1997–98 Alpha Ethniki

Alpha Ethniki
Season	1997–98
Champions	Olympiacos; 27th Greek title
Relegated	Panachaiki; Kalamata; Athinaikos
Champions League	Olympiacos; Panathinaikos
UEFA Cup	AEK Athens; PAOK
Cup Winners' Cup	Panionios
Intertoto Cup	Iraklis
Matches played	306
Goals scored	843 (2.75 per match)
Top goalscorer	Krzysztof Warzycha; (32 goals)
	← 1996–97 1998–99 →

The 1997–98 Alpha Ethniki was the 62nd season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 30 August 1997 and ended on 18 May 1998. Olympiacos won their second consecutive and 27th Greek title.

Teams

Stadia and personnel

Team	Manager¹	Location	Stadium
AEK Athens	Greece Antonis Minou	Athens	Nikos Goumas Stadium
Apollon Athens	Netherlands Thijs Libregts	Athens	Rizoupoli Stadium
Athinaikos	Greece Nikolaos Pantelis	Athens	Vyronas National Stadium
Ethnikos Piraeus	Greece Georgios Ioakimidis	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium
Ionikos	Poland Jacek Gmoch	Piraeus	Neapoli Stadium
Iraklis	Greece Konstantinos Maloumidis	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium
Kalamata	Brazil Eduardo Amorim	Kalamata	Kalamata Municipal Stadium
Kavala	Greece Nikolaos Goulis	Kavala	Kavala National Stadium
OFI	Netherlands Eugène Gerards	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium
Olympiacos	Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević	Piraeus	Athens Olympic Stadium
Panachaiki	Greece Stavros Diamantopoulos	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium
Panathinaikos	Greece Vasilios Daniil	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium
Paniliakos	Greece Giannis Kyrastas	Pyrgos	Pyrgos Stadium
Panionios	Greece Christos Emvoliadis	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium
PAOK	Greece Angelos Anastasiadis	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium
Proodeftiki	Greece Nikos Karoulias	Piraeus	Nikaia Municipal Stadium
Skoda Xanthi	Greece Giannis Mantzourakis	Xanthi	Xanthi Ground
Veria	Greece Stefanos Gaitanos	Veria	Veria Stadium

¹ On final match day of the season, played on 18 May 1998.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	34	29	1	4	88	27	+61	88	Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2	Panathinaikos	34	28	1	5	90	24	+66	85	Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
3	AEK Athens	34	22	8	4	61	30	+31	74	Qualification for UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4	PAOK	34	21	7	6	74	41	+33	70	Qualification for UEFA Cup second qualifying round
5	Ionikos	34	18	8	8	46	31	+15	62
6	Iraklis	34	14	9	11	49	45	+4	51	Qualification for Intertoto Cup second round
7	OFI	34	15	4	15	45	53	−8	49
8	Skoda Xanthi	34	13	6	15	52	52	0	45
9	Veria	34	12	6	16	38	48	−10	42
10	Apollon Athens	34	10	6	18	37	51	−14	36
11	Panionios	34	10	6	18	41	54	−13	36	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
12	Paniliakos	34	9	9	16	41	54	−13	36
13	Kavala	34	10	5	19	40	58	−18	35
14	Proodeftiki	34	9	7	18	35	57	−22	34
15	Ethnikos Piraeus	34	10	3	21	27	51	−24	33
16	Panachaiki (R)	34	9	5	20	29	62	−33	32	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
17	Kalamata (R)	34	7	8	19	27	50	−23	29
18	Athinaikos (R)	34	6	9	19	23	55	−32	27

