2009–10 Superleague Greece

Super League Greece
Season	2009–10
Champions	Panathinaikos 20th title
Relegated	Levadiakos PAS Giannina Panthrakikos
Champions League	Panathinaikos PAOK
Europa League	AEK Aris Olympiacos
Matches played	252
Goals scored	587 (2.33 per match)
Top goalscorer	Djibril Cissé (23)
Biggest home win	Olympiacos 5–1 Levadiakos Ergotelis 4–0 Panthrakikos Panathinaikos 4–0 AEL Panathinaikos 4–0 PAS Giannina
Biggest away win	Asteras Tripolis 0–4 Iraklis
Highest scoring	Skoda Xanthi 4–3 Iraklis Ergotelis 4–3 Asteras Tripolis
← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The 2009–10 Super League Greece season is the fourth since its establishment. The league consists of 16 teams. Participants are the 13 best teams from the 2008–09 season and three teams that have been promoted from the Beta Ethniki. On 11 April 2010, Panathinaikos won 2–0 against Iraklis to secure their 20th Greek title and their first in six years.^[1]

1 Changes from 2008–09
- 1.1 Promotion and relegation
- 1.2 Other changes
2 Team overview
3 League table
4 Results
5 Top goalscorers
6 Play-offs
7 References
8 External links

Changes from 2008–09

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from 2008–09 Beta Ethniki:

Champions: Atromitos
Runners-up: PAS Giannina
3rd placed team: Kavala

Teams relegated to 2009–10 Beta Ethniki:

14th placed team: OFI
15th placed team: Panserraikos
16th placed team: Thrasyvoulos

Other changes

Due to Greece having ascended in the UEFA league coefficient rankings,^[2] the 2009–10 champions will enter UEFA Champions League 2010–11 at the group stage instead of the third qualifying round. Every other European spot remains unchanged, meaning that the winner of the European play-off group will reach the third qualifying round of the Champions League while the runners-up and third-placed team of this group will enter UEFA Europa League 2010–11.

Team overview

Stadia and locations

AEK Athens
Atromitos
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Location of teams in 2009–10 Super League Greece

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
AEK Athens	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis"	71,030
Aris	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	22,800
Asteras Tripolis	Tripoli	Asteras Tripolis Stadium	6,430
Atromitos	Athens	Peristeri Stadium	8,939
Ergotelis	Heraklion	Pankritio Stadium	26,240
PAS Giannina	Ioannina	Zosimades Stadium	7,652
Iraklis	Thessaloniki	Lysandros Kaftanzoglou Stadium	27,770
Kavala	Kavala	Anthi Karagianni Stadium	12,500
Larissa	Larissa	Alkazar Stadium	13,108
Levadiakos	Livadeia	Levadia Stadium	5,915
Olympiacos	Piraeus	Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium	33,334
Panathinaikos	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis"	71,030
Panionios	Athens	Nea Smyrni Stadium	11,700
Panthrakikos	Komotini	Komotini Stadium	6,500
PAOK	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium	28,701
Skoda Xanthi	Xanthi	Skoda Xanthi Arena	7,361

Personnel and sponsoring

Club	Manager	Kit maker	Shirt sponsor
AEK Athens	Dušan Bajević	Puma	Diners Club
Aris	Héctor Cúper	Reebok	EKO
Asteras Tripolis	Mario Gómez	Lotto	OPAP
Atromitos	Giorgos Donis	Asics	OPAP
Ergotelis	Nikos Karageorgiou	Lotto	OPAP
Iraklis	Jozef Bubenko	Puma	Attica bank
Kavala	Aad de Mos	Puma	OPAP
Larissa	Marinos Ouzounidis	Adidas	On Telecoms
Levadiakos	Enrique Hernández	Puma	OPAP
Olympiacos	Bozidar Bandovic	Puma	Citibank
Panathinaikos	Nikos Nioplias	Adidas	Cosmote
Panionios	Akis Mantzios	Diadora	WIND
Panthrakikos	Pavlos Dermitzakis	Umbro	OPAP
PAOK	Fernando Santos	Puma	DEPA
PAS Giannina	Nikos Anastopoulos	Umbro	Zagori
Skoda Xanthi	Ioannis Matzourakis	Hummel	Emporiki Bank

