1939–40 Panhellenic Championship

Panhellenic Championship
Season	1939–40
Champions	AEK Athens; 2nd Greek title
Relegated	none
Matches played	2
Goals scored	8 (4 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kleanthis Maropoulos; (2 goals)
Biggest home win	AEK Athens 1–0 PAOK
Biggest away win	PAOK 3–4 AEK Athens
Highest scoring	PAOK 3–4 AEK Athens
Longest winning run	AEK Athens (2 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	AEK Athens (2 matches)
Longest winless run	PAOK (2 matches)
Longest losing run	PAOK (2 matches)
Highest attendance	3,000
	← 1938–39 1940–41 →

The 1939–40 Panhellenic Championship was the 11th season of the highest football league of Greece and the last before the WW2 took place. It was carried out with a system similar to that of the previous season in which 14 teams participated again, 8 from the Central and 6 from North Greece, which were divided into groups. As in the previous year, in order to complete the championship, since it took a total of 30 matchdays, the teams that qualified for the national championship did not compete with each other again but transferred the mutual results of the local championships.

The teams of the Central Greece formed the South group and resulted as follows:

Athenian Championship: The first 5 teams of the ranking.
Piraeus' Championship: The first 3 teams of the ranking.

The teams of the Νorth Group were initially divided into two subgroups. The teams of the Thessaloniki formed the North subgroup A and resulted as follows:

Macedonian Championship: The first 3 teams of the ranking.

The teams of Serres, East Macedonia and Thrace formed the North subgroup B and resulted as follows:

Serres' Championship: The winner.
Thracian Championship: The winner.
East Macedonian Championship: The winner.

The two winners competed in double games to become the champion of the Northe group. The champions of South and North, AEK Athens and PAOK, competed in a 2-legged final for the title. AEK was crowned champion for their 2nd Championship (2 consecutive), with Kleanthis Maropoulos being the protagonist as the last year. AEK had a great team then and throughout the year they had only one defeat in the South group against Olympiacos. Both in the local championship of Athens, and in both of the finals, AEK achieved only victories. The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.

Qualification round

Athens Football Clubs Association

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	AEK	PAO	APA	ATH	AST	PAG	ATR	DAF
1	AEK Athens (Q)	14	13	1	0	57	10	+47	41	South Group		1–0	3–0	3–0	4–1	4–0	1–1	5–1
2	Panathinaikos (Q)	14	9	2	3	50	15	+35	34		0–4				8–1		8–0
3	Apollon Athens (Q)	14	6	4	4	31	25	+6	30		2–3						4–1^[a]
4	Athinaikos (Q)	14	6	3	5	21	25	−4	29		2–4		1–1
5	Asteras Athens (Q)	14	7	1	6	27	34	−7	29		0–4			0–0
6	Enosis Pangrati	14	5	4	5	22	25	−3	28		1–5				1–2		7–3^[a]	2–1
7	Atromitos^[b]	14	1	2	11	13	62	−49	18		0–13^[a]							1–0
8	Daphni Metaxourgeio	14	0	1	13	14	69	−55	15		2–3						1–0

Source: rsssf
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c Olympiacos Athens competed instead of Atromitos
^ At the beginning of the championship, Atromitos were deleted from the Athens' Federation and was replaced by the 3rd place holder of second tier, Olympiacos Athens. In fact, they played 3 games which resulted in 3 defeats. Eventually, the Athens' Federation took back the deletion of Atromitos and reinstated him in the championship, so the games of Olympiacos Athens were counted to Atromitos and the club took part in the second tier of the Athenian championship.

Piraeus Football Clubs Association

Pos	Team	Pld	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Olympiacos (Q)	10	49	10	+39	28	South Group
2	Ethnikos Piraeus (Q)	10	21	8	+13	26
3	Proodeftiki (Q)	10	23	19	+4	23
4	Thiseus Piraeus^[a]	10	8	18	-10	15
5	Argonaftis Piraeus^[b]	10	12	26	-14	14
6	Aris Piraeus^[b]	10	9	29	-20	13

a. ^{^} The ranking and the points are the final but the reported goal difference is of the 7th matchday.

b. ^{^} The ranking and the points are the final but the reported goal difference is of the penultimate (9th) matchday.

Macedonia Football Clubs Association

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	IRA	PAOK	ARIS	MENT	MAK	APK
1	Iraklis (Q)	10	7	2	1	28	13	+15	26	North Group		1–1	3–2^[a]	3–0	0–2	6–2
2	PAOK (Q)	10	6	2	2	22	12	+10	24		0–0		2–4	3–1	2–1	3–1
3	Aris^[b] (Q)	10	6	1	3	32	12	+20	22		1–2	3–1		0–1	2–2	8–1
4	MENT	10	4	0	6	13	26	−13	18		2–6	0–6	0–4		3–0	3–2
5	Makedonikos	10	3	1	6	14	16	−2	17		0–2	1–2	0–1	1–0		4–0
6	Apollon Kalamarias	10	1	0	9	0	44	−44	12		3–5	0–2	0–7	1–3	3–2

Source: rsssf
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:

^ The match was stopped in '86 due to the refusal of an Aris' player to leave the field after being sent off. The result in the rankings remained 3-2, with Aris being punished by a deduction of 1 point.
^ 1 point must have been deducted from Aris' team due to the suspension of the match with Iraklis.

