2007–08 Super League Greece

72nd season of top-tier football league in Greece Super League Greece 2008.png 150px Super League Greece 2007–08 1 September 2007 – 14 May 2008 Olympiacos36th Greek title AtromitosVeriaApollon Kalamarias Champions League OlympiacosPanathinaikos UEFA Cup Aris (via domestic cup)AEK Athens Intertoto Cup Panionios 252 601 Ismael Blanco(19 goals) Skoda Xanthi 6–1 Apollon KalamariasAEK Athens 5–0 Panionios Levadiakos 0–4 PanathinaikosPanionios 0–4 OlympiacosPAOK 0–4 AEK Athens Olympiacos 6–2 OFILevadiakos 5–3 Veria 2006–07 2008–09 The 2007–08 Super League Greece was the 72nd season of the highest football league of Greece and the second under the name Super League. The season began on 1 September 2007 and ended on 20 April 2008. The defending champions were Olympiacos. Asteras Tripolis, Veria and Levadiakos were promoted from Beta Ethniki in the previous season. 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). The championship started on 1 September 2007. Matchday 2 was carried out on the weekend of 21–22 September due to UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying matches (8 September) and Greek legislative election (16 September). On 20 February 2008 UEFA president Michel Platini presented the Hellenic Football Federation with a CHF 1 million cheque to help finance the rebuilding of football facilities damaged by the fires in Greece that summer.http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=64/newsid=661039.html UEFA helps Greece rebuild UEFA 2013-04-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20080223212731/http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind%3D64/newsid%3D661039.html 2008-02-23 dead Teams Promoted from2006–07 Beta Ethniki Relegated from2006–07 Super League Greece Asteras TripolisLevadiakosVeria KerkyraEgaleoIonikos Stadiums and personnel Greece 380 right Location of the 2007–08 Super League Greece teams Greece 37.966667 23.716667 AEK AthensAtromitosPanathinaikosPanionios Greece 40.65 22.9 ApollonArisIraklisPAOK Greece 37.516667 22.383333 Asteras left Greece 35.333333 25.133333 ErgotelisOFI Greece 39.641667 22.416667 AEL left Greece 38.433333 22.866667 Levadiakos Greece 37.95 23.633333 Olympiacos left Greece 41.133333 24.883333 Skoda Xanthi Greece 40.516667 22.2 Veria left Team Manager Location Stadium Capacity AEK Athens GRE Nikos Kostenoglou Athens (Marousi) Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638 AEL GRE Georgios Donis Larissa Alcazar Stadium 13,108 Apollon Kalamarias GRE Makis Katsavakis Thessaloniki (Kalamaria) Kalamaria Stadium 6,500 Aris BIH Dušan Bajević Thessaloniki (Charilaou) Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium 22,800 Asteras Tripolis GRE Panagiotis Tzanavaras Tripoli Asteras Tripolis Stadium 4,200 Atromitos BRA Paulo Campos Athens (Peristeri) Peristeri Stadium 9,035 Ergotelis GRE Nikos Karageorgiou Heraklion (Ammoudara) Pankritio Stadium 26,400 Iraklis ESP Ángel Pedraza Thessaloniki (Triandria) Kaftanzoglio Stadium 27,560 Levadiakos GRE Babis Tennes Livadeia Levadia Municipal Stadium 5,915 OFI GRE Georgios Paraschos Heraklion (Ammoudara) Pankritio Stadium 26,400 Olympiacos ESP José Segura Piraeus Karaiskakis Stadium 33,334 Panathinaikos POR José Peseiro Athens (Ampelokipoi) Leoforos Alexandras Stadium 16,003 Panionios GER Ewald Lienen Athens (Nea Smyrni) Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,700 PAOK POR Fernando Santos Thessaloniki (Toumba) Toumba Stadium 28,703 Skoda Xanthi GRE Nikos Kechagias Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Arena 7,422 Veria GRE Leonidas Yfantidis Veria Veria Stadium 5,373 Managerial changes TeamOutgoing managerDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointment PAOK GRE Georgios Paraschos 3 September 2007 14th POR Fernando Santos 3 September 2007 Aris ESP Juan Carlos Oliva 4 September 2007 7th BIH Dušan Bajević 7 September 2007 Veria GRE Dimitris Kalaitzidis 12 October 2007 12th SRB Ratko Dostanić 15 October 2007 Skoda Xanthi BEL Emilio Ferrera 22 October 2007 6th GRE Nikos Kechagias 22 October 2007 OFI GER Reiner Maurer 12 November 2007 13th GRE Georgios Paraschos 16 November 2007 Veria SRB Ratko Dostanić 10 December 2007 15th GRE Giannis Matzourakis 12 December 2007 Iraklis SRB Ivan Jovanović 17 December 2007 9th ESP Ángel Pedraza 24 December 2007 AEK Athens ESP Lorenzo Serra Ferrer 12 February 2008 3rd GRE Nikos Kostenoglou 12 February 2008 Asteras Tripolis BRA Paulo Campos 24 February 2008 5th GRE Panagiotis Tzanavaras 25 February 2008 Levadiakos BUL Georgi Vasilev 3 March 2008 13th GRE Babis Tennes 5 March 2008 Olympiacos GRE Takis Lemonis 11 March 2008 2nd ESP José Segura 11 March 2008 Veria GRE Giannis Matzourakis 11 March 2008 14th GRE Panagiotis Tsalouchidis 