2008–09 Iraklis F.C. season

Iraklis FC

2008–09 season
Chairman	Antonis Remos
Manager	Ángel Pedraza (until 3 November 2008)[1] Rodolfo Marco Borrell (from 3 November to 3 December 2008) Makis Katsavakis (from 3 December 2008 to 22 March 2009)[2][3] Christos Zifkas (since 24 March 2009)
Super League Greece	10th
Greek Cup	Fifth Round
Top goalscorer	League: Denis Epstein (4) All: Denis Epstein (4)
Highest home attendance	9.066 vs Olympiacos (22 November 2008)
Lowest home attendance	2.705 vs Asteras Tripolis (12 April 2009)
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 season is Iraklis 28th consecutive (and 49th in total) season in the Super League Greece.

Transfers

In

Date	Player	From	Fee	Source
2 June 2008	Agritis, AnestisAnestis Agritis	Kickers Offenbach	Free	[4]
24 June 2008	Epstein, DenisDenis Epstein	Kickers Offenbach	Free
25 June 2008	Dié, SergeSerge Dié	AC Ajaccio	Free
27 June 2008	Bourbos, ChristosChristos Bourbos	AEK F.C.	Free	[5]
30 June 2008	Sarakatsanos, AchilleasAchilleas Sarakatsanos	Panathinaikos FC	40,000 €	[6]
11 July 2008	Panayiotou, FeidiasFeidias Panayiotou	Olympiakos Nicosia	Free	[7]
12 July 2008	Martos, FranciscoFrancisco Martos	Málaga CF B	Free	[8]
18 July 2008	Ratón, KikoKiko Ratón	Orihuela CF	Free
22 July 2008	Foufoulas, KostasKostas Foufoulas	Kerkyra FC	Free
7 August 2008	Kowalewski, WojciechWojciech Kowalewski	Korona Kielce	Free
30 August 2008	Konstantinou, MichalisMichalis Konstantinou	Olympiacos FC	Free
30 August 2008	Kone, PanagiotisPanagiotis Kone	AEK F.C.	Free
2 January 2009	Vukovic, AleksandarAleksandar Vukovic	Legia Warsaw	Free	[9]
11 January 2009	Exouzidis, SavvasSavvas Exouzidis	RKC Waalwijk	Free

Out

Date	Player	To	Fee	Source
June 2008	Dimitris Mavrogenidis	Thrasyvoulos F.C.	Released
June 2008	Alain Raguel	Olympiakos Volou	Released
June 2008	Xavi Moro	Mérida UD	Released
June 2008	Ilias Poursanidis		Retired
June 2008	Giannis Papadopoulos	Olympiacos	800,000 €
June 2008	Giannis Chloros	Thrasyvoulos F.C.	Released
June 2008	Aarón Ñíguez Εsclapez	Rangers FC	End of loan
9 July 2008	Urko Rafael Pardo	FC Rapid Bucureşti	900,000 €
19 January 2009	Konstantinou, MichalisMichalis Konstantinou	AC Omonia	-

Club

Management

Position	Staff
Head coach	Angel Lamilla Pedraza (until November 3, 2008) Makis Katsavakis (from December 3, 2008 to March 22, 2009)
Assistant coach	Rodolfo Marco Borrell (until December 3, 2008) Ilias Karakostas (from December 3, 2008 to March 22, 2009)
Team Supervisor - Interpreter	Alexandros Koliadis
Physical trainer	Luis Francisco Saez Zaldivar (until December 3, 2008) Dimitrios Tsakalidis (from December 3, 2008 to March 22, 2009)
Goalkeeper Trainer	Fotios Gizelis
Doctor	Charalambos Lazaridis
Physiotherapist	Petros Gazas
Physiotherapist	Konstantinos Tsolakidis
Masseur	Thomas Nikou
Care Taker	Eleftherios Iliadis
Care Taker	Ilias Kapagiannidis

Last updated: December 2008
Source: iraklis-fc.gr

Kit

Supplier: Puma
Sponsor(s): Attica Bank

Home

Away

Third kit

Source: iraklis-fc.gr

Other information

Chairman	Antonis Remos
Vice President	Dimos Polikarpos
Team Director	Ilias Poursanidis
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Kaftanzoglio Stadium (28,028 / 68x105 m)

