1972–73 Alpha Ethniki

37th season of top-tier football league in Greece Alpha Ethniki 1972–73 Olympiacos18th Greek title KalamataAtromitosTrikalaOmonia European Cup Olympiacos Cup Winners' Cup PAOK UEFA Cup PanathinaikosPanachaiki Antonis Antoniadis(22 goals) 306 705 1971–72 1973–74 The 1972–73 Alpha Ethniki was the 37th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 17 September 1972 and ended on 3 June 1973. Olympiacos won their 18th Greek title and their first one in six years. The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point. Teams Promoted from1971–72 Beta Ethniki Relegated from1971–72 Alpha Ethniki KalamataAtromitosPanserraikos VeriaPierikosApollon AthensOlympiakos Nicosia Promoted from1971–72 Cypriot First Division Omonia Greece 380 CENTER Location of teams in 1972–73 Alpha Ethniki Greece 37.966667 23.716667 AEK AthensAtromitosEgaleoFostirasPanathinaikosPanionios Greece 40.65 22.9 ArisIraklisPAOK Greece 37.95 23.633333 EthnikosOlympiacos left Greece 37.033333 22.116667 Kalamata left Greece 40.933333 24.4 Kavala Greece 39.366667 22.933333 Olympiacos V. left Greece 38.25 21.733333 Panachaiki left Greece 41.083333 23.55 Panserraikos Greece 39.55 21.766667 Trikala left Cyprus 120 right 35.166667 33.366667 Omonia top League table main WDL League table 5 3 2 1 QR OLY Olympiacos PAOK PAOK PAO Panathinaikos PNA Panachaiki AEK AEK Athens ETH Ethnikos Piraeus PGSS Panionios IRA Iraklis ARIS Aris KAV Kavala EGA Egaleo OLV Olympiacos Volos FOS Fostiras PNS Panserraikos KAL Kalamata ATR Atromitos TRI Trikala OMO Omonia 27 6 1 72 13 C 27 4 3 75 24 22 7 5 89 29 -3 Panathinaikos were deducted 3 points and had 3 games penalty. 16 12 6 42 27 13 11 10 39 36 10 15 9 35 32 13 9 12 41 39 11 13 10 42 39 13 9 12 38 36 8 14 12 32 38 11 8 15 30 47 10 9 15 25 42 10 8 16 23 39 6 15 13 27 47 8 10 16 30 45 R 7 10 17 17 49 R 5 9 20 26 52 R 1 7 26 22 71 R -1 Omonia were deducted 1 point. green1 Qualification for European Cup first round EC1 yellow1 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round Since Olympiacos, winners of 1972–73 Greek Football Cup, was qualified for the 1973–74 European Cup, losing cup finalists PAOK earned a spot in the first round of the 1973–74 European Cup Winners' Cup. CWC1 blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round UC1 UC1 red1 Relegation to Beta Ethniki R1 R1 R1 red1 Moving to Cypriot First Division R2 complete RSSSF 1st points; 2nd decision match; 3rd head-to-head goal difference. Results main FBR grey AEK ARIS ATR EGA ETH FOS IRA KAL KAV OLY OLV OMO PNC PAO PAN PNS PAOK TRI AEK Athens 3–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 3–0 2–2 2–0 1–1 1–5 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–2 0–0 2–1 0–2 5–1 Aris 2–0 0–0 4–1 0–0 4–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 0–2 1–0 5–0 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 3–2 Atromitos 1–0 0–0 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–0 1–0 0–4 3–0 0–0 0–2 1–0 Egaleo 1–2 0–2 3–0 0–1 2–1 1–1 1–0 2–1 0–0 3–0 3–1 Egaleo-Panathinaikos 2-0 awarded without a game (Panathinaikos' penalty). 1–1 2–0 2–0 0–1 2–2 1–0 Ethnikos Piraeus 0–0 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–2 2–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 2–0 2–3 1–0 Fostiras 2–1 2–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–3 1–0 2–1 0–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 Iraklis 1–1 1–0 4–1 3–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 3–3 1–3 0–0 1–3 3–0 Kalamata 0–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–2 1–0 1–2 0–1 3–0 2–1 0–2 0–1 2–1 0–3 2–0 Kavala 0–1 3–1 3–0 1–0 0–2 1–0 0–2 1–1 1–1 1–1 4–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 3–0 0–2 2–1 Olympiacos 2–0 2–1 4–0 3–0 3–0 3–0 1–0 3–1 0–0 3–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 Olympiacos-Panathinaikos suspended at 81' at 3-2, 2-0 awarded. 4–1 6–0 1–0 5–0 Olympiacos Volos 1–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–2 1–2 1–2 1–0 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–5 2–0 Omonia 2–4 1–2 0–0 2–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–2 1–2 1–1 0–2 Omonia-Panathinaikos suspended at halftime at 0-0, 0-2 awarded. 0–3 0–1 1–3 0–1 Panachaiki 1–1 0–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 0–0 3–0 4–0 0–4 2–0 1–0 2–2 2–1 Panathinaikos 3–1 7–1 8–1 5–0 2–1 2–0 3–1 2–2 5–0 0–1 6–3 4–2 5–1 1–0 4–1 0–2 Panathinaikos-PAOK 0-2 awarded without a game (Panathinaikos' penalty). 3–0 Panionios 2–1 3–2 2–0 5–0 2–2 1–0 0–1 3–1 0–0 0–2 1–1 3–1 0–0 0–6 4–0 0–0 2–1 Panserraikos 2–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–3 1–2 PAOK 0–0 1–0 2–1 4–1 3–0 3–0 4–1 3–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 3–1 3–5 1–0 2–1 2–1 4–0 Trikala 0–0 0–0 5–0 0–0 2–2 0–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–2 0–1 4–1 0–1 1–2 1–1 2–2 0–1 complete RSSSF Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 GRE 1970 Antonis Antoniadis Panathinaikos222 GRE 1970 Stavros Sarafis PAOK193 FRA Yves Triantafyllos Olympiacos164 GRE 1970 Kostas Davourlis Panachaiki15 GRE 1970 Koulis Apostolidis PAOK GRE 1970 Andreas Michalopoulos Panachaiki7 ARG Juan Ramón Verón Panathinaikos14 GRE 1970 Giorgos Koudas PAOK9 FRA Romain Argyroudis Olympiacos13 Attendances Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 1972–73 Alpha Ethniki.https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/grc/avegrc73.htm 1972–73 Alpha Ethniki european-football-statistics.co.uk { class"wikitable sortable" ! # !! 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Average attendance - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Olympiacos 36,817 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count PAOK 23,902 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panathinaikos 22,725 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count AEK Athens 16,802 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Ethnikos Piraeus 10,616 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Aris 10,032 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Iraklis 9,982 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panionios 8,793 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panachaiki 7,569 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Omonia 7,153 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Kavala 6,534 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Egaleo 5,588 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Kalamata 5,570 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Olympiacos Volos 5,264 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panserraikos 5,116 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Atromitos 4,804 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Fostiras 4,416 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Trikala 3,954 } References External links Greek Wikipedia Official Greek FA Site Greek SuperLeague official Site SuperLeague Statistics Category:Alpha Ethniki seasons Greece 1