2014–15 Football League (Greece)

The 2014–15 Football League is the second division of the Greek professional football system and the fifth season under the name Football League after previously being known as Beta Ethniki. This is the second season since 1982–83, and the third season overall, that the league has more than one group. The groups are created based on geographical criteria.

Football League

Season	2014–15
Champions	AEK Athens
Promoted	AEK Athens Iraklis Thessaloniki
Relegated	Apollon Kalamarias Serres Fokikos Tyrnavos Aiginiakos Pierikos Alimos Fostiras Paniliakos Enosi Ermionida Episkopi Iraklis Psachna
Top goalscorer	Christos Aravidis (17 goals)
← 2013–14 2015–16 →

Notes

Doxa Drama and Aris withdrew from the league before the North Group draw. As a result of this the group left with only 12 teams and Fokikos moved from the South Group to the North Group.

North Group

In the North Group, as well as in the South Group, the top three teams of each group will qualify for a playoff round, to determine which two teams will be promoted to the Super League. The bottom three teams of each group will be relegated. The teams in the 5th - 10th positions of each group will qualify for the relegation playoff round, to determine which six teams will also be relegated. For this season there will be 12 teams relegated in total (the bottom three teams from each group and the six teams from the relegation playoff), in order for the 2015-16 Football League to have only one group of 20 teams.

Teams

Apollon

Iraklis Thessaloniki
Agrotikos Asteras

Aiginiakos

Anagennisi K.

PAE Serres

Pierikos

Tyrnavos

Zakynthos

Fokikos

AEL

Olympiacos

Lamia

Location of teams in North Group of 2014–15 Football League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Last season
AEL	Larissa	AEL FC Arena	16,118	FL 2,Group 2 , 1st
Agrotikos Asteras	Evosmos	Agrotikos Asteras Ground	2,267	FL 2,Group 1 , 1st
Aiginiakos	Aiginio	Municipal Stadium of Aiginio	1,000	North Group, 3rd & Play-offs, 6th
Anagennisi Karditsa	Karditsa	Karditsa Stadium	9,500	North Group, 5th
Apollon Kalamaria	Kalamaria	Kalamaria Stadium	6,500	North Group, 7th
PAE Serres	Serres	Serres Municipal Stadium	9,500	North Group, 8th
Fokikos	Amfissa	Amfissa Municipal Stadium	2,000	South Group, 9th
Iraklis Thessaloniki	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	27,770	North Group, 4th & Play-offs, 7th
Kallithea	Kallithea	Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium	4,250	South Group, 8th
Lamia	Lamia	Lamia Stadium	6,000	FL 2,Group 3 , 1st
Olympiacos Volos	Volos	Volos Municipal Stadium	9,000	South Group, 1st & Play-offs, 3rd
Pierikos	Katerini	Katerini Municipal Stadium	4,956	North Group, 11th
Tyrnavos	Tyrnavos	Alcazar Stadium	13,108	North Group, 6th
Zakynthos	Zakynthos	Zakynthians Olympic Champions Ground	2,000	North Group, 9th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Iraklis Thessaloniki (Q)	24	17	6	1	34	8	+26	57	Qualification to promotion play-offs
2	AEL (Q)	24	14	3	7	27	11	+16	45
3	Olympiacos Volos (Q)	24	14	3	7	33	21	+12	45
4	Lamia	24	12	7	5	24	17	+7	43
5	Zakynthos (Q)	24	11	6	7	26	27	−1	39	Qualification to relegation play-offs
6	Anagennisi Karditsa (Q)	24	10	2	12	26	27	−1	32
7	Aiginiakos (Q)	24	8	6	10	23	19	+4	30
8	Pierikos (Q)	24	7	9	8	19	29	−10	30
9	Agrotikos Asteras (Q)	24	8	5	11	23	27	−4	29
10	Tyrnavos (Q)	24	7	8	9	16	24	−8	29
11	Apollon Kalamarias (R)	24	7	5	12	19	23	−4	26	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
12	Serres (R)	24	3	6	15	11	30	−19	15
13	Fokikos (R)	24	2	6	16	12	30	−18	12

Source: Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points, 2) head-to-head points
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Matches

