2023–24 Austrian Football Second League

48th season of the Austrian second-level football league

Football league season

Austrian Football Second League
Season	2023–24
Dates	27 July 2023 – 25 May 2024
Champions	Grazer AK
Promoted	Grazer AK
Relegated	Mohren Dornbirn Ertl Glas Amstetten SK Sturm Graz II
Matches played	240
Goals scored	716 (2.98 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dario Tadic Deni Alar (16)
Biggest home win	Leoben 6–0 Mohren Dornbirn 11 November 2023
Biggest away win	Mohren Dornbirn 0–5 SW Bregenz 26 August 2023 Lafnitz 1–6 Liefering 25 November 2023 Sturm Graz II 0–5 Guntamatic Ried 6 December 2023
Highest scoring	First Vienna 7–3 St. Pölten 5 April 2024
Longest winning run	Leoben (6)
Longest unbeaten run	Leoben (11)
Longest winless run	Amstetten (16)
Longest losing run	Mohren Dornbirn (11)
← 2022–23 2024–25 → All statistics correct as of Season Complete.

The 2023–24 Austrian Football Second League known as the Admiral 2nd League for sponsorship purposes, was the 50th season of the Austrian second-level football league and the sixth as the Second League. The league consists of 16 teams.^[1]

Grazer AK spent the majority of the season in the top position on the table, clinching the championship with weeks to spare and ensuring a promotion to the 2024-25 Austrian Bundesliga. Mohren Dornbirn, Sturm Graz II and Amstetten were all relegated to the Austrian Regionalliga.

Teams

Sixteen teams participated in the 2023–24 season. Ried was relegated from the 2022–23 Austrian Football Bundesliga, replacing the 2022–23 2nd League Champions Blau-Weiß Linz, while Leoben (Regionalliga Mitte), SW Bregenz (Regionalliga West) and SV Stripfing (Regionalliga Ost) were promoted from the third tier to replace the three relegated squads, Vorwärts Steyr, Rapid II and AW II.

SV Stripfing played in 2nd League for the first time in history from this season and finished one spot out of relegation, securing its spot in the 2023-24 2. Liga.

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Location of teams in the 2023–24 Austrian Football Second League

Club Name	City	Stadium	Capacity
DSV Leoben	Leoben	Donawitz Stadium	8,450
First Vienna FC	Vienna	Hohe Warte Stadium	5,500
Floridsdorfer AC	Vienna	FAC-Platz	3,000
Flyeralarm Admira	Maria Enzersdorf	motion invest Arena	10,600
Grazer AK	Graz	Merkur-Arena	15,323
Guntamatic Ried	Ried im Innkreis	Josko Arena	7,680
Kapfenberger SV	Kapfenberg	Franz Fekete Stadium	10,000
FC Liefering	Salzburg	Untersberg-Arena	4,128
Mohren Dornbirn	Dornbirn	Stadion Birkenwiese	7,500
Sturm Graz II	Graz	Merkur Arena	16,364
SKN St. Pölten	Sankt Pölten	NV Arena	8,000
SKU Amstetten	Amstetten	Ertl Glas Stadion	2,000
SV Horn	Horn	Sparkasse Horn Arena	7,870
SV Lafnitz	Lafnitz	Sportplatz Lafnitz	3,000
SV Stripfing	Weikendorf	Sportplatz Stripfing	500
SW Bregenz	Bregenz	ImmoAgentur Stadion	12,000

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League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Grazer AK (C, P)	30	21	6	3	57	27	+30	69	Promotion to 2024–25 Austrian Football Bundesliga
2	Guntamatic Ried	30	18	5	7	67	22	+45	59
3	First Vienna FC	30	15	6	9	52	39	+13	51
4	DSV Leoben	30	15	6	9	47	31	+16	51
5	Floridsdorfer AC	30	13	10	7	45	33	+12	49
6	FC Liefering	30	13	8	9	51	40	+11	47
7	Flyeralarm Admira	30	13	8	9	42	31	+11	47
8	SV Horn	30	13	2	15	40	48	−8	41
9	SKN St. Pölten	30	12	4	14	46	52	−6	40
10	Licht-Loidl Lafnitz	30	11	4	15	48	57	−9	37
11	SW Bregenz	30	11	6	13	38	45	−7	36^[a]
12	Kapfenberger SV	30	9	8	13	42	54	−12	35
13	SV Stripfing	30	10	5	15	40	58	−18	35
14	Mohren Dornbirn (R)	30	10	3	17	32	51	−19	33	Relegation to 2024–25 Austrian Football Regionalliga
15	Sturm Graz II (R)	30	5	8	17	39	67	−28	23
16	Ertl Glas Amstetten (R)	30	3	7	20	30	61	−31	16

Source: 2.Liga Table
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Direct Duel; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored ; 5) Matches won; 6) Away matches won; 7) Away goals scored

(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ SW Bregenz were deducted 3 points and fined €25,000 for fielding three Brazilians without a work permission and not paying them directly by the club.

