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Super League Greece
Season 2015–16
Champions Olympiacos
43rd title
Relegated Panthrakikos
AEL Kalloni
Champions League Olympiacos
PAOK
Europa League Panathinaikos
AEK Athens
PAS Giannina
Matches played 240
Goals scored 543 (2.26 per match)
Top goalscorer Kostas Fortounis
(18 goals)
Biggest home win Panathinaikos 6–1 Panthrakikos
(17 April 2016)
Olympiacos 5–0 AEL Kalloni
(17 April 2016)
Biggest away win Panetolikos 1–5 Panionios
(3 October 2015)
Highest scoring Panthrakikos 3–4 Olympiacos
(5 December 2015)
Panetolikos 2–5 Olympiacos
(10 April 2016)
Panathinaikos 6–1 Panthrakikos
(17 April 2016)
Longest winning run Olympiacos (17 games)
Longest unbeaten run Olympiacos (21 games)
Longest winless run AEL Kalloni (13 games)
Longest losing run AEL Kalloni (8 games)
Highest attendance AEK Athens 1–0 Olympiacos
(13 February 2016) 31,121
Lowest attendance Levadiakos 1–1 Iraklis
(16 January 2016) 197
Total attendance 1,042,228
← 2014–15
2016–17 →


The 2015–16 Super League Greece was the 80th season of the highest tier in league of Greek football and the tenth under its current title. The season started on 22 August 2015 and ended in May 2016. The league comprised fourteen teams from the 2014–15 season and two promoted from the 2014–15 Football League. Olympiacos won their sixth consecutive title and 43rd overall, making a record collection of points (85 out of 90) in a championship of 30 games.

Teams

Four teams were relegated from the 2014–15 season. Kerkyra and Ergotelis play in Football League for the 2015–16 season. Niki Volos and OFI will play in Gamma Ethniki.

Two teams were promoted from the 2014–15 Football League, champions AEK Athens and Iraklis, two teams with a long history in the top championship of Greece.

Stadiums and locations

Club Ap. Location Venue Capacity
AEK Athens 55 Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638
Asteras Tripolis 9 Tripoli Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium 7,616
Atromitos 15 Peristeri Peristeri Stadium 8,969
Iraklis 52 Thessaloniki Kaftanzoglio Stadium 27,770
Kalloni 3 Mytilene Mytilene Municipal Stadium 3,000
Levadiakos 15 Livadeia Levadia Municipal Stadium 6,500
Olympiacos 57 Piraeus Karaiskakis Stadium 33,296
Panathinaikos 57 Athens Leoforos Alexandras Stadium 16,003
Panetolikos 6 Agrinio Panetolikos Stadium 7,500
Panionios 55 Nea Smyrni Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,700
Panthrakikos 6 Komotini Komotini Municipal Stadium 6,200
PAOK 57 Thessaloniki Toumba Stadium 28,703
PAS Giannina 21 Ioannina Zosimades Stadium 7,500
Platanias 4 Chania Perivolia Municipal Stadium 3,700
Skoda Xanthi 27 Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Arena 7,244
Veria 16 Veria Veria Stadium 7,000

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
AEK Athens Greece Stelios Manolas Greece Petros Mantalos Nike Pame Stoixima
Asteras Tripolis Greece Makis Chavos Romania Dorin Goian Nike Stoiximan.GR
Atromitos Greece Traianos Dellas Brazil Luiz Brito Saller Tzoker
Iraklis Greece Nikos Papadopoulos Greece Nikos Pourtoulidis Blue Line Pame Stoixima
Kalloni Greece Nikos Karageorgiou Greece Giorgos Manousos Adidas Novibet
Levadiakos Greece Dimitris Farantos Greece Thanasis Moulopoulos Umbro Vanmax S.A.
Olympiacos Portugal Marco Silva Spain David Fuster Adidas Stoiximan.GR
Panathinaikos Italy Andrea Stramaccioni Portugal Zeca Puma Pame Stoixima
Panetolikos Greece Giannis Matzourakis Greece Georgios Kousas Joma Pame Stoixima
Panionios Greece Marinos Ouzounidis Greece Pavlos Mitropoulos Tempo Sport Tzoker
Panthrakikos Serbia Zoran Stoinović Greece Antonis Ladakis Nike Stoiximan.GR
PAOK Serbia Vladimir Ivić Greece Stefanos Athanasiadis Macron Sportingbet
PAS Giannina Greece Giannis Petrakis Greece Alexios Michail Nike Tzoker
Platanias Greece Georgios Paraschos Greece Dimitris Alkis Macron Stoiximan.GR
Skoda Xanthi Romania Răzvan Lucescu Greece Konstantinos Fliskas Joma Pame Stoixima
Veria Greece Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos Greece Alexandros Vergonis Nike Stoiximan.GR

