1986–87 Alpha Ethniki

Alpha Ethniki
Season	1986–87
Champions	Olympiacos; 25th Greek title
Relegated	Doxa Drama; Apollon Athens; PAS Giannina
European Cup	Olympiacos
UEFA Cup	Panathinaikos; Panionios
Cup Winners' Cup	OFI
Matches	217
Goals	490 (2.26 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nikos Anastopoulos; (16 goals)
	← 1985–86 1987–88 →

The 1986–87 Alpha Ethniki was the 51st season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 7 September 1986 and ended on 7 June 1987. Olympiacos won their 25th Greek title and their first one in four years. The championship was marked by the strike declared by 12 clubs in the last three matchdays of the championship. As a result, most of the clubs did not come to the last matches of the championship and were punished by deducting 6 points. The clubs that did not joined the strike were Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, OFI and Panionios, which finished at the first four places of the standings.^[1]

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

Teams

Promoted from 1985–86 Beta Ethniki	Relegated from 1985–86 Alpha Ethniki
Diagoras Veria	Panserraikos Panachaiki

AEK Athens
Apollon A.
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Apollon K.
Aris
Iraklis
PAOK

Location of teams in 1986–87 Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	22	5	3	54	24	+30	49	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Panathinaikos	30	15	9	6	46	30	+16	39	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	OFI	30	17	4	9	44	27	+17	38	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
4	Panionios	30	11	11	8	36	22	+14	33	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
5	PAOK	30	13	9	8	39	23	+16	29
6	Iraklis	30	13	5	12	34	32	+2	25
7	AEK Athens	30	10	8	12	31	26	+5	19
8	AEL	30	10	5	15	24	31	−7	19
9	Veria	30	10	5	15	30	43	−13	19
10	Ethnikos Piraeus	30	8	8	14	32	40	−8	18
11	Aris	30	10	4	16	26	30	−4	18
12	Apollon Kalamarias	30	8	7	15	21	35	−14	17
13	Diagoras	30	9	4	17	29	33	−4	16
14	Doxa Drama (R)	30	6	9	15	29	36	−7	15	Relegation to Beta Ethniki
15	Apollon Athens (R)	30	6	8	16	21	40	−19	14
16	PAS Giannina (R)	30	5	7	18	14	38	−24	11

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
12 clubs went on strike in the last three matchdays. All the clubs exept Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, OFI and Panionios that did not joined the strike were punished, with a deduction of -6 points because they did not show up.^[1] AEK Athens had also -3 points because of a case of fixing games in the previous season.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AEK	AEL	APA	APK	ARIS	DIA	DOX	ETH	IRA	OFI	OLY	PAO	PAN	PAOK	PAS	VER
AEK Athens		1–0	2–2	2–0	1–0	0–0^[a]	1–1	2–1	0–0^[a]	0–1	0–1	0–3	1–1	1–2	2–1	5–0
AEL	0–1		2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0^[a]	2–0
Apollon Athens	1–1	1–0		0–1	0–0^[a]	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–0
Apollon Kalamarias	0–2	0–2	4–1		1–5	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–2^[b]	0–0	1–0	0–0^[a]
Aris	1–3	2–0	0–1	1–1		2–1	2–0	0–0^[a]	1–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–1
Diagoras	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0^[a]	2–3		3–0	2–3	1–2	3–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–0	3–0
Doxa Drama	1–1	0–0^[a]	0–0	4–0	0–0^[a]	1–1		2–2	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–3	1–0	1–2	2–0	3–0
Ethnikos Piraeus	1–0	0–0	0–0^[a]	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–4		0–0	1–0	0–2^[b]	0–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	4–1
Iraklis	1–3	5–2	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	4–3		0–2^[b]	0–2	0–2^[b]	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1
OFI	1–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	3–1	3–0	3–2	2–0	2–0		4–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	2–0^[b]
Olympiacos	2–0	3–0	3–1	2–0	1–2	4–0	2–0^[b]	2–0	1–0	2–1		2–1	1–0	1–1	3–2	1–0
Panathinaikos	1–1	2–1	2–0^[b]	0–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	3–6	3–1	2–1	1–1		2–2	0–0	3–0	2–1
Panionios	1–1	2–0^[b]	5–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–3	0–0		2–0^[b]	3–0	3–1
PAOK	1–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–0^[a]	4–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	4–1	2–3	4–1		3–1	0–0
PAS Giannina	2–0	0–0	0–3	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–2^[b]	1–0	0–0	0–0^[a]		3–1
Veria	0–0^[a]	3–0	3–1	0–3	1–0	2–0	1–0	5–2	2–2	0–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–1

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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Both clubs that went on strike, thus by decision of the HFF the final score was 0–0, but counted as a loss for each club.^[1]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Awarded 2–0 at the expense of the club that went on strike.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nikos Anastopoulos	Olympiacos	16
2	Dimitris Saravakos	Panathinaikos	13
	Giorgos Vlastos	OFI
	Misho Vulchev	Doxa Drama
5	Sakis Anastasiadis	Iraklis	10
5	Panagiotis Tsalouchidis	Veria	10
7	Georgios Skartados	PAOK	8
	Christos Dimopoulos	Panathinaikos
	Kostas Batsinilas	Panathinaikos
	Giorgos Christofis	Diagoras

Attendances

Olympiacos drew the highest average home attendance in the 1986–87 Alpha Ethniki.^[2]

#	Team	Average attendance
1	Olympiacos	32,056
2	Panathinaikos	20,508
3	AEK Athens	16,270
4	PAOK	12,779
5	Aris	8,093
6	Iraklis	7,612
7	OFI	7,262
8	AEL	6,965
9	PAS Giannina	5,296
10	Panionios	5,227
11	Ethnikos Piraeus	4,697
12	Apollon Athens	4,189
13	Diagoras	4,102
14	Veria	3,962
15	Doxa Drama	3,477
16	Apollon Kalamarias	3,143

References

1 2 3 "Το ποδόσφαιρο απεργεί". contra.gr.
↑ "1986–87 Alpha Ethniki". european-football-statistics.co.uk.

External links

[table_note_1_AEK_DIA0.27110343532222-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Both clubs that went on strike, thus by decision of the HFF the final score was 0–0, but counted as a loss for each club.^[1]

[table_note_1_APK_PAN0.27110343532222-3] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Awarded 2–0 at the expense of the club that went on strike.

[Strike-1] 1 2 3 "Το ποδόσφαιρο απεργεί". contra.gr.

[4] "1986–87 Alpha Ethniki". european-football-statistics.co.uk.

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