The Austrian Cup

Austrian Cup

The Austrian Cup, in German: ÖFB-Cup is an annual football competition held by the Austrian Football Association, the ÖFB.It has been held since 1919, with the exception of the time of the Anschluss between 1939 and 1945 and the period between 1950 and 1958 when the competition was deemed of...

 2008–09 (German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

: ÖFB-Cup, also Stiegl-Cup for sponsoring purposes) was the seventy-fifth season of Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

's nationwide football cup competition. It started on July 18, 2008 with the first game of the Preliminary Round. The final was held at the Pappelstadion

Pappelstadion

Pappelstadion is a multi-use stadium in Mattersburg, Austria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of SV Mattersburg. The stadium holds 17,100....

, Mattersburg

Mattersburg

Mattersburg is a town in Burgenland, Austria. It is the administrative center of the District of Mattersburg and home to a Bundesliga football team, SV Mattersburg.- Location :...

 on 16 May 2009.

The competition was won by Austria Vienna

FK Austria Wien

Fußballklub Austria Wien is an Austrian association football club from the capital city of Vienna. They are considered the most successful club in Austria, having won the highest Austrian Bundesliga 23 times, the Austrian Cup 27 times and the Austrian Supercup 6 times. They also reached the UEFA...

 after beating Trenkwalder Admira 3–1 after extra time. It was the 27th Austrian Cup title for the team from Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, who also qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2009–10 in the process.

Preliminary round

The Preliminary Round involved 58 amateur clubs from all regional federations, divided into smaller groups according to the Austrian federal states. Twenty-nine games were played between July 18 and August 3, 2008, with the winners advancing to the First Round.

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First round

In this round entered, together with the winners from the previous round, all twenty-two clubs from the Bundesliga and the First League

Austrian Football First League

The Austrian Football First League is the second highest professional division in Austrian football. It contains 10 teams and is run in the same fashion as the Austrian Bundesliga...

, as well as the nine regional cup winners. The draw for this round was conducted on August 4, 2008. The games were played on August 14 – 17, 2008.
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Second round

The draw of the Second Round was conducted on August 19, 2008. The games were played on September 12 and 13, 2008.


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Third round

The winners of last year's competition, SV Horn, entered in this round. The draw for this round was conducted on September 14, 2008. The games were played on October 28 and 29, 2008.
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Quarterfinals

The draw for this round was conducted on November 9, 2008.
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Semifinals

The draw for this round was conducted on 8 March 2009.
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Final

See also

• Austrian Football Bundesliga 2008–09
• Austrian First League 2008–09
  Austrian Football First League 2008-09
  The Austrian Football First League 2008-09 was the 35th season since its introduction in 1974 and the yyth season of second-level football in Austria....