The 2009–10 Super League Greece was the 74th season of the highest football league of Greece and the fourth under the name Super League. The league consisted of 16 teams. Participants are the 13 best teams from the 2008–09 season and three teams that have been promoted from the Beta Ethniki. On 11 April 2010, Panathinaikos defeated Iraklis 2–0 to secure their 20th Greek title and their first one in six years.[1]

Quick Facts Season, Champions ...
Super League Greece
Season2009–10
ChampionsPanathinaikos
20th title
RelegatedLevadiakos
PAS Giannina
Panthrakikos
Champions LeaguePanathinaikos
PAOK
Europa LeagueAEK Athens
Aris
Olympiacos
Matches played252
Goals scored587 (2.33 per match)
Top goalscorerDjibril Cissé
(23 goals)
Biggest home winOlympiacos 5–1 Levadiakos
Ergotelis 4–0 Panthrakikos
Panathinaikos 4–0 AEL
Panathinaikos 4–0 PAS Giannina
Biggest away winAsteras Tripolis 0–4 Iraklis
Highest scoringSkoda Xanthi 4–3 Iraklis
Ergotelis 4–3 Asteras Tripolis
Longest unbeaten runPAOK (12 matches)
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Changes from 2008–09

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from 2008–09 Beta Ethniki:

Teams relegated to 2009–10 Beta Ethniki:

Other changes

Due to Greece having ascended in the UEFA league coefficient rankings,[2] the 2009–10 champions will enter 2010–11 UEFA Champions League at the group stage instead of the third qualifying round. Every other European spot remains unchanged, meaning that the winner of the European play-off group will reach the third qualifying round of the Champions League while the runners-up and third-placed team of this group will enter 2010–11 UEFA Europa League.

Team overview

Stadia and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

More information Team, Outgoing manager ...
Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment
Panthrakikos Romania Ilie Dumitrescu Sacked 27 August 2009 France Albert Cartier 27 August 2009
Olympiacos Georgia (country) Temuri Ketsbaia 14 September 2009[3] Brazil Zico 16 September 2009[4]
Skoda Xanthi Germany Wolfgang Wolf Mutual consent 15 September 2009 Greece Ioannis Matzourakis 21 September 2009[5]
Levadiakos Serbia Momčilo Vukotić 23 September 2009 Spain Quique Hernández 30 September 2009[6]
Asteras Tripolis Argentina Mario Gómez 25 October 2009[7] Greece Vangelis Vlachos 25 October 2009
Iraklis Ukraine Oleh Protasov 30 October 2009[8] Greece Savvas Kofidis 30 October 2009[9]
Aris Brazil Mazinho 2 November 2009[10] Argentina Héctor Cúper 6 November 2009[11]
Kavala Greece Giannis Papakostas 14 November 2009 Greece Vangelis Goutis 15 November 2009
PAS Giannina Greece Georgios Paraschos 7 December 2009 Greece Nikos Anastopoulos 13 January 2010
Panathinaikos Netherlands Henk ten Cate Sacked 8 December 2009[12] Greece Nikos Nioplias 8 December 2009[13]
Panthrakikos France Albert Cartier Mutual consent 11 January 2010 Greece Pavlos Dermitzakis 12 January 2010
Iraklis Greece Savvas Kofidis Sacked 24 January 2010[14] Slovakia Jozef Bubenko 25 January 2010[14]
Panionios Belgium Emilio Ferrera Mutual consent 25 January 2010[15] Greece Akis Mantzios 29 January 2010[16]
Olympiacos Brazil Zico Sacked 19 January 2010[17] Montenegro Božidar Bandović 19 January 2010[17]
Kavala Greece Vangelis Goutis Mutual consent 25 January 2010 Netherlands Aad De Mos 28 January 2010
Panionios Greece Akis Mantzios Sacked 3 February 2010 Greece Georgios Paraschos 3 February 2010
Skoda Xanthi Greece Ioannis Matzourakis 22 February 2010 Greece Nikos Kehagias 23 February 2010
AEL Greece Marinos Ouzounidis Mutual Consent 22 February 2010 Greece Giannis Papakostas 22 February 2010
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Regular season