Semi-final round

South Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	AEK	OLY	PAO	ETH	APA	ATH	AST	PRO
1	AEK Athens (Q)	14	13	0	1	48	14	+34	40	Finals		3–2	1–0	2–0	3–2	4–2	4–0	4–0
2	Olympiacos	14	9	2	3	32	19	+13	34		3–2		1–4	0–2	3–0	1–0	4–2	2–1
3	Panathinaikos	14	8	2	4	42	19	+23	32		0–4	1–1		1–1	0–2	5–1	3–1	5–1
4	Ethnikos Piraeus	14	8	2	4	24	16	+8	32		1–4	0–4	2–1		0–1	2–0	3–0	4–1
5	Apollon Athens	14	5	3	6	19	24	−5	27		1–4	1–1	0–4	1–3		1–1	1–3	3–1
6	Athinaikos	14	2	4	8	12	31	−19	22		0–3	0–3	1–7	0–0	1–1		2–0	3–2
7	Asteras Athens	14	3	1	10	14	38	−24	21		1–3	1–3	1–8	0–2	0–4	0–0		3–1
8	Proodeftiki	14	1	0	13	16	46	−30	16		2–7	2–4	2–3	1–4	0–1	2–1	0–2

Source: rsssf
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

North Group

Subgroup A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	PAOK	ARIS	IRA
1	PAOK (A)	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1	9^[a]	North Group play-offs		2–1	4–1
2	Aris	4	2	1	1	9	7	+2	9^[a]		1–1		3–1
3	Iraklis	4	1	0	3	8	11	−3	6		3–0	3–4

Source: rsssf
(A) Advance to a further round
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Aris had a better goal difference and goal ratio but the 1st place was taken by PAOK, because of the better results in the games between them.

Subgroup B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	FIL	IRA	ASP
1	Fillipoi Kavala (A)	4	2	1	1	15	5	+10	9	North Group play-offs		9–0
2	Iraklis Serres	4	2	0	2	5	14	−9	8		0–2		2–1
3	Aspida Xanthi	4	1	1	2	8	9	−1	7			2–3

Source: rsssf
(A) Advance to a further round

North Group play-offs

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PAOK	6–3	Fillipoi Kavala	5–0	1–3

Finals

Summary
Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEK Athens	5–3	PAOK	1–0	4–3

Matches

9 June 1940

AEK Athens	1–0	PAOK
Vasiliou 53' (pen.)	report (d. p. 662)

AEK Stadium, Nea Filadelfeia

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Pasalaris

16 June 1940

PAOK	3–4	AEK Athens
Kalogiannis 17' Feroutsos 20' Ioannidis 70'	report (d. p. 634)	Maropoulos 38', 49' Chatzistavridis 54' Gasparis 59'

Sintrivani Stadium, Thessaloniki

Referee: V. Diamantopoulos

AEK Athens won 5–3 on aggregate.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Kleanthis Maropoulos	AEK Athens	2
2	Kostas Vasiliou	AEK Athens	1
	Alekos Chatzistavridis	AEK Athens
	Giorgos Gasparis	AEK Athens
	Kostas Kalogiannis	PAOK
	Feroutsos	PAOK
	Aristidιs Ioannidis	PAOK

References

External links

[table_note_APA_ATR0.89951635426819-1] Olympiacos Athens competed instead of Atromitos

[table_note_ATR0.89951635426819-2] At the beginning of the championship, Atromitos were deleted from the Athens' Federation and was replaced by the 3rd place holder of second tier, Olympiacos Athens. In fact, they played 3 games which resulted in 3 defeats. Eventually, the Athens' Federation took back the deletion of Atromitos and reinstated him in the championship, so the games of Olympiacos Athens were counted to Atromitos and the club took part in the second tier of the Athenian championship.

[table_note_IRA_ARIS0.7694832430079-3] The match was stopped in '86 due to the refusal of an Aris' player to leave the field after being sent off. The result in the rankings remained 3-2, with Aris being punished by a deduction of 1 point.

[table_note_ARIS0.7694832430079-4] 1 point must have been deducted from Aris' team due to the suspension of the match with Iraklis.

[table_hth_PAOK0.7541837295304-5] Aris had a better goal difference and goal ratio but the 1st place was taken by PAOK, because of the better results in the games between them.

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