2012–13 Football League (Greece)

The 2012–13 Football League is the second division of the Greek professional football system and the third season under the name Football League after previously being known as Beta Ethniki. Its regular season began on 28 September 2012 and will end on 9 June 2013. The promotion play-offs, are scheduled to take place after regular season.

Football League

Season	2012–13
Champions	Apollon Smyrnis
Promoted	Apollon Smyrnis Ergotelis AEL Kalloni Panetolikos
Relegated	Panserraikos AEL Thrasyvoulos Anagennisi Epanomi
Matches played	160
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

Teams

Apollon Sm.
Kallithea

Iraklis Thessaloniki

Anagennisi Epanomi

Anagennisi G.

Doxa

Ergotelis

Ethnikos

Fokikos

Iraklis Psachna

Kalloni

Kavala

AEL

Niki
Olympiacos

Panachaiki

Panetolikos

Panserraikos

Pierikos

Thrasyvoulos

Vyzas

Location of teams in 2012–13 Football League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Last season	Ref
AEL	Larissa	AEL FC Arena	16,118	10th	[1]
AEL Kalloni	Kalloni	Mytilene Municipal Stadium2	4,000	6th	[2]
Anagennisi Epanomi	Epanomi	Nikos Sarafis Stadium	1,736	9th	[3]
Anagennisi Giannitsa	Giannitsa	Giannitsa Municipal Stadium	8,000	13th	[3]
Apollon Smyrnis	Athens	Georgios Kamaras Stadium	14,856	FL2 South, 1st	[4]
Doxa Drama	Drama	Doxa Dramas Stadium	7,000	SL, 16th	[5]
Ergotelis	Heraklion	Pankritio Stadium	25,780	SL, 14th	[6]
Ethnikos Gazoros	Gazoros	Serres Municipal Stadium1	9,500	FL2 North, 1st	[3]
Fokikos	Amfissa	Amfissa Municipal Stadium	2,000	14th	[3]
Iraklis Psachna	Psachna	Psachna Municipal Stadium	5,500	11th	[3]
Iraklis Thessaloniki	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	27,770	FL2 North, 5th	[7]
Kallithea	Kallithea	Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium	4,250	3rd	[8]
Kavala	Kavala	Anthi Karagianni Stadium	10,500	Delta Ethniki, 4th	[9]
Niki Volos	Volos	Panthessaliko Stadium	22,700	FL2 North, 2nd	[10]
Olympiacos Volos 1937	Volos	Panthessaliko Stadium	22,700	-	[10]
Panachaiki	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium	11,321	4th	[11]
Panetolikos	Agrinio	Panetolikos Stadium	6,500	SL, 15th	[12]
Panserraikos	Serres	Serres Municipal Stadium	8,300	7th	[3]
Pierikos	Katerini	Katerini Municipal Stadium	4,956	8th	[13]
Thrasyvoulos	Fyli	Fyli Municipal Stadium	3,142	12th	[3]
Vyzas	Megara	Megara Municipal Stadium	2,350	15th	[3]

1. ^ Ethnikos Gazoros' home 500-seater Gazoros Municipal Stadium doesn't meet Football League regulations.^[14]
2. ^ Kalloni's home 800-seater Kalloni Municipal Stadium doesn't meet Football League regulations.^[2]

Structure

At present, there are twenty one clubs that compete in the Football League, playing each other in a home and away series. At the end of the season, the bottom three teams are relegated to the Gamma Ethniki. The top three teams gain automatic promotion. However, teams positioned fourth to seventh take part in a promotion play-off. Unlike in Super League, clubs in the Football League do not get relegated if the club fails to obtain a license. All teams in the Football League take part in the Greek Football Cup.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Apollon Smyrnis (C, P)	40	22	9	9	50	29	+21	75	Promotion to Super League
2	Ergotelis (P)	40	21	11	8	42	25	+17	74
3	AEL Kalloni (P)	40	20	13	7	48	22	+26	73[a]
4	Panetolikos (P)	40	20	13	7	55	23	+32	73[a]	Qualification for promotion play-offs
5	Olympiacos Volos	40	19	16	5	49	23	+26	73[a]
6	Iraklis Thessaloniki	40	19	14	7	49	25	+24	71
7	Niki Volos	40	17	17	6	44	23	+21	68[b]
8	Panserraikos (R)	40	19	11	10	40	29	+11	68[b]	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
9	Doxa Drama	40	16	12	12	35	27	+8	60
10	Iraklis Psachna	40	13	16	11	42	37	+5	55
11	Kavala	40	14	11	15	35	36	−1	53
12	Kallithea	40	12	14	14	42	44	−2	50
13	AEL[c] (R)	40	16	15	9	42	26	+16	42	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
14	Ethnikos Gazoros	40	9	14	17	27	35	−8	41
15	Panachaiki[d]	40	9	15	16	32	40	−8	39
16	Fokikos	40	8	13	19	28	51	−23	37
17	Vyzas	40	7	11	22	22	49	−27	32
18	Anagennisi Giannitsa[c]	40	9	7	24	35	68	−33	30
19	Pierikos[c]	40	9	12	19	33	61	−28	29
20	Thrasyvoulos[e] (R)	40	6	13	21	22	47	−25	22	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
21	Anagennisi Epanomi[c] (R)	40	2	9	29	24	74	−50	9

