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<div>[[Image:Basketball_1987.jpg|thumb|150px|In 1987 the Greek basketball team won the European Championship.]]<br />
Basketball made its debut in [[Greece]] in [[1919]], in [[Thessaloniki]]. A Greek student of Naismith’s from Springfield College, Michael Stergiadis, brought this new sport to our shores with the help of the Thessaloniki Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).<br />
<br />
The first tournament was held in [[1920]], won by Panionios club. The first Greek <br />
championship, won by [[AEK Athens BC|AEK Athens BC]], was held in [[1924-1925]],<br />
as per the official site of Greek Basketball Federation (EOK). <br />
<br />
The structure of basketball in Greece is well organized and provides many opportunities for young players to participate. <br />
<br />
The best clubs in Greece make up the [[A1 League]], which is professional in nature. These clubs often pay large salaries to their more experienced players and sponsor junior teams in which they own the rights to younger players. Although [[Hellenic Basketball Federation]] rules do not permit players to sign professional contracts until the age of 21, these clubs will sign players to personal agreements in which players as young as 16 years old will receive significant compensation for playing for the club. <br />
<br />
The [[A2 League]] of Greece is also considered a professional league although it is not as competitive or financially stable as the country's highest league.<br />
<br />
Greece’s victory in the 1987 European championships was a defining moment for the sport in the country. The [[National Basketball Team|national team’s]] two points victory (103-101) over the Soviet Union in the final – with [[Nikos Galis]], [[Panagiotis Giannakis]], [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[Panagiotis Fassoulas]] and the rest of the team at their best - made Basketball the national team game. In the next few years, and in the mid-1990s, there was a series of victories in international sport meetings, both for the national team and at club level. Besides, the 1987 European Championship was only the first in a series of several major meetings and international finals hosted by Greece, the most important being the 1998 Men’s Basketball World Championships, held in [[Athens]].<br />
<br />
Greece’s own debut in Olympic Basketball was in Atlanta in 1996. The Greek team was partly the old guard from the glorious national team of [[1987]] (Giannakis, Christodoulou, Fassoulas, Patavoukas) and partly new young stars (such as Sigalas, Oikonomou, and Rentzias). It was an Olympic success, taking fifth place.<br />
<br />
==Greek Basketball Trophies==<br />
*[[Eurobasket 1987]] - [[Athens]], Greece<br />
*[[Eurobasket 2005]] - Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro<br />
<br />
[[Category:Olympic Sports]]<br />
[[Category:Sports]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Basketball&diff=31742Basketball2008-01-11T14:05:11Z<p>Patik 21: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:Basketball_1987.jpg|thumb|150px|In 1987 the Greek basketball team won the European Championship.]]<br />
Basketball made its debut in [[Greece]] in [[1919]], in [[Thessaloniki]]. A Greek student of Naismith’s from Springfield College, Michael Stergiadis, brought this new sport to our shores with the help of the Thessaloniki Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).<br />
<br />
The first tournament was held in [[1920]], won by Panionios club. The first Greek <br />
championship, won by [[AEK Athens BC|AEK Athens BC]], was held in [[1924-1925]],<br />
as per the official site Greek Basketball Federation (EOK). <br />
<br />
The structure of basketball in Greece is well organized and provides many opportunities for young players to participate. <br />
<br />
The best clubs in Greece make up the [[A1 League]], which is professional in nature. These clubs often pay large salaries to their more experienced players and sponsor junior teams in which they own the rights to younger players. Although [[Hellenic Basketball Federation]] rules do not permit players to sign professional contracts until the age of 21, these clubs will sign players to personal agreements in which players as young as 16 years old will receive significant compensation for playing for the club. <br />
<br />
The [[A2 League]] of Greece is also considered a professional league although it is not as competitive or financially stable as the country's highest league.<br />
<br />
Greece’s victory in the 1987 European championships was a defining moment for the sport in the country. The [[National Basketball Team|national team’s]] two points victory (103-101) over the Soviet Union in the final – with [[Nikos Galis]], [[Panagiotis Giannakis]], [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[Panagiotis Fassoulas]] and the rest of the team at their best - made Basketball the national team game. In the next few years, and in the mid-1990s, there was a series of victories in international sport meetings, both for the national team and at club level. Besides, the 1987 European Championship was only the first in a series of several major meetings and international finals hosted by Greece, the most important being the 1998 Men’s Basketball World Championships, held in [[Athens]].<br />
