2009–10 Beta Ethniki

2009–10 was a season of Beta Ethniki (Greek: Β' Εθνική), the Greek professional football second division (see Greek football league system).

Beta Ethniki

Season	2009–10
Champions	Olympiacos Volos 1937
Promoted	Olympiacos Volos 1937 Kerkyra Panserraikos
Relegated	Rodos Kalamata Egaleo
← 2008–09 2010–11 →

Overview

• Atromitos, PAS Giannina and Kavala have earned the promotion to Super League Greece, while Kastoria, Kallithea and Veria relegated to Gamma Ethniki (see 2008–09 Beta Ethniki).
• Thrasyvoulos, Panserraikos and OFI will compete in Beta Ethniki this season after being relegated from the Super League in 2008–09.
• Doxa Drama and Ilioupoli will compete in Beta Ethniki this season after earning promotion from Gamma Ethniki in 2008–09. Ilisiakos merged with Egaleo, which was relegated to Delta Ethniki in 2008–2009 season and renamed as Egaleo in August 2009.
• Panetolikos earned promotion from Gamma Ethniki by beating Rodos in Gamma Ethniki promotion play-offs.
• Rodos earned promotion from Gamma Ethniki by qualifying for the Gamma Ethniki play-offs and replacing the suspended Apollon Kalamarias.

League table

Egaleo
E. Asteras
Ilioupoli

Agrotikos Ast.

Anagennisi

Diagoras
Rodos

Doxa

Ethnikos P.
Ionikos

Kalamata

Kerkyra

OFI

Olympiacos V.

Panetolikos

Panserraikos

Pierikos

Thrasyvoulos

Location of teams in 2009–10 Beta Ethniki

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Olympiacos Volos (C, P)	34	21	5	8	73	36	+37	68	Promotion to Super League
2	Kerkyra (P)	34	18	9	7	45	25	+20	63
3	OFI	34	18	8	8	44	35	+9	62	Qualification for Promotion play-offs
4	Ethnikos Piraeus	34	14	11	9	43	30	+13	53
5	Panserraikos (P)	34	14	10	10	36	35	+1	52
6	Pierikos	34	12	14	8	41	31	+10	50
7	Panetolikos	34	13	11	10	43	36	+7	50
8	Diagoras Rodos	34	14	6	14	43	42	+1	48
9	Ilioupoli	34	12	10	12	33	35	−2	46
10	Agrotikos Asteras	34	10	15	9	36	31	+5	45
11	Ethnikos Asteras	34	12	9	13	39	37	+2	45
12	Anagennisi Karditsa	34	10	14	10	29	28	+1	44
13	Thrasyvoulos	34	9	14	11	42	42	0	41	Qualification for Relegation play-offs
14	Doxa Drama	34	10	10	14	37	49	−12	40
15	Ionikos	34	10	9	15	32	45	−13	39
16	Rodos (R)	34	9	7	18	31	46	−15	34
17	Kalamata (R)	34	6	10	18	21	49	−28	28	Relegation to Football League 2
18	Egaleo (R)	34	5	6	23	19	55	−36	21	Relegation to Delta Ethniki[a]

Source: Soccerway, ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. After Egaleo got relegated to the Delta Ethniki in the 2008–09 Gamma Ethniki season, Egaleo merged with Ilisiakos and renamed to Egaleo A.O. However, at the end of the 2009–10 season, this merger was determined illegal by the Greek Council of State, hence the merger was cancelled and Egaleo were relegated to Delta Ethniki.

