2023–24 Super League Greece 2

Super League Greece 2
Season	2023–24
Dates	23 September 2023 – 26 May 2024
Champions	Levadiakos ; (2nd title) ; Athens Kallithea ; (1st title)
Promoted	Levadiakos ; Athens Kallithea
Relegated	Aiolikos; Anagennisi Karditsa; Apollon Pontus; KozaniGiouchtas; Olympiacos B; Panathinaikos B; Tilikratis
Matches played	264
Goals scored	584 (2.21 per match)
Top goalscorer	Giorgos Manalis; Giannis Loukinas (18 goals)
Biggest home win	Niki Volos 5–0 Apollon Pontus; (21 February 2024)
Biggest away win	Panathinaikos B 1–4 Kalamata; (24 September 2023)
Highest scoring	Aiolikos 4–2 Kampaniakos; (26 November 2023); Ionikos 5–1 Egaleo; (13 December 2023); Iraklis 5–1 Makedonikos; (18 December 2023)
Longest winning run	Levadiakos (10 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	AEL (22 matches)
Longest winless run	Panachaiki (13 matches)
Longest losing run	Apollon Pontus; (7 matches)
Highest attendance	12,000; AEL 0–0 Levadiakos ; (25 February 2024)
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The 2023–24 Super League 2 was the fifth season of the Super League 2, the second-tier Greek professional league for association football clubs, since the restructuring of the Greek football league system.

The league was conducted by 24 teams and two groups, this was due to the restructure and abolishment of the Football League. The B Teams of Olympiacos, PAOK, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens also competed in the league for a third consecutive year.

Competition

The championship is held with the participation of a total of 24 teams, six less than the previous season, which were divided into two groups. The deadline for submitting declarations of participation was set at 2 August 2023. The division of the groups and the draw took place on September 11.

The championship was planned to be played with 26 teams. Apollon Smyrnis did not participate and was replaced by the first runner-up team from the 3rd national division, Giouchtas, which had taken the 5th place in the promotion play offs. Before the draw, Ierapetra announced his withdrawal from the league, but without being replaced. So the draw included 25 teams in two groups of 13 and 12 teams.

Although Almopos Aridaias participated normally in the draw, he was expelled from the league following a decision by the Disciplinary Body of Super League 2 as he did not secure a certificate of participation from the E.E.A. After a week the team was vindicated by the Appeals Committee, but was permanently expelled a few days later by a decision of the Board of Directors of the organizing authority. Thus, the division was definitively left with 24 teams, without a new draw in Group A.

Way of Conduct

The championship will be played in two phases. In the first phase in each group, each team will face all opponents twice (home and away, a total of 22 matches, in 22 games in Group A and 22 games in Group B). At the end of the first phase, the teams finishing 12th in each group will be directly relegated.

The second phase includes ranking matches (play off and play out) for the first place in the group and Promotion to Super League 1, and for the relegation of three more teams, those who will occupy positions 9 to 11.

In the play offs, the first five in the first phase's standings will participate, and they will compete twice with the rest, at home and away. They will include 10 matchdays and 8 matches for each team. In the play offs, the teams will enter with half of the points they had won in the first phase.

The teams that will take the positions 6th to 11th in the regular season will participate in the play outs. As in the play offs, the teams will start with half of the points they collected in the first phase and compete with the rest in double matches home and away (10 matches, 10 matches for each team). The teams that occupy the last three positions in the play outs will be relegated to Gamma Ethniki.

Promotion and Relegation

A total of two teams will be promoted to Super League 1, the winners of the play offs of each group and a total of 8 teams will be relegated to the Gamma Ethniki.

