2015–16 Super League Greece Explained

Competition:Super League Greece
Season:2015–16
Dates:22 August 2015 – 17 April 2016
Winners:Olympiacos
43rd title
Relegated:Panthrakikos
AEL Kalloni
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Olympiacos
PAOK
Continentalcup2:Europa League
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Panathinaikos
AEK Athens
PAS Giannina
League Topscorer:Kostas Fortounis
(18 goals)
Biggest Home Win:
(17 April 2016)

(17 April 2016)
Biggest Away Win:
(3 October 2015)
Highest Scoring:
(5 December 2015)

(10 April 2016)

(17 April 2016)
Matches:240
Total Goals:543
Longest Wins:Olympiacos (17 games)
Longest Unbeaten:Olympiacos (21 games)
Longest Winless:AEL Kalloni (13 games)
Longest Losses:AEL Kalloni (8 games)
Highest Attendance:AEK Athens 1–0 Olympiacos
(13 February 2016) 31,121
Lowest Attendance:Levadiakos 1–1 Iraklis
(16 January 2016) 197
Attendance:1,042,228
Prevseason:2014–15
Nextseason:2016–17

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.[1] [2]

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 will 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.

Stadiums and locations

ClubLocationVenueCapacity
AEK Athens55MarousiAthens Olympic Stadium69,638
Asteras Tripolis9TripoliTheodoros Kolokotronis Stadium7,616
Atromitos15PeristeriPeristeri Stadium10,005
Iraklis52ThessalonikiKaftanzoglio Stadium27,000
AEL Kalloni3MytileneMytilene Municipal Stadium3,000
Levadiakos15LivadeiaLevadia Municipal Stadium6,500
Olympiacos57PiraeusKaraiskakis Stadium32,115
Panathinaikos57AmpelokipoiLeoforos Alexandras Stadium16,003
Panetolikos7AgrinioPanetolikos Stadium7,000
Panionios55Nea SmyrniNea Smyrni Stadium11,700
Panthrakikos6KomotiniKomotini Municipal Stadium6,200
PAOK57ThessalonikiToumba Stadium28,703
PAS Giannina21IoanninaZosimades Stadium7,652
Platanias4ChaniaPerivolia Municipal Stadium4,000
Skoda Xanthi27XanthiSkoda Xanthi Arena7,422
Veria16VeriaVeria Stadium6,500

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.

TeamHead coachCaptainKit manufacturerShirt sponsor
AEK Athens Stelios Manolas Petros MantalosNikePame Stoixima
AEL Kalloni Nikos Karageorgiou Giorgos ManousosAdidasNovibet
Asteras Tripolis Makis Chavos Dorin GoianNikeStoiximan.GR
Atromitos Traianos Dellas Luiz BritoSallerTzoker
Iraklis Nikos Papadopoulos Nikos PourtoulidisBlue LinePame Stoixima
Levadiakos Dimitris Farantos Thanasis MoulopoulosUmbroVanmax S.A.
Olympiacos Marco Silva David FusterAdidasStoiximan.GR
Panathinaikos ZecaPumaPame Stoixima
Panetolikos Giannis Matzourakis Georgios KousasJomaPame Stoixima
Panionios Marinos Ouzounidis Pavlos MitropoulosTempo SportTzoker
Panthrakikos Zoran Stoinović Antonis LadakisNikeStoiximan.GR
PAOK Vladimir Ivić Stefanos AthanasiadisMacronSportingbet
PAS Giannina Giannis Petrakis Alexios MichailNikeTzoker
Platanias Giorgos Paraschos Dimitris AlkisMacronStoiximan.GR
Skoda Xanthi Răzvan Lucescu Konstantinos FliskasJomaPame Stoixima
Veria Dimitris Eleftheropoulos Alexandros VergonisNikeStoiximan.GR

Managerial changes

TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointment
Panetolikos Makis ChavosEnd of contract30 June 2015Pre-season Leonel Pontes9 June 2015
Atromitos Nikos Nioplias Michalis Grigoriou14 June 2015
PAOK Georgios GeorgiadisEnd of tenure as caretaker Igor Tudor18 June 2015
Veria Dimitris Christoforidis Georgios Georgiadis18 June 2015
Olympiacos Vítor PereiraResigned Marco Silva7 July 2015
Panthrakikos José Manuel RocaSacked15 September 201516th Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos19 September 2015
Panetolikos Leonel Pontes28 September 20155th Giannis Dalakouras (caretaker)28 September 2015
Giannis Dalakouras (caretaker)End of tenure as caretaker7 October 201510th Giannis Matzourakis7 October 2015
AEK Athens Traianos DellasResigned20 October 20154th Stelios Manolas (caretaker)20 October 2015
Stelios Manolas (caretaker)End of tenure as caretaker28 October 20153rd Gus Poyet28 October 2015
Panathinaikos Giannis AnastasiouMutual consent2 November 20152nd Steve Rutter (caretaker)2 November 2015
AtromitosSacked3 November 201513th4 November 2015
Panathinaikos Steve Rutter (caretaker)End of tenure as caretaker8 November 20152nd8 November 2015
AEL Kalloni Thalis Theodoridis Sacked27 December 201516th27 December 2015
Veria Georgios Georgiadis18 January 201612th Nikos Karampimperis (caretaker)22 January 2016
Panthrakikos Dimitris Eleftheropoulos26 January 201615th Giannis Chatzinikolaou26 January 2016
Veria Nikos Karampimperis (caretaker)End of tenure as caretaker26 January 201613th Dimitris Eleftheropoulos26 January 2016
Asteras Tripolis Staikos VergetisResigned29 January 20165th Dimitris Terezopoulos (caretaker)29 January 2016
Dimitris Terezopoulos (caretaker)End of tenure as caretaker29 January 20166th Makis Chavos29 February 2016
PAOK Igor TudorSacked9 March 20164th Vladimir Ivić9 March 2016
Panthrakikos Giannis Chatzinikolaou16 March 201615th Zoran Stoinović17 March 2016
Levadiakos Akis Mantzios8 April 201611th Dimitris Farantos8 April 2016
AEK Athens Gus PoyetResigned9 April 20163rd Stelios Manolas (caretaker)10 April 2016

