Burgenland and Tyrol were not represented with a team in Austria's highest league.
In the preseason, FC Wacker Innsbruck went down into the First League, and the SC Rheindorf Altach moved up.
In addition, the ORF had the rights to broadcast a game of their choice, which was as a single match labeled the "top match of the round" – which usually took place Sundays, when the midweek rounds were on Wednesdays.
In addition, the ORF was allowed to show a 45-minute summary of the remaining four games of each round.
If the Cup winner qualified for the Champions League or the Europa League, by finishing in one of the top four positions of the Bundesliga, the international starting position of that season dropped and no longer went to the losers of the Cup finales but to the fifth-placed team of Bundesliga.