Team Changes

From Super League Greece 2

Promoted to Super League

Levadiakos

Relegated to Gamma Ethniki

Relegated to Local Championships

To Super League Greece 2

Relegated from Super League

A.E. Kifisia

Promoted from Gamma Ethniki

North Group

Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki teams:
Apollon Pontus
Iraklis
Makedonikos
PAOK B

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Locations of the 2023–24 Super League 2 North Group clubs

Teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
AEK Athens B	Spata	Spata Training Centre	3,000
AEL	Larissa	AEL Arena	16,118
Aiolikos	Mytilene	Μytilene Municipal Stadium	3,000
Anagennisi Karditsa	Karditsa	Municipal Stadium Karditsa	3,500
Apollon Pontus	Polykastro	Polykastro Stadium	1,000
Iraklis	Chalastra	Chalastra Stadium	1,000
Kampaniakos	Chalastra	Chalastra Municipal Stadium	1,000
Kozani	Kozani	Kozani Municipal Stadium	4,000
Levadiakos	Livadeia	Livadeia Municipal Stadium	5,915
Makedonikos	Efkarpia	Makedonikos Stadium	8,100
Niki Volos	Volos	Panthessaliko Stadium	22,700
PAOK B	Efkarpia	Makedonikos Stadium	8,100

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer
AEK Athens B	Nikos Koustas	Vedad Radonja	Nike
AEL	Pavlos Dermitzakis	Thanasis Papageorgiou	Legea
Aiolikos	Slobodan Krcmarevic	Giorgos Manousos	Kappa
Anagennisi Karditsa	Giorgos Tyriakidis	Nikos Golias	Nike
Apollon Pontus	Cyril Kali	Dimitrios Amarantidis	Nike
Iraklis	Soulis Papadopoulos	Vasilis Vitlis	Joma
Kampaniakos	Giorgos Amanatidis	Stathis Savranidis	Macron
Kozani	Angelos Digozis	Xenofon Panos	Admiral
Levadiakos	Sokratis Ofridopoulos	Alfredo Mejia	Macron
Makedonikos	Stelios Malezas	Stelios Tsoukanis	Givova
Niki Volos	Dimitris Eleftheropoulos	Pavlos Kyriakidis	Macron
PAOK B	Alexis Alexiadis	Kyriakos Giaxis	Macron

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Anagennisi Karditsa	Periklis Amanatidis	End of contract	17 June 2023	Pre-season	Giorgos Tyriakidis	24 July 2023
Levadiakos	Giannis Petrakis				Nikos Nioplias	1 July 2023
PAOK B	Pablo García				Alexis Alexiadis	8 August 2023
Apollon Pontus	Dimitris Kalaitzidis	Sacked	29 June 2023		Cyril Kali	1 July 2023
AEL	Panagiotis Goutsidis		3 October 2023	8th	Pavlos Dermitzakis	7 October 2023
Iraklis	Sakis Tsiolis		17 Νovember 2023	8th	Periklis Amanatidis	20 Νοvember 2023
Aiolikos	Apostolos Charalampidis		16 November 2023	11th	Charalampos Pentarvanis (caretaker)	16 November 2023
Aiolikos	Charalampos Pentarvanis (caretaker)	End of tenure as caretaker	18 November 2023	11th	Slobodan Krcmarevic	18 November 2023
Kampaniakos	Ilias Sapanis	Resign	24 November 2023	10th	Giorgos Amanatidis	27 November 2023
Levadiakos	Nikos Nioplias	Sacked	18 December 2023	2nd	Sokratis Ofridopoulos	19 December 2023
Iraklis	Periklis Amanatidis	Sacked	6 March 2024	8th	Soulis Papadopoulos	7 March 2024

League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation^[a]
1	Levadiakos (Q)	22	17	4	1	36	9	+27	55	Qualification for the Play-off round
2	AEL (Q)	22	14	7	1	32	12	+20	49
3	Niki Volos (Q)	22	10	2	10	33	24	+9	32
4	AEK Athens B (Q)	22	8	8	6	23	17	+6	32
5	Makedonikos (Q)	22	7	10	5	24	23	+1	31
6	PAOK B (Q)	22	9	3	10	31	27	+4	30	Qualification for the Play-out round
7	Anagennisi Karditsa (Q)	22	8	5	9	22	24	−2	29
8	Iraklis (Q)	22	7	8	7	25	20	+5	29
9	Kozani (Q)	22	6	6	10	10	17	−7	24
10	Kampaniakos (Q)	22	7	2	13	18	32	−14	23
11	Aiolikos (Q)	22	4	7	11	20	36	−16	19
12	Apollon Pontus (R)	22	3	2	17	12	45	−33	11	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki

Source: sl2.gr
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Goals against; 7) Play-offs (neutral ground); 8) Draw.
(Note: Criteria 7 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation).
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ PAOK B and AEK Athens B are ineligible for promotion.

