2002–03 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens

2002–03 season
Chairman	Charilaos Psomiadis (until 22 January) Giannis Granitsas
Manager	Dušan Bajević
Stadium	Nikos Goumas Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	3rd
Greek Cup	Semi-finals
UEFA Champions League	Group stage
UEFA Cup	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Demis Nikolaidis (12) All: Demis Nikolaidis (16)
Highest home attendance	19,775 vs Genk (30 October 2002)
Lowest home attendance	69 vs Kassandra (11 September 2002)
Average home league attendance	6,296
Biggest win	AEK Athens 6–0 Panachaiki
Biggest defeat	AEK Athens 3–4 PAOK Akratitos 3–2 AEK Athens Panathinaikos 2–1 AEK Athens AEK Athens 0–1 Málaga AEK Athens 0–1 PAOK OFI 1–0 AEK Athens
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2002–03 season was the 79th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 44th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The season began on 8 August 2002 and finished on 25 May 2003.

Kits

Supplier: Nike
Sponsor(s): Piraeus Bank
Features: Telestet

Home

Away

Third

Overview

For second season in a row with Makis Psomiadis at the wheel, who presented a very good team during the previous season. Despite the good performance in the last season, Fernando Santos resigned^[1] due to the disrupted relationship with the administrative leader of the club. Psomiadis afterwards made a decision that no one could initially believe and brought Dušan Bajević back to the wheel of AEK. The Bosnian-Greek coach accepted Psomiadis' proposal (having also received guarantees from Psomiadis that he would be protected from a portion of the fans who did not want him back) and his big return became reality.^[2] The return of Bajević received a divided reaction, as expected. Others did not want him at all in the club, others seemed to want him back due to his successful previous spell, while many seemed to viewed him strictly as a professional. Eventually, despite the problems he faced from time to time from a large portion of the crowd, in general, Bajević was able to work in the team during his first season without much trouble. Regarding the team's roster and the transfers of the summer of 2002, Carlos Gamarra left the team as his loan ended, while Akis Zikos, not having the best relations with Psomiadis, was also a thing of the past. On the other hand, Psomiadis made many impressive transfers such as Georgatos, Katsouranis, Borbokis, Wright, Centeno, Kreek, Nalitzis and Prieto.

AEK Athens presented a good and spectacular team with a very good performance and in the championship they had very good intervals. However, they were relatively behind in the title race, but eventually with an incredible streak of 12 wins in the last 12 games of the league, they re-entered the race finishing third, only 2 points behind Olympiacos and Panathinaikos, who were tied in first place, with the first winning the championship.

AEK once again had the opportunity to compete in the Champions League, but only if they passed the qualifying round. In the draw, where they were among the seeded clubs, AEK were drawn with APOEL. The first match took place in Cyprus, where APOEL took the lead from the beginning of the match, with AEK waking up and in one of the best matches of his career, Vasilios Borbokis took the team by the hand and with his two personal goals put AEK in front. The score was at 1–2, until the end of the game, but the finale was shocking. APOEL equalized with a penalty at the 90th minute, but AEK in the stoppage time with a goal by Nikolaidis got the 2–3 victory. In the rematch of Athens, AEK missed several chances but the half ended without a goal. Finally, AEK took the lead at the beginning of the second half and ceremoniously took the qualification to the Champions League group stage with a second victory by 1–0. AEK were drawn in Group C with the "galacticos" of the mighty Real Madrid, the historic Italian Roma and the Belgian Genk and achieved a historic record of drawing all six of the group stage games,^[3] but failed to qualify to the next stage of the institution finishing 3rd and continued to the knock-out stage of the UEFA Cup.