<br />
Greece’s own debut in Olympic Basketball was in Atlanta in 1996. The Greek team was partly the old guard from the glorious national team of [[1987]] (Giannakis, Christodoulou, Fassoulas, Patavoukas) and partly new young stars (such as Sigalas, Oikonomou, and Rentzias). It was an Olympic success, taking fifth place.<br />
<br />
==Greek Basketball Trophies==<br />
*[[Eurobasket 1987]] - [[Athens]], Greece<br />
*[[Eurobasket 2005]] - Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro<br />
<br />
[[Category:Olympic Sports]]<br />
[[Category:Sports]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Basketball&diff=31741Basketball2008-01-11T14:04:16Z<p>Patik 21: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:Basketball_1987.jpg|thumb|150px|In 1987 the Greek basketball team won the European Championship.]]<br />
Basketball made its debut in [[Greece]] in [[1919]], in [[Thessaloniki]]. A Greek student of Naismith’s from Springfield College, Michael Stergiadis, brought this new sport to our shores with the help of the Thessaloniki Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).<br />
<br />
The first tournament was held in [[1920]], won by the Panionios club. The first Greek championship, won by [[AEK Athens BC|AEK Athens BC]], was held in [[1924-1925]],<br />
as per The Greek Basketball Federation (EOK) official site <br />
(www.basket.gr/eok/history/gbasket.asp)<br />
<br />
The structure of basketball in Greece is well organized and provides many opportunities for young players to participate. <br />
<br />
The best clubs in Greece make up the [[A1 League]], which is professional in nature. These clubs often pay large salaries to their more experienced players and sponsor junior teams in which they own the rights to younger players. Although [[Hellenic Basketball Federation]] rules do not permit players to sign professional contracts until the age of 21, these clubs will sign players to personal agreements in which players as young as 16 years old will receive significant compensation for playing for the club. <br />
<br />
The [[A2 League]] of Greece is also considered a professional league although it is not as competitive or financially stable as the country's highest league.<br />
<br />
Greece’s victory in the 1987 European championships was a defining moment for the sport in the country. The [[National Basketball Team|national team’s]] two points victory (103-101) over the Soviet Union in the final – with [[Nikos Galis]], [[Panagiotis Giannakis]], [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[Panagiotis Fassoulas]] and the rest of the team at their best - made Basketball the national team game. In the next few years, and in the mid-1990s, there was a series of victories in international sport meetings, both for the national team and at club level. Besides, the 1987 European Championship was only the first in a series of several major meetings and international finals hosted by Greece, the most important being the 1998 Men’s Basketball World Championships, held in [[Athens]].<br />
<br />
Greece’s own debut in Olympic Basketball was in Atlanta in 1996. The Greek team was partly the old guard from the glorious national team of [[1987]] (Giannakis, Christodoulou, Fassoulas, Patavoukas) and partly new young stars (such as Sigalas, Oikonomou, and Rentzias). It was an Olympic success, taking fifth place.<br />
<br />
==Greek Basketball Trophies==<br />
*[[Eurobasket 1987]] - [[Athens]], Greece<br />
*[[Eurobasket 2005]] - Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro<br />
<br />
[[Category:Olympic Sports]]<br />
[[Category:Sports]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Basketball&diff=31740Basketball2008-01-11T14:03:35Z<p>Patik 21: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:Basketball_1987.jpg|thumb|150px|In 1987 the Greek basketball team won the European Championship.]]<br />
Basketball made its debut in [[Greece]] in [[1919]], in [[Thessaloniki]]. A Greek student of Naismith’s from Springfield College, Michael Stergiadis, brought this new sport to our shores with the help of the Thessaloniki Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).<br />
<br />
The first tournament was held in [[1920]], won by the Panionios club. The first Greek championship, won by [[AEK Athens BC|AEK Athens BC]], was held in [[1924-1925]],<br />
as per The Greek Basketball Federation (EOK) official site <br />
[[www.basket.gr/eok/history/gbasket.asp]]<br />
<br />
The structure of basketball in Greece is well organized and provides many opportunities for young players to participate. <br />
<br />
