Super League Greece 2007–08

Super League Greece 2007–08
Sport	Football
Founded	2006
No. of teams	16
Country(ies)	Greece
Most recent champion(s)	Olympiacos

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2007-08 was the second season of the Super League's, and started on September 1, 2007. The defending champions were Olympiacos. Asteras Tripolis, Veria and Levadiakos were promoted from Beta Ethniki in the previous season.

[edit] 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), so the championship started on 1 September 2007. Matchday 2 was carried out on the weekend 21 - 22 September, due to UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying matches (8 September) and Greek legislative election (16 September).

On February 20, 2008 UEFA president Michel Platini presented the Hellenic Football Federation with a CHF 1m cheque to help finance the rebuilding of football facilities damaged by the fires in Greece that summer.^[1]

[edit] Regular season final standings

Source:Super League Greece
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

¹ Apollon Kalamarias - Olympiacos 1-0 game was later annulled by the Greek Football Federation. The victory was registered to Olympiacos under the score 0-3 and Apollon had 1 point deducted, due to the illegal participation in the game of Roman Wallner, who had already participated in the roasters of two other teams the same season, according to UEFA.

[edit] Results

Last updated April 20, 2008

Source: SuperleagueGreece
¹ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
² The Original result of the match was a 1-0 win for Apollon, but the game was later awarded to Olympiakos by the Superleague 0-3 because of the illegal participation in the game of Apollon player Roman Wallner.

[edit] Playoffs

The play-off winner enters the UEFA Champions League's second qualifying round, a two-legged tie from which the winner advances to the 3rd round qualification of the UEFA Champions League. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically qualifies for the UEFA Cup 2008-09, 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 0 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 0 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.

¹ The third-placed team of the playoff should get a UEFA Intertoto Cup ticket and the fourth-placed team should have an empty handed. However, Aris, one of the playoff representative, qualified to the UEFA Cup Second Qualifying Round as the Greek Cup finalists. Hence, the fourth-placed team could get a UEFA Intertoto Cup ticket. If Aris failed to get into top three of the playoff, the third-placed team still get a UEFA Intertoto Cup ticket.

[edit] Playoffs final standings

Last updated May 14, 2008

(*) The teams started the minileague with the following number of points:

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

¹ Aris is guaranteed at least to play in the UEFA Cup 2008-09 Second Qualifying Round through their Greek Cup performance.

[edit] Results

Local time: EEST (UTC +3)

[edit] Matchday 1

2008-04-23 19:00	Aris	1 – 1	Panathinaikos	Kleanthis Vikelidis, Thessaloniki Attendance: 6,140 Referee: D. Kyrkos (Epirus)
	Koke  74'		Papadopoulos  87' (pen.)

2008-04-23 21:00	AEK Athens	5 – 0	Panionios	Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis", Athens Attendance: 7,372 Referee: M. Germanakos (Athens)
	Edinho  28' Rivaldo  39'  77' Blanco  74' Kallon  91'

[edit] Matchday 2

2008-04-30 16:45	Panionios	1 – 0	Aris	Nea Smyrni Stadium, Nea Smyrni (Athens) Attendance: 1,049 Referee: G. Daloukas (Thessaly)
	Kumordzi  80'

2008-04-30 19:00	Panathinaikos	4 – 1	AEK Athens	Apostolos Nikolaidis, Athens Attendance: 8,528 Referee: D. Kalopoulos (Thessaloniki)
	Papadopoulos  8' Mattos  27' Ivanschitz  32'  45'		Rivaldo  71'

[edit] Matchday 3

2008-05-04 19:00	AEK Athens	1 – 0	Aris	Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis", Athens Attendance: 9,995 Referee: G. Kasnaferis (Athens)
	Liberopoulos  54'

2008-05-04 21:00	Panionios	1 – 2	Panathinaikos	Nea Smyrni Stadium, Nea Smyrni (Athens) Attendance: 1,996 Referee: I. Stavridis (Pieria)
	Djebbour  74'		Manucho  16'  82'

[edit] Matchday 4

2008-05-07 16:45	Aris	4 – 0	AEK Athens	Kleanthis Vikelidis, Thessaloniki Attendance: 2,257 Referee: M. Koukoulakis (Heraklion)
	Nebegleras  6' Javito  39'  48' Koke  55'

2008-05-07 19:00	Panathinaikos	3 – 0	Panionios	Apostolos Nikolaidis, Athens Attendance: 4,003 Referee: Ch. Zografos (Athens)
	Karagounis  21'  43' Manucho  64' (pen.)

[edit] Matchday 5

2008-05-11 19:00	Panathinaikos	3 – 1	Aris	Apostolos Nikolaidis, Athens Attendance: 15,420 Referee: A. Kakos (Corfu)
	Karagounis  65'  63' N'Doye  62'		Thiago  73'

2008-05-11 21:00	Panionios	2 – 2	AEK Athens	Nea Smyrni Stadium, Nea Smyrni (Athens) Attendance: 1,011 Referee: L. Polatian (Pella)
	Dario Fernandez  21' Skoufalis  90'		Rivaldo  21' Liberopoulos  39'

[edit] Matchday 6

2008-05-14 19:00	AEK Athens	1 – 1	Panathinaikos	Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis", Athens Attendance: 5,032 Referee: K. Vassaras (Thessaloniki)
	Nsaliwa  51'		Mattos  26'

2008-05-14 19:00	Aris	3 – 3	Panionios	Kleanthis Vikelidis, Thessaloniki Attendance: 3,452 Referee: M. Dakos (Xanthi)
	Toni Calvo  6' Ivic  48' Amoroso  75' (pen.)		Sialmas  8'  82' Kapetanos  38'

[edit] Top scorers

Last updated April 20, 2008

#	Name	Club	Goals
1	Ismael Blanco	AEK Athens	19
2	Darko Kovačević	Olympiacos	17
3	Dimitris Salpigidis	Panathinaikos	15
4	Tomasz Radzinski	Xanthi	14
=	Rafik Djebbour	Panionios	14

Source: Galanis Sports Data

[edit] Coaches

Team	Name
AEK Athens	Nikos Kostenoglou
Apollon Kalamarias	Makis Katsavakis
Aris	Dušan Bajević
Asteras Tripolis	Panagiotis Tzanavaras
Atromitos	Paulo Cambos
Ergotelis	Nikos Karageorgiou
Iraklis	Miguel Angel Lamilla
Larissa	Giorgos Donis
Levadiakos	Bambis Tennes
OFI	Giorgos Paraschos
Olympiacos	José Segura
Panathinaikos	José Peseiro
Panionios	Ewald Lienen
PAOK	Fernando Santos
Veria	Leonidas Yfantidis
Xanthi	Nikos Kehagias

Below is the list of coaches who left their teams after the start of the season.

Team	Name
Aris	Juan Carlos Oliva
PAOK	Giorgos Paraschos
Xanthi	Emilio Ferrera
Veria	Dimitris Kalaitzidis
OFI	Reiner Maurer
Veria	Ratko Dostanic
Iraklis	Ivan Jovanović
AEK Athens	Lorenzo Serra Ferrer
Asteras Tripolis	Paulo Campos
Levadiakos	Georgi Vasilev
Olympiacos	Takis Lemonis
Veria	Giannis Mantzourakis
Veria	Giotis Tsalouhidis
Atromitos	Ángel Guillermo Hoyos

[edit] See also

• Super League Greece
• PSAP MVP & Best Goal 2007-08
• Greek Cup 2007-08

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Official Site of the League
• Super League Statistics