2006-07 in Greek football - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This was the inaugural Super League Greece

Super League Greece

The Superleague Greece is the highest professional football league in Greece. It was formed on July 16, 2006 and replaced Alpha Ethniki at the top of the Greek football league system. The league consists of 16 teams and runs from August to May, with teams playing 30 games each...

season. Olympiacos clinched the inaugural title on April 22 with their victory over Kerkyra

Kerkyra FC

Kerkyra FC, also known as AO Kerkyra , the Athletic Club Kerkyra, is a Greek association football club based on the island of Kerkyra , Greece.-History:...

, for their third straight title and 10th in the last 11 years.

For the next season, Ionikos, Kerkira FC and Egaleo FC

Egaleo FC

Egaleo F.C. is a Greek football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens. Founded in 1931, it currently plays in Greece's fourth division, holding home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium, with a 14,000-seat capacity....

have been relegated to B' Ethniki

Beta Ethniki

Football League, former Beta Ethniki, is the second highest professional football league in Greece.-History:In its first years, the system of conduct was very intriguing. It began in 1954 as regional championship, separated in two groups, North and South. Then, the participating teams were the...

given that they have finished in the lowest three spots of the table. Asteras Tripolis, Levadiakos FC and Veria FC will be promoted from B' Ethniki for 2007-08.

AE Larissa

AEL 1964

AEL 1964 F.C., fully the Athletic Union of Larissa 1964 , is a Greek association football club based in the city of Larissa, capital of Greece's Thessaly region. The club is also known, unofficially, as Larissa. It is the only FC outside the two big Greek cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, to have...

has won the 2007 Greek Cup with a 2-1 victory over Panathinaikos

Panathinaikos FC

Panathinaikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Athens. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Greek football history. They have won 20 Greek Championships and 17 Greek Cups.Panathinaikos is the most...

in the final held in Panthessaliko Stadium

Panthessaliko Stadium

Panthessaliko Stadium is a stadium located at Volos, Greece. The stadium was the site of football matches during the 2004 Summer Olympics. It was officially opened on July 30, 2004 and has a capacity of 22,700 seats, though only 21,100 seats were made publicly available for the Olympic matches...

in Volos

Volos

Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...

Super League Greece Final Standings

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Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	Pts	GF	GA	GD
1	Olympiacos	30	22	5	3	71	62	23
UEFA Champions League Group Stage
2	AEK Athens AEK Athens FC AEK Athens F.C. , the Athletic Union of Constantinople, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Athens, Greece. Outside Greece, the club is also known as AEK Athens, however, the word Athens is not part of the club's official title.Established in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees...	30	18	8	4	62	60	27
UEFA Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round
3	Panathinaikos Panathinaikos FC Panathinaikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Athens. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Greek football history. They have won 20 Greek Championships and 17 Greek Cups.Panathinaikos is the most...	30	16	6	8	54	47	28
UEFA Cup 1st Round
	4	Aris Aris Thessaloniki F.C. Aris Football Club , also known as God of war and the Yellows, is a Greek football club based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia. Formed in 1914, the club was a founding member of Macedonian Football Clubs Association as well as the Hellenic Football Federation, they currently compete in...	30	11	13	6	46	32	26
	5	Panionios	30	12	9	9	45	33	31
6	PAOK PAOK FC P.A.O.K. F.C. is a Greek association football club based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is the largest supported football club in Macedonia.PAOK FC is the football department of Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans , a multi-sport club. Since its formation in 1926 the football club...	30	13	6	11	45	32	29
7	OFI OFI Crete OFI , the Sportfriends Association Heraklion, is a Greek association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Outside Greece, the club is generally known as OFI Crete F.C., however, the name Crete is not actually part of the club's official title.OFI is the club with most...	30	12	6	12	42	41	45
UEFA Intertoto Cup ¹
8	Atromitos Atromitos Atromitos FC is a football club based in Peristeri, Athens that plays in the Super League Greece.-History:Atromitos FC was officially founded in May 1923 when Kalomvounis, Petos, Glykofridis, Stathopoulos, Synodinos, Rigopoulos, Stamatopoulos, and other students living in Victoria Square decided...	30	10	10	10	40	40	44
9	Ergotelis Ergotelis FC Ergotelis FC is a Greek football club based in Heraklion, the largest city of the Greek island of Crete. The name itself, Ergotelis, was that of a famous ancient Cretan expatriate Olympic runner Ergoteles of Himera.-History:...	30	11	6	13	39	30	32
10	Larissa	30	9	9	12	36	30	38
UEFA Cup 1st Round ²
11	Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Skoda Xanthi F.C. , or F.C. Skoda Xanthi Athletic Club, is a Greek football club, based in the city of Xanthi. The club currently competes in the Super League Greece.-History:...	30	8	12	10	36	24	22
12	Apollon Kalamarias Apollon Kalamarias Apollon Kalamarias is a Greek association football club based in the district of Kalamaria, in southeast Thessaloniki, Greece.The club was suspended from playing in the Second Division for the 2009-10 season, due to unsettled debts...	30	9	8	13	35	27	36
13	Iraklis	30	10	5	15	35	25	34
14	Kerkira	30	8	11	11	35	34	36
Relegated to Beta Ethniki Beta Ethniki Football League, former Beta Ethniki, is the second highest professional football league in Greece.-History:In its first years, the system of conduct was very intriguing. It began in 1954 as regional championship, separated in two groups, North and South. Then, the participating teams were the...
	15	Aigaleo Egaleo FC Egaleo F.C. is a Greek football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens. Founded in 1931, it currently plays in Greece's fourth division, holding home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium, with a 14,000-seat capacity....	30	7	7	16	28	27	45