The best clubs in Greece make up the [[A1 League]], which is professional in nature. These clubs often pay large salaries to their more experienced players and sponsor junior teams in which they own the rights to younger players. Although [[Hellenic Basketball Federation]] rules do not permit players to sign professional contracts until the age of 21, these clubs will sign players to personal agreements in which players as young as 16 years old will receive significant compensation for playing for the club. <br />
<br />
The [[A2 League]] of Greece is also considered a professional league although it is not as competitive or financially stable as the country's highest league.<br />
<br />
Greece’s victory in the 1987 European championships was a defining moment for the sport in the country. The [[National Basketball Team|national team’s]] two points victory (103-101) over the Soviet Union in the final – with [[Nikos Galis]], [[Panagiotis Giannakis]], [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[Panagiotis Fassoulas]] and the rest of the team at their best - made Basketball the national team game. In the next few years, and in the mid-1990s, there was a series of victories in international sport meetings, both for the national team and at club level. Besides, the 1987 European Championship was only the first in a series of several major meetings and international finals hosted by Greece, the most important being the 1998 Men’s Basketball World Championships, held in [[Athens]].<br />
<br />
Greece’s own debut in Olympic Basketball was in Atlanta in 1996. The Greek team was partly the old guard from the glorious national team of [[1987]] (Giannakis, Christodoulou, Fassoulas, Patavoukas) and partly new young stars (such as Sigalas, Oikonomou, and Rentzias). It was an Olympic success, taking fifth place.<br />
<br />
==Greek Basketball Trophies==<br />
*[[Eurobasket 1987]] - [[Athens]], Greece<br />
*[[Eurobasket 2005]] - Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro<br />
<br />
[[Category:Olympic Sports]]<br />
[[Category:Sports]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Basketball&diff=31739Basketball2008-01-11T14:01:38Z<p>Patik 21: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:Basketball_1987.jpg|thumb|150px|In 1987 the Greek basketball team won the European Championship.]]<br />
Basketball made its debut in [[Greece]] in [[1919]], in [[Thessaloniki]]. A Greek student of Naismith’s from Springfield College, Michael Stergiadis, brought this new sport to our shores with the help of the Thessaloniki Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).<br />
<br />
The first tournament was held in [[1920]], won by the Panionios club. The first Greek championship, won by [[AEK Athens BC|AEK Athens BC]], was held in [[1924-1925]],<br />
as per www.basket.gr/eok/history/gbasket.asp.<br />
The Greek Basketball Federation (EOK) was founded much later, in [[1970]].<br />
<br />
The structure of basketball in Greece is well organized and provides many opportunities for young players to participate. <br />
<br />
The best clubs in Greece make up the [[A1 League]], which is professional in nature. These clubs often pay large salaries to their more experienced players and sponsor junior teams in which they own the rights to younger players. Although [[Hellenic Basketball Federation]] rules do not permit players to sign professional contracts until the age of 21, these clubs will sign players to personal agreements in which players as young as 16 years old will receive significant compensation for playing for the club. <br />
<br />
The [[A2 League]] of Greece is also considered a professional league although it is not as competitive or financially stable as the country's highest league.<br />
<br />
Greece’s victory in the 1987 European championships was a defining moment for the sport in the country. The [[National Basketball Team|national team’s]] two points victory (103-101) over the Soviet Union in the final – with [[Nikos Galis]], [[Panagiotis Giannakis]], [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[Panagiotis Fassoulas]] and the rest of the team at their best - made Basketball the national team game. In the next few years, and in the mid-1990s, there was a series of victories in international sport meetings, both for the national team and at club level. Besides, the 1987 European Championship was only the first in a series of several major meetings and international finals hosted by Greece, the most important being the 1998 Men’s Basketball World Championships, held in [[Athens]].<br />
<br />
Greece’s own debut in Olympic Basketball was in Atlanta in 1996. The Greek team was partly the old guard from the glorious national team of [[1987]] (Giannakis, Christodoulou, Fassoulas, Patavoukas) and partly new young stars (such as Sigalas, Oikonomou, and Rentzias). It was an Olympic success, taking fifth place.<br />
<br />
==Greek Basketball Trophies==<br />
*[[Eurobasket 1987]] - [[Athens]], Greece<br />
*[[Eurobasket 2005]] - Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro<br />
<br />
