2014–15 A1 Ethniki (men's water polo)

The 2014–15 A1 Ethniki is the 84th season of the Greek premier Water polo league and the 29th of A1 Ethniki. The winner of the league was Olympiacos, which beat Panathinaikos in the league's playoff's finals.[1] It was the first final of the eternal enemies in Water Polo Championship. The clubs Panionios and Nireas Lamias (withdrawn shortly before the end of the championship) were relegated to the Greek A2 League.[2][3]

A1 Ethniki

Season	2014–15
Champions	Olympiacos 29th title
Relegated	Panionios Nireas Lamia
Top goalscorer	Ioannis Fountoulis (108 goals)
Biggest home win	Olympiacos 28–3 Panionios
Biggest away win	N. Lamia 3–31 Olympiacos
Highest scoring	N. Lamia 3–31 Olympiacos
← 2013–14 2015–16 →

Team information

Athens

Athens teams
Glyfada
Kalamaki
Palaio Faliro
Panathinaikos
Panionios

Piraeus

Piraeus teams
Ethnikos
Olympiacos

Vouliagmeni

PAOK

N. Lamias

Chios

Ydraikos

Location of teams in 2014-15 A1 Ethniki

The following 12 clubs compete in the A1 Ethniki during the 2014–15 season:

A1 Ethniki
Team	City	Pool	Founded	Colours
Chios	Chios	Ionikó natatorium	1930
Ethnikos	Piraeus	Papastrateio natatorium	1923
Glyfada	Glyfada	Alymou natatorium	1946
Kalamaki	Alimos		1947
Nireas Lamias	Lamia	Lamia natatorium	1998
Olympiacos	Piraeus	Papastrateio natatorium	1925
Palaio Faliro	Palaio Faliro
Panathinaikos	Athens	Olympic Aquatic Centre	1930
Panionios	Nea Smyrni	Nea Smyrni natatorium	1985
PAOK	Thessaloniki	Ptolemaida natatorium	1931
Vouliagmeni	Vouliagmeni	NOV natatorium	1937
Ydraikos	Hydra

Regular season

Standings

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts
1	Olympiacos	22	22	0	0	389	85	+304	66
2	Ethnikos Piraeus	22	18	0	4	219	174	+45	54
3	Vouliagmeni	22	16	1	5	222	133	+89	49
4	Panathinaikos	22	14	2	6	204	153	+51	44
5	PAOK	22	12	2	8	208	211	−3	38
6	Ydraikos	22	9	5	8	165	166	−1	32
7	ANO Glyfada	22	9	0	13	161	201	−40	27
8	NO Kalamaki	22	8	1	13	150	205	−55	25
9	NO Chios	22	6	2	14	162	197	−35	20
10	Palaio Faliro	22	5	1	16	163	241	−78	16
11	Panionios	22	5	4	13	153	248	−95	16
12	Nireas Lamias	22	0	0	22	114	290	−176	−3 *

	Championship Playoff
	Relegation Playout
	Relegation

Pld - Played; W - Won; D - Drawn; L - Lost; GF - Goals for; GA - Goals against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.

• Nireas Lamias was docked 3 points.

Schedule and results

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1. round ( 2014.11.15 ) ANO Glyfada – Vouliagmeni 7–9 Panathinaikos – Olympiacos 2–11 Palaio Faliro – Kalamaki 4–6 Ethnikos – Panionios 16–9 Chios – PAOK 9–9 Ydraikos – Nireas Lamias 11–4

2. round ( 2014.11.22 ) ANO Glyfada – Palaio Faliro 8–9 Vouliagmeni – Nireas Lamias 18–5 PAOK – Ydraikos 10–8 Panionios – Chios 11–9 Olympiacos – Ethnikos 15–4 Kalamaki – Panathinaikos 4–10

3. round ( 2014.11.29 ) Ydraikos – Panionios 11–11 Nireas Lamias – PAOK 6–13 Palaio Faliro – Vouliagmeni 7–11 Panathinaikos – ANO Glyfada 10–5 Ethnikos – Kalamaki 15–8 Chios – Olympiacos 1–18

4. round ( 2014.12.06 ) Kalamaki – Chios 8–5 ANO Glyfada – Ethnikos 7–8 Palaio Faliro – Panathinaikos 4–14 Vouliagmeni – PAOK 8–8 Panionios – Nireas Lamias 5–0* Olympiacos – Ydraikos 17–2