AEK continued in the UEFA Cup and faced the Israeli Maccabi Haifa, an opponent that was certainly up to their standards. The first match in Athens, Maccabi came in stronger and won a penalty that hit the crossbar and then the ball didn't pass the line. From there on, AEK woke up and then the game became a monologue for the Greek team that reached the score 4–0 until the 35th minute, that remained until the final whistle. In the match, Michalis Kasapis became the top Greek footballer in appearances in European matches. Also, as it turned out afterwards, the last goal of the match, scored by Theodoros Zagorakis was the last European goal scored by AEK at the Nikos Goumas Stadium, before it was demolished. In the rematch that took place at GSP Stadium of Nicosia, the Israelis again entered the match better, winning an early penalty again and making the 1–0, but AEK took control of the match and scored 4 goals that gave not only the victory, but also a triumphant qualification. In the round of 16, AEK were against the Spanish Málaga, an opponent that was not at all easy, but was not beyond the capabilities of the Greek team. In the first match at La Rosaleda Stadium, the Spaniards came on strong and missed scoring chances, but yellow-black defense stood up well and the match ended at 0–0. AEK took a very important draw in view of the continuation. The rematch of Nea Filadelfeia proved to be of historical importance, since it was the last European game at Nikos Goumas Stadium. The match did not go well for AEK, who conceded a goal in the first half and without being able to do anything to turn the situation around and the 0–1 remained until the end, ending their European campaign.

In the Cup, AEK initially eliminated Kassandra and then easily passed through of Chalkidona. In the round of 16, they were drawn with Apollon Smyrnis, whom he also eliminated easily, and in the quarter-finals they played against Panionios, who they eliminated in a qualification that was decided in the rematch of Nikos Goumas Stadium. In the semi-finals they were placed against PAOK. First match in Nea Filadelfeia, AEK did not get a good performance and PAOK got the important victory with 0–1. In the rematch of Toumba Stadium, AEK took an early lead, bringing the aggragate score at even, but finally a goal at the end of the match gave PAOK the qualification.

A notable event of the season was the fight against Makis Psomiadis, who generally, towards the end of 2002, started to have more and more "enemies" within the club. In January, Demis Nikolaidis filed a lawsuit against Psomiadis, who had come by his house at 3 a.m. to check if the international striker was staying overnight and also for blackmail, insult and threatening his life and physical integrity, while stating that in the incident that took place outside Nikolaidis' and his wife's, Despina Vandi, house, apart from Psomiadis, some of his bodyguards were also present.^[4] Psomiadis, having lost all of the support within the club, left and AEK Athens continued with the administration of the then president of Amateur AEK, Giannis Granitsas.^[5] The season was also punctuated by the demolition of Nikos Goumas Stadium at 5 May 2003,^[6] home to AEK Athens for 73 years.

Management team

Position	Staff
Manager	Dušan Bajević
Assistant manager	Takis Persias
Goalkeeping coach	Jovan Mihailović
Fitness coach	Dimitris Bouroutzikas
Head of Medical	Lakis Nikolaou
Podiatrist	Manos Arvanitakis

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 25 May 2003, 23:59 UTC+3.

