Super League Greece 2008-09 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Club	Manager	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens AEK Athens FC AEK Athens F.C. , the Athletic Union of Constantinople, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Athens, Greece. Outside Greece, the club is also known as AEK Athens, however, the word Athens is not part of the club's official title.Established in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees...	Serbia Dusan Bajevic Dušan Bajevic Dušan Bajević is a Bosnian football manager and former Yugoslav international.-Playing career:...	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
Aris Aris FC Aris , i.e. the Ares Sports Club, is a Greek sport club founded on 25 March 1914 in Thessaloniki. The club colors are yellow and black. The club is named after Ares, the god of war, whose image is portrayed on the club logo...	Brazil Mazinho Mazinho Iomar do Nascimento, known as Mazinho , is a Brazilian football manager and former player, and the former head coach of Greek club Aris Thessaloniki.-Club career:...	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	19,300
Asteras Tripolis	Greece Nikos Kostenoglou Nikos Kostenoglou Nikolaos "Nikos" Kostenoglou is a former Greek football player and current football manager of Greek club AEK Athens F.C..Kostenoglou started his career as a football player at Xanthi FC the year 1989, and was transferred in 1994 at AEK....	Asteras Tripolis Stadium Asteras Tripolis Stadium Asteras Tripolis Stadium is a football stadium in Tripoli, Greece. The stadium has been the home stadium of FC Asteras Tripolis until the construction of the New Asteras Tripolis Stadium. The stadium holds 6,430....	4,200
Ergotelis	Greece Nikos Karageorgiou Nikos Karageorgiou Nikos Karageorgiou is the manager of Greek sports club Ergotelis.As a football player he was a member of Eratino Kavala , AO Kavala , PAOK , Panathinaikos and Skoda Xanthi...	Pankritio Stadium	26,400
Iraklis	Ukraine Oleh Protasov	Kaftanzoglio Stadium Kaftanzoglio Stadium Kaftanzoglio stadium is a sports stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece. The stadium was built with money donated by the Kaftanzoglou Foundation, hence its name. At the time of its opening on 27 October 1960, the stadium was one of the highest quality stadiums in the Balkans...	28,028
Larissa AEL 1964 AEL 1964 F.C., fully the Athletic Union of Larissa 1964 , is a Greek association football club based in the city of Larissa, capital of Greece's Thessaly region. The club is also known, unofficially, as Larissa. It is the only FC outside the two big Greek cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, to have...	Greece Marinos Ouzounidis Marinos Ouzounidis Marinos Ouzounidis is a Greek football manager and former soccer player.-Playing career:Ouzounidis started his professional career playing for Greek club Skoda Xanthi as a defender from 1987 until 1992....	Alkazar Alkazar Alcazar Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Larissa, Greece part of the National Sports Complex of Larissa . It got its nickname as a comparison to the Spanish Alcázar fortresses. The stadium was the homeground of Superleague football team AEL until 2010. It holds 13,108 seats and was built in...	13,108
Levadiakos Levadiakos Levadiakos FC is a Greek association football club that plays in the second division Football League in Greece in the 2010–2011 season.Based in Livadeia, Greece, the club was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki, forerunner of the Super League, after ten seasons in minor divisions in the 2005–2006...	Serbia Momčilo Vukotić Momcilo Vukotic Momčilo "Moca" Vukotić is a Serbian football manager and a former player.He played 14 times for his national team, Yugoslavia, between 1969 and 1974 scoring four goals. In his club career in FK Partizan, he appeared in a total of 752 games in all competitions and all age levels, scoring 306 goals...	Levadia Municipal Stadium	8,000
OFI OFI Crete OFI , the Sportfriends Association Heraklion, is a Greek association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Outside Greece, the club is generally known as OFI Crete F.C., however, the name Crete is not actually part of the club's official title.OFI is the club with most...	Greece Ioannis Matzourakis Ioannis Matzourakis Ioannis Matzourakis is a Greek association football manager and former player. He is currently employed by Kavala FC....	Pankritio Stadium	26,400
Olympiacos	Spain Ernesto Valverde	Karaiskákis Stadium Karaiskakis Stadium Karaiskakis Stadium is in the Neo Faliro area of Piraeus, Greece. It is the home ground of Olympiacos F.C. and is named after Georgios Karaiskakis , hero of the Greek War of Independence, who was mortally wounded near the area....	33,334