Home \ Away	AEL	AGR	EGN	KRD	APO	SFC	FOK	IRT	LAM	OVL	PIE	TYR	ZAK
AEL		1–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0
Agrotikos Asteras	0–3		1–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–3	2–0	1–1
Aiginiakos	0–1	2–0		1–0	1–0	2–0	4–0	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	4–0
Anagennisi Karditsa	1–0	1–0	1–2		0–1	1–0	4–0	0–4	0–1	2–0	4–1	0–0	1–1
Apollon Kalamarias	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–0		1–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	5–0
Serres	2–1	0–2	0–0	0–3	1–0		1–1	0–1	0–1	1–2	3–0	0–1	0–0
Fokikos	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–2	0–0		0–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	4–1	1–2
Iraklis Thessaloniki	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–0		0–0	1–0	2–2	3–0	2–0
Lamia	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–31	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1		2–1	3–0	1–1	2–1
Olympiacos Volos	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	3–2	3–2	1–0	0–1	1–0		4–0	2–3	0–2
Pierikos	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–1		1–1	1–1
Tyrnavos	1–2	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–0		0–1
Zakynthos	2–1	1–1	1–0	5–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–0

Source: ^[1]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

• ¹ The match Lamia vs Anagennisi Karditsa 2–1, later awarded 0–3 w/o against Lamia for fielding a suspended player.

South Group

The same rules from the North Group apply to the South Group.

Teams

Acharnaikos
Fostiras
Alimos
Kallithea
AEK Athens
Apollon

Chania

Episkopi

Iraklis Psachna

Panachaiki

Panegialios

Paniliakos

Ermionida

Location of teams in South Group of 2014–15 Football League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Last season
AEK Athens	Maroussi	Olympic Stadium	69,618	FL 2,Group 6 , 1st
Acharnaikos	Menidi	Acharnes Stadium	4,450	South Group, 7th
Alimos	Alimos	Agios Dimitrios Stadium	4,000	FL 2,Group 5 , 1st
Apollon Smyrnis	Athens	Georgios Kamaras Stadium	14,856	SL, 17th
Chania	Chania	Perivolia Municipal Stadium	2,800	South Group, 2nd & Play-offs, 4th
Episkopi	Rethimno	DAK Gallos Stadium	1,300	South Group, 11th
Enosi Ermionida	Kranidi	Municipal Kranidi Stadium	800	FL 2,Group 4 , 1st
Fostiras	Tavros	Tavros Stadium	4,000	South Group, 3rd & Play-offs, 8th
Iraklis Psachna	Psachna	Psachna Municipal Stadium	5,500	South Group, 4th & Play-offs, 5th
Kallithea	Kallithea	Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium	4,250	South Group, 8th
Panachaiki	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium	11,321	South Group, 6th
Panegialios	Aigio	Aigio Stadium	4,500	South Group, 5th
Paniliakos	Pyrgos	Pirgos Municipal Stadium	6,750	South Group, 10th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AEK Athens[a] (Q)	24	22	2	0	67	10	+57	65	Qualification to promotion play-offs
2	Panachaiki (Q)	24	14	4	6	41	22	+19	46
3	Apollon Smyrnis (Q)	24	13	6	5	32	17	+15	45
4	Chania	24	12	6	6	28	20	+8	42
5	Enosi Ermionida (Q)	24	12	5	7	30	28	+2	41	Qualification to relegation play-offs
6	Panegialios (Q)	24	11	7	6	24	12	+12	40
7	Acharnaikos (Q)	24	9	8	7	28	22	+6	35
8	Kallithea (Q)	24	9	6	9	25	25	0	33
9	Episkopi (Q)	24	7	5	12	25	34	−9	26
10	Iraklis Psachna (Q)	24	6	5	13	23	37	−14	23
11	Alimos (R)	24	5	6	13	15	25	−10	21	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
12	Fostiras (R)	24	4	3	17	20	43	−23	15
13	Paniliakos[b] (R)	24	0	1	23	7	70	−63	1

Source: Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points, 2) head-to-head points
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. AEK Athens were deducted 3 points due to extreme fan behavior.
2. Paniliakos withdrew from the league on 15 December 2014.

Matches

Home \ Away	AEK	ACH	ALI	APS	CHA	ENE	EPI	FOS	IPS	KLT	PCK	PEG	PNL
AEK Athens		2–0	3–0	2–1	4–1	4–0	7–0	4–0	5–1	5–1	2–1	3–0	3–01
Acharnaikos	1–2		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	4–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	4–2	0–1	3–1
Alimos	0–1	0–1		0–1	1–2	3–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	0–2	0–1	0–0	1–1
Apollon Smyrnis	1–1	1–0	2–0		1–0	4–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	4–2
Chania	0–2	2–2	1–0	0–0		1–3	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–01
Enosi Ermionida	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0		1–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	3–01
Episkopi	0–2	1–1	0–2	3–1	0–1	4–1		2–3	2–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–1
Fostiras	1–3	0–2	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–1	0–1		1–2	1–4	1–2	0–3	3–01
Iraklis Psachna	1–3	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–3	4–2		2–0	1–1	1–2	3–01
Kallithea	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–3	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–0		2–1	1–0	3–01
Panachaiki	1–3	2–0	3–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	2–0		0–0	3–01
Panegialios	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1		3–01
Paniliakos	0–31	0–31	0–31	0–31	0–31	0–31	0–31	0–31	0–31	0–31	2–4	0–2

