Season 1999–2000 Dates 18 Sep 1999 – 7 May 2000 Goals scored 670 | Champion Anorthosis Famagusta FC Location Cyprus Matches played 182 | |
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Champions Anorthosis
(11th title) Champions League Anorthosis (2nd qualifying round) UEFA Cup Omonia (qualifying round)
APOEL (qualifying round; via Cypriot Cup) UEFA Intertoto Nea Salamis (1st round) Top goalscorer Rainer Rauffmann
(34 goals) Relegated Ethnikos Assia FC, Anagennisi Deryneia FC, Alki Larnaca FC People also search for 1998–99 Cypriot First Division | ||
The 1999–2000 Cypriot First Division was the 60th season of the Cypriot top-level football league. Anorthosis won their 11th title.
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Format
Fourteen teams participated in the 1999–2000 Cypriot First Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The last three teams were relegated to the 2000–01 Cypriot Second Division.
The champions ensured their participation in the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League and the runners-up in the 2000–01 UEFA Cup.
The teams had to declare their interest to participate in the 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup before the end of the championship. At the end of the championship, the higher placed team among the interested ones participated in the Intertoto Cup (if they had not secured their participation in any other UEFA competition).
Point system
Teams received three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.
Changes from previous season
Evagoras Paphos, Doxa Katokopia and Aris Limassol were relegated from previous season and played in the 1999–2000 Cypriot Second Division. They were replaced by the first three teams of the 1998–99 Cypriot Second Division, Anagennisi Deryneia, Ethnikos Assia and APOP Paphos.
League standings
Points system: Won=3 points, Drawn=1 point, Lost=0 points
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal differences, 3) Goal for
1The third team, APOEL, qualified to 2000–01 UEFA Cup because the second team, Omonia, already qualified to the same competition through Cypriot Cup.