2018–19 Greek Basket League

The 2018–19 Greek betshop.gr Basket League was the 79th season of the Greek Basket League, the top-tier level professional club basketball league in Greece. The season started on 7 October 2018, and ended on 15 June 2019. Panathinaikos OPAP won the Greek Basket League championship for a record 37th time, after beating Promitheas Patras 3–0 in the Finals.

The season infamously featured a major feud between traditional rivals Panathinaikos and Olympiacos over refereeing decisions in the 2019 Greek Cup semifinals game between the two teams, which eventually culminated in Olympiacos also forfeiting their playoffs. Finally, Olympiacos withdrew from the championship.

Teams

Promotion and relegation

Relegated from the Greek betshop.gr Basket League 2017–18 season

Koroivos and Trikala Aries were relegated, after finishing in the last two places in the 2017–18 season.

Promoted from the A2 Basket League 2017–18 season

The first club that was promoted was Peristeri, which won its third A2 Basket League championship, after finishing with a 29–1 record, in the 2017–18 season. The second team to be promoted was Holargos, as the winners of the promotion play-offs. Holargos defeated Apollon Patras 3–0, in the finals of the play-offs.

Locations and arenas

Athens

Athens teams
AEK
Holargos
Panathinaikos
Panionios
Peristeri

Promitheas class=notpageimage| Location of clubs for the 2018–19 Greek Basket League season.

Club	Location	Arena	Capacity	App.
AEK	Athens (Marousi)	OAKA Indoor Hall	19,250	62
Aris	Thessaloniki	Alexandrio Melathron	5,138	65
Holargos	Athens (Cholargos)	Antonis Tritsis Indoor Hall	1,665	1
Ifaistos Lemnos	Myrina	Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall	1,260	1
Kolossos H Hotels	Rhodes	Venetoklio Indoor Hall	1,242	13
Kymi	Chalkida	Tasos Kampouris Kanithou Indoor Hall	1,620	3
Lavrio Aegean Cargo	Lavrio	Lavrio Indoor Hall	1,700	4
Olympiacos	Piraeus	Peace and Friendship Stadium	12,000	66
Panathinaikos OPAP	Athens (Marousi)	OAKA Indoor Hall	19,250	69
Panionios	Athens (Nea Smyrni)	Sofia Befon Indoor Hall	1,204	50
PAOK	Thessaloniki (Pylaia)	PAOK Sports Arena	8,500	62
Peristeri Vikos Cola	Athens (Peristeri)	Peristeri Arena	4,000	23
Promitheas Patras	Patras	Dimitris Tofalos Arena	4,200	3
Rethymno Cretan Kings	Rethymno	Melina Merkouri Sports Arena	1,600	9

Personnel and Sponsorship

Club	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main shirt sponsor
AEK	Luca Banchi	Dušan Šakota	Fila	Betshop.gr
Aris	Ioannis Kastritis	Lefteris Bochoridis	Spalding	-
Holargos	Aris Lykogiannis	Toarlyn Fitzpatrick	BillyBro	BoConcept
Ifaistos Limnou	Sotiris Manolopoulos	Sotirios Manolopoulos	GSA Sport	-
Kolossos H Hotels	Stergios Koufos	Ioannis Georgallis	Fila	Aegean Airlines
Kymi	Isidoros Koutsos	Stavros Toutziarakis	Nickan	-
Lavrio Aegean Cargo	Christos Serelis	Michalis Perrakis	Athios	Advanced Hair Clinics
Olympiacos	David Blatt	Vassilis Spanoulis	Nike	bwin
Panathinaikos OPAP	Rick Pitino	Nick Calathes	Adidas	Pame Stoixima
Panionios	Vassilis Fragkias	Nikos Diplaros	Nickan	-
PAOK	Ilias Papatheodorou	Vangelis Margaritis	Erreà	Watt+Volt
Peristeri Vikos Cola	Argyris Pedoulakis	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	Flex One	Vikos Cola
Promitheas Patras	Makis Giatras	Nikos Gkikas	Athios	Medfrigo
Rethymno Cretan Kings	Vangelis Ziagkos	Antreas Christodoulou	Nickan	-

