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 Cental and 6 from Northern 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.
The teams of the Cental Greece formed the Southern 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 Νorthern Group were initially divided into two subgroups.The teams of the Thessaloniki formed the Northern subgroup A and resulted as follows:
Macedonian Championship: The first 3 teams of the ranking.
The teams of Serres, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace formed the Northern subgroup B and resulted as follows:
Serres' Championship: The winner.
Thracian Championship: The winner.
Eastern Macedonian Championship: The winner.
The two winners competed in double games to become the champion of the Northern 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 Southern group against Olympiacos. Both in the local championship of Athens, and in both of the finals, AEK achiedved only victories. The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.
a. ^ At the beginning of the championship, Atromitos was expelled from the Athens' Federation and was replaced by the 3rd place holder of second tier, Olympiacos Athens. In fact, he played 3 games knowing overwhelming defeats by Apollon Athens (1-4), Enosis Pagrati (score 3-7) and AEK Athens (0-13). Eventually, the Athens' Federation took back the deletion of Atromitos and reinstated him in the championship, so the games of Olympiacos Athens were cancelled and the club took part in the second tier of the Athenian championship.
b. ^ The ranking and the points are the final but from the 4th to the 8th place the reported goal difference is of the penultimate (13th) matchday.
Source: rsssf (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated Notes:
^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.
^1 point must have been deducted from Aris' team due to the suspension of the match with Iraklis.