| Season | 2011–12 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 27 August 2011 – 22 April 2012 |
| Champions | Olympiacos 39th Greek title |
| Relegated | Ergotelis Panetolikos Doxa Drama |
| Champions League | Olympiacos Panathinaikos |
| Europa League | Atromitos PAOK Asteras Tripolis |
| Matches | 238 |
| Goals | 527 (2.21 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Kevin Mirallas (20 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Olympiacos 6–0Doxa Drama |
| Biggest away win | Kerkyra 0–4Olympiacos Levadiakos 0–4Olympiacos Kerkyra 0–4PAOK PAS Giannina 0–4Olympiacos |
| Highest scoring | Olympiacos 7–2Asteras Tripolis |
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The2011–12Super League Greece was the 76th season of the highestfootball league ofGreece and the sixth under the name Super League. The season began in late August or early September 2011 and ended in May 2012 with the last matchday of the European play-off round.Olympiacos were the defending champions, having won their 38th Greek championship in the2010–11 season.
The league comprised 13 teams from the 2010–11 season and three promoted teams from the2010–11 Football League.
AEL,Panserraikos,Iraklis,Olympiacos Volos andKavala were relegated at the end of the2010–11 season. AEL and Panserraikos were relegated on virtue of their league position at the end of the season; AEL had to return to theFootball League, formerly known asBeta Ethniki, after six seasons, while Panserraikos were relegated after just one season. Olympiacos Volos and Kavala were initially relegated to theDelta Ethniki due to theongoing match-fixing scandal,[1] but after an appeal, both teams demanded to have their cases rechecked.[2] The Professional Sports Committee refused, however, and the original penalty stood.[3] On 22 October 2011, almost two months after the league had started, they were replaced byDoxa Drama andLevadiakos.[4]
Iraklis were denied a licence for the 2011–12 season over unpaid debts[5] and put into last place of the league table.[6] The club was thus demoted to the2011–12 Football League, concluding a twenty-nine-year run in the highest football league of Greece. The demotion of Iraklis eventually sparedAsteras Tripolis from relegation.[6]
The three relegated teams have been replaced by2010–11 Football League championsPanetolikos, runners-upPAS Giannina andOFI via aplay-off round. Panetolikos returned to the Greek top football level after 34 seasons, while PAS Giannina made their immediate comeback to the Superleague.
The promotion play-off round, originally scheduled to take place in late May 2011, was postponed to late July 2011 after qualified teams OFI andTrikala were denied a licence for the 2011–12 season.[7] The decision against OFI has since been reverted after the club successfully took the case to a civil court,[8] enabling the side to compete in the play-offs alongLevadiakos,Doxa Drama andDiagoras. OFI were eventually promoted as play-off winners after they were granted a walkover in their second-to-last match as their opponents Doxa Drama were not able to field a full side.[8] TheHeraklion club thus returned to the Super League after two seasons.
| Club | Location | Venue | Capacity | Av. attendance[9] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEK Athens | Athens | Athens Olympic Stadium | 69,618[10] | 7,396 |
| Aris | Thessaloniki | Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium | 22,800 | 8,126 |
| Asteras Tripolis | Tripoli | Asteras Tripolis Stadium | 6,430 | 1,919 |
| Atromitos | Athens | Peristeri Stadium | 8,939 | 1,721 |
| Doxa Drama | Thessaloniki[note 1] | Kaftanzoglio Stadium[note 1] | 27,770 | 970 |
| Ergotelis | Heraklion | Pankritio Stadium | 26,240 | 1,172 |
| Kerkyra | Corfu | Kerkyra Stadium | 2,685 | 979 |
| Levadiakos | Livadeia | Levadia Municipal Stadium | 6,500[11] | 1,143 |
| OFI | Heraklion | Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium | 9,088[12] | 3,289 |
| Olympiacos | Piraeus | Karaiskakis Stadium | 32,115[13] | 21,750 |
| Panathinaikos | Athens | Athens Olympic Stadium | 69,618 | 14,331 |
| Panetolikos | Agrinio | Panetolikos Stadium | 5,500 | 4,961 |
| Panionios | Athens | Nea Smyrni Stadium | 11,700[14] | 2,302 |
| PAOK | Thessaloniki | Toumba Stadium | 28,703[15] | 12,297 |
| PAS Giannina | Ioannina | Zosimades Stadium | 7,652[16] | 2,948 |
| Skoda Xanthi | Xanthi | Skoda Xanthi Arena | 7,361[17] | 1,636 |
| Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEK Athens | Puma | Κino | ||
| Aris | Under Armour | Κino | ||
| Asteras Tripolis | Lotto | Lotto | ||
| Atromitos | Hummel | good.gr | ||
| Doxa Drama | Teapo | Pame Stoixima | ||
| Ergotelis | Macron | Lotto | ||
| Kerkyra | Masita | good.gr | ||
| Levadiakos | Hummel | Extra 5 | ||
| OFI | Nike | Races | ||
| Olympiacos | Puma | Pame Stoixima | ||
| Panathinaikos | Adidas | OPAP | ||
| Panetolikos | Hummel | Go Lucky | ||
| Panionios | Givova | Tzoker | ||
| PAOK | Puma | Pame Stoixima | ||
| PAS Giannina | Lotto | Tzoker | ||
| Skoda Xanthi | Nike | Super 3 |
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asteras Tripolis | Sacked[18] | 19 September 2011 | 10th | 23 September 2011[19] | ||
| AEK Athens | Mutual consent[20] | 5 October 2011 | 3rd | 6 October 2011[21] | ||
| Aris | Mutual consent[22] | 31 October 2011 | 12th | 4 November 2011[23] | ||
| Asteras Tripolis | Sacked[24] | 1 November 2011 | 13th | 9 November 2011[25] | ||
| Kerkyra | Resigned[26][27] | 9 November 2011 | 14th | 13 November 2011[28] | ||
| Panionios | Mutual consent[29] | 22 November 2011 | 9th | 24 November 2011[30] | ||
| PAS Giannina | Sacked[31] | 23 November 2011 | 10th | 4 December 2011[32] | ||
| Doxa Drama | Resigned[33] | 8 December 2011 | 16th | 8 December 2011[33] | ||
