1997–98 Alpha Ethniki

62nd season of top-tier football league in Greece Alpha Ethniki 1997–98 Olympiacos27th Greek title PanachaikiKalamataAthinaikos Champions League OlympiacosPanathinaikos UEFA Cup AEK AthensPAOK Cup Winners' Cup Panionios Intertoto Cup Iraklis Krzysztof Warzycha(32 goals) 306 843 1996–97 1998–99 The 1997–98 Alpha Ethniki was the 62nd season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 30 August 1997 and ended on 18 May 1998. Olympiacos won their second consecutive and 27th Greek title. Teams Promoted from1996–97 Beta Ethniki Relegated from1996–97 Alpha Ethniki PanioniosProodeftikiEthnikos Piraeus ArisEdessaikosKastoria Stadiums and personnel Greece 380 right Location of teams in 1997–98 Alpha Ethniki Greece 37.966667 23.716667 AEK AthensApollonAthinaikosPanathinaikosPanionios Greece 40.65 22.9 IraklisPAOK Greece 37.95 23.633333 Ethnikos P.IonikosOlympiacosProodeftiki left Greece 37.033333 22.116667 Kalamata 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 left Team Manager1 Location Stadium AEK Athens GRE Antonis Minou Athens (Nea Filadelfeia) Nikos Goumas Stadium Apollon Athens NED Thijs Libregts Athens (Rizoupoli) Rizoupoli Stadium Athinaikos GRE Nikolaos Pantelis Athens (Vyronas) Vyronas National Stadium Ethnikos Piraeus GRE Georgios Ioakimidis Piraeus (Neo Faliro) Karaiskakis Stadium Ionikos POL Jacek Gmoch Piraeus (Nikaia) Neapoli Stadium Iraklis GRE Konstantinos Maloumidis Thessaloniki (Triandria) Kaftanzoglio Stadium Kalamata BRA Eduardo Amorim Kalamata Kalamata Municipal Stadium Kavala GRE Nikolaos Goulis Kavala Kavala National Stadium OFI NED Eugène Gerards Heraklion Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium Olympiacos BIH Dušan Bajević Athens (Marousi) Athens Olympic Stadium Panachaiki GRE Stavros Diamantopoulos Patras Kostas Davourlis Stadium Panathinaikos GRE Vasilios Daniil Athens (Marousi) Athens Olympic Stadium Paniliakos GRE Giannis Kyrastas Pyrgos Pyrgos Stadium Panionios GRE Christos Emvoliadis Athens (Nea Smyrni) Nea Smyrni Stadium PAOK GRE Angelos Anastasiadis Thessaloniki (Toumba) Toumba Stadium Proodeftiki GRE Nikos Karoulias Piraeus (Nikaia) Nikaia Municipal Stadium Skoda Xanthi GRE Giannis Mantzourakis Xanthi Xanthi Ground Veria GRE Stefanos Gaitanos Veria Veria Stadium 1 On final match day of the season, played on 18 May 1998. League table main WDL League table 5 QR OLY Olympiacos PAO Panathinaikos AEK AEK Athens PAOK PAOK ION Ionikos IRA Iraklis OFI OFI XAN Skoda Xanthi VER Veria APA Apollon Athens PGSS Panionios PNL Paniliakos KAV Kavala PRO Proodeftiki ETH Ethnikos Piraeus PNA Panachaiki KAL Kalamata ATH Athinaikos 29 1 4 88 27 C 28 1 5 90 24 22 8 4 61 30 21 7 6 74 41 18 8 8 46 31 14 9 11 49 45 15 4 15 45 53 13 6 15 52 52 12 6 16 38 48 10 6 18 37 51 10 6 18 41 54 9 9 16 41 54 10 5 19 40 58 9 7 18 35 57 10 3 21 27 51 9 5 20 29 62 R 7 8 19 27 50 R 6 9 19 23 55 R green1 Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round CL2 CL2 blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup second qualifying round UC2 UC2 #CCCCFF Qualification for Intertoto Cup second round IC2 yellow1 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round CWC1 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 ATH ETH ION IRA KAL KAV OFI OLY PNA PAO PNL PGSS PAOK PRO XAN VER AEK Athens 1–0 1–1 2–1 0–2 2–2 4–2 1–0 3–0 1–0 5–1 2–1 1–2 2–0 3–0 2–1 1–2 2–0 Apollon Athens 3–4 2–0 1–0 0–2 0–0 1–0 1–2 3–0 0–5 2–1 2–5 2–0 0–0 4–4 1–0 0–1 1–2 Athinaikos 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–2 1–2 3–2 0–3 4–3 3–0 0–5 1–0 1–0 4–1 Ethnikos Piraeus 1–3 2–0 1–0 0–1 0–1 2–2 2–0 0–1 1–3 0–0 0–2 1–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 Ionikos 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–0 5–0 0–1 5–0 0–1 0–0 2–2 3–2 1–0 1–1 1–0 Iraklis 1–4 4–2 4–0 3–2 1–1 2–1 3–2 3–1 0–2 3–1 0–1 0–0 1–0 2–3 1–0 3–0 2–0 Kalamata 1–2 0–1 2–0 0–1 2–0 3–1 0–2 1–0 0–4 0–1 0–2 1–2 0–0 1–1 3–1 1–0 1–2 Kavala 1–1 0–2 1–0 2–1 2–3 2–0 5–1 3–3 0–1 4–0 0–4 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–2 