1976–77 Alpha Ethniki

The 1976–77 Alpha Ethniki was the 41st season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 3 October 1976 and ended on 27 June 1977. Panathinaikos won their 12th Greek title and their first one in seven years.

Alpha Ethniki

Season	1976–77
Champions	Panathinaikos 12th Greek title
Relegated	Panetolikos Atromitos
European Cup	Panathinaikos
UEFA Cup	Olympiacos AEK Athens
Cup Winners' Cup	PAOK
Matches played	306
Goals scored	806 (2.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Thanasis Intzoglou (22 goals)
← 1975–76 1977–78 →

The point system was: Win: 2 points - Draw: 1 point.

AEK Athens
Apollon
Atromitos
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Ethnikos
Olympiacos

Kastoria

Kavala

OFI

Panachaiki

Panetolikos

Panserraikos

PAS Giannina

Pierikos

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Location of teams in 1976–77 Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Panathinaikos (C)	34	23	8	3	70	20	+50	54	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Olympiacos	34	23	6	5	70	27	+43	52	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	PAOK	34	21	10	3	63	27	+36	52	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
4	AEK Athens	34	24	3	7	63	29	+34	51	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
5	Aris	34	17	8	9	58	34	+24	42
6	OFI	34	14	5	15	57	51	+6	33
7	Kavala	34	11	10	13	34	38	−4	32
8	Ethnikos Piraeus	34	13	5	16	47	47	0	31
9	Panionios	34	10	11	13	35	35	0	31
10	Kastoria	34	12	7	15	32	45	−13	31
11	PAS Giannina	34	10	9	15	47	54	−7	29
12	Pierikos	34	11	5	18	44	61	−17	27
13	Iraklis	34	10	7	17	33	47	−14	27
14	Panserraikos	34	9	8	17	35	56	−21	26
15	Panachaiki	34	11	4	19	36	62	−26	26
16	Apollon Athens	34	9	8	17	29	54	−25	26
17	Panetolikos (R)	34	9	8	17	25	51	−26	26	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
18	Atromitos (R)	34	6	4	24	28	68	−40	13

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd total goal ratio; 3rd decision match.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	APA	ARIS	ATR	ETH	IRA	KAS	KAV	OFI	OLY	PNC	PAO	PNT	PAN	PNS	PAOK	PAS	PIE
AEK Athens		2–1	2–0	1–0	4–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	4–1	1–0	4–2	0–2	4–0	2–0	4–1	1–0	5–1	2–2
Apollon Athens	0–2		1–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–3	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	3–2	2–1
Aris	0–1	4–1		5–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–2	1–2	0–0	5–1
Atromitos	1–2	0–0	2–4		1–2	3–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	2–4	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–6	1–1	1–3
Ethnikos Piraeus	1–0	6–1	0–2	1–0		3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–3	5–1	1–1	5–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–3	2–1
Iraklis	1–0	1–0	0–2	5–0	2–1		1–1	3–1	2–0	1–3	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–3	2–0	2–1
Kastoria	0–3	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–1		1–0	2–1	1–0	3–2	3–2	1–0	2–1	3–1	0–2	1–0	1–2
Kavala	0–1	1–2	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–1		3–0	0–1	5–1	1–0	2–0	0–3	1–0	0–0	4–1	1–1
OFI	1–4	4–1	1–1	3–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	3–1		1–1	3–0	2–2	2–0	5–0	5–0	2–1	1–2	2–0
Olympiacos	2–0	1–1	4–3	5–1	2–0	3–1	4–1	2–1	4–3		9–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	3–0
Panachaiki	0–2	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–2	1–0	0–1		0–0	0–0	1–0	5–0	1–2	3–1	2–1
Panathinaikos	2–0	2–0	4–2	4–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	5–0	3–1	2–0	4–0		4–1	1–0	4–0	0–0	3–0	4–0
Panetolikos	1–3	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0		0–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–0
Panionios	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	4–2	4–1	0–0	3–0	1–2	3–0		1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1
Panserraikos	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–3	2–1	1–2	3–0	3–0		3–3	2–0	1–1
PAOK	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	3–0	3–0		1–1	6–1
PAS Giannina	0–1	2–0	1–1	5–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	4–3	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	0–2	4–5		6–3
Pierikos	3–1	5–2	1–4	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	4–1	1–2	2–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Thanasis Intzoglou	Ethnikos Piraeus	22
2	Dimitrios Papadopoulos	OFI	20
3	Óscar Álvarez	Panathinaikos	19
4	Antonis Antoniadis	Panathinaikos	18
	Thomas Mavros	AEK Athens
6	Maik Galakos	Olympiacos	16
7	Michalis Kritikopoulos	Olympiacos	15
8	Giorgos Ananiadis	Aris	14
9	Neto Guerino	PAOK	13
	Vasilis Karaiskos	OFI

External links

• Greek Wikipedia
• Official Greek FA Site
• Greek SuperLeague official Site
• SuperLeague Statistics