2016–17 Super League Greece Explained

Competition:	Super League Greece
Season:	2016–17
Dates:	10 September 2016 – 30 April 2017
Winners:	Olympiacos 44th title
Relegated:	Iraklis Veria
Continentalcup1:	Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:	Olympiacos AEK Athens
Continentalcup2:	Europa League
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:	PAOK Panathinaikos Panionios
League Topscorer:	Marcus Berg (22 goals)
Biggest Home Win:	AEK Athens 6–0 Veria (5 February 2017)
Biggest Away Win:	Kerkyra 0–5 PAOK (17 December 2016) Asteras Tripolis 0–5 Panathinaikos (18 February 2017)
Highest Scoring:	Olympiacos 6–1 Veria (11 September 2016) PAOK 3–4 Atromitos (28 November 2016) Veria 4–3 Asteras Tripolis (23 April 2017)
Matches:	240
Total Goals:	556
Highest Attendance:	31,283 Olympiacos 3–0 Panathinaikos (6 November 2016)
Lowest Attendance:	245 Veria 0–4 Xanthi (17 December 2016)
Attendance:	1,006,530
Prevseason:	2015–16
Nextseason:	2017–18

The 2016–17 Super League Greece was the 81st season of the highest tier in league of Greek football and the eleventh under its current title. The season started on 10 September 2016 and ended in June 2017. The league comprised fourteen teams from the 2015–16 season and two promoted from the 2015–16 Football League.

Teams

Two teams were relegated from the 2015–16 season. Panthrakikos and AEL Kalloni will play in Football League for the 2016–17 season.

Two teams were promoted from the 2015–16 Football League, champions AEL and Kerkyra.

Stadiums and locations

Club		Location	Venue	Capacity
AEK Athens	56	Marousi	Athens Olympic Stadium	69,638
AEL	27	Larissa	AEL FC Arena	16,118
Asteras Tripolis	10	Tripoli	Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium	7,616
Atromitos	16	Peristeri	Peristeri Stadium	10,005
Iraklis	53	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	27,000
Kerkyra	2	Corfu	Kerkyra Stadium	3,000
Levadiakos	16	Livadeia	Levadia Municipal Stadium	6,500
Olympiacos	58	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium	32,115
Panathinaikos	58	Ampelokipoi	Leoforos Alexandras Stadium	16,003
Panetolikos	7	Agrinio	Panetolikos Stadium	7,000
Panionios	56	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium	11,700
PAOK	58	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium	28,703
PAS Giannina	22	Ioannina	Zosimades Stadium	7,652
Platanias	5	Chania	Perivolia Municipal Stadium	4,000
Veria	17	Veria	Veria Stadium	6,500
Xanthi	28	Xanthi	Xanthi FC Arena	7,422

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	Manolo Jiménez	Petros Mantalos	Nike	Pame Stoixima
AEL		Boki Jovanović	Legea
Asteras Tripolis	Staikos Vergetis	Pablo Mazza	Nike	Stoiximan.GR
Atromitos	Ricardo Sá Pinto	Luiz Brito	Nike	Tzoker
Iraklis	Savvas Pantelidis	Lefteris Intzoglou	Givova
Kerkyra	Kostas Christoforakis	Anastasios Venetis	Macron	Pame Stoixima
Levadiakos	Dimitris Farantos	Thanasis Moulopoulos	Legea	Tzoker
Olympiacos		Alejandro Domínguez	Adidas	Stoiximan.GR
Panathinaikos		Zeca	Puma	Pame Stihima
Panetolikos	Makis Chavos	Georgios Kousas	Legea	Pame Stoixima
Panionios	Vladan Milojević	Panagiotis Korbos	Luanvi	Stoiximan.GR
PAOK	Vladimir Ivić	Stefanos Athanasiadis	Macron	Sportingbet
PAS Giannina	Giannis Petrakis	Alexios Michail	Nike	Tzoker
Platanias	Georgios Paraschos	Fanouris Goundoulakis	Macron	Pame Stoixima
Veria		Stelios Marangos	Givova	Tzoker
Xanthi	Răzvan Lucescu	Konstantinos Fliskas	Joma	Pame Stoixima

