2008–09 Super League Greece

The 2008–09 Super League Greece was the 73rd season of the highest football league of Greece and the third under the name Super League. The season began on 31 August 2008 and ended on 26 April 2009. The league consisted of 16 teams. Participants were the 13 best teams from the 2007–08 season and three teams who have been promoted from Beta Ethniki. Olympiacos successfully defended their title after claiming their 37th title overall with three rounds remaining.

Super League Greece
Season2008–09
ChampionsOlympiacos
37th Greek title
RelegatedOFI
Panserraikos
Thrasyvoulos
Champions LeagueOlympiacos
Panathinaikos
Europa LeagueAEK Athens
(via domestic cup)
PAOK
AEL
Matches played252
Goals scored519 (2.06 per match)
Top goalscorerIsmael Blanco
Luciano Galletti
(14 goals each)
Biggest home winOlympiacos 5–0 Iraklis
Biggest away winPanserraikos 1–5 AEK Athens
Highest scoringAEL 4–3 OFI
OFI 4–3 Panthrakikos
Asteras Tripolis 3–4 Panionios
Ergotelis 2–5 Panionios

Team changes from 2007–08

Teams promoted from 2007–08 Beta Ethniki:

Teams relegated to 2008–09 Beta Ethniki:

Teams

Stadia and personnel
Location of the 2008–09 Super League Greece teams
Team Manager1 Location Stadium Capacity
AEK Athens Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević Athens Athens Olympic Stadium 71,030
AEL Greece Marinos Ouzounidis Larissa Alcazar Stadium 13,108
Aris Brazil Mazinho Thessaloniki Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium 22,800
Asteras Tripolis Greece Nikos Kostenoglou Tripoli Asteras Tripolis Stadium 4,200
Ergotelis Greece Nikos Karageorgiou Heraklion Pankritio Stadium 26,400
Iraklis Ukraine Oleh Protasov Thessaloniki Kaftanzoglio Stadium 28,028
Levadiakos Serbia Momčilo Vukotić Livadeia Levadia Municipal Stadium 8,000
OFI Greece Ioannis Matzourakis Heraklion Pankritio Stadium 26,400
Olympiacos Spain Ernesto Valverde Piraeus Karaiskakis Stadium 33,334
Panathinaikos Netherlands Henk ten Cate Athens Athens Olympic Stadium 71,030
Panionios Greece Giotis Stamatopoulos Nea Smyrni Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,700
Panserraikos Belgium Hugo Broos Serres Serres Municipal Stadium 8,500
Panthrakikos Belgium Emilio Ferrera Komotini Komotini Municipal Stadium 4,500
PAOK Portugal Fernando Santos Thessaloniki Toumba Stadium 28,850
Skoda Xanthi Greece Georgios Paraschos Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Arena 7,422
Thrasyvoulos Greece Sakis Tsiolis Fyli Fyli Municipal Stadium 3,142
  • 1 On final match day of the season, played on 26 April 2009.

Regular season

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Olympiacos (C) 30 22 5 3 50 14 +36 71 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2 PAOK 30 18 9 3 39 16 +23 63 Qualification for the Play-offs
3 Panathinaikos 30 17 10 3 51 18 +33 61
4 AEK Athens 30 14 13 3 40 24 +16 55
5 AEL 30 12 13 5 36 26 +10 49
6 Aris 30 13 8 9 30 31 −1 47
7 Skoda Xanthi 30 9 11 10 25 21 +4 38
8 Panionios 30 10 7 13 40 40 0 37
9 Ergotelis 30 9 9 12 31 39 −8 36
10 Iraklis 30 8 9 13 22 38 −16 33[lower-alpha 1]
11 Panthrakikos 30 9 6 15 23 37 −14 33[lower-alpha 1]
12 Asteras Tripolis 30 7 12 11 33 31 +2 33[lower-alpha 1]
13 Levadiakos 30 9 5 16 28 36 −8 32
14 OFI (R) 30 5 9 16 30 50 −20 24[lower-alpha 2] Relegation to the Beta Ethniki
15 Panserraikos (R) 30 5 9 16 19 45 −26 24[lower-alpha 2]
16 Thrasyvoulos (R) 30 3 5 22 22 53 −31 14
Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Play-offs (neutral ground).
(Note: Criterion 4 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).[1]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Head-to-head points: Iraklis 7, Panthrakikos 6, Asteras Tripolis 2.
  2. Head-to-head points: OFI 4, Panserraikos 1.

