2017–18 Super League Greece

The 2017–18 Super League Greece, or Souroti Super League for sponsorship reasons,^[1] was the 82nd season of the highest tier in league of Greek football and the 12th under its current name. The season started in August 2017 and ended in May 2018. The league comprises fourteen teams from the 2016–17 season and two promoted from the 2016–17 Football League.

Super League Greece

Season	2017–18
Dates	19 August 2017 – 7 May 2018
Champions	AEK Athens 12th Greek title
Relegated	Kerkyra Platanias
Champions League	AEK Athens PAOK
Europa League	Olympiacos Atromitos Asteras Tripolis
Matches played	240
Goals scored	530 (2.21 per match)
Top goalscorer	Aleksandar Prijović (19 goals)
Biggest home win	PAOK 5–0 Levadiakos (6 January 2018)
Biggest away win	Platanias 0–4 Olympiacos (11 March 2018)
Highest scoring	Panionios 3–4 Olympiacos (14 October 2017) Apollon Smyrnis 4–3 PAS Giannina (5 November 2017)
Highest attendance	50,141 AEK Athens 2–0 Levadiakos (22 April 2018)
Lowest attendance	383 Atromitos 4–0 Kerkyra (5 May 2018)
Total attendance	949,247
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

On 12 March 2018, the Super League Greece was suspended by the Greek government until further notice after the president of PAOK, Ivan Savvidis, had stormed onto the field with a revolver during the match between PAOK and AEK Athens played the previous day.^[2] The suspension was lifted on 27 March. PAOK was deducted 3 points and AEK was awarded 3 points for the incident.^[3]

Contrary to the previous seasons, the playoffs for the Champions League and Europa League spots were removed, with qualification based solely on finishing position.^[4]

Teams

Two teams were relegated from the 2016–17 season. Iraklis and Veria played in Football League for the 2017–18 season.

Two teams were promoted from the 2016–17 Football League, Apollon Smyrnis and Lamia, the latter for which it was their debut season in the highest division of Greek football.

Stadiums and locations

AEK Athens
Apollon Smyrnis
Atromitos
Panathinaikos
Panionios

PAOK

Kerkyra

Asteras

Olympiacos

Panetolikos

PAS Giannina

Platanias

Xanthi

Lamia

Levadiakos

AEL

Location of the 2017–18 Super League Greece teams

Club	Ap.	Location	Venue	Capacity
AEK Athens	57	Marousi	Athens Olympic Stadium	69,618
AEL	28	Larissa	AEL FC Arena	16,118
Apollon Smyrnis	39	Rizoupoli	Georgios Kamaras Stadium	14,856
Asteras Tripolis	11	Tripoli	Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium	7,616
Atromitos	17	Peristeri	Peristeri Stadium	10,005
Kerkyra	3	Corfu	Kerkyra Stadium	3,000
Lamia	1	Lamia	Lamia Municipal Stadium	6,000
Levadiakos	17	Livadeia	Levadia Municipal Stadium	6,500
Olympiacos	59	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium	32,115
Panathinaikos	59	Ampelokipoi	Leoforos Alexandras Stadium	16,003
Panetolikos	8	Agrinio	Panetolikos Stadium	7,000
Panionios	57	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium	11,700
PAOK	59	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium	28,703
PAS Giannina	23	Ioannina	Zosimades Stadium	7,652
Platanias	6	Chania	Perivolia Municipal Stadium	4,000
Xanthi	29	Xanthi	Xanthi FC Arena	7,422

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AEK Athens	Manolo Jiménez	Petros Mantalos	Nike	Pame Stoixima
AEL	Sotiris Antoniou	Thomas Nazlidis	Legea
Apollon Smyrnis	Georgios Paraschos	Georgios Dasios	Joma	Venetis Bakery
Asteras Tripolis	Savvas Pantelidis	Matías Iglesias	Macron	Stoiximan.GR
Atromitos	Damir Canadi	Kyriakos Kivrakidis	Nike	Tzoker
Kerkyra	Giannis Matzourakis	Anastasios Venetis	Macron
Lamia	Babis Tennes	Vangelis Pitkas	Nike
Levadiakos	José Anigo	Theodoros Tripotseris	Legea
Olympiacos	Christos Kontis	Alberto Botía	Adidas	Stoiximan.GR
Panathinaikos	Marinos Ouzounidis	Dimitris Kourbelis	Nike	Pame Stoixima
Panetolikos	Traianos Dellas	Dimitris Kyriakidis	Legea	Pame Stoixima
Panionios	Michalis Grigoriou	Panagiotis Korbos	Luanvi	Stoiximan.GR
PAOK	Răzvan Lucescu	Vieirinha	Macron	Stoiximan.GR
PAS Giannina	Giannis Petrakis	Alexios Michail	Nike	Vikos Cola / Car.gr
Platanias	Giannis Chatzinikolaou	Vanderson	Luanvi	Ergobeton
Xanthi	Milan Rastavac	Konstantinos Fliskas	Joma	Pame Stoixima

