2018–19 Football League (Greece)

The 2018–19 Football League is the second division of the Greek professional football league system and the eighth season under the name Football League after previously being known as Beta Ethniki. This year the participating teams were reduced from 18 to 16.

Football League

Season	2018–19
Dates	27 October 2018 – 5 May 2019
Champions	Volos (1st title)
Promoted	Volos
Relegated	Irodotos Aittitos Spata Aiginiakos Sparti
Matches played	240
Goals scored	547 (2.28 per match)
Top goalscorer	Christos Eleftheriadis Miguel Bianconi (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Volos 7–0 Karaiskakis (27 October 2018) Platanias 7–0 Sparti (27 March 2019)
Biggest away win	Sparti 0–7 Doxa Drama (13 April 2019)
Highest scoring	Volos 7–0 Karaiskakis (27 October 2018) Iraklis Thessaloniki 3–4 Apollon Larissa (22 November 2018) Platanias 7–0 Sparti (27 March 2019) Sparti 0–7 Doxa Drama (13 April 2019) Platanias 4–3 Panachaiki (17 April 2019)
Longest winning run	6 matches Volos
Longest unbeaten run	12 matches Volos
Longest winless run	11 matches Aittitos Spata
Longest losing run	9 matches Aittitos Spata
← 2017–18 2019–20 2019–20 → All statistics correct as of 5 May 2019.

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2017–18 season.

To Football League

Promoted from Gamma Ethniki

• Aittitos Spata
• Iraklis Thessaloniki
• Irodotos
• Volos

Relegated from Super League

• Kerkyra
• Platanias

From Football League

Promoted to Super League

• OFI
• Aris

Relegated to Gamma Ethniki

• Acharnaikos
• Anagennisi Karditsa
• Kallithea
• Panegialios
• Panserraikos
• Veria

Stadiums

 

 

Aittitos Spata

 

Apollon Pontou
Iraklis

 

Aiginiakos

 

Volos

 

Apollon Larissa

 

Ergotelis
Irodotos

 

AO Chania−Kissamikos
Platanias

 

Panachaiki

 

Kerkyra

 

Sparti

 

Trikala

 

Karaiskakis

 

Doxa Drama

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Locations of the 2018–19 Football League teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Aiginiakos	Aiginio	Municipal Stadium "Giannis Paralikidis"	1,000
Aittitos Spata^1	Spata	Spata Municipal Stadium	2,500
AO Chania−Kissamikos	Chania	Perivolia Municipal Stadium	4,527
Apollon Larissa	Larissa	Apollon Ground	5,000
Apollon Pontou	Thessaloniki	Kalamaria Stadium	6,500
Doxa Drama	Drama	Doxa Drama Stadium	9,000
Ergotelis	Heraklion	Pankritio Stadium	26,240
Iraklis	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	27,770
Irodotos	Heraklion	Municipal Nea Alikarnassos Stadium	3,000
Karaiskakis	Arta	Municipal Agioi Anargiroi Stadium	1,900
Kerkyra	Corfu	Kerkyra Stadium	3,000
Panachaiki	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium	11,321
Platanias	Chania	Perivolia Municipal Stadium	4,527
Sparti	Sparta	Sparta Municipal Stadium	1,500
Trikala	Trikala	Trikala Municipal Stadium	15,000
Volos	Volos	Neapoli Municipal Stadium	2,500

• ¹ Aittitos Spata was expelled during the season^[1]
  

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
Aiginiakos	Cem Karaca	Stefanos Polyzos	Givova	N/A
Aittitos Spata	Petros Dimitriou	Andreas Iraklis	Givova	N/A
AO Chania−Kissamikos	Alekos Vosniadis	Alexis Seliniotakis	Saller	Dimiourgiki
Apollon Larissa	Arjan Bellaj	Konstantinos Chatzis	Givova	N/A
Apollon Pontou	Dimitris Kalaitzidis	Dimitris Samaras	Nike	N/A
Doxa Drama	Dimitrios Spanos	Stavros Petavrakis	Macron	N/A
Ergotelis	Nikki Papavasiliou	Christos Batzios	Capelli	N/A
Iraklis	Marcello Troisi	Nikos Ziabaris	Givova	N/A
Irodotos	Georgios Lyronis	Michail Fragoulakis	Stanno	Chalet Suites
Karaiskakis	Apostolos Charalampidis	Aristotelis Karagiannidis	Macron	Kotopoula Artas
Kerkyra	Anastasios Theos	Giannis Ioannou	Macron	N/A
Panachaiki	Sakis Tsiolis	Nikos Loumpardeas	Capelli	Bakalaros
Platanias	Giannis Tatsis	Manolis Roussakis	Luanvi	Ergobeton
Sparti	Konstantinos Kladis	Thanasis Pantos	Givova	Mayfair
Trikala	Dimitrios Sitsas	Xenofon Panos	Nike	Goalbet
Volos	Juan Ferrando	Vasilis Mantzis	Luanvi	Goalbet