[[Category:Olympic Sports]]<br />
[[Category:Sports]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Basketball&diff=31738Basketball2008-01-11T13:57:49Z<p>Patik 21: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:Basketball_1987.jpg|thumb|150px|In 1987 the Greek basketball team won the European Championship.]]<br />
Basketball made its debut in [[Greece]] in [[1919]], in [[Thessaloniki]]. A Greek student of Naismith’s from Springfield College, Michael Stergiadis, brought this new sport to our shores with the help of the Thessaloniki Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).<br />
<br />
The first tournament was held in [[1920]], won by the Panionios club. The first Greek championship, won by the [[AEK Athens BC|AEK Athens BC]], was held in [[1925]]. The Greek <br />
Basketball Federation (EOK) was founded much later, in [[1970]].<br />
<br />
The structure of basketball in Greece is well organized and provides many opportunities for young players to participate. <br />
<br />
The best clubs in Greece make up the [[A1 League]], which is professional in nature. These clubs often pay large salaries to their more experienced players and sponsor junior teams in which they own the rights to younger players. Although [[Hellenic Basketball Federation]] rules do not permit players to sign professional contracts until the age of 21, these clubs will sign players to personal agreements in which players as young as 16 years old will receive significant compensation for playing for the club. <br />
<br />
The [[A2 League]] of Greece is also considered a professional league although it is not as competitive or financially stable as the country's highest league.<br />
<br />
Greece’s victory in the 1987 European championships was a defining moment for the sport in the country. The [[National Basketball Team|national team’s]] two points victory (103-101) over the Soviet Union in the final – with [[Nikos Galis]], [[Panagiotis Giannakis]], [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[Panagiotis Fassoulas]] and the rest of the team at their best - made Basketball the national team game. In the next few years, and in the mid-1990s, there was a series of victories in international sport meetings, both for the national team and at club level. Besides, the 1987 European Championship was only the first in a series of several major meetings and international finals hosted by Greece, the most important being the 1998 Men’s Basketball World Championships, held in [[Athens]].<br />
<br />
Greece’s own debut in Olympic Basketball was in Atlanta in 1996. The Greek team was partly the old guard from the glorious national team of [[1987]] (Giannakis, Christodoulou, Fassoulas, Patavoukas) and partly new young stars (such as Sigalas, Oikonomou, and Rentzias). It was an Olympic success, taking fifth place.<br />
<br />
==Greek Basketball Trophies==<br />
*[[Eurobasket 1987]] - [[Athens]], Greece<br />
*[[Eurobasket 2005]] - Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro<br />
<br />
[[Category:Olympic Sports]]<br />
[[Category:Sports]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Basketball&diff=31737Basketball2008-01-11T13:57:16Z<p>Patik 21: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:Basketball_1987.jpg|thumb|150px|In 1987 the Greek basketball team won the European Championship.]]<br />
Basketball made its debut in [[Greece]] in [[1919]], in [[Thessaloniki]]. A Greek student of Naismith’s from Springfield College, Michael Stergiadis, brought this new sport to our shores with the help of the Thessaloniki Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).<br />
<br />
The first tournament was held in [[1920]], won by the Panionios club. The first Greek championship, won by the [[AEK Athens BC|AEK Athens]], was held in [[1925]]. The Greek <br />
Basketball Federation (EOK) was founded much later, in [[1970]].<br />
<br />
The structure of basketball in Greece is well organized and provides many opportunities for young players to participate. <br />
<br />
The best clubs in Greece make up the [[A1 League]], which is professional in nature. These clubs often pay large salaries to their more experienced players and sponsor junior teams in which they own the rights to younger players. Although [[Hellenic Basketball Federation]] rules do not permit players to sign professional contracts until the age of 21, these clubs will sign players to personal agreements in which players as young as 16 years old will receive significant compensation for playing for the club. <br />
<br />
The [[A2 League]] of Greece is also considered a professional league although it is not as competitive or financially stable as the country's highest league.<br />
<br />
