The 2005–06 Alpha Ethniki was the 70th season of the highest football league of Greece and the last season under the name Alpha Ethniki, before then was renamed to Super League Greece. The season began on 27 August 2005 and ended on 13 May 2006. Olympiacos won their second consecutive and 34th Greek title. However, the season was somewhat overshadowed by the suspension of the Greek FA by UEFA, which jeopardized the European places of the Champions League, UEFA Cup, and Intertoto Cup qualifiers from Greece, as well as the use of Athens Olympic Stadium as the site of the 2006–07 Champions League final.
Teams
Promoted from2004–05 Beta Ethniki Relegated from2004–05 Alpha Ethniki AELLevadiakosAkratitos ArisErgotelisKerkyra
Stadiums and personnel
Team Manager1 Location Stadium Capacity AEK Athens Fernando Santos Athens Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638 AEL Georgios Donis Larissa Alcazar Stadium 13,108 Akratitos Vangelis Goutis Athens Giannis Pathiakakis Stadium 4,944 Apollon Kalamarias Makis Katsavakis Thessaloniki Kalamaria Stadium 6,500 Atromitos Georgios Paraschos Athens Peristeri Stadium 9,035 Egaleo Georgios Chatzaras Athens Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium 8,217 Ionikos Sakis Tsiolis Piraeus Neapoli Stadium 4,999 Iraklis Savvas Kofidis Thessaloniki Kaftanzoglio Stadium 27,560 Kallithea Ilie Dumitrescu Athens Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium 4,250 Levadiakos Takis Lemonis Livadeia Levadia Municipal Stadium 5,915 OFI Myron Sifakis Heraklion Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium 9,000 Olympiacos Trond Sollied Piraeus Karaiskakis Stadium 33,334 Panathinaikos Alberto Malesani Athens Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638 Panionios Jozef Bubenko Athens Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,756 PAOK Georgios Kostikos Thessaloniki Toumba Stadium 28,703 Skoda Xanthi Ioannis Matzourakis Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Arena 7,442
1 On final match day of the season, played on 13 May 2006.
League table
Results
Top scorers Source: Galanis Sports Data
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Dimitris Salpingidis PAOK172 Luciano de Souza Panionios15 Predrag Đorđević Olympiacos4 Nikos Liberopoulos AEK Athens14 Theofanis Gekas Panathinaikos6 Joël Epalle Iraklis137 Oliver Makor Ionikos10 Dimitrios Papadopoulos Panathinaikos Michalis Konstantinou Olympiacos10 Cleyton Apollon Kalamarias9
Awards
Annual awards Annual awards were announced on 11 December 2006.
Award Winner Club Greek Player of the Season Ieroklis Stoltidis Nikos Liberopoulos OlympiacosAEK Athens Foreign Player of the Season Rivaldo Olympiacos Young Player of the Season Panagiotis Lagos Iraklis Goalkeeper of the Season Antonios Nikopolidis Olympiacos Golden Boot Dimitris Salpingidis PAOK Manager of the Season Savvas Kofidis Iraklis
Attendances
Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2005–06 Alpha Ethniki.
References
External links Official Greek FA Site Greek SuperLeague official Site