13 March 2008 Veria GRE Panagiotis Tsalouchidis 23 March 2008 15th GRE Leonidas Yfantidis 23 March 2008 Atromitos ARG Ángel Guillermo Hoyos 26 March 2008 12th BRA Paulo Campos 27 March 2008 Regular season League table main WDL Regular season 5 QR OLY Olympiacos AEK AEK Athens PAO Panathinaikos ARIS Aris PGSS Panionios AEL AEL AST Asteras Tripolis XAN Skoda Xanthi PAOK PAOK IRA Iraklis LEV Levadiakos OFI OFI ERG Ergotelis ATR Atromitos VER Veria APK Apollon Kalamarias 21 7 2 58 23 C 22 2 6 65 17 20 6 4 44 18 14 8 8 32 20 13 6 11 39 42 11 12 7 35 30 11 11 8 28 24 10 6 14 33 39 10 5 15 29 35 8 11 11 28 33 10 3 17 31 51 9 5 16 39 49 7 9 14 28 42 8 5 17 23 36 R 5 8 17 21 44 R 5 8 17 27 57 R -1 Head-to-head record: Panionios–AEL 3–1, AEL–Panionios 1–0. PGSS Head-to-head record: PAOK–Iraklis 3–0, Iraklis–PAOK 1–0. PAOK The match of Apollon Kalamarias against Olympiacos, originally ended 1–0 to the home side, but later was awarded to Olympiacos 0–3 by the Greek sports court giving Olympiacos the three points, on the basis that the home side fielded an ineligible player (Roman Wallner). Apollon were deducted by one point. OLY green1 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round CL3 yellow1 Qualification for the Play-offs GSPO GSPO GSPO GSPO red1 Relegation to the Beta Ethniki R R R complete Super League Greece 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.According to the official Super League playoff regulation, the position after the playoffs replaces the regular season position. Results main FBR grey AEK AEL APK ARIS AST ATR ERG IRA LEV OFI OLY PAO PGSS PAOK XAN VER AEK Athens 1–0 4–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 3–1 1–2 3–0 4–0 4–0 1–1 2–3 2–0 5–1 3–0 AEL 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 3–2 1–0 3–3 5–1 0–0 2–2 1–0 4–3 1–1 0–0 Apollon Kalamarias 0–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 0–2 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 0–3 1–3 0–2 0–2 1–0 1–0 Aris 0–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 3–1 1–0 2–0 Asteras Tripolis 2–1 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–2 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 0–0 Atromitos 0–1 2–0 3–0 1–2 0–2 1–2 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–3 0–1 0–2 0–0 1–0 2–3 Ergotelis 1–4 0–0 2–2 0–1 0–3 0–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 3–3 0–3 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 Iraklis 0–1 1–1 5–2 0–2 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–2 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 Levadiakos 0–4 0–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 3–0 0–3 1–3 0–4 1–0 2–0 5–3 2–1 OFI 1–4 0–0 3–2 0–1 0–3 0–1 4–1 2–0 1–2 0–1 4–1 1–2 2–0 3–0 2–0 Olympiacos 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 3–1 4–0 6–2 1–1 4–1 2–1 1–0 2–1 Panathinaikos 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 Panionios 0–3 3–1 2–1 0–3 4–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–3 0–4 1–0 0–0 2–2 3–2 PAOK 0–4 1–0 4–1 3–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 1–0 2–2 1–1 0–1 3–1 2–0 0–1 Veria 0–1 1–0 0–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–2 3–1 2–1 0–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 Skoda Xanthi 0–1 1–1 6–1 0–2 2–0 0–1 1–0 0–3 4–1 1–0 1–4 3–2 1–2 1–0 2–0 The match was originally finished 1–0 for Apollon Kalamarias, but was awarded to Olympiacos because was the home team fielded an ineligible player Roman Wallner, which was played for Falkirk and Hamilton Academical in the season and was not allowed to play for more of two clubs in the same season according to rules of FIFA. complete Worldfootball.net Play-offs The play-off winner enters the UEFA Champions League's second qualifying round, a two-legged tier from which the winner advances to the 3rd round qualification of the UEFA Champions League. The winner of the Greek Football Cup automatically qualifies for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, 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 zero 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 zero 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. The teams started the play-offs with the following number of points: AEK Athens – 8 Panathinaikos – 7 Aris – 2 Panionios – 0 Play-off table main WDL Play-offs 4 Q 2 PAO Panathinaikos AEK AEK Athens ARIS Aris PGSS Panionios 4 2 0 14 5 7 2 2 2 10 11 8 1 2 3 9 9 2 1 2 3 7 15 Aris were guaranteed at least to play in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round through their Greek Cup performance. green2 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round CL2 blue1 Qualification for the UEFA Cup second qualifying round UC2 UC2 #CCCCFF Qualification for the Intertoto