1995–96 Alpha Ethniki

Alpha Ethniki
Season	1995–96
Champions	Panathinaikos; 18th Greek title
Relegated	AEL; Panionios; Ethnikos Piraeus
Champions League	Panathinaikos
Cup Winners' Cup	AEK Athens
UEFA Cup	Olympiacos; Iraklis
Matches played	306
Goals scored	870 (2.84 per match)
Top goalscorer	Vasilios Tsiartas; (26 goals)
	← 1994–95 1996–97 →

The 1995–96 Alpha Ethniki was the 60th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 26 August 1995 and ended on 29 May 1996. Panathinaikos won their second consecutive and 18th Greek title.

Teams

Stadia and personnel

Team	Manager¹	Location	Stadium
AEK Athens	Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević	Athens	Nikos Goumas Stadium
AEL	Greece Andreas Michalopoulos	Larissa	Alcazar Stadium
Apollon Athens	Greece Giannis Pathiakakis	Athens	Rizoupoli Stadium
Aris	Czech Republic Jozef Jarabinský	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium
Athinaikos	Greece Babis Tennes	Athens	Vyronas National Stadium
Edessaikos	Greece Angelos Anastasiadis	Edessa	Municipal Stadium of Edessa
Ethnikos Piraeus	Germany Timo Zahnleiter	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium
Ionikos	Ukraine Oleg Blokhin	Piraeus	Neapoli Stadium
Iraklis	Greece Vasilios Antoniadis	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium
Kalamata	Sweden Bo Petersson	Kalamata	Kalamata Municipal Stadium
OFI	Netherlands Eugène Gerards	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium
Olympiacos	Greece Takis Persias	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium
Panachaiki	Greece Christos Archontidis	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium
Panathinaikos	Argentina Juan Ramón Rocha	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium
Paniliakos	Greece Giannis Kyrastas	Pyrgos	Pyrgos Stadium
Panionios	Greece Stathis Chaitas	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium
PAOK	Sweden Gunder Bengtsson	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium
Skoda Xanthi	Austria Kurt Jara	Xanthi	Xanthi Ground

¹ On final match day of the season, played on 29 May 1996.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Panathinaikos (C)	34	26	5	3	72	22	+50	83	Qualification for Champions League qualifying round
2	AEK Athens	34	25	6	3	87	22	+65	81	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Olympiacos	34	19	8	7	66	34	+32	65	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Iraklis	34	17	7	10	51	39	+12	58	Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round
5	OFI	34	17	6	11	57	52	+5	57
6	Skoda Xanthi	34	12	11	11	53	47	+6	47
7	Aris	34	12	10	12	45	47	−2	46
8	Ionikos	34	12	10	12	44	50	−6	46
9	Edessaikos	34	12	8	14	50	59	−9	44^{[lower-alpha 1]}
10	Athinaikos	34	12	8	14	33	47	−14	44^{[lower-alpha 1]}
11	Apollon Athens	34	11	7	16	49	48	+1	40^{[lower-alpha 2]}
12	Paniliakos	34	10	10	14	46	51	−5	40^{[lower-alpha 2]}
13	Kalamata	34	9	12	13	41	46	−5	39
14	PAOK^{[lower-alpha 3]}	34	10	11	13	42	46	−4	38
15	Panachaiki	34	10	6	18	27	47	−20	36
16	AEL (R)	34	9	7	18	32	64	−32	34	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
17	Panionios (R)	34	8	5	21	35	59	−24	29
18	Ethnikos Piraeus (R)	34	5	3	26	40	90	−50	18

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
Notes:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Head-to-head points (goal difference): Edessaikos 3 (+2), Athinaikos 3 (-2).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Head-to-head points (goal difference): Apollon Athens 3 (0), Paniliakos 3 (0).
↑ PAOK were deducted 3 points.

