1990–91 Alpha Ethniki

The 1990–91 Alpha Ethniki was the 55th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 16 September 1990 and ended on 2 June 1991. Panathinaikos won their second consecutive and 16th Greek title.

Alpha Ethniki

Season	1990–91
Champions	Panathinaikos 16th Greek title
Relegated	Ionikos Levadiakos PAS Giannina
European Cup	Panathinaikos
UEFA Cup	AEK Athens PAOK
Cup Winners' Cup	Athinaikos
Matches played	306
Goals scored	772 (2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dimitris Saravakos (23 goals)
← 1989–90 1991–92 →

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

Teams

Stadia and personnel

 

 

AEK Athens
Apollon
Athinaikos
Panathinaikos
Panionios

 

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

 

Ionikos
Olympiacos

 

Doxa

 

AEL

 

Levadiakos

 

OFI

 

Panachaiki

 

Panserraikos

 

PAS Giannina

 

Xanthi

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Location of teams in 1990–91 Alpha Ethniki

Team	Manager^1	Location	Stadium
AEK Athens	Dušan Bajević	Athens	Nikos Goumas Stadium
AEL	Hristo Bonev	Larissa	Alcazar Stadium
Apollon Athens	Konstantinos Vrettos	Athens	Rizoupoli Stadium
Aris	Konstantinos Tsilios	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium
Athinaikos	Gerhard Prokop	Athens	Vyronas National Stadium
Doxa Drama	Christos Archontidis	Drama	Doxa Drama Stadium
Ionikos	Giannis Aivatiadis	Piraeus	Neapoli Stadium
Iraklis	Aristotelis Batakis	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium
Levadiakos	Alketas Panagoulias	Livadeia	Levadia Municipal Stadium
OFI	Eugène Gerards	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium
Olympiacos	Oleg Blokhin	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium
Panachaiki	Andreas Michalopoulos	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium
Panathinaikos	Vasilios Daniil	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium
Panionios	Momčilo Vukotić	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium
Panserraikos	Nikos Alefantos	Serres	Serres Municipal Stadium
PAOK	Christos Terzanidis	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium
PAS Giannina	Petr Packert	Ioannina	Zosimades Stadium
Xanthi	Giannis Gounaris	Xanthi	Xanthi Ground

• ¹ On final match day of the season, played on 2 June 1991.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Panathinaikos (C)	34	23	8	3	77	22	+55	54	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Olympiacos^[a]	34	19	10	5	77	28	+49	46	1-year ban from European competitions^[b]
3	AEK Athens	34	18	6	10	59	33	+26	42	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	PAOK^[c]	34	16	9	9	56	39	+17	38
5	Iraklis	34	14	9	11	40	36	+4	37
6	Athinaikos	34	16	5	13	40	33	+7	37	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
7	Doxa Drama	34	14	6	14	42	45	−3	34
8	OFI	34	11	12	11	37	38	−1	34
9	Aris	34	11	11	12	34	38	−4	33
10	Panionios	34	9	12	13	38	54	−16	30
11	Apollon Athens	34	10	10	14	41	62	−21	30
12	AEL	34	10	9	15	38	46	−8	29
13	Panachaiki	34	9	10	15	36	48	−12	28
14	Panserraikos	34	9	10	15	30	42	−12	28
15	Xanthi	34	9	10	15	35	53	−18	28
16	Ionikos (R)	34	9	9	16	37	50	−13	27	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
17	Levadiakos (R)	34	10	7	17	35	51	−16	27
18	PAS Giannina (R)	34	8	9	17	20	54	−34	25

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. Olympiacos were deducted 2 points.
2. Olympiacos were punished with a one-year ban from all European competitions by the UEFA disciplinary committee after being charged for the eventful European Cup Winners' Cup match against Sampdoria on 24 October 1990.
3. PAOK were deducted 3 points.

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	AEL	APA	ARIS	ATH	DOX	ION	IRA	LEV	OFI	OLY	PNA	PAO	PGSS	PNS	PAOK	PAS	XAN
AEK Athens		5–2	1–1	4–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	4–0	3–1	3–1	1–0^[a]	3–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	6–0
AEL	1–2		0–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	4–2	1–1	3–0	1–0
Apollon Athens	2–5	1–1		1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–4	2–2	0–1	4–2	1–1	2–1
Aris	2–1	1–0	3–1		1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	0–0
Athinaikos	1–0	1–1	3–2	2–1		6–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	0–5	1–2	2–0
Doxa Drama	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–3	1–0		4–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	3–2	0–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0
Ionikos	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0		1–2	1–0	0–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	3–2	2–0	1–1
Iraklis	0–1	2–1	5–2	1–0	2–0	2–2	1–0		3–2	2–0	0–2	1–0	0–2	4–3	1–1	0–0	4–0	0–0
Levadiakos	0–3	0–2	1–0	4–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–0		1–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	2–0
OFI	1–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	5–3	4–1	2–1		0–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0
Olympiacos	3–1	2–0	7–1	5–1	0–2^[b]	4–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–1		6–0	0–0	4–1	3–1	3–2	3–0	8–1
Panachaiki	0–2	2–0	1–3	2–2	0–3	2–1	2–0	3–2	1–1	0–0	0–1		3–2	0–0	3–0	3–2	4–1	5–1
Panathinaikos	4–0	3–3	5–0	3–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	4–0	3–0	0–1	0–0		6–1	2–0	3–0^[c]	3–0	6–2
Panionios	0–3	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–2	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–6	1–1	1–1		2–1	2–0	4–1	1–1
Panserraikos	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–2	4–0	2–2	0–0	1–0	2–3	2–2	0–0	1–3	1–2		2–1	1–0	2–1
PAOK	1–1	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	4–1	2–1	2–3	0–0	3–2	4–1	1–1	1–0	1–0		4–1	2–0
PAS Giannina	1–1	0–3	2–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–2		0–0
Xanthi	2–0	6–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–3	1–1	0–0	1–2	3–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. AEK Athens-Olympiacos 1–2, replayed 1–0 because of heavy smoke at 84th minute.
2. Olympiacos-Athinaikos 2–2, awarded with 0–2 because of pitch invasion of Olympiacos fans at 88th minute.
3. Panathinaikos-PAOK 3–0, suspended at 77th minute, because the whole team of PAOK left the pitch. Original 3-0 result stood.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dimitris Saravakos	Panathinaikos	23
2	Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos	18
3	Nikos Anastopoulos	Olympiacos	16
4	Giorgos Vaitsis	Panachaiki	15
5	Daniel Batista	AEK Athens	13
6	Giorgos Skartados	PAOK	12
7	Aris Karasavvidis	Apollon Athens	11
	Oleh Protasov	Olympiacos
9	Vangelis Kalogeropoulos	Ionikos	10
	Stathis Pechlivanidis	Levadiakos
	Yuri Savichev	Olympiacos

External links

• Official Greek FA Site
• RSSSF
• Greek SuperLeague official Site