No.	Player	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
22	Dionysis Chiotis		GK	(1977-06-04)4 June 1977 (aged 26)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	2005
33	Chrysostomos Michailidis		GK	(1975-01-15)15 January 1975 (aged 28)	1997	Eordaikos	Free	2005
—	Giannis Arabatzis		GK	(1984-05-28)28 May 1984 (aged 19)	2002	Makrochori	Free	2011
Defenders
2	Vasilios Borbokis		RB / RM	(1969-02-10)10 February 1969 (aged 34)	2002	PAOK	Free	2003
5	Nikos Kostenoglou (Vice-captain)		CB / RB	(1970-10-03)3 October 1970 (aged 32)	1994	Skoda Xanthi	€400,000	2003
8	Michel Kreek		LB / CB / LM / CM / DM	(1971-01-16)16 January 1971 (aged 32)	2002	Vitesse	€500,000	2004
16	Nikolaos Georgeas		RB / LB / DM	(1976-12-27)27 December 1976 (aged 26)	2001	Kalamata	€1,500,000	2006
17	Michalis Kasapis (Captain)		LB / LM	(1971-08-06)6 August 1971 (aged 31)	1993	Levadiakos	€200,000	2007
19	Mauricio Wright		CB / RB	(1970-12-20)20 December 1970 (aged 32)	2002	Herediano	Free	2005
25	Stelios Maistrellis		CB	(1979-11-10)10 November 1979 (aged 23)	2002	Aiolikos	Free	2006
31	Grigoris Georgatos		LB / LM / LW / CM	(1972-10-31)31 October 1972 (aged 30)	2002	Internazionale	€3,000,000	2005
32	Michalis Kapsis		CB	(1973-10-18)18 October 1973 (aged 29)	1999	Ethnikos Piraeus	Free	2003
40	Grigoris Toskas		CB	(1983-01-08)8 January 1983 (aged 20)	2000	AEK Athens U20	—	2005
81	Stathis Kappos		RB	(1979-07-31)31 July 1979 (aged 23)	2001	Kalamata	Free	2005
Midfielders
6	Theodoros Zagorakis (Vice-captain 2)		CM / DM / AM / RM / CB / RB	(1971-10-27)27 October 1971 (aged 31)	2000	Leicester City	Free	2003
7	Christos Maladenis		CM / RM / LM / AM / RW / LW / SS	(1974-05-23)23 May 1974 (aged 29)	1995	Skoda Xanthi	€500,000	2003
10	Vasilios Tsiartas		AM / RM / LM / SS	(1972-11-12)12 November 1972 (aged 30)	2000	Sevilla	€3,500,000	2003
13	Georgios Passios		DM / CM / CB	(1981-08-26)26 August 1981 (aged 21)	1997	AEK Athens U20	—	2003
14	Ivan Rusev		AM / RM / LM / CM	(1979-05-10)10 May 1979 (aged 24)	2001	Spartak Varna	Free	2005
18	Walter Centeno		AM / RM / LM / CM	(1974-10-06)6 October 1974 (aged 28)	2002	Saprissa	€410,000	2007
21	Kostas Katsouranis		CM / DM / RM / LM / AM / CB / RB / LB	(1979-06-21)21 June 1979 (aged 24)	2002	Panachaiki	Free	2005
23	Vasilios Lakis		RM / RW / AM / CM	(1976-09-10)10 September 1976 (aged 26)	1998	Paniliakos	€1,800,000	2003
28	Milen Petkov		DM / CM / AM / RM / LM	(1974-01-12)12 January 1974 (aged 29)	2000	CSKA Sofia	€800,000	2003
34	Nikos Pourtoulidis		CM / AM	(1983-10-07)7 October 1983 (aged 19)	2002	Nea Karvali	Free	2006
—	Dimitris Karameris		CM / DM	(1983-04-16)16 April 1983 (aged 20)	2000	AEK Athens U20	—	2005
Forwards
9	Ilias Solakis		ST	(1974-12-15)15 December 1974 (aged 28)	2002	APOEL	Free	2007
11	Demis Nikolaidis		ST / SS	(1973-09-17)17 September 1973 (aged 29)	1996	Apollon Athens	€900,000	2004
15	Livio Prieto		LW / LM / SS / AM	(1981-07-31)31 July 1981 (aged 21)	2002	Independiente	Free	2004
20	Sotiris Konstantinidis		RW / LW / RM / LM / AM	(1979-04-19)19 April 1979 (aged 24)	1999	Iraklis	Free	2003
24	Christos Kostis		SS / ST / AM / RW / LW	(1972-01-15)15 January 1972 (aged 31)	2000	Anderlecht	Free	2005
30	Ilija Ivić		ST / LW	(1971-02-17)17 February 1971 (aged 32)	2002	Aris	Free	2005
37	Dimitris Nalitzis		ST	(1976-01-25)25 January 1976 (aged 27)	2002	Udinese	Free	2003
Left during Winter Transfer Window
1	Ilias Atmatsidis		GK	(1969-04-24)24 April 1969 (aged 34)	1992	Pontioi Veria	Free	2004
—	Emanuel Ruiz		SS / ST / RW	(1978-07-07)7 July 1978 (aged 24)	2000	Boca Juniors	Free	2005

