2007–08 Super League Greece

Super League Greece
Season2007–08
ChampionsOlympiacos
36th Greek title
RelegatedAtromitos
Veria
Apollon Kalamarias
Champions LeagueOlympiacos
Panathinaikos
UEFA CupAris (via domestic cup)
AEK Athens
Intertoto CupPanionios
Matches252
Goals601 (2.38 per match)
Top goalscorerIsmael Blanco
(19 goals)
Biggest home winSkoda Xanthi 6–1 Apollon Kalamarias
AEK Athens 5–0 Panionios
Biggest away winLevadiakos 0–4 Panathinaikos
Panionios 0–4 Olympiacos
PAOK 0–4 AEK Athens
Highest scoringOlympiacos 6–2 OFI
Levadiakos 5–3 Veria

The 2007–08 Super League Greece was the 72nd season of the highest football league of Greece and the second under the name Super League. The season began on 1 September 2007 and ended on 20 April 2008. The defending champions were Olympiacos. Asteras Tripolis, Veria and Levadiakos were promoted from Beta Ethniki in the previous season.

Postponement

On 25 August, the Super League and the Hellenic Football Federation decided to postpone the opening fixtures scheduled for that weekend (25 and 26 August) due to the ongoing fire disaster in the south of Greece (especially in the Peloponnese and Euboea). The championship started on 1 September 2007. Matchday 2 was carried out on the weekend of 21–22 September due to UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying matches (8 September) and Greek legislative election (16 September).

On 20 February 2008 UEFA president Michel Platini presented the Hellenic Football Federation with a CHF 1 million cheque to help finance the rebuilding of football facilities damaged by the fires in Greece that summer.[1]

Teams

Promoted from
2006–07 Beta Ethniki 		Relegated from
2006–07 Super League Greece
Asteras Tripolis
Levadiakos
Veria 		Kerkyra
Egaleo
Ionikos

Stadiums and personnel

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Location of the 2007–08 Super League Greece teams
Team Manager Location Stadium Capacity
AEK Athens Greece Nikos Kostenoglou Athens (Marousi) Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638
AEL Greece Georgios Donis Larissa Alcazar Stadium 13,108
Apollon Kalamarias Greece Makis Katsavakis Thessaloniki (Kalamaria) Kalamaria Stadium 6,500
Aris Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević Thessaloniki (Charilaou) Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium 22,800
Asteras Tripolis Greece Panagiotis Tzanavaras Tripoli Asteras Tripolis Stadium 4,200
Atromitos Brazil Paulo Campos Athens (Peristeri) Peristeri Stadium 9,035
Ergotelis Greece Nikos Karageorgiou Heraklion (Ammoudara) Pankritio Stadium 26,400
Iraklis Spain Ángel Pedraza Thessaloniki (Triandria) Kaftanzoglio Stadium 27,560
Levadiakos Greece Babis Tennes Livadeia Levadia Municipal Stadium 5,915
OFI Greece Georgios Paraschos Heraklion (Ammoudara) Pankritio Stadium 26,400
Olympiacos Spain José Segura Piraeus Karaiskakis Stadium 33,334
Panathinaikos Portugal José Peseiro Athens (Ampelokipoi) Leoforos Alexandras Stadium 16,003
Panionios Germany Ewald Lienen Athens (Nea Smyrni) Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,700
PAOK Portugal Fernando Santos Thessaloniki (Toumba) Toumba Stadium 28,703
Skoda Xanthi Greece Nikos Kechagias Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Arena 7,422
Veria Greece Leonidas Yfantidis Veria Veria Stadium 5,373

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment
PAOK Greece Georgios Paraschos 3 September 2007 14th Portugal Fernando Santos 3 September 2007
Aris Spain Juan Carlos Oliva 4 September 2007 7th Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević 7 September 2007
Veria Greece Dimitris Kalaitzidis 12 October 2007 12th Serbia Ratko Dostanić 15 October 2007
Skoda Xanthi Belgium Emilio Ferrera 22 October 2007 6th Greece Nikos Kechagias 22 October 2007
OFI Germany Reiner Maurer 12 November 2007 13th Greece Georgios Paraschos 16 November 2007
Veria Serbia Ratko Dostanić 10 December 2007 15th Greece Giannis Matzourakis 12 December 2007
Iraklis Serbia Ivan Jovanović 17 December 2007 9th Spain Ángel Pedraza 24 December 2007
AEK Athens Spain Lorenzo Serra Ferrer 12 February 2008 3rd Greece Nikos Kostenoglou 12 February 2008
Asteras Tripolis Brazil Paulo Campos 24 February 2008 5th Greece Panagiotis Tzanavaras 25 February 2008
Levadiakos Bulgaria Georgi Vasilev 3 March 2008 13th Greece Babis Tennes 5 March 2008
Olympiacos Greece Takis Lemonis 11 March 2008 2nd Spain José Segura 11 March 2008
Veria Greece Giannis Matzourakis 11 March 2008 14th Greece Panagiotis Tsalouchidis 13 March 2008
Veria Greece Panagiotis Tsalouchidis 23 March 2008 15th Greece Leonidas Yfantidis 23 March 2008
Atromitos Argentina Ángel Guillermo Hoyos 26 March 2008 12th Brazil Paulo Campos 27 March 2008

