Draw: Big game at the start of the master group

Table leaders Salzburg will play at Austria Klagenfurt. This resulted in the league draw on Tuesday.

The games will kick off at 2:30 p.m. (two games) and 5:00 p.m. The first match day of the master group is scheduled for April 2nd, with the qualifying group starting two days before.

There Hartberg will face Austria Lustenau on March 31 (7:30 p.m.). Friday night has been introduced as the new kick-off time for a qualifying group match. WAC meets SV Ried on Saturday, Altach meets WSG Tirol (both at 5 p.m.).

Storm comes to Linz

Salzburg will play Austria in Wals-Siezenheim the following weekend, Rapid will play against Klagenfurt in Vienna and LASK against Sturm in Sunday’s late game in Linz. The Vienna derby is scheduled for a week later on April 16 in Vienna-Hütteldorf (5:00 p.m.). The first duel between pursuers Sturm and Salzburg will take place on April 23 in Graz (5 p.m.).

Games are also scheduled for April 30 in the master group. Since the finalists of the ÖFB Cup will face each other in Klagenfurt on the same day, the games of the clubs involved in the final will be brought forward to April 26th. With Rapid, Sturm Graz and LASK, three representatives from the master group are in the cup semi-finals. From the qualifying group, Ried is still represented in the cup. Should the Innviertler qualify for the final against Rapid in the semifinals, they would also contest the 27th round on April 26th.

Wrangling for the international starting places

In the 32nd and final round on June 3rd, a Saturday, Salzburg will play Austria in Vienna, while Sturm are at home against LASK. Rapid plays in Klagenfurt. All games start at 5 p.m. The question of relegation will be decided the day before, on Friday 2 June (every 7:30 p.m.). Lustenau welcomes Hartberg, Ried the WAC and the WSG the Altacher.

After the final round, the champion, the runner-up, the third-placed in the championship and the cup winner have their international starting places fixed.

Depending on whether the cup winner in the league also lands on an international starting place, there are different possibilities for which teams take part in the European Cup play-off.

The fourth and fifth of the master group are basically still in the race for a place in the European Cup, the first from the qualifying group is there. The play-off semifinals are scheduled for June 5th and the two-leg finals on June 8th and 11th.