Alpha Ethniki
Season 2000–01
Champions Olympiacos 30th Greek titleMatches 240
Goals 717 (2.99 per match)
Top goalscorer Alexis Alexandris (20 goals)← 1999–2000 2001–02 →
The 2000–01 Alpha Ethniki was the 65th season of the highest football league of Greece also known as Superior Division (Greek : Ανώτερη Κατηγορία). The season began on 16 September 2000 and ended on 27 May 2001. Olympiacos won their fifth consecutive and 30th Greek title.
Teams Stadiums and personnel Location of teams in 2000–01 Alpha Ethniki Team Manager1 Location Stadium Capacity AEK Athens North Macedonia Toni Savevski Athens (Nea Filadelfeia ) Nikos Goumas Stadium 27,729 Aris Greece Babis Tennes Thessaloniki (Charilaou ) Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium 23,220 Athinaikos Greece Tasos ChatziangelisAthens (Vyronas ) Vyronas National Stadium 4,340 Ethnikos Asteras Greece Spyros Livathinos Athens (Kaisariani ) Michalis Kritikopoulos Stadium 4,851 Ionikos Ukraine Oleg Blokhin Piraeus (Nikaia ) Neapoli Stadium 4,999 Iraklis Greece Angelos Anastasiadis Thessaloniki (Triandria ) Kaftanzoglio Stadium 27,770 Kalamata Greece Vasilios Georgopoulos Kalamata Kalamata Municipal Stadium 5,613 OFI Greece Ioannis Samaras Heraklion Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium 9,000 Olympiacos Greece Takis Lemonis Athens (Marousi ) Athens Olympic Stadium 69,638 Panachaiki Greece Nikos Kourbanas Patras Kostas Davourlis Stadium 11,321 Panathinaikos Greece Stratos Apostolakis Athens (Ampelokipoi ) Leoforos Alexandras Stadium 16,620 Paniliakos Greece Kostas Polychroniou Pyrgos Pyrgos Stadium 6,750 Panionios Finland Martti Kuusela Athens (Nea Smyrni ) Nea Smyrni Stadium 11,756 PAOK Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević Thessaloniki (Toumba ) Toumba Stadium 28,703 PAS Giannina Greece Nikos Anastopoulos Ioannina Zosimades Stadium 7,652 Skoda Xanthi Greece Nikos Karageorgiou Xanthi Xanthi Ground 9,500
1 On final match day of the season, played on 27 May 2001. League table Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation 1 Olympiacos (C)30 25 3 2 84 22 +62 78 Qualification for Champions League first group stage 2 Panathinaikos 30 20 6 4 61 20 +41 66 Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round 3 AEK Athens 30 19 4 7 61 34 +27 61 Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round 4 PAOK 30 14 9 7 66 48 +18 51 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round 5 Iraklis 30 14 4 12 45 40 +5 46 6 Ionikos 30 12 8 10 46 46 0 44 7 Aris 30 13 5 12 37 41 −4 44 8 Skoda Xanthi 30 11 5 14 24 37 −13 38 9 Panionios 30 9 9 12 39 42 −3 36 10 Ethnikos Asteras 30 9 7 14 34 52 −18 34 11 Panachaiki (O)30 9 6 15 39 56 −17 33 Qualification for relegation play-off 12 OFI (O)30 8 9 13 39 49 −10 33 13 PAS Giannina (R)30 8 9 13 40 53 −13 33 14 Paniliakos (R)30 7 8 15 26 46 −20 29 15 Kalamata (R)30 4 9 17 39 66 −27 21 Relegation to Beta Ethniki 16 Athinaikos (R)30 5 5 20 37 65 −28 20
Results Home \ Away AEK ARIS ATH ETA ION IRA KAL OFI OLY PNA PAO PNL PGSS PAOK PAS XAN AEK Athens 3–1 2–1 2–2 2–0 2–0 3–0 1–2 1–2 2–1 1–1 2–1 5–1 3–2 4–2 2–0 Aris 0–3 2–0 2–0 0–0 0–2 3–2 2–0 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–0 3–2 4–0 1–0 1–0 Athinaikos 0–3 2–0 1–3 2–2 2–0 3–2 2–3 1–5 3–1 0–4 1–1 2–0 3–4 0–1 2–2 Ethnikos Asteras 0–3 1–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 1–3 1–0 0–1 3–1 0–3 1–1 1–0 3–3 2–1 1–0 Ionikos 0–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–2 4–1 1–0 0–1 3–1 3–3 3–1 2–0 2–2 1–1 3–1 Iraklis 1–2 1–2 4–2 4–0 3–2 1–0 3–0 2–1 2–0 0–1 1–0 4–3 1–1 2–1 1–0 Kalamata 3–1 1–1 2–2 2–2 2–1 0–0 1–4 0–1 3–3 2–4 1–1 2–1 0–0 3–4 0–1 OFI 3–3 2–3 5–3 2–2 3–1 1–0 1–1 1–2 0–1 0–0 2–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 Olympiacos 4–1 4–1 1–0 6–0 3–3 3–1 5–2 5–0 3–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 3–1 4–0 Panachaiki 1–0 4–1 3–1 1–0 2–3 1–2 3–2 2–1 1–5 1–2 3–0 1–1 1–2 2–1 1–1 Panathinaikos 0–1 2–2 1–0 2–0 4–1 2–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 4–0 2–0 0–1 5–2 2–1 3–0 Paniliakos 0–3 1–2 3–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 3–1 0–0 0–4 2–2 0–3 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 Panionios 2–0 2–0 1–0 4–3 4–0 1–1 1–1 0–2 2–1 2–0 0–2 0–1 1–1 4–0 0–0 PAOK 2–1 2–0 3–1 2–1 1–2 4–2 7–1 4–1 2–4 5–1 2–2 3–2 1–1 2–3 3–0 PAS Giannina 2–2 2–1 3–1 0–0 1–1 3–2 2–0 1–2 1–5 1–1 0–4 3–0 2–2 1–3 1–1 Skoda Xanthi 0–1 1–0 1–0 3–1 0–1 1–0 2–1 3–2 0–3 1–0 0–2 2–0 3–1 0–2 0–0
Relegation play-off Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg Panachaiki 6–3 Paniliakos 2–0 2–3 2–0 OFI 3–2 PAS Giannina 1–0 0–2 2–0
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Awards Annual awards Annual awards were announced on 8 October 2001.
Award Winner Club Greek Player of the Season Greece Alexis Alexandris Olympiacos Foreign Player of the Season Serbia Predrag Đorđević Olympiacos Young Player of the Season Greece Giourkas Seitaridis Panathinaikos Goalkeeper of the Season Greece Vangelis Pourliotopoulos Panionios Fair Play of the Season Greece Angelos Anastasiadis Panathinaikos Golden Boot Greece Alexis Alexandris Olympiacos Manager of the Season Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušan Bajević PAOK
Attendances Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 2000–01 Alpha Ethniki.
# Team Average attendance 1 Olympiacos 11,989 2 Panathinaikos 6,168 3 PAOK 6,100 4 AEK Athens 5,318 5 Iraklis 5,316 6 Aris 4,150 7 PAS Giannina 3,858 8 OFI 2,902 9 Ethnikos Asteras 2,651 10 Panachaiki 1,726 11 Panionios 1,562 12 Paniliakos 1,490 13 Kalamata 1,429 14 Skoda Xanthi 1,327 15 Ionikos 1,086 16 Athinaikos 944
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