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2002–03 Alpha Ethniki

67th season of top-tier football league in Greece

Field	Value
competition	Alpha Ethniki
season	2002–03
winners	Olympiacos
32nd Greek title
relegated	Panachaiki
PAS Giannina
continentalcup1	[Champions League](2003-04-uefa-champions-league)
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Olympiacos
Panathinaikos
AEK Athens
continentalcup2	[UEFA Cup](2003-04-uefa-cup)
continentalcup2 qualifiers	PAOK
Panionios
Aris
league topscorer	Nikos Liberopoulos
(16 goals)
matches	240
total goals	617
prevseason	[2001–02](2001-02-alpha-ethniki)
nextseason	[2003–04](2003-04-alpha-ethniki)

32nd Greek title PAS Giannina Panathinaikos AEK Athens Panionios Aris (16 goals)

The 2002–03 Alpha Ethniki was the 67th season of the highest football league in Greece. The season began on 24 August 2002 and ended on 25 May 2003. Olympiacos won their seventh consecutive and 32nd Greek title. Olympiacos and Panathinaikos finished the League with the same points total but Olympiacos were crowned champions due to more favourable results between the two teams. It was a very dramatic end to the season, with the decisive game between the two clubs taking place in the penultimate round. The season was interrupted by strike action after television broadcaster Alpha Digital collapsed in September 2002, following which the players didn't play for a month.

Teams

Promoted from
[2001–02 Beta Ethniki](2001-02-beta-ethniki)	Relegated from
[2001–02 Alpha Ethniki](2001-02-alpha-ethniki)
PAS Giannina
Kallithea
Proodeftiki	Ethnikos Asteras

Stadiums and personnel

Team	Manager1	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens	BIH Dušan Bajević	Athens (Nea Filadelfeia)	Nikos Goumas Stadium	27,729
Akratitos	ROM Dumitru Dumitriu	Athens (Ano Liosia)	Giannis Pathiakakis Stadium	4,944
Aris	GRE Georgios Firos	Thessaloniki (Charilaou)	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	22,800
Egaleo	GRE Georgios Chatzaras	Athens (Aigaleo)	Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium	8,217
Ionikos	POL Jacek Gmoch	Piraeus (Nikaia)	Neapoli Stadium	4,999
Iraklis	NED Eugène Gerards	Thessaloniki (Efkarpia)	Makedonikos Stadium	8,100
Kallithea	GRE Babis Tennes	Athens (Kallithea)	Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium	4,250
OFI	CZE Zdeněk Ščasný	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium	9,000
Olympiacos	UKR Oleh Protasov	Athens (Rizoupoli)	Georgios Kamaras Stadium	14,856
Panachaiki	GRE Dimitrios Genas	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium	11,321
Panathinaikos	URU Sergio Markarián	Athens (Ampelokipoi)	Leoforos Alexandras Stadium	16,620
Panionios	SVK Jozef Bubenko	Athens (Nea Smyrni)	Nea Smyrni Stadium	11,756
PAOK	GRE Angelos Anastasiadis	Thessaloniki (Toumba)	Toumba Stadium	28,703
PAS Giannina	GRE Nikos Anastopoulos	Ioannina	Zosimades Stadium	7,652
Proodeftiki	GRE Soulis Papadopoulos	Piraeus (Nikaia)	Nikaia Municipal Stadium	5,000
Skoda Xanthi	GRE Nikos Karageorgiou	Xanthi	Xanthi Ground	9,500

1 On final match day of the season, played on 25 May 2003.

League table

(Note: Criterion 7 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).

Results

Relegation play-off

Rodrigues
Hartwig

Ionikos retained their spot in 2003–04 Alpha Ethniki. Apollon Kalamarias placed on 2003–04 Beta Ethniki

Top scorers

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Rank	Player	Club
GRE Nikos Liberopoulos	Panathinaikos	16
GRE Stelios Giannakopoulos	Olympiacos	15
GRE Georgios Georgiadis	PAOK	14
SCG Predrag Đorđević	Olympiacos
GAM Njogu Demba-Nyrén	Aris	12
GRE Vasilios Lakis	AEK Athens
GRE Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens
CYP Ioannis Okkas	PAOK	11
GRE Vasilios Tsiartas	AEK Athens
BRA Alessandro Soares	OFI	10
GRE Dimitris Nalitzis	AEK Athens
BRA Giovanni	Olympiacos
GRE Lampros Choutos	Olympiacos

Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 10 November 2003.

Award	Winner	Club	Greek Player of the Season	Foreign Player of the Season	Young Player of the Season	Goalkeeper of the Season	Golden Boot	Manager of the Season
GRE Stelios Giannakopoulos	Olympiacos
SCG Predrag Đorđević	Olympiacos
GRE Vangelis Mantzios	Panionios
GRE Antonios Nikopolidis	Panathinaikos
GRE Nikos Liberopoulos	Panathinaikos
BIH Dušan Bajević	AEK Athens

Attendances

Panathinaikos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2002–03 Alpha Ethniki. ! # !! Team !! Average attendance |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Panathinaikos || 8,093 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Olympiacos || 8,078 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || PAOK || 7,065 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || AEK Athens || 5,178 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Aris || 4,317 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Panionios || 2,976 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || PAS Giannina || 2,336 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || OFI || 2,218 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Iraklis || 2,123 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Skoda Xanthi || 1,880 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Kallithea || 1,544 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Egaleo || 1,301 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Proodeftiki || 1,297 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Panachaiki || 1,287 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Ionikos || 1,159 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Akratitos || 858 |} }}

References

(7 February 2003). "Greek football at the crossroads". UEFA.
(10 November 2003). "Λάμψη αστέρων!".
"2002–03 Alpha Ethniki".

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