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2007–08 Super League Greece

72nd season of top-tier football league in Greece


72nd season of top-tier football league in Greece

FieldValue
logoSuper League Greece 2008.png
pixels150px
competitionSuper League Greece
season2007–08
winnersOlympiacos
36th Greek title
relegatedAtromitos
Veria
Apollon Kalamarias
continentalcup1[Champions League](2008-09-uefa-champions-league)
continentalcup1 qualifiersOlympiacos
Panathinaikos
continentalcup2[UEFA Cup](2008-09-uefa-cup)
continentalcup2 qualifiersAris (via [domestic cup](2007-08-greek-football-cup))
AEK Athens
continentalcup3[Intertoto Cup](2008-uefa-intertoto-cup)
continentalcup3 qualifiersPanionios
matches252
total goals601
league topscorerIsmael Blanco
(19 goals)
biggest home winSkoda Xanthi 6–1 Apollon Kalamarias
AEK Athens 5–0 Panionios
biggest away winLevadiakos 0–4 Panathinaikos
Panionios 0–4 Olympiacos
PAOK 0–4 AEK Athens
highest scoringOlympiacos 6–2 OFI
Levadiakos 5–3 Veria
prevseason[2006–07](2006-07-super-league-greece)
nextseason[2008–09](2008-09-super-league-greece)

36th Greek title Veria Apollon Kalamarias Panathinaikos AEK Athens (19 goals) AEK Athens 5–0 Panionios Panionios 0–4 Olympiacos PAOK 0–4 AEK Athens Levadiakos 5–3 Veria

The 2007–08 Super League Greece was the 72nd season of the highest football league of Greece and the second under the name Super League. The season began on 1 September 2007 and ended on 20 April 2008. The defending champions were Olympiacos. Asteras Tripolis, Veria and Levadiakos were promoted from Beta Ethniki in the previous season.

Postponement

On 25 August, the Super League and the Hellenic Football Federation decided to postpone the opening fixtures scheduled for that weekend (25 and 26 August) due to the ongoing fire disaster in the south of Greece (especially in the Peloponnese and Euboea). The championship started on 1 September 2007. Matchday 2 was carried out on the weekend of 21–22 September due to UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying matches (8 September) and Greek legislative election (16 September).

On 20 February 2008 UEFA president Michel Platini presented the Hellenic Football Federation with a CHF 1 million cheque to help finance the rebuilding of football facilities damaged by the fires in Greece that summer.

Teams

Promoted from
[2006–07 Beta Ethniki](2006-07-beta-ethniki)Relegated from
[2006–07 Super League Greece](2006-07-super-league-greece)
Asteras Tripolis
Levadiakos
VeriaKerkyra
Egaleo
Ionikos

Stadiums and personnel

TeamManagerLocationStadiumCapacity
AEK AthensGRE Nikos KostenoglouAthens (Marousi)Athens Olympic Stadium69,638
AELGRE Georgios DonisLarissaAlcazar Stadium13,108
Apollon KalamariasGRE Makis KatsavakisThessaloniki (Kalamaria)Kalamaria Stadium6,500
ArisBIH Dušan BajevićThessaloniki (Charilaou)Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium22,800
Asteras TripolisGRE Panagiotis TzanavarasTripoliAsteras Tripolis Stadium4,200
AtromitosBRA Paulo CamposAthens (Peristeri)Peristeri Stadium9,035
ErgotelisGRE Nikos KarageorgiouHeraklion (Ammoudara)Pankritio Stadium26,400
IraklisESP Ángel PedrazaThessaloniki (Triandria)Kaftanzoglio Stadium27,560
LevadiakosGRE Babis TennesLivadeiaLevadia Municipal Stadium5,915
OFIGRE Georgios ParaschosHeraklion (Ammoudara)Pankritio Stadium26,400
OlympiacosESP José SeguraPiraeusKaraiskakis Stadium33,334
PanathinaikosPOR José PeseiroAthens (Ampelokipoi)Leoforos Alexandras Stadium16,003
PanioniosGER Ewald LienenAthens (Nea Smyrni)Nea Smyrni Stadium11,700
PAOKPOR Fernando SantosThessaloniki (Toumba)Toumba Stadium28,703
Skoda XanthiGRE Nikos KechagiasXanthiSkoda Xanthi Arena7,422
VeriaGRE Leonidas YfantidisVeriaVeria Stadium5,373

