1994–95 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens

1994–95 season
Chairman	Dimitris Melissanidis
Manager	Dušan Bajević
Stadium	Nikos Goumas Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	5th
Greek Cup	Runners-up
Greek Super Cup	Runners-up
UEFA Champions League	Group Stage
Top goalscorer	League: Dimitris Saravakos (21) All: Dimitris Saravakos (26)
Highest home attendance	24,747 vs Ajax (28 September 1994)
Lowest home attendance	539 vs Doxa Vyronas (30 November 1994)
Average home league attendance	8,740
Biggest win	Panetolikos 0–5 AEK Athens
Biggest defeat	AEK Athens 0–3 Panathinaikos Panathinaikos 3–0 AEK Athens
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The 1994–95 season was the 71st season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 36th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup, the Greek Super Cup and the UEFA Champions League. The season began on 10 August 1994 and finished on 3 June 1995.

Overview

In the summer of 1994, AEK having won three consecutive championships, were concentrated in the European competitions with the team leaders, Melissanidis-Karras-Bajevic, decision to make a transfer excess, in an attempt to qualify for the groups of the then debut UEFA Champions League. So, despite the departure of the last season's top scorer, Alexis Alexandris for Olympiacos, there was a big transfer relapse. The "hottest" name of the domestic transfer market, Christos Kostis, the iconic player of Panathinaikos, Dimitris Saravakos, who was released by the "greens", the Georgian Temur Ketsbaia from Anorthosis and Nikos Kostenoglou from Skoda Xanthi stood out among other players that were transferred to the club.

The season did not start well for the team, as they were defeated in the Super Cup at the hands of Panathinakos.^[1] AEK were building a very good roster, but, not being able to bear the weight of the consecutive games in Greece and Europe, they soon were left behind in the league race. In the second round, the administrative uncertainty in the team returned to the spotlight, since Melissanidis-Karras faced problems in their business activities and decided to search for a buyer for the club, where they finally found in the person of Michalis Trochanas.^[2] All that had a negative affect on the team and as a result AEK finished at fifth place, with the champion being Panathinaikos, with great ease.

AEK entered the draw of the Champions League qualifiers with moderate optimism. The draw brought them against Walter Smith's Rangers. On 10 August and while Athens was almost empty, the Nikos Goumas Stadium was on fire. Saravakos took AEK by the hand and with his own personal goals made it 2–0 with AEK then maintaining the score for the rest of the match. Rangers were determined to exhaust their chances of qualification in the rematch, but in front of them they find a great AEK on a very big night. After a cross from Tsiartas, Savevski made it 1–0 at the end of the first half. From there, AEK followed an impeccable tactical approach to the game, which led to a historic victory-qualification for their first appearance in the group stage of the top inter-club competition. In a very difficult group with the great Ajax of Louis van Gaal, who eventually won the trophy, the also great Milan of Fabio Capello, the eventual runners-up and Casino Salzburg, AEK finished fourth with a total of 2 draws and 4 defeats.^[3]

Having been out of the league race early on, AEK were focused on claiming the cup. They easily passed the first round, coming out first in a group with Panargiakos, Atromitos, Kastoria and Ethnikos Asteras. Afterwards, they prevailed over Doxa Vyronas, then Panetolikos and in the quarter-finals they easily eliminated Ethnikos Piraeus. In the semi-finals they faced Edessaikos who also they overcame with relative ease. Thus, AEK faced Panathinaikos at the Olympic Stadium on April 19, for the second consecutive season. AEK were protesting the definition of the final that stadium because according to their people it was the home ground of Panathinaikos and the opponent knew the pitch better. In order to express their protest, AEK entered the pitch alone and waited for Panathinaikos instead of the established simultaneous entrance of the opponents. Saravakos missed a penalty at the 6th minute and then a very nervous match ended 0–0. In extra time, the match was the same and everything showed that the match would be decided for the second year in a row in the penalty shootout. The referee, however, had a different opinion, attributing a penalty to Vlachos marking Warzycha at the 115th minute, a penalty which was very strongly contested by AEK and on the field there was "decimation", as players and agents of the yellow-blacks team fell on the referee of the match, as a result of which Manolas and Vlachos were expelled. At the same time, the yellow-black stands were also "boiling" and later incidents occurred outside the playing field as well. Finally Warzycha scored from the penalty spot and gave the trophy to Panathinaikos. In the aftermath of the episodic final, was the fact that some AEK players refused to attend the award ceremony, while a few days after the final the referee, Filippos Bakas, was attacked by strangers.^[4]

The best players of the season for AEK are Saravakos, Savevski, Šabanadžović, Manolas, Kasapis, Atmatsidis, Tsiartas, Kostis and Dimitriadis. Top scorer of AEK and second in the league for the season, was Dimitris Saravakos with 21 goals.^[5]

Management team

Position	Staff
Manager	Dušan Bajević
Assistant manager	Petros Ravousis
Goalkeeping coach	Stelios Serafidis
Fitness coach	Dimitris Bouroutzikas
Head of Medical	Lakis Nikolaou

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 3 June 1995, 23:59 UTC+3.

