2016–17 Super League Greece

Super League Greece 2016–17
Season information
Winners	Olympiacos
Relegated	Levadiakos Veria
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League
Europa League
Season statistics
Matches played	240
Goals scored	556
Top goalscorer	Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos) 22 goals
Biggest home win	AEK Athens 6–0 Veria (5 February 2017)
Biggest away win	Kerkyra 0–5 PAOK (17 December 2016) Asteras Tripoli 0–5 Panathinaikos (18 February 2017)
Highest scoring	Olympiacos 6–1 Veria (11 September 2016) PAOK 3–4 Atromitos (28 November 2016) Veria 4–3 Asteras Tripoli (23 April 2017)
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The 2016–17 Super League Greece was the 81st season of the highest tier in league of Greek football and the eleventh under its current title. The season started on 10 September 2016 and will end in June 2017. The league comprises fourteen teams from the 2015–16 season and two promoted from the 2015–16 Football League.

Teams

Two teams were relegated from the 2015–16 season. Panthrakikos and Kalloni will play in Football League for the 2016–17 season.

Two teams were promoted from the 2015–16 Football League, champions Larissa and Kerkyra.

Stadiums and locations

Club	Ap.	Location	Venue	Capacity
AEK Athens	56	Athens	Olympic Stadium	70,000
AEL	27	Larissa	AEL FC Arena	16,000
Asteras Tripoli	10	Tripoli	Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium	7,500
Atromitos	17	Peristeri	Peristeri Stadium	10,000
Iraklis	53	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	27,000
Kerkyra	7	Corfu	Kerkyra Stadium	3,000
Levadiakos	17	Livadeia	Levadia Municipal Stadium	6,000
Olympiacos	58	Piraeus	Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium	32,115
Panathinaikos	58	Athens	Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium	16,620
Panetolikos	7	Agrinio	Panetolikos Stadium	7,000
Panionios	56	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium	12,000
PAOK	58	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium	28,700
PAS Giannina	23	Ioannina	Zosimades Stadium	8,000
Platanias	5	Chania	Perivolia Municipal Stadium	4,000
Veria	18	Veria	Veria Stadium	6,500
Xanthi	28	Xanthi	Xanthi F.C. Arena	7,500

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 Stihima
AEL	André Paus	Boki Jovanović	Legea
Asteras Tripoli	Staikos Vergetis	Pablo Mazza	Nike	Stoiximan.GR
Atromitos	Ricardo Sá Pinto	Eduardo Brito	Nike	Tzoker
Iraklis	Savvas Pantelidis	Lefteris Intzoglou	Givova
Kerkyra	Kostas Christoforakis	Anastasios Venetis	Macron	Pame Stihima
Levadiakos	Dimitriοs Farantos	Thanasis Moulopoulos	Legea	Tzoker
Olympiacos	Takis Lemonis	Alejandro Domínguez	Adidas	Stoiximan.GR
Panathinaikos	Marinos Ouzounidis	Zeca	Puma	Pame Stihima
Panetolikos	Makis Chavos	Georgios Kousas	Legea	Pame Stihima
Panionios	Vladan Milojević	Panagiotis Korbos	Luanvi	Stoiximan.GR
PAOK	Vladimir Ivić	Stefanos Athanasiadis	Macron	Sportingbet
PAS Giannina	Ioannis Petrakis	Alexios Michail	Nike	Tzoker
Platanias	Georgios Paraschos	Fanouris Goundoulakis	Macron	Pame Stihima
Veria	Ratko Dostanić	Stelios Marangos	Givova	Tzoker
Xanthi	Răzvan Lucescu	Konstantinos Fliskas	Joma	Pame Stihima