Cup second round IC2 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored. y FBR grey 1–0 1–1 5–0 4–0 1–1 3–3 4–1 3–1 3–0 2–2 1–0 1–2 complete Super League Greece Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 ARG Ismael Blanco AEK Athens192 SRB 2004 Darko Kovačević Olympiacos173 GRE Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos154 CAN Tomasz Radzinski Skoda Xanthi14 ALG Rafik Djebbour Panionios6 GRE Nikos Liberopoulos AEK Athens117 GRE Lampros Choutos Panionios10 SRB 2004 Predrag Đorđević Olympiacos9 ARG Lucio Filomeno Asteras Tripolis9 Source: Galanis Sports Data Awards MVP and Best Goal Awards Matchday MVP Best Goal Ref 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th GRE Sokratis Papastathopoulos (AEK Athens) GRE Merkourios Karaliopoulos (Apollon Kalamarias ) https://www.contra.gr/podosfairo/papastathopoylos-kai-karaliopoylos-ta-vraveia-tis-10is-agonistikis.6726040.html Παπασταθόπουλος και Καραλιόπουλος τα βραβεία της 10ης αγωνιστικής 5 December 2007 contra.gr el 11th GRE Georgios Georgiadis (PAOK) GRE Ieroklis Stoltidis (Olympiacos) https://www.in.gr/2007/12/13/sports/football/gewrgiadis-kai-stoltidis-oi-kalyteroi-tis-11is-agwnistikis/ Γεωργιάδης και Στολτίδης οι καλύτεροι της 11ης αγωνιστικής 13 December 2007 in.gr el 12th ALG Rafik Djebbour (Panionios) SRB Darko Kovačević (Olympiacos) https://www.contra.gr/podosfairo/tzimpoyr-kai-kovasevits-ta-vraveia-tis-12is-agonistikis.6726920.html Τζιμπούρ και Κοβάσεβιτς τα βραβεία της 12ης αγωνιστικής 19 December 2007 contra.gr el 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th GRE Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (PAOK) BRA Luciano Fonseca (Iraklis) https://www.flash.gr/sports/225035/brabeia-se-lazaro-kai-fonseka Βραβεία σε Λάζαρο και Φονσέκα 13 February 2008 flash.gr el 21st 22nd POL Maciej Bykowski (Veria) POL Rafał Grzelak (Skoda Xanthi) https://www.sport-fm.gr/article/podosfairo/superleague1/121576 Σε πολωνικά χέρια τα βραβεία της 22ης αγωνιστικής 27 February 2008 sport-fm.gr el 23rd ESP Koke (Aris) POR Hélder Postiga (Panathinaikos) https://www.contra.gr/podosfairo/koke-kai-postigka-ta-vraveia-tis-23is-agonistikis.6804469.html Κόκε και Ποστίγκα τα βραβεία της 23ης αγωνιστικής 5 March 2008 contra.gr el 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th ARG Ismael Blanco (AEK Athens) GRE Lampros Choutos (Panionios) https://www.contra.gr/podosfairo/choytos-kai-mplanko-ta-vraveia-tis-30is-agonistikis.6807516.html Χούτος και Μπλάνκο τα βραβεία της 30ής αγωνιστικής 23 April 2008 contra.gr el Annual awards Annual awards were announced on 2 December 2008.https://www.psapp.gr/nea/vravia-psap-2008 ΒΡΑΒΕΙΑ ΠΣΑΠ – 2008 OSC AWARDS - 2008 psapp.gr el 2 December 2008 8 July 2013 Award Winner Club Greek Player of the Season GRE Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos Foreign Player of the Season SRB Darko KovačevićARG Ismael Blanco OlympiacosAEK Athens Young Player of the Season GRE Sokratis Papastathopoulos AEK Athens Goalkeeper of the Season GRE Antonis Nikopolidis Olympiacos Golden Boot ARG Ismael Blanco AEK Athens Manager of the Season BIH Dušan Bajević Aris Attendances Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2007–08 edition of the Super League Greece.https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/grc/avegrc08.htm 2007–08 Super League european-football-statistics.co.uk { class"wikitable sortable" ! # !! 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Average attendance - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Olympiacos 24,196 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count AEK Athens 21,551 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count PAOK 11,394 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panathinaikos 9,213 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Aris 7,712 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count AEL 4,612 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Iraklis 3,768 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Ergotelis 3,382 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count OFI 3,134 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Asteras Tripolis 3,045 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Atromitos 2,437 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panionios 2,372 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Skoda Xanthi 2,255 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Apollon Kalamarias 1,863 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Veria 1,752 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Levadiakos 1,736 } References External links Official Site of the League Super League Statistics Association football Greece Category:Super League Greece seasons 1 Greece