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2007–08 Super League Greece

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The 2007–08 Super League Greece was the 72nd season of the highest football league of Greece and the second under the name Super League. The season began on 1 September 2007 and ended on 20 April 2008. The defending champions were Olympiacos. Asteras Tripolis, Veria and Levadiakos were promoted from Beta Ethniki in the previous season.

Super League Greece
Season2007–08
ChampionsOlympiacos
36th Greek title
RelegatedAtromitos
Veria
Apollon Kalamarias
Champions LeagueOlympiacos
Panathinaikos
UEFA CupAris (via domestic cup)
AEK Athens
Intertoto CupPanionios
Matches played252
Goals scored601 (2.38 per match)
Top goalscorerIsmael Blanco
(19 goals)
Biggest home winSkoda Xanthi 6–1 Apollon Kalamarias
AEK Athens 5–0 Panionios
Biggest away winLevadiakos 0–4 Panathinaikos
Panionios 0–4 Olympiacos
PAOK 0–4 AEK Athens
Highest scoringOlympiacos 6–2 OFI
Levadiakos 5–3 Veria

Postponement

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On 25 August, the Super League 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]

Teams

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Stadia and personnel

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Location of the 2007–08 Super League Greece teams
Team Manager Location Stadium Capacity
AEK Athens   Nikos Kostenoglou Athens Athens Olympic Stadium 71,030
AEL   Giorgos Donis Larissa Alcazar Stadium 13,108
Apollon Kalamarias   Makis Katsavakis Thessaloniki Kalamaria Stadium 6,500
Aris   Dušan Bajević Thessaloniki Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium 23,220
Asteras Tripolis   Panagiotis Tzanavaras Tripoli Asteras Tripolis Stadium 4,200
Atromitos   Paulo Campos Peristeri Peristeri Stadium 9,035
Ergotelis   Nikos Karageorgiou Heraklion Pankritio Stadium 26,400
Iraklis   Ángel Pedraza Thessaloniki Kaftanzoglio Stadium 27,770
Levadiakos   Babis Tennes Livadeia Levadia Municipal Stadium 8,000
OFI   Giorgos Paraschos Heraklion Pankritio Stadium 26,400
Olympiacos   José Segura Piraeus Karaiskakis Stadium 33,334
Panathinaikos   José Peseiro Athens Leoforos Alexandras Stadium 16,620
Panionios   Ewald Lienen Nea Smyrni Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,700
PAOK   Fernando Santos Thessaloniki Toumba Stadium 28,850
Skoda Xanthi   Nikos Kehagias Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Arena 7,422
Veria   Leonidas Yfantidis Veria Veria Stadium 5,373

Managerial changes

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Team Outgoing manager Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment
PAOK   Giorgos Paraschos 3 September 2007 14th   Fernando Santos 3 September 2007
Aris   Juan Carlos Oliva 4 September 2007 7th   Dušan Bajević 7 September 2007
Veria   Dimitris Kalaitzidis 12 October 2007 12th   Ratko Dostanić 15 October 2007
Skoda Xanthi   Emilio Ferrera 22 October 2007 6th   Nikos Kehagias 22 October 2007
OFI   Reiner Maurer 12 November 2007 13th   Giorgos Paraschos 16 November 2007
Veria   Ratko Dostanić 10 December 2007 15th   Giannis Matzourakis 12 December 2007
Iraklis   Ivan Jovanović 17 December 2007 9th   Ángel Pedraza 24 December 2007
AEK Athens   Lorenzo Serra Ferrer 12 February 2008 3rd   Nikos Kostenoglou 12 February 2008
Asteras Tripolis   Paulo Campos 24 February 2008 5th   Panagiotis Tzanavaras 25 February 2008
Levadiakos   Georgi Vasilev 3 March 2008 13th   Babis Tennes 5 March 2008
Olympiacos   Takis Lemonis 11 March 2008 2nd   José Segura 11 March 2008
Veria   Giannis Matzourakis 11 March 2008 14th   Panagiotis Tsalouchidis 13 March 2008
Veria   Panagiotis Tsalouchidis 23 March 2008 15th   Leonidas Yfantidis 23 March 2008
Atromitos   Ángel Guillermo Hoyos 26 March 2008 12th   Paulo Campos 27 March 2008

