Season 2012–13 Champions League Olympiacos
PAOK Dates 25 Aug 2012 – 2 Jun 2013 Goals scored 512 | Champions Olympiacos Biggest home win Veria 5–0 Platanias Champion Olympiacos F.C. Matches played 240 | |
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Europa League Skoda Xanthi
Atromitos
Asteras Tripoli Top goalscorer Rafik Djebbour
(20 goals) Relegated AEK Athens F.C., PAE Kerkyra Similar 2014–15 Superleague Greece, 2006–07 Superleague Greece, 2015–16 Superleague Greece, 2016–17 Superleague Greece | ||
The 2012–13 Superleague Greece was the 54th season of the highest football league of Greece and the seventh under the name Superleague. The season started on 25 August 2012 and ended on 2 June 2013 with the last matches of the European playoff round. Olympiacos were the defending champions, having won their 39th Greek championship in the 2011–12 season. They successfully defended their crown, finishing 15 points ahead of second-placed PAOK.
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The league comprised 13 teams from the 2011–12 season and three promoted teams from the 2011–12 Football League.
Teams
Three teams were relegated at the end of the 2011–12 season to the 2012–13 Football League: Doxa Drama, Panetolikos, Ergotelis.
Three teams were promoted from the 2011–12 Football League, champions Panthrakikos, runners-up Veria and the winners of a four-team play-off round Platanias. Panthrakikos and Veria returned to top level respectively two and four years after relegation, while Platanias made their debut.
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Adidas is the official ball supplier for Superleague Greece.
League table
Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1) points, 2) head-to-head points, 3) head-to-head goal difference.
If in current league table there are tied teams after applying criteria 1 to 3, they are considered to share places and listed in Greek language alphabetic order.
If in final league table there are still tied teams after applying criteria 1 to 3, a decision match (or matches if they are more than two) are to be played but only in three cases: to determine the champion, to fill spots in the play-off or to determine the teams to be relegated. In any other case, the final standings of tied teams are determined with a public draw
1Panathinaikos started the league season with minus 2 points because of severe crowd violence during their home match against Olympiacos last year.
2AEK Athens were deducted 3 points because of severe crowd violence during their home match against Panthrakikos this year. They were also voluntarily relegated to the third division in order to enter the liquidation process and remove a big number of debts to the club.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Results
Updated to games played on 21 April 2013.
Source: Super League Greece (Greek)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
1 The match between AEK Athens and Panthrakikos was awarded to Panthrakikos after being suspended at 87th minute (score:0-1)
Playoffs
In the play-off for Champions League, the four qualified teams play each other in a home and away round robin. 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.
Playoff table
Updated to games played on 2 June 2013.
Source: Βαθμολογία Playoffs ΟΠΑΠ
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) classification of regular season
1 Since Asteras Tripolis lost the 2012–13 Greek Football Cup final to a team already qualified for European competitions, Olympiacos, all of the Europa League allocations were made through playoff positions.
2 PAS Giannina were not licensed to play in the Europa League and therefore were replaced by the next Europa League licensed team in the table not already qualified for any European competitions, which was Skoda Xanthi, who played in the second qualifying round.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Playoff results
Updated to games played on 2 June 2013.
Source: Super League Greece (Greek)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.