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Kerkyra	Alekos Vosniadis	Mutual consent	End of 2015–2016 season	Pre-season	Michalis Grigoriou	4 June 2016
AEK Athens	Stelios Manolas (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	End of 2015–2016 season		Temur Ketsbaia	6 June 2016
AEL	Sakis Tsiolis	Mutual consent	2 June 2016		Angelos Anastasiadis	6 June 2016
Levadiakos	Dimitris Farantos (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	End of 2015–2016 season		Ratko Dostanić	6 June 2016
Olympiacos	Marco Silva	Resigned	23 June 2016		Víctor Sánchez	23 June 2016
Veria	Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos	Resigned	8 July 2016		Alekos Vosniadis	9 July 2016
Olympiacos	Víctor Sánchez	Mutual consent	10 August 2016		Paulo Bento	10 August 2016
Panionios	Marinos Ouzounidis	Sacked	8 August 2016		Vladan Milojević	11 August 2016
Atromitos	Traianos Dellas	Resigned	19 September 2016	16th	Georgios Korakakis	19 September 2016
Veria	Alekos Vosniadis	Mutual consent	23 September 2016	15th	Thomas Grafas	24 September 2016
Asteras Tripolis	Makis Chavos	Mutual consent	26 September 2016	16th	Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos	27 September 2016
AEK Athens	Temur Ketsbaia	Resigned	18 October 2016	3rd	José Morais	18 October 2016
Iraklis	Nikos Papadopoulos	Resigned	18 October 2016	16th	Ioannis Amanatidis (caretaker)	19 October 2016
AEL	Angelos Anastasiadis	Sacked	31 October 2016	11th	Sakis Tsiolis	1 November 2016
Iraklis	Ioannis Amanatidis (caretaker)	Resigned	30 October 2016	16th	Savvas Pantelidis	1 November 2016
AEL	Kostas Matzokas (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	1 November 2016	11th	Sakis Tsiolis	1 November 2016
Panathinaikos	Andrea Stramaccioni	Resigned	1 December 2016	3rd	Marinos Ouzounidis	1 December 2016
Levadiakos	Ratko Dostanić	Resigned	12 January 2017	14th	Giannis Christopoulos	12 January 2017
Panetolikos	Giannis Matzourakis	Mutual consent	17 January 2017	11th	Giannis Dalakouras (caretaker)	17 January 2017
AEK Athens	José Morais	Resigned	18 January 2017	6th	Manolo Jiménez	19 January 2017
Panetolikos	Giannis Dalakouras (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	19 January 2017	11th	Makis Chavos	19 January 2017
Veria	Thomas Grafas	Mutual consent	26 January 2017	14th	Apostolos Terzis	26 January 2017
Atromitos	Georgios Korakakis	Resigned	5 February 2017	9th	Ricardo Sá Pinto	6 February 2017
Veria	Apostolos Terzis	Sacked	14 February 2017	16th	Ratko Dostanić	14 February 2017
Asteras Tripolis	Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos	Sacked	18 February 2017	12th	Apostolos Charalampidis (caretaker)	20 February 2017
Olympiacos	Paulo Bento	Sacked	6 March 2017	1st	Vasilis Vouzas (caretaker)	6 March 2017
Asteras Tripolis	Apostolos Charalampidis (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	20 February 2017	13th	Staikos Vergetis	3 March 2017
AEL	Sakis Tsiolis	Resigned	21 March 2017	12th	Theodoros Voutiritsas (caretaker)	21 March 2017
Olympiacos	Vasilis Vouzas (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	23 March 2017	1st	Takis Lemonis	23 March 2017
AEL	Theodoros Voutiritsas (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	3 Αpril 2017	12th	André Paus	3 April 2017
Levadiakos	Giannis Christopoulos	Sacked	7 Αpril 2017	14th	Dimitris Farantos (caretaker)	7 April 2017
Kerkyra	Michalis Grigoriou	Sacked	11 April 2017	11th	Kostas Christoforakis (caretaker)	12 April 2017