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Panetolikos Greece Makis Chavos End of contract End of 2014–15 season Pre-season Portugal Leonel Pontes 9 June 2015
Atromitos Greece Nikos Nioplias End of 2014–15 season Greece Michalis Grigoriou 14 June 2015
PAOK Greece Georgios Georgiadis End of tenure as caretaker End of 2014–15 season Croatia Igor Tudor 18 June 2015
Veria Greece Dimitris Christoforidis End of 2014–15 season Greece Georgios Georgiadis 18 June 2015
Olympiacos Portugal Vítor Pereira Resigned End of 2014–15 season Portugal Marco Silva 7 July 2015
Panthrakikos Spain José Manuel Roca Sacked 15 September 2015 16th Greece Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos 19 September 2015
Panetolikos Portugal Leonel Pontes 28 September 2015 5th Greece Giannis Dalakouras (caretaker) 28 September 2015
Panetolikos Greece Giannis Dalakouras (caretaker) End of tenure as caretaker 7 October 2015 10th Greece Ioannis Matzourakis 7 October 2015
AEK Athens Greece Traianos Dellas Resigned 20 October 2015 4th Greece Stelios Manolas (caretaker) 20 October 2015
AEK Athens Greece Stelios Manolas (caretaker) End of tenure as caretaker 28 October 2015 3rd Uruguay Gus Poyet 28 October 2015
Panathinaikos Greece Giannis Anastasiou Mutual consent 2 November 2015 2nd England Steve Rutter (caretaker) 2 November 2015
Atromitos Greece Michalis Grigoriou Sacked 3 November 2015 13th Greece Traianos Dellas 4 November 2015
Panathinaikos England Steve Rutter (caretaker) End of tenure as caretaker 8 November 2015 2nd Italy Andrea Stramaccioni 8 November 2015
Kalloni Greece Thalis Theodoridis Sacked 27 December 2015 16th Greece Nikos Karageorgiou 27 December 2015
Veria Greece Georgios Georgiadis 18 January 2016 12th Greece Nikos Karampimperis (caretaker) 22 January 2016
Panthrakikos Greece Dimitris Eleftheropoulos 26 January 2016 15th Greece Giannis Chatzinikolaou 26 January 2016
Veria Greece Nikos Karampimperis (caretaker) End of tenure as caretaker 26 January 2016 13th Greece Dimitris Eleftheropoulos 26 January 2016
Asteras Tripolis Greece Staikos Vergetis Resigned 29 January 2016 5th Greece Dimitrios Terezopoulos (caretaker) 29 January 2016
Asteras Tripolis Greece Dimitrios Terezopoulos (caretaker) End of tenure as caretaker 29 January 2016 6th Greece Makis Chavos 29 February 2016
PAOK Croatia Igor Tudor Sacked 9 March 2016 4th Serbia Vladimir Ivić 9 March 2016
Panthrakikos Greece Giannis Chatzinikolaou Mutual consent 16 March 2016 15th Serbia Zoran Stoinović 17 March 2016
Levadiakos Greece Apostolos Mantzios End of contract 8 April 2016 11th Greece Dimitris Farantos 8 April 2016

