1995–96 Alpha Ethniki

Alpha Ethniki
Season	1995–96
Champions	Panathinaikos; 18th Greek title
Relegated	Larissa; Panionios; Ethnikos Piraeus
Champions League	Panathinaikos
Cup Winners' Cup	AEK Athens
UEFA Cup	Olympiacos; Iraklis
Matches played	306
Goals scored	870 (2.84 per match)
Top goalscorer	Vassilios Tsiartas (26)
	← 1994–95 1996–97 →

The 1995–96 Alpha Ethniki was the 60th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 26 August 1995 and ended on 29 May 1996. Panathinaikos won their second consecutive and 18th Greek title.

Teams[]

Stadia and personnel[]

AEK Athens
Apollon
Athinaikos
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Ethnikos
Ionikos
Olympiacos

Edessaikos

Kalamata

Larissa

OFI

Panachaiki

Paniliakos

Skoda Xanthi

Location of teams in 1995–96 Alpha Ethniki

Team	Manager¹	Location	Stadium
AEK Athens	Dušan Bajević	Athens	Nikos Goumas Stadium
Apollon Athens	Giannis Pathiakakis	Athens	Rizoupoli Stadium
Aris	Jozef Jarabinský	Thessaloniki	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium
Athinaikos	Babis Tennes	Athens	Vyronas National Stadium
Edessaikos	Angelos Anastasiadis	Edessa	Municipal Stadium of Edessa
Ethnikos Piraeus	Timo Zahnleiter	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium
Ionikos	Oleg Blokhin	Piraeus	Neapoli Stadium
Iraklis	Vasilis Antoniadis	Thessaloniki	Kaftanzoglio Stadium
Kalamata	Bo Petersson	Kalamata	Kalamata Municipal Stadium
Larissa	Andreas Michalopoulos	Larissa	Alcazar Stadium
OFI	Eugène Gerards	Heraklion	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium
Olympiacos	Takis Persias	Piraeus	Karaiskakis Stadium
Panachaiki	Christos Archontidis	Patras	Kostas Davourlis Stadium
Panathinaikos	Juan Ramón Rocha	Athens	Athens Olympic Stadium
Paniliakos	Giannis Kyrastas	Pyrgos	Pyrgos Stadium
Panionios	Stathis Chaitas	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni Stadium
PAOK	Gunder Bengtsson	Thessaloniki	Toumba Stadium
Skoda Xanthi	Kurt Jara	Xanthi	Xanthi Ground

¹ On final match day of the season, played on 29 May 1996.

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Panathinaikos (C)	34	26	5	3	72	22	+50	83	Qualification for Champions League qualifying round
2	AEK Athens	34	25	6	3	87	22	+65	81	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Olympiacos	34	19	8	7	66	34	+32	65	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Iraklis	34	17	7	10	51	39	+12	58	Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round
5	OFI	34	17	6	11	57	52	+5	57
6	Skoda Xanthi	34	12	11	11	53	47	+6	47
7	Aris	34	12	10	12	45	47	−2	46
8	Ionikos	34	12	10	12	44	50	−6	46
9	Edessaikos	34	12	8	14	50	59	−9	44
10	Athinaikos	34	12	8	14	33	47	−14	44
11	Apollon Athens	34	11	7	16	49	48	+1	40
12	Paniliakos	34	10	10	14	46	51	−5	40
13	Kalamata	34	9	12	13	41	46	−5	39
14	PAOK^[a]	34	10	11	13	42	46	−4	38
15	Panachaiki	34	10	6	18	27	47	−20	36
16	Larissa (R)	34	9	7	18	32	64	−32	34	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
17	Panionios (R)	34	8	5	21	35	59	−24	29
18	Ethnikos Piraeus (R)	34	5	3	26	40	90	−50	18

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ PAOK were deducted 3 points.

