The 2015–16 Super League Greece was the 80th season of the highest tier in league of Greek football and the tenth under its current title. The season started on 22 August 2015 and ended in May 2016. The league comprised fourteen teams from the 2014–15 season and two promoted from the 2014–15 Football League. Olympiacos won their sixth consecutive title and 43rd overall, making a record collection of points (85 out of 90) in a championship of 30 games.
Teams Four teams were relegated from the 2014–15 season. Kerkyra and Ergotelis play in Football League for the 2015–16 season. Niki Volos and OFI would play in Gamma Ethniki.
Two teams were promoted from the 2014–15 Football League, champions AEK Athens and Iraklis, two teams with a long history in the top championship of Greece.
Promoted from2014–15 Football League Relegated from2014–15 Super League Greece AEK AthensIraklis ErgotelisOFINiki VolosKerkyra
Stadiums and locations
ClubLocationVenueCapacity2014–15AEK Athens Athens Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638 1st (FL)AEL Kalloni Mytilene Mytilene Municipal Stadium 3,000 10thAsteras Tripolis Tripoli Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium 7,616 4thAtromitos Athens Peristeri Stadium 10,005 5thIraklis Thessaloniki Kaftanzoglio Stadium 27,560 2nd (FL)Levadiakos Livadeia Levadia Municipal Stadium 6,500 14thOlympiacos Piraeus Karaiskakis Stadium 32,115 1stPanathinaikos Athens Leoforos Alexandras Stadium 16,003 2ndPanetolikos Agrinio Panetolikos Stadium 7,000 7thPanionios Athens Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,700 12thPanthrakikos Komotini Komotini Municipal Stadium 6,200 11thPAOK Thessaloniki Toumba Stadium 28,703 3rdPAS Giannina Ioannina Zosimades Stadium 7,652 6thPlatanias Chania Perivolia Municipal Stadium 4,000 9thSkoda Xanthi Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Arena 7,422 8thVeria Veria Veria Stadium 6,500 13th
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been 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 Athens Stelios Manolas Petros Mantalos Nike Pame Stoixima AEL Kalloni Nikos Karageorgiou Giorgos Manousos Adidas Novibet Asteras Tripolis Makis Chavos Dorin Goian Nike Stoiximan.GR Atromitos Traianos Dellas Luiz Brito Saller Tzoker Iraklis Nikos Papadopoulos Nikos Pourtoulidis Blue Line Pame Stoixima Levadiakos Dimitris Farantos Thanasis Moulopoulos Umbro Vanmax S.A. Olympiacos Marco Silva David Fuster Adidas Stoiximan.GR Panathinaikos Andrea Stramaccioni Zeca Puma Pame Stoixima Panetolikos Giannis Matzourakis Georgios Kousas Joma Pame Stoixima Panionios Marinos Ouzounidis Pavlos Mitropoulos Tempo Sport Tzoker Panthrakikos Zoran Stoinović Antonis Ladakis Nike Stoiximan.GR PAOK Vladimir Ivić Stefanos Athanasiadis Macron Sportingbet PAS Giannina Giannis Petrakis Alexios Michail Nike Tzoker Platanias Giorgos Paraschos Dimitris Alkis Macron Stoiximan.GR Skoda Xanthi Răzvan Lucescu Konstantinos Fliskas Joma Pame Stoixima Veria Dimitris Eleftheropoulos Alexandros Vergonis Nike Stoiximan.GR
Managerial changes TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointment Panetolikos Makis Chavos End of contract 30 June 2015Pre-season Leonel Pontes 9 June 2015 Atromitos Nikos Nioplias Michalis Grigoriou 14 June 2015 PAOK Georgios Georgiadis End of tenure as caretaker Igor Tudor 18 June 2015 Veria Dimitris Christoforidis Georgios Georgiadis 18 June 2015 Olympiacos Vítor Pereira Resigned Marco Silva 7 July 2015 Panthrakikos José Manuel Roca Sacked 15 September 2015 16th Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos 19 September 2015 Panetolikos Leonel Pontes 28 September 2015 5th Giannis Dalakouras (caretaker) 28 September 2015 Giannis Dalakouras (caretaker) End of tenure as caretaker 7 October 2015 10th Giannis Matzourakis 7 October 2015 AEK Athens Traianos Dellas Resigned 20 October 2015 4th Stelios Manolas (caretaker) 20 October 2015 Stelios Manolas (caretaker) End of tenure as caretaker 28 October 2015 3rd Gus Poyet 28 October 2015 Panathinaikos Giannis Anastasiou Mutual consent 2 November 2015 2nd Steve Rutter (caretaker) 2 November 2015 Atromitos Michalis Grigoriou Sacked 3 November 2015 13th Traianos Dellas 4 November 2015 Panathinaikos Steve Rutter (caretaker) End of tenure as caretaker 8 November 2015 2nd Andrea Stramaccioni 8 November 2015 AEL Kalloni Thalis Theodoridis Sacked 27 December 2015 16th Nikos Karageorgiou 27 December 2015 Veria Georgios Georgiadis 18 January 2016 12th Nikos Karampimperis (caretaker) 22 January 2016 Panthrakikos Dimitris Eleftheropoulos 26 January 2016 15th Giannis Chatzinikolaou 26 January 2016 Veria Nikos Karampimperis (caretaker) End of tenure as caretaker 26 January 2016 13th Dimitris Eleftheropoulos 26 January 2016 Asteras Tripolis Staikos Vergetis Resigned 29 January 2016 5th Dimitris Terezopoulos (caretaker) 29 January 2016 Dimitris Terezopoulos (caretaker) End of tenure as caretaker 29 January 2016 6th Makis Chavos 29 February 2016 PAOK Igor Tudor Sacked 9 March 2016 4th Vladimir Ivić 9 March 2016 Panthrakikos Giannis Chatzinikolaou 16 March 2016 15th Zoran Stoinović 17 March 2016 Levadiakos Akis Mantzios 8 April 2016 11th Dimitris Farantos 8 April 2016AEK Athens Gus PoyetResigned9 April 20163rd Stelios Manolas (caretaker)10 April 2016
Regular season
League table
Results
Positions by round The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.
