2006–07 Super League Greece

The 2006–07 Super League Greece was the 71st season of the highest football league of Greece and the inaugural under the name Super League. The season began on 19 August 2006 and ended on 13 May 2007. Olympiacos clinched the title on 22 April with their victory over Kerkyra, for their third straight title and 10th in the last 11 years.

Super League Greece

Season	2006–07
Champions	Olympiacos 35th Greek title
Relegated	Egaleo Ionikos Kerkyra
Champions League	Olympiacos AEK Athens
UEFA Cup	AEL (via domestic cup) Aris Panathinaikos Panionios
Intertoto Cup	OFI
Matches played	240
Goals scored	558 (2.33 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nikos Liberopoulos (18 goals)
Biggest home win	AEK Athens 5–0 AEL Olympiacos 5–0 Apollon Kalamarias
Biggest away win	Ionikos 1–5 AEK Athens
Highest scoring	Ionikos 3–5 Olympiacos
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

For the next season, Ionikos, Kerkyra and Egaleo have been relegated to B' Ethniki given that they have finished in the lowest three spots of the table. Asteras Tripolis, Levadiakos and Veria was promoted from B' Ethniki for 2007–08.

Teams

Stadia and personnel

AEK Athens
Atromitos
Egaleo
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Apollon K.
Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Ergotelis
OFI

Kerkyra

AEL

Ionikos
Olympiacos

Skoda Xanthi

Location of the 2006–07 Super League Greece teams

Team	Manager1	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens	Lorenzo Serra Ferrer	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
AEL	Giorgos Donis	Larissa	Alcazar Stadium	13,108
Apollon Kalamarias	Makis Katsavakis	Thessaloniki	Kalamaria Stadium	6,500
Aris	Quique Hernández	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	23,220
Atromitos	Dragan Kokotović	Peristeri	Peristeri Stadium	9,035
Egaleo	Stelios Poulos	Athens	Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium	8,217
Ergotelis	Nikos Karageorgiou	Heraklion	Pankritio Stadium	26,400
Ionikos	Augusto Inácio	Piraeus	Neapoli Stadium	4,999
Iraklis	Ivan Jovanović	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	27,770
Kerkyra	Babis Tennes	Corfu	Kerkyra Stadium	2,685
OFI	Reiner Maurer	Heraklion	Pankritio Stadium	26,400
Olympiacos	Takis Lemonis	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium	33,334
Panathinaikos	Víctor Muñoz	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
Panionios	Ewald Lienen	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium	11,756
PAOK	Giorgos Paraschos	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium	28,803
Skoda Xanthi	Nikos Kehagias	Xanthi	Skoda Xanthi Arena	7,442

• ¹ On final match day of the season, played on 13 May 2007.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	22	5	3	62	23	+39	71	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	AEK Athens	30	18	8	4	60	27	+33	62	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Panathinaikos	30	16	6	8	47	28	+19	54	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
4	Aris	30	11	13	6	32	26	+6	46
5	Panionios	30	12	9	9	33	31	+2	45[a]
6	PAOK	30	13	6	11	32	29	+3	45[a]
7	OFI	30	12	6	12	41	45	−4	42	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup third round[b]
8	Atromitos	30	10	10	10	40	44	−4	40
9	Ergotelis	30	11	6	13	30	32	−2	39
10	AEL	30	9	9	12	30	38	−8	36	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[c]
11	Skoda Xanthi	30	8	12	10	24	22	+2	36
12	Apollon Kalamarias	30	9	8	13	27	36	−9	35[d]
13	Iraklis	30	10	5	15	25	34	−9	35[d]
14	Kerkyra (R)	30	8	11	11	34	36	−2	35[d]	Relegation to the Beta Ethniki
15	Egaleo (R)	30	7	7	16	27	45	−18	28
16	Ionikos[e] (R)	30	2	3	25	14	62	−48	4

Source: Super League Greece
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: PAOK–Panionios 1–1, Panionios–PAOK 3–1.
2. PAOK turned down entry to the Intertoto Cup allowing OFI to accept the bid from Greece.
3. Larissa qualified for one of the four UEFA Cup spots based on their victory in the Greek Football Cup.
4. Head-to-head record: Apollon Kalamarias: 9 pts, Iraklis: 4 pts, Kerkyra: 4 pts. Iraklis ahead of Kerkyra on head-to-head goal difference.
5. Ionikos had 2 points deducted for an attack by the club's Chairman on the Referee in Round 6, and 3 points deducted for incidents in Round 14.The game against Iraklis suspended at the 92th after a violent attack to the assistant referee^[1]

Results

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

Source: Worldfootball.net
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. The match between Ionikos and Iraklis was awarded to Iraklis after being suspended at 92nd minute (score: 2–2).

Top scorers

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nikos Liberopoulos	AEK Athens	18
2	Rivaldo	Olympiacos	17
3	Dimitris Salpingidis	Panathinaikos	14
	Marcin Mięciel	PAOK
5	Nery Castillo	Olympiacos	12
	Dimitris Papadopoulos	Panathinaikos
	Goran Drulić	OFI
8	Koke	Aris	10
9	Alban Bushi	Apollon Kalamarias	9
	Júlio César	AEK Athens

Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards

Matchday	MVP	Best Goal	Ref
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th	Víctor Sánchez (Panathinaikos)	Stelios Sfakianakis (OFI)	[2]
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
22nd
23rd
24th
25th
26th
27th	Koke (Aris)	Stelios Iliadis (PAOK)	[3]
28th	Kostas Chalkias (Aris)	Rogério Belém (Aris)	[4]
29th
30th	Rivaldo (Olympiacos)	Manolis Skoufalis (Panionios)	[5]

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 17 December 2007.^[6]

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Nikos Liberopoulos	AEK Athens
Foreign Player of the Season	Rivaldo	Olympiacos
Young Player of the Season	Sotiris Ninis	Panathinaikos
Goalkeeper of the Season	Arkadiusz Malarz	Skoda Xanthi
Golden Boot	Nikos Liberopoulos	AEK Athens
Manager of the Season	Ewald Lienen	Panionios