1971–72 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens

1971–72 season
Chairman	Kosmas Chatzicharalampous
Manager	Branko Stanković
Stadium	AEK Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	3rd
Greek Cup	Round of 16
European Cup	First round
Top goalscorer	League: Mimis Papaioannou (12) All: Mimis Papaioannou (13)
Highest home attendance	30,267 vs Olympiacos (31 October 1971)
Lowest home attendance	3,494 vs Olympiakos Nicosia (28 May 1972)
Average home league attendance	17,971
Biggest win	AEK Athens 5–0 Olympiakos Nicosia AEK Athens 5–0 Pierikos
Biggest defeat	Internazionale 4–1 AEK Athens
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The 1971–72 season was the 48th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 13th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup and the European Cup. The season began on 29 August 1971 and finished on 11 June 1972.

Overview

After the distinctions of the previous years, AEK seemed to operate in a "frantic tempo", until this season, which was the passing to a declining period for the team. The team's roster was constantly renewed as a generation of players left, passing the torch to the next one. The new generation was consisted of great and talented players, however the club was not ready to claim a leading role in the league.

AEK participated in the European Cup. The draw was tough for them, as from the very first round faced one of the greastest European clubs over time, the great Internazionale of Ivano Bordon, Giacinto Facchetti and Sandro Mazzola. The first match at San Siro in front of almost 80,000 spectators, AEK managed to take the lead at the 14th minute with Pomonis, but Inter's superiority was obvious and after equalizing 5 minutes later, they finished the first half leading by 3–1. The second half turned out to be a standard procedure with Inter raising the score to 4–1 and likewise the few chances of AEK qualifying disappeared.^[1] In the rematch at the crowded AEK Stadium no one expected what was about to happen. Everything started wrong for the yellow-blacks, as they were left behind the score at the 17th minute with a goal by Mazzola. Bertini's dismissal two minutes later and Stankovic's offensive style, brought AEK in taking the lead at the half time with Ventouris and Papaioannou, while also having two shoots hit the post. The Italians, wanting if nothing else not to lose, chased the goal and equalized with Boninsegna at the 76th minute. The players of AEK, realizing that the qualification was lost definitively, sought the victory and achieved it with a goal by Nikolaidis at the 89th minute, that made the final 3–2. One of the greatest victories for the then "poor" Greek football and the first great European night for AEK.^[2][3]

In the league AEK paid their bad performances in the away matches, dropping points in almost every away game, achieving only 4 wins out of the 17 away games. That resulted in a third-place finish with 6 points away from the top.

This season was one of the worst for the club's history for the cup. A very important year for the development of the tournament, as the amateur teams of the local legal associations cease to participate and only the teams of the national divisions could participate. The ties of the first round competed again according to geographical criteria, while from the second round onwards the draw was free. AEK easily overcame PAO Rouf in the first round and Kozani in the second round, but in the round of 16 they faced Lamia, who to everyone's surprise, eliminated them with 1–0 at the extra time.^[4]

Players

Squad information

NOTE: The players are the ones that have been announced by the AEK Athens' press release. No edits should be made unless a player arrival or exit is announced. Updated 11 June 1972, 23:59 UTC+2.