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
PAOK	Vladimir Ivić	Mutual consent	9 June 2017[5]	Pre-season	Aleksandar Stanojević	16 June 2017 [6]
Atromitos	Ricardo Sá Pinto		12 June 2017[7]		Damir Canadi	21 June 2017[8]
Panionios	Vladan Milojević	End of contract	30 June 2017		Michalis Grigoriou	1 June 2017
Olympiacos	Takis Lemonis		30 June 2017		Besnik Hasi	8 June 2017[9]
Xanthi	Răzvan Lucescu		30 June 2017		Milan Rastavac	12 June 2017[10]
PAOK	Aleksandar Stanojević	Sacked	11 August 2017		Răzvan Lucescu	11 August 2017[11]
Kerkyra	Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos		22 August 2017[12]	14th	Kostas Christoforakis (caretaker)	22 August 201
	Kostas Christoforakis (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	28 August 2017	16th	Alekos Vosniadis	28 August 2017
Asteras Tripolis	Staikos Vergetis	Sacked	10 September 2017[13]	13th	Savvas Pantelidis	10 September 2017[14]
AEL	André Paus		12 September 2017	15th	Jacky Mathijssen	14 September 2017[15]
Olympiacos	Besnik Hasi		25 September 2017[16]	4th	Takis Lemonis	25 September 2017[17]
AEL	Jacky Mathijssen		25 September 2017[18]	15th	Ilias Fyntanis	25 September 2017[19]
Apollon Smyrnis	Akis Mantzios		25 September 2017[20]	16th	Zoran Vulić	28 September 2017[21]
Platanias	Georgios Paraschos		31 October 2017[22]	16th	Nikolaos Manarolis (caretaker)	31 October 2017
	Nikolaos Manarolis (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	12 November 2017	16th	José Manuel Roca	12 November 2017[23]
Apollon Smyrnis	Zoran Vulić	Sacked	11 December 2017	14th	Georgios Paraschos	12 December 2017[24]
Kerkyra	Alekos Vosniadis		19 December 2017[25]	15th	Sakis Tsiolis	27 December 2017[26]
Olympiacos	Takis Lemonis		4 January 2018[27]	1st	Christos Kontis (caretaker)	4 January 2018[28]
	Christos Kontis (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	8 January 2018	1st	Óscar García	8 January 2018[29]
Panetolikos	Makis Chavos	Sacked	7 January 2018[30]	13th	Traianos Dellas	12 January 2018[31]
Kerkyra	Sakis Tsiolis		22 January 2018[32]	15th	Giannis Matzourakis	25 January 2018[33]
Platanias	José Manuel Roca		29 January 2018[34]	16th	Giannis Chatzinikolaou	31 January 2018[35]
AEL	Ilias Fyntanis		20 February 2018[36]	12th	Ratko Dostanić	20 February 2018[36]
	Ratko Dostanić		10 March 2018[37]	12th	Sotiris Antoniou	12 March 2018[38]
Olympiacos	Óscar García	Resigned	3 April 2018[39]	3rd	Christos Kontis (caretaker)	3 April 2018[40]

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AEK Athens (C)	30	21	7	2	50	12	+38	70	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2	PAOK	30	21	4	5	59	19	+40	64[a]	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3	Olympiacos	30	18	6	6	63	28	+35	57[b]	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
4	Atromitos	30	15	11	4	43	21	+22	56	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
5	Asteras Tripolis	30	12	9	9	39	24	+15	45[c]
6	Xanthi	30	12	9	9	31	30	+1	45[c]
7	Panionios	30	10	10	10	32	31	+1	40
8	Panetolikos	30	9	8	13	31	40	−9	35
9	PAS Giannina	30	7	13	10	31	34	−3	34[d]
10	Levadiakos	30	8	10	12	23	34	−11	34[d]
11	Panathinaikos	30	10	10	10	30	30	0	32[e]
12	AEL	30	7	10	13	22	41	−19	31
13	Lamia	30	6	12	12	20	34	−14	30
14	Apollon Smyrnis	30	6	11	13	23	36	−13	29
15	Kerkyra (R)	30	4	10	16	19	51	−32	22	Relegation to Football League
16	Platanias (R)	30	2	4	24	14	65	−51	10

