Season trivia for Superleague 2016/2017
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2016/2017 Superleague season in Greece.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Anthony Le Tallec and Dimitris Limnios. Together they were behind 4 goals for Atromitos in the 2016/2017 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2016/2017 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Hamza Younés, playing for Xanthi, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 8 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Veria-Xanthi.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In April 2017, Michalis Manias (Asteras Tripolis) scored 6 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2016/2017 season.
Most braces by player
Marcus Berg in Panathinaikos scored (at least) two goals in a match 5 times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2016/2017 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2016/2017 season was Marcus Berg in Panathinaikos, in total he did it 11 times.
Most last goals in a match
In total, there were 3 players who scored the last goal of the match the most times, 5 times to be precise, and the players who did it were these:
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2016/2017 season was Hamza Younés, in total he scored 8 penalties for his Xanthi.
Most penalty goals by team
Asteras Tripolis was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2016/2017 season, in total they scored 9 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, 2 players scored 2 goals in added time, and the players who did so were Martin Tonso (Atromitos) and Amr Warda (PAOK Thessaloniki/Panetolikos).
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was 4 goals, which 2 teams managed to do, and these were Olympiacos and Giannina.
Most own goals by team
Platanias scored 4 own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2016/2017 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Pedro Conde in Giannina scored in 6 consecutive matches during the 2016/2017 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Marcus Berg in Panathinaikos who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 14 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Hamza Younés in Xanthi scored a total of 9 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Superleague during the 2016/2017 season.
Most consecutive wins
There were 3 teams that had 5 consecutive wins in the 2016/2017 season, and those teams were Olympiacos, PAOK Thessaloniki and Xanthi.
Most matches in a row without losing
Olympiacos were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2016/2017 season, playing 17 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Veria had a streak of 8 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Superleague during the 2016/2017 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Levadiakos managed the feat of not winning a single match in 12 consecutive matches during the 2016/2017 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Olympiacos were best at during the 2016/2017 season, they came back to win 5 matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Asteras Tripolis and Panetolikos were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in 4 different matches during the 2016/2017 season.
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