The Second League (German: 2. Liga), commonly known as Admiral 2. Liga for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest professional division in Austrian football.

The division currently contains 16 teams, and the champion of the league is promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga if it is not a reserve team. The two last-placed teams are directly relegated from the Second League into the regional leagues.

Starting in the 2018–19 season, the former First League changed its name to the Second League and expanded from ten teams to 16 teams.

Sixteen teams will participate in the 2023–24 season. The only added team is Austria Lustenau, relegated from the 2023–24 Austrian Football Bundesliga, ASK Voitsberg and SK Rapid Wien II, promoted from the 2023–24 Austrian Regionalliga.

Club Name	City	Stadium	Capacity
Austria Lustenau	Lustenau	Reichshofstadion	5,138
First Vienna FC	Döbling	Naturarena Hohe Warte	7,200
Floridsdorfer AC	Vienna	FAC-Platz	3,000
Flyeralarm Admira	Mödling	Motion invest Arena	10,600
Kapfenberger SV	Kapfenberg	Franz-Fekete-Stadion	12,000
FC Liefering	Salzburg	EM Stadion Wals-Siezenheim	4,128
SK Rapid Wien II	Vienna	Allianz Stadion	28,000
SK Sturm Graz II	Graz	Merkur Arena	15,323
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 Ried	Ried im Innkreis	Josko Arena	7,680
SV Stripfing	Weikendorf	Sportplatz Stripfing	500
SW Bregenz	Bregenz	ImmoAgentur Stadion	12,000
Voitsberg	Voitsberg	Hans Blümel Stadion	2,500

The destination of a club relegated from the Second League depends upon which Land (state) of the Federal Republic it is a member. The relegated clubs join one of the Regionalligen (regional leagues) in the east, centre or west of the country. The three regional league champions are promoted to the Second League. Participation in the professional Second League is conditional on their licensing by the fifth senate of the federal league. If the licence is refused for economic reasons, one team fewer will be relegated.

Club	Winners	Championship seasons
LASK	5	1978–79, 1991–92, 1993–94, 2006–07, 2016–17
Grazer AK	4	1974–75, 1992–93, 1994–95, 2023–24
FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002)	3	2003–04, 2009–10, 2017–18
Wiener Sport-Club	2	1976–77, 1985–86
Austria Salzburg	2	1977–78, 1986–87
Kremser SC	2	1987–88, 1988–89
SV Spittal/Drau	2	1983–84, 1989–90
Austria Klagenfurt / FC Kärnten	2	1981–82, 2000–01
FC Admira Wacker Mödling	2	1999–00, 2010–11
SC Rheindorf Altach	2	2005–06, 2013–14
SV Mattersburg	2	2002–03, 2014–15
SV Ried	2	2004–05, 2019–20
SC Austria Lustenau	2	1996–97, 2021-22
FC Blau-Weiß Linz	2	2020–21, 2022–23
First Vienna	1	1975–76
SC Eisenstadt	1	1979–80
FC Wacker Innsbruck	1	1980–81
SV Sankt Veit	1	1982–83
Salzburger AK 1914	1	1984–85
VfB Mödling	1	1990–91
FC Linz	1	1995–96
SK Vorwärts Steyr	1	1997–98
Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz	1	1998–99
ASKÖ Pasching	1	2001–02
Kapfenberger SV	1	2007–08
SC Wiener Neustadt	1	2008–09
WAC	1	2011–12
Grödig	1	2012–13
SKN St. Pölten	1	2015–16
WSG Swarovski Tirol	1	2018–19

The Austrian second division has had several different names and sponsors since 1974. It was formerly called the First League (Erste Liga), from 2002 to 2018.

(Seasons below represent the first season when the name was used)

• 1974/75 Nationalliga
• 1975/76 2. Division
• 1993/94 2. Division der Bundesliga
• 1998/99 Erste Division
• 2002/03 Red Zac-Erste Liga
• 2008/09 ADEG Erste Liga
• 2010/11 „Heute für Morgen“ Erste Liga
• 2014/15 Sky Go Erste Liga
• 2018/19 2. Liga

The league was known as the Sky Go Erste Liga for sponsorship reasons from 2014/15 to 2017/18, but Sky is not mentioned on the official website 2liga.at, or in the ÖFB's 2018/19 preview articles.

• Official website (in German)
• Bundesliga.at (in German)
• League321.com – Austrian football league tables, records & statistics database (in English)
• Palmsbet.com – Bulgarian football league tables, records & statistics database (in English)

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