1999–2000 Alpha Ethniki

Alpha Ethniki
Season	1999–2000
Champions	Olympiacos; 29th Greek title
Relegated	Kavala; Proodeftiki; Apollon Athens; Trikala
Champions League	Olympiacos; Panathinaikos
UEFA Cup	AEK Athens; OFI; PAOK; Iraklis
Intertoto Cup	Kalamata
Matches	306
Goals	885 (2.89 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dimitris Nalitzis; (24 goals)
	← 1998–99 2000–01 →

64th season of top-tier football league in Greece

Football league season

The 1999–2000 Alpha Ethniki was the 64th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 19 September 1999 and ended on 28 May 2000. Olympiacos won their fourth consecutive and 29th Greek title.

Teams

Promoted from 1998–99 Beta Ethniki	Relegated from 1998–99 Alpha Ethniki
Trikala Panachaiki Kalamata	Panelefsiniakos Veria Ethnikos Piraeus

Stadiums and personnel

AEK Athens
Apollon
E. Asteras
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Ionikos
Olympiacos
Proodeftiki

Location of teams in 1999–2000 Alpha Ethniki

Team	Manager¹	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens	Giannis Pathiakakis	Athens (Nea Filadelfeia)	Nikos Goumas Stadium	27,729
Apollon Athens	Andreas Michalopoulos	Athens (Rizoupoli)	Rizoupoli Stadium	14,856
Aris	Giannis Michalitsios	Thessaloniki (Charilaou)	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	23,220
Ethnikos Asteras	Spyros Livathinos	Athens (Kaisariani)	Michalis Kritikopoulos Stadium	4,851
Ionikos	Oleg Blokhin	Piraeus (Nikaia)	Neapoli Stadium	4,999
Iraklis	Angelos Anastasiadis	Thessaloniki (Triandria)	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	27,770
Kalamata	Vasilis Georgopoulos	Kalamata	Kalamata Municipal Stadium	5,613
Kavala	Georgios Paraschos	Kavala	Kavala National Stadium	12,500
OFI	Eugène Gerards	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium	9,000
Olympiacos	Giannis Matzourakis	Athens (Marousi)	Athens Olympic Stadium	69,638
Panachaiki	Christos Archontidis	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium	11,321
Panathinaikos	Ioannis Kyrastas	Athens (Marousi)	Athens Olympic Stadium	69,638
Paniliakos	Arie Haan	Pyrgos	Pyrgos Stadium	6,750
Panionios	Christos Emvoliadis	Athens (Nea Smyrni)	Nea Smyrni Stadium	11,756
PAOK	Dušan Bajević	Thessaloniki (Toumba)	Toumba Stadium	28,703
Proodeftiki	Soulis Papadopoulos	Piraeus (Nikaia)	Nikaia Municipal Stadium	5,000
Skoda Xanthi	Nikos Karageorgiou	Xanthi	Xanthi Ground	9,500
Trikala	Zoran Babović	Trikala	Trikala Municipal Stadium	15,000

¹ On final match day of the season, played on 28 May 2000.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	34	30	2	2	86	18	+68	92	Qualification for Champions League first group stage
2	Panathinaikos	34	28	4	2	92	24	+68	88	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
3	AEK Athens	34	20	6	8	69	39	+30	66	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	OFI	34	18	9	7	60	44	+16	63
5	PAOK	34	15	10	9	64	44	+20	55
6	Iraklis	34	15	5	14	58	58	0	50^[a]	Qualification for UEFA Cup Play-offs
7	Aris	34	14	8	12	50	46	+4	50^[a]
8	Panionios	34	14	3	17	50	63	−13	45
9	Kalamata	34	12	8	14	41	57	−16	44	Qualification for Intertoto Cup third round
10	Ionikos	34	10	11	13	40	50	−10	41^[b]
11	Skoda Xanthi	34	11	8	15	36	43	−7	41^[b]
12	Ethnikos Asteras	34	12	5	17	33	50	−17	41^[b]
13	Paniliakos	34	12	4	18	44	48	−4	40
14	Panachaiki	34	9	12	13	37	47	−10	39
15	Kavala (R)	34	8	6	20	33	66	−33	30	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
16	Proodeftiki (R)	34	7	7	20	27	55	−28	28
17	Apollon Athens (R)	34	6	6	22	30	59	−29	24
18	Trikala (R)	34	5	6	23	35	74	−39	21

Source: Galanis Sports Data
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Goals against; 7) Play-offs (neutral ground); 8) Draw.
(Note: Criterion 7 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ a b Head-to-head points (goal difference): Iraklis 3 (+1), Aris 3 (-1).
^ a b c Head-to-head points (goal difference): Ionikos 9 (+4), Xanthi 4 (-1), Ethnikos Asteras 4 (-3).

