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The 2010–11 Super League Greece was the 75th season of the highest football league of Greece and the fifth under the name Super League. The league consisted of 16 teams, the 13 best teams of the 2009–10 season and three teams that had been promoted from the 2009–10 Beta Ethniki.

The season began on 27 August 2010 with the first matches of the regular season and ended on 25 May 2011 with the last matches of the European playoff round. Panathinaikos were the defending champions, having won their 20th Greek championship in the 2009–10 season.

The season was marred by Koriopolis, a match-fixing scandal which involved several teams from the top three leagues of Greek football.

Season overview

Title race

The league was won by Olympiacos, who earned their 38th Greek league title. They finished with a 13-point lead over runners-up Panathinaikos, who had to compete in a play-off round which determined the exact allocation of spots for both European competitions.

Panathinaikos was joined in the play-offs by third-placed club and city rivals AEK Athens, fourth-placed PAOK and fifth-placed Olympiacos Volos. Panathinaikos eventually won the play-off group and thus earned the second Greek spot in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League. Since AEK had already won the 2010–11 Greek Cup competition a few weeks earlier and thus were already qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League, both PAOK and Olympiacos Volos were guaranteed a spot in that competition as well.

Relegation

After thirty matches, the relegation spots were occupied by 14th-placed Asteras Tripolis, 15th-placed AEL and last-placed Panserraikos. However, all three clubs eventually stayed in the league after Iraklis, Kavala and Olympiacos Volos were demoted by separate sports court decisions.

On 19 May 2011, Iraklis were denied a licence for the 2011–12 season over unpaid debts and thus demoted to the second-level Football League. Soon afterwards, the Thessaloniki club was found guilty of having forged documents during the winter transfer window and put at the end of the standings.

A few days after the Iraklis verdict, it became evident that several clubs and officials throughout the top leagues of Greek football were involved in a match-fixing scandal. Investigations in the matter were taken all summer. On 28 July 2011, Kavala and Olympiacos Volos were found guilty of having taken part in illegal actions and were therefore demoted to the Football League. However, both clubs appealed to the decision and they stayed at the Super League Greece, though they were deducted 8 and 10 points respectively. On 11 August 2011, UEFA disqualified Olympiacos Volos from further participation in the UEFA Europa League. On 23 August 2011, the Professional Sports Committee stripped Kavala and Olympiacos Volos of their professional licence due to their chairmen's involvement in the scandal.

Teams

Levadiakos, PAS Giannina and Panthrakikos had been relegated at the end of the 2009–10 season after finishing in the bottom three places of the league table. Levadiakos concluded a four-year run in the highest football league of Greece. Panthrakikos finished a two-year tenure with the league, while PAS Giannina had to return to the Football League, formerly known as Beta Ethniki, after just one season.

The three relegated teams were replaced by 2009–10 Beta Ethniki champions Olympiacos Volos, runners-up Kerkyra and promotion playoff winners Panserraikos. Olympiacos Volos returned to the Greek top football level after 20 seasons. Kerkyra ended a three-year absence from the Super League, while Panserraikos immediately returned to the league.

Stadia and locations

Notes

1. AEL moved to AEL FC Arena upon its completion in December 2010. Previous matches were hosted at Alcazar Stadium.

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AEK Athens	Manolo Jiménez	Pantelis Kafes	Puma	Κino
AEL	Nikos Kostenoglou	Nikos Dabizas	Adidas	Pame Stoixima
Aris	Sakis Tsiolis	Michalis Sifakis	Under Armour	Κino
Asteras Tripolis	Pavlos Dermitzakis	Adrián Bastía	Lotto	Lotto
Atromitos	Giorgos Donis	Konstantinos Nebegleras	Asics	Lotto
Ergotelis	Nikos Karageorgiou	Silva Júnior	Lotto	Lotto
Iraklis	Georgios Paraschos	Anastasios Katsabis	Legea	Tzoker
Kavala	Giannis Mantzourakis	Serge Dié	Puma	Extra 5
Kerkyra	Božidar Bandović	Ieroklis Stoltidis	Puma	Tzoker
Olympiacos	Ernesto Valverde	Antonios Nikopolidis	Puma	Pame Stoixima
Olympiacos Volos	Makis Katsavakis	Leandro Álvarez	Puma	ProPo
Panathinaikos	Jesualdo Ferreira	Giorgos Karagounis	Adidas	Cosmote
Panionios	Takis Lemonis	Fanouris Goundoulakis	Diadora	Attica Bank
Panserraikos	Pavlos Dimitriou	Anastasios Papazoglou	Mass Sport	Proto
PAOK	Makis Chavos	Kostas Chalkias	Puma	Pame Stoixima
Skoda Xanthi	Nikos Papadopoulos	Konstantinos Fliskas	Nike	Emporiki Bank

