2011–12 Cypriot First Division

The 2011–12 Cypriot First Division was the 73rd season of the Cypriot top-level football league. It began on 27 August 2011 and ended on 12 May 2012. APOEL were the defending champions. AEL Limassol won the championship one matchweek before the end of the season.

Laiki Bank League

Season	2011–12
Champions	AEL 6th title
Relegated	Aris Anagennisi Ermis
Champions League	AEL
Europa League	APOEL Omonia Anorthosis
Matches played	218
Goals scored	478 (2.19 per match)
Top goalscorer	Freddy (17 goals)
Biggest home win	AEK 6–0 Nea Salamis
Biggest away win	Ermis 1–5 Aris
Highest scoring	Nea Salamis 5–2 Anagennisi
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The league comprise eleven teams from the 2010–11 season and three promoted teams from the 2010–11 Second Division.

Teams

Doxa Katokopias and APOP Kinyras were relegated at the end of the first stage of the 2010–11 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were joined by AEP Paphos, who finished at the bottom of the second-phase Group C.

The relegated teams were replaced by 2010–11 Second Division champions Aris Limassol, runners-up Nea Salamis Famagusta and third-placed team Anagennisi Dherynia.

AEK
Alki
Anorthosis
Nea Salamis

AEL
Apollon
Aris

APOEL
Olympiakos
Omonia

Anagennisi
Enosis

Ermis

Ethnikos

Location of clubs in 2011–12 Cypriot First Division

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
AEK	Larnaca	Neo GSZ Stadium	13,032
AEL	Limassol	Tsirion Stadium	13,331
Alki	Larnaca	Neo GSZ Stadium	13,032
Anagennisi Dherynia	Dherynia	Tasos Marcou Stadium	5,800
Anorthosis	Larnaca	Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium	10,230
APOEL	Nicosia	GSP Stadium	22,859
Apollon	Limassol	Tsirion Stadium	13,331
Aris	Limassol	Tsirion Stadium	13,331
Enosis	Paralimni	Tasos Marcou Stadium	5,800
Ermis	Aradippou, Larnaca	Ammochostos Stadium	5,500
Ethnikos Achna	Achna, Famagusta	Dasaki Stadium	7,000
Nea Salamis	Larnaca	Ammochostos Stadium	5,500
Olympiakos	Nicosia	GSP Stadium	22,859
Omonia	Nicosia	GSP Stadium	22,859

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AEK	Leon Vlemmings	Gregoor van Dijk	Puma	Cytavision
AEL	Pambos Christodoulou	Marios Nicolaou	Puma	Cytavision
Alki	Radmilo Ivančević	Siniša Dobrašinović	Legea
Anagennisi	Adamos Adamou	Giorgos Giannakou	Legea	MetLife Alico
Anorthosis	Ronny Levy	Ioannis Okkas	Puma	Cytamobile-Vodafone
APOEL	Ivan Jovanović	Marinos Satsias	Puma	MTN
Apollon	Hagen Reeck	Giorgos Merkis	Lotto	Betfair
Aris	Dimitris Ioannou	Giorgos Vasiliou	Puma	Cytanet
Enosis	Marios Karas	Chrysis Michael	Puma	Cyta
Ermis	Nikos Andronikou	Andreas Papathanasiou	Legea	Cyta
Ethnikos	Nikos Papadopoulos	Christos Poyiatzis	Legea	Cyta
Nea Salamina	Stephen Constantine	Prodromos Therapontos	Givova	Cytamobile-Vodafone
Olympiacos	Niki Papavasiliou	Nikolas Nicolaou	Givova	Cyta
Omonia	Neophytos Larkou	Constantinos Makrides	Adidas	Cytamobile-Vodafone

