2011–12 Superleague Greece
The Super League 2011/12 was the sixth season of the highest Greek league for senior football. The championship was played under 16 clubs. The regular season began on 27 August, 2011 and ended with the 30th Round on April 22, 2012. Thereafter found to 20 May the playoffs for the international launch sites instead. The clubs Panetolikos, PAS Ioannina and OFI Crete solved Panserraikos, Larissa and Asteras Tripolis, which relegated the season 2010/ 11, from.
It was not fixed for a long time, whether and with which teams play time would be played. A betting scandal caused uncertainty. Several teams that had in the past season qualified for the competition, was denied a license. Affected were the first division side Iraklis Thessaloniki and the two second division Trikala FC and Diagoras Rhodes. The first match was played with just five games.
Once in the course of the betting scandal and the two clubs AO Kavala and Olympiakos Volos had relegated to the fourth Greek league was started with 13 clubs in the new season. Asteras Tripolis, who remained top notch thanks to the withdrawal of licenses from Iraklis Thessaloniki threatened due to a match-fixing suspicion of temporary relegation to the second Greek league. On November 20, 2011, the field of participants was completed. The two second division club Doxa Dramas and Levadiakos PAE went into the running game operation.
- Table 3.1
- 3.2 Cross table
Clubs
Final Table
Cross Table
The cross table presents the results of all games of this first round represents the home team is listed in the first column, the visiting team in the top row. The results are always given from the perspective of the home team.
Play-offs
The clubs that are found at the end of the Super League season at places two to five, playing in the so-called play-offs, a mini - elimination tournament to the European launch sites. Besides getting the clubs who finished second to fourth place in the regular season, one -point lead in the amount of 1/ 5 of the points projection on the fifth of the regular season ( with commercial rounding ): as Panathinaikos Athens would receive due to the projection of 18 points a lead of 4 points (18/ 5 = 3.6, rounded to 4). The other two clubs had in the regular season, 2 points ahead, and therefore without starting bonus in the playoffs (2/ 5 = 0.4, rounded to 0).
Panathinaikos qualified as winners of the playoffs for participating in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Originally had reached only the second and third place (different ) qualifying rounds of the UEFA Europa League. However, since Atromitos Athens had reached the final of the Cup, and the opponent Olympiakos was already qualified as a master for the Champions League, there has been a shift, so that should also rise to the fourth- placed team in the Europa League.
Table
Cross Table
Top scorers
The following players scored in the last season at least ten goals:
The champion team of Olympiakos Piraeus
(considering players were at least three inserts; provided in parentheses to the matches and goals are specified)
- Goal: Franco Costanzo ( 6 / -), Balázs Megyeri (22 / -)
- Defense: José Holebas (23 /2), Ioannis Maniatis (22 / -), Iván Marcano ( 28/4 ), Olof Mellberg ( 23/2 ), Francois Modesto (25 /1), Avraam Papadopoulos (22 / -) Anastasios Papazoglu (4 / -), Giannis Potsounidis (5 / -), Vassilios Torosidis (22 / -)
- Midfielders: Djamel Abdoun ( 24/2 ), Ljubomir Fejsa (4 / -), Ioannis Fetfatzidis ( 17/3 ), David Fuster (19/ 4), Ariel Ibagaza (16 / - ), Jean Makoun (19/ 2), Pablo Orbaiz (24 /1), Colin Kazim-Richards ( 9/1), Francisco Yeste ( 5 / -)
- Storm: Diogo (7/1 ), Rafik Djebbour (21 /12), Javito ( 4/1), Kevin Mirallas (25 /20), Alfredo Monje (9 / -), Marko Pantelic (13/ 10)
- Coach: Ernesto Valverde