Player	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
Spyros Ikonomopoulos		GK	(1959-07-25)25 July 1959 (aged 35)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1997
Ilias Atmatsidis		GK	(1969-04-24)24 April 1969 (aged 26)	1992	Pontioi Veria	Free	1999
Vasilis Karagiannis		GK	(1969-09-27)27 September 1969 (aged 25)	1993	Diagoras	Free	2000
Dionysis Chiotis		GK	(1977-06-04)4 June 1977 (aged 18)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	2005
Defenders
Stelios Manolas (Captain)		CB / RB	(1961-07-13)13 July 1961 (aged 33)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1997
Giorgos Agorogiannis		RB / RM / RW	(1966-05-03)3 May 1966 (aged 29)	1992	AEL	Free	1995
Georgios Koutoulas		CB / LB	(1967-02-09)9 February 1967 (aged 28)	1987	AEK Athens U20	—	1999
Michalis Vlachos		CB / DM	(1967-09-20)20 September 1967 (aged 27)	1993	Olympiacos	Free	1997
Manolis Papadopoulos		CB	(1968-04-22)22 April 1968 (aged 27)	1992	Ionikos	Free	1995
Vaios Karagiannis		LB / CB	(1968-06-25)25 June 1968 (aged 27)	1990	A.O. Karditsa	Free	1995
Vasilios Borbokis		RB / RM	(1969-02-10)10 February 1969 (aged 26)	1993	Apollon Kalamarias	Free	1997
Charis Kopitsis		RB / RM / LB / LM	(1969-03-05)5 March 1969 (aged 26)	1992	Panionios	Free	1998
Nikos Kostenoglou		CB / RB	(1970-10-03)3 October 1970 (aged 24)	1994	Skoda Xanthi	₯100,000,000	1998
Michalis Kasapis		LB / LM	(1971-08-06)6 August 1971 (aged 23)	1993	Levadiakos	₯50,000,000	1998
Fanouris Chalaris		CB	(1974-08-25)25 August 1974 (aged 20)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	1997
Dimitris Konstantelos		CB	(1975-08-02)2 August 1975 (aged 19)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	1997
Midfielders
Toni Savevski		CM / LM / DM	(1963-07-14)14 July 1963 (aged 31)	1988	Vardar	Free	1996
Refik Šabanadžović		DM / CM / CB / RB	(1965-08-02)2 August 1965 (aged 29)	1991	Red Star Belgrade	₯30,000,000	1996
Stavros Stamatis (Vice-captain)		DM / CM / CB / RB / LB / AM	(1966-01-31)31 January 1966 (aged 29)	1988	Charavgiakos	Free	1995
Temur Ketsbaia		RM / LM / RW / LW / AM / CM	(1968-03-18)18 March 1968 (aged 27)	1994	Anorthosis Famagusta	₯200,000,000	1997
Vasilios Tsiartas		AM / RM / LM / SS	(1972-11-12)12 November 1972 (aged 22)	1992	Naoussa	₯100,000,000	1998
Giorgos Ananiadis		RM	(1974-10-16)16 October 1974 (aged 20)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	1997
Giorgos Aggelis		AM	(1975-08-18)18 August 1975 (aged 19)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	1997
Forwards
Dimitris Saravakos		RW / LW / SS / AM	(1961-07-26)26 July 1961 (aged 33)	1994	Panathinaikos	Free	1997
Vasilis Dimitriadis		ST	(1966-02-01)1 February 1966 (aged 29)	1991	Aris	₯95,000,000	1997
Christos Kostis		SS / ST / AM / RW / LW	(1972-01-15)15 January 1972 (aged 23)	1994	Iraklis	₯450,000,000	1998
Samouil Drakopulos		ST	(1974-07-31)31 July 1974 (aged 20)	1992	Grasshopper	Free	1995
Left during Winter Transfer Window
Andreas Theodoropoulos		CB	(1971-06-27)27 June 1971 (aged 24)	1993	Proodeftiki	Free	1998
Stathis Karalagas		DM	(1974-06-19)19 June 1974 (aged 21)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	1997
Nikos Mirtsekis		ST	(1968-11-04)4 November 1968 (aged 26)	1994	Panionios	₯70,000,000	1996

