# 1939–40 Panhellenic Championship

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 Central and 6 from North Greece, which were divided into groups. As of the previous season, since a total of 30 matchdays were required to complete the championship, the clubs from the same region that were qualified for the national championship did not face against each other again but the results from their local championships applied instead.
The teams of the Central Greece formed the South 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 Νorth Group were initially divided into two subgroups. The teams of the Thessaloniki formed the North subgroup A and resulted as follows:
The teams of Serres, East Macedonia and Thrace formed the North subgroup B and resulted as follows:
* Serres' Championship: The winner.
* Thracian Championship: The winner.
* East Macedonian Championship: The winner.
The two winners competed in double games to become the champion of the Northe group. The champions of South and North, AEK Athens and PAOK, competed in a 2-legged final for the title. AEK were crowned champions for second consecutive season, 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 South group against Olympiacos. In both local championship of Athens and the finals, AEK achieved only victories. The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.

## Qualification round
### Athens Football Clubs Association

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | AEK | PAO | APA | ATH | AST | PAG | ATR | DAF |
| 1 | AEK Athens (Q) | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 57 | 10 | +47 | 41 | South Group | | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 |
| 2 | Panathinaikos (Q) | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 50 | 15 | +35 | 34 | South Group | 0–4 | | 4–0 | 5–1 | 8–1 | 2–2 | 8–0 | 3–1 |
| 3 | Apollon Athens (Q) | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 31 | 25 | +6 | 30 | South Group | 0–3 | 2–0 | | 1–1 | 5–3 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 3–2 |
| 4 | Athinaikos (Q) | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 25 | −4 | 29 | South Group | 2–4 | 1–7 | 1–1 | | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 5–1 |
| 5 | Asteras Athens (Q) | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 27 | 34 | −7 | 29 | South Group | 0–4 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 0–0 | | 2–1 | 5–2 | 3–2 |
| 6 | Enosis Pangrati | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 25 | −3 | 28 | | 1–5 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | | 7–3 | 2–1 |
| 7 | Atromitos | 14 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 62 | −49 | 18 | | 0–13 | 0–5 | 0–7 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | | 1–0 |
| 8 | Daphni Metaxourgeio | 14 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 39 | −25 | 15 | | 1–5 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 2–2 | |
* 1 2 3 Olympiacos Athens competed instead of Atromitos
* ↑ At the beginning of the championship, Atromitos were deleted from the Athens' Federation and was replaced by the 3rd place holder of second tier, Olympiacos Athens. In fact, they played 3 games which resulted in 3 defeats. Eventually, the Athens' Federation took back the deletion of Atromitos and reinstated him in the championship, so the games of Olympiacos Athens were counted to Atromitos and the club took part in the second tier of the Athenian championship.

### Piraeus Football Clubs Association

| Pos | Team | Pld | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Olympiacos (Q) | 10 | 49 | 10 | +39 | 28 | South Group |
| 2 | Ethnikos Piraeus (Q) | 10 | 21 | 8 | +13 | 26 | South Group |
| 3 | Proodeftiki (Q) | 10 | 23 | 19 | +4 | 23 | South Group |
| 4 | Thiseus Piraeus | 10 | 8 | 18 | -10 | 15 | |
| 5 | Argonaftis Piraeus | 10 | 12 | 26 | -14 | 14 | |
| 6 | Aris Piraeus | 10 | 9 | 29 | -20 | 13 | |
    a. $^^$ The ranking and the points are the final but the reported goal difference is of the 7th matchday.
    b. $^^$ The ranking and the points are the final but the reported goal difference is of the penultimate (9th) matchday.

### Macedonia Football Clubs Association

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | IRA | PAOK | ARIS | MENT | MAK | APK |
| 1 | Iraklis (Q) | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 13 | +15 | 26 | North Group | | 1–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 6–2 |
| 2 | PAOK (Q) | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 12 | +10 | 24 | North Group | 0–0 | | 2–4 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| 3 | Aris (Q) | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 12 | +20 | 22 | North Group | 1–2 | 3–1 | | 0–1 | 2–2 | 8–1 |
| 4 | MENT | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 26 | −13 | 18 | | 2–6 | 0–6 | 0–4 | | 3–0 | 3–2 |
| 5 | Makedonikos | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 15 | −2 | 17 | | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | | 4–0 |
| 6 | Apollon Kalamarias | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 43 | −30 | 12 | | 3–5 | 0–2 | 0–7 | 1–3 | 3–2 | |
* ↑ The match was stopped in '86 due to the refusal of a player of Aris to leave the field after being sent off. The result in the rankings remained 3–2, with Aris being punished by a deduction of 1 point.
* ↑ 1 point must have been deducted from Aris' team due to the suspension of the match with Iraklis.

## Semi-final round
### South Group

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | AEK | OLY | PAO | ETH | APA | ATH | AST | PRO |
| 1 | AEK Athens (Q) | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 13 | +35 | 40 | Finals | | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 4–0 |
| 2 | Olympiacos | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 19 | +13 | 34 | | 3–2 | | 1–4 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2–1 |
| 3 | Panathinaikos | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 42 | 19 | +23 | 32 | | 0–4 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 4–0 | 5–1 | 8–1 | 5–1 |
| 4 | Ethnikos Piraeus | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 16 | +8 | 32 | | 1–4 | 0–4 | 2–1 | | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 |
| 5 | Apollon Athens | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 26 | −7 | 27 | | 0–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | | 1–1 | 5–3 | 3–1 |
| 6 | Athinaikos | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 31 | −19 | 22 | | 2–4 | 0–3 | 1–7 | 0–0 | 1–1 | | 2–0 | 3–2 |
| 7 | Asteras Athens | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 40 | −23 | 21 | | 0–4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | | 3–1 |
| 8 | Proodeftiki | 14 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 16 | 46 | −30 | 16 | | 2–7 | 2–4 | 2–3 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | |
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 AFCA match.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 PFCA match.

### North Group
#### Subgroup A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | PAOK | ARIS | IRA |
| 1 | PAOK (A) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 9 | North Group play-offs | | 2–1 | 4–1 |
| 2 | Aris | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 9 | | 1–1 | | 3–1 |
| 3 | Iraklis | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 6 | | 3–0 | 3–4 | |
* 1 2 Aris had a better goal difference and goal ratio but the 1st place was taken by PAOK, because of the better results in the games between them.

#### Subgroup B

A group with the winners of the Serres, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace local championships.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | FIL | IRA | ASP |
| 1 | Fillipoi Kavala (A) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | +10 | 9 | North Group play-offs | | 9–0 | |
| 2 | Iraklis Serres | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 14 | −9 | 8 | | 0–2 | | 2–1 |
| 3 | Aspida Xanthi | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 7 | | | 2–3 | |

#### North Group play-offs

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| PAOK | 6–3 | Fillipoi Kavala | 5–0 | 1–3 |

## Finals

Summary :
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |

### Matches

AEK Athens won 5–3 on aggregate.

## Top scorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Kleanthis Maropoulos | AEK Athens | 2 |
| 2 | Kostas Vasiliou | AEK Athens | 1 |
| 2 | Alekos Chatzistavridis | AEK Athens | 1 |
| 2 | Giorgos Gasparis | AEK Athens | 1 |
| 2 | Kostas Kalogiannis | PAOK | 1 |
| 2 | Feroutsos | PAOK | 1 |
| 2 | Aristidιs Ioannidis | PAOK | 1 |