1938–39 Panhellenic Championship

The 1938–39 Panhellenic Championship was the tenth season of the highest football league of Greece. 14 teams participated, for the first time so many and for the first time from the province. It was held in two groups, South Group with 8 and North Group with 6 teams, which qualified from the championships of the local associations.

Panhellenic Championship

Season	1938–39
Champions	AEK Athens 1st Greek title
Relegated	none
Matches played	2
Goals scored	10 (5 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kostas Vasiliou (3 goals)
Biggest home win	AEK Athens 3–1 Iraklis
Biggest away win	Iraklis 2–4 AEK Athens
Highest scoring	Iraklis 2–4 AEK Athens
Longest winning run	AEK Athens (2 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	AEK Athens (2 matches)
Longest winless run	Iraklis (2 matches)
Longest losing run	Iraklis (2 matches)
Highest attendance	7,000
Lowest attendance	4,000
← 1937–38 1939–40 →

The South Group comprised club of Athens' and Piraeus' associations and resulted as follows:

• Athenian Championship: The first 5 teams of the ranking.
• Piraeus' Championship: The first 3 teams of the ranking.

The North Group consisted of clubs from Macedonian and East Macedonian associations and resulted as follows:

• Macedonian Championship: The first 3 teams of the ranking.
• East Macedonian Championship: The first 3 teams of the ranking.

It was the first time that teams outside Central Greece and Thessaloniki participated in the national championship. The champions of the two groups, AEK Athens (due to a better goal ratio than Olympiacos) and Iraklis, competed in a 2-legged final for the title of champion. AEK Athens won the championship,^[1] who were qualified for the national championship as the runner-up of Αthenian championship, with their then rising star, Kleanthis Maropoulos.

Since 26 matchdays were required to complete the championship, it was decided that the clubs from the same region that were qualified for the national championship would not face each other again, but the results from their local championships would apply instead. From this period, the HFF established a point system of 3-2-1 in all competitions, so that there was the ability of zeroing any team that refused to take part in a match. That system would eventually be applied until the 1972–73 season.

Qualification round

Athens Football Clubs Association

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAO	AEK	APOL	AST	ATR	DAF
1	Panathinaikos (Q)	10	8	1	1	40	8	+32	27	South Group			0–2	4–1	6–2	7–0	2–1
2	AEK Athens (Q)	10	7	1	2	31	13	+18	25			2–2		1–2	3–1	8–3	2–0
3	Apollon Athens (Q)	10	6	1	3	28	16	+12	23			0–3	3–2		0–0	4–0	8–1
4	Asteras Athens (Q)	10	4	2	4	18	18	0	20			0–1	1–4	3–2		2–0	6–0
5	Atromitos (Q)	10	1	1	8	10	47	−37	13			0–10	1–6	1–5	1–2		2–1
6	Daphni Metaxourgeio	10	0	2	8	7	32	−25	12			0–5	0–1	1–3	1–1	2–2

Source: rsssf
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Piraeus Football Clubs Association

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ETH	OLY	ARIS	THE
1	Ethnikos Piraeus (Q)	6	5	1	0	22	6	+16	17	South Group			4–2	3–2	6–0
2	Olympiacos (Q)	6	4	1	1	26	9	+17	15			2–2		5–2	6–0
3	Aris Piraeus (Q)	6	2	0	4	9	17	−8	10			1–4	0–3		2–1
4	Theseas Piraeus	6	0	0	6	3	28	−25	6			1–7	0–4	1–2

Source: rsssf
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Macedonia Football Clubs Association

Pos	Team	Pld	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iraklis (Q)	10	28	10	+18	27	North Group
2	Aris (Q)	10	35	10	+25	26
3	PAOK (Q)	10	28	13	+15	23
4	Makedonikos	10	16	18	-2	18
5	MENT	10	16	28	-12	16
6	Aetos Papafi	10	8	52	-44	10

Semi-final round

South Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification		AEK	OLY	ETH	PAO	APOL	AST	ARIS	ATR
1	AEK Athens (Q)	14	10	1	3	54	22	2.455	35	Finals			2–1	4–2	2–2[a]	1–2[a]	3–1[a]	6–0	8–3[a]
2	Olympiacos	14	10	1	3	38	17	2.235	35			5–1		2–2[b]	2–1	2–3	1–0	5–2[b]	3–0
3	Ethnikos Piraeus	14	8	2	4	31	23	1.348	32			1–3	4–2[b]		1–0	1–2	3–1	3–2[b]	4–1
4	Panathinaikos	14	8	2	4	40	16	2.500	32			0–2[a]	0–3	2–2		4–1[a]	6–2[a]	2–1	7–0[a]
5	Apollon Athens	14	8	1	5	35	23	1.522	31			3–2[a]	0–3	1–2	0–3[a]		0–0[a]	3–0	4–0[a]
6	Asteras Athens	14	6	1	7	21	26	0.808	27			1–4[a]	1–3	2–0	0–1[a]	3–2[a]		2–1	2–0[a]
7	Aris Piraeus	14	1	0	13	11	54	0.204	16			0–10	1–4	0–3[b]	0–2	1–9	1–4
8	Atromitos[c]	14	1	0	13	10	58	0.172	14			1–6[a]	0–2	1–3	0–10[a]	1–5[a]	1–2[a]

Source: rsssf
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:

1. AFCA match.
2. PFCA match.
3. Atromitos has −2 points.

North Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iraklis (Q)	10	8	1	1	22	7	+15	27	Finals
2	Aris	10	8	0	2	30	10	+20	26
3	PAOK	10	5	0	5	30	21	+9	20
4	AEK Kavala	10				11	18	-7	18
5	Doxa Drama	10				10	26	-16	15
6	Fillipoi Kavala	10				10	31	-21	14

Home \ Away	IRA	ARIS	PAOK	AEK	DOX	FIL
Iraklis		3–2	2–0			4–0
Aris	0–1		2–0	2–0	4–2	7–1
PAOK	4–1	1–5		6–0		1–2
AEK Kavala		1–3	0–1
Doxa Drama	0–2	0–4	2–1
Fillipoi Kavala		1–2

Source: rsssf
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Finals

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEK Athens	7–3	Iraklis	3–1	4–2

Matches

AEK Athens	3–1	Iraklis
Tzanetis 1' Maropoulos 55' Vasiliou 66'	Report	Frenelis 26'

4 June 1939

16:30 EET

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Ampelokipoi

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Iliadis (Thessaloniki)

Iraklis	2–4	AEK Athens
Kitsos 13' (pen.) Frenelis 89'	Report	Maropoulos 26' Vasiliou 45', 81' Christodoulou 54'

11 June 1939

17:15 EET

Iraklis Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Ch. Papadopoulos (Thessaloniki)

AEK Athens won 7–3 on aggregate.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Kostas Vasiliou	AEK Athens	3
2	Kleanthis Maropoulos	AEK Athens	2
	Frenelis	Iraklis
4	Tryfon Tzanetis	AEK Athens	1
	Nikos Kitsos	Iraklis
	Kostas Christodoulou	AEK Athens