2009–10 Panathinaikos F.C. season

Panathinaikos
2009–10 season
Chairman	Nikos Pateras
Manager	Nikos Nioplias
Ground	Athens Olympic Stadium
Super League Greece	1st (champions)
Greek Cup	Winners
Europa League	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Djibril Cissé (23); All: Djibril Cissé (29)
Highest home attendance	61,135 vs Olympiacos (21 March 2010)
Lowest home attendance	5,058 vs Kallithea (3 February 2010)
Average home league attendance	29,226
	← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The 2009–10 season was Panathinaikos' 51st consecutive season in Super League Greece. The 2009–10 season was very successful for Panathinaikos. At the summer transfer window the club bought Djibril Cissé from Marseille, Kostas Katsouranis from Benfica, Sebastian Leto from Liverpool and various other players spending more than €35 million. The team managed to enter the final 16 of Europa League and win the Greek Championship. Panathinaikos completed the domestic double by winning the Greek Cup final.

Players

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[1]^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	CRO	Mario Galinović (vice-captain)
2	DF	RSA	Bryce Moon
3	DF	ESP	Josu Sarriegi
4	MF	BRA	Marcelo Mattos
5	FW	CRO	Ante Rukavina
6	DF	GRE	Christos Melissis
7	MF	GRE	Sotiris Ninis
8	DF	MLI	Cédric Kanté
9	FW	FRA	Djibril Cissé
10	FW	BRA	Cleyton
11	MF	ARG	Sebastián Leto
14	FW	GRE	Dimitris Salpingidis (vice-captain)
15	MF	BRA	Gilberto Silva (vice-captain)
17	MF	GRE	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos
18	DF	SWE	Mattias Bjärsmyr
19	DF	BRA	Gabriel


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	MF	GRE	Sotiris Leontiou
21	DF	GRE	Filipos Darlas
22	DF	GRE	Stergos Marinos
23	MF	POR	Simão
24	DF	CZE	Loukas Vintra
25	DF	GRE	Giourkas Seitaridis
26	MF	GRE	Giorgos Karagounis (captain)
27	GK	GRE	Orestis Karnezis
28	FW	GRE	Antonis Petropoulos
29	MF	GRE	Kostas Katsouranis (vice-captain)
30	GK	GRE	Alexandros Tzorvas
31	DF	GRE	Nikos Spiropoulos
32	DF	BRA	David
34	DF	GER	Giorgos Machlelis
39	MF	GRE	Elini Dimoutsos

Squad changes for 2009–10

In

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
8	DF	MLI	Cédric Kanté (From Nice) on a free transfer^[3]
9	FW	FRA	Djibril Cissé (From Olympique de Marseille) for €8 million^[4]
11	MF	ARG	Sebastián Leto (From Liverpool) for €4 million^[5]
18	DF	SWE	Mattias Bjärsmyr (From IFK Göteborg) for €0.45 million^[6]
22	DF	GRE	Stergos Marinos (From Atromitos) for €0.2 million^[7]
25	DF	GRE	Giourkas Seitaridis (from Atlético Madrid) on a free transfer^[8]
29	MF	GRE	Kostas Katsouranis (From Benfica) for €3 million^[9]

total spending : 15,650,000 €

Out

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	SWE	Mikael Nilsson (to Brøndby) on a free transfer^[10]
—	DF	POL	Jakub Wawrzyniak (loan return to Legia Warsaw)
—	DF	GRE	Giannis Goumas (retired)^[11]
—	GK	POL	Arkadiusz Malarz (to Larissa) on a free transfer^[12]
—	DF	GRE	Stefanos Siontis (to Kavala) on a free transfer^[13]

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
33	DF	RSA	Nasief Morris (on loan to Racing de Santander)^[14]
10	MF	AUT	Andreas Ivanschitz (on loan to Mainz)^[15]
32	DF	BRA	David (on loan to Flamengo)^[16]
20	MF	GRE	Sotiris Leontiou (on loan to Kavala)^[17]
4	MF	BRA	Marcelo Mattos (on loan to Corinthians)^[18]
6	DF	GRE	Christos Melissis (on loan to Larissa)^[19]
2	DF	RSA	Bryce Moon (on loan to PAOK)^[20]
16	FW	GRE	Vangelis Mantzios (on loan to Anorthosis)

Club

Management

Position	Staff
Manager	Nikos Nioplias
Assistant manager	Krzysztof Warzycha
Assistant manager	Michalis Iordanidis
Physical fitness coach	Stergios Fotopoulos
Goalkeeping coach	Vasilis Alexoudis
Team manager	Grigoris Papavasiliou
Team doctor	Panagiotis Kouloumentas