Regular season

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.[3]

Season statistics

Updated to games played 17 April 2016

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals[4]
1 Kostas FortounisOlympiacos18
2 Marcus BergPanathinaikos15
3 Apostolos GiannouAsteras Tripolis13
4 Stefanos AthanasiadisPAOK11
Anastasios BakasetasPanionios11
Apostolos VelliosIraklis11
Vangelis MantziosLevadiakos11
8 Brown IdeyeOlympiacos10
Michalis ManiasPAS Giannina10

Top assists

RankPlayerClubAssists[5]
1 Kostas FortounisOlympiacos13
2 Olivier BoumalePanionios / Panathinaikos9
3 Anastasios BakasetasPanionios6
Brown IdeyeOlympiacos6
Javier UmbidesAtromitos6
7 Rodrigo GaloAEK Athens5
Fanouris GoundoulakisPlatanias5
HernâniOlympiacos5
Brana IlićPAS Giannina5
Sebastián LetoPanathinaikos5
Dani NietoSkoda Xanthi5
Dimitrios PelkasPAOK5
Lucas VillafáñezPanetolikos / Panathinaikos5

Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards

MatchdayMVP[6] Best GoalRef
1st Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos) Rodrigo Galo (AEK Athens)[7]
2nd Marcos Vellidis (PAS Giannina) Amr Warda (Panetolikos)[8]
3rd Diego Buonanotte (AEK Athens)[9]
4th Garry Rodrigues (PAOK) Nikos Karelis (Panathinaikos)[10]
5th Vangelis Mantzios (Levadiakos) Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens)[11]
6th Roberto (Olympiacos) Pavlos Kyriakidis (Iraklis)[12]
7th Brown Ideye (Olympiacos) Luka Milunović (Platanias)[13]
8th Garry Rodrigues (PAOK) Christos Aravidis (AEK Athens)[14]
9th Diego Romano (Iraklis) Manolis Papasterianos (Xanthi)[15]
10th Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos) Thanasis Papageorgiou (Panthrakikos)[16]
11th Jakob Johansson (AEK Athens) Kenan Bargan (AEL Kalloni)[17]
12th Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis)[18]
13th Huanderson (Iraklis) Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis)[19]
14th Nikos Karelis (Panathinaikos) Olivier Boumale (Panionios)[20]
15th Panagiotis Tsintotas (Levadiakos) Rogério Martins (Panthrakikos)[21]
16th Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis) Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens)[22]
17th Giannis Anestis (AEK Athens) Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens)[23]
18th Sokratis Dioudis (Panionios) Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens)[24]
19th Michalis Manias (PAS Giannina) Michael Essien (Panathinaikos)[25]
20th Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)[26]
21st Luiz Brito (Atromitos) Fanouris Goundoulakis (Platanias)[27]
22nd Leozinho (Iraklis)[28]
23rd Gojko Cimirot (PAOK)[29]
24th Ronald Vargas (AEK Athens)[30]
25th Lucas Villafáñez (Panathinaikos) Thanasis Papageorgiou (Panthrakikos)[31]
26th Anastasios Bakasetas (Panionios)[32]
27th Hernâni (Olympiacos) Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)[33]
28th Anastasios Bakasetas (Panionios) Karim Ansarifard (Panionios)[34]
29th Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos) Tomáš Pekhart (AEK Athens)[35]
30th Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)[36]

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 30 January 2017.[37]

AwardWinnerClub
Greek Player of the Season Kostas FortounisOlympiacos
Foreign Player of the Season Marcus BergPanathinaikos
Young Player of the Season Charis CharisisPAOK
Goalkeeper of the Season Roberto JimenezOlympiacos
Golden Boot Kostas FortounisOlympiacos
Manager of the Season Marinos OuzounidisPanionios
Team of the Season
Goalkeeper 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

Average attendances counted officially without games played behind closed gates from Superleague.

External links

Notes and References

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  21. Web site: Παναγιώτης Τσιντώτας και Ροζέριο Μάρτινς τα βραβεία της 15ης αγωνιστικής. 23 December 2015. slgr.gr. Online. el.
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  28. Web site: Στον Σάλες Λεοζίνιο τα βραβεία της 22ης αγωνιστικής. 17 February 2016. slgr.gr. Online. el.
  29. Web site: Στον Γκόικο Τσίμιροτ τα βραβεία της 23ης αγωνιστικής. 24 February 2016. slgr.gr. Online. el.
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