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Skoda Xanthi	Nikos Kechagias	20 September 2010	14th	Georgios Paraschos	20 September 2010
AEK Athens	Dušan Bajević	26 September 2010	13th	Bledar Kola (caretaker)	26 September 2010
	Bledar Kola (caretaker)	8 October 2010	7th	Manolo Jiménez	8 October 2010
PAOK	Pavlos Dermitzakis	17 October 2010	12th	Makis Chavos	18 October 2010
Panionios	Mikael Stahre	28 October 2010	15th	Akis Mantzios (caretaker)	28 October 2010
Skoda Xanthi	Georgios Paraschos	8 November 2010	15th	Nikos Papadopoulos	14 November 2010
Panionios	Akis Mantzios (caretaker)	7 November 2010	16th	Georgios Paraschos	8 November 2010
Panathinaikos	Nikos Nioplias	15 November 2010	2nd	Jacek Gmoch (caretaker)	15 November 2010
Kavala	Dragan Okuka	16 November 2010	5th	Henryk Kasperczak	17 November 2010
Panionios	Georgios Paraschos	17 November 2010	16th	Akis Mantzios (caretaker)	17 November 2010
Panathinaikos	Jacek Gmoch (caretaker)	20 November 2010	2nd	Jesualdo Ferreira	21 November 2010
AEL	Giannis Papakostas	29 November 2010	16th	Kostas Katsaras (caretaker)	30 November 2010
Kerkyra	Babis Tennes	30 November 2010	13th	Božidar Bandović	30 November 2010
Panionios	Akis Mantzios (caretaker)	9 December 2010	15th	Takis Lemonis	10 December 2010
AEL	Kostas Katsaras (caretaker)	16 December 2010	16th	Jorn Andersen	17 December 2010
	Jorn Andersen	9 January 2011	16th	Nikos Kostenoglou	10 January 2011
Asteras Tripolis	Vangelis Vlachos	17 January 2011	13th	Pavlos Dermitzakis	21 January 2011
Aris	Héctor Cúper	18 January 2011	10th	Giannis Michalitsos	19 January 2011
	Giannis Michalitsos	7 March 2011	11th	Sakis Tsiolis	11 March 2011

Regular season

League table

1. ^ On 28 July 2011, the Disciplinary Committee of the competition found Olympiacos Volos and Kavala guilty of match-fixing. Therefore the clubs were automatically put at the end of the league table and demoted to the Football League. The decision, however, was lifted on 10 August 2011 after both appealed. Instead of that Olympiacos Volos had 10 points deducted and Kavala 8 for the 2011-2012 season. On 23 August 2011, the Professional Sports Committee stripped Kavala and Olympiacos Volos of their professional licence, due to their chairmen's involvement in the match fixing scandal.
2. On 19 May 2011, the Disciplinary Committee of the competition found Iraklis guilty of forgery during the winter transfer window. Therefore the club was automatically put at the end of the league table and demoted to the Football League.

Results

1. The match, originally scheduled on 13 November 2010, was suspended at half time due to heavy rain. The remaining minutes were completed on 24 November 2010.

Play-offs

In the play-off for Champions League, the four 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 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 and rounded to the nearest whole number of points, if necessary, to give the other teams the points with which they start the mini-league.

Fifth-placed club Olympiacos Volos earned 47 points during the regular season. Based on this number and the calculations above, Panathinaikos as runners-up will began the play-offs with three points ((60–47)/5 = 2.6, rounded up to 3), while AEK Athens started with one point ((50–47)/5 = 0.6, rounded up to 1) and PAOK with no points ((48–47)/5 = 0.2, rounded down to 0).

