1930–31 Panhellenic Championship

Panhellenic Championship
Season1930–31
ChampionsOlympiacos
1st Greek title
Relegatednone
Matches49
Goals202 (4.12 per match)
Top goalscorerNikos Kitsos
(13 goals)
Biggest home winIraklis 8–1 AEK Athens
Biggest away winIraklis 0–4 Olympiacos
Apollon Athens 0–4 Panathinaikos
Highest scoringIraklis 8–1 AEK Athens
Longest unbeaten runOlympiacos

The 1930–31 Panhellenic Championship was the third season of the highest football league of Greece. Olympiacos emerged champion for the 1st time in its history. Apollon Athens, Ethnikos Piraeus and Iraklis qualified for the relegation play-offs for the Athenian, Piraeus' and Macedonian Association, respectively. All three prevailed over their opponents and remained in the national division.

The tournament was held as a national division, in which 8 teams from the 3 founding Associations of the HFF, participated and resulted as follows:

  • Athenian Championship: The 3 highest-ranked teams.
  • Piraeus' Championship: The 2 highest-ranked teams.
  • Macedonian Championship: The 3 highest-ranked teams.

These teams did not participate in the regional championships and their stay in the national division was judged by a play-off round. According to the regulations of the time, whoever finished in a lower position than the other teams of the same Association had to play a two-legged round against the winner of the corresponding regional championship to decide who will qualify for the next season's Panhellenic Championship.

The point system was: Win: 2 points - Draw: 1 point - Loss: 0 points.

Qualification round

Athens Football Clubs Association

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PAO AEK APOL GDI FAL ATH ATR
1 Panathinaikos (Q) 6 6 0 0 37 3 +34 12 Final round 2–1 2–1 8–1 9–0 10–0 6–0
2 AEK Athens (Q) 6 5 0 1 17 3 +14 10 2–0 3–0 7–0
3 Apollon Athens (Q) 6 3 1 2 8 4 +4 7 0–1 0–0 1–0 3–0 3–1
4 Goudi Athens 4 1 1 2 5 11 −6 3 1–3 [a] [a] 3–0
5 Palaio Faliro 5 1 1 3 4 14 −10 3 2–2 2–0
6 Athinaikos 4 0 1 3 2 18 −16 1 [b]
7 Atromitos 5 0 0 5 1 21 −20 0
Source: rsssf
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Did not take place.
  2. ^ Suspended at the 70th minute due to rainfall, while the match was at 1–1.
  • It was held in a group in the form of a one-round tournament (6 matches), but the championship was considered to have ended despite the fact that some clubs had not completed their matches.

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Angelos Messaris Panathinaikos 13
2 Dimitris Mougras AEK Athens 8
3 Antonis Migiakis Panathinaikos 6
Diomidis Symeonidis
5 Antonis Tsolinas 5
6 Mimis Pierrakos 4
7 Papadimitriou Apollon Athens 3
Giorgos Delikaris AEK Athens
9 Theofylaktos Delikaris 2
Kostas Negrepontis
Kosmadopoulos Apollon Athens
Charalampos Mavrommatis
Kostas Negris Goudi Athens

Piraeus Football Clubs Association

The championship started initially with 4 clubs, until Olympiacos and Ethnikos Piraeus left and joined the national division. Then, the championship continued with the 2 remaining clubs.

In the first 2 matches between them for the championship, the matches ended in a draw with 1–1 and 3–3 respectively.[1] A double final was held at Neo Phaliron Velodrome to decide the champion. In the 1st match of the final held on March 29, Amyna Kokkinia prevailed by 4–1[2] and in the 2nd match on April 5, won again by 2–1 and officially became champion.[3][4] The standings until the departure of Olympiacos and Ethnikos Piraeus were as follows:

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification OLY AMY PEI ETH
1 Olympiacos (Q) 3 3 0 0 8 1 +7 6 Final round 5–0 2–1 1–0
2 Amyna Kokkinia 3 1 1 1 7 8 −1 3 4–0
3 Peiraikos Omilos 3 0 1 2 4 9 −5 1 3–3
4 Ethnikos Piraeus (Q) 1 0 0 1 0 1 −1 0 Final round
Source: Athletic Echo
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Dinos Andrianopoulos Olympiacos 3
Theologos Symeonidis Amyna Kokkinia
3 Vasilios Andrianopoulos Olympiacos 2
Christoforos Ragos
4 Panagiotis Koronaios 1
Varoutsikos Peiraikos Omilos
Theodorou
Karageorgas
Kouros