Results[]

Home \ Away	AEK	APA	ARI	ATH	EDE	ETH	ION	IRT	KAL	LAR	OFI	OLY	PCK	PAT	PNL	PIO	PAK	XAN
AEK Athens		1–0	4–0	6–0	3–0	3–1	6–0	3–1	5–1	1–0	4–0	1–1	5–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	4–0	2–1
Apollon Athens	0–3		4–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	4–1	2–1	2–1	4–0	0–1	3–4	2–0	2–3	2–1	0–1	0–1	3–1
Aris	2–1	2–0		1–1	2–0	4–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	6–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	4–2	0–0	2–2
Athinaikos	0–1	1–1	0–0		2–1	2–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	3–2	0–1	2–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–1
Edessaikos	2–5	0–0	1–1	5–2		6–2	0–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	3–2	2–5	2–0	1–3	1–3	2–1	3–3	1–1
Ethnikos Piraeus	0–3	3–2	3–1	3–2	1–1		2–5	1–4	2–3	0–1	2–3	0–3	1–2	0–0	2–4	2–0	2–3	1–2
Ionikos	1–4	1–2	3–1	0–1	3–0	4–1		1–1	2–2	3–1	0–0	0–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–1
Iraklis	1–3	1–1	3–2	1–2	2–0	4–1	3–1		2–1	2–1	5–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	3–2	2–2	2–0
Kalamata	2–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–0		5–0	2–3	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1
Larissa	2–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	5–0		2–3	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1
OFI	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	4–1	3–2	3–1	0–0	3–0	0–0		2–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	2–2	2–1	3–0
Olympiacos	1–1	0–3	4–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	4–1	3–1	3–1		6–1	1–2	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–1
Panachaiki	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1		0–1	0–0	1–0	3–2	1–2
Panathinaikos	1–0	3–1	3–1	0–0	3–1	3–0	3–0	4–0	4–0	6–1	4–0	1–0	1–0		4–1	5–3	2–0	2–0
Paniliakos	0–2	2–1	2–1	4–1	2–3	2–2	0–0	1–2	1–0	4–2	4–2	0–0	1–1	0–1		3–1	1–1	2–2
Panionios	1–2	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–3	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–3	1–0		2–1	3–0
PAOK	1–3^[a]	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–3	3–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–0		3–3
Skoda Xanthi	1–1	1��0	4–0	3–0	1–1	6–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	3–1	0–2	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–3	4–0	2–2

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ PAOK-AEK Athens 1-3, game abandoned because of crowd violence, the score remained.

Top goalscorers[]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Vassilios Tsiartas	AEK Athens	26
2	Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos	19
	Vassilis Karapialis	Olympiacos
	Christos Kostis	AEK Athens
5	Nikos Machlas	OFI	18
6	Demis Nikolaidis	Apollon Athens	16
6	Georgios Nasiopoulos	Edessaikos	16
8	Temur Ketsbaia	AEK Athens	16
8	Ilija Ivić	Olympiacos	16
10		PAOK	13
	Zisis Vryzas	Skoda Xanthi
	Nikos Mirtsekis	Iraklis
	Bernard Barnjak	Apollon Athens

External links[]

[table_note_PAOK0.69587924224133-1] PAOK were deducted 3 points.

[table_note_PAK_AEK0.56675897984149-2] PAOK-AEK Athens 1-3, game abandoned because of crowd violence, the score remained.

[a]

[a]

show v t Top level Greek football league seasons
SEGAS Championship	1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1913
FCA Championship	1921–22 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27
Panhellenic Championship	1922–23 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59
Alpha Ethniki	1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06
Super League Greece	2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22

show v t 1995–96 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '95 '96 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (, ) Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '95 '96 Finland '95 '96 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '95 '96 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '95 '96 Latvia '95 '96 Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '95 '96 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '95 '96 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '95 '96 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Armenia Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland '95 '96 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Macedonia Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '95 '96 Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine FR Yugoslavia
League cups	England Finland Iceland Northern Ireland Scotland
Supercups	Germany
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup