2015–16 Football League (Greece)

Football League

Season	2015-16
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The 2015-16 Football League is the second division of the Greek professional football system and the sixth season under the name Football League after previously being known as Beta Ethniki. Its season began on 27 September 2015 and will end on 29 May 2016

Teams

Agrotikos Asteras

Anagennisi K.

Zakynthos

Larissa

Olympiakos

Lamia

Acharnaikos
Kallithea
Apollon

Chania

Panachaiki

Panegialios

Ergotelis

Kerkyra

Panelefsiniakos

Trikala

Kissamikos

Panserraikos

Location of teams in 2015–16 Football League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Last season
Acharnaikos	Menidi	Acharnes Stadium	4,450	South Group, 7th & South Group Relegation Play-offs, 1st
Agrotikos Asteras	Evosmos	Agrotikos Asteras Ground	2,267	North Group, 9th & North Group Relegation Play-offs, 1st
Anagennisi Karditsa	Karditsa	Karditsa Stadium	9,500	North Group, 6th & North Group Relegation Play-offs, 3rd
Apollon Smyrni	Athens	Georgios Kamaras Stadium	14,856	South Group, 3rd & Promotion Play-offs, 3rd
Chania	Chania	Perivolia Municipal Stadium	2,800	South Group, 4th
Ergotelis*	Heraklion	Pankritio Stadium	26,000	SL, 15th
Kallithea	Kallithea	Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium	4,250	South Group, 8th & South Group Relegation Play-offs, 3rd
Kerkyra	Corfu	Kerkyra Stadium	2,191	SL, 18th ( Kerkyra relegated for illegal transfer of shares and was given the last position of the league table.)
Kissamikos	Kissamos	Maleme Stadium	700	Gamma Ethniki, Group 4 , 1st
Lamia	Lamia	Lamia Stadium	6,000	North Group, 4th
Larissa	Larissa	AEL FC Arena	16,118	North Group, 2nd & Promotion Play-offs, 4th
Olympiakos Volou *	Volos	Volos Municipal Stadium	9,000	North Group, 3rd & Promotion Play-offs, 5th
Panachaiki	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium	11,321	South Group, 2nd & Promotion Play-offs, 6th
Panegialios	Aigio	Aigio Stadium	4,500	South Group, 6th & South Group Relegation Play-offs, 2nd
Panelefsiniakos	Eleusina	Municipal Stadium of Eleusina	1,800	Gamma Ethniki, Group 3 , 1st
Panserraikos	Serres	Serres Municipal Stadium	9,500	Gamma Ethniki, Group 1 , 1st
Trikala	Trikala	Trikala Municipal Stadium	14,000	Gamma Ethniki, Group 2 , 1st
Zakynthos	Zakynthos	Zakynthians Olympic Champions Ground	2,000	North Group, 5th & North Group Relegation Play-offs, 2nd

* withdrew during the season

Notes

OFI and Niki Volos withdrew from the league. As a result of this they will participate in 2015–16 Gamma Ethniki.

Structure

There are eighteen clubs that compete in the Football League, playing each other in a home and away series. At the end of the season, the bottom four teams are relegated to Gamma Ethniki. The top two teams gain automatic promotion for Superleague. All teams in the Football League take part in the Greek Football Cup.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Larissa	30	20	6	4	42	14	+28	66	Promotion to Superleague
2	Kerkyra	30	20	6	4	49	21	+28	66
3	Apollon Smyrni	30	17	9	4	37	14	+23	60
4	Trikala	30	17	8	5	47	22	+25	59
5	Kissamikos	30	12	12	6	25	13	+12	48
6	Lamia	29	13	9	7	34	21	+13	48
7	Kallithea	30	13	7	10	33	24	+9	043^3
8	Acharnaikos	29	10	8	11	24	23	+1	38
9	Panegialios	30	10	7	13	28	34	−6	37
10	Panserraikos	30	10	7	13	33	35	−2	37
11	Anagennisi Karditsa	30	10	6	14	23	29	−6	36
12	Chania	30	8	11	11	27	29	−2	35
13	Agrotikos Asteras	30	8	10	12	21	21	0	34
14	Zakynthos	30	9	7	14	28	28	0	031^3
15	Panachaiki	28	7	7	14	20	35	−15	025^3	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
16	Panelefsiniakos	30	7	4	19	27	51	−24	25
17	Olympiakos Volou (R)	29	5	4	20	16	57	−41	010^1
18	Ergotelis (R)	29	5	4	20	18	61	−43	07^2

Updated to games played on 27 April 2016.
Source: Football League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against; 6) Play-offs (neutral ground, only used if needed to decide teams for promotion or relegation).
(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.
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• ¹ Olympiakos Volou withdrew from the league and they were deducted nine points.
• ² Ergotelis withdrew from the league and they were deducted twelve points.
• ³ Zakynthos, Kallithea and Panachaiki were deducted three points.

