1998–99 Alpha Ethniki

The 1998–99 Alpha Ethniki was the 63rd season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 22 August 1998 and ended on 30 May 1999. Olympiacos won their third consecutive and 28th Greek title.

Alpha Ethniki

Season	1998–99
Champions	Olympiacos 28th Greek title
Relegated	Panelefsiniakos Veria Ethnikos Piraeus
Champions League	Olympiacos AEK Athens
UEFA Cup	Panathinaikos PAOK Ionikos Aris
Matches played	306
Goals scored	832 (2.72 per match)
Top goalscorer	Demis Nikolaidis (22 goals)
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

Teams

Stadia and personnel

AEK Athens
Apollon
E. Asteras
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Ethnikos P.
Ionikos
Olympiacos
Proodeftiki

Kavala

OFI

Panelefsiniakos

Paniliakos

Skoda Xanthi

Veria

Location of teams in 1998–99 Alpha Ethniki

Team	Manager1	Location	Stadium
AEK Athens	Oleg Blokhin	Athens	Nikos Goumas Stadium
Apollon Athens	Andreas Michalopoulos	Athens	Rizoupoli Stadium
Aris	Alketas Panagoulias	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium
Ethnikos Asteras	Spyros Livathinos	Athens	Michalis Kritikopoulos Stadium
Ethnikos Piraeus	Panagiotis Alexopoulos	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium
Ionikos	Sergio Markarián	Piraeus	Neapoli Stadium
Iraklis	Mats Jingblad	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium
Kavala	Makis Katsavakis	Kavala	Kavala National Stadium
OFI	Eugène Gerards	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium
Olympiacos	Dušan Bajević	Piraeus	Athens Olympic Stadium
Panathinaikos	Vasilios Daniil	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium
Panelefsiniakos	Stathis Stathopoulos	Elefsina	Municipal Stadium of Elefsina
Paniliakos	Babis Tennes	Pyrgos	Pyrgos Stadium
Panionios	Ronnie Whelan	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium
PAOK	Arie Haan	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium
Proodeftiki	Nikos Alefantos	Piraeus	Nikaia Municipal Stadium
Skoda Xanthi	Giannis Matzourakis	Xanthi	Xanthi Ground
Veria	Petros Ravousis	Veria	Veria Stadium

• ¹ On final match day of the season, played on 30 May 1999.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	34	27	4	3	82	22	+60	85	Qualification for Champions League first group stage
2	AEK Athens	34	23	6	5	71	27	+44	75	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
3	Panathinaikos	34	23	5	6	66	36	+30	74	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	PAOK	34	19	5	10	52	31	+21	62
5	Ionikos	34	17	9	8	64	36	+28	60[a]
6	Aris	34	19	3	12	53	43	+10	60[a]
7	Skoda Xanthi	34	16	8	10	44	33	+11	56
8	OFI	34	16	3	15	50	44	+6	51
9	Iraklis	34	13	8	13	54	45	+9	47
10	Kavala	34	12	6	16	46	62	−16	42
11	Ethnikos Asteras	34	11	7	16	40	58	−18	40
12	Proodeftiki	34	10	9	15	28	37	−9	39
13	Paniliakos	34	11	5	18	37	54	−17	38
14	Apollon Athens	34	9	9	16	42	62	−20	36
15	Panionios	34	9	5	20	42	58	−16	32[b]
16	Panelefsiniakos (R)	34	7	11	16	25	49	−24	32[b]	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
17	Veria (R)	34	6	5	23	20	55	−35	23
18	Ethnikos Piraeus (R)	34	0	8	26	17	81	−64	8

Source: Galanis Sports Data
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Head-to-head record: Aris–Ionikos 1–1, Ionikos–Aris 3–0.
2. Head-to-head record: Panionios–Panelefsiniakos 3–0, Panelefsiniakos–Panionios 1–0.

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	APA	ARIS	ETA	ETH	ION	IRA	KAV	OFI	OLY	PAO	PNE	PNL	PGSS	PAOK	PRO	XAN	VER
AEK Athens		3–1	6–0	3–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	4–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	6–2	3–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–0
Apollon Athens	1–1		1–3	2–2	4–0	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–0	2–5	1–3	1–1	5–0	0–0	1–4	2–2	2–1	2–0
Aris	2–0	2–1		2–0	4–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	2–0
Ethnikos Asteras	2–3	5–1	0–1		1–0	1–1	1–0	3–2	1–0	1–3	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–2	0–1	4–0
Ethnikos Piraeus	1–4	2–3	1–1	1–2		1–2	1–2	0–2	1–3	0–3	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–4	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–2
Ionikos	2–1	3–0	3–0	5–0	5–0		0–2	4–2	2–0	1–3	4–4	3–0	1–1	4–3	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0
Iraklis	2–3	2–0	2–1	1–1	4–0	2–1		2–2	3–0	0–2	3–3	2–3	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	2–0
Kavala	2–1	3–1	0–1	3–0	3–0	1–3	2–0		0–2	0–2	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–5	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1
OFI	0–1	0–1	2–4	1–1	3–0	2–1	3–1	4–0		1–2	2–3	3–0	3–1	2–0	3–2	0–0	4–2	3–0
Olympiacos	0–0	0–0	1–0	4–2	2–0	2–0	3–2	4–1	3–0		0–0	1–1	3–0	5–0	2–1	6–1	3–1	5–0
Panathinaikos	0–0	5–0	3–1	4–1	5–1	2–1	3–2	6–2	1–0	2–4		2–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–0
Panelefsiniakos	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	3–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–2		1–2	1–0	0–4	0–1	0–0	2–0
Paniliakos	0–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	1–4	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–0		2–0	1–2	1–2	1–0	0–0
Panionios	1–3	4–2	3–2	2–0	2–0	0–2	3–2	1–2	0–1[a]	1–4	0–2	3–0	5–2		0–1	0–0	0–2	0–0
PAOK	2–1	3–1	1–4	5–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–2[b]	2–0	3–1	2–0	3–0		1–0	0–0	1–0
Proodeftiki	1–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–1		1–2	1–0
Skoda Xanthi	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	4–1	3–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	4–1		2–0
Veria	0–3	1–1	0–1	3–1	4–3	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–0	0–3	0–1	0–1	0–0	3–1	1–2	3–1	2–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Panionios-OFI abandoned in 30' (9th Round 9/11/99) due to flood-lights problems. The remaining 60' were played in 2/12/99.
2. PAOK-Olympiacos was abandoned in 82' at 1-2 after riots from the PAOK fans. Original score remained.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens	22
2	Nikos Frousos	Ionikos	18
3	Leszek Pisz	Kavala	14
	Ismail Ba	Skoda Xanthi
5	Nikos Liberopoulos	Panathinaikos	13
	Christos Maladenis	AEK Athens
	Paulo Andrioli	Ionikos / Aris
8	Grigoris Georgatos	Olympiacos	12
	Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos
10	Apostolos Liolidis	Aris	11

Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 1 December 1999.^[1]

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Grigoris Georgatos	Olympiacos
Foreign Player of the Season	Siniša Gogić	Olympiacos
Young Player of the Season	Nikos Iordanidis	OFI
Goalkeeper of the Season	Ilias Atmatsidis	AEK Athens
Golden Boot	Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens
Manager of the Season	Dušan Bajević	Olympiacos