2007–08 Super League Greece

Super League Greece
Season	2007–08
Champions	Olympiacos; 36th Greek title
Relegated	Atromitos; Veria; Apollon Kalamarias
Champions League	Olympiacos; Panathinaikos
UEFA Cup	Aris (via domestic cup); AEK Athens
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
	← 2006–07 2008–09 →

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.

Postponement

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

Stadia and personnel

AEK Athens
Atromitos
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Apollon
Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Location of the 2007–08 Super League Greece teams

Team	Manager	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens	Nikos Kostenoglou	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
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
Larissa	Giorgos Donis	Larissa	Alcazar Stadium	13,108
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	Apostolos Nikolaidis 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

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 final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos^[a] (C)	30	21	7	2	55	27	+28	70	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2	AEK Athens	30	22	2	6	65	17	+48	68	Qualification for the UEFA 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	Larissa	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	32	51	−19	33
12	OFI	30	9	5	16	39	49	−10	32
13	Ergotelis	30	7	9	14	28	41	−13	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	23

Source: Galanis Sports Data
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:

^ ^a ^b The 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.
^ ^a ^b Head-to-head record: Panionios–Larissa 3–1, Larissa–Panionios 1–0.
^ ^a ^b Head-to-head record: PAOK–Iraklis Thessaloniki 3–0, Iraklis Thessaloniki–PAOK 1–0.

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	APL	ARI	AST	ATR	ERG	IRT	LAR	LEV	OFI	OLY	PAT	PIO	PAOK	XAN	VER
AEK Athens		4–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	3–1	1–2	1–0	3–0	4–0	4–0	1–1	2–3	2–0	3–0	5–1
Apollon Kalamarias	0–1		0–0	2–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–3^[a]	1–3	0–2	0–2	1–0	1–0
Aris	0–1	2–2		2–0	2–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	3–1	2–0	1–0
Asteras Tripolis	2–1	1–1	0–0		1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–0
Atromitos	0–1	3–0	1–2	0–2		1–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–3	0–1	0–2	0–0	2–3	1–0
Ergotelis	1–4	2–2	0–1	0–3	0–0		1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–3	0–3	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0
Iraklis	0–1	5–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	0–1		1–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1
Larissa	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
Levadiakos	0–4	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	0–1		0–3	1–3	0–4	1–0	2–0	2–1	5–3
OFI	1–4	3–2	0–1	0–3	0–1	4–1	2–0	0–0	1–2		0–1	4–1	1–2	2–0	2–0	3–0
Olympiacos	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	4–0	6–2		1–1	4–1	2–1	2–1	1–0
Panathinaikos	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	0–0		2–1	2–0	0–0	1–0
Panionios	0–3	2–1	0–3	4–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–3	0–4	1–0		0–0	2–2	3–2
PAOK	0–4	4–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	3–1		0–1	2–0
Skoda Xanthi	0–1	6–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–3	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–4	3–2	1–2	1–0		2–0
Veria	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–1	2–1	0–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ 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.

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 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

Playoffs final standings

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	Qualification for the UEFA Cup second qualifying round
5	Panionios	6	1	2	3	7	15	−8	5	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup second round

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
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:

^ Aris is guaranteed at least to play in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round through their Greek Football 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

AEK Athens	1–1	Panathinaikos
Nsaliwa 51'		Mattos 26'

Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis", Athens

Attendance: 5,032

Referee: K. Vassaras (Thessaloniki)

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

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
4	Rafik Djebbour	Panionios	14
6	Nikos Liberopoulos	AEK Athens	11
7	Lampros Choutos	Panionios	10
7	Predrag Đorđević	Olympiacos	10
9	Lucio Filomeno	Asteras Tripolis	9

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Notes

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

External links

[table_note_OLY0.30989146153903-2] The 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.

[table_hth_PIO0.30989146153903-3] Head-to-head record: Panionios–Larissa 3–1, Larissa–Panionios 1–0.

[table_hth_PAOK0.30989146153903-4] Head-to-head record: PAOK–Iraklis Thessaloniki 3–0, Iraklis Thessaloniki–PAOK 1–0.

[table_note_1_APL_OLY0.47321347402093-5] 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.

[table_note_ARI0.17332694734136-6] Aris is guaranteed at least to play in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round through their Greek Football Cup performance.

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

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Postponement

Teams

Stadia and personnel

Managerial changes

Regular season final standings

Results

Playoffs

Playoffs final standings

Results

Matchday 1

Matchday 2

Matchday 3

Matchday 4

Matchday 5

Matchday 6

Top scorers

See also

Notes

External links