Regular season

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Olympiacos (C) 30 28 1 1 81 16 +65 85 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2 Panathinaikos 30 18 4 8 52 26 +26 55 Qualification for the Play-offs
3 AEK Athens 30 17 6 7 43 21 +22 54
4 PAOK 30 13 9 8 45 32 +13 45
5 Panionios 30 12 8 10 33 27 +6 44
6 PAS Giannina 30 12 6 12 36 40 −4 42 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
7 Asteras Tripolis 30 11 8 11 31 30 +1 41
8 Atromitos 30 12 6 12 26 31 −5 39
9 Platanias 30 10 9 11 32 30 +2 39
10 Levadiakos 30 9 10 11 27 36 −9 37
11 Panetolikos 30 9 8 13 30 46 −16 35
12 Iraklis 30 8 11 11 24 32 −8 35
13 Skoda Xanthi 30 6 15 9 27 32 −5 33
14 Veria 30 5 12 13 19 33 −14 27
15 Panthrakikos (R) 30 3 8 19 18 58 −40 17 Relegation to the Football League
16 AEL Kalloni (R) 30 3 7 20 19 53 −34 16
Source: Superleague Greece, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against; 6) Play-offs (neutral ground); 7) Draw.
(Note: Criteria 6 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away AEK AST ATR IRA KAL LEV OLY PAO PNE PGSS PNT PAOK PAS PLA XAN VER
AEK Athens — 0–1 1–0 5–1 3–0 1–2 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 3–1 3–0 2–1 3–0
Asteras Tripolis 0–0 — 1–0 1–2 3–1 2–0 1–2 0–0 0–2 2–1 4–0 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 2–1
Atromitos 1–0 2–1 — 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 1–2 1–0 1–0 1–2 1–2 0–2 0–0 0–1 0–0
Iraklis 1–1 0–1 2–0 — 3–0 0–1 0–2 1–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 3–3 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–1
AEL Kalloni 0–0 1–1 2–4 0–1 — 0–0 0–2 0–2 5–1 1–1 2–0 1–3 0–2 2–1 2–2 0–1
Levadiakos 3–0 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 — 0–2 0–2 2–2 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–3 1–0 1–1
Olympiacos 4–0 3–1 4–0 2–0 5–0 3–1 — 3–1 1–0 3–0 4–0 1–0 5–1 3–1 1–0 3–0
Panathinaikos 0–0 2–0 2–0 4–0 4–0 3–0 0–3 — 4–2 0–0 6–1 2–2 3–1 1–0 0–1 3–2
Panetolikos 1–0 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–0 2–0 2–5 1–2 — 1–5 1–0 0–3 2–1 1–2 2–2 1–1
Panionios 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–0 2–0 0–2 1–3 1–0 2–0 — 1–1 3–1 2–0 2–1 3–0 0–1
Panthrakikos 1–2 0–2 0–1 0–3 0–0 1–3 3–4 1–0 0–0 0–1 — 2–1 2–4 0–2 0–0 0–2
PAOK 2–1 2–0 1–1 0–1 3–0 2–0 0–2 3–1 0–0 2–1 3–3 — 3–1 1–0 0–0 2–1
PAS Giannina 0–2 1–2 1–0 2–2 2–1 0–1 0–3 0–3 2–0 1–1 2–0 3–1 — 2–0 1–1 2–0
Platanias 0–3 2–0 1–2 0–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 2–3 1–1 0–0 4–0 0–0 0–1 — 3–1 0–0
Skoda Xanthi 0–0 0–0 2–2 2–0 0–0 2–2 1–3 0–1 3–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–1 0–2 — 1–1
Veria 1–2 1–0 0–1 0–0 2–0 0–0 0–2 0–1 0–1 1–1 0–0 0–3 1–1 0–1 1–1 —
Source: Super League Greece

