# 2008–09 Gamma Ethniki

The 2008–09 Gamma Ethniki was the 26th season since the official establishment of the third tier of Greek football in 1983. It started on September 14, 2008 and finished on May 3, 2009. 36 teams contest the league, divided into two groups of 18 clubs each, using certain geographical criteria. 23 of the participant clubs have contested in the 2007-08 season, 3 of them have been relegated from Beta Ethniki, while 10 of them have been promoted from Delta Ethniki. Last season's champions of North Group were Kavala, and Diagoras of South Group.

## Participant clubs

Following clubs were relegated from Beta Ethniki last season:
* Egaleo
* Chaidari
* Agios Dimitrios
Following clubs secured a place in Gamma Ethniki by avoiding relegation or by failing to win promotion:
* Aias Salamina
* Aiolikos (withdrew)
* Neos Asteras Rethymno
* Atsalenios
* Fostiras
* Ilioupoli
* Korinthos
* Koropi
* Panachaiki 2005
* Rodos
* Vyzas
* Alexandroupoli Enosi (dismissed)
* Anagennisi Arta (withdrew)
* Anagennisi Giannitsa
* Doxa Drama (taking the place of Ethnikos Olympiacos Volos after the two Olympiacos Volos clubs' merger in summer 2008)
* Eordaikos 2007
* Ethnikos Katerini
* Lamia
* Neoi Epivates
* Niki Volos
* Panetolikos
* Preveza
* Thermaikos
Following clubs were promoted to Gamma Ethniki as champions of their respective Delta Ethniki groups:
* Odysseas Anagennisi
* Makedonikos Neapoli
* Pyrsos
* Ethnikos Filippiada
* Fokikos
* Zakynthos
* Panargiakos
* Agia Paraskevi
* Keravnos Keratea
* Olympiakos Hersonissos

### Separation into groups

The afore mentioned clubs were divided into two groups depending on their geographical origin. Most of the clubs that come from the southern part of the country (including Attica, Peloponnesus, Crete, the Aegean Islands and half Sterea Ellada) will enter South Group 1, while clubs from Central and Northern Greece (including Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus, Thessaly, the Ionian Islands and part of Sterea Ellada) will take part in North Group 2.

## Southern Group
### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Ilioupoli (C, P) | 34 | 25 | 3 | 6 | 63 | 23 | +40 | 78 | Promotion to Beta Ethniki |
| 2 | Rodos (P) | 34 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 56 | 19 | +37 | 77 | Qualification for Promotion play-off |
| 3 | Panachaiki | 34 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 48 | 19 | +29 | 75 | |
| 4 | Fostiras (R) | 34 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 47 | 30 | +17 | 59 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
| 5 | Korinthos | 34 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 41 | 34 | +7 | 48 | |
| 6 | Keravnos Keratea | 34 | 14 | 5 | 15 | 37 | 32 | +5 | 47 | |
| 7 | Panargiakos | 33 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 40 | 39 | +1 | 46 | |
| 8 | Agia Paraskevi | 34 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 43 | 43 | 0 | 46 | |
| 9 | Vyzas | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 39 | 33 | +6 | 45 | |
| 10 | Olympiakos Hersonissos | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 39 | 36 | +3 | 42 | |
| 11 | Atsalenios | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 31 | 30 | +1 | 42 | |
| 12 | Aias Salaminas | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 36 | 40 | −4 | 42 | |
| 13 | Chaidari | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 27 | 34 | −7 | 39 | |
| 14 | Koropi (R) | 34 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 23 | 25 | −2 | 39 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
| 15 | Agios Dimitrios (R) | 34 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 39 | 52 | −13 | 39 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
| 16 | Asteras Rethymnou (R) | 34 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 31 | 44 | −13 | 33 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
| 17 | Egaleo (R) | 33 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 31 | 70 | −39 | 20 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
| 18 | Aiolikos (R) | 34 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 13 | 81 | −68 | 14 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
* ↑ Rodos earned the promotion due to the relegation of Apollon Kalamarias from the Beta Ethniki.
* ↑ Fostiras relegated to Delta Ethniki due to unsettled debts.
* ↑ Aiolikos has withdrawn from the league due to financial problems. All their remaining matches will be award 3-0 for their opponents.

### Results

| Home \ Away | AGP | AGD | AIA | AIO | ATS | CHA | CHE | EGA | FOS | ILI | KER | KOR | KRP | NAR | PGE | PRG | ROD | VYZ |
| Agia Paraskevi | | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| Agios Dimitrios | 0–0 | | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–6 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 0–1 |
| Aias Salamina | 3–0 | 2–0 | | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 |
| Aiolikos | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 |
| Atsalenios | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 |
| Chaidari | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | | 2–0 | 4–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| Chersonissos | 3–3 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 |
| Egaleo | 4–4 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–4 | | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–3 |
| Fostiras | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | | 0–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Ilioupoli | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Keravnos Keratea | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 |
| Korinthos | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | | 2–0 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 |
| Koropi | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | – | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Neos Asteras Rethymno | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 1–1 |
| Panachaiki | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| Panargiakos | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Rodos | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | | 2–1 |
| Vyzas Megara | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | |

### Top scorers

| Rank | Name | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Giorgos Zacharopoulos | Fostiras | 24 |
| 2 | Georgios Trichias | Rodos | 18 |
| 2 | Κimonas Evaggelatos | Agios Dimitrios | 18 |
| 4 | Michalis Nikolopoulos | Ilioupoli | 15 |
| 5 | Mario Gurma | Panachaiki | 12 |