Player	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
Stelios Serafidis		GK	(1935-08-06)6 August 1935 (aged 36)	1953	AEK Athens U20	—	1972
Stelios Konstantinidis		GK	(1947-06-06)6 June 1947 (aged 25)	1967	AEK Athens U20	—	1973
Giorgos Daditsos		GK	(1953-03-09)9 March 1953 (aged 19)	1970	AEK Athens U20	—	1975
Kostas Silivistras		GK	1954 (aged 17–18)	1971	Atromitos	Free	1976
Defenders
Giorgos Kefalidis		RB / CB	(1941-03-21)21 March 1941 (aged 31)	1964	Pierikos	Free	1972
Giorgos Tanidis		CB	(1946-12-25)25 December 1946 (aged 25)	1971	Aris Ptolemaidas	Free	1974
Apostolos Toskas		CB	(1947-12-28)28 December 1947 (aged 24)	1969	Trikala	Free	1979
Nikos Karapoulitidis		CB / RB	(1948-11-30)30 November 1948 (aged 23)	1967	Free agent	Free	1975
Stefanos Theodoridis		CB / RB	(1950-06-19)19 June 1950 (aged 22)	1969	AEK Athens U20	—	1978
Kostas Triantafyllou		CB / DM	1950 (aged 21–22)	1969	AEK Athens U20	—	1972
Lefteris Istorios		RB / LB / CM / DM	(1951-10-02)2 October 1951 (aged 20)	1971	AEK Athens U20	—	1976
Midfielders
Stelios Skevofilakas		LM / RM / AM	(1939-01-06)6 January 1939 (aged 33)	1960	Eleftheroupoli	Free	1972
Panagiotis Ventouris		AM / SS	(1943-03-01)1 March 1943 (aged 29)	1965	Fostiras	₯435,000	1972
Nikos Stathopoulos		LM / LB	(1943-11-08)8 November 1943 (aged 28)	1965	AEK Athens U20	—	1974
Giorgos Karafeskos		CM / DM / RM / RW	(1946-12-08)8 December 1946 (aged 25)	1963	AEK Athens U20	—	1974
Giorgos Lavaridis		CM / DM	(1947-10-15)15 October 1947 (aged 24)	1968	AEK Athens U20	—	1975
Forwards
Andreas Papaemmanouil		RW / LW / SS / ST	(1939-02-18)18 February 1939 (aged 33)	1969	Canterbury	Free	1972
Mimis Papaioannou (Captain)		SS / ST / AM	(1942-08-23)23 August 1942 (aged 29)	1962	Veria	₯175,000	1979
Spyros Pomonis		LW / LM	(1944-02-12)12 February 1944 (aged 28)	1960	AEK Athens U20	—	1973
Kostas Nikolaidis		RW / LW / SS / ST	(1944-09-10)10 September 1944 (aged 27)	1965	PAO Safrabolis	Free	1973
Kostas Chanios		ST / SS	1947 (aged 24–25)	1969	Levadiakos	Free	1972
Babis Psimogiannos		ST	(1947-08-13)13 August 1947 (aged 24)	1971	Aris Agios Konstantinos	Free	1976
Giorgos Kachris		RW / LW / RM / LM	1949 (aged 22–23)	1969	Amyna Ampelokipoi	Free	1972
Lakis Nikolaou		ST / CB / RB / DM	(1949-07-17)17 July 1949 (aged 22)	1971	Atromitos	₯600,000	1979

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
GK	Kostas Silivistras	Atromitos	Transfer	Free	1 July 1971	30 June 1976
DF	Giorgos Tanidis	Aris Ptolemaidas	Transfer	Free	1 July 1971	30 June 1974
DF	Lefteris Istorios	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1971	30 June 1976
FW	Babis Psimogiannos	Aris Agios Konstantinos	Transfer	Free	1 July 1971	30 June 1976
FW	Lakis Nikolaou	Atromitos	₯600,000[5]	Free[a]	31 July 1971	1 December 1979

Out

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Dimitris Liakouris	Atromitos	Transfer	Free	31 July 1971
MF	Lakis Avramidis	Olympiakos Nicosia	Transfer	Free	1 July 1971
FW	Panagiotis Psychogios	Atromitos	Transfer	₯300,000	31 July 1971

Loan out

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
FW	Dimitris Palasidis	AO Koropi	Free	1 July 1971	30 June 1972	N

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure: ₯600,000

Income: ₯300,000

Net Total: ₯300,000

Pre-season and friendlies

Florina v AEK Athens

1 August 1971 Friendly	Florina	0–3	AEK Athens	Florina
				Stadium: Florina Municipal Stadium

Kastoria v AEK Athens

3 August 1971 Friendly	Kastoria	1–2	AEK Athens	Kastoria
				Stadium: Municipal Stadium of Kastoria

Aris Ptolemaidas v AEK Athens

4 August 1971 Friendly	Aris Ptolemaidas	0–8	AEK Athens	Ptolemaida
				Stadium: Municipal Ptolemaida Stadium

AEK Athens v Olympiacos

9 August 1971 OPAP Summer Championship	AEK Athens	1–1	Olympiacos	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Atromitos

11 August 1971 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–1	Atromitos	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Peñarol