Panathinaikos Panathinaikos FC Panathinaikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Athens. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Greek football history. They have won 20 Greek Championships and 17 Greek Cups.Panathinaikos is the most...	Netherlands Henk ten Cate Henk ten Cate Henk ten Cate is a Dutch football manager and a former professional player.In the 2005–06 season, he was the assistant of Frank Rijkaard at Barcelona that guided the team to a Champions League Trophy and La Liga title...	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
Panionios	Greece Giotis Stamatopoulos	Nea Smyrni Stadium Nea Smyrni Stadium Nea Smyrni Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Athens, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Panionios FC which plays for the Greek Super League. The stadium is located in the southern suburb of Nea Smyrni , which is the heart of the team's fanbase...	11,700
Panserraikos Panserraikos F.C. Panserraikos F.C. , the All-Serran Football Club, is the football club of Serres in Macedonia, Greece. Panserraikos was formed in 1964 when two local clubs, Iraklis and Apollon, merged. Their current home ground is Serres Municipal Stadium, built in 1926...	Belgium Hugo Broos	Stadium of Serres Stadium of Serres The Serres Municipal Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Serres, Greece.It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Panserraikos.The stadium holds 9,500, was built in 1926 and renovated numerous times...	8,500
Panthrakikos Panthrakikos F.C. Panthrakikos is a football club in Komotini of Thrace in North Eastern Greece founded in 1963. The club competed in Super League Greece during the season 2008–2009 for the first time.-History:The early years, 1963-2001...	Belgium Emilio Ferrera Emilio Ferrera Emilio Ferrera is a Belgian former football player and coach of Panthrakikos F.C..-Player:1975–1982 Crossing Club de Schaerbeek1982–1983 RSC Anderlecht1983–1986 Eendracht Aalst1986–1987 SC Wolvertem...	Komotini Stadium Komotini Stadium The Municipal Athletic Centre of Komotini is a multi-purpose stadium in the administrative capital of North-eastern Greece, the city of Komotini.- History :...	4,500
PAOK PAOK FC P.A.O.K. F.C. is a Greek association football club based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is the largest supported football club in Macedonia.PAOK FC is the football department of Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans , a multi-sport club. Since its formation in 1926 the football club...	Portugal Fernando Santos	Toumba Stadium Toumba Stadium Toumba Stadium is a football stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece, owned by the multisports club A.S. PAOK. It was built in 6 September 1959 as the club's prime sporting venue and served the home ground for the club's football team, which was participating in the then national football league. The...	28,850
Thrasyvoulos Thrasyvoulos F.C. Thrasyvoulos Filis is a football club, based in Fyli, Attica, currently in the Greek Second Division. It was founded in 1938 and named after Thrasybulus, an ancient General who used Fyli as his base to liberate Athens from Sparta. They gained promotion to the Greek Super League for 2008–09...	Greece Sakis Tsiolis Sakis Tsiolis Athanasios Tsiolis , is a former football player and currently a manager of Asteras Tripolis .As a professional footballer, he played for Anagennisi Karditsa, Larissa, Ionikos and Paniliakos...	Fyli Stadium Fyli Stadium Fyli Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Fyli northeastern corner of the West Attica Prefecture, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Thrasyvoulos F.C.. The stadium holds 4,000 and was built in 1989....	3,142
Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Skoda Xanthi F.C. , or F.C. Skoda Xanthi Athletic Club, is a Greek football club, based in the city of Xanthi. The club currently competes in the Super League Greece.-History:...	Greece Georgios Paraschos Georgios Paraschos Georgios Paraschos is a Greek football manager and former player.-Playing career:As a football player, he began his career from the youth academy of P.A.O.K in 1967. He became a professional player in 1971 and played with the Kastoria team until 1985, making appearances for the club in the Alpha...	Skoda Xanthi Arena Skoda Xanthi Arena Skoda Xanthi Arena is a football ground built by Skoda Xanthi in Xanthi, Thrace, Greece. It was built over the course of ten months in 2004. It is a ground used for matches and is the home ground of Skoda Xanthi FC. It holds up to 7,422 spectators, with 80% of the seats under the roof...	7,422