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Kerkyra	Alexandros Vosniadis	Mutual consent	End of 2015–2016 season	Pre-season	Michalis Grigoriou	4 June 2016
AEK Athens	Stelios Manolas (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	End of 2015–2016 season		Temur Ketsbaia	6 June 2016
AEL	Sakis Tsiolis	Mutual consent	2 June 2016		Angelos Anastasiadis	6 June 2016
Levadiakos	Dimitrios Farantos (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	End of 2015–2016 season		Ratko Dostanić	6 June 2016
Olympiacos	Marco Silva	Resigned	23 June 2016		Víctor Sánchez	23 June 2016
Veria	Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos	Resigned	8 July 2016		Alexandros Vosniadis	9 July 2016
Olympiacos	Víctor Sánchez	Mutual consent	10 August 2016		Paulo Bento	10 August 2016
Panionios	Marinos Ouzounidis	Sacked	8 August 2016		Vladan Milojević	11 August 2016
Atromitos	Traianos Dellas	Resigned	19 September 2016	16th	Georgios Korakakis	19 September 2016
Veria	Alexandros Vosniadis	Mutual consent	23 September 2016	15th	Thomas Grafas	24 September 2016
Asteras Tripoli	Makis Chavos	Mutual consent	26 September 2016	16th	Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos	27 September 2016
AEK Athens	Temur Ketsbaia	Resigned	18 October 2016	3rd	José Morais	18 October 2016
Iraklis	Nikos Papadopoulos	Resigned	18 October 2016	16th	Ioannis Amanatidis (caretaker)	19 October 2016
AEL	Angelos Anastasiadis	Sacked	31 October 2016	11th	Sakis Tsiolis	1 November 2016
Iraklis	Ioannis Amanatidis (caretaker)	Resigned	30 October 2016	16th	Savvas Pantelidis	1 November 2016
AEL	Kostas Matzokas (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	1 November 2016	11th	Sakis Tsiolis	1 November 2016
Panathinaikos	Andrea Stramaccioni	Resigned	1 December 2016	3rd	Marinos Ouzounidis	1 December 2016
Levadiakos	Ratko Dostanić	Resigned	12 January 2017	14th	Giannis Christopoulos	12 January 2017
Panetolikos	Giannis Matzourakis	Mutual consent	17 January 2017	11th	Giannis Ntalakouras (caretaker)	17 January 2017
AEK Athens	José Morais	Resigned	18 January 2017	6th	Manolo Jiménez	19 January 2017
Panetolikos	Giannis Ntalakouras (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	19 January 2017	11th	Makis Chavos	19 January 2017
Veria	Thomas Grafas	Mutual consent	26 January 2017	14th	Apostolos Terzis	26 January 2017
Atromitos	Georgios Korakakis	Resigned	5 February 2017	9th	Ricardo Sá Pinto	6 February 2017
Veria	Apostolos Terzis	Sacked	14 February 2017	16th	Ratko Dostanić	14 February 2017
Asteras Tripoli	Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos	Sacked	18 February 2017	12th	Apostolos Charalampidis (caretaker)	20 February 2017
Olympiacos	Paulo Bento	Sacked	6 March 2017	1st	Vasilis Vouzas (caretaker)	6 March 2017
Asteras Tripoli	Apostolos Charalampidis (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	20 February 2017	13th	Staikos Vergetis	3 March 2017
AEL	Sakis Tsiolis	Resigned	21 March 2017	12th	Theodoros Voutiritsas (caretaker)	21 March 2017
Olympiacos	Vasilis Vouzas (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	23 March 2017	1st	Takis Lemonis	23 March 2017
AEL	Theodoros Voutiritsas (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	3 Αpril 2017	12th	André Paus	3 April 2017
Levadiakos	Giannis Christopoulos	Sacked	7 Αpril 2017	14th	Dimitrios Farantos (caretaker)	7 April 2017
Kerkyra	Michalis Grigoriou	Sacked	11 April 2017	11th	Kostas Christoforakis (caretaker)	12 April 2017

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Olympiacos  (C)	30	21	4	5	57	16	+41	67	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	PAOK	30	20	4	6	52	19	+33	64	Qualification to UEFA play-offs
3	Panathinaikos	30	16	9	5	45	19	+26	57
4	AEK Athens	30	14	11	5	54	23	+31	53
5	Panionios	30	15	7	8	35	23	+12	52
6	Template:Fb team Xanthi	30	13	9	8	34	25	+9	48
7	Template:Fb team Platanias	30	11	9	10	34	38	−4	42
8	Template:Fb team Atromitos	30	11	6	13	29	38	−9	39
9	Template:Fb team PAS Giannina	30	8	12	10	30	37	−7	36
10	Template:Fb team Kerkyra	30	8	8	14	22	43	−21	32
11	Template:Fb team Panetolikos	30	8	7	15	29	40	−11	31
12	Template:Fb team Iraklis	30	6	11	13	28	39	−11	29
13	Template:Fb team Asteras Tripoli	30	6	10	14	34	49	−15	28
14	Template:Fb team Larissa	30	6	10	14	23	42	−19	28
15	Template:Fb team Levadiakos (R)	30	6	8	16	27	49	−22	26	Relegation to Football League
16	Template:Fb team Veria (R)	30	5	7	18	23	56	−33	22

Source: Superleague Greece, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Postponement

The Greek Super League was originally scheduled for 20 August 2016 but Greece's Sports minister Stavros Kontonis decided it would be postponed due to fears of violence.