Macedonia Football Clubs Association

The championship started with the participation of 6 clubs, but was interrupted in December 1930 after the draw of the national division,[5] where Aris, PAOK and Iraklis would participate. The remaining 3 clubs, however, continued in a mini championship in which Megas Alexandros prevailed.[6]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ARIS PAOK MEG MAK THER IRA
1 Aris (Q) 4 4 0 0 27 6 +21 8 Final round 6–2 5–0 6–2
2 PAOK (Q) 5 4 0 1 19 12 +7 8 5–1 4–3 4–0
3 Megas Alexandros 5 2 0 3 8 16 −8 4 3–2 2–0
4 Makedonikos 5 1 1 3 10 19 −9 3 2–10 2–1
5 Thermaikos 4 1 0 3 7 14 −7 2 4–2
6 Iraklis (Q) 3 0 1 2 3 7 −4 1 Final round 2–4 1–1
Source: Athletic Echo
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Nikos Kitsos Aris 8
2 Nikolaos Angelakis 6
Vasilis Pazarolgou PAOK
4 Dionysis Kaltekis Aris 5
5 Iordanis Vogdanou 3
Raymond Étienne PAOK
Doutse Makedonikos
8 Pechlivanidis 2
Romylos Vlachou PAOK
Iordanis Papaiordanidis
Venetis Thermaikos
Kerasiotis Megas Alexandros

Final round

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Olympiacos (C) 14 11 2 1 36 16 +20 24 1931–32 Panhellenic Championship
2 Panathinaikos 14 7 5 2 42 25 +17 19
3 Aris 14 8 3 3 35 23 +12 19
4 AEK Athens 14 5 3 6 19 31 −12 13
5 PAOK 14 5 2 7 20 26 −6 12
6 Iraklis 14 4 3 7 25 30 −5 11 Relegation play-offs
7 Ethnikos Piraeus 14 2 3 9 13 25 −12 7
8 Apollon Athens 14 2 3 9 12 26 −14 7
Source: rsssf
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away OLY PAO ARIS AEK PAOK IRA ETH APOL
Olympiacos 3–1 3–1 3–1 3–1 3–1 4–1 3–1
Panathinaikos 2–3 4–4 4–2[a] 7–1 3–1 3–2 4–1
Aris 1–2 2–2 4–1 4–2 6–2 2–0 2–1
AEK Athens 0–2 2–2 2–1 1–1 3–1 3–2 0–0
PAOK 3–0 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–1 3–1 2–0
Iraklis 0–4 3–3 1–2 8–1 1–0 2–1 3–1
Ethnikos Piraeus 1–1 0–0 1–3 0–1 1–3 0–0 2–1
Apollon Athens 2–2 0–4 1–1 2–0 0–1 2–1 0–1
Source: rsssf
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ At the 75th minute AEK withdrew from the pitch, as a protest for a violent tackle of Pierrakos away from the ball to Argyropoulos, which resulted in a serious injury of the latter. The match was interrupted and eventually awarded to Panathinaikos with the final score remaining as it was until that minute.

Relegation play-offs

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Iraklis 6–1 Megas Alexandros 3–0 3–1
Ethnikos Piraeus 4–3 Amyna Kokkinia 3–2 1–1
Apollon Athens 7–2 Goudi Athens 4–0 3–2

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Nikos Kitsos Aris 13
2 Georgios Andrianopoulos Olympiacos 12
3 Mimis Pierrakos Panathinaikos 10
4 Dimitris Baltasis 7
Diomidis Symeonidis
Iordanis Vogdanou Aris
Nikolaos Angelakis
Iordanis Papaiordanidis PAOK
Vasilios Andrianopoulos Olympiacos
10 Kostas Andrianopoulos 6
Lazaros Koufas Iraklis
Nikos Miliopoulos

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