Regular season

League table

Postponement

The Greek Super League was originally scheduled for 20 August 2016 but Greece's Sports minister Stavros Kontonis decided it would be postponed due to fears of violence.^[1]

The first match was then postponed and scheduled to be played on 10 September 2016 between Kerkyra and Platanias.^[2]

The match was a success and went ahead with no issues with Platanias winning 1–0.^[3]

On 9 November refereeing chief Giorgos Bikas was the victim of an arson attack, this led to Greek football of all divisions to be suspended.^[4]

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.

Play-offs

In the play-offs for Champions League and Europa League berths, 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 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.

So, both AEK Athens and Panionios will begin the play-offs pointless. PAOK will enter the play-offs with two points, while Panathinaikos will have one point.^[5]

Season statistics

Updated to games played 30 April 2017

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[6]
1	Marcus Berg	Panathinaikos	22
2	Hamza Younés	Xanthi	19
3	Pedro Conde	PAS Giannina	13
	Brown Ideye	Olympiacos	13
5	Giorgos Giakoumakis	Platanias	11
6	Michalis Manias	Asteras Tripolis	10
7	Thomas Nazlidis	AEL	9
	Ben Nabouhane	Panionios	9
	Tomáš Pekhart	AEK Athens	9
10	Giorgos Manousos	Platanias	8

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists^[7]
1	Sebá	Olympiacos	9
2	Kostas Fortounis	Olympiacos	6
		Panionios	6
		Xanthi	6
5	Diogo Figueiras	Olympiacos	5
	Alberto de la Bella	Olympiacos	5
		AEK Athens	5
	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos	AEK Athens	5
		PAOK	5
		Iraklis	5

Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards

Matchday	MVP^[8]	Best Goal	Ref
1st	Dimitris Kyriakidis (Panetolikos)	Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)	^[9] ^[10]
2nd	Alexandros Paschalakis (PAS Giannina)	Luka Milivojević (Olympiacos)	^[11]
3rd	Hugo Almeida (AEK Athens)		^[12]
4th	Efthymis Koulouris (PAOK)		^[13]
5th	Dimitris Kyriakidis (Panetolikos)	Javier Umbides (Atromitos)	^[14]
6th	André Martins (Olympiacos)	Brown Ideye (Olympiacos)	^[15]
7th	Vangelis Platellas (AEK Athens)	Theodoros Vasilakakis (Xanthi)	^[16]
8th	Luka Milivojević (Olympiacos)	Evripidis Giakos (PAS Giannina)	^[17]
9th	Christopher Maboulou (PAS Giannina)	Thomas Nazlidis (AEL)	^[18]
10th	Alberto Botía (Olympiacos)	Patito Rodríguez (AEK Athens)	^[19]
11th	Vasilis Barkas (AEK Athens)	Kristijan Miljević (Veria)	^[20]
12th	Javier Umbides (Atromitos)	Chrysovalantis Kozoronis (PAS Giannina)	^[21]
13th	Fotis Koutzavasilis (Kerkyra)	Dimitris Limnios (Atromitos)	^[22]
14th	Léo Matos (PAOK)	André Simões (AEK Athens)	^[23]
15th	Hamza Younés (Xanthi)	Diego Biseswar (PAOK)	^[24]
16th	Grigoris Makos (Panetolikos)	Léo Matos (PAOK)	^[25]
17th	Spyros Risvanis (Panionios)		^[26]
18th	Luka Milivojević (Olympiacos)	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)	^[27]
19th	Panagiotis Korbos (Panionios)		^[28]
20th	Živko Živković (Xanthi)	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)	^[29]
21st	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)	Dimitris Pelkas (PAOK)	^[30]
22nd	Vangelis Ikonomou (Panionios)	Theodoros Vasilakakis (Xanthi)	^[31]
23rd	Aleksandar Prijović (PAOK)	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)	^[32]
24th	Sergio Araujo (AEK Athens)		^[33]
25th	Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)		^[34]
26th	Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)	Georgios Masouras (Panionios)	^[35]
27th	Michalis Manias (Asteras Tripolis)	Diego Biseswar (PAOK)	^[36]
28th	Christos Donis (Iraklis)	Michalis Bastakos (Iraklis)	^[37]
29th	Michalis Bastakos (Iraklis)	Alberto de la Bella (Olympiacos)	^[38]
30th	Alejandro Domínguez (Olympiacos)	Giorgos Kyriakopoulos (Asteras Tripolis)	^[39]