Transfers

In

Summer

No.	Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
2	DF	Vasilios Borbokis	PAOK	Transfer	Free	1 July 2002	30 June 2003	[7]
8	DF	Michel Kreek	Vitesse	Transfer	€500,000	1 July 2002	30 June 2004	[8]
9	FW	Ilias Solakis	APOEL	Transfer	Free	5 August 2002	30 June 2007	[9]
14	MF	Ivan Rusev	Athinaikos	End of loan	—	1 July 2002	30 June 2005
15	FW	Livio Prieto	Independiente	Transfer	Free	8 July 2002	30 June 2004	[10]
18	MF	Walter Centeno	Saprissa	Transfer	€410,000	9 July 2002	30 June 2007	[11]
19	DF	Mauricio Wright	Herediano	Transfer	Free	5 July 2002	30 June 2005	[12]
21	MF	Kostas Katsouranis	Panachaiki	Transfer	Free	1 July 2002	30 June 2005	[13]
25	DF	Stelios Maistrellis	Aiolikos	Transfer	Free	1 July 2002	30 June 2006
31	DF	Grigoris Georgatos	Internazionale	Transfer	€3,000,000	22 July 2002	30 June 2005	[14]
33	GK	Chrysostomos Michailidis	Ethnikos Asteras	End of loan	—	1 July 2002	30 June 2005
34	MF	Nikos Pourtoulidis	Nea Karvali	Transfer	Free	1 July 2002	30 June 2006
—	GK	Giannis Arabatzis	Makrochori	Transfer	Free	1 July 2002	30 June 2011
—	FW	Georgios Trichias	Apollon Smyrnis	End of loan	—	1 July 2002	30 June 2003
—	FW	Ilias Anastasakos	Athinaikos	End of loan	—	1 July 2002	30 June 2003
—	FW	Emanuel Ruiz	Unión Santa Fe	End of loan	—	1 July 2002	30 June 2005

Winter

No.	Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
9	FW	Ilias Solakis	Panionios	End of loan	—	1 January 2003	30 June 2007
14	MF	Ivan Rusev	Apollon Smyrnis	Loan termination	—	1 January 2003	30 June 2005

Out

Summer

No.	Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
3	DF	Ferrugem	Atlético Mineiro	Contract termination	—	9 July 2002
4	DF	Carlos Gamarra	Flamengo	End of loan	—	1 July 2002
12	DF	Georgios Xenidis	Iraklis	Contract termination	—	20 August 2002	[15]
14	MF	Akis Zikos	Monaco	Transfer	Free	1 July 2002
15	DF	Éric Rabésandratana	LB Châteauroux	Contract termination	—	1 July 2002
19	MF	Bledar Kola	Kallithea	Contract termination	—	5 July 2002
21	DF	Vaios Karagiannis	Poseidon Neon Poron	End of contract	—	1 July 2002
26	FW	António Folha	Porto	End of loan	—	1 July 2002
—	FW	Georgios Trichias	Kalamata	Transfer	Free	1 July 2002
—	FW	Ilias Anastasakos	Apollon Smyrnis	Transfer	Free	1 July 2002

Winter

No.	Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
1	GK	Ilias Atmatsidis	PAOK	Contract termination	—	10 January 2003	[16]
—	FW	Emanuel Ruiz	Talleres	Contract termination	—	1 January 2003

Loan in

Summer

No.	Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
88	FW	Dimitris Nalitzis	Udinese	Free	5 August 2002	30 June 2003	Y	[17]

Loan out

Summer

No.	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
9	FW	Ilias Solakis	Panionios	Free	5 August 2002	31 December 2002	N	[9]
12	GK	Sotiris Liberopoulos	La Louvière	Free	22 July 2002	30 June 2003	N	[14]
14	MF	Ivan Rusev	Apollon Smyrnis	Free	1 July 2002	30 June 2003	N

Contract renewals

No.	Pos.	Player	Date	Former Exp. Date	New Exp. Date	Source
1	GK	Ilias Atmatsidis	25 June 2002	30 June 2002	30 June 2004
24	FW	Christos Kostis	5 June 2002	30 June 2002	30 June 2005

