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Alpha Ethniki
Season	2003–04
Champions	Panathinaikos 19th Greek title
Relegated	Akratitos Paniliakos Proodeftiki
Champions League	Panathinaikos Olympiacos PAOK
UEFA Cup	AEK Athens Egaleo Panionios
Matches played	240
Goals scored	557 (2.32 per match)
Top goalscorer	Giovanni (21 goals)
← 2002–03 2004–05 →

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.

Teams

Stadia and personnel

AEK Athens
Akratitos
Egaleo
Kallithea
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Chalkidona
Ionikos
Olympiacos
Proodeftiki

OFI

Paniliakos

Skoda Xanthiclass=notpageimage| Location of teams in 2003–04 Alpha Ethniki

Team	Manager	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens	Dušan Bajević	Athens	Various
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	Leoforos Alexandras 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

On final match day of the season, played on 22 May 2004.
AEK Athens were played the home matches at the various stadiums in Attica due to the demolition of Nikos Goumas Stadium and the renovation of Athens Olympic Stadium.

League table

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	Qualification for Champions League group stage
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
13	Aris	30	7	6	17	24	46	−22	27
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	Relegation to Beta Ethniki

Source: Galanis Sports Data
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Head-to-head record: Kallithea–Aris 4–0, Aris–Kallithea 0–1.

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	AKR	ARIS	CHA	EGA	ION	IRA	KLT	OFI	OLY	PAO	PNL	PGSS	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.

Relegation play-off

Played at a neutral venue between the 14th-place team in the Alpha Ethniki and the 3rd-place team in the Beta Ethniki.

30 May 2004

Ergotelis	1–0	Akratitos
Sylla 90+1'	Report

Makedonikos Stadium, ThessalonikiReferee: Kyros Vassaras (Thessaloniki)

Ergotelis were promoted to 2004–05 Alpha Ethniki. Akratitos were relegated to 2004–05 Beta Ethniki.

Top scorers

Source: Galanis Sports Data

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Giovanni	Olympiacos	21
2	Dimitrios Papadopoulos	Panathinaikos	17
3	Dimitris Salpingidis	PAOK	16
4	Giorgos Zacharopoulos	Chalkidona	13
4	Theofanis Gekas	Kallithea	13
6	Nikos Liberopoulos	AEK Athens	12
6	Nikos Skarmoutsos	Kallithea	12
8	Nikos Machlas	OFI	11
	Vasilios Lakis	AEK Athens
	Predrag Đorđević	Olympiacos

Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 9 November 2004.

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Dimitrios Papadopoulos	Panathinaikos
Foreign Player of the Season	Giovanni Markus Münch	Olympiacos Panathinaikos
Young Player of the Season	Alexandros Tziolis	Panionios
Goalkeeper of the Season	Antonios Nikopolidis	Panathinaikos
Golden Boot	Giovanni	Olympiacos
Manager of the Season	Angelos Anastasiadis	PAOK

References

"Τιμήθηκαν οι κορυφαίοι του ποδοσφαίρου". patris.gr (in Greek). 9 November 2004. Retrieved 7 July 2013.

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