Results
Home \ Away AEK AEL ARIS AST ERG IRA LEV OFI OLY PAO PGSS PNS PNT PAOK XAN THR
AEK Athens 1–1 0–1 2–1 3–2 1–0 3–1 1–0 0–1 2–1 3–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–0
AEL 1–1 1–1 2–1 3–2 2–0 2–1 4–3 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–2 0–0 0–1 3–0
Aris 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 2–0 4–1 1–0 1–2 1–0 2–0 3–2 0–0 0–1 2–1
Asteras Tripolis 0–1 0–0 4–0 3–1 1–2 2–0 2–2 0–1 1–1 3–4 3–0 0–0 0–2 0–0 3–0
Ergotelis 1–1 2–1 3–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 1–3 1–0 1–0 2–5 2–2 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–2
Iraklis 0–1 0–2 0–1 2–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–3 0–0 2–1 1–2 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–1
Levadiakos 0–0 0–1 2–0 1–0 4–0 3–0 2–1 1–2 1–2 1–1 0–0 2–0 0–3 0–0 1–0
OFI 1–1 1–2 0–1 1–1 0–0 2–3 0–2 0–0 0–3 2–0 0–0 4–3 0–2 0–2 1–3
Olympiacos 2–0 0–1 2–1 3–1 2–0 5–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 4–1 4–1 2–0 2–0 2–1 2–1
Panathinaikos 0–0 3–0 4–0 1–1 2–3 2–2 2–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 3–0 3–0 3–0 2–0 3–0
Panionios 2–2 1–1 2–1 3–0 0–0 0–2 1–0 1–1 2–3 1–2 2–0 3–0 1–2 0–1 4–1
Panserraikos 1–5 1–3 1–2 0–0 0–2 0–0 1–0 1–2 0–1 0–0 0–1 1–2 1–1 1–0 1–0
Panthrakikos 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–2 1–0 1–3 2–0 0–2 1–3 1–0 2–1 0–1 0–0 1–0
PAOK 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 3–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 4–1 2–0 1–0 2–1
Skoda Xanthi 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–1 4–1 4–0 0–0 0–1 1–2 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–2 1–0
Thrasyvoulos 3–3 0–0 1–2 0–2 1–3 1–1 2–1 1–2 0–2 0–1 1–3 0–1 0–2 1–2 1–1
Source: Worldfootball.net
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

The play-offs for an additional Champions League spot were conducted in a home and away round robin format. Its participants have entered the mini-league with a number of bonus points based on their regular season record. Every team had the number of points earned by the fifth-placed team subtracted from its own number of points. The result was then divided through five and rounded to the nearest whole number to determine the number of bonus points.

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

  • PAOK – 3 points ((63–49) / 5 = 2.8, rounded up to 3)
  • Panathinaikos – 2 points ((61–49) / 5 = 2.4, rounded down to 2)
  • AEK Athens – 1 point ((55–49) / 5 = 1.2, rounded down to 1)
  • AEL – 0 points ((49 –49) / 5 = 0)

The play-off winners entered the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Since AEK Athens have lost the final of the 2008–09 Greek Cup to Champions League-bound Olympiacos, all three Greek Europa League spots (two via league, one via domestic cup) were allotted according to the position of the respective teams in the play-off.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PAO AEK PAOK AEL
2 Panathinaikos 6 5 1 0 12 3 +9 18 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round 1–1 4–1 3–1
3 AEK Athens 6 3 2 1 8 6 +2 12 Qualification for the Europa League play-off round 0–2 3–1 3–2
4 PAOK 6 2 0 4 5 9 −4 9 Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round 0–1 0–1 1–0
5 AEL 6 0 1 5 3 10 −7 1 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round 0–1 0–0 0–2
Source: Super League Greece and Worldfootball.net
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.

