2002–03 Alpha Ethniki

67th season of top-tier football league in Greece Alpha Ethniki 2002–03 24 August 2002 – 24 May 2003 Olympiacos32nd Greek title PanachaikiPAS Giannina Champions League OlympiacosPanathinaikosAEK Athens UEFA Cup PAOKPanioniosAris Nikos Liberopoulos(16 goals) 240 617 2001–02 2003–04 The 2002–03 Alpha Ethniki was the 67th season of the highest football league in Greece. The season began on 24 August 2002 and ended on 25 May 2003. Olympiacos won their seventh consecutive and 32nd Greek title. Olympiacos and Panathinaikos finished the League with the same points total but Olympiacos were crowned champions due to more favourable results between the two teams. It was a very dramatic end to the season, with the decisive game between the two clubs taking place in the penultimate round. The season was interrupted by strike action after television broadcaster Alpha Digital collapsed in September 2002, following which the players didn't play for a month.https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/018e-0f84488f4ae0-cdcca3476847-1000--greek-football-at-the-crossroads/ Greek football at the crossroads UEFA 7 February 2003 12 May 2013 Teams Promoted from2001–02 Beta Ethniki Relegated from2001–02 Alpha Ethniki PAS GianninaKallitheaProodeftiki Ethnikos Asteras Stadiums and personnel Greece 380 right Location of teams in 2002–03 Alpha Ethniki Greece 37.966667 23.716667 AEK AthensAkratitosEgaleoKallitheaPanathinaikosPanionios Greece 40.65 22.9 ArisIraklisPAOK Greece 37.95 23.633333 IonikosOlympiacosProodeftiki left Greece 35.333333 25.133333 OFI Greece 38.25 21.733333 Panachaiki left Greece 39.666667 20.85 PAS Giannina right Greece 41.133333 24.883333 Skoda Xanthi left Team Manager1 Location Stadium Capacity AEK Athens BIH Dušan Bajević Athens (Nea Filadelfeia) Nikos Goumas Stadium 27,729 Akratitos ROM Dumitru Dumitriu Athens (Ano Liosia) Giannis Pathiakakis Stadium 4,944 Aris GRE Georgios Firos Thessaloniki (Charilaou) Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium 22,800 Egaleo GRE Georgios Chatzaras Athens (Aigaleo) Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium 8,217 Ionikos POL Jacek Gmoch Piraeus (Nikaia) Neapoli Stadium 4,999 Iraklis NED Eugène Gerards Thessaloniki (Efkarpia) Makedonikos Stadium 8,100 Kallithea GRE Babis Tennes Athens (Kallithea) Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium 4,250 OFI CZE Zdeněk Ščasný Heraklion Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium 9,000 Olympiacos UKR Oleh Protasov Athens (Rizoupoli) Georgios Kamaras Stadium 14,856 Panachaiki GRE Dimitrios Genas Patras Kostas Davourlis Stadium 11,321 Panathinaikos URU Sergio Markarián Athens (Ampelokipoi) Leoforos Alexandras Stadium 16,620 Panionios SVK Jozef Bubenko Athens (Nea Smyrni) Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,756 PAOK GRE Angelos Anastasiadis Thessaloniki (Toumba) Toumba Stadium 28,703 PAS Giannina GRE Nikos Anastopoulos Ioannina Zosimades Stadium 7,652 Proodeftiki GRE Soulis Papadopoulos Piraeus (Nikaia) Nikaia Municipal Stadium 5,000 Skoda Xanthi GRE Nikos Karageorgiou Xanthi Xanthi Ground 9,500 1 On final match day of the season, played on 25 May 2003. League table main WDL League table 5 QR OLY Olympiacos PAO Panathinaikos AEK AEK Athens PAOK PAOK PGSS Panionios ARIS Aris IRA Iraklis OFI OFI XAN Skoda Xanthi EGA Egaleo PRO Proodeftiki AKR Akratitos KLT Kallithea ION Ionikos PNA Panachaiki PAS PAS Giannina 21 7 2 75 21 C 22 4 4 50 19 21 5 4 74 29 16 5 9 59 38 15 8 7 35 25 15 6 9 37 34 15 4 11 44 37 12 8 10 39 34 8 11 11 31 33 7 10 13 28 44 7 9 14 25 38 7 5 18 33 62 6 8 16 29 46 5 9 16 22 42 O 1 6 23 11 71 R 6 7 17 25 44 R -90 green1 Qualification for Champions League group stage CLGS CLGS green2 Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round CL3 blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round UC1 UC1 UC1 #CCCCFF Qualification for Intertoto Cup third round IC3 #CCCCFF Qualification for Intertoto Cup second round IC2 red2 Qualification for Relegation play-off RP red1 Relegation to Beta Ethniki R R complete Galanis Sports Data 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Goals against; 7) Play-offs (neutral ground); 8) Draw.