Matches

Home ╲ Away

ACH

AGR

KRD

APS

CHA

ERG

KLT

KER

KIS

LAM

AEL

OVL

PCK

PEG

PNF

PSE

TRI

ZAK

Acharnaikos

2–0

1–0

0–1

1–2

1–1

0–0

0–1

1–0

1–1

3–1

2–1

1–2

1–0

Agrotikos Asteras

0–0

0–1

0–1

1–0

3–0^2

0–0

0–0

0–1

3–0^3

0–0

0–0

2–0

0–0

1–2

1–0

Anagennisi Karditsa

1–0

0–0

1–3

0–0

0–0

1–1

1–2

0–1

0–1

1–1

1–0

3–1

2–0

1–0

2–1

2–0

Apollon Smyrni

0–1

0–2

1–0

3–0

3–0

1–2

1–0

1–0

0–0

3–0^3

1–1

1–1

3–1

1–1

3–2

Chania

0–1

1–0

2–0

0–0

3–0^2

0–1

0–3^4

0–1

0–0

3–0^3

2–0

2–0

1–1

2–2

1–0

Ergotelis

0–3^2

1–2

0–3^2

0–1

0–3^2

0–3^2

0–3^2

1–1

0–3^2

0–0

3–1

3–2

3–1

1–1

0–3^2

Kallithea

1–0

2–0

1–0

0–1

2–0

1–0

2–0

0–0

0–1

1–0

1–2

1–2

1–1

1–1

1–1

Kerkyra

2–0

2–1

2–0

1–1

1–2

1–0

3–2

0–0

3–1

2–1

1–0

3–0

1–0

1–0

4–0

Kissamikos

1–1

1–0

0–0

0–0

2–1

0–0

0–1

0–0

2–2

0–1

2–0

1–0

2–0

1–1

1–0

Lamia

1–0

2–1

0–0

3–0

3–0^2

2–1

1–1

0–0

1–0

3–0^3

4–1

1–0

2–0

0–1

Larissa

2–0

2–1

3–0

1–0

2–1

1–0

0–1

1–0

3–0

1–0

1–0

1–2

3–1

2–0

2–0

Olympiakos Volou

3–0^3

0–0

0–3

1–2

1–0

0–3^3

0–3^3

1–0

0–3^3

2–2

2–1

5–1

0–3^3

0–3^3

Panachaiki

1–0

1–0

0–2

3–0^2

0–1

1–0

0–1

1–1

0–1

1–4

0–1

0–0

0–0

Panegialios

0–0

2–2

0–0

0–0

1–1

3–0^2

0–3

0–1

1–0

1–3

0–1

3–0^3

0–1

2–0

1–0

Panelefsiniakos

1–1

0–1

0–1

3–1

3–0^2

1–3

0–0

1–1

0–2

3–0^3

0–3

0–2

1–0

0–1

1–0

Panserraikos

3–0

1–2

2–0

2–2

3–0^2

3–2

2–2

1–0

0–2

0–2

2–1

1–2

2–2

0–1

1–0

Trikala

1–0

0–0

3–1

0–1

2–1

2–0

3–2

2–2

1–1

3–0

3–0^3

3–0

4–0

3–1

3–0

1–0

Zakynthos

0–0

1–0

1–0

0–0

3–3

1–2

1–1

0–0

3–0

1–0

4–0

0–1

2–0

0–2

1–0

Updated to games played on 27 April 2016.
Source: (Greek)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

• ² The opponents of Ergotelis awarded a 3–0 w/o win each.
• ³ The opponents of Olympiakos Volos awarded a 3–0 w/o win each.
• ⁴ The game awarded a 3–0 w/o win to Kerkyra.

Season statistics

Top scorers Updated to games played 27 April 2016 Rank Player Club Goals[2] 1 Nikolaos Kouskounas Trikala 18 2 Furtado Panserraikos 13 3 Mattheos Maroukakis Larissa 12 4 Jone Lamia 10 5 Viera Ellong Kerkyra 9 6 Wanderson Apollon Smyrni 8 Alexandros Arnarellis Kallithea/Kerkyra 8 Alexandros Kontos Kerkyra 8 References http://www.footballleaguenews.gr/ "Football League statistics". http://www.sport24.gr (in Greek). External link in |work= (help)