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Volos (C)	30	18	6	6	61	27	+34	60	Promotion to the Super League 1
2	Platanias	30	15	10	5	53	22	+31	55	Qualification for the promotion play-off
3	Apollon Larissa^[a]	30	16	9	5	44	27	+17	54	Eligibility for Super League 2
4	Ergotelis^[b]	30	15	6	9	48	28	+20	48
5	Panachaiki	30	12	12	6	32	25	+7	48
6	AO Chania−Kissamikos	30	13	7	10	40	24	+16	46
7	Apollon Pontou^[c]	30	15	4	11	33	27	+6	46
8	Doxa Drama	30	12	9	9	41	28	+13	45
9	Kerkyra^[d]	30	14	5	11	30	25	+5	44
10	Karaiskakis	30	11	7	12	24	28	−4	40
11	Iraklis^[e] (R)	30	11	9	10	29	24	+5	39	Withdrew
12	Trikala (R)	30	9	8	13	27	30	−3	35	Relegation to Football League
13	Irodotos^[f] (R)	30	9	4	17	24	50	−26	28	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
14	Aittitos Spata^[g] (R)	30	5	7	18	18	50	−32	22
15	Aiginiakos^[h] (R)	30	5	4	21	24	66	−42	16
16	Sparti^[i] (R)	30	4	5	21	17	64	−47	11

Source: Football League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against; 6) Play-offs (neutral ground, only used if needed to decide teams for promotion or relegation).
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Apollon Larissa were deducted three points for failing to pass the economic oversight process of the HFF.^[2]
2. Ergotelis were deducted three points for failing to pass the economic oversight process of the HFF.^[3]
3. Apollon Pontus were deducted three points for failing to pass the economic oversight process of the HFF.^[4]
4. Kerkyra were deducted three points for failing to pass the economic oversight process of the HFF.^[5]
5. Iraklis Thessaloniki were deducted three points for failing to pass the economic oversight process of the HFF.^[6] The team decided to withdraw for financial reasons, and played in the Third Macedonian FCA Championship for the 2019–20 season. The team returned to Gamma Ethniki for the 2020–21 season by merging for one year with Iraklis Ampelokipi.
6. Irodotos were deducted three points for failing to pass the economic oversight process of the HFF.^[7]
7. Aittitos Spata was expelled during the season.
8. Aiginiakos were deducted three points for failing to pass the economic oversight process of the HFF.^[8]
9. Sparti were deducted twelve points. Three points for fielding 6 foreign players at once during Matchday 18 vs. Ergotelis (awarded the match 3–0) and six points for not showing up at two games and three for failing to pass the economic oversight process of the HFF.

Results

Home \ Away	AIG	AIT	CHA	APL	APP	DOX	ERG	IRA	IRO	KAR	KER	PCH	PLA	SPA	TRI	VOL
Aiginiakos		1–2	0–4	0–4	2–2	1–3	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–5	3–0^[a]	2–1	1–4
Aittitos Spata	1–0		0–1	2–2	0–3^[b]	2–0	0–3^[b]	0–3	1–1	0–3^[b]	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–3^[b]
AO Chania−Kissamikos	2–3	3–0^[b]		1–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–2	4–1	1–0	1–2
Apollon Larissa	3–2	2–0	0–3		3–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–1
Apollon Pontou	1–0	0–1	1–3	1–0		0–0	3–0	0–1	3–0	2–1	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0
Doxa Drama	2–0	3–0^[b]	1–0	2–0	4–0		0–2	2–0	2–3	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–2	0–3^[c]
Ergotelis	4–1	3–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–0		1–1	4–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–2	3–0^[d]	3–0	2–0
Iraklis	1–1	2–1	0–0	3–4	0–2	0–0	2–1		1–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	3–0	1–0	2–0
Irodotos	4–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1		2–0	0–2	0–1	0–4	4–1	1–0	0–2
Karaiskakis	4–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0		1–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–3	0–1
Kerkyra	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–2	0–2	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1		0–2	1–0	3–0^[a]	1–1	1–1
Panachaiki	2–2	2–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–0		1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1
Platanias	3–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	5–1	2–0	2–0	4–3		7–0	2–0	0–0
Sparti	1–0	3–0^[b]	1–1	0–2	0–3^[a]	0–7	0–2	0–1	3–0	0–4	1–2	2–3	0–0		2–0	1–3
Trikala	2–0	3–0^[b]	2–0	1–1	0–1	2–3	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0		0–1
Volos	6–0	3–1	1–4	1–3	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	5–0	7–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	3–0	1–1

Source: Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. The opponents of Sparti awarded a 3–0 w/o win each.
2. The opponents of Aittitos Spata awarded a 3–0 w/o win each.
3. The game awarded a 3–0 w/o win to Volos^[9]
4. The game awarded a 3–0 w/o win to Ergotelis.^[10]

Top scorers

As of 5 May 2019

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[11]
1	Christos Eleftheriadis	Panachaiki	16
	Miguel Bianconi	Platanias	16
3	Vasilios Mantzis	Volos	14
4	Nikos Kouskounas	Doxa Drama/AO Chania−Kissamikos	11
	Joseph Efford	Ergotelis	11
6	Giannis Loukinas	Platanias	10
7	Emanuel Perrone	Iraklis Thessaloniki	9
	Anastasios Kritikos	Doxa Drama	9
9	Michalis Fragos	Volos	8
	Konstantinos Iliopoulos	Volos	8
	Konstantinos Chatzis	Apollon Larissa	8
	Lucão	Apollon Larissa	8
	Christos Tzioras	Karaiskakis	8
	Konstantinos Doumtsios	Doxa Drama	8
	Nili	Platanias	8

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