Results

Home \ Away	AGR	KRD	DIA	DDR	EGA	ETA	ETH	ILI	ION	KAL	KER	OFI	OLV	PNT	PSE	PIE	ROD	THR
Agrotikos Asteras		0–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	3–0	3–1	2–2	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–0
Anagennisi Karditsa	1–1		0–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0
Diagoras Rodos	0–0	1–0		2–2	3–2	3–1	0–2	1–2	4–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–2	2–1
Doxa Drama	0–1	0–0	2–2		2–0	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–2	1–2	1–2	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	4–3
Egaleo	0–2	2–0	1–2	0–0		1–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	0–3[a]	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–2
Ethnikos Asteras	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–0		1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–2	2–0	1–0
Ethnikos Piraeus	2–2	2–3	1–1	4–0	1–0	1–2		2–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0
Ilioupoli	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–2		1–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	1–3	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–2
Ionikos	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–1		3–1	0–0	1–1	2–3	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1
Kalamata	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–3	0–0	0–0	1–0		0–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–3	2–1	0–0	0–2
Kerkyra	3–2	4–2	3–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	3–0		3–0	0–0	0–0	4–0	0–0	1–0	1–0
OFI	1–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–0	2–1	0–2	1–0	3–0	3–0	3–1		1–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	3–0	2–1
Olympiacos Volos 1937	4–1	0–1	2–0	4–0	6–0	0–1	2–0	3–2	2–1	3–0	1–3	3–0		3–1	2–0	2–1	5–2	5–1
Panetolikos	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	2–2	4–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–2		2–0	1–1	1–0	3–0
Panserraikos	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–2		1–1	2–0	2–2
Pierikos	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	2–3	2–0	1–0		1–0	2–4
Rodos	2–2	1–0	0–2	0–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–1	3–2	1–0	2–3	1–1		1–1
Thrasyvoulos	2–1	3–0	2–2	3–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–1

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

1. Match awarded.

Play-offs

Starting from this season,a play-off group will be held between the teams which finished in positions 3-6 for the last promotion spot, and a play-out group between the teams which finished in positions 13-16 for the last relegation spot.

The same system which is used to the European play-off of First Division (see Super League Greece) will be applied. The play-off and play-out of Second Division (Football League). Teams play each other in a home and away round robin. However, they do not all start with 0 points. Instead, a weighting system applies to the teams' standing at the start of the play-off mini-league. The team finishing sixth in the Football League will start the play-off with 0 points. The sixth placed team's end of season tally of points is subtracted from the sum of the points that other teams have. The only difference with European play-off of Super League is that this number is then divided by four (instead to five in Super League), to give the other teams the points with which they start the mini-league. If necessary, points will be rounded.

As a result, the teams will start the promotional play-offs with the following number of points:

• OFI – 3 points ((62–50) / 4 )
• Ethikos Peiraeus – 1 point ((53–50) / 4 = 0.75, rounded to 1)
• Panserraikos– 1 point ((52–50) / 4 = 0.5, rounded to 1)
• Pierikos – 0 points ((50–50) / 4 = 0)

Also, the teams will start the relegation play-offs with the following number of points:

• Thrasyvoulos - 2 points ((41-34) / 4 = 1.75, rounded to 2)
• Doxa Dramas - 2 points ((40-34) / 4 = 1.5, rounded to 2)
• Ionikos - 1 point ((39-34) / 4=1.25, rounded to 1)
• Rodos - 0 points ((34–34) / 4 = 0)

Promotion play-offs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion		PSE	OFI	ETH	PIE
1	Panserraikos (P)	6	4	1	1	9	3	+6	14	Promotion to Super League			1–1	1–0	2–0
2	OFI	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	12			0–1		2–1	2–1
3	Ethnikos Piraeus	6	2	2	2	11	11	0	9			1–0	4–4		2–1
4	Pierikos	6	0	2	4	6	13	−7	2			1–4	0–0	3–3

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(P) Promoted

Relegation play-offs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation		DDR	THR	ION	ROD
1	Doxa Drama	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	11				2–0	2–0	1–1
2	Thrasyvoulos	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	10			1–1		3–1	3–2
3	Ionikos	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	9			2–1	2–0		1–1
4	Rodos (R)	6	0	5	1	7	8	−1	5	Relegation to Football League 2		1–1	1–1	1–1

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ilias Solakis	Olympiacos Volos 1937	20
2	Rogério	Olympiacos Volos 1937	18
3	Efstathios Karamalikis	Thrasyvoulos	16
4	Giorgos Theodoridis	Panetolikos	14
5	Marko Markovski	Doxa Drama	13
6	Furtado	Ionikos	12
	Rodrigo	Ethnikos Piraeus
8	Anestis Agritis	OFI	10
	Marc-Eric Guei	Ethnikos Asteras
	Leozinho	Panserraikos