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1939–40 Panhellenic Championship
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1 Super League Greece
The Super League Greece, or Super League Interwetten for sponsorship reasons, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced Alpha Ethniki at the top of the Greek football league system. It consists of 14 teams and runs from August to May, with teams playing 26 games each followed by a 10-game play-off to decide the champions.More
2 Association football
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3 World War II
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. In a state of total war, directly involving more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, resulting in 70 to 85 million fatalities, with more civilians than military personnel killed. Tens of millions of people died due to genocides, premeditated death from starvation, massacres, and disease. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, including in strategic bombing of population centres, the development of nuclear weapons, and the only two uses of such in war.More
4 Athens Football Clubs Association
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5 Piraeus Football Clubs Association
The Piraeus Football Clubs Association (Greek: Ένωση Ποδοσφαιρικών Σωματείων Πειραιώς, abbreviated E.P.S.P. was founded in 1925 after the termination of E.P.S. Athens-Piraeus. It was the second largest football association in Greece and was officially recognized by FIFA alongside E.P.S. Athens, as the Hellenic Football Federation had not been established at the time. After the establishment of Alpha Ethniki it became the Piraeus Football Clubs Association for amateurs.More
6 Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. It is also known in Greek as η Συμπρωτεύουσα, literally "the co-capital", a reference to its historical status as the Συμβασιλεύουσα or "co-reigning" city of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, alongside Constantinople.More
7 Macedonia Football Clubs Association
Macedonia Football Clubs Association is an association responsible for administering football in the Prefecture of Thessaloniki. It was formed in 1924 as Football Union of Macedonia and Thrace and it administrated football in the regions of West Macedonia, Central Macedonia and East Macedonia and Thrace. Since 1935 its area of responsibility was restricted within the borders of the Prefecture of Thessaloniki. Founding members of the union were Aris, Iraklis and Megas Alexandros.More
8 Serres
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9 Thrace
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10 AEK Athens F.C.
AEK Athens Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Nea Filadelfeia, a suburb of Athens, Greece.More
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.
PAOK FC, commonly known as PAOK Thessaloniki or simply PAOK, is a Greek professional football club based in Thessaloniki, Macedonia. PAOK are one of the top domestic clubs, the most widely supported in Northern Greece and with the 3rd largest fanbase in the country, according to the latest polls and researches. A research by Marca in August 2018, reported that PAOK are the most popular Greek football team on social media.More
2 Kleanthis Maropoulos
Kleanthis Maropoulos was a Greek former footballer. A star footballer for AEK Athens and Greece during the 1930s and 1940s. Arguably the finest Greek football player of his period, he was affectionately known as the "Ξανθός Αετός της ΑΕΚ, Blonde Eagle of AEK".More
3 Olympiacos F.C.
Olympiacos Football Club, also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name as Olympiacos C.F.P., is a Greek professional football club based in Piraeus, Attica. Part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, their name was inspired from the ancient Olympic Games and along with the club's emblem, the laurel-crowned Olympic athlete, symbolize the Olympic ideals of ancient Greece. Their home ground is the Karaiskakis Stadium, a 32,115-capacity stadium in Piraeus.More
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 Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. 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 beeing punished by a deduction of 1 point.
Iraklis Football Club is a Greek amateur football club based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. The club will compete in 2020–21 in the fourth tier of the Greek football pyramid. It plays its home matches at Kaftanzoglio Stadium.More
2 PAOK FC
PAOK FC, commonly known as PAOK Thessaloniki or simply PAOK, is a Greek professional football club based in Thessaloniki, Macedonia. PAOK are one of the top domestic clubs, the most widely supported in Northern Greece and with the 3rd largest fanbase in the country, according to the latest polls and researches. A research by Marca in August 2018, reported that PAOK are the most popular Greek football team on social media.More
3 Aris Thessaloniki F.C.
Aris Thessaloniki Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, part of the multi-sports club A.C. Aris Thessaloniki. Aris is one of Greece's most successful clubs, having won the fourth most Super League titles after Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens, while they are tied with PAOK. Created in 1914 as Aris Thessaloniki Football Club, the club was a founding member of the Macedonian Football Clubs Association, as well as the Hellenic Football Federation. The colours of the club are golden/yellow, a dominant colour in the culture of Macedonia and reminiscent of the Byzantine heritage of Thessaloniki, and black. It is named after Ares, the ancient Olympian "God of War," associated also with courage and masculinity, whose image is portrayed on the club's logo as depicted in the Ludovisi Ares sculpture.More
4 Makedonikos F.C.
Makedonikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Neapoli and most of his fans come from this area, though the club is famous in all westside areas of Thessaloniki.More
5 Apollon Pontus F.C.
Apollon Pontus Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece. The club currently competes in the Super League 2, the second tier of Greek football.More