Greece’s victory in the 1987 European championships was a defining moment for the sport in the country. The [[National Basketball Team|national team’s]] two points victory (103-101) over the Soviet Union in the final – with [[Nikos Galis]], [[Panagiotis Giannakis]], [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[Panagiotis Fassoulas]] and the rest of the team at their best - made Basketball the national team game. In the next few years, and in the mid-1990s, there was a series of victories in international sport meetings, both for the national team and at club level. Besides, the 1987 European Championship was only the first in a series of several major meetings and international finals hosted by Greece, the most important being the 1998 Men’s Basketball World Championships, held in [[Athens]].<br />
<br />
Greece’s own debut in Olympic Basketball was in Atlanta in 1996. The Greek team was partly the old guard from the glorious national team of [[1987]] (Giannakis, Christodoulou, Fassoulas, Patavoukas) and partly new young stars (such as Sigalas, Oikonomou, and Rentzias). It was an Olympic success, taking fifth place.<br />
<br />
==Greek Basketball Trophies==<br />
*[[Eurobasket 1987]] - [[Athens]], Greece<br />
*[[Eurobasket 2005]] - Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro<br />
<br />
[[Category:Olympic Sports]]<br />
[[Category:Sports]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Basketball&diff=31736Basketball2008-01-11T13:56:26Z<p>Patik 21: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:Basketball_1987.jpg|thumb|150px|In 1987 the Greek basketball team won the European Championship.]]<br />
Basketball made its debut in [[Greece]] in [[1919]], in [[Thessaloniki]]. A Greek student of Naismith’s from Springfield College, Michael Stergiadis, brought this new sport to our shores with the help of the Thessaloniki Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).<br />
<br />
The first tournament was held in [[1920]], won by the Panionios club. The first Greek championship, won by the [[AEK Athens BC|AEK Athens club]], was held in [[1925]]. The Greek <br />
Basketball Federation (EOK) was founded much later, in [[1970]].<br />
<br />
The structure of basketball in Greece is well organized and provides many opportunities for young players to participate. <br />
<br />
The best clubs in Greece make up the [[A1 League]], which is professional in nature. These clubs often pay large salaries to their more experienced players and sponsor junior teams in which they own the rights to younger players. Although [[Hellenic Basketball Federation]] rules do not permit players to sign professional contracts until the age of 21, these clubs will sign players to personal agreements in which players as young as 16 years old will receive significant compensation for playing for the club. <br />
<br />
The [[A2 League]] of Greece is also considered a professional league although it is not as competitive or financially stable as the country's highest league.<br />
<br />
Greece’s victory in the 1987 European championships was a defining moment for the sport in the country. The [[National Basketball Team|national team’s]] two points victory (103-101) over the Soviet Union in the final – with [[Nikos Galis]], [[Panagiotis Giannakis]], [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[Panagiotis Fassoulas]] and the rest of the team at their best - made Basketball the national team game. In the next few years, and in the mid-1990s, there was a series of victories in international sport meetings, both for the national team and at club level. Besides, the 1987 European Championship was only the first in a series of several major meetings and international finals hosted by Greece, the most important being the 1998 Men’s Basketball World Championships, held in [[Athens]].<br />
<br />
Greece’s own debut in Olympic Basketball was in Atlanta in 1996. The Greek team was partly the old guard from the glorious national team of [[1987]] (Giannakis, Christodoulou, Fassoulas, Patavoukas) and partly new young stars (such as Sigalas, Oikonomou, and Rentzias). It was an Olympic success, taking fifth place.<br />
<br />
==Greek Basketball Trophies==<br />
*[[Eurobasket 1987]] - [[Athens]], Greece<br />
*[[Eurobasket 2005]] - Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro<br />
<br />
[[Category:Olympic Sports]]<br />
[[Category:Sports]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31576AEK FC2008-01-07T13:38:27Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1970s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
<br />
<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
<br />
The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
<br />
In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
<br />
By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
<br />
[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
<br />
The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow (2-0,1-2), Derby County (2-0,3-2), Red Star (2-0,1-3) and Queens<br />
Park Rangers (0-3,3-0 and 7-6 on penalty-kicks).<br />
The next two years would see AEK win 2 Greek championships, 1 double and another one time<br />
to be cup-finalist.<br />
<br />
===1980s===<br />
The [[1980s]] started with the resignation, in June, of President [[Loukas Barlos]].<br />