1. AEK Athens have won the 2010–11 Greek Football Cup and are therefore qualified for the playoff round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. As a consequence, the fourth-placed team of this group also entered the Europa League.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Including matches played on 17 April 2011; Source: Soccerway Rank Player Club Goals 1 Djibril Cissé Panathinaikos 20 2 Kevin Mirallas Olympiacos 14 3 David Fuster Olympiacos 13 4 Rafik Djebbour AEK Athens / Olympiacos 12 5 Benjamin Onwuachi Kavala 10 6 Ismael Blanco AEK Athens 9 Denis Epstein Kerkyra 9 Kostas Mitroglou Olympiacos / Panionios 9 Marko Pantelić Olympiacos 9 Ignacio Scocco AEK Athens 9

Top assists Rank Player Club Assists 1 Djamel Abdoun Kavala 8 Javier Umbides Olympiacos Volos 8 Albert Riera Olympiacos 8 4 Kostas Katsouranis Panathinaikos 6 Djibril Cissé Panathinaikos 6 Ariel Ibagaza Olympiacos 6

Awards

MVP and Best Goal Awards

Matchday	MVP	Best Goal	Ref
1st	Vicente Monje (Olympiacos Volos)	Athanasios Tsigas (Kerkyra)
2nd	Albert Riera (Olympiacos)	Nikos Liberopoulos (AEK Athens)
3rd	Djamel Abdoun (Kavala)	Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens)
4th	Javier Umbides (Olympiacos Volos)	David Fuster (Olympiacos)
5th	Javito (Aris)	Leonardo (AEK Athens)
6th	Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens)
7th	Dimitris Salpingidis (PAOK)	Jean-Claude Darcheville (Kavala)
8th	Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos)	Nikolaos Lazaridis (Aris)
9th	Kevin Mirallas (Olympiacos)
10th	Andreas Tatos (Atromitos)	Daniel Cousin (AEL)
11th	Djamel Abdoun (Kavala)	Marcelinho (Skoda Xanthi)
12th	Andreas Tatos (Atromitos)	Kostas Kapetanos (Olympiacos Volos)
13th	Pablo Contreras (PAOK)	Pablo Lima (Iraklis)
14th	Pablo García (PAOK)	Neto (Aris)
15th	Dimitrios Souanis (Skoda Xanthi)	Manolis Papasterianos (Iraklis)
16th	Ivica Majstorović (Kerkyra)	Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos)
17th	Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos)	Serge Dié (Kavala)
18th	Kostas Mitroglou (Panionios)	Albert Riera (Olympiacos)
19th	Ilias Anastasakos (Atromitos)	Benjamin Onwuachi (Kavala)
20th	Leonardo (AEK Athens)	Nikos Liberopoulos (AEK Athens)
21st	Alexandros Tzorvas (Panathinaikos)	Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos)
22nd	Djibril Cissé (Panathinaikos)	Gustavinho (Olympiacos)
23rd	Kevin Mirallas (Olympiacos)	Kostas Kapetanos (Olympiacos Volos)
24th	Djamel Abdoun (Kavala)	Marius Niculae (Kavala)
25th	Ignacio Scocco (AEK Athens)	Mário Breška (Olympiacos Volos)
26th	Vitolo (PAOK)	Antonis Petropoulos (Panathinaikos)
27th	Stelios Sfakianakis (Atromitos)	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (Panathinaikos)
28th	Dimitrios Siovas (Panionios)	Georgios Georgiadis (Panserraikos)
29th	Christos Kalantzis ( Kerkyra)	Neto (Aris)
30th	Antonios Nikopolidis (Olympiacos)	Mário Breška (Olympiacos Volos)

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 18 January 2012

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Avram Papadopoulos	Olympiacos
Foreign Player of the Season	Vieirinha	PAOK
Young Player of the Season	Giannis Fetfatzidis	Olympiacos
Goalkeeper of the Season	Michalis Sifakis	Aris
Golden Boot	Djibril Cissé	Panathinaikos
Manager of the Season	Ernesto Valverde	Olympiacos

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External links

• Official website (in Greek)

• Association football
• Greece

• Super League Greece seasons
• 2010–11 in Greek football leagues
• 2010–11 in European association football leagues