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	APA	ARIS	ETA	ION	IRA	KAL	KAV	OFI	OLY	PNA	PAO	PNL	PGSS	PAOK	PRO	XAN	TRI
AEK Athens		3–0	2–0	2–1	5–1	3–2	6–1	3–0	1–2	0–2	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	3–2	4–1	2–1
Apollon Athens	3–2		3–3	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–2	0–2	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–3	0–0	2–1	3–4	0–2	0–0	5–2
Aris	1–1	2–1		1–1	1–1	2–1	6–1	1–0	3–1	0–1	2–0	0–2	2–1	5–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	3–3
Ethnikos Asteras	1–3	3–1	1–0		1–2	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	3–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0
Ionikos	1–1	1–0	2–2	3–0		1–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–2	0–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	5–1
Iraklis	3–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–2		2–1	2–1	0–3	3–4	2–1	1–3	3–1	1–2	3–1	4–0	3–1	4–1
Kalamata	1–1	1–1	5–2	1–0	2–0	2–2		3–2	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–3	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1
Kavala	0–2	1–3	1–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	0–1		0–1	0–5	0–0	1–4	2–1	3–7	1–1	2–1	1–0	4–1
OFI	1–2	1–0	2–1	4–1	2–0	1–1	3–2	2–2		2–1	2–2	3–4	3–2	0–2	2–0	4–3	2–1	2–0
Olympiacos	3–0	2–0	2–0	5–0	2–0	1–0	4–1	5–0	2–0		5–1	2–2	2–1	5–0	4–1	4–0	3–2	3–1
Panachaiki	1–1	1–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	3–2	3–1	0–2		1–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	3–0
Panathinaikos	1–0	5–0	3–0	4–0	5–0	3–0	5–0	3–0	3–2	2–0	7–1		3–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–0
Paniliakos	0–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	3–0	4–3	3–1	2–0	1–2	0–3	0–0	0–1		3–0	0–4	4–0	2–0	1–3
Panionios	0–2	3–1	1–3	1–0	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–4	0–1	2–1	0–4	1–2		1–1	2–1	4–0	4–1
PAOK	4–4	1–1	3–2	2–0	3–0	4–0	4–2	5–0	2–2	0–2	1–1	1–3	0–1	2–0		1–0	5–0	2–0
Proodeftiki	1–4	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–2	0–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–3	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0		0–0	1–0
Skoda Xanthi	2–2	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–3	1–0	5–0	1–2	2–1		3–0
Trikala	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	2–2	3–3	0–2	3–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–3	1–1	2–3	3–5	0–0	2–1

Source: Worldfootball.net
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

UEFA Cup Play-offs

AEK Athens were qualified through the Cup, the 3rd league UEFA Cup place was decided between the teams within 5 points from 6th to 8th place.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	IRA	ARIS	PGSS
1	Iraklis	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round		2–0	2–2
2	Aris	2	1	0	1	3	4	−1	3		—		3–2
3	Panionios	2	0	1	1	4	5	−1	1		—	—

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dimitris Nalitzis	PAOK	24
2	Nikos Liberopoulos	Panathinaikos	23
3	Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens	22
3	Michalis Konstantinou	Iraklis	22
5	Rónald Gómez	OFI	19
6	Alexis Alexandris	Olympiacos	15
7	Predrag Đorđević	Olympiacos	12
8	Nikos Frousos	PAOK	11
	Saša Jovanović	Trikala
	Paraschos Zouboulis	Skoda Xanthi

Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 19 December 2000.^[1]

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Nikos Liberopoulos	Panathinaikos
Foreign Player of the Season	Giovanni	Olympiacos
Young Player of the Season	Christos Patsatzoglou Kostas Katsouranis	Skoda Xanthi Panachaiki
Goalkeeper of the Season	Antonios Nikopolidis	Panathinaikos
Golden Boot	Dimitris Nalitzis	PAOK
Manager of the Season	Ioannis Kyrastas	Panathinaikos

Attendances

Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 1999–2000 Alpha Ethniki.^[2]

#	Team	Average attendance
1	Olympiacos	14,335
2	Panathinaikos	9,539
3	PAOK	9,352
4	Aris	4,818
5	AEK Athens	4,668
6	Iraklis	4,453
7	OFI	3,699
8	Panachaiki	2,833
9	Kalamata	2,686
10	Panionios	2,378
11	Ethnikos Asteras	2,349
12	Trikala	2,346
13	Paniliakos	1,993
14	Kavala	1,346
15	Skoda Xanthi	1,332
16	Ionikos	1,247
17	Proodeftiki	1,219
18	Apollon Athens	1,044

References

^ "Γιορτή με σκιές..." tanea.gr (in Greek). 19 December 2000.
^ "1999–2000 Alpha Ethniki". european-football-statistics.co.uk.

External links

Official Greek FA Site
RSSSF
Greek SuperLeague official Site
SuperLeague Statistics

[table_hth_IRA0.47701988903667-1] Head-to-head points (goal difference): Iraklis 3 (+1), Aris 3 (-1).

[table_hth_ION0.47701988903667-2] Head-to-head points (goal difference): Ionikos 9 (+4), Xanthi 4 (-1), Ethnikos Asteras 4 (-3).

[3] "Γιορτή με σκιές..." tanea.gr (in Greek). 19 December 2000.

[4] "1999–2000 Alpha Ethniki". european-football-statistics.co.uk.