5. round ( 2014.12.13 ) Ydraikos – Kalamaki 8–9 Nireas Lamias – Olympiacos 3–31 PAOK – Panionios 11–8 Panathinaikos – Vouliagmeni 6–5 Ethnikos – Palaio Faliro 13–11 Chios – ANO Glyfada 8–6

6. round ( 2014.12.20 ) Kalamaki – Nireas Lamias 12–9 ANO Glyfada – Ydraikos 3–7 Palaio Faliro – Chios 8–6 Panathinaikos – Ethnikos 11–10 Vouliagmeni – Panionios 13–4 Olympiacos – PAOK 19–3

7. round ( 2015.01.10 ) Chios – Panathinaikos 7–12 Ydraikos – Palaio Faliro 11–8 Nireas Lamias – ANO Glyfada 8–11 PAOK – Kalamaki 10–8 Panionios – Olympiacos 4–19 Ethnikos – Vouliagmeni 11–8

8. round ( 2015.01.17 ) Vouliagmeni – Olympiacos 5–8 Kalamaki – Panionios 8–6 ANO Glyfada – PAOK 11–6 Palaio Faliro – Nireas Lamias 20–7 Panathinaikos – Ydraikos 6–6 Ethnikos – Chios 8–3

9. round ( 2015.01.24 ) Olympiacos – Kalamaki 14–2 Chios – Vouliagmeni 5–8 Ydraikos – Ethnikos 7–10 Nireas Lamias – Panathinaikos 7–12 PAOK – Palaio Faliro 16–10 Panionios – ANO Glyfada 6–12

10. round ( 2015.01.31 ) Ethnikos – Nireas Lamias 12–4 Chios – Ydraikos 8–8 Vouliagmeni – Kalamaki 9–8 ANO Glyfada – Olympiacos 5–14 Palaio Faliro – Panionios 8–7 Panathinaikos – PAOK 9–4

11. round ( 2015.02.04 ) Panionios – Panathinaikos 6–11 Olympiacos – Palaio Faliro 21–6 Kalamaki – ANO Glyfada 6–7 Ydraikos – Vouliagmeni 3–9 Nireas Lamias – Chios 6–12 PAOK – Ethnikos 9–13

12. round ( 2015.02.07 ) Vouliagmeni – ANO Glyfada 14–5 Kalamaki – Palaio Faliro 9–8 Olympiacos – Panathinaikos 16–7 Panionios – Ethnikos 6–14 PAOK – Chios 11–9 Nireas Lamias – Ydraikos 3–14

13. round ( 2015.02.14 ) Palaio Faliro – ANO Glyfada 9–10 Nireas Lamias – Vouliagmeni 6–14 Ydraikos – PAOK 8–6 Chios – Panionios 12–4 Ethnikos – Olympiacos 4–15 Panathinaikos – Kalamaki 6–4

14. round ( 2015.02.21 ) Panionios – Ydraikos 9–9 PAOK – Nireas Lamias 16–10 Vouliagmeni – Palaio Faliro 14–4 ANO Glyfada – Panathinaikos 8–13 Kalamaki – Ethnikos 4–7 Olympiacos – Chios 17–2

15. round ( 2015.02.28 ) Chios – Kalamaki 13–6 Ethnikos – ANO Glyfada 12–5 Panathinaikos – Palaio Faliro 10–3 PAOK – Vouliagmeni 7–5 Nireas Lamias – Panionios 6–8 Ydraikos – Olympiacos 8–14

16. round ( 2015.03.07 ) Kalamaki – Ydraikos 4–6 Olympiacos – Nireas Lamias 21–2 Panionios – PAOK 10–12 Vouliagmeni – Panathinaikos 8–6 Palaio Faliro – Ethnikos 8–11 ANO Glyfada – Chios 7–6

17. round ( 2015.03.14 ) Nireas Lamias – Kalamaki 8–13 Ydraikos – ANO Glyfada 7–4 Chios – Palaio Faliro 17–5 Ethnikos – Panathinaikos 9–8 Panionios – Vouliagmeni 3–16 PAOK – Olympiacos 5–19

18. round ( 2015.03.21 ) Panathinaikos – Chios 15–4 Palaio Faliro – Ydraikos 5–6 ANO Glyfada – Nireas Lamias 14–8 Kalamaki – PAOK 10–9 Olympiacos – Panionios 28–3 Vouliagmeni – Ethnikos 9–5

