The 2003–04 Alpha Ethniki was the 68th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 23 August 2003 and ended on 22 May 2004. Panathinaikos won their 19th Greek title and their first one in eight years.
Teams
Promoted from2002–03 Beta Ethniki Relegated from2002–03 Alpha Ethniki ChalkidonaPaniliakos PanachaikiPAS Giannina
Stadiums and personnel
Team Manager1 Location Stadium Capacity AEK Athens Dušan Bajević Athens Various2 — Akratitos Babis Tennes Athens Giannis Pathiakakis Stadium 4,944 Aris Makis Katsavakis Thessaloniki Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium 22,800 Chalkidona Georgios Paraschos Athens Peristeri Stadium 9,035 Egaleo Georgios Chatzaras Athens Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium 8,217 Ionikos Vangelis Vlachos Piraeus Neapoli Stadium 4,999 Iraklis Eugène Gerards Thessaloniki Makedonikos Stadium 8,100 Kallithea Takis Lemonis Athens Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium 4,250 OFI Giorgos Foiros Heraklion Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium 9,000 Olympiacos Oleh Protasov Athens Georgios Kamaras Stadium 14,856 Panathinaikos Itzhak Shum Athens Leoforos Alexandras Stadium 16,620 Paniliakos Sakis Tsiolis Pyrgos Pyrgos Stadium 6,750 Panionios Jozef Bubenko Athens Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,756 PAOK Angelos Anastasiadis Thessaloniki Toumba Stadium 28,703 Proodeftiki Soulis Papadopoulos Piraeus Nikaia Municipal Stadium 5,000 Skoda Xanthi Nikos Karageorgiou Xanthi Xanthi Ground 9,500
1 On final match day of the season, played on 22 May 2004. 2 AEK Athens were played the home matches at the various stadiums in Attica due to the demolition of Nikos Goumas Stadium and the renovation of Athens Olympic Stadium.
League table
Results
Relegation play-off Played at a neutral venue between the 14th-place team in the Alpha Ethniki and the 3rd-place team in the Beta Ethniki.
Ergotelis were promoted to 2004–05 Alpha Ethniki. Akratitos were relegated to 2004–05 Beta Ethniki.
Top scorers Source: Galanis Sports Data
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Giovanni Olympiacos212 Dimitrios Papadopoulos Panathinaikos173 Dimitris Salpingidis PAOK164 Giorgos Zacharopoulos Chalkidona13 Theofanis Gekas Kallithea6 Nikos Liberopoulos AEK Athens12 Nikos Skarmoutsos Kallithea8 Nikos Machlas OFI11 Vasilios Lakis AEK Athens Predrag Đorđević Olympiacos
Awards
Annual awards Annual awards were announced on 9 November 2004.
Award Winner Club Greek Player of the Season Dimitrios Papadopoulos Panathinaikos Foreign Player of the Season Giovanni Markus Münch OlympiacosPanathinaikos Young Player of the Season Alexandros Tziolis Panionios Goalkeeper of the Season Antonios Nikopolidis Panathinaikos Golden Boot Giovanni Olympiacos Manager of the Season Angelos Anastasiadis PAOK
Attendances
Panathinaikos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2003–04 Alpha Ethniki.
References
External links Greek SuperLeague official Site SuperLeague Statistics