The 2017–18 Greek Handball Premier is the 39th season of the Greek Handball Premier, Greece's premier handball league. Olympiacos were crowned champions, after beating AEK Athens with 3–2 wins in the finals, overturning an initial 0–2 win lead by AEK and taking three straight wins to secure the title.Olympiacos win Greek men's handball championship. xinhuanet.com. 7 June 2018
Teams
A total of 12 teams will participate in this year's edition of the Handball Premier. Of these, 10 sides qualified directly from the 2016–17 season and the play-off winners from each of the two groups of A2 Ethniki were promoted: GAS Kamatero from Group A (for the first time in their history"ΣΤΗΝ HANDBALL PREMIER Ο ΓΑΣ ΚΑΜΑΤΕΡΟΥ!" [GAS Kamatero in Handball Premier!]. handball.org.gr. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 11 Jun 2017.) and XANTH from Group B.
TeamLocationAEKAthensAeropos EdessaEdessaDiomidis ArgousArgosASE DoukaMaroussi, Athens GS Drama 86DramaFilippos VeriaVeriaFoivos SykeonSykies, ThessalonikiGAS KamateroKamatero, AthensOlympiacosPiraeus, AthensPanelliniosAthensPAOKThessaloniki XANTHThessaloniki
Regular season League table
Results
Semi-finals qualifiers In the semifinals qualifiers, the teams that finished in places 3 to 6 of the regular season play against each other (the 3rd team of the regular season faces the 6th, while the 4th team faces the 5th) and have to win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins two games before all three games have been played, the remaining game is omitted. The team that finished in the higher regular season place, plays the first and the third (if necessary) game of the series at home. The two winners proceed to the championship semi-finals.
+Team 3Team 6Game1Game 2Game 3AEK 2–1Aeropos Edessas48–2723–2529–16 +Team 4Team 5Game 1Game 2Game 3ASE Douka2–1Diomidis Argous24–2118–2827–24
Semi-finals In the championship semi-finals, the top two teams of the regular season plus the two teams that qualified from the semifinal qualifiers play against each other and have to win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins two games before all three games have been played, the remaining game is omitted. The teams that directly qualified to the semifinals from the regular season play the first and the third (if necessary) game of the series at home. The two winners proceed to the championship finals.
+Team 1Team 4Game 1Game 2Olympiacos2–0ASE Douka23–2029–24 +Team 2Team 3Game 1Game 2PAOK0–2AEK 20–2522–23
3rd place play-offs Team 2Team 4Game 1Game 2Game 3PAOK2–1ASE Douka27–2422–2433–20
Finals In the finals, teams playing against each other have to win three games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins three games before all five games have been played, the remaining games are omitted. The team that finished in the higher championship play-off place, is going to play the first, third and fifth (if necessary) game of the series at home.
Team 1Team 2Game 1Game 2Game 3Game 4Game 5Olympiacos3–2 (104–105)AEK 23–2513–2022–16 22–21 24–23
References
External links Official website