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Olympiakos	Pambos Christodoulou	Resigned	20 March 2011[1]	Pre-season	Nikos Papadopoulos	14 May 2011[2]
Ermis	João Carlos Pereira	Sacked	4 May 2011[3]		Loukas Hadjiloukas	13 May 2011[4]
Alki	Itzhak Shum		10 May 2011[5]		Radmilo Ivančević	14 May 2011
AEL	Raymond Atteveld		14 May 2011[6]		Pambos Christodoulou	14 May 2011[7]
Apollon	Andreas Michaelides		23 May 2011[8]		Didier Ollé-Nicolle	10 July 2011[9]
Ermis	Loukas Hadjiloukas	Resigned	12 August 2011[10]		Panayiotis Xiourouppas	13 August 2011[11]
Anorthosis	Stanimir Stoilov	Sacked	25 September 2011[12]	6th	Ronny Levy	2 October 2011[13]
Ethnikos	Svetozar Šapurić		5 October 2011[14]	12th	Čedomir Janevski	10 October 2011[15]
Ermis	Panayiotis Xiourouppas		24 October 2011[16]	14th	Nikos Andronikou	24 October 2011[17]
Apollon	Didier Ollé-Nicolle		5 November 2011[18]	5th	Mihai Stoichiţă	14 November 2011[19]
AEK	Ton Caanen		20 November 2011[20]	6th	Leon Vlemmings	2 December 2011[21]
Olympiacos	Nikos Papadopoulos	Resigned	25 February 2012[22]	11th	Niki Papavasiliou	26 February 2012[23]
Ethnikos	Čedomir Janevski	Sacked	27 January 2012[24]		Niκos Papadopoulos	28 January 2012[25]
Apollon	Mihai Stoichiţă	Resigned	4 March 2012[26]	7th	Hagen Reeck (caretaker)	4 March 2012[27]
Aris	Dušan Mitošević	Sacked	26 March 2012[28]	12th	Dimitris Ioannou	26 March 2012[28]
Enosis	Nir Klinger		8 April 2012[29]		Marios Karas	8 April 2012[29]

First round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AEL Limassol	26	18	6	2	33	7	+26	60	Qualification for second round, Group A
2	Omonia Nicosia	26	17	6	3	47	16	+31	57
3	APOEL	26	17	5	4	39	13	+26	56
4	Anorthosis Famagusta	26	15	7	4	30	12	+18	52
5	AEK Larnaca	26	11	9	6	33	21	+12	42	Qualification for second round, Group B
6	Nea Salamis Famagusta	26	10	6	10	33	41	−8	36
7	Apollon Limassol	26	10	4	12	31	39	−8	34[a]
8	Alki Larnaca	26	10	4	12	32	40	−8	34[a]
9	Olympiakos Nicosia	26	7	9	10	29	34	−5	30	Qualification for second round, Group C
10	Enosis Neon Paralimni	26	8	5	13	17	24	−7	29[b]
11	Ethnikos Achna	26	7	8	11	21	23	−2	29[b]
12	Aris Limassol	26	7	6	13	27	35	−8	27
13	Anagennisi Deryneia (R)	26	2	5	19	16	45	−29	11	Relegation to Cypriot Second Division
14	Ermis Aradippou (R)	26	1	4	21	12	50	−38	7

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head away goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
(R) Relegated
Notes:

1. APOL 5–1 ALK; ALK 2–1 APOL
2. ENP 0–0 ETH; ETH 1–1 ENP

Home \ Away	AEK	AEL	ALK	AND	ANO	APOE	APOL	ARI	ENP	ERM	ETH	NSL	OLY	OMO
AEK Larnaca		0–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	6–0	1–1	2–1
AEL Limassol	2–0		1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	3–2	0–3
Alki Larnaca	2–2	1–2		4–0	1–3	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	0–1	4–2	0–3
Anagennisi Deryneia	0–3	0–1	1–2		0–2	1–2	4–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–1
Anorthosis Famagusta	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–0		2–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–1
APOEL	3–0	0–1	3–1	2–0	0–0		2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–0
Apollon Limassol	0–3	0–3	5–1	1–0	1–1	0–2		1–2	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–2	2–0	2–5
Aris Limassol	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–0		1–0	3–0	1–4	2–3	2–3	1–1
Enosis Neon Paralimni	1–0	0–4	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	2–0		1–0	0–0	0–2	0–1	1–1
Ermis Aradippou	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–4	0–2	1–5	0–1		0–0	2–2	1–3	0–2
Ethnikos Achna	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–3	0–1	4–0	1–1	2–1		1–0	0–1	0–1
Nea Salamis Famagusta	1–1	0–3	0–1	5–2	0–3	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0		1–1	1–4
Olympiakos Nicosia	1–1	0–0	2–3	0–0	1–2	1–4	0–0	0–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	2–3		0–2
Omonia Nicosia	2–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	0–1	1–3	2–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–0

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

Second round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AEL Limassol (C)	32	20	8	4	37	10	+27	68	Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2	APOEL	32	20	6	6	46	19	+27	66[a]	Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round
3	Omonia	32	20	6	6	56	23	+33	66[a]	Qualification for Europa League third qualifying round[b]
4	Anorthosis Famagusta	32	17	8	7	36	22	+14	59	Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round[b]

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
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.
(C) Champions
Notes:

1. APOE: 7pts; OMO: 4pts
2. The 2011–12 Cypriot Cup winners, Omonia, qualified for the third qualifying round of UEFA Europa League. Since they finished third, the fourth-placed team of the league also qualified for the Europa League.