Play-offs In the play-off for Champions League, the four qualified 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 in fifth in the Super League will start the play-off with 0 points. Its end-of-season tally of points is then used to calculate the number of points with which the other teams will start the play-offs: more specifically, each of the three other teams participating in the play-offs will have the fifth-placed team's total points tally subtracted from their own points tally and then divided by five – giving the final figure.
Season statistics Updated to games played 17 April 2016
Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 Kostas Fortounis Olympiacos182 Marcus Berg Panathinaikos153 Apostolos Giannou Asteras Tripolis134 Stefanos Athanasiadis PAOK11 Anastasios Bakasetas Panionios11 Apostolos Vellios Iraklis11 Vangelis Mantzios Levadiakos118 Brown Ideye Olympiacos10 Michalis Manias PAS Giannina10
Top assists RankPlayerClubAssists1 Kostas Fortounis Olympiacos132 Olivier Boumale Panionios / Panathinaikos93 Anastasios Bakasetas Panionios6 Brown Ideye Olympiacos6 Javier Umbides Atromitos67 Rodrigo Galo AEK Athens5 Fanouris Goundoulakis Platanias5 Hernâni Olympiacos5 Brana Ilić PAS Giannina5 Sebastián Leto Panathinaikos5 Dani Nieto Skoda Xanthi5 Dimitrios Pelkas PAOK5 Lucas Villafáñez Panetolikos / Panathinaikos5
Awards
MVP and Best Goal Awards
Matchday MVP Best Goal Ref 1st Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos) Rodrigo Galo (AEK Athens) 2nd Marcos Vellidis (PAS Giannina) Amr Warda (Panetolikos) 3rd Diego Buonanotte (AEK Athens) 4th Garry Rodrigues (PAOK) Nikos Karelis (Panathinaikos) 5th Vangelis Mantzios (Levadiakos) Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens) 6th Roberto (Olympiacos) Pavlos Kyriakidis (Iraklis) 7th Brown Ideye (Olympiacos) Luka Milunović (Platanias) 8th Garry Rodrigues (PAOK) Christos Aravidis (AEK Athens) 9th Diego Romano (Iraklis) Manolis Papasterianos (Xanthi) 10th Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos) Thanasis Papageorgiou (Panthrakikos) 11th Jakob Johansson (AEK Athens) Kenan Bargan (AEL Kalloni) 12th Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis) 13th Huanderson (Iraklis) Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis) 14th Nikos Karelis (Panathinaikos) Olivier Boumale (Panionios) 15th Panagiotis Tsintotas (Levadiakos) Rogério Martins (Panthrakikos) 16th Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis) Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens) 17th Giannis Anestis (AEK Athens) Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens) 18th Sokratis Dioudis (Panionios) Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens) 19th Michalis Manias (PAS Giannina) Michael Essien (Panathinaikos) 20th Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos) 21st Luiz Brito (Atromitos) Fanouris Goundoulakis (Platanias) 22nd Leozinho (Iraklis) 23rd Gojko Cimirot (PAOK) 24th Ronald Vargas (AEK Athens) 25th Lucas Villafáñez (Panathinaikos) Thanasis Papageorgiou (Panthrakikos) 26th Anastasios Bakasetas (Panionios) 27th Hernâni (Olympiacos) Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos) 28th Anastasios Bakasetas (Panionios) Karim Ansarifard (Panionios) 29th Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos) Tomáš Pekhart (AEK Athens) 30th Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)
Annual awards Annual awards were announced on 30 January 2017.
Award Winner Club Greek Player of the Season Kostas Fortounis Olympiacos Foreign Player of the Season Marcus Berg Panathinaikos Young Player of the Season Charis Charisis PAOK Goalkeeper of the Season Roberto Jimenez Olympiacos Golden Boot Kostas Fortounis Olympiacos Manager of the Season Marinos Ouzounidis Panionios Team of the SeasonGoalkeeper Roberto (Olympiacos)Defence Rodrigo Galo (AEK Athens) Rodrigo Moledo (Panathinaikos) Georgios Tzavellas (PAOK) Arthur Masuaku (Olympiacos)Midfield Garry Rodrigues (PAOK) Zeca (Panathinaikos) Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos) Manolis Siopis (Panionios) Anastasios Bakasetas (Panionios)Attack Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)
Attendances Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2015–16 edition of the Super League Greece.
References
External links Official website