Transfers

In

Summer

Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
GK	Dionysis Chiotis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1994	30 June 2005
DF	Nikos Kostenoglou	Skoda Xanthi	Transfer	₯100,000,000	1 July 1994	30 June 1998	[6]
DF	Fanouris Chalaris	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1994	30 June 1997
DF	Dimitris Konstantelos	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1994	30 June 1997
MF	Stathis Karalagas	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1994	30 June 1997
ΜF	Temur Ketsbaia	Anorthosis Famagusta	Transfer	₯200,000,000	1 July 1994	30 June 1997	[7]
MF	Giorgos Ananiadis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1994	30 June 1997
MF	Giorgos Aggelis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1994	30 June 1997
FW	Dimitris Saravakos	Panathinaikos	Transfer	Free	1 July 1994	30 June 1997	[8]
FW	Christos Kostis	Iraklis	Transfer	₯450,000,000	1 July 1994	30 June 1998	[9]
FW	Nikos Mirtsekis	Panionios	Transfer	₯70,000,000	1 July 1994	30 June 1996	[10]

Out

Summer

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
MF	Tasos Mitropoulos	Panathinaikos	End of contract	—	1 July 1994
FW	Frank Klopas	Apollon Athens	End of contract	—	1 July 1994
FW	Zoran Slišković	Paniliakos	End of contract	—	1 July 1994
FW	Alexis Alexandris	Olympiacos	End of contract	—	1 July 1994

Winter

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Andreas Theodoropoulos	Apollon Athens	Transfer	Free	31 December 1994
FW	Nikos Mirtsekis	Iraklis	Transfer	Free	31 December 1994

Loan out

Summer

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
MF	Pantelis Konstantinidis	Kavala	Free	1 July 1994	30 June 1996	N

Winter

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
MF	Stathis Karalagas	Marko	Free	1 January 1995	30 June 1995	N

Overall transfer activity

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Alpha Ethniki	28 August 1994	3 June 1995	Matchday 1	5th	34	17	11	6	61	33	+28	050.00
Greek Cup	20 August 1994	19 April 1995	Group Stage	Runners-up	13	12	0	1	27	5	+22	092.31
Greek Super Cup	17 August 1994		Final	Runners-up	1	0	0	1	0	3	−3	000.00
UEFA Champions League	10 August 1994	7 December 1994	Qualifying round	Group Stage	8	2	2	4	6	9	−3	025.00
Total					56	31	13	12	94	50	+44	055.36

Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	PAOK	34	20	5	9	55	29	+26	65	1-year ban from European competitions[a]
4	Apollon Athens	34	20	3	11	61	37	+24	63	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
5	AEK Athens	34	17	11	6	61	33	+28	62	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round[b]
6	Iraklis	34	18	8	8	55	36	+19	62	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
7	Aris	34	19	5	10	46	34	+12	62

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	17	11	6	61	34	+27	62	11	4	2	42	15	+27	6	7	4	19	19	0

Results by Matchday

Fixtures

Greek Cup

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AEK	PAN	ATR	KAS	ETH
1	AEK Athens	4	4	0	0	8	0	+8	12	Round of 32			1–0	4–0	—	—
2	Panargiakos	4	2	1	1	7	2	+5	7			—		4–0	—	3–1
3	Atromitos	4	2	0	2	3	8	−5	6			—	—		1–0	2–0
4	Kastoria	4	0	2	2	2	4	−2	2			0–1	0–0	—		—
5	Ethnikos Asteras	4	0	1	3	3	9	−6	1			0–2	—	—	2–2

Matches

Round of 32

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Greek Super Cup

UEFA Champions League

Qualifying round

The draw for the qualifying round as well as group formations was held on 20 July 1994. The knockout phase pairs were made automatically by a predetermined bracket.

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AJA	MIL	CAS	AEK
1	Ajax	6	4	2	0	9	2	+7	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	1–1	2–0
2	Milan	6	3	1	2	6	5	+1	5[a]			0–2	—	3–0	2–1
3	Casino Salzburg	6	1	3	2	4	6	−2	5			0–0	0–1	—	0–0
4	AEK Athens	6	0	2	4	3	9	−6	2			1–2	0–0	1–3	—