Source: Superleague Greece, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against; 6) Play-offs (neutral ground); 7) Draw.
(Note: Criteria 6 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).^[46]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. PAOK were deducted 3 points by court decision.^[41]
2. Olympiacos were deducted 3 points due to crowd behavior against AEK on 4 February 2018.^[42]
3. Head-to-head points: Asteras Tripolis 2, Xanthi 2.
4. Head-to-head points: Levadiakos 2, PAS Giannina 2.
5. Panathinaikos were deducted 2 points due to crowd behavior against PAOK in a play-off match during the 2016–17 season.^[43]
   Panathinaikos were deducted 3 points for financial reasons on 11 April 2018. On 23 April 2018 another 3 points were deducted for the same occasion.^[44][45]

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	AEL	APS	AST	ATR	KER	LAM	LEV	OLY	PAO	PNE	PGSS	PAOK	PAS	PLA	XAN
AEK Athens	—	4–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	3–2	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	4–0
AEL	0–0	—	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–3	0–1	4–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0
Apollon Smyrnis	0–1	3–0	—	1–3	0–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	4–3	0–1	2–0
Asteras Tripolis	2–0	3–1	2–1	—	0–1	4–0	1–3	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	3–2	1–2	4–0	1–1
Atromitos	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	—	4–0	3–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	4–1	1–0
Kerkyra	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–3	1–3	—	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–3	1–1	2–0	0–2
Lamia	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	—	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–0	0–1
Levadiakos	0–2	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	—	1–1	3–2	1–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0
Olympiacos	1–2	4–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	5–1	2–0	2–1	—	1–1	4–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	5–1	3–0
Panathinaikos	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	4–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	—	0–0	0–1	0–3	2–0	2–0	1–2
Panetolikos	1–4	3–1	1–1	0–2	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–4	2–0	—	1–1	0–1	1–0	3–0	1–3
Panionios	0–1	4–1	2–0	0–0	2–2	3–1	1–0	2–0	3–4	0–3	1–1	—	2–2	0–1	2–1	0–0
PAOK	0–3[a]	3–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	4–0	5–0	0–3[b]	4–0	1–0	3–1	—	1–0	3–0	2–1
PAS Giannina	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–3	—	3–1	1–1
Platanias	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–3	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–4	1–1	0–3	1–2	0–1	0–3	—	0–2
Xanthi	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–3	3–0	3–2	—

Source: Super League Greece
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.
Notes:

1. Match suspended at 90th minute (score: 1–0). Awarded 0–3 to AEK.
2. Match suspended before the kick-off. Awarded 0–3 to Olympiacos.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
AEK Athens	2	3	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	2	3	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
PAOK	10	5	5	4	3	2	1	2	2	3	1	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Olympiacos	1	1	2	2	4	7	5	4	4	4	4	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Atromitos	6	7	8	8	5	4	3	1	1	1	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Asteras Tripolis	12	9	14	13	14	13	14	15	15	15	12	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	8	9	7	5	5	6	5	5	5
Xanthi	9	6	4	7	7	6	7	8	10	8	5	5	7	9	9	7	7	7	5	5	6	6	5	5	6	6	5	6	6	6
Panionios	4	2	3	3	2	3	6	5	5	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	5	5	6	6	7	7	8	10	7	7
Panetolikos	15	12	11	15	10	8	10	11	12	14	14	12	12	13	13	13	12	11	12	12	11	10	10	10	8	8	9	7	8	8
PAS Giannina	3	4	6	5	8	11	9	9	8	9	9	9	8	8	10	10	11	13	9	10	8	7	8	9	11	11	11	11	11	9
Levadiakos	8	8	9	6	6	5	4	6	6	6	7	10	11	12	8	11	8	10	11	8	9	11	11	11	10	10	7	9	9	10
Panathinaikos	16	15	16	11	13	10	8	7	7	7	8	8	9	11	11	9	10	8	8	9	10	9	7	8	9	9	10	8	10	11
AEL	13	10	15	14	16	15	16	13	13	13	11	13	13	7	7	8	9	9	10	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Lamia	7	11	7	9	12	9	11	12	9	10	10	11	10	10	12	12	13	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	13
Apollon Smyrnis	5	13	13	16	15	16	15	16	14	12	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	14	13	13	13	13	14
Kerkyra	14	16	10	10	11	14	12	10	11	11	13	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15
Platanias	11	14	12	12	9	12	13	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