Managerial changes

TeamOutgoing managerDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointment
PAOKGRE Georgios Paraschos3 September 200714thPOR Fernando Santos3 September 2007
ArisESP Juan Carlos Oliva4 September 20077thBIH Dušan Bajević7 September 2007
VeriaGRE Dimitris Kalaitzidis12 October 200712thSRB Ratko Dostanić15 October 2007
Skoda XanthiBEL Emilio Ferrera22 October 20076thGRE Nikos Kechagias22 October 2007
OFIGER Reiner Maurer12 November 200713thGRE Georgios Paraschos16 November 2007
VeriaSRB Ratko Dostanić10 December 200715thGRE Giannis Matzourakis12 December 2007
IraklisSRB Ivan Jovanović17 December 20079thESP Ángel Pedraza24 December 2007
AEK AthensESP Lorenzo Serra Ferrer12 February 20083rdGRE Nikos Kostenoglou12 February 2008
Asteras TripolisBRA Paulo Campos24 February 20085thGRE Panagiotis Tzanavaras25 February 2008
LevadiakosBUL Georgi Vasilev3 March 200813thGRE Babis Tennes5 March 2008
OlympiacosGRE Takis Lemonis11 March 20082ndESP José Segura11 March 2008
VeriaGRE Giannis Matzourakis11 March 200814thGRE Panagiotis Tsalouchidis13 March 2008
VeriaGRE Panagiotis Tsalouchidis23 March 200815thGRE Leonidas Yfantidis23 March 2008
AtromitosARG Ángel Guillermo Hoyos26 March 200812thBRA Paulo Campos27 March 2008

Regular season

League table

According to the official Super League playoff regulation, the position after the playoffs replaces the regular season position.

Results

Play-offs

The play-off winner enters the UEFA Champions League's second qualifying round, a two-legged tier from which the winner advances to the 3rd round qualification of the UEFA Champions League. The winner of the Greek Football Cup automatically qualifies for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, as well as the runners-up of the Super League play-off.

In the play-off for Champions League, the teams play each other in a home and away round robin. However, they do not all start with zero 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 zero points. The fifth place 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 three to give the other teams the points with which they start the mini-league.

The teams started the play-offs with the following number of points:

  • AEK Athens – 8
  • Panathinaikos – 7
  • Aris – 2
  • Panionios – 0

Play-off table

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals1234679
ARG Ismael BlancoAEK Athens19
SRB Darko KovačevićOlympiacos17
GRE Dimitris SalpingidisPanathinaikos15
CAN Tomasz RadzinskiSkoda Xanthi14
ALG Rafik DjebbourPanionios
GRE Nikos LiberopoulosAEK Athens11
GRE Lampros ChoutosPanionios10
SRB Predrag ĐorđevićOlympiacos
ARG Lucio FilomenoAsteras Tripolis9

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards

MatchdayMVPBest GoalRef
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10thGRE Sokratis Papastathopoulos (AEK Athens)GRE Merkourios Karaliopoulos (Apollon Kalamarias )
11thGRE Georgios Georgiadis (PAOK)GRE Ieroklis Stoltidis (Olympiacos)
12thALG Rafik Djebbour (Panionios)SRB Darko Kovačević (Olympiacos)
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
20thGRE Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (PAOK)BRA Luciano Fonseca (Iraklis)
21st
22ndPOL Maciej Bykowski (Veria)POL Rafał Grzelak (Skoda Xanthi)
23rdESP Koke (Aris)POR Hélder Postiga (Panathinaikos)
24th
25th
26th
27th
28th
29th
30thARG Ismael Blanco (AEK Athens)GRE Lampros Choutos (Panionios)

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 2 December 2008.

AwardWinnerClubGreek Player of the SeasonForeign Player of the SeasonYoung Player of the SeasonGoalkeeper of the SeasonGolden BootManager of the Season
GRE Dimitris SalpingidisPanathinaikos
SRB Darko Kovačević
ARG Ismael BlancoOlympiacos
AEK Athens
GRE Sokratis PapastathopoulosAEK Athens
GRE Antonis NikopolidisOlympiacos
ARG Ismael BlancoAEK Athens
BIH Dušan BajevićAris

Attendances

Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2007–08 edition of the Super League Greece. ! # !! Team !! Average attendance |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Olympiacos || 24,196 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || AEK Athens || 21,551 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || PAOK || 11,394 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Panathinaikos || 9,213 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Aris || 7,712 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || AEL || 4,612 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Iraklis || 3,768 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Ergotelis || 3,382 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || OFI || 3,134 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Asteras Tripolis || 3,045 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Atromitos || 2,437 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Panionios || 2,372 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Skoda Xanthi || 2,255 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Apollon Kalamarias || 1,863 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Veria || 1,752 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Levadiakos || 1,736 |} }}

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