| Aris | Mutual consent[34] | 5 January 2012 | 11th | 16 January 2012[35] | ||
| Panetolikos | Mutual consent[36] | 9 February 2012 | 12th | 9 February 2012[37] | ||
| Kerkyra | Sacked[38] | 28 March 2012 | 15th | 28 March 2012[39] | ||
| Panetolikos | Mutual consent[40] | 11 April 2012 | 15th | 11 April 2012[40] |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olympiacos(C) | 30 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 70 | 17 | +53 | 73 | Qualification for theChampions League group stage |
| 2 | Panathinaikos[a] | 30 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 54 | 23 | +31 | 66 | Qualification for thePlay-offs |
| 3 | PAOK | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 45 | 27 | +18 | 50[b] | |
| 4 | Atromitos | 30 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 32 | 26 | +6 | 50[b] | |
| 5 | AEK Athens | 30 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 36 | 30 | +6 | 48 | |
| 6 | Asteras Tripolis | 30 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 30 | 34 | −4 | 45 | Qualification forEuropa League second qualifying round[c] |
| 7 | Levadiakos | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 33 | 42 | −9 | 39 | |
| 8 | PAS Giannina | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 30 | 35 | −5 | 38 | |
| 9 | Aris[d] | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 29 | 33 | −4 | 37[e] | |
| 10 | OFI | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 27 | 32 | −5 | 37[e] | |
| 11 | Skoda Xanthi | 30 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 31 | 35 | −4 | 36 | |
| 12 | Panionios | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 26 | 34 | −8 | 33 | |
| 13 | Kerkyra | 30 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 31 | 44 | −13 | 32 | |
| 14 | Ergotelis(R) | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 27 | 44 | −17 | 29 | Relegation to theFootball League |
| 15 | Panetolikos(R) | 30 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 37 | −14 | 28 | |
| 16 | Doxa Drama(R) | 30 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 11 | 42 | −31 | 17 |
| Home \ Away | AEK | ARIS | AST | ATR | DOX | ERG | KER | LEV | OFI | OLY | PAO | PNE | PGSS | PAOK | PAS | XAN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEK Athens | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | |
| Aris | 1–0 | 0–3[a] | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | |
| Asteras Tripolis | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | |
| Atromitos | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| Doxa Drama | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | |
| Ergotelis | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | |
| Kerkyra | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 4–1 | 0–4 | 0–2 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 2–0 | |
| Levadiakos | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 4–3 | 0–2 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 4–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | |
| OFI | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | |
| Olympiacos | 2–0 | 3–0 | 7–2 | 1–0 | 6–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
| Panathinaikos | 3–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 0–3[b] | 4–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 3–0 | |
| Panetolikos | 0–2 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | |
| Panionios | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | |
| PAOK | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | |
| PAS Giannina | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | |
| Skoda Xanthi | 3–4 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 |
In the play-off for Champions League, the four qualified teams play each other in a home and awayround 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 fifth in the Super League will start the play-off with 0 points. The fifth placed team's end of season tally of points is subtracted from the sum of the points that other teams have. This number is then divided by five.
Before the last round of matches, fifth-placed club AEK Athens earned 48 points during the regular season. Based on this number and the calculations above, Panathinaikos as runners-up began the play-offs with four points ((66–48)/5 = 3.6, rounded to 4) while PAOK and Atromitos started with zero points each ((50–48)/5 = 0.4, rounded to 0).
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | PAO | AEK | ATR | PAOK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Panathinaikos | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 14 | Qualification for theChampions League third qualifying round | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | ||
| 3 | AEK Athens | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 9 | Ineligible for the 2012–13 European competitions.[a] | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | ||
| 4 | Atromitos | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 8 | Qualification for theEuropa League play-off round[a][b] | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | ||
| 5 | PAOK | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 7 | Qualification for theEuropa League third qualifying round[a][b] | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 |
Top scorers[edit]Updated to games played on 22 April 2012.
| Top assists[edit]Updated to games played on 22 April 2012.
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Annual awards were announced on 14 January 2013.[81]
| Award | Winner | Club |
|---|---|---|
| Greek Player of the Season | Atromitos | |
| Foreign Player of the Season | Olympiacos | |
| Young Player of the Season | Skoda Xanthi | |
| Goalkeeper of the Season | Panathinaikos | |
| Golden Boot | Olympiacos | |
| Manager of the Season | Olympiacos | |
| Atromitos |