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

Team ╲ Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Olympiacos 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Panathinaikos 4 1 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 3 2 4 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
AEK Athens 1 6 2 3 4 3 4 3 3 5 4 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3
PAOK 9 12 9 5 3 5 5 4 6 6 6 6 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 4 4 5 5 4
Panionios 15 9 3 9 8 4 3 5 4 3 5 3 5 5 5 6 5 6 6 6 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 5
PAS Giannina 7 4 8 4 7 7 10 11 7 12 8 10 11 10 8 8 8 9 7 8 10 12 12 11 9 7 6 8 6 6
Asteras Tripolis 3 7 11 7 6 9 7 6 5 4 3 5 6 6 7 5 6 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 9 7 9 7
Atromitos 5 3 6 8 10 13 8 9 13 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 10 9 7 8
Platanias 16 13 15 15 16 15 14 10 9 10 9 7 7 8 11 10 10 10 11 12 11 9 10 12 12 8 7 6 8 9
Levadiakos 13 14 12 13 11 6 6 7 10 7 12 8 8 7 6 7 7 7 8 9 12 11 11 8 7 9 11 11 11 10
Panetolikos 11 8 5 6 5 10 11 12 14 11 11 13 13 13 13 13 12 11 9 7 7 7 7 7 10 11 8 10 10 11
Iraklis 6 10 13 12 12 12 12 14 12 13 13 11 9 9 9 9 9 8 10 10 8 8 8 10 11 12 13 13 12 12
Skoda Xanthi 10 11 7 11 9 11 13 13 11 9 7 9 10 11 12 12 13 12 12 11 9 10 9 9 8 10 12 12 13 13
Veria 8 5 10 10 14 8 9 8 8 8 10 12 12 12 10 11 11 13 13 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14
Panthrakikos 14 15 16 16 15 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 16 15 15 15 15 15 15
AEL Kalloni 12 16 14 14 13 14 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 16 16 16 16 16 16
Champion and Champions League third qualifying round
Qualification for the play-offs
Relegation to 2016–17 Football League
Source: Superleague Greece

Play-offs

In the play-off for Champions League, the four qualified teams play each other in a home-and-away round robin. However, they do not all start with 0 points: instead, a weighting system applies to the teams' standing at the start of the play-off mini-league. The team finishing in fifth in the Super League will start the play-off with 0 points. Its end-of-season tally of points is then used to calculate the number of points with which the other teams will start the play-offs: more specifically, each of the three other teams participating in the play-offs will have the fifth-placed team's total points tally subtracted from their own points tally and then divided by five – giving the final figure.


Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PAOK PAO AEK PGSS
2 PAOK 6 3 3 0 8 3 +5 12 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round — 1–1 2–1 2–0
3 Panathinaikos 6 2 3 1 8 6 +2 11 Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round 1–1 — 3–0 1–0
4 AEK Athens 6 2 1 3 5 7 −2 9 0–0 3–1 — 1–0
5 Panionios 6 1 1 4 2 7 −5 4 0–2 1–1 1–0 —
Source: Superleague Greece: Standings, Schedule, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against; 6) Regular season position.
Notes:

