2003–04 Alpha Ethniki

The 2003–04 Alpha Ethniki was the 68th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 23 August 2003 and ended on 22 May 2004. Panathinaikos won their 19th Greek title and their first one in eight years.

Alpha Ethniki
Season2003–04
ChampionsPanathinaikos
19th Greek title
RelegatedAkratitos
Paniliakos
Proodeftiki
Champions LeaguePanathinaikos
Olympiacos
PAOK
UEFA CupAEK Athens
Egaleo
Panionios
Matches played240
Goals scored557 (2.32 per match)
Top goalscorerGiovanni (21)

Teams

Stadia and personnel
Location of teams in 2003–04 Alpha Ethniki
Team Manager1 Location Stadium Capacity
AEK Athens Dušan Bajević Athens Various2
Akratitos Babis Tennes Athens Yiannis Pathiakakis Stadium 4,944
Aris Makis Katsavakis Thessaloniki Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium 23,220
Chalkidona Georgios Paraschos Athens Peristeri Stadium 9,035
Egaleo Georgios Chatzaras Athens Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium 8,217
Ionikos Vangelis Vlachos Piraeus Neapoli Stadium 4,999
Iraklis Eugène Gerards Thessaloniki Makedonikos Stadium 8,100
Kallithea Takis Lemonis Kallithea Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium 4,250
OFI Giorgos Foiros Heraklion Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium 9,000
Olympiacos Oleh Protasov Piraeus Georgios Kamaras Stadium 14,856
Panathinaikos Itzhak Shum Athens Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium 16,620
Paniliakos Sakis Tsiolis Pyrgos Pyrgos Stadium 6,750
Panionios Jozef Bubenko Nea Smyrni Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,756
PAOK Angelos Anastasiadis Thessaloniki Toumba Stadium 28,803
Proodeftiki Soulis Papadopoulos Piraeus Nikaia Municipal Stadium 5,000
Skoda Xanthi Nikos Karageorgiou Xanthi Xanthi Ground 9,500

League standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Panathinaikos (C) 30 24 5 1 62 18 +44 77 Qualification for Champions League group stage
2 Olympiacos 30 24 3 3 70 19 +51 75
3 PAOK 30 18 6 6 47 27 +20 60 Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
4 AEK Athens 30 16 7 7 57 32 +25 55 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
5 Egaleo 30 15 7 8 37 26 +11 52
6 Panionios 30 12 11 7 40 29 +11 47
7 Chalkidona 30 13 6 11 40 39 +1 45
8 Iraklis 30 12 6 12 40 39 +1 42
9 Ionikos 30 9 6 15 33 43 −10 33
10 Skoda Xanthi 30 8 6 16 28 42 −14 30
11 OFI 30 7 8 15 27 44 −17 29
12 Kallithea 30 5 12 13 37 42 −5 27[lower-alpha 1]
13 Aris 30 7 6 17 24 46 −22 27[lower-alpha 1]
14 Akratitos (R) 30 5 8 17 31 69 −38 23 Qualification for relegation play-off
15 Paniliakos (R) 30 4 9 17 28 56 −28 21 Relegation to Beta Ethniki
16 Proodeftiki (R) 30 4 8 18 26 56 −30 20
Source: Galanis Sports Data
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Head-to-head record: Kallithea–Aris 4–0, Aris–Kallithea 0–1.
 Alpha Ethniki 2003–04
Champions 

Panathinaikos
19th Title

Results
Home \ Away AEK AKR ARI CHA EGA ION IRT KLT OFI OLY PAT PNL PIO PAOK PRO XAN
AEK Athens 1–1 1–0 1–2 2–2 3–0 4–0 1–1 2–2 0–1 2–2 1–0 0–1 3–1 3–0 3–0
Akratitos 2–7 1–0 2–4 0–2 3–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 0–5 0–0 2–2 1–1 1–2 1–0 1–3
Aris 1–2 3–0 3–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–2 0–3 0–2 1–0 2–1 1–1 3–0 3–2
Chalkidona 2–0 3–1 2–1 0–1 3–2 1–0 1–1 2–1 0–1 0–0 1–3 2–2 1–2 2–1 2–0
Egaleo 0–1 2–1 3–1 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–2 2–1 4–1 4–1 0–0 3–0 2–1
Ionikos 0–1 4–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–1 3–2 2–0 1–2 1–2 4–2 0–2 0–1 2–1 1–0
Iraklis 2–2 2–1 6–0 1–1 2–1 2–1 2–0 4–0 1–3 0–1 0–0 0–3 3–0 2–1 3–0
Kallithea 1–3 2–2 4–0 2–3 0–1 0–1 1–1 1–2 1–2 0–3 2–2 2–2 0–1 3–1 3–1
OFI 0–2 2–1 3–0 3–1 1–1 1–2 2–2 0–0 0–1 1–3 0–0 1–1 0–3 1–0 1–2
Olympiacos 0–1 7–0 3–0 1–0 3–1 2–2 3–0 2–0 4–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 1–2 4–0 4–1
Panathinaikos 2–1 5–1 1–0 3–0 2–0 2–0 3–0 3–1 1–0 2–2 6–3 3–0 3–0 3–1 1–0
Paniliakos 1–0 0–3 0–0 0–2 0–0 2–2 1–2 0–5 1–1 1–3 0–1 0–0 1–4 4–1 1–0
Panionios 2–2 6–1 2–1 0–0 2–0 0–2 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–2 0–1 3–2 1–0 3–1 1–0
PAOK 3–2 2–2 3–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 2–0 0–2 1–2 3–0 2–0 0–0 1–1
Proodeftiki 2–4 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 3–2 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–2 2–0 0–3 1–3 1–1
Skoda Xanthi 1–2 2–0 1–0 2–1 1–2 2–0 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–3 0–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 2–2
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion/Relegation Play-Off

Played at a neutral venue (Makedonikos Stadium, Thessaloniki), between the 14th-place team in the Alpha Ethniki and the 3rd-place team in the Beta Ethniki.

Ergotelis1 – 0Akratitos
Sylla  90+1' Report:[1][2]
Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Thessaloniki)

Ergotelis replace Akratitos in Alpha Ethniki

Top goalscorers

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Giovanni Olympiacos 21
2 Dimitris Papadopoulos Panathinaikos 17
3 Dimitris Salpingidis PAOK 16
4 Giorgos Zaharopoulos Chalkidona 13
Theofanis Gekas Kallithea
6 Nikos Liberopoulos AEK Athens 12
Nikos Skarmoutsos Kallithea
8 Nikos Machlas OFI 11
Vassilis Lakis AEK Athens
Predrag Đorđević Olympiacos
gollark: Humans don't seem to be very good at rationally optimising for a goal. Unless it's an extremely weird goal.
gollark: You need to be very sure about the specification I guess.
gollark: … no? It's just a thing which can perform some set of general intelligence tasks.
gollark: If you program the thing to optimise some utility function - and didn't make a mistake - it won't decide to stop optimising for that.
gollark: What?

References
  1. "Ο Εργοτέλης "γκρέμισε" τον Ακράτητο από την Α' Εθνική (Greek)". skai.gr. 30 May 2004. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012.
  2. "Η... πτήση είχε... καθυστέρηση ΜΕ ΓΚΟΛ-ΠΟΙΗΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΣΙΛΑ ΣΤΟ 91' Ο ΕΡΓΟΤΕΛΗΣ "ΠΕΤΑΞΕ" ΣΤΗΝ Α' ΕΘΝΙΚΗ (Greek)". patris.gr. 2 June 2004.
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