(Note: Criterion 7 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions). Head-to-head points (goal difference): Olympiacos 3 (+2), Panathinaikos 3 (-2). OLY Head-to-head points (goal difference): PAOK 3 (+1), Panionios 3 (-1). PAOK Head-to-head points: Akratitos 4, Kallithea 1. AKR PAS Giannina were deducted 90 points (3 points per match) for having debts of €900,000 to former players. Results main FBR grey AEK AKR ARIS EGA ION IRA KLT OFI OLY PNA PAO PGSS PAOK PAS PRO XAN AEK Athens 6–2 4–0 3–2 3–0 6–1 1–0 3–1 1–1 6–0 1–0 4–2 3–4 3–1 4–1 3–2 Akratitos 3–2 0–2 0–1 1–0 0–2 3–3 1–1 2–5 3–0 1–3 0–3 1–3 3–0 2–1 0–1 Aris 1–1 4–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–3 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 1–1 Egaleo 1–1 3–1 3–0 0–0 0–2 0–0 0–4 0–2 4–0 0–0 0–0 2–3 2–1 1–0 0–0 Ionikos 0–3 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–4 1–1 1–1 0–2 3–0 0–1 1–2 4–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 Iraklis 0–2 1–0 4–0 2–1 3–2 2–1 3–0 2–2 1–1 0–3 3–1 1–1 3–0 1–0 2–0 Kallithea 1–3 0–2 0–2 2–1 0–1 1–0 2–0 1–4 3–1 1–3 1–1 1–2 2–2 1–1 0–1 OFI 1–0 2–0 1–2 2–2 2–1 3–1 2–1 0–1 3–0 0–2 1–1 2–3 1–0 2–0 2–0 Olympiacos 1–2 4–0 1–0 4–0 6–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 7–0 3–0 3–0 4–3 2–1 0–0 1–1 Panachaiki 0–2 2–0 0–1 0–2 0–0 0–2 1–2 0–2 1–4 0–3 0–2 2–2 0–2 1–1 0–2 Panathinaikos 2–1 3–1 3–2 3–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 5–1 3–2 2–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 Panionios 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–0 3–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 0–3 PAOK 0–1 1–1 2–0 4–0 3–0 0–1 2–3 2–0 1–1 4–0 4–1 3–0 1–0 4–1 1–0 PAS Giannina 0–2 1–0 0–1 1–1 2–3 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–3 3–0 0–0 1–2 3–2 2–1 1–1 Proodeftiki 1–1 5–1 3–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–3 1–0 0–2 0–1 0–3 1–0 1–1 Skoda Xanthi 0–1 1–2 0–2 5–0 0–0 1–0 3–0 1–4 1–5 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 3–3 1–0 complete Worldfootball.net Relegation play-off 1 June 2003 Ionikos 2–1 https://www.in.gr/2003/06/01/sports/paremeine-stin-a-ethniki-o-iwnikos-me-niki-2-1-epi-tis-kalamarias/ Apollon Kalamarias Rodrigues 47 78 Hartwig 77 Volos Municipal Stadium Volos 3,000 Giorgos Kasnaferis (Athens) Ionikos retained their spot in 2003–04 Alpha Ethniki. Apollon Kalamarias placed on 2003–04 Beta Ethniki Top scorers Source: Galanis Sports Data RankPlayerClubGoals1 GRE Nikos Liberopoulos Panathinaikos162 GRE Stelios Giannakopoulos Olympiacos153 GRE Georgios Georgiadis PAOK14 SCG Predrag Đorđević Olympiacos5 GAM Njogu Demba-Nyrén Aris12 GRE Vasilios Lakis AEK Athens GRE Demis Nikolaidis AEK Athens8 CYP 1960 Ioannis Okkas PAOK11 GRE Vasilios Tsiartas AEK Athens10 BRA Alessandro Soares OFI10 GRE Dimitris Nalitzis AEK Athens BRA Giovanni Olympiacos GRE Lampros Choutos Olympiacos Awards Annual awards Annual awards were announced on 10 November 2003.http://archive.sport.gr/news/031110/psap.asp Λάμψη αστέρων! sport.gr el 10 November 2003 7 July 2013 https://archive.today/20130702043131/http://archive.sport.gr/news/031110/psap.asp 2 July 2013 dead Award Winner Club Greek Player of the Season GRE Stelios Giannakopoulos Olympiacos Foreign Player of the Season SCG Predrag Đorđević Olympiacos Young Player of the Season GRE Vangelis Mantzios Panionios Goalkeeper of the Season GRE Antonios Nikopolidis Panathinaikos Golden Boot GRE Nikos Liberopoulos Panathinaikos Manager of the Season BIH Dušan Bajević AEK Athens Attendances Panathinaikos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2002–03 Alpha Ethniki.https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/grc/avegrc03.htm 2002–03 Alpha Ethniki european-football-statistics.co.uk { class"wikitable sortable" ! # !! 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Average attendance - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panathinaikos 8,093 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Olympiacos 8,078 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count PAOK 7,065 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count AEK Athens 5,178 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Aris 4,317 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panionios 2,976 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count PAS Giannina 2,336 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count OFI 2,218 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Iraklis 2,123 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Skoda Xanthi 1,880 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Kallithea 1,544 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Egaleo 1,301 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Proodeftiki 1,297 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Panachaiki 1,287 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Ionikos 1,159 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Akratitos 858 } References External links Greek Wikipedia Official Greek FA site Greek SuperLeague official site SuperLeague Statistics Category:Alpha Ethniki seasons Greece 1