Season statistics

Updated to games played 17 April 2016

Best goal and MVP awards winners

MD MVP award Best goal award
1 Sweden Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos) Brazil Rodrigo Galo (AEK Athens)
2 Greece Marcos Vellidis (PAS Giannina) Egypt Amr Warda (Panetolikos)
3 Argentina Diego Buonanotte (AEK Athens) Argentina Diego Buonanotte (AEK Athens)
4 Cape Verde Garry Rodrigues (PAOK) Greece Nikos Karelis (Panathinaikos)
5 Greece Vangelis Mantzios (Levadiakos) Portugal Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens)
6 Spain Roberto (Olympiacos) Greece Pavlos Kyriakidis (Iraklis)
7 Nigeria Brown Ideye (Olympiacos) Serbia Luka Milunović (Platanias)
8 Cape Verde Garry Rodrigues (PAOK) Greece Christos Aravidis (AEK Athens)
9 Argentina Diego Romano (Iraklis) Greece Manolis Papasterianos (Xanthi)
10 Sweden Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos) Greece Thanasis Papageorgiou (Panthrakikos)
11 Sweden Jakob Johansson (AEK Athens) Greece Kenan Bargan (Kalloni)
12 Greece Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis) Greece Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis)
13 Brazil Huanderson (Iraklis) Greece Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis)
14 Greece Nikos Karelis (Panathinaikos) Cameroon Olivier Boumale (Panionios)
15 Greece Panagiotis Tsintotas (Levadiakos) Brazil Rogério Martins (Panthrakikos)
16 Greece Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis) Portugal Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens)
17 Greece Giannis Anestis (AEK Athens) Portugal Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens)
18 Greece Sokratis Dioudis (Panionios) Portugal Hélder Barbosa (AEK Athens)
19 Greece Michalis Manias (PAS Giannina) Ghana Michael Essien (Panathinaikos)
20 Greece Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos) Greece Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)
21 Brazil Luiz Brito (Atromitos) Greece Fanouris Goundoulakis (Platanias)
22 Brazil Leozinho (Iraklis) Brazil Leozinho (Iraklis)
23 Bosnia and Herzegovina Gojko Cimirot (PAOK) Bosnia and Herzegovina Gojko Cimirot (PAOK)
24 Venezuela Ronald Vargas (AEK Athens) Venezuela Ronald Vargas (AEK Athens)
25 Argentina Lucas Villafáñez (Panathinaikos) Greece Thanasis Papageorgiou (Panthrakikos)
26 Greece Tasos Bakasetas (Panionios) Greece Tasos Bakasetas (Panionios)
27 Portugal Hernâni (Olympiacos) Sweden Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)
28 Australia Sakis Theodoropoulos (Panionios) Iran Karim Ansarifard (Panionios)
29 Greece Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos) Czech Republic Tomáš Pekhart (AEK)
30 Sweden Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos) Sweden Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)

Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 30 January 2017.

Player of the Year

The Player of the Year awarded to Greece Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)

Foreign Player of the Year

The Foreign Player of the Year awarded to Sweden Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)

Top goalscorer of the Year

The Top goalscorer of the Year awarded to Greece Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)

Greek Player of the Year

The Greek Player of the Year awarded to Greece Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)

Manager of the Year

The Manager of the Year awarded to Greece Marinos Ouzounidis (Panionios)

Breakthrough of the Year

The Breakthrough of the Year awarded to Greece Charis Charisis (PAOK)

Team of the Year

  • Goalkeeper:

Spain Roberto Jimenez (Olympiacos)

  • Defence:

Brazil Rodrigo Galo (AEK Athens), Greece Georgios Tzavellas (PAOK), Brazil Rodrigo Moledo (Panathinaikos), France Arthur Masuaku (Olympiacos)

  • Midfield:

Cape Verde Garry Rodriguez (PAOK), Greece Carlos Zeca (Panathinaikos), Greece Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos), Greece Manolis Siopis (Panionios), Greece Anastasios Bakasetas (Panionios)

  • Attack:

Sweden Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos)

Attendances

Average attendances counted officially without games played behind closed gates from Superleague.

Pos Team Total High Low Average Change
1 Olympiacos 272,303 30,314 13,227 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff2
2 PAOK 158,542 25,674 5,762 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff2
3 AEK Athens 162,277 31,121 2,647 11,150 n/a1,2
4 Panathinaikos 80,423 15,640 4,378 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff2
5 Iraklis 42,091 10,043 979 3,091 n/a1
6 Panetolikos 35,153 4,160 1,707 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†
7 PAS Giannina 31,921 4,484 1,170 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†
8 Platanias 28,380 3,052 1,453 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†
9 Asteras Tripolis 25,204 2,558 961 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†
10 Panionios 20,834 2,762 664 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†
11 Skoda Xanthi 18,982 2,978 592 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†
12 Veria 18,014 3,557 500 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†
13 Panthrakikos 17,484 2,372 686 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†
14 Atromitos 12,959 2,284 492 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff2
15 AEL Kalloni 13,811 2,159 256 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†
16 Levadiakos 12,725 4,931 197 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†
League total 951,103 31,121 197 Template:Change/row2IoffSoff†

Updated to games played on 17 April 2016
Source: [1]
Notes:
1: Team played last season in Football League
2: Olympiacos - AEK - PAOK - Panathinaikos - Atromitos games were played behind closed gates
3: Playoff matches is not included

See also

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