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 3 June 1995

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		Greek Super Cup		Champions League		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	GK	Ilias Atmatsidis	29	0	5	0	1	0	8	0	43	0
—	GK	Vasilis Karagiannis	5	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	13	0
—	GK	Dionysis Chiotis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
—	DF	Stelios Manolas	23	1	10	2	0	0	6	0	39	3
—	DF	Giorgos Agorogiannis	16	2	8	0	0	0	8	0	32	2
—	DF	Georgios Koutoulas	12	0	5	0	1	0	2	0	20	0
—	DF	Michalis Vlachos	20	1	7	0	1	0	8	1	36	2
—	DF	Manolis Papadopoulos	25	0	11	0	0	0	4	0	40	0
—	DF	Vaios Karagiannis	18	0	9	1	0	0	4	0	31	1
—	DF	Vasilios Borbokis	11	1	5	1	1	0	2	0	19	2
—	DF	Charis Kopitsis	27	1	12	0	1	0	7	0	47	1
—	DF	Nikos Kostenoglou	15	0	8	0	1	0	0	0	24	0
—	DF	Michalis Kasapis	25	1	8	0	1	0	8	0	42	1
—	DF	Fanouris Chalaris	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
—	DF	Dimitris Konstantelos	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Toni Savevski	23	3	6	0	1	0	6	3	36	6
—	MF	Refik Šabanadžović	27	0	4	0	1	0	6	0	38	0
—	MF	Stavros Stamatis	14	1	9	1	1	0	2	0	26	2
—	MF	Temur Ketsbaia	22	5	7	4	0	0	5	0	34	9
—	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	28	5	9	4	1	0	8	0	46	9
—	MF	Giorgos Ananiadis	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
—	MF	Giorgos Aggelis	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Forwards
—	FW	Dimitris Saravakos	30	21	10	3	0	0	8	2	48	26
—	FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	29	8	11	8	1	0	2	0	43	16
—	FW	Christos Kostis	31	11	9	0	1	0	8	0	49	11
—	FW	Samouil Drakopulos	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Left during Winter Transfer Window
—	DF	Andreas Theodoropoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	MF	Stathis Karalagas	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
—	FW	Nikos Mirtsekis	2	0	4	3	0	0	1	0	7	3

Goalscorers

As of 3 June 1995

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Greek Super Cup	Champions League	Total
1	FW	Dimitris Saravakos	21	3	0	2	26
2	FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	8	8	0	0	16
3	FW	Christos Kostis	11	0	0	0	11
4	ΜF	Temur Ketsbaia	5	4	0	0	9
	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	5	4	0	0	9
6	MF	Toni Savevski	3	0	0	3	6
7	DF	Stelios Manolas	1	2	0	0	3
	FW	Nikos Mirtsekis	0	3	0	0	3
9	DF	Giorgos Agorogiannis	2	0	0	0	2
	DF	Vasilios Borbokis	1	1	0	0	2
	MF	Stavros Stamatis	1	1	0	0	2
	DF	Michalis Vlachos	1	0	0	1	2
13	DF	Charis Kopitsis	1	0	0	0	1
	DF	Michalis Kasapis	1	0	0	0	1
	DF	Vaios Karagiannis	0	1	0	0	1
Own goals			0	0	0	0	0
Totals			61	27	0	6	94

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Dimitris Saravakos	OFI	4–0 (H)	29 January 1995	Alpha Ethniki	[11]

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 3 June 1995

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Greek Super Cup	Champions League	Total
1	Ilias Atmatsidis	12	4	0	4	20
2	Vasilis Karagiannis	2	4	0	0	6
Totals		14	8	0	4	26

Disciplinary record

As of 3 June 1995

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			Greek Super Cup			Champions League			Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Spyros Ikonomopoulos
—	GK		Ilias Atmatsidis
—	GK		Vasilis Karagiannis
—	GK		Dionysis Chiotis
Defenders
—	DF		Stelios Manolas	7	1				1				2	1		9	2	1
—	DF		Giorgos Agorogiannis	3												3
—	DF		Georgios Koutoulas	1						1			1			3
—	DF		Michalis Vlachos	5	1	1	1	1	1				1			7	2	2
—	DF		Manolis Papadopoulos	1			1									2
—	DF		Vaios Karagiannis	6			2									8
—	DF		Vasilios Borbokis	2						1						3
—	DF		Charis Kopitsis	5												5
—	DF		Nikos Kostenoglou	2			1									3
—	DF		Michalis Kasapis	5	1		1			1						7	1
—	DF		Fanouris Chalaris
—	DF		Dimitris Konstantelos
Midfielders
—	MF		Toni Savevski	5			1						2			8
—	MF		Refik Šabanadžović	4			2						3			9
—	MF		Stavros Stamatis	2												2
—	MF		Temur Ketsbaia	2												2
—	MF		Vasilios Tsiartas	4			1			1						6
—	MF		Giorgos Ananiadis
—	MF		Giorgos Aggelis
Forwards
—	FW		Dimitris Saravakos
—	FW		Vasilis Dimitriadis	2			2						1			5
—	FW		Christos Kostis	2												2
—	FW		Samouil Drakopulos
Left during Winter Transfer window
—	DF		Andreas Theodoropoulos
—	MF		Stathis Karalagas
—	FW		Nikos Mirtsekis

Starting 11

Awards

Player	Pos.	Award	Source
Michalis Kasapis	DF	Greek Player of the Season (shared)

References

External links

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