The first match was then postponed and scheduled to be played on 10 September 2016 between Kerkyra and Platanias.

The match was a success and went ahead with no issues with Platanias winning 1–0.

On 9 November refereeing chief Giorgos Bikas was the victim of an arson attack, this led to Greek football of all divisions to be suspended. However Greece's upcoming World Cup qualifier against Bosnia and Herzegovina would still go ahead and same with Greek teams involved in the Europa League. Competitions would resume three weeks later on 24 November with a 0–0 draw between PAS Giannina and Levadiakos.

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. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

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
Olympiacos	1	1	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
PAOK	9	6	6	7	5	7	4	6	9	11	9	8	6	8	9	6	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2
Panathinaikos	3	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	3	3	4	4	3	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	3
AEK Athens	2	3	2	5	3	3	5	5	4	5	3	5	5	6	5	7	6	6	6	6	5	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	4	4
Panionios	4	4	5	3	4	5	6	4	5	7	5	4	4	2	2	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	3	5	5
Template:Fb team Xanthi	11	14	15	15	11	8	8	9	7	6	4	2	2	3	3	2	3	4	4	5	6	6	5	6	7	6	6	6	6	6
Template:Fb team Platanias	6	5	3	4	7	10	9	10	13	12	13	10	9	9	7	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	7
Template:Fb team Atromitos	15	16	13	12	9	6	7	8	6	4	7	7	8	7	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	9	9	8	8	8
Template:Fb team PAS Giannina	5	8	9	6	8	4	3	3	2	3	6	6	7	5	6	5	7	7	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	8	8	9	9	9
Template:Fb team Kerkyra	13	9	11	13	15	12	13	11	11	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	11	10	10
Template:Fb team Panetolikos	10	7	7	9	6	9	10	7	10	9	8	9	10	10	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	10	11	11
Template:Fb team Iraklis	8	10	14	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	13	12	12
Template:Fb team Asteras Tripolis	14	13	16	16	14	15	14	12	12	13	12	13	13	11	10	10	10	10	11	12	12	12	13	12	13	13	12	12	14	13
Template:Fb team Larissa	7	11	8	8	10	13	11	14	14	14	14	14	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	13	12	12	13	14	13	14
Template:Fb team Levadiakos	16	12	10	10	12	11	12	13	8	8	10	12	14	14	14	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	15
Template:Fb team Veria	12	15	12	11	13	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

Last updated: 30 April 2017
Source: Superleague Greece

	Leader / 2017-18 Champions League
	Qualification to UEFA Play-Offs
	Relegation to 2017-18 Football League

UEFA play-offs

In the play-offs for Champions League and Europa League berths, the four qualified 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 fifth in the Super League will start the play-off with 0 points. The fifth placed team's end of season tally of points is subtracted from the sum of the points that other teams have. This number is then divided by five.

Play-offs table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	PAOK	3	2	0	1	4	1	+3	6	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	AEK Athens	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	6	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
3	Panionios	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
4	Panathinaikos	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round

Source: Superleague Greece, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Season statistics

Top scorers Updated to games played 30 April 2017 Rank Player Club Goals 1 Marcus Berg Panathinaikos 22 2 Hamza Younés Xanthi 19 3 Pedro Conde PAS Giannina 13 Brown Ideye Olympiacos 13 5 Giorgos Giakoumakis Platanias 11 6 Michalis Manias Asteras Tripoli 10 7 Thomas Nazlidis Larissa 9 Ben Nabouhane Panionios 9 Tomáš Pekhart AEK Athens 9 10 Giorgos Manousos Platanias 8

Top assists Updated to games played 30 April 2017 Rank Player Club Assists 1 Sebá Olympiacos 9 2 Kostas Fortounis Olympiacos 6 Masoud Shojaei Panionios 6 Panagiotis Triadis Xanthi 6 5 Diogo Figueiras Olympiacos 5 Alberto de la Bella Olympiacos 5 Patito Rodríguez AEK Athens 5 Lazaros Christodoulopoulos AEK Athens 5 Diego Biseswar PAOK 5 Leozinho Iraklis 5

