# 1999–2000 Ionikos F.C. season

The 1999–2000 season was Ionikos' 6th straight season on the Greek first tier and the 9th season on that tier overall. Managing a lower league finish than the previous season, their biggest feat was reaching the domestic cup final.

## Players
### Squad

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki | UEFA Cup | UEFA Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | GRE | Chrysostomos Veniamin | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | NOR | Trond Inge Haugland | 25 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | GRE | Theodoros Pachatouridis | 28 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | GRE | Giannis Xanthopoulos | 31 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | GRE | Georgios Daraklitsas | 26 | 3 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | SYR | Mohamad Afash | 33 | 4 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | SCO | Craig Brewster | 33 | 8 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | BRA | Paulinho Kobayashi | 34 | 7 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | COL | Lener Baltan | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | DF | GRE | Christos Dagounakis | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | DF | GRE | Apostolos Tsoptsis | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | FW | GRE | Sotiris Kanavos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | GRE | Ioannis Girichidis | 28 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | GK | ALB | Foto Strakosha | 34 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | GRE | Georgios Staboulis | 14 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | GRE | Sokratis Ofridopoulos | 21 | 2 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | NOR | Paal Christian Alsaker | 9 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | GRE | Nikolaos Tsiavdaris | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | PER | Martín Rodríguez | 17 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | GRE | Dimitris Deligiannis | 23 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | GRE | Theodoros Gitkos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | LBR | Zizi Roberts | 15 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | GRE | Antonio Glauko | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | ARG | Marcelo Ledesma | 19 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | GRE | Alexandros Tsolas | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | PER | Darío Muchotrigo | 31 | 4 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | GRE | Dimitrios Afentoulidis | 13 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | GRE | Dimitrios Mylonas | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Players who left during the season

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki | UEFA Cup | UEFA Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 4 | DF | GRE | Athanasios Pangouras | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | DF | GRE | Nikos Vavilis | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | NGA | Cornelius Udebuluzor | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | GRE | Ioannis Dimitriadis | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |

## Managers

* Konstantinos Polychroniou: 1 July 1999 – 7 October 1999
* Sokratis Gemelos: 8 October 1999 – 6 March 2000
* Oleg Blokhin: 7 March 2000 – end of season

## Alpha Ethniki
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 8 | Panionios | 34 | 14 | 3 | 17 | 50 | 63 | −13 | 45 | Qualification for UEFA Cup play-off |
| 9 | Kalamata | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 41 | 57 | −16 | 44 | Qualification for Intertoto Cup third round |
| 10 | Ionikos | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 40 | 50 | −10 | 41 | |
| 11 | Skoda Xanthi | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 36 | 43 | −7 | 41 | |
| 12 | Ethnikos Asteras | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 33 | 50 | −17 | 41 | |
* 1 2 3 Head-to-head points (goal difference): Ionikos 9 (+4), Xanthi 4 (-1), Ethnikos Asteras 4 (-3).

### Greek Cup
#### Group 8

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | PAO | ION | LEO | PNT | KER | IAL |
| 1 | Panathinaikos | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | +17 | 15 | Round of 16 | | 1–0 | 4–0 | 5–1 | — | — |
| 2 | Ionikos | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 9 | Additional Round | — | | — | 3–0 | 3–2 | 6–0 |
| 3 | Leonidio | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 9 | | — | 2–1 | | — | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| 4 | Panetolikos | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 9 | | — | — | 1–0 | | 2–0 | — |
| 5 | Keratsini | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 3 | | 0–3 | — | — | — | | 3–1 |
| 6 | Ialysos | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 19 | −18 | 0 | | 0–5 | — | — | 0–2 | — | |