Overall transfer activity

Pre-season and friendlies

UFC Jennersdorf v AEK Athens

6 July 2002 Friendly	UFC Jennersdorf	0–4	AEK Athens	Jennersdorf
			Passios Kostis Trichias Petkov	Stadium: Jennersdorf Stadium

Wiener Neustadt v AEK Athens

12 July 2002 Friendly	Wiener Neustadt	1–6	AEK Athens	Wiener Neustadt
	62'		Burgemaister 16' (o.g.) Lakis 49' Ivić 51', 65' Maladenis 61' Tsiartas 68'	Stadium: Stadion Wiener Neustadt

NK Varteks v AEK Athens

14 July 2002 Friendly	NK Varteks	2–4	AEK Athens
	55' 68'		Maladenis 2', 57' Ivić 34' Lakis 64'

Hajduk Split v AEK Athens

17 July 2002 Friendly	Hajduk Split	1–2	AEK Athens	Dietersdorf am Gnasbach
	Erceg 13'	Report	Nikolaidis 32' Lakis 78'	Stadium: Wald Stadium

Gençlerbirliği v AEK Athens

21 July 2002 Friendly	Gençlerbirliği	2–0	AEK Athens
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)

AEK Athens v Proodeftiki

24 July 2002 Friendly	AEK Athens	4–0	Proodeftiki	Nea Filadelfeia
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Tsiartas 48' Nikolaidis 56' Lakis 62' Poulopoulos 77' (o.g.)			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 2,000

AEK Athens v Panachaiki

29 July 2002 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–0	Panachaiki	Nea Filadelfeia
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Tsiartas 90+1'	Report		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 2,000

AEK Athens v Beşiktaş

31 July 2002 Friendly	AEK Athens	5–1	Beşiktaş	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Wright 10' Nikolaidis 20', 35' Lakis 23', 25'	Report	Cansun 44'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 5,000

AEK Athens v Panionios

5 August 2002 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–2	Panionios	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Centeno 31' Tsiartas 60'		45' 60'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

Levadiakos v AEK Athens

18 August 2002 Friendly	Levadiakos	1–3	AEK Athens	Livadeia
	Tsaggaris 45'		Livio Prieto 41' Centeno 69' Ivić 85'	Stadium: Levadia Municipal Stadium

Competitions

Overall record

Alpha Ethniki

League table

Results summary

Results by Matchday

Fixtures

Greek Cup

First round

Second round

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

UEFA Champions League

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 26 July 2002.

APOEL v AEK Athens

13 August 2002 First leg	APOEL	2–3	AEK Athens	Nicosia, Cyprus
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Okkarides  13' Ouzounidis 23',  43' Elia  36' Malekkos 90' (pen.)	Report	Zagorakis  20' Borbokis 44', 47' Katsouranis  75' Centeno  90+3' Nikolaidis 90+3'	Stadium: GSP Stadium Attendance: 16,192 Referee: Éric Poulat (France)

AEK Athens v APOEL

28 August 2002 Second leg	AEK Athens	1–0 (4–2 agg.)	APOEL	Athens, Greece
21:15 EEST (UTC+3)	Wright 58'	Report		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 9,204 Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

First group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 29 August 2002.^[18][19]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RM	ROM	AEK	GNK
1	Real Madrid	6	2	3	1	15	7	+8	9	Advance to second group stage		—	0–1	2–2	6–0
2	Roma	6	2	3	1	3	4	−1	9			0–3	—	1–1	0–0
3	AEK Athens	6	0	6	0	7	7	0	6	Transfer to UEFA Cup		3–3	0–0	—	1–1
4	Genk	6	0	4	2	2	9	−7	4			1–1	0–1	0–0	—

Genk v AEK Athens

17 September 2002 1	Genk	0–0	AEK Athens	Genk, Belgium
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Thijs  74'	Report	Kasapis  20' Kostenoglou  61'	Stadium: Cristal Arena Attendance: 13,500 Referee: Konrad Plautz (Austria)