During the 1980s, AEK won only 3 titles: The Greek Cup of [[1983]] by defeating [[PAOK FC|PAOK]] 2-0 (Mavros, [[Vangelis Vlachos|V.Vlachos]]) at OAKA, in front of 75.000 fans.<br />
The Championship of [[1989]] by defeating Olympiakos 1-0 ([[Takis Karagiozopoulos|Karagiozopoulos]]) at OAKA on [[May 7|7th May]]<br />
[[1989]] (one of the best days of AEK fans) and the Super-Cup of 1989 by defeating Panathinaikos on penalty kicks (1-1 normal time) at OAKA on 30th August 1989.<br />
<br />
The latter title came in the first year of the reign of AEK's former striker, [[Dusan Bajevic]], as coach. More would follow...<br />
<br />
===1990s===<br />
The decade of 1990s was the best for AEK,as won 3 consecutive Championships (1992,1993,1994)<br />
2 consecutive Cups (1996 by winning Apollon 7-1 at OAKA and 1997 by winning Panathinaikos on<br />
penalty Kicks at Karaiskaki stadium, as the normal time of game was 0-0).<br />
In addition, AEK won the League Cup of 1990 (by winning Olympiakos 3-2 at OAKA), the<br />
Mediterranean Cup of 1991 (by winning OFI 1-0 at Rizoupoli) and the Super Cup of 1996 by<br />
winning again Panathinaikos on penalty kicks at Karaiskaki (1-1 at the normal time of game).<br />
At the period 1994-1995, AEK became the first greek football club that participated to<br />
the group stage of Champions League (best 16 teams of Europe), as won Glascow Rangers two<br />
times (2-0 at Nea Filadelphia and 1-0 in Scotland).<br />
At 1996-1997 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup and simultaneously became<br />
the unique greek football club having taken part at the quarter final of all European<br />
Competitions.<br />
At 1997-1998 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup for 2nd consecutive season<br />
and became the first greek football cup having achieved such a record.<br />
<br />
===2000s===<br />
AEK won the cups of 2000 (by winning Ionikos 3-0 at OAKA) and 2002 (by winning Olympiakos<br />
2-1 at OAKA) and also became the first greek football club that reached to the fourth round<br />
of UEFA Cup for third consecutive season (2001,2002,2003).<br />
In addition, AEK became the unique greek football club that participated to the group stage<br />
of Champions League (2002-2003) without loosing even one game (0-0 and 1-1 with Genk,<br />
3-3 and 2-2 with Real and 0-0 and 1-1 with Roma).<br />
At 2006-2007, AEK participated to the group stage of Champions League for 3rd time at<br />
the last 5 years, having won Hearts (at third qualifying round) two times (2-1 in Scotland <br />
and 3-0 at OAKA) and at the group stage won Milan 1-0 and Lille 1-0 at OAKA and took another<br />
2 points from Anderlecht (1-1 at OAKA and 2-2 in Belgium).<br />
For the time being (2007-2008), AEK has been advanced to the third round of UEFA Cup,<br />
where will play against Getafe, on 13th February 2008 at OAKA and on 21st February 2008 in<br />
Spain.<br />
<br />
==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panagiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Christos Vasilopoulos]]<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]] - [[2002]], [[2004]] - [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2006]] - to date)<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31574AEK FC2008-01-07T13:33:31Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1980s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
<br />
<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
<br />
The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
<br />
In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
<br />
By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
<br />
[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
<br />
The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
<br />
===1980s===<br />
The [[1980s]] started with the resignation, in June, of President [[Loukas Barlos]].<br />
During the 1980s, AEK won only 3 titles: The Greek Cup of [[1983]] by defeating [[PAOK FC|PAOK]] 2-0 (Mavros, [[Vangelis Vlachos|V.Vlachos]]) at OAKA, in front of 75.000 fans.<br />
The Championship of [[1989]] by defeating Olympiakos 1-0 ([[Takis Karagiozopoulos|Karagiozopoulos]]) at OAKA on [[May 7|7th May]]<br />
[[1989]] (one of the best days of AEK fans) and the Super-Cup of 1989 by defeating Panathinaikos on penalty kicks (1-1 normal time) at OAKA on 30th August 1989.<br />
<br />
The latter title came in the first year of the reign of AEK's former striker, [[Dusan Bajevic]], as coach. More would follow...<br />
<br />
===1990s===<br />
The decade of 1990s was the best for AEK,as won 3 consecutive Championships (1992,1993,1994)<br />
2 consecutive Cups (1996 by winning Apollon 7-1 at OAKA and 1997 by winning Panathinaikos on<br />
penalty Kicks at Karaiskaki stadium, as the normal time of game was 0-0).<br />
In addition, AEK won the League Cup of 1990 (by winning Olympiakos 3-2 at OAKA), the<br />
Mediterranean Cup of 1991 (by winning OFI 1-0 at Rizoupoli) and the Super Cup of 1996 by<br />
