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2007–08 Super League Greece

The 2007–08 Super League Greece was the 72nd season of the highest football league of Greece and the second under the name Super League. The season began on 1 September 2007 and ended on 20 April 2008. The defending champions were Olympiacos. Asteras Tripolis, Veria and Levadiakos were promoted from Beta Ethniki in the previous season.

Postponement

On 25 August, the Super League and the Hellenic Football Federation decided to postpone the opening fixtures scheduled for that weekend (25 and 26 August) due to the ongoing fire disaster in the south of Greece (especially in the Peloponnese and Euboea). The championship started on 1 September 2007. Matchday 2 was carried out on the weekend of 21–22 September due to UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying matches (8 September) and Greek legislative election (16 September).

On 20 February 2008 UEFA president Michel Platini presented the Hellenic Football Federation with a CHF 1 million cheque to help finance the rebuilding of football facilities damaged by the fires in Greece that summer.[1]

Teams

Stadia and personnel

2007–08 Super League Greece is located in Greece
AEK Athens Atromitos Panathinaikos Panionios
Apollon Aris Iraklis PAOK
Asteras
Ergotelis OFI
AEL
AEL
Levadiakos
Olympiacos
Skoda Xanthi
Veria
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Location of the 2007–08 Super League Greece teams

Managerial changes

Regular season

League table

Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
According to the official Super League playoff regulation, the position after the playoffs replaces the regular season position.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b The match of Apollon Kalamarias against Olympiacos, originally ended 1–0 to the home side, but later was awarded to Olympiacos 0–3 by the Greek sports court giving Olympiacos the three points, on the basis that the home side fielded an ineligible player (Roman Wallner). Apollon were deducted by one point.
  2. ^ a b Head-to-head record: Panionios–AEL 3–1, AEL–Panionios 1–0.
  3. ^ a b Head-to-head record: PAOK–Iraklis 3–0, Iraklis–PAOK 1–0.

Results

Source: Worldfootball.net
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ The match was originally finished 1–0 for Apollon Kalamarias, but was awarded to Olympiacos because was the home team fielded an ineligible player Roman Wallner, which was played for Falkirk and Hamilton Academical in the season and was not allowed to play for more of two clubs in the same season according to rules of FIFA.

Play-offs

The play-off winner enters the UEFA Champions League's second qualifying round, a two-legged tier from which the winner advances to the 3rd round qualification of the UEFA Champions League. The winner of the Greek Football Cup automatically qualifies for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, as well as the runners-up of the Super League play-off.

In the play-off for Champions League, the teams play each other in a home and away round robin. However, they do not all start with zero 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 zero points. The fifth place 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 three to give the other teams the points with which they start the mini-league.

The teams started the play-offs with the following number of points:

Play-off table

Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
Notes:
  1. ^ Aris is guaranteed at least to play in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round through their Greek Cup performance.

Matches

Top scorers

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 2 December 2008.[9]

References

  1. ^ "UEFA helps Greece rebuild". UEFA. Archived from the original on 2008-02-23. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  2. ^ "Παπασταθόπουλος και Καραλιόπουλος τα βραβεία της 10ης αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 5 December 2007.
  3. ^ "Γεωργιάδης και Στολτίδης οι καλύτεροι της 11ης αγωνιστικής". in.gr (in Greek). 13 December 2007.
  4. ^ "Τζιμπούρ και Κοβάσεβιτς τα βραβεία της 12ης αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 19 December 2007.
  5. ^ "Βραβεία σε Λάζαρο και Φονσέκα". flash.gr (in Greek). 13 February 2008.
  6. ^ "Σε πολωνικά χέρια τα βραβεία της 22ης αγωνιστικής". sport-fm.gr (in Greek). 27 February 2008.
  7. ^ "Κόκε και Ποστίγκα τα βραβεία της 23ης αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 5 March 2008.
  8. ^ "Χούτος και Μπλάνκο τα βραβεία της 30ής αγωνιστικής". contra.gr (in Greek). 23 April 2008.
  9. ^ "ΒΡΑΒΕΙΑ ΠΣΑΠ – 2008" [OSC AWARDS - 2008]. psapp.gr (in Greek). 2 December 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2013.

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