The 2016–17 Super League Greece was the 81st season of the highest tier in league of

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football and the eleventh under its current title. The season started on 10 September 2016 and ended in June 2017. The league comprised fourteen teams from the 2015–16 season and two promoted from the 2015–16 Football League.

Teams

Two teams were relegated from the 2015–16 season.

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and AEL Kalloni will play in Football League for the 2016–17 season. Two teams were promoted from the 2015–16 Football League, champions AEL and

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Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

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eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Managerial changes

Regular season

League table

Postponement

The Greek Super League was originally scheduled for 20 August 2016 but Greece's Sports minister Stavros Kontonis decided it would be postponed due to fears of violence. The first match was then postponed and scheduled to be played on 10 September 2016 between

and Platanias. The match was a success and went ahead with no issues with Platanias winning 1–0. On 9 November refereeing chief Giorgos Bikas was the victim of an arson attack, this led to Greek football of all divisions to be suspended.

Results

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Play-offs

In the play-offs for Champions League and Europa League berths, the four qualified teams play each other in a home and away

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. 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. So, both AEK Athens and Panionios will begin the play-offs pointless. PAOK will enter the play-offs with two points, while Panathinaikos will have one point.

Season statistics

:''Updated to games played 30 April 2017''

Top scorers

Top assists

Best goal and MVP awards winners

Awards

Annual awards

Annual awards were announced on 7 May 2017.

Player of the Year

The Player of the Year awarded to

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Panathinaikos Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos ( el, Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, literally in English: "Panathenaic Athletic Club" or Panathinaikos A.C.), also known simply as Panathinaikós , is a major Greek multi-sport club ba ...

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Foreign Player of the Year

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Top goalscorer of the Year

The Top goalscorer of the Year awarded to

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Greek Player of the Year

The Greek Player of the Year awarded to

Petros Mantalos Petros Mantalos ( el, Πέτρος Μάνταλος; born 31 August 1991) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Super League club AEK Athens and the Greece national team. Club career Skoda Xanthi Petros ...

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AEK Athens A.E.K ( el, AEK , formally Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople''), known as A.E.K, is a major Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadel ...

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Manager of the Year

The Manager of the Year awarded to

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( PAOK)

Breakthrough of the Year

The Breakthrough of the Year awarded to

Panagiotis Retsos Panagiotis Retsos ( el, Παναγιώτης Ρέτσος, born 9 August 1998) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a defender for Super League club Olympiacos, on loan from Italian side Hellas Verona, and the Greece national team. ...

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Olympiacos Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number ...

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Team of the Year

*Goalkeeper: Andreas Gianniotis (Panionios) *Defence: Léo Matos (PAOK),

(Olympiacos), Rodrigo Moledo (Panathinaikos),

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(PAS Giannina) *Midfield: Masoud Shojaei (Panionios), Carlos Zeca (Panathinaikos),

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(Olympiacos), Manolis Siopis (Panionios),

(AEK Athens) *Attack:

(Panathinaikos)

Attendances

Average attendances counted officially without games played behind closed gates from Superleague.

References

External links

Official website

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