2007–08 Superleague Greece

Superleague Greece
Season 2007–08
Champions Olympiacos
36th Greek title
Relegated Atromitos
Veria
Apollon Kalamarias
UEFA Champions League Olympiacos
Panathinaikos
UEFA Cup Aris (via domestic cup)
AEK Athens
UEFA Intertoto Cup Panionios
Matches played 252
Goals scored 601 (2.38 per match)
Top goalscorer Ismael Blanco (19)
Biggest home win Skoda Xanthi 6–1 Apollon Kalamarias
AEK Athens 5–0 Panionios
Biggest away win Levadiakos 0–4 Panathinaikos
Panionios 0–4 Olympiacos
PAOK 0–4 AEK Athens
Highest scoring Olympiacos 6–2 OFI
Levadiakos 5–3 Veria

The 2007–08 Superleague Greece was the second season since it establishment, and began on 1 September 2007. The defending champions were Olympiacos. Asteras Tripoli, Veria and Levadiakos were promoted from Beta Ethniki in the previous season.

Postponement

On 25 August, the Superleague and the Hellenic Football Federation decided to postpone the opening fixtures scheduled for that weekend (25 and 26 August) due to the ongoing fire disaster in the south of Greece (especially in the Peloponnese and Euboea). The championship started on 1 September 2007. Matchday 2 was carried out on the weekend of 21–22 September due to UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying matches (8 September) and Greek legislative election (16 September).

On 20 February 2008 UEFA president Michel Platini presented the Hellenic Football Federation with a CHF 1 million cheque to help finance the rebuilding of football facilities damaged by the fires in Greece that summer.[1]

Regular season final standings

Pos Team Pld Won Drw Lst Pts GF GA GD Notes
1Olympiacos 1302172705527+30UEFA Champions League 3rd qualifying round
2AEK Athens302226686517+48Qualified for the playoffs.
3Panathinaikos302064664418+26
4Aris301488503220+12
5Panionios3013611453942−3
6Larissa3011127453530+5
7Asteras Tripoli3011118442824+4
8Xanthi3010614363339−6
9PAOK3010515352935−6
10Iraklis3081111352833−5
11Levadiakos3010317333251−19
12OFI309516323949−10
13Ergotelis307914302841−13
14Atromitos308517292336−13Relegated to Beta Ethniki
15Veria305817232144−23
16Apollon Kalamarias 1305817222757−30


Source:Superleague Greece
1The match of Apollon Kalamarias vs. Olympiacos, originally 1–0 to the home side, was awarded to Olympiacos 0–3 by the Greek sports court giving Olympiacos the three points, on the basis that the home side fielded an ineligible player. Apollon Kalamarias were docked one extra point.

Results

Last updated April 20, 2008

Home/Away1

 AEK APO ARI AST ATR ERG IRA AEL LEV OFI OLY PAO PAN PAOK VER XAN
AEK Athens 4–01–12–0 2–03–11–21–03–04–04–01–12–3 2–0 5–13–0
Apollon Kalamarias0–1 0–0 2–20–2 2–11–11–12–0 1–10–31–3 0–20–21–01–0
Aris0–12–2 2–02–0 2–02–21–11–02–01–10–10–0 3–11–02–0
Asteras Tripoli2–11–10–0 1–01–10–00–11–21–11–0 1–01–02–02–00–0
Atromitos0–13–01–2 0–2 1–21–12–0 2–11–01–3 0–10–2 0–01–02–3
Ergotelis1–42–20–10–3 0–0 1–00–02–1 1–13–30–31–12–02–02–0
Iraklis0–15–20–20–01–10–1 1–11–01–01–2 0–11–0 1–01–11–1
Larissa1–02–11–01–12–03–2 1–0 3–35–10–02–21–04–31–10–0
Levadiakos0–42–02–00–02–1 0–03–00–1 0–31–30–41–02–05–32–1
OFI1–43–20–1 0–30–1 4–12–00–01–2 0–14–11–2 2–03–02–0
Olympiacos1–01–01–01–12–01–03–12–1 4–06–2 1–1 4–12–11–02–1
Panathinaikos2–11–01–02–0 2–01–01–12–01–03–10–0 2–12–0 1–00–0
Panionios0–32–10–34–12–1 2–11–13–12–01–3 0–41–0 0–02–23–2
PAOK0–44–13–00–11–0 1–03–01–0 1–02–21–10–13–1 2–00–1
Veria 0–10–21–01–01–11–1 1–21–03–1 2–10–10–21–10–0 1–1
Xanthi 0–16–10–22–0 0–11–00–31–14–11–01–43–2 1–21–02–0

Source: SuperleagueGreece
1 The home team is listed in the left-hand column.

Playoffs

The play-off winner enters the UEFA Champions League's second qualifying round, a two-legged tier from which the winner advances to the 3rd round qualification of the UEFA Champions League. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically qualifies for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, as well as the runners-up of the Superleague play-off.

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 zero 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 Superleague will start the play-off with zero points. The fifth place 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 three to give the other teams the points with which they start the mini-league.

Playoff Position Tournament
1UEFA Champions League 2008–09 Second Qualifying Round
2UEFA Cup 2008–09 Second Qualifying Round
3UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008 Second round1
4Eliminated from European competitions1

1 The third-placed team of the playoff should get a UEFA Intertoto Cup ticket and the fourth-placed team should have an empty handed. However, Aris, one of the playoff representative, qualified to the UEFA Cup Second Qualifying Round as the Greek Cup finalists. Hence, the fourth-placed team could get a UEFA Intertoto Cup ticket. If Aris failed to get into top three of the playoff, the third-placed team still get a UEFA Intertoto Cup ticket.

