1987–88 Alpha Ethniki

The 1987–88 Alpha Ethniki was the 52nd season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 6 September 1987 and ended on 15 May 1988. AEL won their first Greek title in its history. The season was notable as the only season where neither Panathinaikos or Olympiacos, by far the most successful and dominant clubs, finished in the top four.

Alpha Ethniki

Season	1987–88
Champions	AEL 1st Greek title
Relegated	Veria Panserraikos Panachaiki
European Cup	AEL
UEFA Cup	AEK Athens PAOK
Cup Winners' Cup	Panathinaikos
Matches played	240
Goals scored	602 (2.51 per match)
Top goalscorer	Henrik Nielsen (21 goals)
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The point system was: Win: 2 points - Draw: 1 point.

AEK Athens
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Apollon
Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Ethnikos
Olympiacos

Diagoras

AEL

Levadiakos

OFI

Panachaiki

Panserraikos

Veria

Location of teams in 1987–88 Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AEL (C)	30	18	7	5	51	22	+29	43	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	AEK Athens	30	15	10	5	51	31	+20	40	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	PAOK	30	17	5	8	60	27	+33	39
4	OFI	30	17	3	10	54	41	+13	37
5	Panathinaikos	30	15	6	9	47	34	+13	36	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
6	Iraklis	30	13	8	9	42	32	+10	34
7	Ethnikos Piraeus	30	12	8	10	27	28	−1	32
8	Olympiacos	30	9	13	8	39	41	−2	31
9	Aris	30	11	5	14	39	41	−2	27
10	Panionios	30	8	10	12	32	34	−2	26
11	Apollon Kalamarias	30	7	10	13	23	39	−16	24
12	Diagoras	30	7	9	14	25	38	−13	23
13	Levadiakos	30	7	9	14	32	46	−14	23
14	Veria (R)	30	7	9	14	24	53	−29	23	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
15	Panserraikos (R)	30	8	5	17	24	42	−18	21
16	Panachaiki[lower-alpha 1] (R)	30	7	7	16	32	53	−21	20

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Panachaiki were deducted 1 point.

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	AEL	APK	ARIS	DIA	ETH	IRA	LEV	OFI	OLY	PNC	PAO	PAN	PNS	PAOK	VER
AEK Athens		2–1	2–0	2–1	4–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	3–2	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	7–1
AEL	2–0		1–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	3–1	4–0	2–1	3–0	4–1	1–1	2–0
Apollon Kalamarias	2–2	0–1		0–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	5–0	0–1	2–0
Aris	4–1	0–0	1–1		4–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	3–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	2–0
Diagoras	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–3		0–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	4–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	0–3	1–0
Ethnikos Piraeus	0–3	0–0	1–1	3–1	4–2		1–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0
Iraklis	0–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–3	1–1		1–1	5–1	3–2	2–0	0–0	0–3	2–0	1–0	3–1
Levadiakos	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–2	0–1		1–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–3	4–2	3–1
OFI	3–0	3–1	4–0	4–0	2–1	2–0	3–2	1–0		1–2	5–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	4–1
Olympiacos	2–2	2–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	4–1	1–2	1–1	2–1		2–0	1–4	1–1	3–0	2–1	2–0
Panachaiki	2–1	1–3	3–0	2–0	2–2	0–1	3–3	1–1	3–0	1–1		1–2	2–1	0–2[lower-alpha 1]	0–2	2–2
Panathinaikos	1–1	4–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–5	1–1	2–0		6–2	1–0	2–1	4–0
Panionios	1–1	0–1	5–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	0–0	0–1		1–1	1–1	1–1
Panserraikos	0–1	0–0	3–0	1–0	0–2	1–3	1–2	1–0	0–1	2–2	0–1	1–0	2–0		0–1	0–0
PAOK	2–2	0–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	4–1	4–0	6–1	2–0	4–1	2–0	5–0		5–1
Veria	1–0	2–5	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Panachaiki-Panserraikos 4-2, awarded 0-2 because Panachaiki used Genas who was under yellow cards.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Henrik Nielsen	AEK Athens	21
2	Michalis Ziogas	AEL	16
	Thomas Mavros	Panionios
4	Vasilis Dimitriadis	Aris	12
	Dimos Kavouras	Levadiakos
6	Christos Dimopoulos	Panathinaikos	11
7	Sakis Anastasiadis	Iraklis	10
Sakis Moustakidis	Olympiacos
Ioannis Samaras	OFI
Stefanos Borbokis	PAOK

External links

• Official Greek FA Site
• RSSSF
• Greek SuperLeague official Site
• SuperLeague Statistics