	Champion and Champions League third qualifying round
	Champions League second qualifying round
	Europa League third qualifying round
	Europa League second qualifying round
	Relegation to 2018–19 Football League

Source: Super League Greece

Season statistics

Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Aleksandar Prijović PAOK 19 2 Karim Ansarifard Olympiacos 17 3 Pedro Conde PAS Giannina 14 4 Michalis Manias Asteras Tripolis 12 6 Sergio Araujo AEK Athens 11 Erik Jendrišek Xanthi 8 Kostas Fortounis Olympiacos 10 Nicolas Diguiny Atromitos 10 Abiola Dauda Atromitos 9 Vlad Morar Panetolikos

Top assists Rank Player Club Assists 1 Kostas Fortounis Olympiacos 9 3 David Nadales PAS Giannina / Apollon Smyrnis 8 Dimitris Giannoulis Atromitos 7 Nicolas Diguiny Atromitos 7 Amr Warda Atromitos Dimitris Pelkas PAOK Vieirinha PAOK

Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards

Matchday	MVP	Best Goal	Ref
1st	Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)		[47]
2nd	Lazaros Lamprou (Panionios)	Abiola Dauda (Atromitos)	[48]
3rd	Petros Mantalos (AEK Athens)		[49]
4th	Omri Altman (Panathinaikos)	Aleksandar Prijović (PAOK)	[50]
5th	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (AEK Athens)		[51]
6th	Nikolaos Papadopoulos (Lamia)	Petros Giakoumakis (Levadiakos)	[52]
7th	Oscar Hiljemark (Panathinaikos)	Bruno Chalkiadakis (PAS Giannina)	[53]
8th	Pape Abou Cissé (Olympiacos)	Abiola Dauda (Atromitos)	[54]
9th	Maurício (PAOK)		[55]
10th	Marko Livaja (AEK Athens)	Alberto Botía (Olympiacos)	[56]
11th	Marko Livaja (AEK Athens)	Vlad Morar (Panetolikos)	[57]
12th	Marko Livaja (AEK Athens)	Franco Mazurek (Panetolikos)	[58]
13th	Marko Livaja (AEK Athens)	Theodoros Vasilakakis (Atromitos)	[59]
14th	Dimitris Pelkas (PAOK)		[60]
15th	Marko Marin (Olympiacos)	Theodoros Vasilakakis (Atromitos)	[61]
16th	Anastasios Bakasetas (AEK Athens)		[62]
17th	Dimitris Kyriakidis (Panetolikos)	Farley Rosa (Panetolikos)	[63]
18th	Karim Ansarifard (Olympiacos)	Lazaros Lamprou (Panionios)	[64]
19th	Thuram (Kerkyra)	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (AEK Athens)	[65]
20th	Giorgos Giakoumakis (AEK Athens)		[66]
21st	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)		[67]
22nd	Ognjen Vranješ (AEK Athens)	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)	[68]
23rd	Amr Warda (Atromitos)		[69]
24th	Walter Iglesias (Asteras Tripolis)	Apostolos Skondras (PAS Giannina)	[70]
25th	Robin Lod (Panathinaikos)		[71]
26th	Sergio Araujo (AEK Athens)		[72]
27th	Erik Jendrišek (Xanthi)		[73]
28th	Anastasios Bakasetas (AEK Athens)	Diego Biseswar (PAOK)	[74]
29th	Aleksandar Prijović (PAOK)	Piti (Lamia)	[75]
30th	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)		[76]

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 15 February 2019.^[77]

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos	AEK Athens
Foreign Player of the Season	Amr Warda	Atromitos
Young Player of the Season	Anastasios Douvikas	Asteras Tripolis
Goalkeeper of the Season	Andreas Gianniotis	Atromitos
Fair Play of the Season	Thomas Nazlidis	AEL
Golden Boot	Aleksandar Prijović	PAOK
Manager of the Season	Manolo Jiménez	AEK Athens

Team of the Season[77]
Goalkeeper	Andreas Gianniotis (Atromitos)
Defence	Léo Matos (PAOK)	Dmytro Chyhrynskyi (AEK Athens)	Fernando Varela (PAOK)	Dimitris Giannoulis (Atromitos)
				Vieirinha (PAOK)
Midfield	Amr Warda (Atromitos)	Dimitris Kourbelis (Panathinaikos)	André Simões (AEK Athens)	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (AEK Athens)
Attack	Karim Ansarifard (Olympiacos)		Marko Livaja (AEK Athens)