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 due to the ongoing fire disaster in the south of Greece. 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 and Greek legislative election.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.
Teams
Stadia and personnel
Team | Manager | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
AEK Athens | Nikos Kostenoglou | Athens | Athens Olympic Stadium | 71,030 |
Apollon Kalamarias | Makis Katsavakis | Thessaloniki | Kalamaria Stadium | 6,500 |
Aris | Dušan Bajević | Thessaloniki | Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium | 23,220 |
Asteras Tripolis | Panagiotis Tzanavaras | Tripoli | Asteras Tripolis Stadium | 4,200 |
Atromitos | Paulo Campos | Peristeri | Peristeri Stadium | 9,035 |
Ergotelis | Nikos Karageorgiou | Heraklion | Pankritio Stadium | 26,400 |
Iraklis | Ángel Pedraza | Thessaloniki | Kaftanzoglio Stadium | 27,770 |
Larissa | Giorgos Donis | Larissa | Alcazar Stadium | 13,108 |
Levadiakos | Babis Tennes | Livadeia | Levadia Municipal Stadium | 8,000 |
OFI | Giorgos Paraschos | Heraklion | Pankritio Stadium | 26,400 |
Olympiacos | José Segura | Piraeus | Karaiskakis Stadium | 33,334 |
Panathinaikos | José Peseiro | Athens | Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium | 16,620 |
Panionios | Ewald Lienen | Nea Smyrni | Nea Smyrni Stadium | 11,700 |
PAOK | Fernando Santos | Thessaloniki | Toumba Stadium | 28,850 |
Skoda Xanthi | Nikos Kehagias | Xanthi | Skoda Xanthi Arena | 7,422 |
Veria | Leonidas Yfantidis | Veria | Veria Stadium | 5,373 |
Managerial changes
Regular season final standings
Results
Playoffs
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:
- AEK Athens – 8
- Panathinaikos – 7
- Aris – 2
- Panionios – 0
Playoffs final standings
Results
Local time: EESTMatchday 1
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Last updated April 20, 2008Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
1 | Ismael Blanco | AEK Athens | 19 |
2 | Darko Kovačević | Olympiacos | 17 |
3 | Dimitris Salpingidis | Panathinaikos | 15 |
4 | Tomasz Radzinski | Skoda Xanthi | 14 |
4 | Rafik Djebbour | Panionios | 14 |
6 | Nikos Liberopoulos | AEK Athens | 11 |
7 | Lampros Choutos | Panionios | 10 |
7 | Predrag Đorđević | Olympiacos | 10 |
9 | Lucio Filomeno | Asteras Tripolis | 9 |
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