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 from2007–08 Beta Ethniki Relegated from2007–08 Super League Greece PanserraikosThrasyvoulosPanthrakikos AtromitosVeriaApollon Kalamarias
Stadiums and personnel
Team Manager1 Location Stadium Capacity AEK Athens Dušan Bajević Athens Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638 AEL Marinos Ouzounidis Larissa Alcazar Stadium 13,108 Aris Mazinho Thessaloniki Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium 22,800 Asteras Tripolis Nikos Kostenoglou Tripoli Asteras Tripolis Stadium 4,200 Ergotelis Nikos Karageorgiou Heraklion Pankritio Stadium 26,400 Iraklis Oleh Protasov Thessaloniki Kaftanzoglio Stadium 27,560 Levadiakos Momčilo Vukotić Livadeia Levadia Municipal Stadium 5,915 OFI Giannis Mantzourakis Heraklion Pankritio Stadium 26,400 Olympiacos Ernesto Valverde Piraeus Karaiskakis Stadium 33,334 Panathinaikos Henk ten Cate Athens Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638 Panionios Giotis Stamatopoulos Athens Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,700 Panserraikos Hugo Broos Serres Serres Municipal Stadium 8,500 Panthrakikos Emilio Ferrera Komotini Komotini Municipal Stadium 4,500 PAOK Fernando Santos Thessaloniki Toumba Stadium 28,703 Skoda Xanthi Georgios Paraschos Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Arena 7,422 Thrasyvoulos Sakis Tsiolis Athens Fyli Municipal Stadium 3,142
1 On final match day of the season, played on 26 April 2009.
Regular season
League table
Results
Play-offs 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: PAOK – 3 points ((63–49) / 5 = 2.8, rounded up to 3) Panathinaikos – 2 points ((61–49) / 5 = 2.4, rounded down to 2) AEK Athens – 1 point ((55–49) / 5 = 1.2, rounded down to 1) AEL – 0 points ((49 –49) / 5 = 0)
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.
Statistics Top scorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Ismael Blanco AEK Athens14 Luciano Galletti Olympiacos3 Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos104 Leonardo Levadiakos9 Maciej Żurawski AEL6 Danijel Cesarec Asteras Tripolis8 Patrick Ogunsoto Ergotelis Zdravko Popović OFI Rafik Djebbour AEK Athens10 Ibrahima Bakayoko PAOK7 Edinho AEK Athens Fabián Estoyanoff Panionios Lucio Filomeno Asteras Tripolis Bennard Kumordzi Panionios Zlatan Muslimović PAOK Dame N'Doye OFI Source: galanissportsdata.com
Most valuable players (excluding goalkeepers) Position Player Club Index1 Luciano Galletti Olympiacos0.2502 Dudu Cearense Olympiacos0.2423 Fernando Belluschi Olympiacos0.2174 Fabián Estoyanoff Panionios0.2155 Vladimir Ivić PAOK0.2016 Diego Romano Ergotelis0.1977 Dimitris Salpingidis Panathinaikos0.1968 Leonardo Levadiakos0.1929 Serge Dié Iraklis0.18810 Dame N'Doye OFI0.183
Source: galanissportsdata.com
Awards
MVP and Best Goal Awards
Matchday MVP Best Goal Ref 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th Jozef Kožlej (Thrasyvoulos) Anderson Gonzaga (Panionios) 7th Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos) Javito (Aris) 8th Gabriel (Panathinaikos) Rafik Djebbour (AEK Athens) 9th Sérgio Conceição (PAOK) Patrick Ogunsoto (Ergotelis) 10th Denis Epstein (Iraklis) Koke (Aris) 11th Fernando Belluschi (Olympiacos) Dudu Cearense (Olympiacos) 12th Srđan Blažić (Levadiakos) Fanouris Goundoulakis (Panionios) 13th Gilberto Silva (Panathinaikos) Dimitrios Souanis (Skoda Xanthi) 14th Giorgos Karagounis (Panathinaikos) Edinho (AEK Athens) 15th Fabián Estoyanoff (Panionios) Sebastián Leto (Olympiacos) 16th Achilleas Angelopoulos (Panthrakikos) Zlatan Muslimović (PAOK) 17th Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos) Luciano Galletti (Olympiacos) 18th Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos) Zdravko Popović (OFI) 19th Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) 20th Antonis Nikopolidis (Olympiacos) Luciano Galletti (Olympiacos) 21st Loukas Vyntra (Panathinaikos) Manolis Papasterianos (Iraklis) 22nd Anastasios Papazoglou (Panserraikos) Panagiotis Tachtsidis (AEK Athens) 23rd Spyros Vrontaras (Panthrakikos) Vasilios Koutsianikoulis (Ergotelis) 24th Ibrahima Bakayoko (PAOK) Edinho (AEK Athens) 25th Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (Panathinaikos) Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos) 26th Fernando Belluschi (Olympiacos) Victor Agali (Skoda Xanthi) 27th Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens) Stelios Sfakianakis (OFI) 28th Georgios Georgiadis (Panserraikos) Sérgio Conceição (PAOK) 29th Neto (Aris) Vladimir Ivić (PAOK) 30th Tümer Metin (AEL) Xenofon Gittas (Panthrakikos)
Annual awards Annual awards were announced on 9 November 2009.
Award Winner Club 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 OlympiacosAEK Athens Manager of the Season Fernando Santos PAOK
Attendances
Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2008–09 edition of the Super League Greece.
References
External links Official website Super League Statistics