2017–18 Greek Handball Premier

The 2017–18 Greek Handball Premier is the 39th season of the Greek Handball Premier, Greece's premier handball league. Olympiacos were crowned champions, after beating AEK Athens with 3–2 wins in the finals, overturning an initial 0–2 win lead by AEK and taking three straight wins to secure the title.[1]

Handball Premier
Season2017–18
ChampionsOlympiacos
RelegatedAris Nikaias
AESX Pylaia
Top goalscorerGreece Evgenios Toungkelidis
178
Biggest home winOSFP/Omilos Xini 40–17 Panellinios
Biggest away winPanellinios 14–37 A.E.K.
Highest scoringA.E.K. 48–27 Aeropos Edessa
Play off 8
2018–19 →

Teams
Location of teams in Greek Handball Championship 2017–18

A total of 12 teams will participate in this year's edition of the Handball Premier. Of these, 10 sides qualified directly from the 2016–17 season and the play-off winners from each of the two groups of A2 Ethniki were promoted: GAS Kamatero from Group A (for the first time in their history[2]) and XANTH from Group B.

Team Location
AEKAthens
Aeropos EdessaEdessa
Diomidis ArgousArgos
ASE DoukaMaroussi, Athens
GS Drama 86Drama
Filippos VeriaVeria
Foivos SykeonSykies, Thessaloniki
GAS KamateroKamatero, Athens
OlympiacosPiraeus, Athens
PanelliniosAthens
PAOKThessaloniki
XANTHThessaloniki

Regular season

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Olympiacos / Omilos Xini (C) 22 19 2 1 653 458 +195 40 Qualification to Championship semi-finals
2 PAOK Vergina TV 22 19 1 2 641 453 +188 39
3 AEK 22 17 1 4 645 460 +185 35 Qualification to Championship Semi-finals qualifiers
4 ASE Douka 22 15 1 6 596 493 +103 31
5 Diomidis Argous 22 15 0 7 547 476 +71 30
6 Aeropos Edessa 22 10 3 9 570 597 −27 23
7 Filippos Veria 22 11 0 11 547 527 +20 22
8 XANTH 22 5 4 13 522 647 −125 14
9 PAS Foivos Sykeon 22 5 2 15 476 601 −125 12 Participation in Relegation play-outs
10 GAS Kamatero (R) 22 4 3 15 450 553 −103 11
11 GS Drama 86 22 2 3 17 531 664 −133 7
12 Panellinios GS (R) 22 0 0 22 420 669 −249 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: Hellenic Handball Federation
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results
Home \ Away AEK AER DIO DOU DRA FIL FOI KAM OLY PAN PAO XAN
AEK —
Aeropos Edessa —
Diomidis Argous —
ASE Douka —
GS Drama 86 —
Filippos Veria —
Foivos Sykeon —
GAS Kamatero —
Olympiacos —
Panellinios —
PAOK —
XANTH —
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: Hellenic Handball Federation
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Semi-finals qualifiers

In the semifinals qualifiers, the teams that finished in places 3 to 6 of the regular season play against each other (the 3rd team of the regular season faces the 6th, while the 4th team faces the 5th) and have to win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins two games before all three games have been played, the remaining game is omitted. The team that finished in the higher regular season place, plays the first and the third (if necessary) game of the series at home. The two winners proceed to the championship semi-finals.

Team 3 Agg. Team 6 Game1 Game 2 Game 3
AEK 2–1 Aeropos Edessas 48–27 23–25 29–16
Team 4 Agg. Team 5 Game 1 Game 2 Game 3
ASE Douka 2–1 Diomidis Argous 24–21 18–28 27–24

Semi-finals

In the championship semi-finals, the top two teams of the regular season plus the two teams that qualified from the semifinal qualifiers play against each other and have to win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins two games before all three games have been played, the remaining game is omitted. The teams that directly qualified to the semifinals from the regular season play the first and the third (if necessary) game of the series at home. The two winners proceed to the championship finals.

Team 1 Agg. Team 4 Game 1 Game 2
Olympiacos 2–0 ASE Douka 23–20 29–24
Team 2 Agg. Team 3 Game 1 Game 2
PAOK 0–2 AEK 20–25 22–23

3rd place play-offs
Team 2 Agg. Team 4 Game 1 Game 2 Game 3
PAOK 2–1 ASE Douka 27–24 22–24 33–20

Finals

In the finals, teams playing against each other have to win three games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins three games before all five games have been played, the remaining games are omitted. The team that finished in the higher championship play-off place, is going to play the first, third and fifth (if necessary) game of the series at home.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Olympiacos3–2

(104–105)

 AEK23–2513–2022–1622–2124–23

References
  1. Olympiacos win Greek men's handball championship. xinhuanet.com. 7 June 2018
  2. "ΣΤΗΝ HANDBALL PREMIER Ο ΓΑΣ ΚΑΜΑΤΕΡΟΥ!" [GAS Kamatero in Handball Premier!]. handball.org.gr. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 11 Jun 2017.
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