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 played	306
Goals scored	885 (2.89 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dimitris Nalitzis; (24 goals)
	← 1998–99 2000–01 →

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

Stadia and personnel

Team	Manager¹	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens	Greece Giannis Pathiakakis	Athens	Nikos Goumas Stadium	27,729
Apollon Athens	Greece Andreas Michalopoulos	Athens	Rizoupoli Stadium	14,856
Aris	Greece Giannis Michalitsios	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	23,220
Ethnikos Asteras	Greece Spyros Livathinos	Athens	Michalis Kritikopoulos Stadium	4,851
Ionikos	Ukraine Oleg Blokhin	Piraeus	Neapoli Stadium	4,999
Iraklis	Greece Angelos Anastasiadis	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	27,770
Kalamata	Greece Vasilis Georgopoulos	Kalamata	Kalamata Municipal Stadium	5,613
Kavala	Greece Georgios Paraschos	Kavala	Kavala National Stadium	12,500
OFI	Netherlands Eugène Gerards	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium	9,000
Olympiacos	Greece Giannis Matzourakis	Piraeus	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
Panachaiki	Greece Christos Archontidis	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium	11,321
Panathinaikos	Greece Ioannis Kyrastas	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
Paniliakos	Netherlands Arie Haan	Pyrgos	Pyrgos Stadium	6,750
Panionios	Greece Christos Emvoliadis	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium	11,756
PAOK	Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium	28,803
Proodeftiki	Greece Soulis Papadopoulos	Piraeus	Nikaia Municipal Stadium	5,000
Skoda Xanthi	Greece Nikos Karageorgiou	Xanthi	Xanthi Ground	9,500
Trikala	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 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^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Qualification for UEFA Cup play-off
7	Aris	34	14	8	12	50	46	+4	50^{[lower-alpha 1]}
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^{[lower-alpha 2]}
11	Skoda Xanthi	34	11	8	15	36	43	−7	41^{[lower-alpha 2]}
12	Ethnikos Asteras	34	12	5	17	33	50	−17	41^{[lower-alpha 2]}
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:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Head-to-head points (goal difference): Iraklis 3 (+1), Aris 3 (-1).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 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: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

UEFA Cup Places

AEK Athens qualified through the Cup, the 3rd league UEFA Cup place is decided between the teams within 5 points from 6th to 8th place. UEFA Cup Play-off Iraklis with two Home-matches, Aris one, Panionios none

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Iraklis	2–2	Panionios
Aris	3–2	Panionios
Iraklis	2–0	Aris

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iraklis	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
2	Aris	2	1	0	1	3	4	−1	3
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	Greece Dimitris Nalitzis	PAOK	24
2	Greece Nikos Liberopoulos	Panathinaikos	23
3	Greece Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens	22
3	Cyprus Michalis Konstantinou	Iraklis	22
5	Costa Rica Rónald Gómez	OFI	19
6	Greece Alexis Alexandris	Olympiacos	15
7	Serbia and Montenegro Predrag Đorđević	Olympiacos	12
8	Greece Nikos Frousos	PAOK	11
	Serbia and Montenegro Saša Jovanović	Trikala
	Greece Paraschos Zouboulis	Skoda Xanthi

Awards

Annual awards

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

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

References

↑ "Γιορτή με σκιές..." tanea.gr (in Ελληνικά). 19 December 2000.

External links

[table_hth_IRA0.86156478610894-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Head-to-head points (goal difference): Iraklis 3 (+1), Aris 3 (-1).

[table_hth_ION0.86156478610894-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Head-to-head points (goal difference): Ionikos 9 (+4), Xanthi 4 (-1), Ethnikos Asteras 4 (-3).

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

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Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '99 '00 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '99 '00 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzeg-Bosnia, Republika Srpska) Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '99 '00 Faroe Islands '99 '00 Finland '99 '00 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '99 '00 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '99 '00 Latvia '99 '00 Lithuania '99 '00 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '99 '00 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '99 '00 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '99 '00 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
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League cups	England Finland '99 '00 France Germany Iceland '99 '00 Israel Northern Ireland Poland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales
UEFA competitions	Champions League (qualifying, 1st group stage, 2nd group stage, knockout stage, final) UEFA Cup (qualifying round, 1st round, 2nd round, final phase, final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup

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