Head coaching changes

Team	Outgoing Head Coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
Panionios	Vangelis Alexandris	End of contract	18 May 2018	Preseason	Thanasis Skourtopoulos	29 June 2018
Ifaistos Limnou	Thanasis Skourtopoulos	End of contract	1 June 2018	Preseason	Sotiris Manolopoulos	8 June 2018
AEK	Dragan Šakota	Promoted to General Manager	6 June 2018	Preseason	Luca Banchi	1 July 2018
Olympiacos	Ioannis Sfairopoulos	End of contract	18 June 2018	Preseason	/ David Blatt	27 June 2018
Panionios	Thanasis Skourtopoulos	Re-signed	28 August 2018	Preseason	Chris Chougkaz	2 September 2018
Panionios	Chris Chougkaz	Re-signed	30 October 2018	11th (1-3)	Vassilis Fragkias	31 October 2018
Panionios	Vassilis Fragkias	Re-signed	21 November 2018	9th (2-4)	Nikos Oikonomou	24 November 2018
Kolossos H Hotels	Nikos Vetoulas	Sacked	22 November 2018	12th (1–5)	Kostas Flevarakis	1 December 2018
Kymi	Ioannis Kastritis	Sacked	25 November 2018	13th (1–6)	Isidoros Koutsos	26 November 2018

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AEK	26	18	8	2129	1995	+134	44	Advanced to playoffs
2	Peristeri Vikos Cola	26	17	9	2009	1977	+32	43
3	Panathinaikos OPAP	26	24	2	2151	1668	+483	43
4	Promitheas Patras	26	16	10	2003	1907	+96	42
5	PAOK	26	15	11	1992	1955	+37	41
6	Olympiacos (R)	26	23	3	2108	1708	+400	40
7	Ifaistos Limnou	26	13	13	1914	1995	−81	39
8	Holargos	26	12	14	1850	1899	−49	38
9	Aris	26	8	18	1811	1883	−72	34
10	Rethymno Cretan Kings	26	8	18	1906	2053	−147	34
11	Panionios	26	8	18	1950	2210	−260	34
12	Kymi	26	8	18	1899	2100	−201	34
13	Lavrio Aegean Cargo (R)	26	7	19	1997	2123	−126	33	Relegated to Greek A2 League
14	Kolossos H Hotels (R)	26	5	21	1958	2204	−246	31	Relegated to Greek A2 League

Source: ESAKE
(R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Peristeri Vikos Cola and Panathinaikos OPAP finished tied with 43 points. The two clubs split their head to head season series 1–1. Peristeri won the head to head point differential in their two games against Panathinaikos OPAP by 3 points.
Panathinaikos OPAP did not receive a point for their forfeited loss to Kymi. As a punishment for forfeiting the game, Panathinaikos was deducted 6 points in the league standings.
Olympiacos did not receive a point for their forfeited loss to Panathinaikos OPAP. As a punishment, Olympiacos was deducted 8 points in the league standings.
^ Aris, Rethymno Cretan Kings, Panionios, and Kymi finished tied with 34 points. The tie breakers resulted with Aris in 9th place, Rethymno in 10th place, Panionios in 11th place, and Kymi in 12th place.

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	ARIS	HOL	IFA	KOL	KYMI	LAV	OLY	PAO	PNN	PAOK	PER	PRO	RET
AEK	—	81–73	73–63	83–69	94–79	96–92	83–64	67–76	72–104	73–62	91–71	96–70	83–62	82–62
Aris	77–81	—	58–59	65–54	75–81	95–60	84–70	64–68	70–84	79–56	58–62	62–68	66–65	81–87
Holargos	70–81	76–63	—	65–62	74–60	73–66	82–71	68–73	64–81	74–73	74–68	75–76	57–69	66–61
Ifaistos Limnou	74–87	73–64	72–70	—	82–76	81–74	80–76	53–73	62–84	86–64	80–79	77–73	82–67	77–80
Kolossos H Hotels	69–106	61–72	75–81	60–78	—	97–90	76–80	67–86	78–88	106–109	60–75	77–84	68–83	74–63
Kymi	67–78	75–57	57–66	90–83	91–86	—	89–88	74–77	62–87	92–82	73–90	56–87	86–82	77–84
Lavrio Aegean Cargo	94–100	70–73	76–69	96–76	74–70	86–68	—	76–81	55–80	90–60	64–77	83–55	73–85	93–94
Olympiacos	101–75	76–67	88–78	83–46	95–74	92–69	102–63	—	0–20	98–72	80–59	92–69	86–59	84–60
Panathinaikos OPAP	111–79	85–65	86–64	93–65	95–68	0–20	108–63	79–70	—	96–71	89–51	80–75	87–76	88–64
Panionios	78–74	70–66	90–110	76–93	88–80	89–93	101–91	65–101	67–88	—	69–73	77–75	60–74	88–72
PAOK	88–79	95–79	80–73	73–75	79–83	78–60	99–88	68–78	83–93	83–73	—	87–73	81–56	81–64
Peristeri Vikos Cola	83–80	81–61	71–62	89–81	73–70	94–93	87–78	81–76	80–72	74–71	83–65	—	79–86	80–64
Promitheas Patras	79–69	71–61	86–61	73–68	101–95	94–61	71–63	77–80	69–86	104–67	82–59	73–76	—	86–81
Rethymno Cretan Kings	57–66	74–76	83–76	82–85	93–67	78–64	72–77	58–92	75–87	65–72	78–88	83–73	72–73	—

Source: ESAKE
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Playoffs

The eight highest ranked teams in the regular season qualified for the playoffs. All series will be played with a 2–2–1 format.

