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

Season	2008–09
Champions	Olympiacos 37th Greek title
Relegated	OFI Panserraikos Thrasyvoulos
Champions League	Olympiacos Panathinaikos
Europa League	AEK Athens (via domestic cup) PAOK AEL
Matches played	252
Goals scored	519 (2.06 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ismael Blanco Luciano Galletti (14 goals each)
Biggest home win	Olympiacos 5–0 Iraklis
Biggest away win	Panserraikos 1–5 AEK Athens
Highest scoring	AEL 4–3 OFI OFI 4–3 Panthrakikos Asteras Tripolis 3–4 Panionios Ergotelis 2–5 Panionios
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

Team changes from 2007–08

Teams promoted from 2007–08 Beta Ethniki:

• Champions: Panserraikos
• Runners-up: Thrasyvoulos
• 3rd placed team: Panthrakikos

Teams relegated to 2008–09 Beta Ethniki:

• 14th placed team: Atromitos
• 15th placed team: Veria
• 16th placed team: Apollon Kalamarias

Teams

Stadia and personnel

 

 

AEK Athens
Panathinaikos
Panionios
Thrasyvoulos

 

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

 

Asteras

 

Ergotelis
OFI

 

AEL

 

Levadiakos

 

Olympiacos

 

Panserraikos

 

Panthrakikos

 

Skoda Xanthi

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Location of the 2008–09 Super League Greece teams

Team	Manager^1	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens	Dušan Bajević	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
AEL	Marinos Ouzounidis	Larissa	Alcazar Stadium	13,108
Aris	Mazinho	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	22,800
Asteras Tripolis	Nikos Kostenoglou	Tripoli	Asteras Tripolis Stadium	4,200
Ergotelis	Nikos Karageorgiou	Heraklion	Pankritio Stadium	26,400
Iraklis	Oleh Protasov	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	28,028
Levadiakos	Momčilo Vukotić	Livadeia	Levadia Municipal Stadium	8,000
OFI	Giannis Matzourakis	Heraklion	Pankritio Stadium	26,400
Olympiacos	Ernesto Valverde	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium	33,334
Panathinaikos	Henk ten Cate	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
Panionios	Giotis Stamatopoulos	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium	11,700
Panserraikos	Hugo Broos	Serres	Serres Municipal Stadium	8,500
Panthrakikos	Emilio Ferrera	Komotini	Komotini Municipal Stadium	4,500
PAOK	Fernando Santos	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium	28,850
Skoda Xanthi	Giorgos Paraschos	Xanthi	Skoda Xanthi Arena	7,422
Thrasyvoulos	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^[a]
11	Panthrakikos	30	9	6	15	23	37	−14	33^[a]
12	Asteras Tripolis	30	7	12	11	33	31	+2	33^[a]
13	Levadiakos	30	9	5	16	28	36	−8	32
14	OFI (R)	30	5	9	16	30	50	−20	24^[b]	Relegation to the Beta Ethniki
15	Panserraikos (R)	30	5	9	16	19	45	−26	24^[b]
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

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ismael Blanco	AEK Athens	14
	Luciano Galletti	Olympiacos
3	Dimitris Salpingidis	Panathinaikos	10
4	Leonardo	Levadiakos	9
	Maciej Żurawski	AEL
6	Danijel Cesarec	Asteras Tripolis	8
	Patrick Ogunsoto	Ergotelis
	Zdravko Popović	OFI
	Rafik Djebbour	AEK Athens
10	Ibrahima Bakayoko	PAOK	7
	Edinho	AEK Athens
	Fabián Estoyanoff	Panionios
	Lucio Filomeno	Asteras Tripolis
	Bennard Kumordzi	Panionios
	Zlatan Muslimović	PAOK
	Dame N'Doye	OFI

Source:

Most valuable players (excluding goalkeepers)

Position	Player	Club	Index
1	Luciano Galletti	Olympiacos	0.250
2	Dudu Cearense	Olympiacos	0.242
3	Fernando Belluschi	Olympiacos	0.217
4	Fabián Estoyanoff	Panionios	0.215
5	Vladimir Ivić	PAOK	0.201
6	Diego Romano	Ergotelis	0.197
7	Dimitris Salpingidis	Panathinaikos	0.196
8	Leonardo	Levadiakos	0.192
9	Serge Dié	Iraklis	0.188
10	Dame N'Doye	OFI	0.183

Source:

Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards

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

Annual awards

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

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

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External links

• Official website (in Greek)