Source: kaftanzoglio.gr

Results and fixtures

Note: Scores are written Iraklis first

Friendlies

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
19 July 2008	Levadiakos	A	1-1	-	Anestis Agritis
30 July 2008	SC Heerenveen	A	0-2	-
3 August 2008	KRC Genk	A	1-1	-	Kiko Ratón
6 August 2008	Sparta Rotterdam	A	2-1	-	Anestis Agritis (2)
9 August 2008	AZ Alkmaar	A	0-3	-
11 August 2008	NEC Nijmegen	A	1-1	-	Denis Epstein
20 August 2008	Larissa	H	1-0	-	Fernando Marqués
23 August 2008	Olympiakos Volou	A	2-2	-	Miguel Sebastian Garcia, Dimitris Giantsis
5 September 2008	FC Rapid Bucureşti	H	0-2	-

Greek Super League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
31 August 2008	Panserraikos	H	1-2	7.350	Dié
13 September 2008	OFI	H	1-1	5.010	Garcia
21 September 2008	AEK	A	0-1	17.459
28 September 2008	Panthrakikos	H	0-0	4.543
4 October 2008	Aris	A	0-1	13.643
18 October 2008	Ergotelis	H	0-0	4.794
26 October 2008	Panathinaikos	A	2-2	19.857	Papasterianos, Ratón
2 November 2008	PAOK	H	1-1	7.865	Dié (pen.)
9 November 2008	Levadiakos	H	1-0	2.790	Kone
16 November 2008	Panionios	A	2-0	4.100	Epstein (2)
22 November 2008	Olympiacos	H	0-3	9.066
29 November 2008	Larissa	A	0-2	3.472
7 December 2008	Thrasyvoulos	H	1-1	3.274	Kone
13 December 2008	Asteras Tripolis	A	2-1	2.235	Epstein, Kone
20 December 2008	Skoda Xanthi	H	1-0	3.104	Konstantinou
7 January 2009	Panserraikos	A	0-0	4.932
11 January 2009	OFI	A	3-2	1.507	Konstantinou (2), Katsabis
18 January 2009	AEK	H	0-1	7.897
25 January 2009	Panthrakikos	A	0-1	3.463
1 February 2009	Aris	H	0-1	6.578
8 February 2009	Ergotelis	A	1-0	2.159	Papasterianos
15 February 2009	Panathinaikos	H	0-0	6.849
22 February 2009	PAOK	A	0-1	15.199
1 March 2009	Levadiakos	A	0-3	2.119
8 March 2009	Panionios	H	2-1	3.463	Agritis, Epstein
15 March 2009	Olympiacos	A	0-5	25.182
22 March 2009	Larissa	H	0-2	3.656
5 April 2009	Thrasyvoulos	A	1-1	307	Giantsis
12 April 2009	Asteras Tripolis	H	2-1	2.705	Psomas (o.g.), Garcia
26 April 2009	Skoda Xanthi	A	1-4	1.237	Giantsis

Greek Cup

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
13 November 2008	R4	Kastoria	A	3-2 (a.e.t.)	-	Papasterianos, Giantsis, Ioannidis
20 January 2009	R5	Asteras Tripolis	A	0-2	-

Player statistics

• Correct as of 26 April 2009
• ¹ Denotes player has left the club. ² Denotes player joined in the January transfer window.

