Competition: | Super League Greece |
Season: | 2008–09 |
Winners: | Olympiacos 37th Greek title |
Relegated: | OFI Panserraikos Thrasyvoulos |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Olympiacos Panathinaikos |
Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | AEK Athens (via domestic cup) PAOK AEL |
League Topscorer: | Ismael Blanco Luciano Galletti (14 goals each) |
Biggest Home Win: | Olympiacos 5–0 Iraklis |
Biggest Away Win: | Panserraikos 1–5 AEK Athens |
Highest Scoring: | AEL 4–3 OFI OFI 4–3 Panthrakikos Asteras Tripolis 3–4 Panionios Ergotelis 2–5 Panionios |
Matches: | 252 |
Total Goals: | 519 |
Prevseason: | 2007–08 |
Nextseason: | 2009–10 |
The 2008–09 Super League Greece was the 73rd season of the highest football league of Greece and the third under the name Super League. The season began on 31 August 2008 and ended on 26 April 2009. The league consisted of 16 teams. Participants were the 13 best teams from the 2007–08 season and three teams who have been promoted from Beta Ethniki. Olympiacos successfully defended their title after claiming their 37th title overall with three rounds remaining.
Teams promoted from 2007–08 Beta Ethniki:
Teams relegated to 2008–09 Beta Ethniki:
The play-offs for an additional Champions League spot were conducted in a home and away round robin format. Its participants have entered the mini-league with a number of bonus points based on their regular season record. Every team had the number of points earned by the fifth-placed team subtracted from its own number of points. The result was then divided through five and rounded to the nearest whole number to determine the number of bonus points.
The teams started the play-offs with the following number of points:
The play-off winners entered the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Since AEK Athens have lost the final of the 2008–09 Greek Cup to Champions League-bound Olympiacos, all three Greek Europa League spots (two via league, one via domestic cup) were allotted according to the position of the respective teams in the play-off.
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | Ismael Blanco | AEK Athens | 14 |
Luciano Galletti | Olympiacos | ||
3 | Dimitris Salpingidis | Panathinaikos | 10 |
4 | Leonardo | Levadiakos | 9 |
Maciej Żurawski | AEL | ||
6 | Danijel Cesarec | Asteras Tripolis | 8 |
Patrick Ogunsoto | Ergotelis | ||
Zdravko Popović | OFI | ||
Rafik Djebbour | AEK Athens | ||
10 | Ibrahima Bakayoko | PAOK | 7 |
Edinho | AEK Athens | ||
Fabián Estoyanoff | Panionios | ||
Lucio Filomeno | Asteras Tripolis | ||
Bennard Kumordzi | Panionios | ||
Zlatan Muslimović | PAOK | ||
Dame N'Doye | OFI |
Position | Player | Club | Index | |
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1 | Luciano Galletti | Olympiacos | 0.250 | |
2 | Dudu Cearense | Olympiacos | 0.242 | |
3 | Fernando Belluschi | Olympiacos | 0.217 | |
4 | Fabián Estoyanoff | Panionios | 0.215 | |
5 | Vladimir Ivić | PAOK | 0.201 | |
6 | Diego Romano | Ergotelis | 0.197 | |
7 | Dimitris Salpingidis | Panathinaikos | 0.196 | |
8 | Leonardo | Levadiakos | 0.192 | |
9 | Serge Dié | Iraklis | 0.188 | |
10 | Dame N'Doye | OFI | 0.183 |
Source: galanissportsdata.com
Matchday | MVP | Best Goal | Ref | |
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6th | Jozef Kožlej (Thrasyvoulos) | Anderson Gonzaga (Panionios) | [1] | |
7th | Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos) | Javito (Aris) | [2] | |
8th | Gabriel (Panathinaikos) | Rafik Djebbour (AEK Athens) | [3] | |
9th | Sérgio Conceição (PAOK) | Patrick Ogunsoto (Ergotelis) | [4] | |
10th | Denis Epstein (Iraklis) | Koke (Aris) | [5] | |
11th | Fernando Belluschi (Olympiacos) | Dudu Cearense (Olympiacos) | [6] | |
12th | Srđan Blažić (Levadiakos) | Fanouris Goundoulakis (Panionios) | [7] | |
13th | Gilberto Silva (Panathinaikos) | Dimitrios Souanis (Skoda Xanthi) | [8] | |
14th | Giorgos Karagounis (Panathinaikos) | Edinho (AEK Athens) | [9] | |
15th | Fabián Estoyanoff (Panionios) | Sebastián Leto (Olympiacos) | [10] | |
16th | Achilleas Angelopoulos (Panthrakikos) | Zlatan Muslimović (PAOK) | [11] | |
17th | Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos) | Luciano Galletti (Olympiacos) | [12] | |
18th | Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos) | Zdravko Popović (OFI) | [13] | |
19th | Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) | [14] | ||
20th | Antonis Nikopolidis (Olympiacos) | Luciano Galletti (Olympiacos) | [15] | |
21st | Loukas Vyntra (Panathinaikos) | Manolis Papasterianos (Iraklis) | [16] | |
22nd | Anastasios Papazoglou (Panserraikos) | Panagiotis Tachtsidis (AEK Athens) | [17] | |
23rd | Spyros Vrontaras (Panthrakikos) | Vasilios Koutsianikoulis (Ergotelis) | [18] | |
24th | Ibrahima Bakayoko (PAOK) | Edinho (AEK Athens) | [19] | |
25th | Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (Panathinaikos) | Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos) | [20] | |
26th | Fernando Belluschi (Olympiacos) | Victor Agali (Skoda Xanthi) | [21] | |
27th | Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) | Stelios Sfakianakis (OFI) | [22] | |
28th | Georgios Georgiadis (Panserraikos) | Sérgio Conceição (PAOK) | [23] | |
29th | Neto (Aris) | Vladimir Ivić (PAOK) | [24] | |
30th | Tümer Metin (AEL) | Xenofon Gittas (Panthrakikos) | [25] |
Annual awards were announced on 9 November 2009.[26]
Award | Winner | Club | |
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Greek Player of the Season | Dimitris Salpingidis | Panathinaikos | |
Foreign Player of the Season | Luciano Galletti | Olympiacos | |
Young Player of the Season | Vasilios Koutsianikoulis | Ergotelis | |
Goalkeeper of the Season | Antonis Nikopolidis | Olympiacos | |
Golden Boot | Luciano Galletti Ismael Blanco | Olympiacos AEK Athens | |
Manager of the Season | Fernando Santos | PAOK |