Source: [1]

Competitions

Super League Greece

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Panathinaikos (C)	30	22	4	4	54	17	+37	70	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Olympiacos	30	19	7	4	47	18	+29	64	Qualification for the Play-offs
3	PAOK	30	19	5	6	41	16	+25	62
4	AEK Athens	30	15	8	7	43	31	+12	53
5	Aris	30	12	10	8	35	28	+7	46

Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Play-offs (neutral ground).
(Note: Criterion 4 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).
(C) Champions

Matches

22 August 2009 1	Ergotelis	0–3	Panathinaikos	Heraklion
19:00		Report	Cissé 9' Leto 40', 90+3'	Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 6,481 Referee: Vassilios Paboridis

30 August 2009 2	Panathinaikos	1–0	Skoda Xanthi	Athens
19:00	Katsouranis 40'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 28,068 Referee: Georgios Stathopoulos

13 September 2009 3	Panthrakikos	0–1	Panathinaikos	Komotini
19:00		Report	Leto 79'	Stadium: Komotini Municipal Stadium Attendance: 5,335 Referee: Dimitrios Kalopoulos

20 September 2009 4	Panathinaikos	2–1	Aris	Athens
19:00	Abreu 42' (o.g.) Katsouranis 83'	Report	Guiaro 36'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 27,125 Referee: Michail Dakos

27 September 2009 5	AEK Athens	0–1	Panathinaikos	Athens
21:15		Report	Salpingidis 48'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 22,423 Referee: Michael Koukoulakis

5 October 2009 6	Panathinaikos	4–0	AEL	Athens
21:15	Vyntra 45+1' Katsouranis 66' Cissé 69', 87'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 23,539 Referee: Nathaniel Charalambidis

18 October 2009 7	Kavala	2–2	Panathinaikos	Kavala
19:00	Onwuachi 21', 43'	Report	Katsouranis 56' Cissé 90+4'	Stadium: Anthi Karagianni Stadium Attendance: 6,203 Referee: Andreas Pappas

25 October 2009 8	Panathinaikos	2–1	PAOK	Athens
19:00	Katsouranis 23', 70'	Report	Vieirinha 39'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 19,875 Referee: Ilias Spathas

1 November 2009 9	Panathinaikos	2–1	Panionios	Athens
19:00	Cissé 9' (pen.), 11'	Report	Riera 53'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 18,066 Referee: Konstantinos Papastamatis

8 November 2009 10	Levadiakos	0–2	Panathinaikos	Livadeia
19:00		Report	Karakostas 67' (o.g.) Cissé 81'	Stadium: Levadia Municipal Stadium Attendance: 3,095 Referee: Stavros Tritsonis

22 November 2009 11	Panathinaikos	1–1	Asteras Tripolis	Athens
16:45	Cissé 74'	Report	Udoji 61'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 32,192 Referee: Apostolos Abarkiolis

29 November 2009 12	Olympiacos	2–0	Panathinaikos	Piraeus
19:30	Mitroglou 45+1' (54)	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 31,059 Referee: Anastasios Kakos

6 December 2009 13	Panathinaikos	3–1	Atromitos	Athens
16:45	Katsouranis 6', 33' Cissé 90+1'	Report	Melissas 45+1'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 9,759 Referee: Dimitris Kyrkos

12 December 2009 14	Iraklis	0–1	Panathinaikos	Thessaloniki
19:00		Report	Ninis 73'	Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 6,455 Referee: Ilias Spathas

19 December 2009 15	Panathinaikos	4–0	PAS Giannina	Athens
19:00	Cissé 50' (pen.), 75' Vyntra 80' Christodoulopoulos 89'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 16,145 Referee: Nathaniel Charalambidis

6 January 2010 16	Panathinaikos	4–1	Ergotelis	Athens
16:45	Cissé 26', 66' Karagounis 44' Leto 90+2'	Report	Fragoulakis 8'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 30,031 Referee: Michalis Tsiniaris

9 January 2010 17	Skoda Xanthi	1–2	Panathinaikos	Xanthi
16:45	Souanis 89'	Report	Cissé 26', 88'	Stadium: Skoda Xanthi Arena Attendance: 3,143 Referee: Anastasios Kakos

17 January 2010 18	Panathinaikos	2–0	Panthrakikos	Athens
16:45	Karagounis 26' Salpingidis 40'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 16,087 Referee: Mihail Voskakis

24 January 2010 19	Aris	0–0	Panathinaikos	Thessaloniki
16:45		Report		Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium Attendance: 17,802 Referee: Ilias Spathas

