2005–06 Alpha Ethniki
The 2005–06 Alpha Ethniki was the 70th season of the highest football league of Greece and the last season under the name Alpha Ethniki, before then was renamed to Super League Greece. The season began on 27 August 2005 and ended on 13 May 2006. Olympiacos won their second consecutive and 34th Greek title. However, the season was somewhat overshadowed by the suspension of the Greek FA by UEFA, which jeopardized the European places of the Champions League, UEFA Cup, and Intertoto Cup qualifiers from Greece, as well as the use of Athens Olympic Stadium as the site of the 2006–07 Champions League final.
Teams
Stadia and personnel
Team | Manager1 | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
AEK Athens | Fernando Santos | Athens | Athens Olympic Stadium | 71,030 |
Akratitos | Evangelos Goutis | Athens | Yiannis Pathiakakis Stadium | 4,944 |
Apollon Kalamarias | Makis Katsavakis | Thessaloniki | Kalamaria Stadium | 6,500 |
Atromitos | Georgios Paraschos | Peristeri | Peristeri Stadium | 9,035 |
Egaleo | Georgios Chatzaras | Athens | Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium | 8,217 |
Ionikos | Sakis Tsiolis | Piraeus | Neapoli Stadium | 4,999 |
Iraklis | Savvas Kofidis | Thessaloniki | Kaftanzoglio Stadium | 27,770 |
Kallithea | Ilie Dumitrescu | Kallithea | Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium | 4,250 |
Larissa | Giorgos Donis | Larissa | Alcazar Stadium | 13,108 |
Levadiakos | Takis Lemonis | Livadeia | Levadia Municipal Stadium | 5,915 |
OFI | Myron Sifakis | Heraklion | Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium | 9,000 |
Olympiacos | Trond Sollied | Piraeus | Karaiskakis Stadium | 33,334 |
Panathinaikos | Alberto Malesani | Athens | Athens Olympic Stadium | 71,030 |
Panionios | Jozef Bubenko | Nea Smyrni | Nea Smyrni Stadium | 11,756 |
PAOK | Georgios Kostikos | Thessaloniki | Toumba Stadium | 28,803 |
Skoda Xanthi | Ioannis Matzourakis | Xanthi | Skoda Xanthi Arena | 7,442 |
- 1 On final match day of the season, played on 13 May 2006.
Final league table
Results
Top goalscorers
Source:Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
1 | Dimitris Salpingidis | PAOK | 17 |
2 | Luciano | Panionios | 15 |
2 | Predrag Đorđević | Olympiacos | 15 |
4 | Nikos Liberopoulos | AEK Athens | 14 |
4 | Theofanis Gekas | Panathinaikos | 14 |
6 | Joël Epalle | Iraklis | 13 |
7 | Denis Epstein | Ionikos | 10 |
7 | Dimitris Papadopoulos | Panathinaikos | 10 |
7 | Michalis Konstantinou | Olympiacos | 10 |
10 | Cleyton | Apollon Kalamarias | 9 |