0
Sturm Graz	7–0	0–0	3–2	1–0	0–0	4–2	2–1	3–0		1–1
Tirol Innsbruck	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–4	1–0	1–0	2–4	2–0

Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Admira/Wacker	7–3	Vorwärts Steyr	2–2	5–1

Top goalscorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	René Wagner	Rapid Wien	21
2	Thomas Janeschitz	Tirol Innsbruck	13
	Ivica Vastić	Sturm Graz
4	Eduard Glieder	Austria Salzburg	12
5	Marcel Oerlemans	SV Ried	11
	Herwig Drechsel	SV Ried
	Dietmar Kühbauer	Rapid Wien
	Manfred Rosenegger	Admira/Wacker
9	Dieter Ramusch	Grazer AK	10
10	Ronald Brunmayr	Austria Wien	9
	Peter Stöger	Rapid Wien

References

• Austria - List of final tables (RSSSF)