31 January 2010 20	Panathinaikos	1–1	AEK Athens	Athens
19:00	Salpingidis 27'	Report	Scocco 9'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 47,379 Referee: Giorgos Stathopoulos

7 February 2010 21	AEL	0–3	Panathinaikos	Larissa
19:00		Report	Cissé 45', 45+1' Ninis 82'	Stadium: Alcazar Stadium Attendance: 4,363 Referee: Georgios Daloukas

14 February 2010 22	Panathinaikos	0–2	Kavala	Athens
16:45		Report	Smolarek 68', 85'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 19,653 Referee: Michalis Tsiniaris

21 February 2010 23	PAOK	2–1	Panathinaikos	Thessaloniki
19:00	García 59' Muslimović 68'	Report	Cissé 64'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 23,104 Referee: Giorgos Daloukas

28 February 2010 24	Panionios	0–2	Panathinaikos	Athens
19:00		Report	Cisse 21' (pen.), 55'	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 5,607 Referee: Dimitrios Kalopoulos

7 March 2010 25	Panathinaikos	3–0	Levadiakos	Athens
16:45	Salpingidis 64' Leto 71' Cissé 74'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,162 Referee: Mihail Voskakis

14 March 2010 26	Asteras Tripolis	0–1	Panathinaikos	Tripoli
16:45		Report	Vyntra 72'	Stadium: Asteras Tripolis Stadium Attendance: 2,997 Referee: Stavros Tritsonis

21 March 2010 27	Panathinaikos	0–1	Olympiacos	Athens
19:00		Report	Derbyshire 67'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 61,135 Referee: Georgios Daloukas

28 March 2010 28	Atromitos	0–3	Panathinaikos	Peristeri
19:00		Report	Salpingidis 18' Cissé 74' (pen.) Leto 89'	Stadium: Peristeri Stadium Attendance: 3,535 Referee: Anastasios Kakos

11 April 2010 29	Panathinaikos	2–0	Iraklis	Athens
19:00	Cissé 1' Ninis 45'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 49,747 Referee: Michalis Tsiniaris

18 April 2010 30	PAS Giannina	0–1	Panathinaikos	Ioannina
19:00		Report	Gabriel 56'	Stadium: Zosimades Stadium Attendance: 4,466 Referee: Marios Labropoulos

Greek Cup

Fourth round

28 October 2009	Eordaikos	0–3	Panathinaikos	Ptolemaida
17:00		Report	Rukavina 3', 26' Ninis 75'	Stadium: National Stadium of Ptolemaida Referee: Apostolos Ambarkiolis (Thessaloniki)

Fifth round

13 January 2010	Panathinaikos	2–1	Pierikos	Athens
17:00	Cleyton 14', 90'	Report	Konteon 40'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 6,159 Referee: Athanasios Giachos (Chios)

Quarter-finals

3 February 2010	Panathinaikos	2–0	Kallithea	Athens
17:00	Salpingidis 52' Arkoudas 88' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 5,058 Referee: Christos Mitsios (Epirus)

Semi-finals

24 March 2010 First leg	Panathinaikos	3–1	PAS Giannina	Athens
17:00	Kotsios 14' (o.g.) Ninis 45' Cissé 85'	Report	Kousas 90'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 6,695 Referee: Giorgos Stathopoulos (Achaea)

7 April 2010 Second leg	PAS Giannina	0–0 (1–3 agg.)	Panathinaikos	Ioannina
17:00 EET		Report		Stadium: Zosimades Stadium Attendance: 5,566 Referee: Stavros Tritsonis (Athens)

Final

24 April 2010	Panathinaikos	1–0	Aris	Athens
20:30	Leto 63'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 48,926 Referee: Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)

UEFA Champions League

Qualifying phase

Third qualifying round

28 July 2009 First leg	Sparta Prague	3–1	Panathinaikos	Prague, Czech Republic
20:00	Holenda 26' Vacek 32' Kalouda 86'	Report	Salpingidis 67'	Stadium: AXA Arena Attendance: 12,058 Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

4 August 2009 Second leg	Panathinaikos	3–0 (4–3 agg.)	Sparta Prague	Athens, Greece
20:45	Sarriegi 45' Katsouranis 54' Salpingidis 89'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

Play-off round

19 August 2009 First leg	Panathinaikos	2–3	Atlético Madrid	Athens, Greece
20:45	Salpingidis 47' Leto 74'	Report	Rodríguez 36' Forlán 63' Agüero 70'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 50,540 Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