Results

Home \ Away	AKB	AEL	AIL	ANK	APP	IRA	KAM	KOZ	LEV	MAK	NKV	PKB
AEK Athens B	—	3–0	2–1	0–0	4–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–3	1–0
AEL	1–1	—	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–0
Aiolikos	0–2	1–1	—	1–1	3–1	1–1	4–2	0–0	0–3	1–3	0–2	2–2
Anagennisi Karditsa	2–1	0–2	3–1	—	4–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	0–3
Apollon Pontus	2–2	1–3	0–1	2–1	—	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–3	1–3	0–1
Iraklis	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	—	2–2	1–1	0–1	5–1	1–0	2–0
Kampaniakos	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–3	—	0–1	0–2	1–2	0–2	2–0
Kozani	0–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	—	0–0	2–0	0–3	0–1
Levadiakos	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	—	2–1	2–0	3–1
Makedonikos	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	—	0–0	3–2
Niki Volos	1–1	1–2	3–1	1–2	5–0	3–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	—	3–2
PAOK B	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	4–0	1–1	2–3	1–0	1–3	2–0	4–0	—

Source: sl2.gr
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Play-off round

In the play-offs, the first five teams in the first phase's standings will participate, and they will compete twice with the rest, at home and away to decide the North Group's Champion who will also be promoted to next year's Super League 1. They will include 10 matchdays and 8 matches for each team. The teams will enter with half of the points they had won in the first phase.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Levadiakos (C, P)	8	6	1	1	17	5	+12	47	Promotion to Super League 1
2	AEL	8	2	4	2	16	14	+2	35
3	Makedonikos	8	2	3	3	13	15	−2	25
4	Niki Volos	8	2	3	3	8	11	−3	25
5	AEK Athens B	8	1	3	4	9	18	−9	22

Source: sl2.gr
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Goals against; 7) Play-offs (neutral ground); 8) Draw.
(Note: Criteria 7 is only used if needed to decide champion.)
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Play-off Results

Home \ Away	LEV	AEL	MAK	NKV	AKB
Levadiakos	—	1–2	2–0	2–0	4–0
AEL	2–2	—	1–1	2–3	3–0
Makedonikos	1–3	3–2	—	3–1	1–2
Niki Volos	0–1	1–1	1–1	—	1–0
AEK Athens B	0–2	3–3	3–3	1–1	—

Source: sl2.gr
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Play-out round

The teams that will take the positions 6th to 11th in the regular season will participate in the play-outs. As in the play-offs, the teams will start with half of the points they collected in the first phase and compete with the rest in double matches home and away (10 matches, 10 matches for each team). The teams that occupy the last three positions in the play outs will be relegated to next year's Gamma Ethniki.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	PAOK B	10	6	1	3	21	17	+4	34
2	Iraklis	10	3	6	1	10	8	+2	30
3	Kampaniakos	10	5	2	3	12	9	+3	29
4	Kozani (R)	10	3	5	2	15	12	+3	26	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
5	Anagennisi Karditsa (R)	10	2	4	4	6	10	−4	25	Relegation to Gamma Ethniki
6	Aiolikos (R)	10	1	2	7	7	15	−8	15	Relegation to Local Championships

Source: sl2.gr
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Goals against; 7) Play-offs (neutral ground); 8) Draw.
(Note: Criteria 7 is only used if needed to decide champion.)
(R) Relegated

Play-out Results

Home \ Away	PKB	IRA	KAM	KOZ	ANK	AIL
PAOK B	—	2–2	1–0	4–2	2–0	2–1
Iraklis	2–1	—	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–0
Kampaniakos	4–2	0–1	—	1–0	0–0	0–1
Kozani	3–1	1–1	2–2	—	1–0	4–1
Anagennisi Karditsa	2–4	0–0	0–1	1–1	—	2–1
Aiolikos	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–1	—

Source: sl2.gr
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

South Group

Αthens

Athens teams:
Panathinaikos B
Egaleo
Ilioupoli
Athens Kallithea

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Locations of the 2023–24 Super League 2 South Group clubs