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Panthrakikos	Ilie Dumitrescu	Mutual consent	27 August 2009	Albert Cartier	27 August 2009
Olympiacos	Temuri Ketsbaia	Sacked	14 September 2009^[3]	Zico	16 September 2009^[4]
Skoda Xanthi	Wolfgang Wolf	Mutual consent	15 September 2009	Ioannis Matzourakis	21 September 2009^[5]
Levadiakos	Momčilo Vukotić	Mutual consent	23 September 2009	Enrique Hernández	30 September 2009^[6]
Asteras Tripolis	Roberto Carlos Mario Gómez	Mutual consent	25 October 2009^[7]	Vangelis Vlachos	25 October 2009
Iraklis	Oleh Protasov	Mutual consent	30 October 2009^[8]	Savvas Kofidis	30 October 2009^[9]
Aris	Mazinho	Mutual consent	2 November 2009^[10]	Héctor Cúper	6 November 2009^[11]
Kavala	Giannis Papakostas	Mutual consent	14 November 2009	Vaggelis Goutis
PAS Giannina	Georgios Paraschos	Mutual consent	7 December 2009	Nikos Anastopoulos
Panathinaikos	Henk ten Cate	Mutual consent	8 December 2009^[12]	Nikos Nioplias	8 December 2009^[13]
Panthrakikos	Albert Cartier	Mutual consent	11 January 2010	Paulos Dermitzakis	12 January 2010
Iraklis	Savvas Kofidis	Sacked	24 January 2010^[14]	Jozef Bubenko	25 January 2010^[14]
Panionios	Emilio Ferrera	Mutual consent	25 January 2010^[15]	Akis Mantzios	29 January 2010^[16]
Olympiacos	Zico	Sacked	19 January 2010^[17]	Bozidar Bandovic	19 January 2010^[17]
Kavala	Vaggelis Goutis	Mutual consent	25 January 2010	Aad De Mos	28 January 2010
Panionios	Akis Mantzios	3 February 2010		Georgios Paraschos	3 February 2010
Skoda Xanthi	Ioannis Matzourakis		22 February 2010
Larissa	Marinos Ouzounidis	Mutual Consent	22 February 2010	Giannis Papakostas	22 February 2010

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Panathinaikos (C)	30	22	4	4	54	17	+37	70	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Olympiacos	30	19	7	4	47	18	+29	64	Playoffs
3	PAOK	30	19	5	6	41	16	+25	62
4	AEK Athens	30	15	8	7	43	31	+12	53
5	Aris	30	12	10	8	35	28	+7	46
6	Kavala	30	10	9	11	31	32	−1	39
7	Atromitos	30	10	8	12	34	36	−2	38
8	Larissa	30	10	7	13	31	42	−11	37		AEL: 7 pts, 8–5 PIO: 5 pts, 4–5 IRA: 4 pts, 3–5
9	Panionios	30	9	10	11	34	35	−1	37
10	Iraklis	30	10	7	13	39	41	−2	37
11	Ergotelis	30	9	9	12	37	41	−4	36		AST 2–4 ERG ERG 4–3 AST
12	Asteras Tripolis	30	10	6	14	29	36	−7	36		AST 2–4 ERG ERG 4–3 AST
13	Skoda Xanthi	30	10	5	15	27	36	−9	35
14	Levadiakos (R)	30	9	7	14	31	44	−13	34	Relegation to the 2010–11 Football League
15	PAS Giannina (R)	30	7	7	16	27	46	−19	28
16	Panthrakikos (R)	30	3	3	24	21	62	−41	12

Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Results

Home \ Away¹	AEK	ARI	AST	ATR	ERG	IRA	KAV	AEL	LEV	OLY	PAT	PIO	PTH	PAO	PAS	XAN
AEK Athens		1–0	2–0	3–3	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	3–2	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–2	1–0	3–1	3–1
Aris	1–1		0–1	1–0	2–1	4–2	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–0
Asteras Tripolis	2–0	2–1		1–2	2–4	0–4	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–3	0–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	0–0
Atromitos	0–1	0–3	0–0		0–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–1	0–3	1–0	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–0
Ergotelis	2–2	0–0	4–3	1–1		1–3	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–3	0–0	4–0	0–2	3–1	1–0
Iraklis	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–2	0–2		1–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–4
Kavala	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–3	1–0		3–3	2–2	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–0	2–1
Larissa	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–0		1–2	0–2	0–3	2–2	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–0
Levadiakos	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	3–0		0–3	0–2	1–0	2–0	0–2	4–1	2–1
Olympiacos	1–2	2–1	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	5–1		2–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–2	0–0
Panathinaikos	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	4–1	2–0	0–2	4–0	3–0	0–1		2–1	2–0	2–1	4–0	1–0
Panionios	3–1	1–1	1–3	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–3	2–2	0–1	0–2		3–1	0–0	3–1	3–0
Panthrakikos	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–3	3–2	1–2	1–3	1–3	0–2	0–2	0–1	0–1		1–2	1–2	1–1
PAOK	0–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	4–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	3–0		2–0	1–0
PAS Giannina	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–3	2–0	0–1		0–0
Skoda Xanthi	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	4–3	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	0–3	1–1

Source: Super League Greece
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 18 April 2010; Source: Galanis Sports Data

23 goals

Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos)

11 goals

10 goals

Benjamin Onwuachi (Kavala)
Danijel Cesarec (Asteras Tripolis)

9 goals

Kostas Mitroglou (Olympiacos)

8 goals

Play-offs

In the play-off for Champions League, the teams play each other in a home and away round robin. However, they do not all start with 0 points. Instead, a weighting system applies to the teams' standing at the start of the play-off mini-league. The team finishing fifth in the Super League will start the play-off with 0 points. The fifth placed team's end of season tally of points is subtracted from the sum of the points that other teams have. This number is then divided by five to give the other teams the points with which they start the mini-league.