Playoffs final standings

Last updated May 14, 2008

Pos Team Pld Won Drw Lst Pts GF GA GD Notes
1Panathinaikos642021145+9UEFA Champions League 2nd qualifying round
2AEK Athens6222161011−1UEFA Cup 2nd qualifying round
3Aris 161237990
4Panionios61235715−8UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008 2nd Round

(*) The teams started the minileague with the following number of points:

    • AEK Athens – 8
    • Panathinaikos – 7
    • Aris – 2
    • Panionios – 0

1 Aris is guaranteed at least to play in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup Second Qualifying Round through their Greek Cup performance.

Results

Local time: EEST (UTC+03:00)

Matchday 1

23 April 2008
19:00
Aris 1–1 Panathinaikos
Koke  74' Papadopoulos  87' (pen.)
Kleanthis Vikelidis, Thessaloniki
Attendance: 6,140
Referee: D. Kyrkos (Epirus)

23 April 2008
21:00
AEK Athens 5–0 Panionios
Edinho  28'
Rivaldo  39', 77'
Blanco  74'
Kallon  90+1'
Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis", Athens
Attendance: 7,372
Referee: M. Germanakos (Athens)

Matchday 2

30 April 2008
16:45
Panionios 1–0 Aris
Kumordzi  80'
Nea Smyrni Stadium, Nea Smyrni (Athens)
Attendance: 1,049
Referee: G. Daloukas (Thessaly)

30 April 2008
19:00
Panathinaikos 4–1 AEK Athens
Papadopoulos  8'
Mattos  27'
Ivanschitz  32'  45'		 Rivaldo  71'
Apostolos Nikolaidis, Athens
Attendance: 8,528
Referee: D. Kalopoulos (Thessaloniki)

Matchday 3

4 May 2008
19:00
AEK Athens 1–0 Aris
Liberopoulos  54'
Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis", Athens
Attendance: 9,995
Referee: G. Kasnaferis (Athens)

4 May 2008
21:00
Panionios 1–2 Panathinaikos
Djebbour  74' Manucho  16', 82'
Nea Smyrni Stadium, Nea Smyrni (Athens)
Attendance: 1,996
Referee: I. Stavridis (Pieria)

Matchday 4

7 May 2008
16:45
Aris 4–0 AEK Athens
Nebegleras  6'
Javito  39', 48'
Koke  55'
Kleanthis Vikelidis, Thessaloniki
Attendance: 2,257
Referee: M. Koukoulakis (Heraklion)

7 May 2008
19:00
Panathinaikos 3–0 Panionios
Karagounis  21', 43'
Manucho  64' (pen.)
Apostolos Nikolaidis, Athens
Attendance: 4,003
Referee: Ch. Zografos (Athens)

Matchday 5

11 May 2008
19:00
Panathinaikos 3–1 Aris
Karagounis  65', 63'
N'Doye  62'		 Thiago  73'
Apostolos Nikolaidis, Athens
Attendance: 15,420
Referee: A. Kakos (Corfu)

11 May 2008
21:00
Panionios 2–2 AEK Athens
Fernández  21'
Skoufalis  90'		 Rivaldo  21'
Liberopoulos  39'
Nea Smyrni Stadium, Nea Smyrni (Athens)
Attendance: 1,011
Referee: L. Polatian (Pella)

Matchday 6

14 May 2008
19:00
Aris 3–3 Panionios
Calvo  6'
Ivić  48'
Amoroso  75' (pen.)		 Sialmas  8', 82'
Kapetanos  38'
Kleanthis Vikelidis, Thessaloniki
Attendance: 3,452
Referee: M. Dakos (Xanthi)

Top scorers

Last updated April 20, 2008

# Name Club Goals
1 Argentina Ismael Blanco AEK Athens 19
2 Serbia Darko Kovačević Olympiacos 17
3 Greece Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos 15
4 Canada Tomasz Radzinski Xanthi 14
= Algeria Rafik Djebbour Panionios 14

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Coaches

Team Name
AEK Athens Greece Nikos Kostenoglou
Apollon Kalamarias Greece Makis Katsavakis
Aris Serbia Dušan Bajević
Asteras Tripoli Greece Panagiotis Tzanavaras
Atromitos Brazil Paulo Campos
Ergotelis Greece Nikos Karageorgiou
Iraklis Spain Miguel Angel Lamilla
Larissa Greece Giorgos Donis
Levadiakos Greece Babis Tennes
OFI Greece Giorgos Paraschos
Olympiacos Spain José Segura
Panathinaikos Portugal José Peseiro
Panionios Germany Ewald Lienen
PAOK Portugal Fernando Santos
Veria Greece Leonidas Yfantidis
Xanthi Greece Nikos Kehagias

Below is the list of coaches who left their teams after the start of the season.

Team Name
Aris Spain Juan Carlos Oliva
PAOK Greece Giorgos Paraschos
Xanthi Belgium Emilio Ferrera
Veria Greece Dimitris Kalaitzidis
OFI Germany Reiner Maurer
Veria Serbia Ratko Dostanić
Iraklis Serbia Ivan Jovanović
AEK Athens Spain Lorenzo Serra Ferrer
Asteras Tripoli Brazil Paulo Campos
Levadiakos Bulgaria Georgi Vasilev
Olympiacos Greece Takis Lemonis
Veria Greece Giannis Mantzourakis
Veria Greece Panagiotis Tsalouchidis
Atromitos Argentina Ángel Guillermo Hoyos

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "UEFA helps Greece rebuild". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 2008-02-23. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
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