Austrian Regionalliga Austrian Regionalliga The Austrian Regional League ( or plural ) is the third-highest division in Austrian football, after the Austrian Bundesliga and the Second League. It is divided into three groups: East (), covering the states of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland; Central (), covering the states of Styria, Carinthia, Upper Austria and the exclave of East Tyrol; and West, covering the states of Salzburg, Tyrol (with the exception of East Tyrol) and Vorarlberg. With introduction of the Staatsliga A as the first division and the Staatsliga B as the second division of Austrian football in the 1949–50 season, also
Burgenland 1990 Burgenland regained its traditional role as a bridge between the western and eastern parts of Central Europe. Cross-border links were strengthened when Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004. All three countries became part of the Schengen zone in late 2007 when border controls finally ceased to exist in the region. Burgenland has notable Croatian (29,000–45,000) and Hungarian (5,000–15,000) populations. The Croats arrived after the devastating Ottoman war in 1532, when the Ottoman army destroyed some settlements in their ethnic territory. The emigration in great haste of the Catholic remained population of western Slavonia into the