Best goal and MVP awards winners

Matchday	MVP award	Best goal award
1	Dimitris Kyriakidis (Panetolikos)	Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)
2	Alexandros Paschalakis (PAS Giannina)	Luka Milivojević (Olympiacos)
3	Hugo Almeida (AEK)	Hugo Almeida (AEK)
4	Efthimis Koulouris (PAOK)	Efthimis Koulouris (PAOK)
5	Dimitris Kyriakidis (Panetolikos)	Javier Umbides (Atromitos)
6	André Martins (Olympiacos)	Brown Ideye (Olympiacos)
7	Vangelis Platellas (AEK)	Theodoros Vasilakakis (Xanthi)
8	Luka Milivojević (Olympiacos)	Evripidis Giakos (PAS Giannina)
9	Christopher Maboulou (PAS Giannina)	Thomas Nazlidis (AEL)
10	Alberto Botía (Olympiacos)	Patito Rodríguez (AEK)
11	Vasilios Barkas (AEK)	Kristijan Miljević (Veria)
12	Javier Umbides (Atromitos)	Valantis Kozorinis (PAS Giannina)
13	Fotis Koutzavasilis (Kerkyra)	Dimitris Limnios (Atromitos)
14	Léo Matos (PAOK)	André Simões (AEK)
15	Hamza Younés (Xanthi)	Diego Biseswar (PAOK)
16	Grigoris Makos (Panetolikos)	Léo Matos (PAOK)
17	Spyros Risvanis (Panionios)	Spyros Risvanis (Panionios)
18	Luka Milivojević (Olympiacos)	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)
19	Panagiotis Korbos (Panionios)	Panagiotis Korbos (Panionios)
20	Živko Živković (Xanthi)	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)
21	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)	Dimitris Pelkas (PAOK)
22	Evangelos Ikonomou (Panionios)	Theodoros Vasilakakis (Xanthi)
23	Aleksandar Prijović (PAOK)	Pedro Conde (PAS Giannina)
24	Sergio Araujo (AEK)	Sergio Araujo (AEK)
25	Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)	Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)
26	Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)	Giorgos Masouras (Panionios)
27	Michalis Manias (Asteras Tripoli)	Diego Biseswar (PAOK)
28	Christos Donis (Iraklis)	Michalis Mpastakos (Iraklis)
29	Michalis Mpastakos (Iraklis)	Alberto de la Bella (Olympiacos)
30	Alejandro Domínguez (Olympiacos)	Giorgos Kyriakopoulos (Asteras Tripoli)

Attendances

Average attendances counted officially without games played behind closed gates from Superleague.

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Olympiacos	270,663	31,283	9,032	18,044	-0.86145326076578−13.8%†
2	PAOK	178,744	26,379	2,906	11,916	0.00025182573659022+0.0%†
3	AEK Athens	133,628	28,046	3,755	8,909	-0.7990134529148−20.0%†
4	Panathinaikos	88,189	13,666	1,398	5,879	-0.76899934597776−23.1%†
5	Template:Fb team Larissa	37,345	5,507	1,266	2,490	n/a1
6	Template:Fb team Panetolikos	35,233	4,179	1,727	2,349	0.0021331058020477+0.2%†
7	Template:Fb team PAS Giannina	33,648	4,009	1,502	2,243	0.054041353383459+5.4%†
8	Panionios	26,401	4,979	525	1,760	0.24822695035461+24.8%†
9	Template:Fb team Platanias	25,448	2,463	1,324	1,697	-0.89693446088795−10.3%†
10	Template:Fb team Iraklis	21,749	3,864	330	1,450	-0.46910384988677−53.0%†
11	Template:Fb team Asteras Tripolis	21,418	1,960	828	1,428	-0.85−15.0%†
12	Template:Fb team Kerkyra	16,645	2,042	728	1,110	n/a1
13	Template:Fb team Levadiakos	15,453	2,446	385	1,030	0.2004662004662+20.0%†
14	Template:Fb team Xanthi	15,218	1,959	515	1,015	-0.80237154150198−19.7%†
15	Template:Fb team Veria	14,780	3,583	245	985	-0.82014987510408−17.9%†
16	Template:Fb team Atromitos	9,237	1,553	294	711	-0.740625−25.9%2
	League total	943,799	31,283	245	3,939	-0.98573573573574−1.4%†

Updated to games played on 30 April 2017
Source: Superleague
Notes:
1: Team played last season in Football League
2: Atromitos game was played behind closed gates

External links

• Official website

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