winning again Panathinaikos on penalty kicks at Karaiskaki (1-1 at the normal time of game).<br />
At the period 1994-1995, AEK became the first greek football club that participated to<br />
the group stage of Champions League (best 16 teams of Europe), as won Glascow Rangers two<br />
times (2-0 at Nea Filadelphia and 1-0 in Scotland).<br />
At 1996-1997 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup and simultaneously became<br />
the unique greek football club having taken part at the quarter final of all European<br />
Competitions.<br />
At 1997-1998 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup for 2nd consecutive season<br />
and became the first greek football cup having achieved such a record.<br />
<br />
===2000s===<br />
AEK won the cups of 2000 (by winning Ionikos 3-0 at OAKA) and 2002 (by winning Olympiakos<br />
2-1 at OAKA) and also became the first greek football club that reached to the fourth round<br />
of UEFA Cup for third consecutive season (2001,2002,2003).<br />
In addition, AEK became the unique greek football club that participated to the group stage<br />
of Champions League (2002-2003) without loosing even one game (0-0 and 1-1 with Genk,<br />
3-3 and 2-2 with Real and 0-0 and 1-1 with Roma).<br />
At 2006-2007, AEK participated to the group stage of Champions League for 3rd time at<br />
the last 5 years, having won Hearts (at third qualifying round) two times (2-1 in Scotland <br />
and 3-0 at OAKA) and at the group stage won Milan 1-0 and Lille 1-0 at OAKA and took another<br />
2 points from Anderlecht (1-1 at OAKA and 2-2 in Belgium).<br />
For the time being (2007-2008), AEK has been advanced to the third round of UEFA Cup,<br />
where will play against Getafe, on 13th February 2008 at OAKA and on 21st February 2008 in<br />
Spain.<br />
<br />
==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panagiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Christos Vasilopoulos]]<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]] - [[2002]], [[2004]] - [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2006]] - to date)<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31573AEK FC2008-01-07T13:32:47Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1980s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
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<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
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The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
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In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
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In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
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By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
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===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
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[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
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The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
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===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
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===1980s===<br />
The [[1980s]] started with the resignation, in June, of President [[Loukas Barlos]]. More disappointment was to follow as Olympiakos made the transition to a professional club much better than AEK, winning the first four championships of the decade.<br />
During the 1980s, AEK won only 3 titles: The Greek Cup of [[1983]] by defeating [[PAOK FC|PAOK]] 2-0 (Mavros, [[Vangelis Vlachos|V.Vlachos]]) at OAKA, in front of 75.000 fans.<br />
The Championship of [[1989]] by defeating Olympiakos 1-0 ([[Takis Karagiozopoulos|Karagiozopoulos]]) at OAKA on [[May 7|7th May]]<br />
[[1989]] (one of the best days of AEK fans) and the Super-Cup of 1989 by defeating Panathinaikos on penalty kicks (1-1 normal time) at OAKA on 30th August 1989.<br />
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The latter title came in the first year of the reign of AEK's former striker, [[Dusan Bajevic]], as coach. More would follow...<br />
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===1990s===<br />
The decade of 1990s was the best for AEK,as won 3 consecutive Championships (1992,1993,1994)<br />
2 consecutive Cups (1996 by winning Apollon 7-1 at OAKA and 1997 by winning Panathinaikos on<br />
penalty Kicks at Karaiskaki stadium, as the normal time of game was 0-0).<br />
In addition, AEK won the League Cup of 1990 (by winning Olympiakos 3-2 at OAKA), the<br />
Mediterranean Cup of 1991 (by winning OFI 1-0 at Rizoupoli) and the Super Cup of 1996 by<br />
winning again Panathinaikos on penalty kicks at Karaiskaki (1-1 at the normal time of game).<br />
At the period 1994-1995, AEK became the first greek football club that participated to<br />
