1996–97 Alpha Ethniki

61st season of top-tier football league in Greece Alpha Ethniki 1996–97 Olympiacos26th Greek title ArisEdessaikosKastoria Champions League Olympiacos Cup Winners' Cup AEK Athens UEFA Cup OFIPAOK Intertoto Cup IraklisPanachaiki Alexis Alexandris(23 goals) 306 787 1995–96 1997–98 The 1996–97 Alpha Ethniki was the 61st season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 6 September 1996 and ended on 25 May 1997. Olympiacos won their 26th Greek title and their first one in ten years. Teams Promoted from1995–96 Beta Ethniki Relegated from1995–96 Alpha Ethniki KavalaVeriaKastoria AELPanioniosEthnikos Piraeus Stadiums and personnel Greece 380 right Location of teams in 1996–97 Alpha Ethniki Greece 37.966667 23.716667 AEK AthensApollonAthinaikosPanathinaikos Greece 40.65 22.9 ArisIraklisPAOK Greece 37.95 23.633333 IonikosOlympiacos left Greece 40.8 22.05 Edessaikos left Greece 37.033333 22.116667 Kalamata left Greece 40.516667 21.266667 Kastoria left Greece 40.933333 24.4 Kavala left Greece 35.333333 25.133333 OFI Greece 38.25 21.733333 Panachaiki left Greece 37.666667 21.433333 Paniliakos left Greece 41.133333 24.883333 Skoda Xanthi Greece 40.516667 22.2 Veria bottom Team Manager1 Location Stadium AEK Athens GRE Petros Ravousis Athens (Nea Filadelfeia) Nikos Goumas Stadium Apollon Athens GRE Babis Tennes Athens (Rizoupoli) Rizoupoli Stadium Aris GRE Georgios Firos Thessaloniki (Charilaou) Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium Athinaikos GRE Christos Archontidis Athens (Vyronas) Vyronas National Stadium Edessaikos BRA Luiz Villa Edessa Municipal Stadium of Edessa Ionikos POL Jacek Gmoch Piraeus (Nikaia) Neapoli Stadium Iraklis GRE Manolis Giovanopoulos Thessaloniki (Triandria) Kaftanzoglio Stadium Kalamata SWE Bo Petersson Kalamata Kalamata Municipal Stadium Kastoria GRE Konstantinos Tsagalidis Kastoria Municipal Stadium of Kastoria Kavala GRE Georgios Paraschos Kavala Kavala National Stadium OFI NED Eugène Gerards Heraklion Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium Olympiacos BIH 1992 Dušan Bajević Piraeus (Neo Faliro) Karaiskakis Stadium Panachaiki GRE Andreas Michalopoulos Patras Kostas Davourlis Stadium Panathinaikos GRE Nikos Karoulias Athens (Marousi) Athens Olympic Stadium Paniliakos GRE Vasilios Daniil Pyrgos Pyrgos Stadium PAOK GRE Angelos Anastasiadis Thessaloniki (Toumba) Toumba Stadium Skoda Xanthi GRE Giannis Mantzourakis Xanthi Xanthi Ground Veria GRE Nikolaos Karydis Veria Veria Stadium 1 On final match day of the season, played on 25 May 1997. League table main WDL League table 5 QR OLY Olympiacos AEK AEK Athens OFI OFI PAOK PAOK PAO Panathinaikos KAV Kavala PNL Paniliakos ION Ionikos APA Apollon Athens VER Veria KAL Kalamata ATH Athinaikos IRA Iraklis XAN Skoda Xanthi PNA Panachaiki ARIS Aris EDE Edessaikos KAS Kastoria 26 6 2 72 14 C 22 6 6 75 28 20 6 8 51 28 19 9 6 53 28 20 4 10 60 25 16 7 11 42 43 13 6 15 39 49 12 8 14 40 47 12 6 16 39 42 11 8 15 33 33 10 11 13 34 50 11 7 16 41 59 11 6 17 41 54 10 9 15 53 59 9 12 13 31 38 9 11 14 32 48 R -3 Aris were deducted 3 points. 7 7 20 38 61 R 1 5 28 13 81 R green1 Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round CL2 yellow1 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round CWC1 blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup second qualifying round UC2 UC2 #CCCCFF Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage ICGS ICGS red1 Relegation to Beta Ethniki R R R complete RSSSF 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match. Results main FBR grey AEK APA ARIS ATH EDE ION IRA KAL KAS KAV OFI OLY PNA PAO PNL PAOK XAN VER AEK Athens 2–1 5–1 6–1 2–0 2–1 6–1 6–1 1–0 2–1 0–1 2–0 2–0 3–0 2–0 1–2 3–1 2–1 Apollon Athens 1–2 1–2 1–1 2–0 0–1 4–1 3–0 2–0 2–0 0–0 0–3 2–0 0–2 2–0 0–0 3–2 2–1 Aris 3–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 1–3 1–2 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–2 0–0 2–0 2–1 Athinaikos 0–7 3–2 2–0 Athinaikos-Aris awarded 2–0, Aris forgot to present the registration ID's and health certificates of the players to the referee. 