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

Olympiacos – 4 points ((64–46) / 5 = 3.6, rounded up to 4)
PAOK – 3 points ((62–46) / 5 = 3.2, rounded to 3)
AEK Athens – 1 point ((53–46) / 5 = 1.4, rounded to 1)
Aris – 0 points ((46–46) / 5 = 0)

Play-off table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	PAOK	6	4	1	1	7	3	+4	16	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2	AEK Athens	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	9	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
3	Aris	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round	ARI 2–0 OLY OLY 0–0 ARI
4	Olympiacos	6	1	1	4	3	7	−4	8	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round	ARI 2–0 OLY OLY 0–0 ARI

Source: http://www.superleaguegreece.net/standings/#playoff
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.
Since Aris lost the 2009–10 Greek Cup Final against Champions League-qualified Panathinaikos, all Europa League spots will be determined by the play-off group positions.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Results

Home \ Away¹	AEK	ARI	OLY	PAO
AEK Athens		4–2	2–1	0–0
Aris	1–1		2–0	3–2
Olympiacos	2–1	0–0		0–1
PAOK	1–0	2–0	1–0

Source: http://www.superleaguegreece.net/schedule
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-off top goalscorers

3 goals

Leonardo (AEK)
Eddie Johnson (Aris)

2 goals

1 goal

References

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External links

Superleague Greece 2011–12 clubs

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League competitions

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Cup competitions

Greek Cup

Other

PSAP MVP & Best Goal 2009–10 · Summer 2009 transfers · Winter 2009–10 transfers

European competitions

Champions League · Europa League

Related to national team

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA Group 2) · Otto Rehhagel

Club seasons

Super League

AEK Athens · Aris Thessaloniki · Asteras Tripolis · Atromitos · Ergotelis · PAS Giannina · Iraklis · Kavala · Larissa · Levadiakos · Olympiacos · Panathinaikos · Panionios · Panthrakikos · PAOK · PAS Giannina · Skoda Xanthi

Beta Ethniki

Agrotikos Asteras · Anegennisi Karditsa · Diagoras · Doxa Dramas · Egaleo · Ethnikos Asteras · Ethnikos Piraeus · Ilioupoli · Ionikos · Kalamata · Kerkyra · OFI · Olympiakos Volou · Panetolikos · Panserraikos · Pierikos · Rodos · Thrasyvoulos

Gamma Ethniki

North	Anagennisi Epanomi · Anagennisi Giannitsa · Doxa Kranoula · Eordaikos 2007 · Ethnikos Filippiada · Fokikos · Kastoria · Kozani · Makedonikos · Neoi Epivates · Niki Volos · Odysseas Anagennisi · Pyrsos · Thermaikos · Trikala · Veria · Visaltiakos · Zakynthos

South	Agia Paraskevi · Aias Salamina · Aspropyrgos Enosis · Atsalenios · Chaidari · Chersonissos · Fostiras · Kallithea · Keravnos · Korinthos · Panachaiki 2005 · Panargiakos · Panegialios · Platanias · Rodos · Rouf · Saronikos · Vyzas

2009–10 in European football (UEFA)

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Domestic cups	Albania · Andorra · Armenia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Belgium · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Denmark · England · Estonia · Faroe Islands '09 '10 · Finland '09 '10 · France · Georgia · Germany · Greece · Hungary · Iceland '09 '10 · Israel · Italy · Kazakhstan '09 '10 · Latvia · Liechtenstein · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Macedonia · Malta · Moldova · Montenegro · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Norway '09 '10 · Poland · Portugal · Republic of Ireland '09 '10 · Romania · Russia · San Marino · Scotland · Serbia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden '09 '10 · Switzerland · Turkey · Ukraine · Wales

League cups	England · Finland '09 '10 · France · Hungary · Iceland '09 '10 · Israel · Northern Ireland · Portugal · Republic of Ireland '09 '10 · Scotland · Wales

UEFA competitions	Champions League (qualifying phase and play-off round · group stage · knockout phase · Final) · Europa League (qualifying phase and play-off round · group stage · knockout phase · Final) · Super Cup

2009–10 Superleague Greece

Contents

Changes from 2008–09

Promotion and relegation

Other changes

Team overview

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Top goalscorers

Play-offs

Play-off table

Results

Play-off top goalscorers

References

External links