15 August 1971 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–1	Peñarol	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Ethnikos Piraeus

22 August 1971 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–0	Ethnikos Piraeus	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Universidad Católica

1 September 1971 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–0	Universidad Católica	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Hamburger SV

7 September 1971 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–4	Hamburger SV	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Atromitos

25 September 1971 Friendly	AEK Athens	6–0	Atromitos	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Bayern Munich

28 December 1971 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–0	Bayern Munich	Nea Filadelfeia
	Papaemmanouil 88'	Report		Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v CSKA Sofia

2 February 1972 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–3	CSKA Sofia	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

Ikaros Athens v AEK Athens

10 February 1972 Friendly	Ikaros Athens	1–1	AEK Athens

Panetolikos v AEK Athens

16 February 1972 Friendly	Panetolikos	1–2	AEK Athens	Agrinio
				Stadium: Panetolikos Stadium

Apollon Athens v AEK Athens

16 February 1972 Friendly	Apollon Athens	0–2	AEK Athens	Rizoupoli
				Stadium: Rizoupoli Stadium

Korinthos v AEK Athens

26 April 1972 Friendly	Korinthos	2–0	AEK Athens	Corinth
				Stadium: Korinthos Stadium

Panargiakos v AEK Athens

3 May 1972 Friendly	Panargiakos	3–1	AEK Athens	Argos
				Stadium: Argos Municipal Stadium

Olympiacos v AEK Athens

7 May 1972 Friendly	Olympiacos	3–1	AEK Athens	Piraeus
17:00 EET (UTC+2)				Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium

Panarkadikos v AEK Athens

24 May 1972 Friendly	Panarkadikos	1–4	AEK Athens	Tripoli
				Stadium: Panarkadikos Stadium Attendance: 4,000

AEK Athens v Željezničar

14 June 1972 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–0	Željezničar	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

Greek Super Cup

Olympiacos v AEK Athens

30 June 1971 First leg	Olympiacos	2–2	AEK Athens	Piraeus
	Gioutsos 1' Kapernekas 67'	Report	Kachris 52', 82'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 36,449 Referee: Stathis Papavasileiou (Piraeus)
Note: Due to the departure of the national team to Mexico, for a friendly match on July 6, it was agreed that the internationals would play only in the first half of the match, resulting in the usage of a total of 31 players. However, only Papaioannou competed for one half, while Glezos did not play at all. On the contrary, Toskas, Stathopoulos, Gaitatzis played throughout the match.

AEK Athens v Olympiacos

4 September 1971 Second leg	AEK Athens	1–1 (4–2 p)	Olympiacos	Nea Filadelfeia
	Ventouris 21'	Report	Karavitis 13'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 25,136 Referee: Famelis (Athens)
	Penalties
	Nikolaidis Karafeskos Toskas Ventouris Papaioannou		Gioutsos Siokos Papadimitriou Karavitis
Note: Karavitis was subbed off at the 46th minute and was subbed on again, at the 71st minute.

Competitions

Overall record

Alpha Ethniki

League table

Results summary

Results by Matchday

Fixtures

Greek Cup

Matches

European Cup

First round

Internazionale v AEK Athens

15 September 1971 First leg	Internazionale	4–1	AEK Athens	Milan, Italy
	Jair  5', 44' Bertini  18' Mazzola 20' Facchetti 35' Boninsegna 61' (pen.) Corso  69'	Report	Pomonis  14', 15' Toskas  83'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 72,333 Referee: Vital Loraux (Belgium)

AEK Athens v Internazionale

29 September 1971 Second leg	AEK Athens	3–2 (4–6 agg.)	Internazionale	Athens, Greece
21:00 EET (UTC+2)	Ventouris 29' Papaioannou 45' Nikolaidis 89'	Report	Karafeskos 17' (o.g.) Bertini  1'  20' Boninsegna 75'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 29,449 Referee: Tofiq Bahramov (Soviet Union)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 11 June 1972

