2009–10 Super League Greece


The 2009–10 Super League Greece was the 74th season of the highest football league of Greece and the fourth under the name Super League. The league consisted of 16 teams. Participants are the 13 best teams from the 2008–09 season and three teams that have been promoted from the Beta Ethniki. On 11 April 2010, Panathinaikos defeated Iraklis 2–0 to secure their 20th Greek title and their first one in six years.

Changes from 2008–09

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from 2008–09 Beta Ethniki:
Teams relegated to 2009–10 Beta Ethniki:
Due to Greece having ascended in the UEFA league coefficient rankings, the 2009–10 champions will enter 2010–11 UEFA Champions League at the group stage instead of the third qualifying round. Every other European spot remains unchanged, meaning that the winner of the [|European play-off group] will reach the third qualifying round of the Champions League while the runners-up and third-placed team of this group will enter 2010–11 UEFA Europa League.

Team overview

Stadia and locations

ClubLocationVenueCapacity
AEK AthensAthensAthens Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis"71,030
ArisThessalonikiKleanthis Vikelidis Stadium22,800
Asteras TripolisTripoliAsteras Tripolis Stadium6,430
AtromitosAthensPeristeri Stadium8,939
ErgotelisHeraklionPankritio Stadium26,240
PAS GianninaIoanninaZosimades Stadium7,652
IraklisThessalonikiLysandros Kaftanzoglou Stadium27,770
KavalaKavalaAnthi Karagianni Stadium12,500
LarissaLarissaAlcazar Stadium13,108
LevadiakosLivadeiaLevadia Municipal Stadium5,915
OlympiacosPiraeusGeorgios Karaiskakis Stadium33,334
PanathinaikosAthensAthens Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis"71,030
PanioniosAthensNea Smyrni Stadium11,700
PanthrakikosKomotiniKomotini Municipal Stadium6,500
PAOKThessalonikiToumba Stadium28,701
Skoda XanthiXanthiSkoda Xanthi Arena7,361

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyReplaced byDate of appointment
Panthrakikos Ilie DumitrescuMutual consent27 August 2009 Albert Cartier27 August 2009
Olympiacos Temuri KetsbaiaSacked14 September 2009 Zico16 September 2009
Skoda Xanthi Wolfgang WolfMutual consent15 September 2009 Ioannis Matzourakis21 September 2009
Levadiakos Momčilo VukotićMutual consent23 September 2009 Quique Hernández30 September 2009
Asteras Tripolis Roberto Carlos Mario GómezMutual consent25 October 2009 Vangelis Vlachos25 October 2009
Iraklis Oleh ProtasovMutual consent30 October 2009 Savvas Kofidis30 October 2009
Aris MazinhoMutual consent2 November 2009 Héctor Cúper6 November 2009
Kavala Giannis PapakostasMutual consent14 November 2009 Vangelis Goutis
PAS Giannina Georgios ParaschosMutual consent7 December 2009 Nikos Anastopoulos
Panathinaikos Henk ten CateMutual consent8 December 2009 Nikos Nioplias8 December 2009
Panthrakikos Albert CartierMutual consent11 January 2010 Pavlos Dermitzakis12 January 2010
Iraklis Savvas KofidisSacked24 January 2010 Jozef Bubenko25 January 2010
Panionios Emilio FerreraMutual consent25 January 2010 Akis Mantzios29 January 2010
Olympiacos ZicoSacked19 January 2010 Božidar Bandović19 January 2010
Kavala Vangelis GoutisMutual consent25 January 2010 Aad De Mos28 January 2010
Panionios Akis Mantzios3 February 2010 Georgios Paraschos3 February 2010
Skoda Xanthi Ioannis Matzourakis22 February 2010
Larissa Marinos OuzounidisMutual Consent22 February 2010 Giannis Papakostas22 February 2010

League table

Results

Play-offs

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 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 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:

Top goalscorers

Source:
RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Djibril CisséPanathinaikos23
2 Giorgos BarkoglouLevadiakos11
2 Victoraș IacobIraklis11
2 Javier CámporaAris11
5 Benjamin OnwuachiKavala10
5 Danijel CesarecAsteras Tripolis10
7 Kostas MitroglouOlympiacos9
8 Ilias AnastasakosAtromitos8
8 Emanuel PerroneAtromitos8
8 Boško BalabanPanionios8
8 Ismael BlancoAEK Athens8
8 Ignacio ScoccoAEK Athens8
8 Kostas KatsouranisPanathinaikos8