1978–79 Alpha Ethniki

43rd season of top-tier football league in Greece Alpha Ethniki 1978–79 AEK Athens7th Greek title KavalaEgaleoPanserraikos European Cup AEK Athens UEFA Cup OlympiacosAris Cup Winners' Cup Panionios Thomas Mavros(31 goals) 306 792 1977–78 1979–80 The 1978–79 Alpha Ethniki was the 43rd season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 3 September 1978 and ended on 3 June 1979. AEK Athens won their second consecutive and seventh Greek title. The point system was: Win: 2 points - Draw: 1 point. Teams Promoted from1977–78 Beta Ethniki Relegated from1977–78 Alpha Ethniki RodosAEL PierikosVeria Greece 380 right Location of teams in 1978–79 Alpha Ethniki Greece 37.966667 23.716667 AEK AthensApollonEgaleoPanathinaikosPanionios Greece 40.65 22.9 ArisIraklisPAOK Greece 37.95 23.633333 EthnikosOlympiacos left Greece 40.516667 21.266667 Kastoria Greece 40.933333 24.4 Kavala Greece 39.641667 22.416667 AEL left Greece 35.333333 25.133333 OFI Greece 38.25 21.733333 Panachaiki left Greece 41.083333 23.55 Panserraikos left Greece 39.666667 20.85 PAS Giannina bottom Greece 36.433333 28.216667 Rodos left League table main WDL League table 5 2 QR AEK AEK Athens OLY Olympiacos ARIS Aris PAOK PAOK PAO Panathinaikos IRA Iraklis OFI OFI ETH Ethnikos Piraeus KAS Kastoria APA Apollon Athens ROD Rodos AEL AEL PGSS Panionios PAS PAS Giannina PNA Panachaiki KAV Kavala EGA Egaleo PNS Panserraikos 25 6 3 90 30 C AEK Athens pronounced champions, because Olympiacos did not show up for the play-off match. 26 4 4 63 27 AEK 22 6 6 63 26 18 9 7 73 23 14 10 10 46 37 12 10 12 51 46 14 6 14 37 42 14 4 16 36 50 10 11 13 31 42 10 9 15 37 42 13 3 18 50 62 12 5 17 32 53 9 10 15 31 44 9 10 15 38 51 9 9 16 27 37 12 3 19 34 56 R 10 6 18 33 57 R 4 5 25 16 63 R green1 Qualification for European Cup first round EC1 blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round UC1 UC1 yellow1 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round CWC1 red1 Relegation to Beta Ethniki R R R complete RSSSF 1st points; 2nd decision match; 3rd head-to-head goal difference. Results main FBR grey AEK AEL APA ARIS EGA ETH IRA KAS KAV OFI OLY PNC PAO PAN PNS PAOK PAS ROD AEK Athens 4–2 2–0 1–1 5–0 5–1 5–1 2–1 7–0 2–0 0–0 4–0 1–0 4–0 5–0 3–2 7–2 5–2 AEL 0–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 2–1 2–1 1–2 2–1 2–1 1–2 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 Apollon Athens 1–3 4–0 1–2 2–0 1–0 3–1 1–1 4–2 1–0 0–2 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 Aris 2–1 2–1 3–2 6–1 5–0 2–1 7–2 3–1 5–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 3–0 2–1 Egaleo 0–2 0–0 3–0 0–0 1–3 1–1 2–1 3–0 1–0 1–2 1–0 0–0 1–0 3–2 1–0 2–0 2–1 Ethnikos Piraeus 3–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 4–2 1–0 1–3 1–0 1–0 0–1 0–2 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 Ethnikos vs PAOK originally finished 2-2. The match was replayed after PAOK's appeal because the referee count an irregular goal for EthnikosΌταν ο ΠΑΟΚ δέχθηκε γκολ έντεκα εναντίον ενός 0–0 4–1 Iraklis 2–3 2–0 1–1 0–4 6–1 3–1 2–1 3–0 3–0 1–1 0–0 2–2 0–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 8–1 Kastoria 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–0 2–1 0–1 0–0 0–1 3–1 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 Kavala 1–2 3–2 1–0 2–2 2–1 0–2 1–0 1–0 4–0 0–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 0–3 3–0 2–0 OFI 0–0 2–0 2–1 1–1 3–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 3–3 1–0 2–0 3–0 4–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 Olympiacos 0–1 4–3 2–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 4–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 5–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 Panachaiki 1–2 0–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 1–0 3–0 1–1 0–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 3–1 0–0 0–0 2–0 1–2 Panathinaikos 2–2 3–2 2–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–2 4–1 2–1 2–0 2–3 2–0 2–0 3–1 2–2 1–0 4–0 Panionios 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 2–1 1–2 2–0 3–0 0–0 2–3 3–2 4–2 1–0 2–1 0–0 2–0 Panserraikos 2–5 0–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 0–1 0–4 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–3 1–0 0–1 0–0 0–1 2–2 1–0 PAOK 2–1 4–0 3–0 1–0 4–0 5–0 1–1 4–2 4–1 3–1 2–0 3–0 3–0 5–0 5–0 5–0 6–1 PAS Giannina 1–1 5–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 1–2 3–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 2–2 0–2 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 Rodos 0–1 4–1 1–0 1–2 1–1 3–0 3–0 2–1 5–1 3–1 3–4 3–0 2–2 2–1 1–0 1–0 3–1 complete RSSSF Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 GRE Thomas Mavros AEK Athens312 GRE Manolis Kottis Rodos24 YUG Dušan Bajević AEK Athens4 ARG Óscar Álvarez Panathinaikos15 GRE Kostas Orfanos PAOK BRA Neto Guerino PAOK7 GRE Giorgos Ananiadis Aris148 GRE Takis Nikoloudis AEK Athens12 GRE Giannis Pathiakakis Panionios GRE Giorgos Orfanidis Iraklis GRE Petros Karavitis Olympiacos GRE Dinos Kouis Aris Attendances Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 1978–79 Alpha Ethniki.https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/grc/avegrc79.htm 1978–79 Alpha Ethniki european-football-statistics.co.uk { class"wikitable sortable" ! # !! 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Average attendance - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Olympiacos 24,552 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count AEK Athens 14,972 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panathinaikos 14,621 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count PAOK 14,394 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Aris 11,970 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Ethnikos Piraeus 9,833 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count AEL 7,454 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Iraklis 7,097 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Apollon Athens 5,750 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panionios 5,713 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panachaiki 5,522 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Egaleo 5,213 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count PAS Giannina 4,947 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count OFI 4,528 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Kavala 4,270 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Rodos 3,825 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panserraikos 2,446 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Kastoria 2,339 } References External links Official Greek FA Site Greek SuperLeague official Site SuperLeague Statistics Category:Alpha Ethniki seasons Greece 1