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The top teams didn’t show any weaknesses in the state league title fight: Bad Schallerbach (7-0 against Schlierbach), Grieskirchen (3-1 in Pettenbach) and Andorf (3-1 over Sattledt) are ahead in the west. In the east, Bad Leonfelden remains at the top after beating Admira Linz 3-1.
In the west, the game has already been abolished this season, the east will follow suit next season. The clubs are therefore faced with the decision of whether to integrate their own 1b into a regional 2nd class, enter into a syndicate with another club – as is the case, for example, with St. Florian and Niederneukirchen – or form an U18 team. “The reserve operation with only ten teams is not expedient. Most of the clubs want to compete with a 1b in the 2nd class in the future,” says Stefan Hochreiter from the Upper Austrian Football Association. But it is also a challenge. In Rohrbach, for example, one is forced to enter into a syndicate with a second club. “We don’t have enough players and volunteers on our own, so there are negotiations,” explains head of sport Franz Hofer, who is also critical of this development: “It’s not necessarily conducive to club life if you play on different sports fields. It was until now always in such a way that the reserve team watched and then the reserve team watched. That will then be less the case.”
2nd class 1b before change
The concept in the Landesliga West with the introduced 2nd class 1b has proven itself so far. But since at least one team is allowed to move up every season, sooner or later there will be an integration into the remaining 2nd classes.
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