Source: Football League standings^[usurped]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Head-to-head record: AEL Kalloni: 8 pts, Panetolikos: 4 pts, Olympiacos Volos: 3 pts.
2. Head-to-head record: Niki Volos–Panserraikos 3–0, Panserraikos–Niki Volos 0–1.
3. AEL was docked 21 points, Pierikos was docked 10 points, Anagennisi Giannitsa were docked 4 points, Anagennisi Epanomi were docked 6 points, because of debts to former players according to HFF decisions.^[15]
4. On 31 December 2012, Panachaiki was docked 3 points because of the suspension of the Greek Cup match against Olympiacos on 19 December 2012.^[16]
5. Thrasyvoulos was docked 6 points because of debts to former players according to HFF decision.^[15]
   On 19 April 2013, Thrasyvoulos was docked 3 points because of debts to a former player.^[17]

Results

Home \ Away	AEL	AEP	AGN	APS	DDR	ERG	GAZ	FOK	IPS	IRT	KLT	KAL	KAV	NVL	OVL	PCK	PNT	PSE	PIE	THR	VYZ
AEL		3–1	3–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	5–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	4–2	1–1	1–0
Anagennisi Epanomi	0–1		0–3	1–3	0–1	1–2	0–0	1–3	1–1	1–3	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–5	0–0
Anagennisi Giannitsa	2–0	2–2		0–0	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–3	1–0	3–1	2–1	2–1
Apollon Smyrnis	4–2	2–0	4–2		2–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–2	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0
Doxa Drama	1–1	2–0	2–3	0–1		1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0
Ergotelis	0–0	2–0	4–1	1–0	1–0		1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–0
Ethnikos Gazoros	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1		4–0	1–1	1–3	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–1
Fokikos	0–0	1–1	3–0	1–2	0–1	2–1	1–0		1–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	3–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	1–0	1–0
Iraklis Psachna	1–0	4–3	5–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–1		0–3	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–3	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–1
Iraklis Thessaloniki	1–0	2–0	3–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–3	2–2	1–1		0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–2	2–0	3–0	2–1	3–0
Kallithea	0–1	5–0	3–2	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–1		1–0	2–2	1–0	0–2	3–3	1–1	2–3	3–1	1–0	0–0
AEL Kalloni	1–0	3–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–0		2–1	0–2	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	5–2	3–0	3–1
Kavala	1–1	3–0	2–1	1–3	1–2	0–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0		1–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–0
Niki Volos	0–0	4–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–2		1–1	3–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	2–0
Olympiacos Volos	0–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–0		0–1	0–0	2–1	4–1	3–1	3–0
Panachaiki	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–3	2–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–1		1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–1
Panetolikos	0–1	4–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–2	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	3–2	4–3		0–0	4–0	3–0	3–0
Panserraikos	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–3	2–1	0–1	2–2	2–1	0–0		3–0	0–0	3–0
Pierikos	0–0	1–0	4–0	0–1	0–3	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–0	0–4	1–0		1–0	2–1
Thrasyvoulos	0–1	1–0	4–1	0–2	0–4	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–3	0–0	0–0		0–0
Vyzas	0–3	3–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–3	0–1	1–1	0–0

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

Promotion play-offs

The promotion play-offs will comprise the teams ranked 3rd through 6th during the regular season, and they are scheduled to take place immediately after the conclusion of the regular season.^[18] Niki Volos started the playoffs with a one-point disadvantage, because of their worse position in contrast to the other teams, when the main season finished.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation		PNT	IRT	OVL	NVL
1	Panetolikos (P)	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	14	Promotion to Super League			2–0	2–1	2–1
2	Iraklis Thessaloniki	6	3	0	3	7	8	−1	10			2–1		0–1	4–0
3	Olympiacos Volos	6	2	2	2	9	6	+3	9			1–2	4–0		1–1
4	Niki Volos	6	0	3	3	4	10	−6	3			1–1	0–1	1–1

Source: ^[18]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(P) Promoted

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[19]
1	Michalis Manias	Apollon Smyrnis	18
2	Alexandre D'Acol	Kallithea	16
3	Giorgos Manousos	Kalloni	14
4	Milan Bojović	Panetolikos	12
5	Patrick Ogunsoto	Anagennisi Epanomi/Olympiacos Volos	11
	Leandro Kappel	Doxa Drama	11
7	Konstantinos Fligos	Niki Volos	10
8	Giannis Katsikis	Apollon Smyrnis	9