1963–64 Alpha Ethniki

The 1963–64 Alpha Ethniki was the 28th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 14 September 1963 and ended on 14 June 1964 with the relegation play-off match. Panathinaikos won their seventh Greek title.

Alpha Ethniki
Season1963–64
ChampionsPanathinaikos
7th Greek title
RelegatedOlympiacos Chalkida
Egaleo
European CupPanathinaikos
Cup Winners' CupAEK Athens
Inter-Cities Fairs CupAris
Matches played240
Goals scored567 (2.36 per match)
Top goalscorerMimis Papaioannou
(29 goals)

The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Panathinaikos (C) 30 24 6 0 67 19 +48 84 Qualification for European Cup preliminary round
2 Olympiacos 30 20 7 3 62 17 +45 77
3 AEK Athens 30 18 5 7 72 25 +47 71 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
4 Panionios 30 12 9 9 48 31 +17 63
5 Apollon Athens 30 13 7 10 41 36 +5 63
6 Aris 30 10 11 9 28 29 −1 61 Invitation for Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
7 Pierikos 30 9 9 12 34 42 −8 57
8 PAOK[a] 30 10 7 13 22 30 −8 56
9 Apollon Kalamarias 30 6 13 11 29 38 −9 55
10 Ethnikos Piraeus 30 9 7 14 24 36 −12 55
11 Doxa Drama 30 9 7 14 28 47 −19 55
12 Iraklis 30 7 11 12 26 44 −18 55
13 Panegialios 30 9 7 14 19 39 −20 55
14 Niki Volos 30 8 8 14 34 43 −9 54[b]
15 Olympiacos Chalkida (R) 30 6 12 12 21 41 −20 54[b] Relegation to Beta Ethniki
16 Egaleo[a] (R) 30 6 2 22 12 50 −38 43
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b PAOK and Egaleo were deducted 1 point each.
  2. ^ a b Relegation playout: Niki Volos–Olympiakos Chalkida 1–1, Olympiakos Chalkida were relegated due to the worst total goal average.

Results

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Home \ Away AEK APA APK ARIS DOX EGA ETH IRA NIK OLY OLC PAO PNE PAN PAOK PIE
AEK Athens 4–0 2–0 3–0 2–0 3–0 4–0 4–0 6–0 0–2 4–0 0–1 4–0 4–2 3–1 5–0
Apollon Athens 0–3 1–1 0–0 3–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–1 4–0 1–2 2–0 3–1 2–1 1–1
Apollon Kalamarias 0–0 2–2 0–0 2–1 5–0 0–0 0–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–3 1–3 0–2 0–3 1–0
Aris 2–0 3–1 3–3 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–2 0–0 5–0 0–1 2–1 2–1 0–0 1–0
Doxa Drama 2–1 4–1 1–2 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 2–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 2–2 1–0 3–2
Egaleo 0–3 1–6 0–2 0–1 0–2[a] 2–1 1–0 1–0 0–1 0–0 0–3 1–0 1–2 0–1 0–2
Ethnikos Piraeus 2–4 0–1 2–0 4–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–3 0–1 2–0 0–2 0–1 1–1 1–0 0–0
Iraklis 0–0 1–4 0–0 1–1 3–0 2–0 1–1 3–2 1–1 2–1 0–3 2–0 0–0 2–2 0–0
Niki Volos 2–2 0–0 2–2 3–0 3–0 1–2 3–0 1–2 1–4 0–0 1–1 0–0 2–2 1–0 2–1
Olympiacos 3–0 4–1 1–1 2–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 8–2 4–0 3–1 0–1 2–0 1–2 2–0[b] 5–0
Olympiacos Chalkida 0–4 0–0 1–1 2–2 1–0 1–0 1–2 1–0 2–1 0–2 1–1 3–0 1–1 0–0 1–0
Panathinaikos 5–4 3–1 4–2 1–0 2–0 5–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 3–0 3–0 4–0 2–1
Panegialios 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 0–2 1–0 0–1 3–1 0–1 2–5 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 0–0
Panionios 0–1 0–1 2–0 1–0 7–1 2–0 1–1 3–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–2 4–0 5–1 3–0
PAOK 1–0 0–2 0–0 0–1 2–0 1–0 1–2 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–1 0–1 0–0 1–1 2–0
Pierikos 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 5–1 2–1 4–0 3–1 1–0 3–2 1–1 0–5 3–0 1–0 0–1
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ Egaleo-Doxa Drama 1–0, replayed 0–2.
  2. ^ Olympiacos–PAOK 1–0, forfeit 2–0.

Top scorers

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Rank Player Club Goals
1   Mimis Papaioannou AEK Athens 29
2   Giorgos Sideris Olympiacos 26
3   Kostas Papageorgiou AEK Athens 20
4   Vangelis Panakis Panathinaikos 16
5   Stefanos Demiris Aris 12
  Takis Taktikos Apollon Athens
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