1970–71 Alpha Ethniki

The 1970–71 Alpha Ethniki was the 35th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 20 September 1970 and ended on 13 June 1971. AEK Athens won their fifth Greek title and their first one in three years.

Alpha Ethniki

Season	1970–71
Champions	AEK Athens 5th Greek title
Relegated	Panserraikos Proodeftiki OFI EPA Larnaca
European Cup	AEK Athens
UEFA Cup	Panionios
Cup Winners' Cup	Olympiacos
Matches played	306
Goals scored	690 (2.25 per match)
Top goalscorer	Georgios Dedes (28 goals)
← 1969–70 1971–72 →

The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.

AEK Athens
Apollon
Egaleo
Fostiras
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Ethnikos
Olympiacos
Proodeftiki

Kavala

OFI

Panserraikos

Pierikos

Veria

EPA Larnaca

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AEK Athens (C)	34	23	8	3	67	18	+49	88	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Panionios	34	21	7	6	61	34	+27	83	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Panathinaikos	34	19	10	5	62	26	+36	82
4	Egaleo	34	15	11	8	31	24	+7	75
5	Iraklis	34	13	15	6	40	30	+10	75
6	Apollon Athens	34	12	13	9	30	27	+3	71
7	Olympiacos	34	13	11	10	44	24	+20	71	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
8	PAOK	34	12	10	12	38	32	+6	68
9	Ethnikos Piraeus	34	10	14	10	45	37	+8	68
10	Aris	34	10	13	11	45	39	+6	67
11	Kavala	34	10	11	13	25	35	−10	65
12	Fostiras	34	8	14	12	31	47	−16	64
13	Veria	34	9	12	13	28	47	−19	64
14	Pierikos	34	8	14	12	31	43	−12	64
15	Panserraikos (R)	34	9	10	15	32	38	−6	62	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
16	Proodeftiki (R)	34	5	14	15	29	52	−23	58
17	OFI (R)	34	5	11	18	28	61	−33	55
18	EPA Larnaca[lower-alpha 1] (R)	34	3	4	27	23	76	−53	43	Moving to Cypriot First Division

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. EPA Larnaca were deducted 1 point.

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	APA	ARIS	EGA	EPA	ETH	FOS	IRA	KAV	OFI	OLY	PAO	PAN	PNS	PAOK	PIE	PRO	VER
AEK Athens		2–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	4–0	4–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	6–0	8–2
Apollon Athens	2–1		2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–0
Aris	1–1	3–0		2–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–0
Egaleo	0–2	0–2	2–1		0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0
EPA Larnaca	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–1		0–6	0–2[lower-alpha 1]	0–1	2–0	1–3	1–2	1–6	1–3	0–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	0–2
Ethnikos Piraeus	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0		0–0	1–1	2–1	6–0	0–2	2–2	1–3	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–1
Fostiras	0–2	2–1	2–2	0–0	3–1	1–1		1–4	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–4	1–2	1–0	1–0	4–2	1–2	1–0
Iraklis	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	3–0		0–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–4	1–0	3–1	1–1
Kavala	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–1		2–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–0
OFI	1–1	2–2	2–2	0–2	3–1	0–0	2–2	1–2	1–0		0–0	2–2	0–2	1–3	2–2	3–2	0–0	1–2
Olympiacos	2–0	0–1	4–1	2–2	3–1	0–1	4–0	1–1	3–0	1–0		0–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	4–0	1–2	5–0
Panathinaikos	2–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	5–1	3–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–0	2–2		2–2	2–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0
Panionios	2–2	2–1	2–1	1–2	4–1	0–3	2–0	1–0	3–1	4–0	1–1	2–1		4–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–0
Panserraikos	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	2–1	0–2	1–0		0–1	4–0	1–0	4–0
PAOK	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	3–2	3–1	1–1		1–2	6–3	0–0
Pierikos	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	0–0		2–2	0–0
Proodeftiki	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	2–2	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–0		1–1
Veria	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–1

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

1. EPA Larnaca-Fostiras 0-2 awarded.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Georgios Dedes	Panionios	28
2	Mimis Papaioannou	AEK Athens	27
3	Mimis Domazos	Panathinaikos	20
4	Nikos Gioutsos	Olympiacos	15
	Kostas Nikolaidis	AEK Athens
6	Alekos Alexiadis	Aris	14
	Antonis Antoniadis	Panathinaikos
8	Pamboullis Papadopoulos	Olympiacos	12
	Dimitris Remoundos	Fostiras

External links

• Results at RSSSF
• Table at the official Greek FA Site