Regular season

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Olympiacos[a] (C) 30 21 7 2 58 23 +35 70 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2 AEK Athens 30 22 2 6 65 17 +48 68 Qualification for the Play-offs
3 Panathinaikos 30 20 6 4 44 18 +26 66
4 Aris 30 14 8 8 32 20 +12 50
5 Panionios 30 13 6 11 39 42 −3 45[b]
6 AEL 30 11 12 7 35 30 +5 45[b]
7 Asteras Tripolis 30 11 11 8 28 24 +4 44
8 Skoda Xanthi 30 10 6 14 33 39 −6 36
9 PAOK 30 10 5 15 29 35 −6 35[c]
10 Iraklis 30 8 11 11 28 33 −5 35[c]
11 Levadiakos 30 10 3 17 31 51 −20 33
12 OFI 30 9 5 16 39 49 −10 32
13 Ergotelis 30 7 9 14 28 42 −14 30
14 Atromitos (R) 30 8 5 17 23 36 −13 29 Relegation to the Beta Ethniki
15 Veria (R) 30 5 8 17 21 44 −23 23
16 Apollon Kalamarias[a] (R) 30 5 8 17 27 57 −30 22
Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
According to the official Super League playoff regulation, the position after the playoffs replaces the regular season position.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b The match of Apollon Kalamarias against Olympiacos, originally ended 1–0 to the home side, but later 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 (Roman Wallner). Apollon were deducted by one point.
  2. ^ a b Head-to-head record: Panionios–AEL 3–1, AEL–Panionios 1–0.
  3. ^ a b Head-to-head record: PAOK–Iraklis 3–0, Iraklis–PAOK 1–0.

Results

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Home \ Away AEK AEL APK ARIS AST ATR ERG IRA LEV OFI OLY PAO PGSS PAOK XAN VER
AEK Athens 1–0 4–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 3–1 1–2 3–0 4–0 4–0 1–1 2–3 2–0 3–0 5–1
AEL 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 3–2 1–0 3–3 5–1 0–0 2–2 1–0 4–3 0–0 1–1
Apollon Kalamarias 0–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 0–2 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 0–3[a] 1–3 0–2 0–2 1–0 1–0
Aris 0–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 3–1 2–0 1–0
Asteras Tripolis 2–1 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–2 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 0–0 2–0
Atromitos 0–1 2–0 3–0 1–2 0–2 1–2 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–3 0–1 0–2 0–0 2–3 1–0
Ergotelis 1–4 0–0 2–2 0–1 0–3 0–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 3–3 0–3 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–0
Iraklis 0–1 1–1 5–2 0–2 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–2 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–1
Levadiakos 0–4 0–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 3–0 0–3 1–3 0–4 1–0 2–0 2–1 5–3
OFI 1–4 0–0 3–2 0–1 0–3 0–1 4–1 2–0 1–2 0–1 4–1 1–2 2–0 2–0 3–0
Olympiacos 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 3–1 4–0 6–2 1–1 4–1 2–1 2–1 1–0
Panathinaikos 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–0
Panionios 0–3 3–1 2–1 0–3 4–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–3 0–4 1–0 0–0 2–2 3–2
PAOK 0–4 1–0 4–1 3–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 1–0 2–2 1–1 0–1 3–1 0–1 2–0
Skoda Xanthi 0–1 1–1 6–1 0–2 2–0 0–1 1–0 0–3 4–1 1–0 1–4 3–2 1–2 1–0 2–0
Veria 0–1 1–0 0–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–2 3–1 2–1 0–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–1
Source: Worldfootball.net
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ The match was originally finished 1–0 for Apollon Kalamarias, but was awarded to Olympiacos because was the home team fielded an ineligible player Roman Wallner, which was played for Falkirk and Hamilton Academical in the season and was not allowed to play for more of two clubs in the same season according to rules of FIFA.

Play-offs

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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 Football Cup automatically qualifies for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, as well as the runners-up of the Super League 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 Super League 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.

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

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

Play-off table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
2 Panathinaikos 6 4 2 0 14 5 +9 21 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3 AEK Athens 6 2 2 2 10 11 −1 16 Qualification for the UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4 Aris[a] 6 1 2 3 9 9 0 7
5 Panionios 6 1 2 3 7 15 −8 5 Qualification for the Intertoto Cup second round
Source: Super League Greece
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.
Notes:
  1. ^ Aris is guaranteed at least to play in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round through their Greek Cup performance.

