2001–02 Alpha Ethniki

66th season of top-tier football league in Greece

Football league season

Alpha Ethniki
Season	2001–02
Champions	Olympiacos 31st Greek title
Relegated	Ethnikos Asteras
Champions League	Olympiacos AEK Athens
UEFA Cup	Panathinaikos PAOK Skoda Xanthi Iraklis
Intertoto Cup	Egaleo
Matches played	182
Goals scored	524 (2.88 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alexis Alexandris (19 goals)
← 2000–01 2002–03 →

The 2001–02 Alpha Ethniki was the 66th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 22 September 2001 and ended on 8 May 2002. Olympiacos won their sixth consecutive and 31st Greek title.

Teams

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Stadia and personnel

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2001–02 Alpha Ethniki is located in Greece

AEK Athens Akratitos Egaleo E. Asteras Panathinaikos Panionios

AEK Athens
Akratitos
Egaleo
E. Asteras
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Aris Iraklis PAOK

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Ionikos Olympiacos

Ionikos
Olympiacos

OFI

Panachaiki

Skoda Xanthi

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Location of teams in 2001–02 Alpha Ethniki

Team	Manager¹	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens	Portugal Fernando Santos	Athens	Nikos Goumas Stadium	27,729
Akratitos	Greece Giorgos Paraschos	Athens	Yiannis Pathiakakis Stadium	4,944
Aris	Germany Bernd Krauss	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	23,220
Egaleo	Greece Georgios Chatzaras	Athens	Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium	8,217
Ethnikos Asteras	Greece Spyros Livathinos	Athens	Michalis Kritikopoulos Stadium	4,851
Ionikos	Ukraine Oleg Blokhin	Piraeus	Neapoli Stadium	4,999
Iraklis	Greece Angelos Anastasiadis	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	27,770
OFI	Greece Ioannis Samaras	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium	9,000
Olympiacos	Greece Takis Lemonis	Piraeus	Athens Olympic Stadium	71,030
Panachaiki	Greece Nikos Anastopoulos	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium	11,321
Panathinaikos	Uruguay Sergio Markarián	Athens	Leoforos Alexandras Stadium	16,620
Panionios	Romania Dumitru Dumitriu	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium	11,756
PAOK	Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium	28,803
Skoda Xanthi	Greece Nikos Karageorgiou	Xanthi	Xanthi Ground	9,500

¹ On final match day of the season, played on 8 May 2002.

League table

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	26	17	7	2	69	30	+39	58^[a]	Qualification for Champions League first group stage
2	AEK Athens	26	19	1	6	65	28	+37	58^[a]	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
3	Panathinaikos	26	16	7	3	53	25	+28	55	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	PAOK	26	14	6	6	55	45	+10	48
5	Skoda Xanthi	26	12	6	8	34	26	+8	42
6	Iraklis	26	9	9	8	32	35	−3	36
7	Panionios	26	8	11	7	37	33	+4	35
8	OFI	26	9	6	11	32	35	−3	33
9	Aris	26	7	8	11	25	34	−9	29
10	Egaleo	26	7	5	14	27	46	−19	26	Qualification for Intertoto Cup third round
11	Akratitos	26	6	5	15	29	41	−12	23
12	Ionikos	26	5	7	14	21	47	−26	22
13	Panachaiki	26	3	9	14	26	55	−29	18
14	Ethnikos Asteras (R)	26	4	5	17	19	44	−25	17	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:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head record: AEK Athens–Olympiacos 2–3, Olympiacos–AEK Athens 4–3.

Results

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Home \ Away	AEK	AKR	ARIS	EGA	ETA	ION	IRA	OFI	OLY	PNA	PAO	PGSS	PAOK
AEK Athens	3–0	4–2	4–0	1–0	4–0	3–0	3–0	2–3	4–1	2–0	2–1	6–2	2–0
Akratitos	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	1–2	2–3	3–1	0–0	1–4	1–2	2–0
Aris	0–3	0–1	1–0	4–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–5	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–3	1–1
Egaleo	1–3	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	2–1	0–0	3–4	2–1	1–4	0–1	2–1	1–0
Ethnikos Asteras	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–3	2–4	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–3	0–0
Ionikos	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–1
Iraklis	3–2	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–1
OFI	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	4–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–0	4–1	0–1
Olympiacos	4–3	2–2	0–1	3–0	6–0	5–0	3–0	3–0	4–0	2–2	2–0	3–2	1–1
Panachaiki	0–1	1–1	1–0	5–3	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–3	0–0	1–1	3–3	1–3
Panathinaikos	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	5–3	2–1	5–1	1–1	8–0	2–1	1–2	3–1
Panionios	2–6	2–2	1–0	0–0	4–0	2–2	0–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–2	1–1	2–0
PAOK	3–2	6–3	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–2	1–1	3–2	2–2	3–1	1–0
Skoda Xanthi	1–1	3–0	1–0	4–2	1–0	1–0	4–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–2	3–1	1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed ]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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Source: Galanis Sports Data

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Greece Alexis Alexandris	Olympiacos	19
2	Greece Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens	17
3	Greece Vasilios Tsiartas	AEK Athens	16
4	Greece Georgios Georgiadis	PAOK	15
5	Morocco Abderrahim Ouakili	Skoda Xanthi	14
6	Croatia Goran Vlaović	Panathinaikos	13
6	Serbia and Montenegro Predrag Đorđević	Olympiacos	13
8	Brazil Ederson Fofonka	Iraklis	12
9	Costa Rica Rónald Gómez	OFI	11
9	Greece Stelios Giannakopoulos	Olympiacos	11

Awards

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Annual awards

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Annual awards were announced on 4 November 2002.^[1]

Award	Winner	Club
Greek Player of the Season	Greece Demis Nikolaidis	AEK Athens
Foreign Player of the Season	Serbia Predrag Đorđević	Olympiacos
Young Player of the Season	Greece Spyros Vallas	Skoda Xanthi
Goalkeeper of the Season	Greece Antonios Nikopolidis	Panathinaikos
Fair Play of the Season	Greece Stelios Giannakopoulos Greece Michalis Kasapis	Olympiacos AEK Athens
Golden Boot	Greece Alexis Alexandris	Olympiacos
Manager of the Season	Portugal Fernando Santos	AEK Athens

References

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^ "Ντέμης και ΑΕΚ οι κορυφαίοι της περιόδου 2001-2002". sport.gr (in Greek). 4 November 2002. Retrieved 7 July 2013.

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