League table (regular season)

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According to the official Superleague playoff regulation, the position after the playoffs replaces the regular season position.

Results

Play-offs

The play-offs for an additional Champions League spot were conducted in a home and away round robin

Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament is a competition "in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn".-Terminology:...

format. Its participants have entered the mini-league with a number of bonus points based on their regular season record. Every team had the number of points earned by the fifth-placed team subtracted from its own amount of points. The result was then divided through five and rounded

Rounding

Rounding a numerical value means replacing it by another value that is approximately equal but has a shorter, simpler, or more explicit representation; for example, replacing $23.4476 with $23.45, or the fraction 312/937 with 1/3, or the expression √2 with 1.414.Rounding is often done on purpose to...

to the nearest whole number to determine the amount of bonus points.

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

PAOK – 3 points ((63–49) / 5 = 2.8, rounded up to 3)
Panathinaikos – 2 points ((61–49) / 5 = 2.4, rounded down to 2)
AEK Athens – 1 point ((55–49) / 5 = 1.2, rounded down to 1)
Larissa – 0 points ((49 –49) / 5 = 0)

The play-off winners entered the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Since AEK Athens have lost the final of the Greek Cup 2008–09 to Champions League-bound Olympiacos, all three Greek Europa League spots (two via league, one via domestic cup) were allotted according to the position of the respective teams in the play-off.

Play-off table

Results

Top goalscorers

14 goals Ismael Blanco

Ismael Blanco

Ismael Blanco is an Argentine professional football player who plays for the Mexican Primera División team, San Luis F.C.-Argentina:Blanco started his career with Colón in 2002...

(AEK Athens) Luciano Galletti

Luciano Galletti

Luciano Martín Galletti is a former Argentine football right winger Forward last playing for Olympiacos CFP in Greece.-Playing career:...

(Olympiacos)

10 goals Dimitris Salpigidis

Dimitris Salpigidis

Dimitris Salpigidis Dimitris Salpigidis Dimitris Salpigidis (Greek: Δημήτρης Σαλπιγγίδης, (born 18 August 1981, Thessaloniki) is a Greek football striker. He plays for PAOK FC and the Greek national team.-Playing career:...

(Panathinaikos
Panathinaikos FC
Panathinaikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Athens. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Greek football history. They have won 20 Greek Championships and 17 Greek Cups.Panathinaikos is the most...

)

9 goals Leonardo

Leonardo Rodriguez Pereira

Leonardo Rodrigues Pereira , commonly known as Leonardo, is a Brazilian football player currently playing as an attacking midfielder for AEK Athens in the Greek Super League.-AEK Athens:...

(Levadiakos) Maciej Żurawski

Maciej Zurawski

Maciej Żurawski is a Polish footballer. Żurawski has appeared 72 times and scored 17 goals for Poland. He has also scored 121 goals in Polish Ekstraklasa and has been the top league goalscorer twice.- Wisła Kraków :...

(Larissa)

8 goals Danijel Cesarec

Danijel Cesarec

Danijel Cesarec is a Croatian footballer currently playing for Greek football team Aris Thessaloniki F.C..-NK Marsonia:Cesarec started his career in NK Marsonia. H e played there 2 years , making 40 apparances and scoring 6 league goals...

(Asteras) Patrick Ogunsoto

Patrick Ogunsoto

Patrick Ogunsoto is a Nigerian professional footballer who currently plays as a forward.-Career:Ogunsoto started his European career at APOEL FC. One year later he was transferred to Ergotelis FC, who played in the third division at the time...

(Ergotelis) Zdravko Popović

Zdravko Popovic

Zdravko Popović is a Croatian footballer who plays for Levadiakos F.C. in the Greek second division.His former clubs include NK Zagreb, NK Croatia Sesvete and OFI Crete. He led Croatia Sesvete in goal-scoring in both of his seasons with the club, notching a total of 51 goals.-External links:***...

(OFI
OFI Crete
OFI , the Sportfriends Association Heraklion, is a Greek association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Outside Greece, the club is generally known as OFI Crete F.C., however, the name Crete is not actually part of the club's official title.OFI is the club with most...

)

7 goals Ibrahima Bakayoko

Ibrahima Bakayoko

Ibrahima Bakayoko is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a striker for PAS Giannina in the Greek Superleague.-Club career:...

(PAOK) Rafik Djebbour

Rafik Djebbour

Rafik Zoheir Djebbour is an Algerian international footballer. He currently plays for Olympiacos in the Greek Superleague.-Auxerre:...