16	Ionikos (-5 points) ³	30	2	3	25	4	14	62

¹ PAOK
PAOK FC
P.A.O.K. F.C. is a Greek association football club based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is the largest supported football club in Macedonia.PAOK FC is the football department of Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans , a multi-sport club. Since its formation in 1926 the football club...

turned down entry to the Intertoto Cup allowing OFI Crete
OFI Crete
OFI , the Sportfriends Association Heraklion, is a Greek association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Outside Greece, the club is generally known as OFI Crete F.C., however, the name Crete is not actually part of the club's official title.OFI is the club with most...

to accept the bid from Greece.

² AE Larisa
AEL 1964
AEL 1964 F.C., fully the Athletic Union of Larissa 1964 , is a Greek association football club based in the city of Larissa, capital of Greece's Thessaly region. The club is also known, unofficially, as Larissa. It is the only FC outside the two big Greek cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, to have...

qualified for one of the four UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

spots based on their victory in the Greek Cup.

³ Ionikos had 3 points deducted for an attack by the club's Chairman on the Referee in Round 6, and 2 points deducted for incidents in Round 14.

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Super League Greece

2006-07
Champions
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|Olympiacos
35th Title
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Top scorers

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Nikos Lyberopoulos || AEK Athens FC

AEK Athens FC

AEK Athens F.C. , the Athletic Union of Constantinople, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Athens, Greece. Outside Greece, the club is also known as AEK Athens, however, the word Athens is not part of the club's official title.Established in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees...

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|2||

Rivaldo

Rivaldo Vítor Borba Ferreira , commonly known simply as Rivaldo , is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for São Paulo, on loan from Mogi Mirim, as an attacking midfielder and sometimes as a supporting striker.He most notably played five years with Spanish club FC Barcelona, with whom he...

|| Olympiacos || 17
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|3||

Dimitris Salpigidis

Dimitris Salpigidis Dimitris Salpigidis Dimitris Salpigidis (Greek: Δημήτρης Σαλπιγγίδης, (born 18 August 1981, Thessaloniki) is a Greek football striker. He plays for PAOK FC and the Greek national team.-Playing career:...

|| Panathinaikos FC

Panathinaikos FC

|| 14
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Marcin Mięciel

Marcin Mieciel

Marcin Mięciel is a Polish footballer who plays for Polish club Łódzki KS. His trademark is the bicycle kick.-Poland:...