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		European Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Stelios Serafidis	21	0	2	0	0	0	23	0
—	GK	Stelios Konstantinidis	13	0	1	0	2	0	16	0
—	GK	Giorgos Daditsos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	GK	Kostas Silivistras	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Defenders
—	DF	Giorgos Kefalidis	15	1	0	0	2	0	17	1
—	DF	Giorgos Tanidis	18	0	1	0	0	0	19	0
—	DF	Apostolos Toskas	33	1	3	0	1	0	37	1
—	DF	Nikos Karapoulitidis	21	0	1	0	0	0	22	0
—	DF	Stefanos Theodoridis	23	0	3	0	2	0	28	0
—	DF	Kostas Triantafyllou	12	0	3	0	2	0	17	0
—	DF	Lefteris Istorios	12	0	1	0	0	0	13	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Stelios Skevofilakas	25	1	2	0	0	0	27	1
—	MF	Panagiotis Ventouris	26	2	2	0	2	1	30	3
—	MF	Nikos Stathopoulos	4	0	2	0	0	0	6	0
—	MF	Giorgos Karafeskos	21	2	2	0	2	0	25	2
—	MF	Giorgos Lavaridis	24	1	2	0	2	0	28	1
Forwards
—	FW	Andreas Papaemmanouil	16	1	1	1	1	0	18	2
—	FW	Mimis Papaioannou	28	12	3	4	2	1	33	17
—	FW	Spyros Pomonis	27	10	3	0	2	1	32	11
—	FW	Kostas Nikolaidis	33	10	3	3	2	1	38	14
—	FW	Kostas Chanios	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
—	FW	Babis Psimogiannos	20	2	0	0	1	0	21	2
—	FW	Giorgos Kachris	15	1	2	0	1	0	18	1
—	FW	Lakis Nikolaou	31	11	2	0	2	0	35	11

Goalscorers

As of 11 June 1972

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	European Cup	Total
1	FW	Mimis Papaioannou	12	4	1	17
2	FW	Kostas Nikolaidis	10	3	1	14
3	FW	Lakis Nikolaou	11	0	0	11
	FW	Spyros Pomonis	10	0	1	11
5	MF	Panagiotis Ventouris	2	0	1	3
6	MF	Giorgos Karafeskos	2	0	0	2
	FW	Babis Psimogiannos	2	0	0	2
	FW	Andreas Papaemmanouil	1	1	0	2
9	DF	Apostolos Toskas	1	0	0	1
	DF	Giorgos Kefalidis	1	0	0	1
	MF	Giorgos Lavaridis	1	0	0	1
	MF	Stelios Skevofilakas	1	0	0	1
	FW	Giorgos Kachris	1	0	0	1
Own goals			2	0	0	2
Totals			57	8	4	69

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Lakis Nikolaou	Pierikos	5–0 (H)	4 June 1972	Alpha Ethniki

Clean sheets

The list is sorted by competition order when total clean sheets are equal and then alphabetically by surname. Clean sheets in games where both goalkeepers participated are awarded to the goalkeeper who started the game. Goalkeepers with no appearances are not included.

As of 11 June 1972

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	European Cup	Total
1	Stelios Serafidis	11	1	0	12
2	Stelios Konstantinidis	6	0	0	6
3	Kostas Silivistras	0	0	0	0
Totals		17	1	0	18

Disciplinary record

As of 11 June 1972

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			European Cup			Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Stelios Serafidis
—	GK		Stelios Konstantinidis
—	GK		Giorgos Daditsos
—	GK		Kostas Silivistras
Defenders
—	DF		Giorgos Kefalidis
—	DF		Giorgos Tanidis
—	DF		Apostolos Toskas									1			1
—	DF		Nikos Karapoulitidis
—	DF		Stefanos Theodoridis
—	DF		Kostas Triantafyllou
—	DF		Lefteris Istorios
Midfielders
—	MF		Stelios Skevofilakas
—	MF		Panagiotis Ventouris
—	MF		Nikos Stathopoulos
—	MF		Giorgos Karafeskos
—	MF		Giorgos Lavaridis
Forwards
—	FW		Andreas Papaemmanouil
—	FW		Mimis Papaioannou
—	FW		Spyros Pomonis	1						1			2
—	FW		Kostas Nikolaidis
—	FW		Kostas Chanios
—	FW		Babis Psimogiannos
—	FW		Giorgos Kachris
—	FW		Lakis Nikolaou

References

External links

• AEK Athens F.C. Official Website
• A.E.K. FC Database