# 1959–60 Alpha Ethniki

The 1959–60 Alpha Ethniki was the 24th season of the highest football league of Greece and the first season of the nationwide league after the league replaced the Panhellenic Championship. The season began on 25 October 1959 and ended on 31 July 1960 with the play-off matches. Panathinaikos won their fourth Greek title and their first in seven years.
The 16 teams that formed the first national championship were resulted as follows:
* Panathenian Championship: The first 4 teams of the 1958–59 season. (Panathinaikos, Panionios, AEK Athens and Apollon Athens)
* Piraeus' Championship: The first 3 teams of the 1958–59 season. (Olympiacos, Ethnikos Piraeus and AE Nikaia)
* Macedonian Championship: The first 3 teams of the 1958–59 season. (Aris, PAOK and Apollon Kalamarias)
* Regional Championship South Group:The first 2 teams of the 1958–59 season. (Panegialios and Pankorinthiakos)
* Regional Championship North Group:The first 2 teams of the 1958–59 season. (Doxa Drama and Megas Alexandros Katerinis)
* The 2 final places were secured after a play-off matches by the 4th teams Piraeus' and Macedonian Championship against the 2nd teams of the South and North group respectively. (Proodeftiki and Iraklis against Olympiacos Chalkida/OFI and Aspida Xanthi)
The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.

## Qualification round

Initially there were going to be 18 teams in the first division, however, the delay of 6 weeks in the start of the event due to the financial negotiations between the involved parties General Secretary of Sport, OPAP, HFF and in some places FCAs, put its serious completion in a timely manner. The HFF took the decision to reduce the number of teams to 16 and as a consequence a promotional play-off round was formed to decide the last two places of the championship.

### South Group 2nd-place play-offs

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Play-off |
| Olympiacos Chalkida | 4–3 | OFI | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 |
Olympiacos Chalkida qualifies to the promotional Play-offs.

### Promotion play-offs

South :
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Play-off |
North :
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |

### Location map
## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Panathinaikos (C) | 30 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 59 | 20 | +39 | 79 | Qualification for European Cup |
| 2 | AEK Athens | 30 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 72 | 27 | +45 | 79 | |
| 3 | Olympiacos | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 52 | 24 | +28 | 70 | |
| 4 | Apollon Athens | 30 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 52 | 33 | +19 | 66 | |
| 5 | Panionios | 30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 46 | 31 | +15 | 64 | |
| 6 | Doxa Drama | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 47 | 41 | +6 | 60 | |
| 7 | PAOK | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 59 | |
| 8 | Aris | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 31 | 35 | −4 | 59 | |
| 9 | Iraklis | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 29 | 34 | −5 | 58 | |
| 10 | Proodeftiki | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 34 | 36 | −2 | 58 | |
| 11 | Apollon Kalamarias | 30 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 31 | 39 | −8 | 56 | |
| 12 | Ethnikos Piraeus | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 34 | 46 | −12 | 56 | |
| 13 | Panegialios | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 26 | 43 | −17 | 55 | |
| 14 | Pankorinthiakos (R) | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 27 | 45 | −18 | 55 | Relegation to FCA Winners' Championship |
| 15 | Megas Alexandros Katerinis (R) | 30 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 27 | 60 | −33 | 47 | Relegation to FCA Winners' Championship |
| 16 | AE Nikaia (R) | 30 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 73 | −53 | 39 | Relegation to FCA Winners' Championship |
* 1 2 Championship Play-off: Panathinaikos–AEK Athens 2–1 (see below).
* 1 2 7th place play-off: PAOK–Aris 0–0, PAOK were placed ahead Aris due to the better goal average in regular season.
* 1 2 9th place play-off: Iraklis–Proodeftiki 2–0.
* 1 2 Relegation play-out: Panegialios–Pankorinthiakos 2–1.

## Results

| Home \ Away | AEN | AEK | APA | APK | ARIS | DOX | ETH | IRA | MEG | OLY | PANK | PAO | PNG | PGSS | PAOK | PRO |
| AE Nikaia | | 0–3 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 2–7 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 1–4 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| AEK Athens | 2–0 | | 5–2 | 6–2 | 3–0 | 4–3 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 4–2 |
| Apollon Athens | 6–0 | 0–0 | | 4–1 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 6–1 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| Apollon Kalamarias | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 |
| Aris | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 0–1 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 |
| Doxa Drama | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–4 |
| Ethnikos Piraeus | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 |
| Iraklis | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Megas Alexandros Katerinis | 1–0 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 2–3 | | 0–4 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Olympiacos | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | | 1–0 | 1–4 | 8–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 |
| Pankorinthiakos | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 |
| Panathinaikos | 6–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 4–2 | | 2–1 | 4–3 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Panegialios | 1–0 | 1–4 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | | 0–0 | 2–3 | 0–0 |
| Panionios | 3–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 3–2 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| PAOK | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | | 2–1 |
| Proodeftiki | 4–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | |
* ↑ Aris-AEK Athens 2-1, replayed 2-2.

### Championship play-off
## Top scorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Kostas Nestoridis | AEK Athens | 33 |
| 2 | Giorgos Kamaras | Apollon Athens | 19 |
| 3 | Elias Yfantis | Olympiacos | 16 |
| 4 | Pavlos Grigoriadis | Doxa Drama | 14 |
| 5 | Giannis Cholevas | Apollon Athens | 13 |
| 6 | Vangelis Karafoulidis | Megas Alexandros Katerinis | 11 |
| 6 | Lakis Sofianos | Panegialios | 11 |
| 6 | Andreas Stamatiadis | AEK Athens | 11 |