2004–05 Alpha Ethniki

The 2004–05 Alpha Ethniki was the 69th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 18 September 2004 and ended on 25 May 2005. Olympiacos won their 33rd Greek title.

Alpha Ethniki

Season	2004–05
Champions	Olympiacos 33rd Greek title
Relegated	Aris Ergotelis Kerkyra
Champions League	Olympiacos Panathinaikos
UEFA Cup	AEK Athens Skoda Xanthi PAOK Aris
Intertoto Cup	Egaleo
Matches played	240
Goals scored	557 (2.32 per match)
Top goalscorer	Theofanis Gekas (18 goals)
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

Teams

Stadia and personnel

AEK Athens
Egaleo
Kallithea
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Apollon
Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Ergotelis
OFI

Chalkidon
Ionikos
Olympiacos

Kerkyra

Skoda Xanthi

Location of teams in 2004–05 Alpha Ethniki

Team	Manager1	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens	Fernando Santos	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
Apollon Kalamarias	Dragan Kokotović	Thessaloniki	Kalamaria Stadium	6,500
Aris	Georgios Chatzaras	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	23,220
Chalkidona	Georgios Paraschos	Athens	Peristeri Stadium	9,035
Egaleo	Ilie Dumitrescu	Athens	Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium	8,217
Ergotelis	Manolis Patmetzis	Heraklion	Pankritio Stadium	26,400
Ionikos	Vangelis Vlachos	Piraeus	Neapoli Stadium	4,999
Iraklis	Sergio Markarián	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	27,770
Kallithea	Takis Lemonis	Kallithea	Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium	4,250
Kerkyra	Lakis Papaioannou	Corfu	Kerkyra Stadium	2,685
OFI	Giannis Chatzinikolaou	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium	9,000
Olympiacos	Dušan Bajević	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium	33,334
Panathinaikos	Alberto Malesani	Athens	Leoforos Alexandras Stadium	16,620
Panionios	Dimitrios Barbalias	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium	11,756
PAOK	Nikos Karageorgiou	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium	28,803
Skoda Xanthi	Ioannis Matzourakis	Xanthi	Skoda Xanthi Arena	7,442

• ¹ On final match day of the season, played on 25 May 2005.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos[a] (C)	30	19	8	3	54	18	+36	65	Qualification for Champions League group stage
2	Panathinaikos	30	19	7	4	51	18	+33	64	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
3	AEK Athens	30	17	11	2	46	22	+24	62	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Skoda Xanthi	30	14	8	8	43	29	+14	50
5	PAOK	30	13	7	10	43	39	+4	46
6	Egaleo	30	11	12	7	31	26	+5	45	Qualification for Intertoto Cup third round
7	Iraklis	30	12	5	13	36	30	+6	41
8	Chalkidona[b]	30	10	8	12	34	38	−4	38
9	Kallithea	30	9	10	11	39	44	−5	37
10	Ionikos	30	8	12	10	22	32	−10	36
11	Panionios[a]	30	8	11	11	25	32	−7	35
12	Apollon Kalamarias	30	8	9	13	31	49	−18	33
13	OFI	30	8	8	14	36	44	−8	32
14	Aris[c] (R)	30	5	13	12	26	37	−11	25	UEFA Cup first round and relegation to Beta Ethniki[d]
15	Ergotelis (R)	30	5	5	20	19	50	−31	20	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
16	Kerkyra (R)	30	3	8	19	21	49	−28	17

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. Olympiacos and Panionios originally had three points deducted for the incidents before their match in the round 16 but these deductions were cancelled on appeal.
2. Chalkidona were merged with Atromitos and therefore were replaced by them for the next season.
3. Aris had three points deducted for the incidents in the match against Iraklis in the matchday 29.
4. Aris were qualified for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup as runners-up of the Greek Football Cup.

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	APK	ARIS	CHA	EGA	ERG	ION	IRA	KLT	KER	OFI	OLY	PAO	PGSS	PAOK	XAN
AEK Athens		3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–1	4–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1
Apollon Kalamarias	2–1		0–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	1–2	3–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	3–3	2–1	1–1
Aris	1–1	0–0		1–2	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–2[a]	2–2	2–0	3–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–3	2–1
Chalkidona	1–1	2–3	1–0		1–1	2–0	0–1	0–0	4–2	0–0	2–3	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	2–1
Egaleo	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–1		2–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–1
Ergotelis	0–1	4–1	1–1	1–1	2–1		2–3	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–3	0–3	0–1	0–2
Ionikos	2–3	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–0		1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–4	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1
Iraklis	1–2	2–3	0–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–0		5–1	5–1	1–0	0–1	0–4	0–1	1–0	1–1
Kallithea	1–2	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–1		1–2	3–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	2–3
Kerkyra	2–2	0–2	0–0	1–3	0–1	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–1		1–1	1–3	2–0	1–3	0–1	3–0
OFI	2–3	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	5–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–1		1–1	1–2	2–0	2–2	1–0
Olympiacos	1–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	3–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	3–0		1–0	3–0	5–1	0–0
Panathinaikos	0–0	5–1	0–0	6–3	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	5–1	1–0		4–0	2–1	3–1
Panionios	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–2	0–1		2–0	0–0
PAOK	1–1	5–2	2–2	2–1	2–4	0–2	3–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	4–1	1–1	1–1	1–0		1–0
Skoda Xanthi	1–1	4–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	3–0	0–2

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

1. The match between Aris and Iraklis was awarded to Iraklis after being suspended at 43rd minute (score: 1–2).

Top scorers

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Theofanis Gekas	Panathinaikos	18
2	Luciano	Skoda Xanthi	16
3	Michalis Konstantinou	Panathinaikos	15
4	Giorgos Barkoglou	Egaleo	14
	Dimitris Salpingidis	PAOK
6	Nikos Machlas	OFI	13
7	Rivaldo	Olympiacos	12
8	Patrick Ogunsoto	Ergotelis	11
	Alessandro Soares	AEK Athens
10	Giorgos Zacharopoulos	Chalkidona	10
	Kostas Katsouranis	AEK Athens
	Giovanni	Olympiacos

Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 14 November 2005.^[1]

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Kostas Katsouranis	AEK Athens
Foreign Player of the Season	Luciano	Skoda Xanthi
Young Player of the Season	Panagiotis Lagos	Iraklis
Goalkeeper of the Season	Antonios Nikopolidis	Olympiacos
Golden Boot	Theofanis Gekas	Panathinaikos
Manager of the Season	Fernando Santos	AEK Athens