AEK Athens v Roma

25 September 2002 2	AEK Athens	0–0	Roma	Athens, Greece
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Kostenoglou  53' Lakis  71'	Report	Panucci  25'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 9,444 Referee: Graham Barber (England)

AEK Athens v Real Madrid

2 October 2002 3	AEK Athens	3–3	Real Madrid	Athens, Greece
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Tsiartas  6', 6' Maladenis 25' Nikolaidis 28' Zagorakis  58'	Report	Zidane 15', 39' Guti 60' Makélélé  64'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 12,784 Referee: Valentin Ivanov (Russia)

Real Madrid v AEK Athens

22 October 2002 4	Real Madrid	2–2	AEK Athens	Madrid, Spain
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	McManaman 24', 43' Roberto Carlos  54'	Report	Georgatos  66' Katsouranis 74' Centeno 86' Zagorakis  90+1'	Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Attendance: 58,343 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)

AEK Athens v Genk

30 October 2002 5	AEK Athens	1–1	Genk	Athens, Greece
21:45 EET (UTC+2)	Lakis 30'	Report	Sonck 22' Daerden  77'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 19,775 Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)

Roma v AEK Athens

12 November 2002 6	Roma	1–1	AEK Athens	Rome, Italy
21:45 EET (UTC+2)	Delvecchio 40',  49'	Report	Zagorakis  62' Centeno 90'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 32,734 Referee: Stéphane Bré (France)

UEFA Cup

Knockout stage

Round of 32

The draw for the round of 32 was held on 15 November 2002.^[20]

AEK Athens v Maccabi Haifa

28 November 2002 First Leg	AEK Athens	4–0	Maccabi Haifa	Athens, Greece
21:15 EET (UTC+2)	Georgatos 13' Nikolaidis 23' Petkov 30' Zagorakis 35' Chiotis  90'	Report	Yakubu 12' Benado  80'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 8,695 Referee: Paulo Costa (Portugal)

Maccabi Haifa v AEK Athens

12 December 2002 Second Leg	Maccabi Haifa	1–4 (1–8 agg.)	AEK Athens	Nicosia, Cyprus
21:30 EET (UTC+2)	Badir 5' (pen.) Jano  11' Pralija  70'	Report	Georgatos  21' Katsouranis 56' Lakis 80', 90' Nalitzis 90+3'	Stadium: GSP Stadium Attendance: 1,615 Referee: Knud Erik Fisker (Denmark)

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 13 December 2002.^[21]

Málaga v AEK Athens

20 February 2003 First Leg	Málaga	0–0	AEK Athens	Málaga, Spain
22:30 EET (UTC+2)	Kreek  18'	Report	Silva  79'	Stadium: La Rosaleda Stadium Attendance: 9,720 Referee: Željko Širić (Croatia)

AEK Athens v Málaga

27 February 2003 Second Leg	AEK Athens	0–1 (0–1 agg.)	Málaga	Athens, Greece
20:00 EET (UTC+2)	Zagorakis  44'	Report	Sanz  13' Sánchez 26' Ángel  87'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 16,050 Referee: Rob Styles (England)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 25 May 2003

