TheÖsterreichische Fußball-Bundesliga, literallyAustrian Federal Football League, is the body that manages the most importantfootball championships inAustria . It was founded in 1991 and is headquartered inVienna. It is a founding member ofEuropean Leagues.[1]
It has 27 member clubs and organizes the two professional championships ofBundesliga and2nd Liga, wherereserve teams are welcome.
Professionalism in football arrived in Austria with theWiener Fußball-Verband, in 1924. But it was only after theSecond World War, in 1949, that an organization bringing together the country's professional clubs was born: it was theÖsterreichische Fußball-Staatsliga, which governed the first (Staatsliga A) and second (Staatsliga B) division championships. In 1974, however, theAustrian Football Federation officially dissolved the league and took over the organization of the championships. Only in 1991 did the clubs form an autonomous association again, theÖsterreichische Fußball-Bundesliga, operational from 1 December of that year. Formally it is anon-profit association.[2]
It is constituted in the form ofeingetragener Verein and is one of the 10 members of the association, together with the 9 football associations ofland.
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