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	AEL	APA	ARIS	ATH	EDE	ETH	ION	IRA	KAL	OFI	OLY	PNA	PAO	PNL	PGSS	PAOK	XAN
AEK Athens		1–0	1–0	4–0	6–0	3–0	3–1	6–0	3–1	5–1	4–0	1–1	5–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	4–0	2–1
AEL	2–2		3–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	5–0	2–3	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1
Apollon Athens	0–3	4–0		4–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	4–1	2–1	2–1	0–1	3–4	2–0	2–3	2–1	0–1	0–1	3–1
Aris	2–1	6–0	2–0		1–1	2–0	4–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	4–2	0–0	2–2
Athinaikos	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–0		2–1	2–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–2	0–1	2–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–1
Edessaikos	2–5	3–1	0–0	1–1	5–2		6–2	0–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	2–5	2–0	1–3	1–3	2–1	3–3	1–1
Ethnikos Piraeus	0–3	0–1	3–2	3–1	3–2	1–1		2–5	1–4	2–3	2–3	0–3	1–2	0–0	2–4	2–0	2–3	1–2
Ionikos	1–4	3–1	1–2	3–1	0–1	3–0	4–1		1–1	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–1
Iraklis	1–3	2–1	1–1	3–2	1–2	2–0	4–1	3–1		2–1	5–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	3–2	2–2	2–0
Kalamata	2–2	5–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–0		2–3	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1
OFI	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	4–1	3–2	3–1	0–0	3–0		2–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	2–2	2–1	3–0
Olympiacos	1–1	3–1	0–3	4–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	4–1	3–1		6–1	1–2	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–1
Panachaiki	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1		0–1	0–0	1–0	3–2	1–2
Panathinaikos	1–0	6–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	3–1	3–0	3–0	4–0	4–0	4–0	1–0	1–0		4–1	5–3	2–0	2–0
Paniliakos	0–2	4–2	2–1	2–1	4–1	2–3	2–2	0–0	1–2	1–0	4–2	0–0	1–1	0–1		3–1	1–1	2–2
Panionios	1–2	0–0	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–3	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–3	1–0		2–1	3–0
PAOK	1–3^{[lower-alpha 1]}	2–3	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–0		3–3
Skoda Xanthi	1–1	3–1	1–0	4–0	3–0	1–1	6–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–3	4–0	2–2

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

↑ The game was abandoned at the 74th minute due to invasion of PAOK fans. That remained as the final score.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Greece Vasilios Tsiartas	AEK Athens	26
2	Poland Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos	19
	Greece Vassilis Karapialis	Olympiacos
	Greece Christos Kostis	AEK Athens
5	Greece Nikos Machlas	OFI	18
6	Greece Demis Nikolaidis	Apollon Athens	16
6	Greece Georgios Nasiopoulos	Edessaikos	16
8	Georgia (country) Temur Ketsbaia	AEK Athens	16
8	Serbia and Montenegro Ilija Ivić	Olympiacos	16
10	Greece Paris Zoumboulis	PAOK	13
	Greece Zisis Vryzas	Skoda Xanthi
	Greece Nikos Mirtsekis	Iraklis
	Bosnia and Herzegovina Bernard Barnjak	Apollon Athens

Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 31 December 1996.^[1]

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Greece Georgios Donis Greece Vassilis Karapialis Greece Vasilios Tsiartas	Panathinaikos Olympiacos AEK Athens
Foreign Player of the Season	Georgia (country) Temur Ketsbaia	AEK Athens
Young Player of the Season	Greece Nikos Liberopoulos	Kalamata
Golden Boot	Greece Vasilios Tsiartas	AEK Athens
Manager of the Season	Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević	AEK Athens

References

↑ "Kathimerini Page 15" (PDF) (in Ελληνικά). Kathimerini. 31 December 1996. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.

External links

[table_hth_EDE0.62557088519706-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Head-to-head points (goal difference): Edessaikos 3 (+2), Athinaikos 3 (-2).

[table_hth_APA0.62557088519706-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Head-to-head points (goal difference): Apollon Athens 3 (0), Paniliakos 3 (0).

[table_note_PAOK0.62557088519706-3] PAOK were deducted 3 points.

[table_note_1_PAOK_AEK0.46435344473662-4] The game was abandoned at the 74th minute due to invasion of PAOK fans. That remained as the final score.

[5] "Kathimerini Page 15" (PDF) (in Ελληνικά). Kathimerini. 31 December 1996. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.

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