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.
Teams
Promoted from2008–09 Beta Ethniki Relegated from2008–09 Super League Greece AtromitosPAS GianninaKavala OFIPanserraikosThrasyvoulos
Other changes Due to Greece having ascended in the UEFA league coefficient rankings, 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.
Stadiums and locations
ClubLocationVenueCapacity2008–09AEK Athens Athens Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638 3rd AEL Larissa Alcazar Stadium 13,108 5th Aris Thessaloniki Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium 22,800 6th Asteras Tripolis Tripoli Asteras Tripolis Stadium 6,430 12th Atromitos Athens Peristeri Stadium 8,939 1st (BE) Ergotelis Heraklion Pankritio Stadium 26,240 9th Iraklis Thessaloniki Kaftanzoglio Stadium 27,560 10th Kavala Kavala Anthi Karagianni Stadium 12,500 3rd (BE) Levadiakos Livadeia Levadia Municipal Stadium 5,915 13rd Olympiacos Piraeus Karaiskakis Stadium 33,334 1st Panathinaikos Athens Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638 2nd Panionios Athens Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,700 8th Panthrakikos Komotini Komotini Municipal Stadium 6,500 11th PAOK Thessaloniki Toumba Stadium 28,703 4th PAS Giannina Ioannina Zosimades Stadium 7,652 2nd (BE) Skoda Xanthi Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Arena 7,361 7th
Personnel and kits Team Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor AEK Athens Dušan Bajević Pantelis Kafes Puma Diners Club AEL Marinos Ouzounidis Nikos Dabizas Adidas On Telecoms Aris Héctor Cúper Sergio Koke Reebok EKO Asteras Tripolis Mario Gómez Nikolaos Lazaridis Lotto OPAP Atromitos Georgios Donis Chrysostomos Michailidis Asics OPAP Ergotelis Nikos Karageorgiou Silva Júnior Lotto OPAP Iraklis Jozef Bubenko Anastasios Katsabis Puma Attica Bank Kavala Aad de Mos Siniša Dobrašinović Puma OPAP Levadiakos Quique Hernández Georgios Zisopoulos Puma OPAP Olympiacos Božidar Bandović Antonios Nikopolidis Puma Citibank Panathinaikos Nikos Nioplias Giorgos Karagounis Adidas Cosmote Panionios Akis Mantzios Giannis Maniatis Diadora WIND Panthrakikos Pavlos Dermitzakis Nikolaos Bacharidis Umbro OPAP PAOK Fernando Santos Sérgio Conceição Puma DEPA PAS Giannina Nikos Anastopoulos Georgios Dasios Umbro Zagori Skoda Xanthi Ioannis Matzourakis Giannis Papadimitriou Hummel Emporiki Bank
Managerial changes
Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment Panthrakikos Ilie Dumitrescu Sacked 27 August 2009 Albert Cartier 27 August 2009 Olympiacos Temuri Ketsbaia 14 September 2009 Zico 16 September 2009 Skoda Xanthi Wolfgang Wolf Mutual consent 15 September 2009 Ioannis Matzourakis 21 September 2009http://www.e-soccer.gr/index.php/eidiseis/ellada/superleague/xanthi/9786-2009-09-21-20-43-37 Levadiakos Momčilo Vukotić 23 September 2009 Quique Hernández 30 September 2009 Asteras Tripolis Mario Gómez 25 October 2009 Vangelis Vlachos 25 October 2009 Iraklis Oleh Protasov 30 October 2009 Savvas Kofidis 30 October 2009 Aris Mazinho 2 November 2009 Héctor Cúper 6 November 2009 Kavala Giannis Papakostas 14 November 2009 Vangelis Goutis 15 November 2009 PAS Giannina Georgios Paraschos 7 December 2009 Nikos Anastopoulos 13 January 2010 Panathinaikos Henk ten Cate Sacked 8 December 2009 Nikos Nioplias 8 December 2009 Panthrakikos Albert Cartier Mutual consent 11 January 2010 Pavlos Dermitzakis 12 January 2010 Iraklis Savvas Kofidis Sacked 24 January 2010 Jozef Bubenko 25 January 2010 Panionios Emilio Ferrera Mutual consent 25 January 2010 Akis Mantzios 29 January 2010 Olympiacos Zico Sacked 19 January 2010 Božidar Bandović 19 January 2010 Kavala Vangelis Goutis Mutual consent 25 January 2010 Aad De Mos 28 January 2010 Panionios Akis MantziosSacked 3 February 2010 Georgios Paraschos 3 February 2010 Skoda Xanthi Ioannis Matzourakis 22 February 2010 Nikos Kehagias 23 February 2010 AEL Marinos Ouzounidis Mutual Consent 22 February 2010 Giannis Papakostas 22 February 2010
