2008–09 Cypriot Third Division

Football league season

Cypriot Third Division
Season	2008–09
Champions	Akritas (2nd title)
Promoted	Akritas Frenaros Othellos
Relegated	Anagennisi Tr. Orfeas Olympos
Matches played	182
Goals scored	519 (2.85 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marios Thoma (17 goals)
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 Cypriot Third Division was the 38th season of the Cypriot third-level football league. Akritas Chlorakas won their 2nd title.

Format

Fourteen teams participated in the 2008–09 Cypriot Third Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first three teams were promoted to the 2009–10 Cypriot Second Division and the last three teams were relegated to the 2009–10 Cypriot Fourth Division.

Point system

Teams received three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.

Changes from previous season

Teams promoted to 2008–09 Cypriot Second Division

PAEEK FC
Ethnikos Assia
Chalkanoras Idaliou

Teams relegated from 2007–08 Cypriot Second Division

Anagennisi Deryneia
Akritas Chlorakas
Olympos Xylofagou

Teams promoted from 2007–08 Cypriot Fourth Division

Teams relegated to 2008–09 Cypriot Fourth Division

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Akritas Chlorakas (C, P)	26	16	6	4	46	23	+23	54	Promoted to Cypriot Second Division
2	Frenaros FC (P)	26	14	6	6	51	28	+23	48
3	Othellos Athienou (P)	26	13	7	6	34	22	+12	46
4	Digenis Oroklinis	26	10	9	7	36	32	+4	39^[a]
5	AEZ Zakakiou	26	11	6	9	42	35	+7	39^[a]
6	Kissos Kissonergas	26	11	5	10	36	38	−2	38^[b]
7	AEK Kouklia	26	11	5	10	33	27	+6	38^[b]
8	Spartakos Kitiou	26	10	7	9	48	37	+11	37
9	Adonis Idaliou	26	10	6	10	39	31	+8	36
10	Elpida Xylofagou	26	8	9	9	34	40	−6	33
11	Anagennisi Deryneia	26	8	8	10	32	35	−3	32
12	Anagennisi Trachoniou (R)	26	9	4	13	38	51	−13	31	Relegated to Cypriot Fourth Division
13	Orfeas Nicosia (R)	26	7	4	15	24	44	−20	25
14	Olympos Xylofagou (R)	26	1	4	21	26	76	−50	7

Source: League standings at CFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head away goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Digenis 3p, 5–4; AEZ 3p, 4–5
^ ^a ^b Kissos FC 6p; AEK 0p

Results

Home \ Away	ADN	AEZ	AEK	AKR	AND	ANT	DGN	ELP	KSS	OTL	OLM	ORF	SPR	FRN
Adonis		0–2	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–2	0–1	3–2	0–0	3–0	4–0	1–2	1–1	1–1
AEZ	3–0		2–3	2–0	0–4	0–0	4–0	3–0	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–1
AEK	0–0	0–0		1–0	1–0	0–2	3–1	3–0	1–2	1–2	3–1	0–1	2–1	2–3
Akritas	2–0	3–0	1–0		1–2	5–3	1–0	5–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–0
Anagennisi D.	0–2	1–1	1–3	1–1		3–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	3–2	2–0	2–2	0–1
Anagennisi T.	1–5	1–4	1–1	2–2	1–0		2–1	2–5	1–0	1–3	1–0	4–1	1–2	3–2
Digenis	1–0	5–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–1		1–1	1–1	1–0	6–2	4–0	3–1	1–0
Elpida	3–1	0–0	1–2	0–3	2–1	2–1	1–1		5–2	1–0	3–1	3–0	1–2	0–0
Kissos	0–4	2–1	2–1	5–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–0		1–0	1–2	3–2	4–1	1–1
Othellos	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	3–1	0–0	3–0	3–1		3–1	1–0	2–2	2–1
Olympos	0–2	1–5	0–1	1–5	0–3	0–2	2–2	3–3	2–4	0–1		1–2	1–1	0–2
Orfeas	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	4–1	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	5–1		1–0	1–5
Spartakos	2–4	4–1	1–0	0–2	4–1	1–2	5–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	6–3	6–0		4–1
Frenaros FC	4–2	3–2	2–1	1–2	5–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	5–0	1–1	4–0	3–1	1–0

Source: Results at CFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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