The 2010–11 Cypriot First Division was the 72nd season of the Cypriot top-level football league. It began on 27 August 2010 with the first matches of the first round and will end on 11 May 2011 with the last matches of the second round. The defending champions were Omonia. APOEL won the championship four matchweeks before the end of the season.

Competition modus

Fourteen teams participate in the competition. Eleven of them have also competed in the 2009–10 season while the remaining three teams were promoted from the Second Division.

Each team plays against every other team twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 26 matches. After these matches, the two teams with the worst records will be relegated to the Second Division. The remaining twelve teams will be divided into three groups of four teams each.

The teams ranked first through fourth will play for the championship and to participate in the European competitions. Teams ranked ninth through 12th will determine the third relegated club, while the remaining four teams will play a placement round. Every team plays twice against its group opponents. Regular season records are carried over without any modifications.

Teams

Nea Salamis Famagusta and APEP Pitsilia were relegated at the end of the first stage of the 2009–10 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were joined by Aris Limassol, who finished at the bottom of the second-phase Group C.

The relegated teams were replaced by 2009–10 Second Division champions Alki Larnaca, runners-up AEK Larnaca and third-placed team Olympiakos Nicosia.

AEK
Alki
Anorthosis

AEL
Apollon

AEP

APOEL
Olympiakos
Omonia

APOP

Doxa

Enosis

Ermis

Ethnikos

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Location of clubs in 2010–11 Cypriot First Division

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager1	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AEK	Ton Caanen	Kevin Hofland	Puma	CytaVision
AEL	Pambos Christodoulou	Dušan Kerkez	Mass	CytaVision
AEP	Giorgos Polyviou	Angelos Efthymiou	Legea	Ocean Basket
Alki	Itzhak Shum	Siniša Dobrasinović	Legea	Touch Blue Development
Anorthosis	Stanimir Stoilov	Ioannis Okkas	Puma	CytaMobile Vodafone
APOEL	Ivan Jovanović	Marinos Satsias	Puma	MTN
Apollon	Andreas Michaelides	Daniel Quinteros	Lotto	Columbia
APOP Kinyras	Sofoklis Sofokleous	Alain Liri	Puma	PrimeTel
Doxa	Nikos Andronikou	Stelios Okkarides	Puma	Cytanet
Enosis	Nikodimos Papavasiliou	Demos Goumenos	Lotto	CYTA
Ermis	João Carlos Pereira	Wender	Legea	CYTA
Ethnikos Achna	Svetozar Šapurić	Christos Poyiatzis	Legea	CYTA
Olympiakos	Pambos Christodoulou	Nikolas Nicolaou	Puma	CYTA
Omonia	Neophytos Larkou	Elias Charalambous	Adidas	CytaMobile Vodafone

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
Ermis	Dusan Mitošević	Sacked	16 August 2010[1]	Pre-season	Christos Kassianos	17 August 2010[2]	Pre-season
AEL	Dušan Uhrin, Jr.	Sacked	21 September 2010[3]	9th	Mihai Stoichiţă	22 September 2010[4]	9th
Omonia	Takis Lemonis	Resigned	4 October 2010[5]	4th	Dušan Bajević	13 October 2010[6]	4th
Alki	Marios Constantinou	Resigned	19 October 2010[7]	9th	Itzhak Shum	21 October 2010[8]	9th
Apollon	Slobodan Krčmarević	Sacked	21 October 2010[9]	14th	Andreas Michaelides	26 October 2010[10]	14th
Ermis	Christos Kassianos	Resigned	13 November 2010[11]	11th	Demetris Ioannou	15 November 2010[12]	11th
Anorthosis	Guillermo Ángel Hoyos	Sacked	17 November 2010[13]	4th	Slobodan Krčmarević	17 November 2010[13]	4th
APOP Kinyras	Giorgos Polyviou	Resigned	1 December 2010[14]	14th	Sofoklis Sofokleous	13 December 2010[15]	13th
AEP	Angel Slavkov	Sacked	7 December 2010[16]	14th	Giorgos Polyviou	7 December 2010[16]	14th
Ermis	Demetris Ioannou	Resigned	7 December 2010[17]	9th	João Carlos Pereira	9 December 2010[18]	9th
Anorthosis	Slobodan Krčmarević	Resigned	18 December 2010[19]	5th	Stanimir Stoilov	27 December 2010[20]	6th
Enosis	Cedomir Janevski	Mutual consent	10 January 2011[21]	10th	Nikodimos Papavasiliou	18 January 2011[22]	9th
Doxa	Nikodimos Papavasiliou	Resigned	13 January 2011[23]	14th	Nikos Andronikou	21 January 2011[24]	14th
AEL	Mihai Stoichiţă	Mutual consent	27 January 2011[25]	7th	Raymond Atteveld	7 February 2011[26]	7th

First round

League table