Yesterday, Friday, March 3, 2023, the deadline for submitting license and approval applications for the 2023/24 season ended. A total of 33 license or approval applications were submitted.
In addition to the clubs from the ADMIRAL Bundesliga and ADMIRAL 2nd league, there are also applications from representatives from all three regional leagues. With Rapid II, Sturm II and the Young Violets Austria Vienna, three amateur teams from BL clubs are currently represented in the ADMIRAL 2nd league, which is the maximum according to regulations. If the LASK Amateure OÖ are promoted from the Regionalliga Mitte and no amateur team from a Bundesliga club is relegated from the ADMIRAL 2nd league, there will be a relegation between the people of Linz and the lowest-ranked amateur team in the ADMIRAL 2nd league.
Club applications are as follows:
License applications for the ADMIRAL Bundesliga
ADMIRAL Bundesliga: FC Red Bull Salzburg, SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz, FK Austria Vienna, RZ Pellets WAC, SK Rapid Vienna, SK Austria Klagenfurt, WSG Tirol, LASK, CASHPOINT SCR Altach, SV Guntamatic Ried, TSV Egger Glas Hartberg, SC Austria Lustenau
ADMIRAL 2. League: FC Flyeralarm Admira, FAC Vienna, FC Blau-Weiss Linz, Grazer AK 1902, SKN St. Pölten
Admission applications for the ADMIRAL 2nd league
ADMIRAL 2. League: SV Licht-Loidl Lafnitz, SKU Ertl Glas Amstetten, FC Liefering, SK BMD Forward Steyr, KSV 1919, SV Horn, FC Mohren Dornbirn 1913, First Vienna FC 1894
Admission as an amateur team of a BL club: SK Rapid Wien II, Young Violets Austria Wien, SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz II, LASK Amateure OÖ
RL Ost: SV Stripfing
RL Mitte: DSV Leoben Kaif Energy, WSC Hogo Hertha Wels
RL West: SW Bregenz
The license is a prerequisite for participation in the top division and also entitles you to participate in the ADMIRAL 2nd league. Admission entitles you to participate in the ADMIRAL 2nd league if you have sporting qualifications. All details on the requirements are in the current ones License Terms as well as in the admission regulations to find.
Further course of the licensing and approval process
As part of the completeness check, any missing documents will be requested with a grace period on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023, which will conclude this first phase. In the following weeks, the documents will be checked by the Bundesliga license administration (including the financial experts from KPMG) and the independent Senate 5, after which any further requests for comments and additional evidence can be made. A decision by the Senate 5 in the first instance is expected on April 13, 2023.
If an applicant cannot be granted a license or approval in the first instance, they can lodge a protest with the Bundesliga protest committee within eight days of the decision being served. There is the possibility of presenting new evidence of (economic) performance. The decision of the protest committee will be made by the end of April 2023. If the license or approval is also refused by the protest committee, the applicant still has the opportunity to complain to the Permanent Neutral Court of Arbitration. The arbitral tribunal is not a body of the Austrian Football Bundesliga and will make its final decision in lieu of a court of law by mid-May 2023.
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