# 1998–99 Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. season

The 1998–99 season was Ethnikos Piraeus' 5th first-tier season in the 1990s and the 49th in total. Not managing a single league victory, the team was relegated and also exited early in the cup. It remains the last top flight appearance for Ethnikos.

## Players
### Squad

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | GRE | Nikos Gialesakis | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | GRE | Michalis Charalampopoulos | 19 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | GHA | Joseph Addo | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | GRE | Georgios Papoutsis | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | GRE | Manolis Papadopoulos | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | GRE | Konstantinos Damiris | 29 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ENG | Carl Smith | 7 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 8 | DF | GRE | Vasilis Vouzas | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 8 | FW | ENG | Colin Carr-Lawton | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | GRE | Giannis Tsiamakis | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | GRE | Vasilis Stavrakakis | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | BRA | Alessandro Souza | 16 | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| 12 | FW | IRL | Dominic Foley | 7 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| 13 | MF | GRE | Andreas Dertinis | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | CMR | Joël Epalle | 23 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| 15 | GK | ALB | Armir Grimaj | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | GRE | Giorgos Kaidatzis | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | GRE | Pantelis Koubis | 28 | 3 | 28 | 3 |
| 18 | MF | GRE | Petros Tasioulas | 21 | 1 | 21 | 1 |
| 19 | FW | GRE | Iraklis Anastasakis | 9 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| 20 | MF | GRE | Panagiotis Machairas | 21 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | GRE | Stavros Komiotis | 22 | 1 | 22 | 1 |
| 23 | MF | GRE | Christos Kontis | 27 | 1 | 27 | 1 |
| 24 | GK | GRE | Panagiotis Ikonomou | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 25 | FW | GRE | Giannis Vitevis | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | BRA | Sandro Castro | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 31 | FW | GRE | Nikolaos Kakanoulias | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | GRE | Kostas Tsanas | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | GRE | Stamatis Syrigos | 16 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| 34 | GK | GRE | Dionysis Chiotis | 17 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| 35 | MF | GRE | Mattheos Platakis | 13 | 2 | 13 | 2 |
| 37 | FW | ENG | John Reed | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |

### Players who left during the season

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 4 | DF | GRE | Lysandros Georgamlis | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | GRE | Michalis Kapsis | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | GRE | Apostolos Dimopoulos | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| ? | MF | ALB | Armando Cungu | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| ? | FW | ENG | Paul Beavers | 9 | 2 | 9 | 2 |

## Managers

* Georgios Ioakimidis: start of season – 14 September 1998
* Vasilis Papachristou (caretaker): 14 September 1998 – 10 November 1998
* Lysandros Georgamlis (caretaker): 10 November 1998 – 3 December 1998
* Howard Kendall: 3 December 1998 – 14 September 1998
* Panagiotis Alexopoulos: 18 March 1999 – 30 June 1999

## Alpha Ethniki
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 14 | Apollon Athens | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 42 | 62 | −20 | 36 | |
| 15 | Panionios | 34 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 42 | 58 | −16 | 32 | |
| 16 | Panelefsiniakos (R) | 34 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 25 | 49 | −24 | 32 | Relegation to Beta Ethniki |
| 17 | Veria (R) | 34 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 55 | −35 | 23 | Relegation to Beta Ethniki |
| 18 | Ethnikos Piraeus (R) | 34 | 0 | 8 | 26 | 17 | 81 | −64 | 8 | Relegation to Beta Ethniki |
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: Panionios–Panelefsiniakos 3–0, Panelefsiniakos–Panionios 1–0.