The 2009–10 Super League Greece season is the fourth since its establishment. The league consists of 16 teams. Participants are the 13 best teams from the 2008–09 season and three teams that have been promoted from the Beta Ethniki.

[edit] Changes from 2008–09

[edit] Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from 2008–09 Beta Ethniki:

• Champions: Atromitos
• Runners-up: PAS Giannina
• 3rd placed team: Kavala

Teams relegated to 2009–10 Beta Ethniki:

• 14th placed team: OFI
• 15th placed team: Panserraikos
• 16th placed team: Thrasyvoulos

[edit] Other changes

Due to Greece having ascended in the UEFA league coefficient rankings^[1], the 2009–10 champions will enter UEFA Champions League 2010–11 at the group stage instead of the third qualifying round. Every other European spot remains unchanged, meaning that the winner of the European play-off group will reach the third qualifying round of the Champions League while the runners-up and third-placed team of this group will enter UEFA Europa League 2010–11.

[edit] Team overview

[edit] Stadia and locations

AEK Athens
Atromitos
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Asteras Tripolis

Ergotelis

Kavala

Larissa

Levadiakos

Panthrakikos

PAS Giannina

Xanthi

Olympiacos

Location of teams in Super League Greece 2009–10

[edit] Personnel and sponsoring

Club	Manager	Kit maker	Shirt sponsor
AEK Athens	Dušan Bajević	Puma	Diners Club
Aris	Héctor Cúper	Reebok	EKO
Asteras Tripolis	Mario Gómez	Lotto	OPAP
Atromitos	Giorgos Donis	Asics	OPAP
Ergotelis	Nikos Karageorgiou	Lotto	OPAP
Iraklis	Savvas Kofidis	Puma	Attica bank
AO Kavala	Giannis Papakostas	Puma	OPAP
Larissa	Marinos Ouzounidis	Adidas	On Telecoms
Levadiakos	Enrique Hernández	Puma	OPAP
Olympiacos	Zico	Puma	Citibank
Panathinaikos	Nikos Nioplias	Adidas	Cosmote
Panionios	Emilio Ferrera	Diadora	WIND
Panthrakikos	Albert Cartier	Umbro	OPAP
PAOK	Fernando Santos	Puma	DEPA
PAS Giannina	Georgios Paraschos	Umbro	Zagori
Skoda Xanthi	Wolfgang Wolf	Hummel	Emporiki Bank

[edit] Managerial changes

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Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Panthrakikos	Ilie Dumitrescu	Mutual consent	27 August 2009	Albert Cartier	27 August 2009
Olympiacos	Temuri Ketsbaia	Mutual consent	14 September 2009 [2]	Zico	16 September 2009 [3]
Skoda Xanthi	Wolfgang Wolf	Mutual consent	15 September 2009	Ioannis Matzourakis
Levadiakos	Momčilo Vukotić	Mutual consent	23 September 2009	Enrique Hernández
Asteras Tripolis	Roberto Carlos Mario Gómez	Mutual consent	26 Octomber 2009	Vangelis Vlachos	26 Octomber 2009
Iraklis	Oleh Protasov	Mutual consent	30 October 2009 [4]	Savvas Kofidis	30 October 2009 [5]
Aris	Mazinho	Mutual consent	2 November 2009 [6]	Héctor Cúper	6 November 2009 [7]
Kavala	Giannis Papakostas	Mutual consent	14 November 2009	Vaggelis Goutis
PAS Giannina	Georgios Paraschos	Mutual consent	7 December 2009
Panathinaikos	Henk ten Cate	Mutual consent	8 December 2009 [8]	Nikos Nioplias	8 December 2009 [9]

[edit] League table

Updated to games played on 20 December 2009
Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1^st points; 2^nd head-to-head points; 3^rd head-to-head goal difference; 4^th decision match..
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Head-to-Head: used when two or more teams need the head-to-head rules to break a tie.

[edit] Results

Updated to games played on 20 December 2009
Source: Super League Greece
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

[edit] Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 20 December 2009; Source: Super League Greece

11 goals

• Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos)

9 goals

• Danijel Cesarec (Asteras Tripolis)

8 goals

• Kostas Katsouranis (Panathinaikos)

6 goals

• Ilias Anastasakos (Atromitos)
• Bosko Balaban (Panionios)
• Giorgos Barkoglou (Levadiakos)

5 goals

• Vieirinha (PAOK)
• Benjamin Onwuachi (Kavala)
• Kostas Mitroglou (Olympiacos)

4 goals

• Vladimir Ivić (PAOK)
• Sergio Leal (Ergotelis)
• Georgios Saitiotis (PAS Giannina)
• Stefano Napoleoni (Levadiakos)
• Tümer Metin (AEL)
• Emanuel Perrone (Atromitos)
• Victoraş Iacob (Iraklis)
• Gustavo Manduca (AEK)
• Dudu Cearense (Olympiacos)
• Javier Cámpora (Aris)

[edit] Play-offs

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 placed 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 five to give the other teams the points with which they start the mini-league.

[edit] Play-off table

Updated to games played on pre-season
Source:^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Head-to-Head: used when two or more teams need the head-to-head rules to break a tie.

[edit] Results

Updated to games played on pre-season
Source:^{[citation needed]
1}The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

[edit] See also

• Greek Cup 2009-10
• Beta Ethniki 2009-10
• List of Greek football transfers summer 2009
• PSAP MVP & Best Goal 2009–10

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website (Greek)