1978–79 Alpha Ethniki

Alpha Ethniki
Season	1978–79
Champions	AEK Athens; 7th Greek title
Relegated	Kavala; Egaleo; Panserraikos
European Cup	AEK Athens
UEFA Cup	Olympiacos; Aris
Cup Winners' Cup	Panionios
Matches	306
Goals	792 (2.59 per match)
Top goalscorer	Thomas Mavros; (31 goals)
	← 1977–78 1979–80 →

The 1978–79 Alpha Ethniki was the 43rd season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 3 September 1978 and ended on 3 June 1979. AEK Athens won their second consecutive and seventh Greek title.

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

Teams

Promoted from 1977–78 Beta Ethniki	Relegated from 1977–78 Alpha Ethniki
Rodos AEL	Pierikos Veria

AEK Athens
Apollon
Egaleo
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Location of teams in 1978–79 Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AEK Athens^[a] (C)	34	25	6	3	90	30	+60	56	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Olympiacos^[a]	34	26	4	4	63	27	+36	56	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Aris	34	22	6	6	63	26	+37	50	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	PAOK	34	18	9	7	73	23	+50	45
5	Panathinaikos	34	14	10	10	46	37	+9	38
6	Iraklis	34	12	10	12	51	46	+5	34
7	OFI	34	14	6	14	37	42	−5	34
8	Ethnikos Piraeus	34	14	4	16	36	50	−14	32
9	Kastoria	34	10	11	13	31	42	−11	31
10	Apollon Athens	34	10	9	15	37	42	−5	29
11	Rodos	34	13	3	18	50	62	−12	29
12	AEL	34	12	5	17	32	53	−21	29
13	Panionios	34	9	10	15	31	44	−13	28	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
14	PAS Giannina	34	9	10	15	38	51	−13	28
15	Panachaiki	34	9	9	16	27	37	−10	27
16	Kavala (R)	34	12	3	19	34	56	−22	27	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
17	Egaleo (R)	34	10	6	18	33	57	−24	26
18	Panserraikos (R)	34	4	5	25	16	63	−47	13

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd decision match; 3rd head-to-head goal difference.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b AEK Athens pronounced champions, because Olympiacos did not show up for the play-off match.

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	AEL	APA	ARIS	EGA	ETH	IRA	KAS	KAV	OFI	OLY	PNC	PAO	PAN	PNS	PAOK	PAS	ROD
AEK Athens		4–2	2–0	1–1	5–0	5–1	5–1	2–1	7–0	2–0	0–0	4–0	1–0	4–0	5–0	3–2	7–2	5–2
AEL	0–1		1–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1
Apollon Athens	1–3	4–0		1–2	2–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	4–2	1–0	0–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0
Aris	2–1	2–1	3–2		6–1	5–0	2–1	7–2	3–1	5–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–1
Egaleo	0–2	0–0	3–0	0–0		1–3	1–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–2	1–0	2–0	2–1
Ethnikos Piraeus	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	4–2		1–0	1–3	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1^[a]	0–0	4–1
Iraklis	2–3	2–0	1–1	0–4	6–1	3–1		2–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	8–1
Kastoria	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–0		0–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0
Kavala	1–2	3–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	0–2	1–0	1–0		4–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	0–3	3–0	2–0
OFI	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–0		3–3	1–0	2–0	3–0	4–0	1–1	2–0	1–0
Olympiacos	0–1	4–3	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	4–0	0–0	1–0	2–0		2–0	1–0	2–1	5–0	1–0	2–1	2–1
Panachaiki	1–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–1		0–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–2
Panathinaikos	2–2	3–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	4–1	2–1	2–0	2–3	2–0		2–0	3–1	2–2	1–0	4–0
Panionios	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–3	3–2	4–2		1–0	2–1	0–0	2–0
Panserraikos	2–5	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–4	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–3	1–0	0–1	0–0		0–1	2–2	1–0
PAOK	2–1	4–0	3–0	1–0	4–0	5–0	1–1	4–2	4–1	3–1	2–0	3–0	3–0	5–0	5–0		5–0	6–1
PAS Giannina	1–1	5–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	3–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–1		2–1
Rodos	0–1	4–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	3–0	2–1	5–1	3–1	3–4	3–0	2–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–1

Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ Ethnikos vs PAOK originally finished 2-2. The match was replayed after PAOK's appeal because the referee count an irregular goal for Ethnikos^[1]

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Thomas Mavros	AEK Athens	31
2	Manolis Kottis	Rodos	24
2	Dušan Bajević	AEK Athens	24
4	Óscar Álvarez	Panathinaikos	15
	Kostas Orfanos	PAOK
	Neto Guerino	PAOK
7	Giorgos Ananiadis	Aris	14
8	Takis Nikoloudis	AEK Athens	12
	Giannis Pathiakakis	Panionios
	Giorgos Orfanidis	Iraklis
	Petros Karavitis	Olympiacos
	Dinos Kouis	Aris

Attendances

Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 1978–79 Alpha Ethniki.^[2]

#	Team	Average attendance
1	Olympiacos	24,552
2	AEK Athens	14,972
3	Panathinaikos	14,621
4	PAOK	14,394
5	Aris	11,970
6	Ethnikos Piraeus	9,833
7	AEL	7,454
8	Iraklis	7,097
9	Apollon Athens	5,750
10	Panionios	5,713
11	Panachaiki	5,522
12	Egaleo	5,213
13	PAS Giannina	4,947
14	OFI	4,528
15	Kavala	4,270
16	Rodos	3,825
17	Panserraikos	2,446
18	Kastoria	2,339

References

^ Όταν ο ΠΑΟΚ δέχθηκε γκολ έντεκα εναντίον ενός
^ "1978–79 Alpha Ethniki". european-football-statistics.co.uk.

External links

[table_note_AEK0.32522608820592-1] AEK Athens pronounced champions, because Olympiacos did not show up for the play-off match.

[table_note_1_ETH_PAOK0.84949921716447-3] Ethnikos vs PAOK originally finished 2-2. The match was replayed after PAOK's appeal because the referee count an irregular goal for Ethnikos^[1]

[2] Όταν ο ΠΑΟΚ δέχθηκε γκολ έντεκα εναντίον ενός

[4] "1978–79 Alpha Ethniki". european-football-statistics.co.uk.

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UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
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