Home \ Away	AEL	ANO	APOE	OMO
AEL Limassol		1–0	0–0	2–0
Anorthosis Famagusta	1–1		1–2	0–4
APOEL	1–0	1–2		1–2
Omonia Nicosia	1–0	1–2	1–2

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

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
5	AEK Larnaca	32	13	10	9	40	27	+13	49
6	Apollon Limassol	32	12	7	13	36	43	−7	43[a]
7	Nea Salamis Famagusta	32	11	10	11	39	47	−8	43[a]
8	Alki Larnaca	32	12	6	14	35	45	−10	42

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
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. APOL: 8pts; NSL: 2pts

Home \ Away	AEK	ALK	APOL	NSL
AEK Larnaca		3–1	0–1	1–2
Alki Larnaca	0–2		1–0	1–0
Apollon Limassol	1–0	0–0		1–1
Nea Salamis Famagusta	1–1	0–0	2–2

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

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
9	Ethnikos Achna	32	10	10	12	31	30	+1	40
10	Olympiakos Nicosia	32	10	9	13	36	44	−8	39
11	Enosis Neon Paralimni	32	11	5	16	26	29	−3	38
12	Aris Limassol (R)	32	8	8	16	32	44	−12	32	Relegation to Cypriot Second Division

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
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.
(R) Relegated

Home \ Away	ARI	ENP	ETH	OLY
Aris Limassol		0–2	2–2	1–0
Enosis Neon Paralimni	1–0		1–2	5–0
Ethnikos Achna	1–1	2–0		2–1
Olympiakos Nicosia	3–1	1–0	2–1

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

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Source: Cyprus Football Association

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Freddy	Omonia	17
2	Esteban Solari	APOEL	10
3	Arnal Llibert	Alki	9
	Patrick Vouho	AEL
5	Gonzalo García	AEK	8
	Chris Dickson	Nea Salamina/AEL
7	Miljan Mrdaković	AEK	7
	Constantinos Charalambides	APOEL
	Gelson	Aris
10	Mustapha Bangura	Apollon	6
	Georgios Efrem	Omonia
	Christos Chatzipantelidis	Nea Salamina
	Jan Rezek	Anorthosis
	Hristijan Kirovski	Apollon
	Emmanuel Kenmogne	Olympiakos

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Ivan Tričkovski	APOEL	AEK	3–0	19 December 2011
Patrick Vouho	AEL	Enosis	0–4	7 January 2012
Emmanuel Kenmogne	Olympiakos	Ermis	3–1	24 March 2012
José Semedo 5	Enosis	Olympiakos	5–0	12 May 2012

• ⁵ Player scored 5 goals.

Scoring

• First goal of the season: 10th minute – Edmar for AEL against Nea Salamina (19:10, 28 August 2011)^[30]
• Fastest goal of the season: 37 seconds – Mato Šimunović (Anagennisi) against Apollon (11 September 2011)
• Latest goal of the season: 97 minutes and 34 seconds – Christos Karipidis (Omonia) against Ethnikos (4 March 2012)
• First own goal of the season: Bojan Markovski (Enosis) for Anorthosis (17 September 2011)
• First scored penalty kick of the season: Hristijan Kirovski (Apollon) against Anagennisi Dherynia (11 September 2011)
• Most scored goals in a single fixture – 23 goals (Fixture 20)
  • Fixture 20 results: AEK 2–1 Omonia, Anorthosis 0–1 AEL, APOEL 2–1 Ethnikos, Apollon 3–2 Nea Salamina, Anagennisi 1–2 Alki, Ermis 1–5 Aris, Olympiakos 2–0 Enosis.

Discipline

• First yellow card of the season: Danny Invincible for Ermis against Apollon, 7 minutes (28 August 2011)^[31]
• First red card of the season: Solomon Grimes for Nea Salamina against AEL, 90 minutes and 44 seconds (28 August 2011)
• Most yellow cards in a single match: 10
  • Anorthosis 2–2 Aris – 4 for Anorthosis (Marquinhos, Jurgen Colin, Igor Tomašić and Evandro Roncatto) and 6 for Aris (Andreas Theofanous, Andrés Imperiale, Christos Charalampous, Carl Lombé, Claudiu Ionescu and Zoltán Kovács) (19 September 2011)^[32]

Sources

• "2011/12 Cypriot First Division". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2016.