(AEK Athens) Edinho

Arnaldo Edi Lopes da Silva

Arnaldo Edi Lopes da Silva , aka Edinho, is a Portuguese footballer of Guinea-Bissauan descent who plays for Málaga CF in Spain.Mainly a striker, he can operate occasionally as a right winger.-Club career:...

(AEK Athens) Fabián Estoyanoff

Fabián Estoyanoff

Fabián Larry Estoyanoff Poggio is an Uruguayan footballer of Bulgarian descent who plays for Greek club Panionios as a right winger.-Early years:...

(Panionios) Lucio Filomeno

Lucio Filomeno

Lucio Filomeno is an Argentine football forward who currently plays for Atlético de Rafaela. After growing up in Haedo, Buenos Aires, Filomeno played for a variety of clubs around the world and also for the Argentina U-16 National Team....

(Asteras) Bennard Yao Kumordzi

Bennard Yao Kumordzi

Bennard Yao Kumordzi is a Ghanaian professional footballer, who currently plays for Superleague Greece club Panionios in Greece and the Ghana national team as a midfielder...

(Panionios) Zlatan Muslimović

Zlatan Muslimovic

Zlatan Muslimović, is a Bosnian international football player. He holds both Bosnian and Swedish citizenships.-Early career:As a teenager, Muslimović played for the Swedish teams Habo IF and Husqvarna FF...

(PAOK) Dame N'Doye

Dame N'Doye

Dame N'Doye is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a forward for F.C. Copenhagen of the Danish Superliga. His preferred position is as a withdrawn striker, second striker...

Top assistants

9 assists Ignacio Scocco

Ignacio Scocco

Ignacio "Nacho" Martín Scocco is an Argentine International Football player currently playing as a winger for Al Ain of the Pro-League. Scocco can play on both wings, but prefers to play on the left. He can also play as a attacking midfielder and often as striker...

(AEK)

7 assists Diogo

Diogo Luis Santo

Diogo Luis Santo, or simply Diogo , is a Brazilian striker currently playing for Santos.-Brazil:Born in São Paulo, Diogo started his football career at Associação Portuguesa de Desportos...

(Olympiacos) Sotiris Ninis

Sotiris Ninis

Sotiris Ninis is a Greek footballer currently playing for Panathinaikos. Ninis is of Greek descent, and a member of the Greek national team. He was born in Albania to Greek parents...

Álvaro Recoba

Álvaro Alexander Recoba Rivero , nicknamed "El Chino", is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Primera División Uruguaya side Club Nacional de Football...

(Panionios)

6 assists Fabián Estoyanoff

Fabián Estoyanoff

Fabián Larry Estoyanoff Poggio is an Uruguayan footballer of Bulgarian descent who plays for Greek club Panionios as a right winger.-Early years:...

(Panionios) Georgios Fotakis

Georgios Fotakis

Georgios Fotakis is a Greek international footballer. He currently plays professionally as an attacking midfielder for PAOK.-Club career:...

(Larissa) Giorgos Karagounis

Giorgos Karagounis

Giorgos Karagounis is a Greek footballer who currently plays for Panathinaikos . He is best remembered for scoring the first goal of UEFA Euro 2004, a very long range effort that helped his team to win the opening game of the tournament, in which the Greeks surprisingly emerged as champions.His...

Vasilios Koutsianikoulis

Vasilios Koutsianikoulis is a Greek footballer. He currently plays for Greek Super League team Ergotelis F.C. He is a left footed winger that can play either on the left or right wing and is considered a strong prospect for the national team.- Iraklis Chalkis:Koutsianikoulis began his career at...

(Ergotelis) Dimitris Salpigidis

Dimitris Salpigidis

Sérgio Conceição

Sérgio Paulo Marceneiro da Conceição is a retired Portuguese footballer who played mostly as a right winger.Known for his speed and strength, combined with his good dribbling and crossing skills, and fairly accurate shooting. During his extensive career, he played for ten different teams, in five...