Bracket

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final



AEK	2

Holargos	1
		AEK	2

		Promitheas Patras	3
Promitheas Patras	2

PAOK	0
				Panathinaikos OPAP	3

				Promitheas Patras	0
Peristeri Vikos Cola	2

Ifaistos Limnou	1
		Peristeri Vikos Cola	0

		Panathinaikos OPAP	3	Third place
Panathinaikos OPAP	w/o

Olympiacos
				AEK	3

				Peristeri Vikos Cola	1

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
AEK	2–1	Holargos	84–62	72–88	88–75
Peristeri Vikos Cola	2–1	Ifaistos Limnou	84–81	71–77	74–64
Panathinaikos OPAP	w/o	Olympiacos	20–0	20–0	0
Promitheas Patras	2–0	PAOK	81–66	76–68	0

Semifinals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
AEK	2–3	Promitheas Patras	83–82	65–74	88–60	54–70	84–85
Peristeri Vikos Cola	0–3	Panathinaikos OPAP	68–91	66–86	75–82	0	0

Third place series

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
AEK	3–1	Peristeri Vikos Cola	66–67	79–71	91–83	83–82	0

Finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Panathinaikos OPAP	3–0	Promitheas Patras	103–77	92–80	111–77	0	0

Olympiacos refused to participate in their playoff series against Panathinaikos over refereeing disputes.

Final standings

Pos	Team	Overall record			Qualification or Relegation
		Pld	W	L
1.	Panathinaikos	33	31	2	Qualification to the EuroLeague *Club qualified for EuroLeague by having a contract
2.	Promitheas Patras	36	21	15	Qualification to the EuroCup
3.	AEK Athens	38	25	13	Qualification to the Champions League *AEK declined EuroCup participation
4.	Peristeri	36	20	16	Qualification to the Champions League
5.	PAOK	28	15	13	Qualification to the Champions League
6.	Ifaistos Limnou	29	14	15
7.	Holargos	29	13	16	Relegation to the Greek A2 League
8.	Aris	26	8	18
9.	Rethymno	26	8	18
10.	Panionios	26	8	18
11.	Kymi	26	8	18	Relegation to the Greek A2 League
12.	Lavrio	26	7	19
13.	Kolossos Rodou	26	5	21
14.	Olympiacos	27	23	4	Qualification to the EuroLeague *Club qualified for EuroLeague by having a contract

NOTES:

Holargos was faced financial problems. The club's registered place in the top-tier Greek Basket League was purchased by Kolossos Rodou, which thus avoided being relegated.

Kymi was faced financial problems. The club's registered place in the top-tier Greek Basket League was purchased by Lavrio, which thus avoided being relegated.

Olympiacos was relegated on 22 May 2019, following a meeting of the Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association's Board of Directors. This was due to the club refusing to play in its playoff series against Panathinaikos, which marked its third forfeited game of the season, and which resulted in an automatic relegation, per league rules. The league also stripped the team of all of its season wins, as a further punishment.

Awards

Main article: Greek Basket League awards

All-Greek League Teams

Player	Team
First Team
Nick Calathes MVP	Panathinaikos
Davion Berry	Panionios
Ioannis Papapetrou	Panathinaikos
Panos Vasilopoulos	Peristeri
Nikola Milutinov	Olympiacos

Player	Team
Second Team
Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos
Steve Burtt Jr.	Rethymno
Matt Lojeski	Panathinaikos
Georgios Printezis	Olympiacos
Vince Hunter	AEK

Clubs in European-wide competitions

Team	Competition	Progress
Olympiacos	EuroLeague	Regular season
Panathinaikos	EuroLeague	Playoffs
AEK	Champions League	Quarterfinals
PAOK		Round of 16
Promitheas		Round of 16
Aris		Second qualifying round
Aris	FIBA Europe Cup	Regular season
Lavrio	FIBA Europe Cup	First qualifying round

Clubs in World-wide competitions

Team	Competition	Progress
AEK	FIBA Intercontinental Cup	Final 4, 1st place

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Η σημερινή (15/5) συνεδρίαση του Διοικητικού Συμβουλίου (in Greek).

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