|| PAOK FC

PAOK FC

P.A.O.K. F.C. is a Greek association football club based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is the largest supported football club in Macedonia.PAOK FC is the football department of Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans , a multi-sport club. Since its formation in 1926 the football club...

|| 14
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|5||

Nery Castillo

Nery Alberto Castillo Confalonieri , is a Mexican international footballer who currently plays for Aris.He began his career at Uruguayan club Danubio, moving to Greece at the age of 16 to play for Olympiacos....

|| Olympiacos || 12
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Dimitris Papadopoulos || Panathinaikos FC

Panathinaikos FC

|| 12
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Goran Drulić

Goran Drulic

Goran Drulić is a Serbian footballer who plays for Andorra CF in Spain, as a striker.-Club career:...

|| OFI Crete

OFI Crete

OFI , the Sportfriends Association Heraklion, is a Greek association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Outside Greece, the club is generally known as OFI Crete F.C., however, the name Crete is not actually part of the club's official title.OFI is the club with most...

|| 12
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|8||

Sergio Koke

Sergio Contreras Pardo

Sergio Contreras Pardo, commonly known as Koke , is a Spanish footballer who plays for Rayo Vallecano as a striker.-Málaga:...

|| Aris Thessaloniki F.C.

Aris Thessaloniki F.C.

Aris Football Club , also known as God of war and the Yellows, is a Greek football club based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia. Formed in 1914, the club was a founding member of Macedonian Football Clubs Association as well as the Hellenic Football Federation, they currently compete in...

|| 10
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|9||

Alban Bushi || Apollon Kalamarias

Apollon Kalamarias

Apollon Kalamarias is a Greek association football club based in the district of Kalamaria, in southeast Thessaloniki, Greece.The club was suspended from playing in the Second Division for the 2009-10 season, due to unsettled debts...

|| 9
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Júlio César

Júlio César da Silva e Souza

Júlio César da Silva e Souza is a Brazilian football player who is playing for Figueirense Futebol Clube. He most recently played Turkish side, Gaziantepspor, having joined them from FC Rapid Bucureşti...

|| AEK Athens FC

AEK Athens FC

|| 9
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UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League 2006-07
The 2006–07 UEFA Champions League was the 15th season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League, since it was rebranded from the European Cup, and the 52nd season overall. The final was contested by Milan and Liverpool on 23 May 2007...

AEK
- Third Qualifying Round v. Hearts
  Heart of Midlothian F.C.
  Heart of Midlothian Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Gorgie, in the west of Edinburgh. They currently play in the Scottish Premier League and are one of the two principal clubs in the city, the other being Hibernian...
  
  -- 2-1, 3-0 (AEK advances 5-1 on aggregate)
- Group Stage v. AC Milan 0-3, 1-0
- Group Stage v. Anderlecht
  R.S.C. Anderlecht
  Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA , is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht in the Brussels Capital Region. Anderlecht plays in the Belgian Pro League and is the most successful Belgian football team in European competitions as well as in the...
  
  -- 1-1, 2-2
- Group Stage v. Lille
  Lille OSC
  LOSC Lille Métropole is a French association football club based in Lille. The club was founded in 1944 as a result of a merger and currently play in Ligue 1, the first division of French football. Lille plays its home matches at the Stade Lille-Metropole in nearby Villeneuve-d'Ascq. In 2012, the...
  
  -- 1-3, 1-0
  - AEK gained 8 points at the group stage and entered the UEFA Cup (Round of 32)

Olympiacos
- Group Stage v. Valencia
  Valencia CF
  Valencia Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in Valencia, Spain. They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful and biggest clubs in Spanish Football and European Football. Valencia have won six La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey trophies, two Fairs Cups which was the...
  
  -- 2-4, 0-2
- Group Stage v. Shakhtar Donetsk -- 2-2, 1-1
- Group Stage v. Roma -- 0-1, 1-1
  - Olympiacos gained 3 points and was eliminated from European competitions

UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup 2006-07
The 2006–07 UEFA Cup was the 36th UEFA Cup, Europe's second tier club football tournament. On 16 May 2007, at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Sevilla won their second consecutive UEFA Cup, defeating Espanyol 3–1 on penalties after the match finished 2–2 after extra time...