Results

Home \ Away	AMS	ADM	BRE	DOR	FAC	FVI	GAK	HOR	KAP	LAF	LEO	LIE	RIE	STP	STR	STU
SKU Amstetten	—	1–3	1–2	0–1	3–2	1–3	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	2–3	0–1	1–1	1–4
Admira Wacker	3–1	—	1–3	1–0	0–0	0–3	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	3–2	2–2	1–0	1–1
SW Bregenz	0–1	1–0	—	1–4	0–2	2–0	0–3	3–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–3	0–2	3–3
FC Dornbirn	1–0	1–0	0–5	—	1–2	1–0	0–1	4–0	1–3	0–2	2–1	1–2	0–2	3–1	1–3	2–3
Floridsdorfer AC	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	—	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	0–2	3–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–0
First Vienna FC	4–1	2–1	1–2	0–0	2–2	—	2–3	1–2	4–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	7–3	1–0	2–2
Grazer AK	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–3	2–2	—	1–1	4–2	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	1–0
SV Horn	3–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–3	2–0	1–2	—	0–2	2–1	0–3	2–1	0–2	1–3	2–1	4–0
Kapfenberger SV	4–2	1–1	1–3	3–2	1–1	0–0	2–3	1–3	—	2–4	2–1	1–3	1–3	0–3	3–1	1–1
SV Lafnitz	2–2	1–3	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–3	4–1	2–0	3–0	—	2–3	1–6	0–4	0–1	0–3	5–2
DSV Leoben	1–0	3–2	2–0	6–0	0–4	0–1	1–2	3–2	0–0	1–1	—	1–2	1–0	0–0	4–0	2–1
FC Liefering	2–2	1–1	2–1	0–1	4–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	0–1	4–3	2–2	—	1–1	3–1	1–2	4–1
Guntamatic Ried	3–0	2–2	5–0	1–0	0–2	4–1	0–1	5–0	2–0	5–0	2–0	3–2	—	1–1	5–0	1–0
SKN St. Pölten	3–1	0–3	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–3	0–2	2–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	0–4	—	1–2	3–1
SV Stripfing	0–2	0–4	1–1	2–2	2–2	3–2	2–5	3–1	2–3	1–1	1–4	1–2	1–0	4–1	—	2–1
SK Sturm Graz II	3–2	1–3	0–2	2–3	2–2	1–1	0–1	2–1	3–3	1–4	0–2	1–1	0–5	1–4	2–0	—

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

Positions by round

Source: 2liga.at

Results by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
SKU Amstetten	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	D	D	L	L	L	W	L	W	L	L	L	D	L	L	W	L	D	D	L
Admira Wacker	W	D	W	L	W	D	L	D	D	D	D	L	W	L	L	W	W	L	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	L	W	W	L	L
SW Bregenz	W	W	L	L	W	W	W	D	W	L	W	D	D	L	W	W	L	W	D	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	W
FC Dornbirn	W	L	L	W	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	D	W	W	L
Floridsdorfer AC	D	D	D	W	L	W	W	W	L	D	D	W	L	W	W	W	D	W	L	W	L	D	L	W	W	L	D	W	D	D
First Vienna FC	L	D	L	L	W	W	W	D	W	D	L	W	D	W	W	L	D	D	L	W	L	W	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	W
Grazer AK	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	L	W	W	W	D	W	D	W	D	L	W	W	W	D	W	D	W
SV Horn	L	W	L	W	L	W	L	W	L	L	L	L	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	W	L	W	L	L	W	W	D	L	D	L
Kapfenberger SV	L	D	W	L	D	W	L	W	D	W	W	D	D	W	L	L	D	L	L	D	D	L	W	L	L	W	W	L	L	L
SV Lafnitz	W	L	W	L	W	L	W	W	L	D	L	W	L	L	L	W	L	W	W	D	W	L	D	L	L	D	W	L	L	L
DSV Leoben	W	W	W	L	L	L	L	L	D	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	D	W	L	W	D	L	W	L	W
FC Liefering	L	L	W	W	D	L	L	L	D	D	D	L	D	L	W	W	W	W	D	L	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	D	W	W
Guntamatic Ried	D	D	L	W	D	L	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	L	L	W	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W
SKN St. Pölten	W	W	L	W	W	W	L	D	L	L	L	D	W	W	L	W	W	L	W	L	W	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	D	W
SV Stripfing	L	L	W	D	W	L	W	L	W	W	W	D	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	L	L	D	W	D	W	L	L	D
SK Sturm Graz II	L	D	D	L	D	D	L	L	W	W	D	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	D	L	D	W	W	L	L	L	L	W	L

Source: 2liga.at
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of Complete ^[3]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dario Tadic	St. Pölten	16
1	Deni Alar	Leoben	16
2	Daniel Maderner	Grazer AK	15
4	André Leipold	Lafnitz	13
4	Mark Große	SV Guntamatic Ried	13
6	Lukas Brückler	Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz	11
6	Wilfried Eza	SV Guntamatic Ried	11
8	Kelvin Boateng	First Vienna	10
	Darijo Pecirep	Stripfing
	Christoph Monschein	First Vienna
	Marco Hausjell	Horn
	David Peham	First Vienna

References

^ "Spielplan der ADMIRAL 2. Liga 2023/24" [Schedule of ADMIRAL 2nd league 2023/24]. 2liga.at (in German). Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
^ Sport.de-Stadien 2. Liga Österreich
^ "2Liga.at - Torschützenliste". www.2liga.at. Retrieved 27 May 2021.

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Official website (in German)
Page on AustriaSoccer.at (in German)

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2023–24 in Austrian football

Domestic leagues	Bundesliga Second League Regional League ÖFB-Frauenliga 2. Landesliga
Domestic cups	Austrian Cup
European competitions	Champions League Europa League Europa Conference League

Club seasons
Bundesliga	Austria Klagenfurt Austria Lustenau Austria Wien Blau-Weiß Linz Hartberg LASK Rapid Wien Red Bull Salzburg Rheindorf Altach Sturm Graz WSG Tirol Wolfsberg
Second League	Admira Amstetten Dornbirn First Vienna Floridsdorfer AC Grazer AK Horn Kapfenberger SV Leoben Lafnitz Liefering Ried Sturm Graz II St. Pölten SV Stripfing Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz