2016–17 Football League (Greece)

Football League

Season	2016–17
Champions	Apollon Smyrnis
Promoted	Lamia
Relegated	AO Chania Panelefsiniakos Kalloni Panthrakikos
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 Football League was the second division of the Greek professional football system and the seventh season under the name Football League after previously being known as Beta Ethniki. Its season began on 30 October 2016 and concluded on 11 June 2017.

Teams

Anagennisi K.

Panthrakikos

Sparti

Kalloni

Lamia

Acharnaikos
Kallithea
Apollon

Chania

Aris
Agrotikos Asteras

Panegialios

Aiginiakos

OFI

Panelefsiniakos

Trikala

Kissamikos

Panserraikos

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Location of teams in 2016-17 Football League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Last season
Acharnaikos	Acharnes	Acharnes Stadium	4,450	FL, 9th
Agrotikos Asteras	Evosmos	Agrotikos Asteras Ground	2,267	FL, 11th
Aiginiakos	Aiginio	Municipal Stadium of Aiginio	2,000	Gamma Ethniki,Group 2, 1st
Anagennisi Karditsa	Karditsa	Karditsa Stadium	9,500	FL, 8th
Apollon Smyrnis	Athens	Georgios Kamaras Stadium	14,856	FL, 4th
Aris	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	22,800	Gamma Ethniki,Group 1, 1st
Chania	Chania	Perivolia Municipal Stadium	2,800	FL, 12th
Kallithea	Kallithea	Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium	4,250	FL, 7th
Kalloni1	Mytilene	Mytilene Municipal Stadium	3,000	SL, 16th
Kissamikos	Kissamos	Maleme Stadium	700	FL, 6th
Lamia	Lamia	Lamia Stadium	6,000	FL, 5th
OFI	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium	8,500	Gamma Ethniki,Group 4, 1st
Panegialios	Aigio	Aigio Stadium	4,500	FL, 13th
Panelefsiniakos	Eleusina	Municipal Stadium of Eleusina	2,100	FL, 14th
Panserraikos	Serres	Serres Municipal Stadium	9,500	FL, 10th
Panthrakikos2	Komotini	Komotini Municipal Stadium	6,200	SL, 15th
Sparta	Sparta	Sparta Municipal Stadium	1,500	Gamma Ethniki,Group 3, 1st
Trikala	Trikala	Trikala Municipal Stadium	15,000	FL, 3rd

• ¹ Kalloni was expelled during the season
• ² Panthrakikos withdrew during the season

Structure

There are eighteen clubs that compete in the Football League, playing each other in a home and away series. At the end of the season, the bottom four teams are relegated to Gamma Ethniki. The top two teams gain automatic promotion for Super League. All teams in the Football League take part in the Greek Football Cup.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Apollon Smyrnis (C, P)	34	25	8	1	61	14	+47	83	Promotion to 2017–18 Super League
2	Lamia (P)	34	25	5	4	55	11	+44	80
3	Aris	34	23	8	3	58	17	+41	77
4	OFI	34	22	6	6	68	20	+48	72
5	Trikala	34	22	5	7	65	19	+46	71
6	Agrotikos Asteras	34	16	4	14	49	35	+14	52
7	Sparti	34	12	9	13	38	42	−4	45
8	Panserraikos	34	12	8	14	38	44	−6	44
9	Panegialios	34	11	11	12	33	28	+5	44
10	Aiginiakos	34	11	8	15	44	52	−8	41
11	AO Chania − Kissamikos	34	11	7	16	29	38	−9	40
12	Anagennisi Karditsa	34	10	9	15	26	38	−12	39
13	Acharnaikos	34	11	5	18	38	51	−13	36
14	Kallithea	34	9	6	19	42	49	−7	33
15	Panelefsiniakos (R)	34	6	10	18	21	56	−35	28	Relegation to 2017–18 Gamma Ethniki
16	AEL Kalloni (R)	34	4	7	23	21	75	−54	7
17	Chania (R)	34	11	5	18	37	60	−23	5
18	Panthrakikos (R)	34	3	3	28	7	81	−74	−6

Source: Football League and footballleaguenews.gr
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against; 6) Play-offs (neutral ground, only used if needed to decide teams for promotion or relegation).
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Matches

Home \ Away	ACH	AGR	EGN	KRD	APS	ARI	CHA	KLT	KAL	KIS	LAM	OFI	PEG	PNF	PSE	PTH	SPA	TRI
Acharnaikos		2–1	3–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	1–2	3–1	3–0	0–1	0–3	2–3	0–0	0–0	2–1	3–01	1–2	0–1
Agrotikos Asteras	0–1		1–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	5–3	3–02	4–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–01	3–0	3–1
Aiginiakos	3–1	2–0		0–3	1–2	0–1	5–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–2
Anagennisi Karditsa	2–0	2–0	2–1		0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–01	0–2	0–2
Apollon Smyrnis	3–1	0–0	4–1	2–0		2–2	3–0	3–2	4–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	3–01	1–0	0–0
Aris	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–0		2–1	3–0	5–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	4–0	4–0	3–01	2–1	3–2
Chania	2–3	0–2	3–2	2–1	1–4	0–2		1–3	4–0	1–1	0–3	0–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	3–01	2–2	1–0
Kallithea	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–2	1–2	2–0	3–1		4–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	3–01	2–2	0–1
AEL Kalloni	2–1	1–0	1–3	0–0	1–4	0–1	0–1	2–0		1–1	0–2	1–2	0–32	1–3	0–32	1–1	0–0	0–2
AO Chania − Kissamikos	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	4–1		1–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	3–01	2–1	1–3
Lamia	3–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	4–0	2–0		1–1	1–0	4–0	3–1	3–01	2–0	1–0
OFI	3–0	4–0	6–1	5–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	1–2		1–0	2–0	2–0	3–01	6–1	0–1
Panegialios	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–3		4–0	1–1	3–0	2–4	1–0
Panelefsiniakos	1–3	0–6	0–1	1–0	1–3	1–3	1–3	1–3	3–1	2–1	0–0	0–3	0–0		0–1	3–01	1–1	1–0
Panserraikos	1–0	2–1	4–5	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–3	0–1	4–2	2–1		0–0	3–03	0–3
Panthrakikos	0–31	0–1	0–31	0–0	0–31	0–31	0–2	2–1	0–31	1–0	0–31	0–31	0–31	1–0	0–31		0–31	0–31
Sparti	1–2	1–2	3–2	1–0	0–2	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–1		0–0
Trikala	5–0	3–0	5–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	6–1	2–2	5–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	1–1	3–0	1–0

Source: [1](in Greek)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

• ¹ The opponents of Acharnaikos awarded a 3–0 w/o win each.
• ² The opponents of Panthrakikos awarded a 3–0 w/o win each.
• ³ Sparti did not show up to the match, so Panserraikos awarded a 3–0 w/o win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nikos Kouskounas	Trikala	20
2	Nikos Giannitsanis	Trikala	15
	Patrick Vouho	OFI	15
3	Andreas Vasilogiannis	Lamia	12
4	Andreas Stamatis	Chania	11
5	Savvas Siatravanis	Apollon Smyrnis	10
	Stelios Kritikos	Panegialios	10
	Michalis Fragos	Kalloni / Sparta	10
	Dimitris Manos	OFI	10