1986–87 Alpha Ethniki

The 1986–87 Alpha Ethniki was the 51st season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 7 September 1986 and ended on 7 June 1987. Olympiacos won their 25th Greek title and their first one in four years. The championship was marked by the strike declared by 12 teams in the last three games of the championship. As a result, most of the teams did not come to the last matches of the championship and were punished by deducting 6 points. The only ones who came and were not punished were Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, OFI and Panionios, which took the first four places in the standings.

Alpha Ethniki

Season	1986–87
Champions	Olympiacos 25th Greek title
Relegated	Doxa Drama Apollon Athens PAS Giannina
European Cup	Olympiacos
UEFA Cup	Panathinaikos Panionios
Cup Winners' Cup	OFI
Matches played	217
Goals scored	490 (2.26 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nikos Anastopoulos (16 goals)
← 1985–86 1987–88 →

The point system was: Win: 2 points - Draw: 1 point.

AEK Athens
Apollon A.
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Apollon K.
Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Ethnikos
Olympiacos

Diagoras

Doxa

AEL

OFI

PAS Giannina

Veria

Location of teams in 1986–87 Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	22	5	3	54	24	+30	49	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Panathinaikos	30	15	9	6	46	30	+16	39	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	OFI	30	17	4	9	44	27	+17	38	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
4	Panionios	30	11	11	8	36	22	+14	33	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
5	PAOK	30	13	9	8	39	23	+16	29
6	Iraklis	30	13	5	12	34	32	+2	25
7	AEK Athens	30	10	8	12	31	26	+5	19
8	AEL	30	10	5	15	24	31	−7	19
9	Veria	30	10	5	15	30	43	−13	19
10	Ethnikos Piraeus	30	8	8	14	32	40	−8	18
11	Aris	30	10	4	16	26	30	−4	18
12	Apollon Kalamarias	30	8	7	15	21	35	−14	17
13	Diagoras	30	9	4	17	29	33	−4	16
14	Doxa Drama (R)	30	6	9	15	29	36	−7	15	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
15	Apollon Athens (R)	30	6	8	16	21	40	−19	14
16	PAS Giannina (R)	30	5	7	18	14	38	−24	11

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
Most of the teams went the last three match days on strike. Only Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, OFI, and Panionios did not. All other teams had -6 points because they did not show up. AEK Athens had also -3 points because of a case of fixing games in the previous season.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	AEL	APA	APK	ARIS	DIA	DOX	ETH	IRA	OFI	OLY	PAO	PAN	PAOK	PAS	VER
AEK Athens		1–0	2–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–3	1–1	1–2	2–1	5–0
AEL	0–1		2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–0
Apollon Athens	1–1	1–0		0–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–0
Apollon Kalamarias	0–2	0–2	4–1		1–5	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–0
Aris	1–3	2–0	0–1	1–1		2–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–1
Diagoras	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–3		3–0	2–3	1–2	3–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–0	3–0
Doxa Drama	1–1	0–0	0–0	4–0	0–0	1–1		2–2	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–3	1–0	1–2	2–0	3–0
Ethnikos Piraeus	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–4		0–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	4–1
Iraklis	1–3	5–2	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	4–3		0–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1
OFI	1–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	3–1	3–0	3–2	2–0	2–0		4–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	2–0
Olympiacos	2–0	3–0	3–1	2–0	1–2	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1		2–1	1–0	1–1	3–2	1–0
Panathinaikos	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	3–6	3–1	2–1	1–1		2–2	0–0	3–0	2–1
Panionios	1–1	2–0	5–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–3	0–0		2–0	3–0	3–1
PAOK	1–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	4–1	2–3	4–1		3–1	0–0
PAS Giannina	2–0	0–0	0–3	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	0–0		3–1
Veria	0–0	3–0	3–1	0–3	1–0	2–0	1–0	5–2	2–2	0–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–1

Source: rsssf.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Match changes:

All the games between the 12 teams which went on strike were counted 0–0, with both teams become a loss counted. A game between one of Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, OFI, and Panionios against the teams on strike was awarded 2–0 to the team of the first group.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nikos Anastopoulos	Olympiacos	16
2	Dimitris Saravakos	Panathinaikos	13
	Giorgos Vlastos	OFI
	Misho Vulchev	Doxa Drama
5	Sakis Anastasiadis	Iraklis	10
	Panagiotis Tsalouchidis	Veria
7	Georgios Skartados	PAOK	8
	Christos Dimopoulos	Panathinaikos
	Kostas Batsinilas	Panathinaikos
	Giorgos Christofis	Diagoras

External links

• Official Greek FA Site
• RSSSF
• Greek SuperLeague official Site
• SuperLeague Statistics