(PAOK)
Source: galanissportsdata.com

Most valuable players (excluding goalkeepers)

Position	Player	Club	Index
1	Luciano Galletti Luciano Galletti Luciano Martín Galletti is a former Argentine football right winger Forward last playing for Olympiacos CFP in Greece.-Playing career:...	Olympiacos	0.250
2	Dudu Cearense Dudu Cearense Dudu Cearense, whose real name is Alexandro Silva de Sousa, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Clube Atlético Mineiro....	Olympiacos	0.242
3	Fernando Belluschi Fernando Belluschi Fernando Daniel Belluschi is an Argentine football midfielder who currently plays for FC Porto in the Portuguese first division.- Career :...	Olympiacos	0.217
4	Fabián Estoyanoff Fabián Estoyanoff Fabián Larry Estoyanoff Poggio is an Uruguayan footballer of Bulgarian descent who plays for Greek club Panionios as a right winger.-Early years:...	Panionios	0.215
5	Vladimir Ivić Vladimir Ivic Vladimir Ivić is a Serbian footballer who plays as a midfielder for PAOK. He is the younger brother of Ilija Ivić, ex Red Star player and sports director....	PAOK	0.201
6	Diego Romano Diego Romano Diego Sebastián Romano is an Argentine footballer who plays for Ergotelis F.C. in the Greek Super League.-Club career:...	Ergotelis	0.197
7	Dimitris Salpigidis Dimitris Salpigidis Dimitris Salpigidis Dimitris Salpigidis Dimitris Salpigidis (Greek: Δημήτρης Σαλπιγγίδης, (born 18 August 1981, Thessaloniki) is a Greek football striker. He plays for PAOK FC and the Greek national team.-Playing career:...	Panathinaikos Panathinaikos FC Panathinaikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Athens. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Greek football history. They have won 20 Greek Championships and 17 Greek Cups.Panathinaikos is the most...	0.196
8	Leonardo Leonardo Rodriguez Pereira Leonardo Rodrigues Pereira , commonly known as Leonardo, is a Brazilian football player currently playing as an attacking midfielder for AEK Athens in the Greek Super League.-AEK Athens:...	Levadiakos	0.192
9	Serge Dié Serge Dié Serge Dié is an Ivorian footballer.-Career:He was born in a family of 9 children and he very fast faced a terrible tragedy, the death of his father, André DIE, at the young age of 14 years old....	Iraklis	0.188
10	Dame N'Doye Dame N'Doye Dame N'Doye is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a forward for F.C. Copenhagen of the Danish Superliga. His preferred position is as a withdrawn striker, second striker...	OFI OFI Crete OFI , the Sportfriends Association Heraklion, is a Greek association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Outside Greece, the club is generally known as OFI Crete F.C., however, the name Crete is not actually part of the club's official title.OFI is the club with most...	0.183

Source: galanissportsdata.com

Teams by region

Region	Number of teams	Teams
Attica Attica Attica is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea...	5	AEK Athens, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos Panathinaikos FC Panathinaikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Athens. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Greek football history. They have won 20 Greek Championships and 17 Greek Cups.Panathinaikos is the most... , Panionios and Thrasyvoulos Thrasyvoulos F.C. Thrasyvoulos Filis is a football club, based in Fyli, Attica, currently in the Greek Second Division. It was founded in 1938 and named after Thrasybulus, an ancient General who used Fyli as his base to liberate Athens from Sparta. They gained promotion to the Greek Super League for 2008–09...
Macedonia Macedonia (Greece) Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of Greece in Southern Europe. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greek region...	4	Aris, Iraklis, Panserraikos and PAOK
Crete Crete Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...	2	Ergotelis Ergotelis FC Ergotelis FC is a Greek football club based in Heraklion, the largest city of the Greek island of Crete. The name itself, Ergotelis, was that of a famous ancient Cretan expatriate Olympic runner Ergoteles of Himera.-History:... and OFI OFI Crete OFI , the Sportfriends Association Heraklion, is a Greek association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Outside Greece, the club is generally known as OFI Crete F.C., however, the name Crete is not actually part of the club's official title.OFI is the club with most...
Thrace Thrace Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains on the north, Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east...	2	Panthrakikos Panthrakikos F.C. Panthrakikos is a football club in Komotini of Thrace in North Eastern Greece founded in 1963. The club competed in Super League Greece during the season 2008–2009 for the first time.-History:The early years, 1963-2001... and Skoda Xanthi
Peloponnese Peloponnese The Peloponnese, Peloponnesos or Peloponnesus , is a large peninsula , located in a region of southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth...	1	Asteras Tripolis
Sterea Hellas	1	Levadiakos
Thessaly Thessaly Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....	1	Larissa

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