2018–19 Austrian Football Second League

The 2018–19 Austrian Football Second League is the 45th season of the Austrian second-level football league and the first one as the Second League. The league has been expanded to 16 teams for this season with one team being promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga and 3 teams being relegated to the Austrian Regionalliga at the end of the season.

Austrian Football Second League

Season	2018–19
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

Teams

Sixteen teams will participate in the 2018–19 season. SV Horn, SKU Amstetten, FK Austria Wien II, SV Lafnitz, SK Vorwärts Steyr, FC Juniors OÖ, SK Austria Klagenfurt and FC Wacker Innsbruck II were promoted either through promotion or application to the new league structure. No team was relegated the previous season due to a decision made in the expansion of the league.

FC Wacker Innsbruck II, FK Austria Wien II, FC Liefering and FC Juniors Oberösterreich are not eligible for promotion.^[1]

Ried

Liefering

A.Lustenau

FAC
AW II

Kapfenberg

BWL
Juniors

Horn

Innsbruck II

Neustadt

Wattens

Amstetten

Lafnitz

Vorwärts

A.Klagenfurt

Location of teams in the 2018–19 Austrian Football First League

Club Name	City	Stadium	Capacity
Austria Lustenau	Lustenau	Reichshofstadion	8,800
FC Blau-Weiß Linz	Linz	Donauparkstadion	2,000
Floridsdorfer AC	Vienna	FAC-Platz	3,000
FK Austria Wien II	Vienna	Austria-Akademie	830
Kapfenberger SV	Kapfenberg	Franz-Fekete-Stadion	12,000
Liefering	Salzburg	Untersberg-Arena	4,128
SV Ried	Ried im Innkreis	Keine Sorgen Arena	7,680
Wacker Innsbruck II	Innsbruck	Tivoli W1	700
Wiener Neustadt	Wiener Neustadt	Stadion Wiener Neustadt	10,000
WSG Wattens	Wattens	Alpenstadion	5,500
FC Juniors OÖ	Pasching	Waldstadion	7,870
SV Horn	Horn	Waldviertler Volksbank Arena	7,870
SKU Amstetten	Amstetten	Ertl Glas Stadion	2,000
SV Lafnitz	Lafnitz	Sportplatz Lafnitz	3,000
SK Vorwärts Steyr	Steyr	Vorwärts-Stadion	6,000
SK Austria Klagenfurt	Klagenfurt	Wörthersee Stadion	32,000

Personnel and kits

Club	Manager	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Sponsors
Austria Lustenau	Gernot Plassnegger		Uhlsport
FC Blau-Weiß Linz	Thomas Sageder		Uhlsport
Floridsdorfer	Mario Handl		Puma
FK Austria Wien II	Andreas Ogris		Nike
Kapfenberger	Kurt Russ		Erima
Liefering	Janusz Góra & Gerhard Struber		Nike
SV Ried	Thomas Weissenböck		Hummel
Wacker Innsbruck II	Thomas Grumser		Macron
WSG Wattens	Thomas Silberberger		Erima
Wiener Neustadt	Roman Mählich		Capelli
FC Juniors OÖ	Ronald Brunmayr
SV Horn	Carsten Jancker
SKU Amstetten	Robert Weinstabl		Puma
SV Lafnitz	Ferdinand Feldhofer		adidas
SK Vorwärts Steyr	Gerald Scheiblehner		Erima
SK Austria Klagenfurt	Franz Polanz		Erreà

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	WSG Wattens (C, P)	30	19	8	3	59	26	+33	65	Promotion to 2019–20 Austrian Bundesliga
2	SV Ried	30	18	9	3	61	21	+40	63
3	Austria Lustenau	30	14	8	8	55	34	+21	50
4	Kapfenberger SV	30	13	7	10	44	40	+4	46
5	Blau-Weiß Linz	30	14	2	14	46	48	−2	44
6	FC Juniors OÖ	30	13	3	14	52	55	−3	42
7	Austria Klagenfurt	30	9	14	7	43	35	+8	41
8	Floridsdorfer AC	30	11	8	11	35	41	−6	41
9	SKU Amstetten	30	10	6	14	45	43	+2	36
10	FC Liefering	30	10	5	15	50	54	−4	35
11	Austria Wien II	30	9	7	14	46	62	−16	34
12	SV Lafnitz	30	8	9	13	36	42	−6	33
13	SV Horn	30	6	7	17	33	62	−29	25
14	Vorwärts Steyr	30	5	6	19	32	68	−36	21
15	Wiener Neustadt (R)	30	12	8	10	39	41	−2	44	Relegation to 2019–20 Austrian Regionalliga
16	Wacker Innsbruck II (R)	30	10	11	9	40	44	−4	41

Source: 2. Liga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Less matches awarded against; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Matches won; 6) Away matches won; 7) Head-to-head points; 8) Head-to-head goal difference; 9) Head-to-head goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Discipline

See also

• 2018–19 Austrian Football Bundesliga
• 2018–19 Austrian Cup