19. round ( 2015.03.28 ) Olympiacos – Vouliagmeni 9–8 Panionios – Kalamaki 8–8 PAOK – ANO Glyfada 11–6 Nireas Lamias – Palaio Faliro 8–12 Ydraikos – Panathinaikos 7–7 Chios – Ethnikos 8–12

20. round ( 2015.04.04 ) Kalamaki – Olympiacos 4–23 Vouliagmeni – Chios 10–8 Ethnikos – Ydraikos 7–6 Panathinaikos – Nireas Lamias 11–4 Palaio Faliro – PAOK 5–11 ANO Glyfada – Panionios 8–7

21. round ( 2015.05.02 ) Nireas Lamias – Ethnikos 0–5* Ydraikos – Chios 8–5 Kalamaki – Vouliagmeni 4–14 Olympiacos – ANO Glyfada 23–4 Panionios – Palaio Faliro 8–8 PAOK – Panathinaikos 11–9

22. round ( 2015.05.09 ) Panathinaikos – Panionios 9–10 Palaio Faliro – Olympiacos 1–17 ANO Glyfada – Kalamaki 6–5 Vouliagmeni – Ydraikos 7–4 Chios – Nireas Lamias 5–0* Ethnikos – PAOK 11–10

Playout and 5th place

At the play-out matches Paleo Faliro defeated Panionios.[3] In the matches of ranking for the place 9-10 Chios defeated Faliro. In the matches of ranking for the place 5-6 Ydraikos defeated PAOK.[5]

	Play-out					9th place
						9	NC Chios	1
	10	Paleo Faliro	2			10	Paleo Faliro	0
	11	Panionios	0

Championship playoff

Teams in bold won the playoff series. Numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's original playoff seeding. Numbers to the right indicate the score of each playoff game.

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
								1	Olympiacos	10	10
	3	Vouliagmeni	10	10				3	Vouliagmeni	4	5
	6	Ydraikos	6	3											1	Olympiacos	16	8	10
															4	Panathinaikos	2	7	6
								2	Ethnikos Piraeus	6	7
	4	Panathinaikos	10	11				4	Panathinaikos	9	9
	5	PAOK	9	6											Third place
															2	Ethnikos Piraeus	7	9
															3	Vouliagmeni	8	10

Final

• 1st leg

27 May 17:00 (UTC+3)	Report	Olympiacos	16–2	Panathinaikos	Papastrateio natatorium, Piraeus Referees: Boudramis, Kourtidis
		Score by quarters: 2–0, 3–1, 5–1, 6–0
		Mallarach 4	Goals	Gerakoudis, Kalogerakos 1

• 2nd leg

29 May 19:00 (UTC+2)	Report	Panathinaikos	7–8	Olympiacos	Ilisio Swimming Pool, Athens Referees: Miralis, Birakis
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 1–2, 2–3, 3–2
		Kalogerakos, Papadogonas, Theodoropoulos 2	Goals	Vlachopoulos 3

• 3rd leg

2 June 20:30 (UTC+2)	Report	Olympiacos	10–6	Panathinaikos	Papastrateio natatorium, Piraeus Referees: Skalochoritis, Stavridis
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 0–0, 3–3, 3–1
		Fountoulis 3	Goals	Theodoropoulos 2

Olympiacos won Championship final series 3–0.

Final standings

Pos	Team
1	Olympiacos
2	Panathinaikos
3	Vouliagmeni
4	Ethnikos Piraeus
5	Ydraikos
6	PAOK
7	ANO Glyfada
8	NO Kalamaki
9	NO Chios
10	Palaio Faliro
11	Panionios
12	Nireas Lamias

References

1. "Ο Ολυμπιακός αναδείχτηκε πρωταθλητής στην Α1 πόλο ανδρών". tanea.gr. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
2. "Υποβιβάστηκε ο Νηρέας Λαμίας". sport24.gr. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
3. "Έμεινε το Παλαιό Φάληρο, "έπεσε" ο Πανιώνιος". novasports.gr. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
4. "Results". Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
5. "ΠΑΟΚ-Υδραϊκός 8-9". sport24.gr. Retrieved 24 August 2015.

External links

• Greek Water Polo Federaration (in Greek)