League table

More information Pos, Team ...
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Panathinaikos (C) 30 22 4 4 54 17 +37 70 Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2 Olympiacos 30 19 7 4 47 18 +29 64 Qualification for the Play-offs
3 PAOK 30 19 5 6 41 16 +25 62
4 AEK Athens 30 15 8 7 43 31 +12 53
5 Aris 30 12 10 8 35 28 +7 46
6 Kavala 30 10 9 11 31 32 1 39
7 Atromitos 30 10 8 12 34 36 2 38
8 AEL 30 10 7 13 31 42 11 37[lower-alpha 1]
9 Panionios 30 9 10 11 34 35 1 37[lower-alpha 1]
10 Iraklis 30 10 7 13 39 41 2 37[lower-alpha 1]
11 Ergotelis 30 9 9 12 37 41 4 36[lower-alpha 2]
12 Asteras Tripolis 30 10 6 14 29 36 7 36[lower-alpha 2]
13 Skoda Xanthi 30 10 5 15 27 36 9 35
14 Levadiakos (R) 30 9 7 14 31 44 13 34 Relegation to the Football League
15 PAS Giannina (R) 30 7 7 16 27 46 19 28
16 Panthrakikos (R) 30 3 3 24 21 62 41 12
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Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Play-offs (neutral ground).
(Note: Criterion 4 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Head-to-head points: Larissa 7, Panionios 5, Iraklis 4.
  2. Head-to-head points: Ergotelis 6, Asteras Tripolis 0.

Results

More information Home \ Away, AEK ...
Home \ Away AEK AEL ARIS AST ATR ERG IRA KAV LEV OLY PAO PGSS PNT PAOK PAS XAN
AEK Athens 3–1 1–0 2–0 3–3 1–0 1–0 3–0 3–2 1–2 0–1 1–1 3–2 1–0 3–1 3–1
AEL 1–0 2–2 1–0 2–2 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–2 0–2 0–3 2–2 0–2 2–1 0–0 2–0
Aris 1–1 2–0 0–1 1–0 2–1 4–2 0–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–2 2–0 1–0 1–0
Asteras Tripolis 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–2 2–4 0–4 1–0 2–1 1–3 0–1 2–0 3–1 1–1 3–0 0–0
Atromitos 0–1 2–1 0–3 0–0 0–0 2–1 2–0 3–0 0–1 0–3 1–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 1–0
Ergotelis 2–2 0–0 0–0 4–3 1–1 1–3 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–3 0–0 4–0 0–2 3–1 1–0
Iraklis 1–1 2–1 2–2 1–0 2–2 0–2 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–2 3–1 1–1 2–0 2–4
Kavala 2–1 3–3 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–3 1–0 2–2 0–0 2–2 1–1 3–0 0–0 1–0 2–1
Levadiakos 0–0 3–0 0–2 1–0 1–1 2–2 1–0 0–1 0–3 0–2 1–0 2–0 0–2 4–1 2–1
Olympiacos 1–2 2–1 2–1 3–0 2–0 2–1 1–1 0–0 5–1 2–0 1–0 3–0 0–1 2–2 0–0
Panathinaikos 1–1 4–0 2–1 1–1 3–1 4–1 2–0 0–2 3–0 0–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 4–0 1–0
Panionios 3–1 0–3 1–1 1–3 2–1 1–1 0–0 1–2 2–2 0–1 0–2 3–1 0–0 3–1 3–0
Panthrakikos 1–2 1–3 1–1 0–0 0–3 3–2 1–2 1–3 0–2 0–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–1
PAOK 0–1 1–0 4–1 1–0 1–0 4–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 1–2 2–1 1–0 3–0 2–0 1–0
PAS Giannina 1–1 2–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–3 2–1 1–1 2–2 0–1 2–3 2–0 0–1 0–0
Skoda Xanthi 1–0 0–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 4–3 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–0 0–3 1–1
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Source: Super League Greece
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

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 0 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 0 points. The fifth placed 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 five 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:

  • Olympiacos – 4 points ((64–46) / 5 = 3.6, rounded up to 4)
  • PAOK – 3 points ((62–46) / 5 = 3.2, rounded to 3)
  • AEK Athens – 1 point ((53–46) / 5 = 1.4, rounded to 1)
  • Aris – 0 points ((46–46) / 5 = 0)

More information Pos, Team ...
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PAOK AEK ARIS OLY
2 PAOK 6 4 1 1 7 3 +4 16 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round 1–0 2–0 1–0
3 AEK Athens 6 2 2 2 8 7 +1 9 Qualification for the Europa League play-off round[lower-alpha 1] 0–0 4–2 2–1
4 Aris 6 2 2 2 8 9 1 8[lower-alpha 2] Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round[lower-alpha 1] 3–2 1–1 2–0
5 Olympiacos 6 1 1 4 3 7 4 8[lower-alpha 2] Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[lower-alpha 1] 0–1 2–1 0–0
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Source: Superleague Greece: Standings and Schedule
Rules for classification: 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.
Notes:
  1. Since Aris lost the 2009–10 Greek Football Cup Final against Champions League-qualified Panathinaikos, all Europa League spots will be determined by the play-off group positions.
  2. Head-to-head record: Aris–Olympiacos 2–0, Olympiacos–Aris 0–0.