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 7 May 2017.^[40]

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Petros Mantalos	AEK Athens
Foreign Player of the Season	Marcus Berg	Panathinaikos
Young Player of the Season	Panagiotis Retsos	Olympiacos
Goalkeeper of the Season	Andreas Gianniotis	Panionios
Golden Boot	Marcus Berg	Panathinaikos
Manager of the Season	Vladimir Ivić	PAOK

Team of the Season
Goalkeeper	Andreas Gianniotis (Panionios)
Defence	Léo Matos (PAOK)					Panagiotis Retsos (Olympiacos)					Rodrigo Moledo (Panathinaikos)					Leonardo Koutris (PAS Giannina)
Midfield	Masoud Shojaei (Panionios)				Zeca (Panathinaikos)				Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)				Manolis Siopis (Panionios)				Petros Mantalos (AEK Athens)
Attack	Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)

Attendances

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

External links

• Official website
• Super League: Επιστράφηκαν οι βαθμοί στον Ηρακλή, στα δικαστήρια η παραμονή

Notes and References

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3. Web site: Kerkyra vs Platanias (SBS). 23 September 2016.
4. Web site: Greece suspend football competitions after arson attack on refereeing chief. 9 November 2016.
5. Web site: PAOK and Panathinaikos Score Leading Edge over AEK and Panionios Ahead of Play-offs. 2 May 2017.
6. Web site: Super League statistics (sorted by goals). superleaguegreece.net. el. 2016-09-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20170504062357/http://www.superleaguegreece.net/el/stats/topplayers. 2017-05-04. dead.
7. Web site: Super League statistics (sorted by assists). superleaguegreece.net. el. 2016-09-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20170504062357/http://www.superleaguegreece.net/el/stats/topplayers. 2017-05-04. dead.
8. Web site: Super League Best goal & MVP. superleaguegreece.net. el. 2016-09-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20170504080014/http://www.superleaguegreece.net/el/best-goal-mvp. 2017-05-04. dead.
9. Web site: Βράβευση Δημήτρη Κυριακίδη-MVP 1ης αγωνιστικής. 13 January 2017. slgr.gr. el.
10. Web site: Βράβευση Κώστα Φορτούνη-Best Goal 1ης αγωνιστικής. 12 January 2017. slgr.gr. el.
11. Web site: Αλέξανδρος Πασχαλάκης και Λούκα Μιλιβόγεβιτς τα βραβεία της 2ης αγωνιστικής. 27 January 2017. slgr.gr. el.
12. Web site: Στον Ούγκο Αλμέιδα τα βραβεία της 3ης αγωνιστικής. 14 September 2016. slgr.gr. el.
13. Web site: Στον Ευθύμη Κουλούρη τα βραβεία της 4ης αγωνιστικής. 21 September 2016. slgr.gr. el.
14. Web site: Δημήτρης Κυριακίδης και Χαβιέ Ούμπιδες τα βραβεία της 5ης αγωνιστικής. 28 September 2016. slgr.gr. el.
