1946–47 Panhellenic Championship

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Panhellenic Championship
Season1946–47
ChampionsOlympiacos
7th Greek title
Relegatednone
Matches played30
Goals scored107 (3.57 per match)
Top goalscorerGiannis Vazos
(12 goals)
Biggest home winPanionios 5–0 Atromitos Piraeus
Biggest away winPanionios 0–4 Olympiacos
Makedonikos 4–8 Panionios
Highest scoringMakedonikos 4–8 Panionios[1]
Longest winless runMakedonikos (10 matches)
Longest losing runMakedonikos (10 matches)

The 1946–47 Panhellenic Championship was the 13th season of the highest football league of Greece.

The form of the final round was decided after intense consultations and it was decided the teams that participated increased by 3 (6 out of 3) and resulted as follows:

  • Athenian Championship: The first 2 teams of the ranking.
  • Piraeus' Championship: The first 2 teams of the ranking.
  • Macedonian Championship: The first 2 teams of the ranking.

The championship was won by Olympiacos after a hard battle with Iraklis and Panionios. As the championship advanced, Iraklis had the first say, being the leader of the standings and undefeated. During the home game of Iraklis, on 26-6-1947 against AEK Athens, the referee Diamantopoulos left, interrupting the game in the 60th minute, with the score at that point at 0-2, because the football player of Iraklis, Paraschos Paschalidis refused to leave the field, although he had been expelled for kicking the referee, while at the same time there were episodes that started on the occasion of some fights between football players, but evolved as invasion of spectators on the field.

On 29-6-1947, the Iraklis-Olympiakos match was held with a final result of 2-1, a fact that connected the emergence of the champion with the fate of the interrupted match, since Iraklis with this match completed its competitive obligations, while Olympiakos remaining 9 points had 3 games less. In the meantime, the HFF decided at first instance with 3-2 votes to zero Iraklis, as the culprit of the suspension in the match, with AEK being awarded the game. Following an appeal by Iraklis, who claimed that the reason for the suspension was the fans who invaded the stadium and who wore insignia of AEK, the secondary judicial committee of the HFF zeroed both teams as accomplices of the suspension, considering the reason for this the quarrel of the goalkeeper of AEK, Delavinias, with the forward of Iraklis, Zakapidas.For the first time, Iraklis came very close to winning the title, but Olympiakos won the remaining 3 games and reached 25 points, passing marginally first and crowned champion.[2][3] The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.

Qualification round[edit]

Athens Football Clubs Association[edit]

Pos Team Pld GF GA GR Pts Qualification
1 AEK Athens (Q) 14 29 12 0.414 35[a] Final round
2 Panionios (Q) 14 45 19 0.422 35[a]
3 Panathinaikos 14 33 12 0.364 34
4 Apollon Athens 14 27 21 0.778 31
5 Asteras Athens 14 19 18 0.947 29
6 Fostiras 14 27 33 1.222 25
7 Athinaikos 14 13 33 2.538 19
8 Enosi Pangrati 14 11 56 5.091 14
a. ^ AEK won the title due to a better goal ratio. In the final matchday, AEK was defeated by Panathinaikos with 0-2 while Panionios crushed Enosi Pagrati with 9-1. Panionios could have won the championship if they did not concede a goal or if a 10th goal they scored in the last minute was not canceled.

Piraeus Football Clubs Association[edit]

Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Olympiacos (Q) 14 44 11 +33 41 Final round
2 Atromitos Piraeus (Q) 14 37 14 +13 35
3 Ethnikos Piraeus 14 31 16 +15 32
4 Proodeftiki 14 23 14 +9 28
5 Amyna Nikaia 14 22 33 -11 26
6 Aris Piraeus 14 17 40 -23 21
7 AE Neapoli 14 10 33 -23 21
8 Argonaftis Piraeus 14 15 38 -23 18

Macedonia Football Clubs Association[edit]

Pos Team Pld GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Makedonikos (Q) 10 25 13 +12 24 Final round
2 Iraklis (Q) 10 20 10 +10 23
3 Aris 10 20 20 0 20
4 Megas Alexandros 10 17 23 -6 19
5 PAOK 10 16 13 +3 18
6 Apollon Kalamarias 10 8 27 -19 15

Final round[edit]

Top scorers[edit]

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Greece Giannis Vazos Olympiacos 12
2 Greece Papadakis Iraklis 6
Greece Ilias Papageorgiou Atromitos Piraeus

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Panionios victory over Makedonikos with 8-4 took place in away match, as it appears in a relative press release". Archived from the original on 2017-09-24. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  2. ^ "Olympiakos' version over the 1946-47 championship". redsagainsthemachine.gr.
  3. ^ "Iraklis' version over the 1946-47 championship". Archived from the original on 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2019-05-26.

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