Top scorers

Source: Galanis Sports Data

More information Rank, Player ...
Rank Player Club Goals
1 France Djibril Cissé Panathinaikos 23
2 Greece Giorgos Barkoglou Levadiakos 11
Romania Victoraș Iacob Iraklis
Argentina Javier Cámpora Aris
5 Nigeria Benjamin Onwuachi Kavala 10
Croatia Danijel Cesarec Asteras Tripolis
7 Greece Kostas Mitroglou Olympiacos 9
8 Greece Ilias Anastasakos Atromitos 8
Argentina Emanuel Perrone Atromitos
Croatia Boško Balaban Panionios
Argentina Ismael Blanco AEK Athens
Argentina Ignacio Scocco AEK Athens
Greece Kostas Katsouranis Panathinaikos
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Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards

More information Matchday, MVP ...
Matchday MVP Best Goal Ref
1st Greece Vasilis Torosidis (Olympiacos) [18]
2nd Hungary Krisztián Németh (AEK Athens) Italy Enzo Maresca (Olympiacos) [19]
3rd Argentina Sebastián Leto (Panathinaikos) Greece Georgios Fotakis (PAOK) [20]
4th Greece Vasilis Torosidis (Olympiacos) Portugal Vieirinha (PAOK) [21]
5th Nigeria Wilson Oruma (Kavala) Uruguay Sebastián Abreu (Aris) [22]
6th Greece Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos (PAS Giannina) Greece Kostas Katsouranis (Panathinaikos) [23]
7th Argentina Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) Nigeria Benjamin Onwuachi (Kavala) [24]
8th Greece Kostas Katsouranis (Panathinaikos) [25]
9th France Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos) Greece Stefanos Siontis (Kavala) [26]
10th Greece Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis) Croatia Boško Balaban (Panionios) [27]
11th Greece Apostolos Giannou (Kavala) France Bertrand Robert (Panthrakikos) [28]
12th Argentina Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) Brazil Luiz Brito (Atromitos) [29]
13th Spain Toni Calvo (Aris) Greece Kostas Katsouranis (Panathinaikos) [30]
14th Greece Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos) Argentina Lucas Favalli (Atromitos) [31]
15th Greece Giannis Taralidis (Levadiakos) France Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos) [32]
16th Argentina Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) Greece Stelios Iliadis (Iraklis) [33]
17th Argentina Emanuel Perrone (Atromitos) Spain Toni Calvo (Aris) [34]
18th Greece Michalis Sifakis (Aris) Greece Giorgos Karagounis (Panathinaikos) [35]
19th Serbia Vladan Ivić (PAOK) Greece Dimitrios Giantsis (Iraklis) [36]
20th Slovenia Mirnes Šišić (PAS Giannina) Argentina Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) [37]
21st Argentina Ismael Blanco (AEK Athens) France Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos) [38]
22nd Brazil Diogo Rincón (Kavala) Argentina Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) [39]
23rd Nigeria Benjamin Onwuachi (Kavala) Uruguay Pablo García (PAOK) [40]
24th Portugal Vieirinha (PAOK) Tunisia Mehdi Nafti (Aris) [41]
25th Greece Georgios Tzavellas (Panionios) Ivory Coast Serge Dié (Iraklis) [42]
26th Argentina Javier Cámpora (Aris) Greece Giorgos Karagounis (Panathinaikos) [43]
27th Greece Grigoris Papazacharias (Iraklis) Greece Dimitrios Souanis (Skoda Xanthi) [44]
28th Greece Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos) Argentina Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) [45]
29th Greece Loukas Vyntra (Panathinaikos) Greece Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos) [46]
30th Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatan Muslimović (PAOK) Greece Giannis Karalis (Atromitos) [47]
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Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 20 December 2010.[48]

More information Award, Winner ...
Award Winner Club
Greek Player of the Season Greece Vasilis Torosidis Olympiacos
Foreign Player of the Season France Djibril Cissé Panathinaikos
Young Player of the Season Greece Sotiris Ninis Panathinaikos
Goalkeeper of the Season Greece Michalis Sifakis Aris
Golden Boot France Djibril Cissé Panathinaikos
Manager of the Season Portugal Fernando Santos PAOK
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References

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