Regular season

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Olympiacos[a] (C) 30 21 7 2 58 23 +35 70 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2 AEK Athens 30 22 2 6 65 17 +48 68 Qualification for the Play-offs
3 Panathinaikos 30 20 6 4 44 18 +26 66
4 Aris 30 14 8 8 32 20 +12 50
5 Panionios 30 13 6 11 39 42 −3 45[b]
6 AEL 30 11 12 7 35 30 +5 45[b]
7 Asteras Tripolis 30 11 11 8 28 24 +4 44
8 Skoda Xanthi 30 10 6 14 33 39 −6 36
9 PAOK 30 10 5 15 29 35 −6 35[c]
10 Iraklis 30 8 11 11 28 33 −5 35[c]
11 Levadiakos 30 10 3 17 31 51 −20 33
12 OFI 30 9 5 16 39 49 −10 32
13 Ergotelis 30 7 9 14 28 42 −14 30
14 Atromitos (R) 30 8 5 17 23 36 −13 29 Relegation to the Beta Ethniki
15 Veria (R) 30 5 8 17 21 44 −23 23
16 Apollon Kalamarias[a] (R) 30 5 8 17 27 57 −30 22
Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
According to the official Super League playoff regulation, the position after the playoffs replaces the regular season position.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b The match of Apollon Kalamarias against Olympiacos, originally ended 1–0 to the home side, but later was awarded to Olympiacos 0–3 by the Greek sports court giving Olympiacos the three points, on the basis that the home side fielded an ineligible player (Roman Wallner). Apollon were deducted by one point.
  2. ^ a b Head-to-head record: Panionios–AEL 3–1, AEL–Panionios 1–0.
  3. ^ a b Head-to-head record: PAOK–Iraklis 3–0, Iraklis–PAOK 1–0.

Results

Home \ Away AEK AEL APK ARIS AST ATR ERG IRA LEV OFI OLY PAO PGSS PAOK XAN VER
AEK Athens 1–0 4–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 3–1 1–2 3–0 4–0 4–0 1–1 2–3 2–0 3–0 5–1
AEL 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 3–2 1–0 3–3 5–1 0–0 2–2 1–0 4–3 0–0 1–1
Apollon Kalamarias 0–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 0–2 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 0–3[a] 1–3 0–2 0–2 1–0 1–0
Aris 0–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 3–1 2–0 1–0
Asteras Tripolis 2–1 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–2 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 0–0 2–0
Atromitos 0–1 2–0 3–0 1–2 0–2 1–2 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–3 0–1 0–2 0–0 2–3 1–0
Ergotelis 1–4 0–0 2–2 0–1 0–3 0–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 3–3 0–3 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–0
Iraklis 0–1 1–1 5–2 0–2 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–2 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–1
Levadiakos 0–4 0–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 3–0 0–3 1–3 0–4 1–0 2–0 2–1 5–3
OFI 1–4 0–0 3–2 0–1 0–3 0–1 4–1 2–0 1–2 0–1 4–1 1–2 2–0 2–0 3–0
Olympiacos 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 3–1 4–0 6–2 1–1 4–1 2–1 2–1 1–0
Panathinaikos 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–0
Panionios 0–3 3–1 2–1 0–3 4–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–3 0–4 1–0 0–0 2–2 3–2
PAOK 0–4 1–0 4–1 3–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 1–0 2–2 1–1 0–1 3–1 0–1 2–0
Skoda Xanthi 0–1 1–1 6–1 0–2 2–0 0–1 1–0 0–3 4–1 1–0 1–4 3–2 1–2 1–0 2–0
Veria 0–1 1–0 0–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–2 3–1 2–1 0–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–1
Source: Worldfootball.net
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ The match was originally finished 1–0 for Apollon Kalamarias, but was awarded to Olympiacos because was the home team fielded an ineligible player Roman Wallner, which was played for Falkirk and Hamilton Academical in the season and was not allowed to play for more of two clubs in the same season according to rules of FIFA.

Play-offs

The play-off winner enters the UEFA Champions League's second qualifying round, a two-legged tier from which the winner advances to the 3rd round qualification of the UEFA Champions League. The winner of the Greek Football Cup automatically qualifies for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, as well as the runners-up of the Super League play-off.