No.	Pos.	Player	Apps	G	YC	RC
1	GK	Bantis, GeorgiosGeorgios Bantis	5	0	2	0
2	DF	Papazaharias, GrigorisGrigoris Papazaharias	29	0	7	1
3	DF	Bourbos, ChristosChristos Bourbos	15	0	5	1
4	DF	Katsabis, AnastasiosAnastasios Katsabis	30	1	6	0
5	DF	Foufoulas, KostasKostas Foufoulas	12	0	2	0
6	MF	Dié, SergeSerge Dié	23	2	8	1
7	FW	Ratón, KikoKiko Ratón	17	1	2	0
8	MF	Martos, FranciscoFrancisco Martos	19	0	4	0
9	FW	Komvolidis, AggelosAggelos Komvolidis	6	0	0	0
10	MF	Marqués, FernandoFernando Marqués	15	0	7	0
11	FW	Agritis, AnestisAnestis Agritis	20	1	3	0
12	DF	Sarakatsanos, AchilleasAchilleas Sarakatsanos	17	0	7	0
14	FW	Konstantinou, MichalisMichalis Konstantinou¹	13	3	2	0
15	DF	Exouzidis, SavvasSavvas Exouzidis²	3	0	0	0
16	DF	Ioannidis, GeorgiosGeorgios Ioannidis	18	1	4	0
17	MF	Papasterianos, EmmanouilEmmanouil Papasterianos	28	3	7	0
18	DF	Giannoulis, KostasKostas Giannoulis	22	0	6	0
19	FW	Giantsis, DimitrisDimitris Giantsis	22	3	3	1
20	MF	Garcia, Miguel SebastianMiguel Sebastian Garcia	27	2	4	0
21	MF	Epstein, DenisDenis Epstein	26	4	3	0
22	GK	Koliqi, EneaEnea Koliqi	0	0	0	0
23	DF	Perperidis, CharalabosCharalabos Perperidis	11	0	3	0
24	MF	Vuković, AleksandarAleksandar Vuković²	10	0	1	0
25	MF	Kone, PanagiotisPanagiotis Kone	27	3	7	1
26	MF	Pitsokos, GrigorisGrigoris Pitsokos	0	0	0	0
27	MF	Aslanidis, DimitrisDimitris Aslanidis	0	0	0	0
28	DF	Psychogios, NikolaosNikolaos Psychogios	0	0	0	0
29	MF	Moschakis, GeorgiosGeorgios Moschakis	0	0	0	0
30	GK	Kowalewski, WojciechWojciech Kowalewski	26	0	4	0
31	GK	Melkas, IliasIlias Melkas	1	0	0	0
34	MF	Karlopoulos, KydonKydon Karlopoulos	3	0	0	0
39	FW	Vellios, ApostolosApostolos Vellios	1	0	0	0

Competitions

Super League Greece

Classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	22	5	3	50	14	+36	71	UEFA Champions League 2009–10 Third qualifying round
2	PAOK	30	18	9	3	39	16	+23	63	Super League Greece 2008–09 Playoffs
3	Panathinaikos	30	17	10	3	51	18	+33	61
4	AEK Athens	30	14	13	3	40	24	+16	55
5	Larissa	30	12	13	5	36	26	+10	49
6	Aris	30	13	8	9	30	31	−1	47
7	Xanthi	30	9	11	10	25	21	+4	38
8	Panionios	30	10	7	13	40	40	0	37
9	Ergotelis	30	9	9	12	31	39	−8	36
10	Iraklis Thessaloniki	30	8	9	13	22	38	−16	33		IRA: 7pts, 4–3 PTH: 6pts, 1–0 AST: 2pts, 2–4
11	Panthrakikos	30	9	6	15	23	37	−14	33
12	Asteras Tripoli	30	7	12	11	33	31	+2	33
13	Levadiakos	30	9	5	16	28	36	−8	32
14	OFI (R)	30	5	9	16	30	50	−20	24	Relegation to Beta Ethniki	OFI 0–0 PSE PSE 1–2 OFI
15	Panserraikos (R)	30	5	9	16	19	45	−26	24
16	Thrasyvoulos (R)	30	3	5	22	22	53	−31	14

Updated to games played on 26 April 2009.
Source: Super League 2008-09
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	8	9	13	22	38	−16	33	4	6	5	10	14	−4	4	3	8	12	24	−12

Last updated: 26 April.
Source: iraklis-fc.gr

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	D	L	D	L	D	D	D	W	W	L	L	D	W	W	D	W	L	L	L	W	D	L	L	W	L	L	D	W	L

Last updated: 26 April.
Source: iraklis-fc.gr
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

References

1. "Termination of cooperation with Mr A. Pedraza". Iraklis F.C. 3 November 2008. Retrieved 9 November 2008.
2. "Mr Makis Katsavakis IRAKLIS' new Coach". Iraklis F.C. 3 December 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2008.
3. "Termination of cooperation with Mr Katsavakis". Iraklis F.C. 22 March 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
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