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		Champions League		UEFA Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
22	GK	Dionysis Chiotis	28	0	6	0	8	0	4	0	46	0
33	GK	Chrysostomos Michailidis	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
—	GK	Giannis Arabatzis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	Vasilios Borbokis	23	3	4	0	4	2	2	0	33	5
5	DF	Nikos Kostenoglou	15	0	6	0	7	0	4	0	32	0
8	DF	Michel Kreek	11	0	6	0	1	0	2	0	20	0
16	DF	Nikolaos Georgeas	16	0	8	0	1	0	1	0	26	0
17	DF	Michalis Kasapis	21	0	6	0	7	0	3	0	37	0
19	DF	Mauricio Wright	25	0	7	1	8	1	4	0	44	2
25	DF	Stelios Maistrellis	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
31	DF	Grigoris Georgatos	23	2	7	0	5	0	3	1	38	3
32	DF	Michalis Kapsis	20	0	3	0	7	0	1	0	31	0
40	DF	Grigoris Toskas	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
81	DF	Stathis Kappos	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Midfielders
6	MF	Theodoros Zagorakis	25	0	7	1	7	0	4	1	43	2
7	MF	Christos Maladenis	18	4	5	3	5	1	3	0	31	8
10	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	21	11	5	0	8	1	2	0	36	12
13	MF	Georgios Passios	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
14	MF	Ivan Rusev	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
18	MF	Walter Centeno	14	1	6	1	5	2	2	0	27	4
21	MF	Kostas Katsouranis	26	6	8	1	8	1	2	1	44	9
23	MF	Vasilios Lakis	27	12	4	0	8	1	4	2	43	15
28	MF	Milen Petkov	19	0	7	1	4	0	3	1	33	2
34	MF	Nikos Pourtoulidis	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
—	MF	Dimitris Karameris	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
9	FW	Ilias Solakis	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	4	2
11	FW	Demis Nikolaidis	22	12	2	1	8	2	4	1	36	16
15	FW	Livio Prieto	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
20	FW	Sotiris Konstantinidis	18	2	8	3	1	0	2	0	29	5
24	FW	Christos Kostis	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
30	FW	Ilija Ivić	20	9	5	1	6	0	3	0	34	10
37	FW	Dimitris Nalitzis	19	10	6	4	3	0	3	1	31	15
Left during Winter Transfer Window
1	GK	Ilias Atmatsidis	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
—	FW	Emanuel Ruiz	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goalscorers

As of 25 May 2003

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Champions League	UEFA Cup	Total
1	11	FW	Demis Nikolaidis	12	1	2	1	16
2	23	MF	Vasilios Lakis	12	0	1	2	15
	88	FW	Dimitris Nalitzis	10	4	0	1	15
4	10	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	11	0	1	0	12
5	30	FW	Ilija Ivić	9	1	0	0	10
6	21	MF	Kostas Katsouranis	6	1	1	1	9
7	7	MF	Christos Maladenis	4	3	1	0	8
8	2	DF	Vasilios Borbokis	3	0	2	0	5
	20	FW	Sotiris Konstantinidis	2	3	0	0	5
10	18	MF	Walter Centeno	1	1	2	0	4
11	31	DF	Grigoris Georgatos	2	0	0	1	3
12	9	FW	Ilias Solakis	0	2	0	0	2
	18	DF	Mauricio Wright	0	1	1	0	2
	6	MF	Theodoros Zagorakis	0	1	0	1	2
	28	MF	Milen Petkov	0	1	0	1	2
Own goals				2	0	0	0	2
Totals				74	19	11	8	112

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Vasilios Lakis	Panachaiki	6–0 (H)	12 January 2003	Alpha Ethniki	[22]
Dimitris Nalitzis	Egaleo	3–2 (H)	26 January 2003	Alpha Ethniki	[23]
Vasilios Tsiartas	Kallithea	3–1 (A)	23 February 2003	Alpha Ethniki	[24]

Assists

As of 25 May 2003

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Champions League	UEFA Cup	Total
1	31	DF	Grigoris Georgatos	17	0	0	2	19
2	10	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	6	0	3	0	9
3	30	FW	Ilija Ivić	5	0	1	0	6
	23	MF	Vasilios Lakis	4	0	0	2	6
5	2	DF	Vasilios Borbokis	5	0	0	0	5
	6	MF	Theodoros Zagorakis	5	0	0	0	5
	11	FW	Demis Nikolaidis	5	0	0	0	5
7	7	MF	Christos Maladenis	3	0	0	0	3
	18	MF	Walter Centeno	0	0	1	2	3
9	21	MF	Kostas Katsouranis	2	0	0	0	2
	20	FW	Sotiris Konstantinidis	2	0	0	0	2
11	18	DF	Mauricio Wright	1	0	0	0	1
	16	DF	Nikolaos Georgeas	1	0	0	0	1
	17	DF	Michalis Kasapis	1	0	0	0	1
	28	MF	Milen Petkov	1	0	0	0	1
	88	FW	Dimitris Nalitzis	1	0	0	0	1
Totals				59	0	5	6	70