1939–40 Panhellenic Championship

The 1939–40 Panhellenic Championship was the 11th season of the highest football league of Greece and the last before the WW2 took place. It was carried out with a system similar to that of the previous season in which 14 teams participated again, 8 from the Central and 6 from North Greece, which were divided into groups. As in the previous year, in order to complete the championship, since it took a total of 30 matchdays, the teams that qualified for the national championship did not compete with each other again but transferred the mutual results of the local championships.

Panhellenic Championship
Season1939–40
ChampionsAEK Athens
2nd Greek title
Relegatednone
Matches played2
Goals scored8 (4 per match)
Top goalscorerKleanthis Maropoulos
(2 goals)
Biggest home winAEK Athens 1–0 PAOK
Biggest away winPAOK 3–4 AEK Athens
Highest scoringPAOK 3–4 AEK Athens
Longest winning runAEK Athens (2 matches)
Longest unbeaten runAEK Athens (2 matches)
Longest winless runPAOK (2 matches)
Longest losing runPAOK (2 matches)
Highest attendance3,000

The teams of the Central Greece formed the South group and resulted as follows:

  • Athenian Championship: The first 5 teams of the ranking.
  • Piraeus' Championship: The first 3 teams of the ranking.

The teams of the Νorth Group were initially divided into two subgroups. The teams of the Thessaloniki formed the North subgroup A and resulted as follows:

  • Macedonian Championship: The first 3 teams of the ranking.

The teams of Serres, East Macedonia and Thrace formed the North subgroup B and resulted as follows:

  • Serres' Championship: The winner.
  • Thracian Championship: The winner.
  • East Macedonian Championship: The winner.

The two winners competed in double games to become the champion of the Northe group. The champions of South and North, AEK Athens and PAOK, competed in a 2-legged final for the title. AEK was crowned champion for their 2nd Championship (2 consecutive), with Kleanthis Maropoulos being the protagonist as the last year. AEK had a great team then and throughout the year they had only one defeat in the South group against Olympiacos. Both in the local championship of Athens, and in both of the finals, AEK achieved only victories. The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.

Qualification round

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Athens Football Clubs Association

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification AEK PAO APA ATH AST PAG ATR DAF
1 AEK Athens (Q) 14 13 1 0 57 10 +47 41 South Group 1–0 3–0 3–0 4–1 4–0 1–1 5–1
2 Panathinaikos (Q) 14 9 2 3 50 15 +35 34 0–4 8–1 8–0
3 Apollon Athens (Q) 14 6 4 4 31 25 +6 30 2–3 4–1[a]
4 Athinaikos (Q) 14 6 3 5 21 25 −4 29 2–4 1–1
5 Asteras Athens (Q) 14 7 1 6 27 34 −7 29 0–4 0–0
6 Enosis Pangrati 14 5 4 5 22 25 −3 28 1–5 1–2 7–3[a] 2–1
7 Atromitos[b] 14 1 2 11 13 62 −49 18 0–13[a] 1–0
8 Daphni Metaxourgeio 14 0 1 13 14 69 −55 15 2–3 1–0
Source: rsssf
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c Olympiacos Athens competed instead of Atromitos
  2. ^ At the beginning of the championship, Atromitos were deleted from the Athens' Federation and was replaced by the 3rd place holder of second tier, Olympiacos Athens. In fact, they played 3 games which resulted in 3 defeats. Eventually, the Athens' Federation took back the deletion of Atromitos and reinstated him in the championship, so the games of Olympiacos Athens were counted to Atromitos and the club took part in the second tier of the Athenian championship.

Piraeus Football Clubs Association

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Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Olympiacos (Q) 10 49 10 +39 28 South Group
2 Ethnikos Piraeus (Q) 10 21 8 +13 26
3 Proodeftiki (Q) 10 23 19 +4 23
4 Thiseus Piraeus[a] 10 8 18 -10 15
5 Argonaftis Piraeus[b] 10 12 26 -14 14
6 Aris Piraeus[b] 10 9 29 -20 13


a. ^ The ranking and the points are the final but the reported goal difference is of the 7th matchday.
b. ^ The ranking and the points are the final but the reported goal difference is of the penultimate (9th) matchday.