## Northern Group
### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Doxa Drama (C, P) | 34 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 68 | 22 | +46 | 76 | Promotion to Beta Ethniki |
| 2 | Panetolikos (P) | 34 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 56 | 14 | +42 | 70 | Qualification for Promotion play-off |
| 3 | Eordaikos | 34 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 46 | 18 | +28 | 65 | |
| 4 | Makedonikos | 34 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 47 | 25 | +22 | 56 | |
| 5 | PAONE | 34 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 41 | 26 | +15 | 52 | |
| 6 | Zakynthos | 34 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 36 | 28 | +8 | 51 | |
| 7 | Niki Volos | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 32 | 26 | +6 | 49 | |
| 8 | Thermaikos Thermi | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 46 | 40 | +6 | 47 | |
| 9 | Odysseas Anegennisi | 34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 35 | 30 | +5 | 47 | |
| 10 | Fokikos | 34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 38 | 34 | +4 | 47 | |
| 11 | Ethnikos Filippiada | 34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 33 | 35 | −2 | 47 | |
| 12 | Pyrsos Grevena | 34 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 37 | 28 | +9 | 46 | |
| 13 | Anagennisi Giannitsa | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 32 | 38 | −6 | 45 | |
| 14 | Lamia (R) | 34 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 33 | 34 | −1 | 42 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
| 15 | PAS Preveza (R) | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 27 | −6 | 39 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
| 16 | Ethnikos Katerini (R) | 34 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 24 | 67 | −43 | 21 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
| 17 | Anagennisi Arta (R) | 34 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 15 | 76 | −61 | 17 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
| 18 | Enossi Alexandroupoli (R) | 34 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 9 | 81 | −72 | 14 | Relegation to Delta Ethniki |
* ↑ Anagennisi Arta has withdrawn from this competition.
* ↑ Enossi Alexandroupoli has been expelled from this competition and all their wins and draws were converted into 3-0 wins for their opponents (original losses stand as scored). In all likelihood, all their remaining matches will be awarded to their opponents 3-0.

### Results

| Home \ Away | ART | GIA | DOX | EAL | EOR | ETF | ETK | FOK | LAM | MKD | NIK | ODY | PNE | PAN | PRE | PYR | THE | ZAK |
| Anagennisi Arta | | 0–3 | 0–3 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 |
| Anagennisi Giannitsa | 0–0 | | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Doxa Drama | 4–0 | 4–1 | | 4–0 | 3–3 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| Enosi Alexandroupoli | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 |
| Eordaikos | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 3–0 | | 4–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | – | 1–1 |
| Ethnikos Filippiada | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 |
| Ethnikos Katerini | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–4 | | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–4 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 0–1 |
| Fokikos | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | | 2–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 |
| Lamia | 3–0 | 0–4 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | | 2–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 3–1 | 1–1 |
| Makedonikos | 8–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 |
| Niki Volos | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| Odysseas Anagennisi | 4–0 | 2–3 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 |
| PAONE | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| Panetolikos | 3–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| PAS Preveza | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| Pyrsos Grevena | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | | 0–4 | 1–0 |
| Thermaikos | 3–0 | 1–1 | 5–2 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | | 2–1 |
| Zakynthos | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | |

### Top scorers

| Rank | Name | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Ioannis Katsaros | Makedonikos | 11 |
| 2 | Lazaros Mouratidis | Doxa Drama | 10 |
| 3 | Petros Zouroudis | Panetolikos | 9 |
| 3 | Christos Karagiannis | Eordaikos | 9 |
| 3 | Konstantinos Aggos | Doxa Drama | 9 |
| 3 | Panagiotis Bris | Fokikos | 9 |
| 3 | Stavros Tsoukalas | Doxa Drama | 9 |

## Play-off match

RODOS: :
| GK | 99 | Antonis Panagiotopoulos |
| DF | 5 | Theopistos Papadopoulos (c) |
| DF | 30 | Georgios Zacharatos |
| DF | 2 | Nikitas Maliakas | |
| DF | 37 | Kostas Meresiotis | 69' |
| MF | 22 | Dimitrios Chaloulos | |
| MF | 23 | Bartoz Romanczouk | 69' |
| MF | 20 | Paulos Gigani | 81' |
| MF | 11 | Nikitaras Pelekis |
| FW | 31 | Georgios Trichias |
| FW | 10 | Dionisis Liosatos |
| Substitutes: ||||
| DF | 47 | Nikos Antoniou | 60' |
| MF | 27 | Reisis Mailis | 69' |
| DF | 4 | Thomas Bibiris | 81' |
| Manager: ||||
| Dimitris Spanos ||||
PANETOLIKOS: :
| GK | 89 | Nikos Babaniotis |
| DF | 30 | Christos Naintos (c) | 52' | 78' |
| DF | 33 | Theodosis Theodosiadis | 67' |
| DF | 77 | Michalis Bakakis | | 70' |
| DF | 16 | Periklis Papapostolou | |
| MF | 7 | Makis Belevonis | 43' | 54' |
| MF | 19 | Thanasis Paleologos | |
| MF | 20 | Tasos Dentsas | |
| MF | 81 | Stathis Karamalikis |
| MF | 6 | Hussein Mumin | |
| FW | 38 | Chiquinho Delgado |
| Substitutes: ||||
| FW | 9 | Petros Zouroudis | | 78' |
| DF | 32 | Charalabos Charalabakis | | 70' |
| FW | 18 | Panagiotis Zorbas | | 54' |
| Manager: ||||
| Vasilis Delaperas ||||