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

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	APA	ATH	ETH	ION	IRA	KAL	KAV	OFI	OLY	PNA	PAO	PNL	PGSS	PAOK	PRO	XAN	VER
AEK Athens		1–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	2–2	4–2	1–0	3–0	1–0	5–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–2
Apollon Athens	3–4		2–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	0–5	2–1	2–5	2–0	0–0	4–4	1–0	1–2	0–1
Athinaikos	0–1	0–0		1–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	1–2	3–2	0–3	4–3	3–0	0–5	1–0	4–1	1–0
Ethnikos Piraeus	1–3	2–0	1–0		0–1	0–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	1–3	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1
Ionikos	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0		1–0	0–0	2–0	5–0	0–1	5–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–1
Iraklis	1–4	4–2	4–0	3–2	1–1		2–1	3–2	3–1	0–2	3–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–3	1–0	2–0	3–0
Kalamata	1–2	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	3–1		0–2	1–0	0–4	0–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–0
Kavala	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–1	2–3	2–0	5–1		3–3	0–1	4–0	0–4	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–0	0–1
OFI	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	3–0		2–3	1–0	0–3	3–2	3–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	3–0
Olympiacos	0–1	5–3	4–0	3–1	2–0	5–2	3–0	4–2	1–0		3–1	3–1	4–2	2–0	2–0	3–0	6–1	4–1
Panachaiki	0–0	1–0	4–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–2		0–1	0–4	3–2	1–4	1–1	2–1	2–1
Panathinaikos	0–1	1–0	4–1	4–2	5–1	1–0	1–0	4–1	6–2	0–2	6–1		7–0	2–1	3–1	5–0	4–1	2–0
Paniliakos	2–4	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–0		0–2	1–2	0–1	4–3	0–0
Panionios	0–1	1–3	1–0	5–1	2–2	3–1	1–2	3–0	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–3	3–1		0–3	4–0	1–1	3–1
PAOK	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–2	4–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	4–1	2–1	3–2	6–1		3–1	1–1	3–1
Proodeftiki	3–2	1–0	3–0	2–3	1–0	4–4	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	3–3		0–3	3–0
Skoda Xanthi	0–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	4–2	0–0	1–1	5–2	2–1	0–4	0–1	1–3	2–0	2–0	2–2	4–0		4–0
Veria	1–2	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	4–2	3–0	2–0	0–0	0–3	3–1	4–0	1–3	2–2	2–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Poland Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos	32
2	Serbia and Montenegro Ilija Ivić	Olympiacos	26
3	Greece Georgios Georgiadis	Panathinaikos	21
4	Greece Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens	19
5	Greece Kostas Frantzeskos	PAOK	17
6	Greece Alexis Alexandris	Olympiacos	14
6	Scotland Craig Brewster	Ionikos	14
8	Serbia and Montenegro Predrag Đorđević	Olympiacos	12
8	Brazil Luciano de Souza	Skoda Xanthi	12
10	Peru Paul Cominges	PAOK	11
	Albania Roland Zajmi	Proodeftiki
	Cyprus Michalis Konstantinou	Iraklis
	Greece Sakis Almanidis	Proodeftiki

Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 15 December 1998.^[1]

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Greece Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens
Foreign Player of the Season	Poland Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos
Young Player of the Season	Greece Giorgos Karagounis Greece Pantelis Konstantinidis Greece Paraskevas Antzas	Apollon Athens Apollon Athens Skoda Xanthi
Goalkeeper of the Season	Greece Ilias Atmatsidis	AEK Athens
Golden Boot	Poland Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos
Manager of the Season	Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević	Olympiacos

References

↑ "Kathimerini Page 19" (PDF) (in Ελληνικά). Kathimerini. 15 December 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.

External links

[1] "Kathimerini Page 19" (PDF) (in Ελληνικά). Kathimerini. 15 December 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.

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Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '97 '98 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '97 '98 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzeg-Bosnia, Republika Srpska) Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '97 '98 Finland '97 '98 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '97 '98 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '97 '98 Latvia '97 '98 Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '97 '98 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '97 '98 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '97 '98 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '97 '98 Finland '97 '98 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '97 '98 Israel Italy Latvia '97 '98 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '97 '98 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
League cups	England Finland '97 '98 France Germany Iceland '97 '98 Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying rounds, Group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup

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