Macedonia Football Clubs Association

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification IRA PAOK ARIS MENT MAK APK
1 Iraklis (Q) 10 7 2 1 28 13 +15 26 North Group 1–1 3–2[a] 3–0 0–2 6–2
2 PAOK (Q) 10 6 2 2 22 12 +10 24 0–0 2–4 3–1 2–1 3–1
3 Aris[b] (Q) 10 6 1 3 32 12 +20 22 1–2 3–1 0–1 2–2 8–1
4 MENT 10 4 0 6 13 26 −13 18 2–6 0–6 0–4 3–0 3–2
5 Makedonikos 10 3 1 6 14 16 −2 17 0–2 1–2 0–1 1–0 4–0
6 Apollon Kalamarias 10 1 0 9 0 44 −44 12 3–5 0–2 0–7 1–3 3–2
Source: rsssf
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:
  1. ^ The match was stopped in '86 due to the refusal of an Aris' player to leave the field after being sent off. The result in the rankings remained 3-2, with Aris being punished by a deduction of 1 point.
  2. ^ 1 point must have been deducted from Aris' team due to the suspension of the match with Iraklis.

Semi-final round

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South Group

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification AEK OLY PAO ETH APA ATH AST PRO
1 AEK Athens (Q) 14 13 0 1 48 14 +34 40 Finals 3–2 1–0 2–0 3–2 4–2 4–0 4–0
2 Olympiacos 14 9 2 3 32 19 +13 34 3–2 1–4 0–2 3–0 1–0 4–2 2–1
3 Panathinaikos 14 8 2 4 42 19 +23 32 0–4 1–1 1–1 0–2 5–1 3–1 5–1
4 Ethnikos Piraeus 14 8 2 4 24 16 +8 32 1–4 0–4 2–1 0–1 2–0 3–0 4–1
5 Apollon Athens 14 5 3 6 19 24 −5 27 1–4 1–1 0–4 1–3 1–1 1–3 3–1
6 Athinaikos 14 2 4 8 12 31 −19 22 0–3 0–3 1–7 0–0 1–1 2–0 3–2
7 Asteras Athens 14 3 1 10 14 38 −24 21 1–3 1–3 1–8 0–2 0–4 0–0 3–1
8 Proodeftiki 14 1 0 13 16 46 −30 16 2–7 2–4 2–3 1–4 0–1 2–1 0–2
Source: rsssf
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

North Group

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Subgroup A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PAOK ARIS IRA
1 PAOK (A) 4 2 1 1 7 6 +1 9[a] North Group play-offs 2–1 4–1
2 Aris 4 2 1 1 9 7 +2 9[a] 1–1 3–1
3 Iraklis 4 1 0 3 8 11 −3 6 3–0 3–4
Source: rsssf
(A) Advance to a further round
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Aris had a better goal difference and goal ratio but the 1st place was taken by PAOK, because of the better results in the games between them.

Subgroup B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification FIL IRA ASP
1 Fillipoi Kavala (A) 4 2 1 1 15 5 +10 9 North Group play-offs 9–0
2 Iraklis Serres 4 2 0 2 5 14 −9 8 0–2 2–1
3 Aspida Xanthi 4 1 1 2 8 9 −1 7 2–3
Source: rsssf
(A) Advance to a further round

North Group play-offs

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
PAOK 6–3 Fillipoi Kavala 5–0 1–3

Finals

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Summary
AEK Athens 5–3 PAOK 1–0 4–3

Matches

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AEK Athens1–0PAOK
report (d. p. 662)
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Pasalaris
PAOK3–4AEK Athens
  • Kalogiannis   17'
  • Feroutsos   20'
  • Ioannidis   70'
report (d. p. 634)
Sintrivani Stadium, Thessaloniki
Referee: V. Diamantopoulos

AEK Athens won 5–3 on aggregate.

Top scorers

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Rank Player Club Goals
1   Kleanthis Maropoulos AEK Athens 2
2   Kostas Vasiliou AEK Athens 1
  Alekos Chatzistavridis AEK Athens
  Giorgos Gasparis AEK Athens
  Kostas Kalogiannis PAOK
  Feroutsos PAOK
  Aristidιs Ioannidis PAOK

References

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