0–1 2–0 OFI 1–1 2–1 1–1 3–0 0–2 1–0 1–0 3–0 2–3 1–0 0–3 3–2 3–0 2–1 3–0 3–0 2–1 Olympiacos 0–1 5–3 4–0 3–1 2–0 5–2 3–0 4–2 1–0 3–1 3–1 4–2 2–0 2–0 3–0 4–1 6–1 Panachaiki 0–0 1–0 4–1 1–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 2–0 0–2 1–2 0–1 0–4 3–2 1–4 1–1 2–1 2–1 Panathinaikos 0–1 1–0 4–1 4–2 5–1 1–0 1–0 4–1 6–2 0–2 6–1 7–0 2–1 3–1 5–0 2–0 4–1 Paniliakos 2–4 3–0 1–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–2 2–0 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–2 1–2 0–1 0–0 4–3 Panionios 0–1 1–3 1–0 5–1 2–2 3–1 1–2 3–0 3–0 1–2 1–0 0–3 3–1 0–3 4–0 3–1 1–1 PAOK 0–0 1–0 1–0 0–1 3–1 2–2 4–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 4-1 2–1 3–2 6–1 3–1 3–1 1–1 Proodeftiki 3–2 1–0 3–0 2–3 1–0 4–4 1–0 1–1 2–2 0–1 1–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 3–3 3–0 0–3 Veria 1–2 1–1 0–0 3–0 0–1 0–1 2–0 4–2 3–0 2–0 0–0 0–3 3–1 4–0 1–3 2–2 2–1 Skoda Xanthi 0–0 1–0 3–0 3–0 4–2 0–0 1–1 5–2 2–1 0–4 0–1 1–3 2–0 2–0 2–2 4–0 4–0 complete Worldfootball.net Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 POL Krzysztof Warzycha Panathinaikos322 SCG Ilija Ivić Olympiacos263 GRE Georgios Georgiadis Panathinaikos214 GRE Demis Nikolaidis AEK Athens195 GRE Kostas Frantzeskos PAOK176 GRE Alexis Alexandris Olympiacos14 SCO Craig Brewster Ionikos8 SCG Predrag Đorđević Olympiacos12 BRA Luciano de Souza Skoda Xanthi10 PER Paul Cominges PAOK11 ALB Roland Zajmi Proodeftiki CYP 1960 Michalis Konstantinou Iraklis GRE Sakis Almanidis Proodeftiki Awards Annual awards Annual awards were announced on 15 December 1998.http://wwk.kathimerini.gr/kath/edition/1998/15-12-1998.pdf Kathimerini Page 19 Kathimerini el 15 December 1998 20 April 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20120131025712/http://wwk.kathimerini.gr/kath/edition/1998/15-12-1998.pdf 31 January 2012 dead Award Winner Club Greek Player of the Season GRE Demis Nikolaidis AEK Athens Foreign Player of the Season POL Krzysztof Warzycha Panathinaikos Young Player of the Season GRE Giorgos KaragounisGRE Pantelis KonstantinidisGRE Paraskevas Antzas Apollon AthensApollon AthensSkoda Xanthi Goalkeeper of the Season GRE Ilias Atmatsidis AEK Athens Golden Boot POL Krzysztof Warzycha Panathinaikos Manager of the Season BIH 1992 Dušan Bajević Olympiacos Attendances Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 1997–98 Alpha Ethniki.https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/grc/avegrc98.htm 1997–98 Alpha Ethniki european-football-statistics.co.uk { class"wikitable sortable" ! # !! 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Average attendance - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Olympiacos 16,237 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panathinaikos 11,108 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count AEK Athens 11,020 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count PAOK 10,745 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Iraklis 4,002 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Kalamata 3,481 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count OFI 2,552 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Veria 2,520 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Skoda Xanthi 2,454 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Ethnikos Piraeus 2,420 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panachaiki 2,315 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Kavala 2,134 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panionios 2,085 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Paniliakos 1,827 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Proodeftiki 1,793 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Ionikos 1,570 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Apollon Athens 1,502 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Athinaikos 1,398 } References External links Official Greek FA Site RSSSF Greek SuperLeague official Site SuperLeague Statistics Category:Alpha Ethniki seasons Greece 1