Regular season
League table
Results
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)
Top scorers Source: Galanis Sports Data
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Djibril Cissé Panathinaikos232 Giorgos Barkoglou Levadiakos11 Victoraș Iacob Iraklis Javier Cámpora Aris5 Benjamin Onwuachi Kavala10 Danijel Cesarec Asteras Tripolis7 Kostas Mitroglou Olympiacos98 Ilias Anastasakos Atromitos8 Emanuel Perrone Atromitos Boško Balaban Panionios Ismael Blanco AEK Athens Ignacio Scocco AEK Athens Kostas Katsouranis Panathinaikos
Awards
MVP and Best Goal Awards
Matchday MVP Best Goal Ref 1st Vasilis Torosidis (Olympiacos) 2nd Krisztián Németh (AEK Athens) Enzo Maresca (Olympiacos) 3rd Sebastián Leto (Panathinaikos) Georgios Fotakis (PAOK) 4th Vasilis Torosidis (Olympiacos) Vieirinha (PAOK) 5th Wilson Oruma (Kavala) Sebastián Abreu (Aris) 6th Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos (PAS Giannina) Kostas Katsouranis (Panathinaikos) 7th Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) Benjamin Onwuachi (Kavala) 8th Kostas Katsouranis (Panathinaikos) 9th Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos) Stefanos Siontis (Kavala) 10th Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis) Boško Balaban (Panionios) 11th Apostolos Giannou (Kavala) Bertrand Robert (Panthrakikos) 12th Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) Luiz Brito (Atromitos) 13th Toni Calvo (Aris) Kostas Katsouranis (Panathinaikos) 14th Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos) Lucas Favalli (Atromitos) 15th Giannis Taralidis (Levadiakos) Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos) 16th Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) Stelios Iliadis (Iraklis) 17th Emanuel Perrone (Atromitos) Toni Calvo (Aris) 18th Michalis Sifakis (Aris) Giorgos Karagounis (Panathinaikos) 19th Vladan Ivić (PAOK) Dimitrios Giantsis (Iraklis) 20th Mirnes Šišić (PAS Giannina) Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) 21st Ismael Blanco (AEK Athens) Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos) 22nd Diogo Rincón (Kavala) Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) 23rd Benjamin Onwuachi (Kavala) Pablo García (PAOK) 24th Vieirinha (PAOK) Mehdi Nafti (Aris) 25th Georgios Tzavellas (Panionios) Serge Dié (Iraklis) 26th Javier Cámpora (Aris) Giorgos Karagounis (Panathinaikos) 27th Grigoris Papazacharias (Iraklis) Dimitrios Souanis (Skoda Xanthi) 28th Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos) Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) 29th Loukas Vyntra (Panathinaikos) Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos) 30th Zlatan Muslimović (PAOK) Giannis Karalis (Atromitos)
Annual awards Annual awards were announced on 20 December 2010.
Award Winner Club Greek Player of the Season Vasilis Torosidis Olympiacos Foreign Player of the Season Djibril Cissé Panathinaikos Young Player of the Season Sotiris Ninis Panathinaikos Goalkeeper of the Season Michalis Sifakis Aris Golden Boot Djibril Cissé Panathinaikos Manager of the Season Fernando Santos PAOK
Attendances
Panathinaikos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2009–10 edition of the Super League Greece.
References
External links Official website 2009–10 Super League Greece at Soccerway.com