Marko Arnautovic with Inter Milan in Italy and Kevin Wimmer with Slovan Bratislava in Slovakia have already won the championship title this season.
David Alaba (Real Madrid) and Aleksandar Dragovic (Red Star Belgrade) will probably follow soon.
Austrian football legionnaires are also in the middle of the championship battle in Belgium, Denmark, Greece and Croatia. An overview:
Slovakia
Kevin Wimmer started things off. The Upper Austrian defender fixed with the record champions Slavic Bratislava the championship title on April 13th
Italy
Marko Arnautovic picked up his second “Scudetto” on Monday evening Inter Milan. Thanks to a 2-1 win in the city derby against AC Milan has the team of Simone Inzaghi 17 points ahead of second-placed Milan with five games remaining. The 35-year-old ÖFB record team player was already champions with Inter in 2009/10, when he was under coach Jose Mourinho came to three short assignments.
Spain
David Alaba will probably soon have the dozen championship titles complete. The ÖFB team captain, who tore his cruciate ligament on December 17th and had to end the season early, is also in the lead Real Madrid after a 3-2 win against Barcelona on Sunday eleven points ahead of their arch rivals. Six rounds still remain. Alaba has ten times Bayern Munich (2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) and has so far won the championship title once with Real Madrid (2022), making him the most successful Austrian footballer abroad.
Serbia
Red Star Belgrade with Aleksandar Dragovic took a big step towards the next title on Saturday. After the 3-2 win in the derby against Partisan Red Star goes into the last six rounds with a ten point lead over its city rivals. Dragovic currently holds eight championship titles abroad. The 33-year-old has been there four times so far FC Basel (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014), twice with Dynamo Kyiv (2015, 2016) and twice national champion with Red Star (2022, 2023). In terms of foreign championship titles, he is only surpassed by Alaba.
Aleksandar Dragovic (above) is the captain of Red Star and played in the Champions League this year against, among others, Manchester City and RB Leipzig
Denmark
The title fight is also a duel between the two Austrian goalkeepers Patrick Pentznumber one at Bröndby Copenhagen, and Martin Fraislwho has only been a substitute goalkeeper since a head injury suffered at the end of November Central Jutland is. Championship leader Bröndby won on Sunday with the von Bayer Leverkusen Pentz, on loan, won the big game at home against pursuers Midtjylland 2-1 and goes into the last six rounds with a three-point lead.
Croatia
Emir Dilaver leads with HNK Rijeka (71 points) ahead of defending champions Dinamo Zagreb (69). A preliminary decision could be made in the direct duel on May 5th in Rijeka. For Dilaver it would be the seventh championship title, the sixth as a legionnaire. After the triumph with Austria Vienna In 2012/13 the central defender was promoted to 2016 Ferencvaros Hungarian champion, he won the championship four times with Dinamo Zagreb (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023). Dilaver was a regular player until the end of January, but has only appeared once since then.
Ex-Rapidler Stefan Schwab (M.) is currently in third place with PAOK, there are chances of winning the title
Greece
AEK Athens with the currently injured goalkeeper Cican Stankovic (adductors) goes into the last four rounds as championship leader, PAOK Thessaloniki with the two midfielders Thomas Murg and Stefan Schwab is in third place. AEK leads with 72 points Panathinaikos (71), PAOK (67) and Olympiakos (66), PAOK and Olympiakos played one game less.
Stankovic, champion six times with Salzburg, was already successful with AEK last season. Murg was champion with Austria in 2012/13, and it would be a first for Schwab.
Belgium
The goalkeeper is in the four-way battle for the title Heinz Lindner currently only spectators from the substitute bench Union Saint-Gilloise. Union SG is third, three points behind, after a 1-2 defeat on Sunday RSC Anderlechttwo behind Club Brugge and one point ahead of Genk. Lindner, on loan from Sion, played one game for Saint-Gilloise at the end of January.