Statistics

Most valuable players (excluding goalkeepers)
Position Player Club Index
1 Argentina Luciano Galletti Olympiacos 0.250
2 Brazil Dudu Cearense Olympiacos 0.242
3 Argentina Fernando Belluschi Olympiacos 0.217
4 Uruguay Fabián Estoyanoff Panionios 0.215
5 Serbia Vladimir Ivić PAOK 0.201
6 Argentina Diego Romano Ergotelis 0.197
7 Greece Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos 0.196
8 Brazil Leonardo Levadiakos 0.192
9 Ivory Coast Serge Dié Iraklis 0.188
10 Senegal Dame N'Doye OFI 0.183

Source: galanissportsdata.com

Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards
Matchday MVP Best Goal Ref
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th Slovakia Jozef Kožlej (Thrasyvoulos) Brazil Anderson Gonzaga (Panionios) [2]
7th Greece Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos) Spain Javito (Aris) [3]
8th Brazil Gabriel (Panathinaikos) Algeria Rafik Djebbour (AEK Athens) [4]
9th Portugal Sérgio Conceição (PAOK) Nigeria Patrick Ogunsoto (Ergotelis) [5]
10th Germany Denis Epstein (Iraklis) Spain Koke (Aris) [6]
11th Argentina Fernando Belluschi (Olympiacos) Brazil Dudu Cearense (Olympiacos) [7]
12th Montenegro Srđan Blažić (Levadiakos) Greece Fanouris Goundoulakis (Panionios) [8]
13th Brazil Gilberto Silva (Panathinaikos) Greece Dimitrios Souanis (Skoda Xanthi) [9]
14th Greece Giorgos Karagounis (Panathinaikos) Portugal Edinho (AEK Athens) [10]
15th Uruguay Fabián Estoyanoff (Panionios) Argentina Sebastián Leto (Olympiacos) [11]
16th Greece Achilleas Angelopoulos (Panthrakikos) Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatan Muslimović (PAOK) [12]
17th Greece Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos) Argentina Luciano Galletti (Olympiacos) [13]
18th Greece Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos) Croatia Zdravko Popović (OFI) [14]
19th Argentina Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) [15]
20th Greece Antonis Nikopolidis (Olympiacos) Argentina Luciano Galletti (Olympiacos) [16]
21st Greece Loukas Vyntra (Panathinaikos) Greece Manolis Papasterianos (Iraklis) [17]
22nd Greece Anastasios Papazoglou (Panserraikos) Greece Panagiotis Tachtsidis (AEK Athens) [18]
23rd Greece Spyros Vrontaras (Panthrakikos) Greece Vasilios Koutsianikoulis (Ergotelis) [19]
24th Ivory Coast Ibrahima Bakayoko (PAOK) Portugal Edinho (AEK Athens) [20]
25th Greece Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (Panathinaikos) Greece Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos) [21]
26th Argentina Fernando Belluschi (Olympiacos) Nigeria Victor Agali (Skoda Xanthi) [22]
27th Argentina Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) Greece Stelios Sfakianakis (OFI) [23]
28th Greece Georgios Georgiadis (Panserraikos) Portugal Sérgio Conceição (PAOK) [24]
29th Brazil Neto (Aris) Serbia Vladimir Ivić (PAOK) [25]
30th Turkey Tümer Metin (AEL) Greece Xenofon Gittas (Panthrakikos) [26]

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 9 November 2009.[27]

Award Winner Club
Greek Player of the Season Greece Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos
Foreign Player of the Season Argentina Luciano Galletti Olympiacos
Young Player of the Season Greece Vasilios Koutsianikoulis Ergotelis
Goalkeeper of the Season Greece Antonis Nikopolidis Olympiacos
Golden Boot Argentina Luciano Galletti
Argentina Ismael Blanco		 Olympiacos
AEK Athens
Manager of the Season Portugal Fernando Santos PAOK

References
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