1959–60 Alpha Ethniki

The 1959–60 Alpha Ethniki was the 24th season of the highest football league of Greece and the first season of the nationwide league after the league replaced the Panhellenic Championship. The season began on 25 October 1959 and ended on 31 July 1960 with the play-off matches. Panathinaikos won their fourth Greek title and their first in seven years.

Alpha Ethniki
Season1959–60
ChampionsPanathinaikos
4th Greek title
RelegatedPankorinthiakos
Megas Alexandros Katerinis
AE Nikaia
European CupPanathinaikos
Matches played240
Goals scored619 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorerKostas Nestoridis
(33 goals)
Biggest home winOlympiakos 8–1 Panegialios
Biggest away winAE Nikaia 2–7 Ethnikos Piraeus
Highest scoringOlympiakos 8–1 Panegialios
AE Nikaia 2–7 Ethnikos Piraeus

The 16 teams that formed the first national championship were resulted as follows:

The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.

Qualification round

Initially there were going to be 18 teams in the first division, however, the delay of 6 weeks in the start of the event due to the financial negotiations between the involved parties General Secretary of Sport, OPAP, HFF and in some places FCAs, put its serious completion in a timely manner. The HFF took the decision to reduce the number of teams to 16 and as a consequence a promotional play-off round was formed to decide the last two places of the championship.

Southern Group 2nd-place play-offs
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd legPlay-off
Olympiacos Chalkida 4–3 OFI 2–1 1–2 1–0

Olympiacos Chalkida qualifies to the promotional Play-offs.

Promotion play-offs
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd legPlay-off
 South
Olympiacos Chalkida 2–5 Proodeftiki 2–2 0–0 0–3
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
 North
Iraklis 3–0 Aspida Xanthi 1–0 2–0
Location of teams in 1959–60 Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Panathinaikos (C) 30 22 5 3 59 20 +39 79[lower-alpha 1] Qualification for European Cup first round
2 AEK Athens 30 21 7 2 72 27 +45 79[lower-alpha 1]
3 Olympiacos 30 16 8 6 52 24 +28 70
4 Apollon Athens 30 13 10 7 52 33 +19 66
5 Panionios 30 14 6 10 46 31 +15 64
6 Doxa Drama 30 11 8 11 47 41 +6 60
7 PAOK 30 10 9 11 32 32 0 59[lower-alpha 2]
8 Aris 30 10 9 11 31 35 −4 59[lower-alpha 2]
9 Iraklis 30 9 10 11 29 34 −5 58[lower-alpha 3]
10 Proodeftiki 30 10 8 12 34 36 −2 58[lower-alpha 3]
11 Apollon Kalamarias 30 7 12 11 31 39 −8 56
12 Ethnikos Piraeus 30 8 10 12 34 46 −12 56
13 Panegialios 30 9 7 14 26 43 −17 55[lower-alpha 4]
14 Pankorinthiakos (R) 30 9 7 14 27 45 −18 55[lower-alpha 4] Relegation to FCA Winners' Championship
15 Megas Alexandros Katerinis (R) 30 4 9 17 27 60 −33 47
16 AE Nikaia (R) 30 2 5 23 20 73 −53 39
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Championship Play-off: Panathinaikos–AEK Athens 2–1 (see below).
  2. 7th place play-off: PAOK–Aris 0–0, PAOK were placed ahead Aris due to the better goal average in regular season.
  3. 9th place play-off: Iraklis–Proodeftiki 2–0.
  4. Relegation play-out: Panegialios–Pankorinthiakos 2–1.

Results
Home \ Away AEN AEK APA APK ARIS DOX ETH IRA MEG OLY PANK PAO PNG PGSS PAOK PRO
AE Nikaia 0–3 0–2 0–2 2–3 0–3 2–7 1–2 3–2 1–4 3–0 0–1 0–2 0–5 1–1 0–1
AEK Athens 2–0 5–2 6–2 3–0 4–3 4–0 3–0 0–0 1–0 5–1 1–0 4–0 2–0 3–1 4–2
Apollon Athens 6–0 0–0 4–1 0–0 3–2 6–1 2–2 2–2 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–1 1–3 2–1 3–0
Apollon Kalamarias 2–2 1–1 0–2 1–0 1–1 2–2 0–0 5–1 0–0 2–0 1–2 0–0 0–0 1–0 0–1
Aris 2–1 2–2[lower-alpha 1] 2–3 0–1 1–0 1–0 0–1 2–0 1–3 2–0 2–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 1–0
Doxa Drama 2–1 2–0 3–2 1–1 2–2 1–0 2–0 4–1 0–0 2–1 1–3 2–0 2–3 1–1 2–4
Ethnikos Piraeus 0–0 0–1 1–2 2–1 0–0 2–2 1–1 2–0 3–3 1–2 0–3 1–0 1–0 3–1 2–0
Iraklis 3–0 0–1 0–0 0–2 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 1–1 1–2 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–0 2–0
Megas Alexandros Katerinis 1–0 2–4 0–0 2–2 2–2 0–3 0–1 2–3 0–4 2–2 0–0 1–1 1–4 1–0 1–2
Olympiacos 2–1 0–1 2–0 3–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–0 4–0 1–0 1–4 8–1 1–0 1–2 3–1
Pankorinthiakos 1–1 0–0 1–4 2–2 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 2–1 0–1 0–0 1–0
Panathinaikos 6–1 2–2 0–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 3–0 4–1 3–0 0–0 4–2 2–1 4–3 1–0 2–1
Panegialios 1–0 1–4 3–2 3–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 0–2 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–3 0–0
Panionios 3–0 3–2 0–0 1–0 0–3 3–2 4–0 1–2 2–1 0–1 3–0 0–1 1–1 2–1 1–0
PAOK 0–0 1–2 1–2 0–0 0–0 3–1 1–1 2–1 3–2 2–0 2–0 0–2 2–0 0–0 2–1
Proodeftiki 4–0 2–2 0–0 1–0 2–1 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–2 3–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–1
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. Aris-AEK Athens 2-1, replayed 2-2.

Championship play-off
Panathinaikos2–1AEK Athens
 Report
  • Ampos 14'
Attendance: 20,923
Referee: Daniel Mele (Switzerland)

Top scorers
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Greece Kostas Nestoridis AEK Athens 33
2 Greece Giorgos Kamaras Apollon Athens 19
3 Greece Elias Yfantis Olympiacos 16
4 Greece Pavlos Grigoriadis Doxa Drama 14
5 Greece Giannis Cholevas Apollon Athens 13
6 Greece Vangelis Karafoulidis Megas Alexandros Katerinis 11
Greece Lakis Sofianos Panegialios
Greece Andreas Stamatiadis AEK Athens
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