Panathinaikos
- First Round v. Metalurh Zaporizhzhya
  FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhya
  FC Metalurh Zaporizhya is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Zaporizhia. The club has always been in the top league, since the first season in 1992 until the season 2010/11 when it took the last position and was relegated to the Ukrainian First League.- Early years :The...
  
  -- 1-1, 1-0 (Panathinaikos advances 2-1 on aggregate)
- Group Stage v. Hapoel Tel Aviv -- 2-0
- Group Stage v. Mladá Boleslav
  FK Mladá Boleslav
  FK Mladá Boleslav is a Czech football club from Mladá Boleslav.- Recent times :The team was promoted to Gambrinus liga for the first time in its history in 2004 and in their first top-flight season fought against relegation, eventually finishing in 14th place...
  
  -- 1-0
- Group Stage v. Rapid Bucureşti -- 0-0
- Group Stage v. Paris Saint-Germain
  Paris Saint-Germain FC
  Paris Saint-Germain Football Club , also known simply as Paris Saint-Germain and familiarly as Paris SG or PSG , is a professional association football club based in Paris, France. The club was founded on 12 August 1970, thanks to the merger of Paris FC and Stade Saint-Germain...
  
  -- 0-4
  - Panathinaikos advances as first place in group
- Round of 32 v. Lens
  RC Lens
  Racing Club de Lens is a French association football club based in the northern city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department. Its nickname, sang et or , comes from its traditional colours of red and gold. Their primary rivals are their northern neighbors Lille OSC, whom they contest the Derby du...
  
  -- 1-3, 0-0 (Lens advances 3-1 on aggregate)

Atromitos
- First Round v. Sevilla
  Sevilla FC
  Sevilla Fútbol Club S.A.D. is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville, Spain that plays in the Spanish La Liga championship.They are one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football having won a 1 La Liga title, 5 Spanish "Copa del Rey" Cups, 1 Spanish Super Cup and 2 UEFA...
  
  -- 1-2, 0-4 (Sevilla advances 6-1 on aggregate)

Skoda Xanthi
- First Round v. Dinamo Bucureşti -- 3-4, 1-4 (Dinamo Bucureşti advances 8-4 on aggregate)

Iraklis
- First Round v. Wisła Kraków -- 1-0, 0-2 (Wisła Kraków advances 2-1 on aggregate after extra time)

AEK
- Round of 32 v. Paris Saint-Germain
  Paris Saint-Germain FC
  Paris Saint-Germain Football Club , also known simply as Paris Saint-Germain and familiarly as Paris SG or PSG , is a professional association football club based in Paris, France. The club was founded on 12 August 1970, thanks to the merger of Paris FC and Stade Saint-Germain...
  
  -- 0-2, 0-2 (Paris Saint-Germain advances 4-0 on aggregate)

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Larissa
- Third Round v. Kayserispor
  Kayserispor
  Kayserispor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Kayseri. Formed in 1966, Kayserispor are nicknamed Anadolu Yıldızı . The club colours are red and yellow, and the club play their home matches at Kadir Has Stadium.The club have won one Türkiye Kupası, in 2008...
  
  -- 0-0, 0-2 (Kayserispor advances 2-0 on aggregate)

Other Divisions

Beta Ethniki
Beta Ethniki
Football League, former Beta Ethniki, is the second highest professional football league in Greece.-History:In its first years, the system of conduct was very intriguing. It began in 1954 as regional championship, separated in two groups, North and South. Then, the participating teams were the...

- Champion: Asteras Tripolis
Gamma Ethniki
Gamma Ethniki
Football League 2, formerly known as Gamma Ethniki, is the third highest professional football league in Greece.-History:It began in 1965 as an amateur championship, while in 1983 it was changed to professional...

- Champions: Pierikos (North) and PAE Agios Dimitrios (South)

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