25 August 2009 Second leg	Atlético Madrid	2–0 (5–2 agg.)	Panathinaikos	Madrid, Spain
20:45	Vyntra 4' (o.g.) Agüero 83'	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón Stadium Attendance: 29,910 Referee: Pieter Vink (Netherlands)

UEFA Europa League

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Galatasaray	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Panathinaikos	6	4	0	2	7	4	+3	12	Advance to knockout phase
3	Dinamo București	6	2	0	4	4	12	−8	6
4	Sturm Graz	6	1	1	4	3	6	−3	4

Source: Soccerway

17 September 2009 1	Panathinaikos	1–3	Galatasaray	Athens, Greece
19:00	Salpingidis 78'	Report	Elano 5' Baroš 48' Sarriegi 58' (o.g.)	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 46,791 Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

1 October 2009 2	Dinamo București	0–1	Panathinaikos	Bucharest, Romania
21:05		Report	Karagounis 79'	Stadium: Stadionul Dinamo Attendance: 0 Referee: César Muñiz Fernández (Spain)
Note: Two home matches which Dinamo București had to play behind closed doors because one fan entered the playing field and other fans invaded the running track around the pitch in the play-off round against Slovan Liberec.

22 October 2009 3	Panathinaikos	1–0	Sturm Graz	Athens, Greece
21:05	Salpingidis 60' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 31,127 Referee: Peter Rasmussen (Denmark)

5 November 2009 4	Sturm Graz	0–1	Panathinaikos	Graz, Austria
19:00		Report	Katsouranis 70'	Stadium: UPC-Arena Attendance: 15,322 Referee: Pavel Královec (Czech Republic)

3 December 2009 5	Galatasaray	1–0	Panathinaikos	Istanbul, Turkey
21:05	Gilberto 50' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Ali Sami Yen Stadium Attendance: 18,566 Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

16 December 2009 6	Panathinaikos	3–0	Dinamo București	Athens, Greece
19:00	Rukavina 54' Cissé 80', 85'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 19,617 Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

Knockout stage

Round of 32

18 February 2010 First leg	Panathinaikos	3–2	Roma	Athens, Greece
21:05	Salpingidis 67' Christodoulopoulos 84' Cissé 89'	Report	Vučinić 29' Pizarro 81' (pen.)	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 54,274 Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

25 February 2010 Second leg	Roma	2–3 (4–6 agg.)	Panathinaikos	Rome, Italy
19:00	Riise 11' De Rossi 67'	Report	Cissé 40' (pen.), 45+1' Ninis 43'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 47,825 Referee: Bruno Paixão (Portugal)

Round of 16

11 March 2010 First leg	Panathinaikos	1–3	Standard Liège	Athens, Greece
21:05	Vyntra 48'	Report	Witsel 8' Jovanović 16' De Camargo 74'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 50,782 Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

18 March 2010 Second leg	Standard Liège	1–0 (4–1 agg.)	Panathinaikos	Liège, Belgium
19:00	Mbokani 45+2'	Report		Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 29,000 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

References

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^ "£3million bid accepted for Sebastian Leto - Liverpool FC latest". 25 June 2009.
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^ "ΠΑΟ: Επέστρεψε ο Γιούρκας!".
^ PAO FC sign Katsouranis
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[1] "Panathinaikos - Squad 2009/2010". worldfootball.net. 16 August 2023.

[2] "Panathinaikos 2009/2010". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 29 January 2024.

[3] "Συμφωνία με Καντέ". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

[4] "Cisse joins Panathinaikos". RTÉ Sport. 2009-06-26. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-10.

[5] "£3million bid accepted for Sebastian Leto - Liverpool FC latest". 25 June 2009.

[6] "Bjärsmyr till Panathinaikos". 9 July 2009.

[7] "ΠΑΟ: Ο Μαρίνος ήρθε, ο Μουν έφυγε".

[8] "ΠΑΟ: Επέστρεψε ο Γιούρκας!".

[9] PAO FC sign Katsouranis

[10] "Nilsson to HBK – but not yet" (in Swedish). Hallandsposten.se. 2008-03-04. Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-05-28.

[11] "Λύση συνεργασίας με Γκούμα". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

[12] "Aνακοίνωση". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

[13] "Ανακοίνωση". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

[14] "Δανεικός στη Santander ο Μόρις". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

[15] "ΠΑΟ: Δανεικός στην Μάιντς ο Ίβανσιτς!".

[16] "Δανεικός στη Φλαμένγκο ο Ντέιβιντ".

[17] "Ανακοίνωση". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

[18] "v2.goalday.gr - -". Archived from the original on 2009-08-29. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

[19] "Ανακοίνωση". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

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