5–2 0–1 2–0 1–1 3–0 1–4 0–0 0–1 3–1 0–2 3–0 2–3 2–1 0–0 Edessaikos 0–2 0–1 1–0 3–2 1–1 3–4 4–0 2–0 0–0 1–2 2–3 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–4 2–0 1–1 Ionikos 0–0 1–0 4–1 0–1 1–3 2–0 2–1 5–1 2–2 3–2 0–1 0–0 3–1 1–1 2–1 0–1 3–0 Iraklis 2–2 2–1 1–2 2–0 3–1 4–0 2–5 2–1 2–3 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–2 3–0 2–0 0–0 0–0 Kalamata 0–3 2–2 5–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–4 1–1 1–0 0–2 0–0 1–0 2–2 Kastoria 0–2 0–0 0–3 1–0 1–1 1–2 0–3 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–5 0–0 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–2 Kavala 1–1 2–1 3–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 1–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–2 1–0 0–4 1–0 0–3 1–0 5–2 OFI 2–1 3–0 2–2 3–1 2–1 4–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 0–1 2–1 0–0 3–1 3–1 2–0 3–0 Olympiacos 2–0 0–0 4–0 4–0 4–0 4–1 2–1 2–2 3–0 6–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 0–0 Panachaiki 1–1 0–2 1–0 3–0 3–2 2–1 0–0 0–0 3–0 1–2 2–0 0–2 3–1 1–1 2–0 0–0 1–1 Panathinaikos 2–0 0–2 1–0 4–1 4–1 1–0 4–0 3–0 7–0 2–0 1–1 0–2 2–0 3–0 5–0 1–0 1–2 Paniliakos 0–2 2–0 1–1 2–3 4–0 2–2 3–1 4–0 2–1 0–0 0–4 0–5 1–0 2–1 0–2 2–0 3–1 PAOK 0–0 3–1 2–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 6–0 3–0 2–1 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 4–1 Veria 1–1 3–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 4–0 0–1 2–0 1–0 4–0 0–0 2–0 1–2 2–0 Skoda Xanthi 1–2 3–0 3–2 2–3 0–1 3–0 3–4 0–0 6–0 1–0 3–0 3–5 4–3 1–3 1–0 1–1 3–2 complete Worldfootball.net Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 GRE Alexis Alexandris Olympiacos232 GRE Kostas Frantzeskos OFI / PAOK223 POL Krzysztof Warzycha Panathinaikos21 GRE Christos Kostis AEK Athens5 GRE Demis Nikolaidis AEK Athens196 GRE Petros Tengelidis Skoda Xanthi157 GRE Vasilis Andradis Edessaikos14 GRE Giorgos Papandreou Kavala9SVK Igor Klejch Panachaiki11 Awards Annual awards Annual awards were announced on 31 December 1997.http://wwk.kathimerini.gr/kath/edition/1997/30-12-1997.pdf Kathimerini Page 14 Kathimerini el 31 December 1997 20 April 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20120131042620/http://wwk.kathimerini.gr/kath/edition/1997/30-12-1997.pdf 31 January 2012 dead Award Winner Club Greek Player of the Season GRE Christos KostisGRE Demis NikolaidisGRE Kostas Frantzeskos AEK AthensAEK AthensPAOK Foreign Player of the Season POL Krzysztof Warzycha Panathinaikos Young Player of the Season GRE Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos Olympiacos Golden Boot GRE Alexis Alexandris Olympiacos Manager of the Season GRE Georgios Paraschos Kavala Attendances Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 1996–97 Alpha Ethniki.https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/grc/avegrc97.htm 1996–97 Alpha Ethniki european-football-statistics.co.uk { class"wikitable sortable" ! # !! 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Average attendance - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Olympiacos 16,935 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count PAOK 13,406 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panathinaikos 8,535 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count AEK Athens 7,227 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Aris 5,275 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count OFI 3,467 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Kavala 3,442 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Kalamata 3,140 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panachaiki 3,035 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Iraklis 3,018 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Paniliakos 2,239 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Skoda Xanthi 2,127 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Apollon Athens 1,953 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Edessaikos 1,865 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Veria 1,407 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Ionikos 1,396 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Kastoria 1,142 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Athinaikos 805 } References External links Official Greek FA Site RSSSF Greek SuperLeague official Site SuperLeague Statistics Category:Alpha Ethniki seasons Greece 1