15. Web site: Αντρέ Μάρτινς και Μπράουν Ιντέγε τα βραβεία της 6ης αγωνιστικής. 5 October 2016. slgr.gr. el.
16. Web site: Βαγγέλης Πλατέλλας και Θοδωρής Βασιλακάκης τα βραβεία της 7ης αγωνιστικής. 25 November 2016. slgr.gr. el.
17. Web site: Λούκα Μιλιβόγεβιτς και Ευριπίδης Γιάκος τα βραβεία της 8ης αγωνιστικής. 26 October 2016. slgr.gr. el.
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19. Web site: Αλμπέρτο Μποτία και Πατίτο Ροντρίγκεζ τα βραβεία της 10ης αγωνιστικής. 9 November 2016. slgr.gr. el.
20. Web site: Βασίλης Μπάρκας και Κρίστιαν Μίλιεβιτς τα βραβεία της 11ης αγωνιστικής. 3 February 2017. slgr.gr. el.
21. Web site: Χαβιέ Ούμπιδες και Χρυσοβαλάντης Κοζορώνης τα βραβεία της 12ης αγωνιστικής. 30 November 2016. slgr.gr. el.
22. Web site: Φώτης Κουτζαβασίλης και Δημήτρης Λημνιός τα βραβεία της 13ης αγωνιστικής. 7 December 2016. slgr.gr. el.
23. Web site: Λέο Μάτος και Αντρέ Σιμόες τα βραβεία της 14ης αγωνιστικής. 14 December 2016. slgr.gr. el.
24. Web site: Χαμζά Γιουνές και Ντιέγκο Μπίσεσβαρ τα βραβεία της 15ης αγωνιστικής. 21 December 2016. slgr.gr. el.
25. Web site: MVP της αγωνιστικής ο Μάκος, Best Goal o Μάτος. athleticlarissa.grgr. el.
26. Web site: Στον Σπύρο Ρισβάνη τα βραβεία τη 17ης αγωνιστικής. 25 January 2017. slgr.gr. el.
27. Web site: Λούκα Μιλιβόγεβιτς και Πέδρο Κόντε τα βραβεία της 18ης αγωνιστικής. 31 January 2017. slgr.gr. el.
28. Web site: Στον Παναγιώτη Κόρμπο τα βραβεία της 19ης αγωνιστικής. 8 February 2017. slgr.gr. el.
29. Web site: Σε Κόντε και Ζίβκοβιτς τα βραβεία. sport-fm.gr.
30. Web site: Πέδρο Κόντε και Δημήτρης Πέλκας τα βραβεία της 21ης αγωνιστικής. 22 February 2017. slgr.gr. el.
31. Web site: Βαγγέλης Οικονόμου και Θοδωρής Βασιλακάκης τα βραβεία της 22ης αγωνιστικής. 1 March 2017. slgr.gr. el.
32. Web site: Αλεξάνταρ Πρίγιοβιτς και Πέδρο Κόντε τα βραβεία της 23ης αγωνιστικής. 8 March 2017. slgr.gr. el.
33. Web site: Στον Σέρτζιο Αραούχο τα βραβεία της 24ης αγωνιστικής. 15 March 2017. slgr.gr. el.
34. Web site: Στον Μάρκους Μπεργκ τα βραβεία της 25ης αγωνιστικής. 22 March 2017. slgr.gr. el.
35. Web site: Μάρκους Μπεργκ και Γιώργος Μασούρας τα βραβεία της 26ης αγωνιστικής. 4 April 2017. slgr.gr. el.
36. Web site: Στους Μπίσεσβαρ και Μανιά τα βραβεία. 8 April 2017. novasports.gr. el.
37. Web site: Στον Ηρακλή τα βραβεία της 28ης αγωνιστικής. sport24.gr. el.
38. Web site: Μιχάλης Μπαστακός και Αλμπέρτο Ντε Λα Μπέγια τα βραβεία της 29ης αγωνιστικής. 25 April 2017. slgr.gr. el.
39. Web site: Τσόρι Ντομίνγκες και Γιώργος Κυριακόπουλος τα βραβεία της 30ής αγωνιστικής. 2 May 2017. slgr.gr. el.
40. Web site: Λάμψη αστέρων στην απονομή του Επάθλου Novasports Super League 2016-2017!. 9 May 2017. novasports.gr/. el.