1997–98 Alpha Ethniki

The 1997–98 Alpha Ethniki was the 62nd season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 30 August 1997 and ended on 18 May 1998. Olympiacos won their second consecutive and 27th Greek title.

Alpha Ethniki

Season	1997–98
Champions	Olympiacos 27th Greek title
Relegated	Panachaiki Kalamata Athinaikos
Champions League	Olympiacos Panathinaikos
UEFA Cup	AEK Athens PAOK
Cup Winners' Cup	Panionios
Intertoto Cup	Iraklis
Matches played	306
Goals scored	843 (2.75 per match)
Top goalscorer	Krzysztof Warzycha (32 goals)
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

Teams

Stadia and personnel

AEK Athens
Apollon
Athinaikos
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Iraklis
PAOK

Ethnikos P.
Ionikos
Olympiacos
Proodeftiki

Kalamata

Kavala

OFI

Panachaiki

Paniliakos

Skoda Xanthi

Veria

Location of teams in 1997–98 Alpha Ethniki

Team	Manager1	Location	Stadium
AEK Athens	Antonis Minou	Athens	Nikos Goumas Stadium
Apollon Athens	Thijs Libregts	Athens	Rizoupoli Stadium
Athinaikos	Nikolaos Pantelis	Athens	Vyronas National Stadium
Ethnikos Piraeus	Georgios Ioakimidis	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium
Ionikos	Jacek Gmoch	Piraeus	Neapoli Stadium
Iraklis	Konstantinos Maloumidis	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium
Kalamata	Eduardo Amorim	Kalamata	Kalamata Municipal Stadium
Kavala	Nikolaos Goulis	Kavala	Kavala National Stadium
OFI	Eugène Gerards	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium
Olympiacos	Dušan Bajević	Piraeus	Athens Olympic Stadium
Panachaiki	Stavros Diamantopoulos	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium
Panathinaikos	Vasilios Daniil	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium
Paniliakos	Giannis Kyrastas	Pyrgos	Pyrgos Stadium
Panionios	Christos Emvoliadis	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium
PAOK	Angelos Anastasiadis	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium
Proodeftiki	Nikos Karoulias	Piraeus	Nikaia Municipal Stadium
Skoda Xanthi	Giannis Mantzourakis	Xanthi	Xanthi Ground
Veria	Stefanos Gaitanos	Veria	Veria Stadium

• ¹ On final match day of the season, played on 18 May 1998.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	34	29	1	4	88	27	+61	88	Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2	Panathinaikos	34	28	1	5	90	24	+66	85
3	AEK Athens	34	22	8	4	61	30	+31	74	Qualification for UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4	PAOK	34	21	7	6	74	41	+33	70
5	Ionikos	34	18	8	8	46	31	+15	62
6	Iraklis	34	14	9	11	49	45	+4	51	Qualification for Intertoto Cup second round
7	OFI	34	15	4	15	45	53	−8	49
8	Skoda Xanthi	34	13	6	15	52	52	0	45
9	Veria	34	12	6	16	38	48	−10	42
10	Apollon Athens	34	10	6	18	37	51	−14	36
11	Panionios	34	10	6	18	41	54	−13	36	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
12	Paniliakos	34	9	9	16	41	54	−13	36
13	Kavala	34	10	5	19	40	58	−18	35
14	Proodeftiki	34	9	7	18	35	57	−22	34
15	Ethnikos Piraeus	34	10	3	21	27	51	−24	33
16	Panachaiki (R)	34	9	5	20	29	62	−33	32	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
17	Kalamata (R)	34	7	8	19	27	50	−23	29
18	Athinaikos (R)	34	6	9	19	23	55	−32	27

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	APA	ATH	ETH	ION	IRA	KAL	KAV	OFI	OLY	PNA	PAO	PNL	PGSS	PAOK	PRO	XAN	VER
AEK Athens		1–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	2–2	4–2	1–0	3–0	1–0	5–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–2
Apollon Athens	3–4		2–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	0–5	2–1	2–5	2–0	0–0	4–4	1–0	1–2	0–1
Athinaikos	0–1	0–0		1–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	1–2	3–2	0–3	4–3	3–0	0–5	1–0	4–1	1–0
Ethnikos Piraeus	1–3	2–0	1–0		0–1	0–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	1–3	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1
Ionikos	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0		1–0	0–0	2–0	5–0	0–1	5–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–1
Iraklis	1–4	4–2	4–0	3–2	1–1		2–1	3–2	3–1	0–2	3–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–3	1–0	2–0	3–0
Kalamata	1–2	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	3–1		0–2	1–0	0–4	0–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–0
Kavala	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–1	2–3	2–0	5–1		3–3	0–1	4–0	0–4	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–0	0–1
OFI	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	3–0		2–3	1–0	0–3	3–2	3–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	3–0
Olympiacos	0–1	5–3	4–0	3–1	2–0	5–2	3–0	4–2	1–0		3–1	3–1	4–2	2–0	2–0	3–0	6–1	4–1
Panachaiki	0–0	1–0	4–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–2		0–1	0–4	3–2	1–4	1–1	2–1	2–1
Panathinaikos	0–1	1–0	4–1	4–2	5–1	1–0	1–0	4–1	6–2	0–2	6–1		7–0	2–1	3–1	5–0	4–1	2–0
Paniliakos	2–4	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–0		0–2	1–2	0–1	4–3	0–0
Panionios	0–1	1–3	1–0	5–1	2–2	3–1	1–2	3–0	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–3	3–1		0–3	4–0	1–1	3–1
PAOK	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–2	4–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	4–1	2–1	3–2	6–1		3–1	1–1	3–1
Proodeftiki	3–2	1–0	3–0	2–3	1–0	4–4	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	3–3		0–3	3–0
Skoda Xanthi	0–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	4–2	0–0	1–1	5–2	2–1	0–4	0–1	1–3	2–0	2–0	2–2	4–0		4–0
Veria	1–2	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	4–2	3–0	2–0	0–0	0–3	3–1	4–0	1–3	2–2	2–1

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

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos	32
2	Ilija Ivić	Olympiacos	26
3	Georgios Georgiadis	Panathinaikos	21
4	Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens	19
5	Kostas Frantzeskos	PAOK	17
6	Alexis Alexandris	Olympiacos	14
	Craig Brewster	Ionikos
8	Predrag Đorđević	Olympiacos	12
	Luciano de Souza	Skoda Xanthi
10	Paul Cominges	PAOK	11
	Roland Zajmi	Proodeftiki
	Michalis Konstantinou	Iraklis
	Sakis Almanidis	Proodeftiki

Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 15 December 1998.^[1]

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens
Foreign Player of the Season	Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos
Young Player of the Season	Giorgos Karagounis Pantelis Konstantinidis Paraskevas Antzas	Apollon Athens Apollon Athens Skoda Xanthi
Goalkeeper of the Season	Ilias Atmatsidis	AEK Athens
Golden Boot	Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos
Manager of the Season	Dušan Bajević	Olympiacos