Source: ^[1]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

• ¹ The opponents of Paniliakos awarded a 3–0 w/o win each.

Promotion play-offs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	AEK Athens (C, P)	10	5	3	2	14	9	+5	28	Promotion to Super League
2	Iraklis Thessaloniki (P)	10	6	1	3	10	5	+5	26
3	Apollon Smyrnis	10	6	2	2	16	10	+6	20
4	AEL	10	4	1	5	10	11	−1	13
5	Olympiacos Volos	10	3	1	6	8	12	−4	10
6	Panachaiki	10	1	2	7	12	23	−11	5

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

Matches

Home \ Away	AEK	AEL	APS	IRT	OVL	PCK
AEK Athens		1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–0
AEL	0–1		0–1	0–2	3–0	1–0
Apollon Smyrnis	3–3	3–1		1–0	0–0	2–0
Iraklis Thessaloniki	2–1	1–0	0–1		1–0	2–0
Olympiacos Volos	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–1		4–3
Panachaiki	1–1	2–3	4–3	1–1	1–3

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

Relegation play-offs

North Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Agrotikos Asteras	10	7	1	2	16	7	+9	22
2	Zakynthos	10	4	2	4	14	10	+4	20
3	Anagennisi Karditsa	10	5	2	3	11	12	−1	19
4	Tyrnavos (R)	10	5	2	3	12	8	+4	17	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
5	Aiginiakos (R)	10	4	2	4	12	5	+7	15
6	Pierikos[a] (R)	10	0	1	9	0	20	−20	−3

Source: Football League^[usurped]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Pierikos withdrew from Relegation play-offs on 15 May 2015.

Matches

Home \ Away	AGR	EGN	KRD	PIE	TYR	ZAK
Agrotikos Asteras		2–1	5–0	1–0	1–0	0–0
Aiginiakos	3–0		1–1	3–0[a]	0–1	1–0
Anagennisi Karditsa	0–1	1–0		3–0[a]	2–1	3–1
Pierikos	0–3[a]	0–3[a]	0–0		0–1	0–3[a]
Tyrnavos	2–1	0–0	1–0	3–0[a]		2–2
Zakynthos	1–2	1–0	1–2	3–0[a]	2–0

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

1. The opponents of Pierikos awarded a 3–0 w/o win each.

South Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Acharnaikos	10	7	1	2	13	9	+4	26
2	Panegialios	10	5	2	3	12	9	+3	23
3	Kallithea	10	5	3	2	16	8	+8	21
4	Enosi Ermionida (R)	10	4	1	5	15	13	+2	21	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
5	Iraklis Psachna (R)	10	3	4	3	11	9	+2	13
6	Episkopi (R)	10	0	1	9	4	20	−16	1

Source: Football League^[usurped]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated

Matches

Home \ Away	ACH	ENE	EPI	IPS	KLT	PEG
Acharnaikos		3–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	2–1
Enosi Ermionida	3–1		5–1	0–1	1–1	3–1
Episkopi	0–1	0–2		1–1	0–2	0–1
Iraklis Psachna	1–1	2–0	2–0		1–1	2–3
Kallithea	0–1	1–0	3–1	2–1		0–0
Panegialios	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–1

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

Season statistics

Top scorers

Updated to games played 14 June 2015

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Christos Aravidis	AEK Athens	17
4	Giannis Loukinas	Iraklis Thessaloniki	15
	Dimitrios Diamantopoulos	Olympiacos Volos
	Marko Pavićević	Ermionida
6	Ivan Jesić	Acharnaikos	14
	Igor Angulo	Apollon Smyrnis
7	Vasilios Tabakis	Acharnaikos	13
8	Leonidas Kyvelidis	Apollon Smyrnis/Panachaiki	10
9	Mattheos Maroukakis	Panachaiki	9
12	Ivan Brečević	AEK Athens	8
	Petros Mantalos	AEK Athens
	Vangelis Platellas	AEK Athens