In the play-off for Champions League, the teams play each other in a home and away round robin. However, they do not all start with zero points. Instead, a weighting system applies to the teams' standing at the start of the play-off mini-league. The team finishing fifth in the Super League will start the play-off with zero points. The fifth place team's end of season tally of points is subtracted from the sum of the points that other teams have. This number is then divided by three to give the other teams the points with which they start the mini-league.

The teams started the play-offs with the following number of points:

  • AEK Athens – 8
  • Panathinaikos – 7
  • Aris – 2
  • Panionios – 0

Play-off table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PAO AEK ARIS PGSS
2 Panathinaikos 6 4 2 0 14 5 +9 21 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round 4–1 3–1 3–0
3 AEK Athens 6 2 2 2 10 11 −1 16 Qualification for the UEFA Cup second qualifying round 1–1 1–0 5–0
4 Aris[a] 6 1 2 3 9 9 0 7 1–1 4–0 3–3
5 Panionios 6 1 2 3 7 15 −8 5 Qualification for the Intertoto Cup second round 1–2 2–2 1–0
Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
Notes:
  1. ^ Aris were guaranteed at least to play in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round through their Greek Cup performance.

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Argentina Ismael Blanco AEK Athens 19
2 Serbia Darko Kovačević Olympiacos 17
3 Greece Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos 15
4 Canada Tomasz Radzinski Skoda Xanthi 14
Algeria Rafik Djebbour Panionios
6 Greece Nikos Liberopoulos AEK Athens 11
7 Greece Lampros Choutos Panionios 10
Serbia Predrag Đorđević Olympiacos
9 Argentina Lucio Filomeno Asteras Tripolis 9

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards

Matchday MVP Best Goal Ref
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th Greece Sokratis Papastathopoulos (AEK Athens) Greece Merkourios Karaliopoulos (Apollon Kalamarias ) [2]
11th Greece Georgios Georgiadis (PAOK) Greece Ieroklis Stoltidis (Olympiacos) [3]
12th Algeria Rafik Djebbour (Panionios) Serbia Darko Kovačević (Olympiacos) [4]
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th Greece Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (PAOK) Brazil Luciano Fonseca (Iraklis) [5]
21st
22nd Poland Maciej Bykowski (Veria) Poland Rafał Grzelak (Skoda Xanthi) [6]
23rd Spain Koke (Aris) Portugal Hélder Postiga (Panathinaikos) [7]
24th
25th
26th
27th
28th
29th
30th Argentina Ismael Blanco (AEK Athens) Greece Lampros Choutos (Panionios) [8]

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 2 December 2008.[9]

Award Winner Club
Greek Player of the Season Greece Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos
Foreign Player of the Season Serbia Darko Kovačević
Argentina Ismael Blanco 		Olympiacos
AEK Athens
Young Player of the Season Greece Sokratis Papastathopoulos AEK Athens
Goalkeeper of the Season Greece Antonis Nikopolidis Olympiacos
Golden Boot Argentina Ismael Blanco AEK Athens
Manager of the Season Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević Aris

Attendances

Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2007–08 edition of the Super League Greece.[10]

# Team Average attendance
1 Olympiacos 24,196
2 AEK Athens 21,551
3 PAOK 11,394
4 Panathinaikos 9,213
5 Aris 7,712
6 AEL 4,612
7 Iraklis 3,768
8 Ergotelis 3,382
9 OFI 3,134
10 Asteras Tripolis 3,045
11 Atromitos 2,437
12 Panionios 2,372
13 Skoda Xanthi 2,255
14 Apollon Kalamarias 1,863
15 Veria 1,752
16 Levadiakos 1,736

References

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  3. ^ "Γεωργιάδης και Στολτίδης οι καλύτεροι της 11ης αγωνιστικής". in.gr (in Greek). 13 December 2007.
  4. ^ "Τζιμπούρ και Κοβάσεβιτς τα βραβεία της 12ης αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 19 December 2007.
  5. ^ "Βραβεία σε Λάζαρο και Φονσέκα". flash.gr (in Greek). 13 February 2008.
  6. ^ "Σε πολωνικά χέρια τα βραβεία της 22ης αγωνιστικής". sport-fm.gr (in Greek). 27 February 2008.
  7. ^ "Κόκε και Ποστίγκα τα βραβεία της 23ης αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 5 March 2008.
  8. ^ "Χούτος και Μπλάνκο τα βραβεία της 30ής αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 23 April 2008.
  9. ^ "ΒΡΑΒΕΙΑ ΠΣΑΠ – 2008" [OSC AWARDS - 2008]. psapp.gr (in Greek). 2 December 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  10. ^ "2007–08 Super League". european-football-statistics.co.uk.
allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007-08_Super_League_Greece