Matches

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23 April 2008 Matchday 1 Aris 1–1 Panathinaikos Thessaloniki
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)
  • Koke   74'
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Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium
Attendance: 6,140
Referee: Dimitrios Kyrkos (Epirus)
23 April 2008 Matchday 1 AEK Athens 5–0 Panionios Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Olympic Stadium
Attendance: 7,372
Referee: Michalis Germanakos (Athens)
30 April 2008 Matchday 2 Panionios 1–0 Aris Nea Smyrni
16:45 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium
Attendance: 1,049
Referee: Giorgos Daloukas (Thessaly)
30 April 2008 Matchday 2 Panathinaikos 4–1 AEK Athens Ampelokipoi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium
Attendance: 8,528
Referee: Dimitris Kalopoulos (Thessaloniki)
4 May 2008 Matchday 3 AEK Athens 1–0 Aris Marousi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Olympic Stadium
Attendance: 9,995
Referee: Georgios Kasnaferis (Athens)
4 May 2008 Matchday 3 Panionios 1–2 Panathinaikos Nea Smyrni
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium
Attendance: 1,996
Referee: Ilias Stavridis (Pieria)
7 May 2008 Matchday 4 Aris 4–0 AEK Athens Thessaloniki
16:45 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium
Attendance: 2,257
Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Heraklion)
7 May 2008 Matchday 4 Panathinaikos 3–0 Panionios Ampelokipoi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium
Attendance: 4,003
Referee: Christoforos Zografos (Athens)
11 May 2008 Matchday 5 Panathinaikos 3–1 Aris Ampelokipoi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium
Attendance: 15,420
Referee: Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)
11 May 2008 Matchday 5 Panionios 2–2 AEK Athens Nea Smyrni
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium
Attendance: 1,011
Referee: Lazaros Polatian (Pella)
14 May 2008 Matchday 6 AEK Athens 1–1 Panathinaikos Marousi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Olympic Stadium
Attendance: 5,032
Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Thessaloniki)
14 May 2008 Matchday 6 Aris 3–3 Panionios Thessaloniki
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium
Attendance: 3,452
Referee: Michalis Dakos (Xanthi)

Top scorers

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Rank Player Club Goals
1   Ismael Blanco AEK Athens 19
2   Darko Kovačević Olympiacos 17
3   Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos 15
4   Tomasz Radzinski Skoda Xanthi 14
  Rafik Djebbour Panionios
6   Nikos Liberopoulos AEK Athens 11
7   Lampros Choutos Panionios 10
  Predrag Đorđević Olympiacos
9   Lucio Filomeno Asteras Tripolis 9

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Awards

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MVP and Best Goal Awards

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Matchday MVP Best Goal Ref
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th   Sokratis Papastathopoulos (AEK Athens)   Merkourios Karaliopoulos (Apollon Kalamarias ) [2]
11th   Georgios Georgiadis (PAOK)   Ieroklis Stoltidis (Olympiacos) [3]
12th   Rafik Djebbour (Panionios)   Darko Kovačević (Olympiacos) [4]
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th   Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (PAOK)   Luciano Fonseca (Iraklis) [5]
21st
22nd   Maciej Bykowski (Veria)   Rafał Grzelak (Skoda Xanthi) [6]
23rd   Koke (Aris)   Hélder Postiga (Panathinaikos) [7]
24th
25th
26th
27th
28th
29th
30th   Ismael Blanco (AEK Athens)   Lampros Choutos (Panionios) [8]

Annual awards

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Annual awards were announced on 2 December 2008.[9]

Award Winner Club
Greek Player of the Season   Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos
Foreign Player of the Season   Darko Kovačević
  Ismael Blanco 		Olympiacos
AEK Athens
Young Player of the Season   Sokratis Papastathopoulos AEK Athens
Goalkeeper of the Season   Antonis Nikopolidis Olympiacos
Golden Boot   Ismael Blanco AEK Athens
Manager of the Season   Dušan Bajević Aris

References

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  1. ^ "UEFA helps Greece rebuild". UEFA. Archived from the original on 2008-02-23. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  2. ^ "Παπασταθόπουλος και Καραλιόπουλος τα βραβεία της 10ης αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 5 December 2007.
  3. ^ "Γεωργιάδης και Στολτίδης οι καλύτεροι της 11ης αγωνιστικής". in.gr (in Greek). 13 December 2007.
  4. ^ "Τζιμπούρ και Κοβάσεβιτς τα βραβεία της 12ης αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 19 December 2007.
  5. ^ "Βραβεία σε Λάζαρο και Φονσέκα". flash.gr (in Greek). 13 February 2008.
  6. ^ "Σε πολωνικά χέρια τα βραβεία της 22ης αγωνιστικής". sport-fm.gr (in Greek). 27 February 2008.
  7. ^ "Κόκε και Ποστίγκα τα βραβεία της 23ης αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 5 March 2008.
  8. ^ "Χούτος και Μπλάνκο τα βραβεία της 30ής αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 23 April 2008.
  9. ^ "ΒΡΑΒΕΙΑ ΠΣΑΠ – 2008" [OSC AWARDS - 2008]. psapp.gr (in Greek). 2 December 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
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