the group stage of Champions League (best 16 teams of Europe), as won Glascow Rangers two<br />
times (2-0 at Nea Filadelphia and 1-0 in Scotland).<br />
At 1996-1997 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup and simultaneously became<br />
the unique greek football club having taken part at the quarter final of all European<br />
Competitions.<br />
At 1997-1998 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup for 2nd consecutive season<br />
and became the first greek football cup having achieved such a record.<br />
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===2000s===<br />
AEK won the cups of 2000 (by winning Ionikos 3-0 at OAKA) and 2002 (by winning Olympiakos<br />
2-1 at OAKA) and also became the first greek football club that reached to the fourth round<br />
of UEFA Cup for third consecutive season (2001,2002,2003).<br />
In addition, AEK became the unique greek football club that participated to the group stage<br />
of Champions League (2002-2003) without loosing even one game (0-0 and 1-1 with Genk,<br />
3-3 and 2-2 with Real and 0-0 and 1-1 with Roma).<br />
At 2006-2007, AEK participated to the group stage of Champions League for 3rd time at<br />
the last 5 years, having won Hearts (at third qualifying round) two times (2-1 in Scotland <br />
and 3-0 at OAKA) and at the group stage won Milan 1-0 and Lille 1-0 at OAKA and took another<br />
2 points from Anderlecht (1-1 at OAKA and 2-2 in Belgium).<br />
For the time being (2007-2008), AEK has been advanced to the third round of UEFA Cup,<br />
where will play against Getafe, on 13th February 2008 at OAKA and on 21st February 2008 in<br />
Spain.<br />
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==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
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==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panagiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Christos Vasilopoulos]]<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]] - [[2002]], [[2004]] - [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2006]] - to date)<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31570AEK FC2008-01-07T13:28:46Z<p>Patik 21: /* 2000s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
<br />
<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
<br />
The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
<br />
In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
<br />
By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
<br />
[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
<br />
The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
<br />
===1980s===<br />
The [[1980s]] started with the resignation, in June, of President [[Loukas Barlos]]. More disappointment was to follow as Olympiakos made the transition to a professional club much better than AEK, winning the first four championships of the decade.<br />
During the 1980s, AEK won only 3 titles: The Greek Cup of [[1983]] by defeating [[PAOK FC|PAOK]] 2-0 (Mavros, [[Vangelis Vlachos|V.Vlachos]]) at OAKA, before 73.000 fans.<br />
The Championship of [[1989]] by defeating Olympiakos 1-0 ([[Takis Karagiozopoulos|Karagiozopoulos]]) at OAKA on [[May 7|7th May]]<br />
[[1989]] (one of the best days of AEK fans) and the Super-Cup of 1989 by defeating Panathinaikos on penalty kicks (1-1 normal time) at OAKA.<br />
<br />
The latter title came in the first year of the reign of AEK's former striker, [[Dusan Bajevic]], as coach. More would follow...<br />
<br />
===1990s===<br />
The decade of 1990s was the best for AEK,as won 3 consecutive Championships (1992,1993,1994)<br />
2 consecutive Cups (1996 by winning Apollon 7-1 at OAKA and 1997 by winning Panathinaikos on<br />
penalty Kicks at Karaiskaki stadium, as the normal time of game was 0-0).<br />
In addition, AEK won the League Cup of 1990 (by winning Olympiakos 3-2 at OAKA), the<br />
Mediterranean Cup of 1991 (by winning OFI 1-0 at Rizoupoli) and the Super Cup of 1996 by<br />
winning again Panathinaikos on penalty kicks at Karaiskaki (1-1 at the normal time of game).<br />
At the period 1994-1995, AEK became the first greek football club that participated to<br />
the group stage of Champions League (best 16 teams of Europe), as won Glascow Rangers two<br />
times (2-0 at Nea Filadelphia and 1-0 in Scotland).<br />
At 1996-1997 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup and simultaneously became<br />
the unique greek football club having taken part at the quarter final of all European<br />
Competitions.<br />
At 1997-1998 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup for 2nd consecutive season<br />
and became the first greek football cup having achieved such a record.<br />
<br />
===2000s===<br />
AEK won the cups of 2000 (by winning Ionikos 3-0 at OAKA) and 2002 (by winning Olympiakos<br />
2-1 at OAKA) and also became the first greek football club that reached to the fourth round<br />
of UEFA Cup for third consecutive season (2001,2002,2003).<br />
In addition, AEK became the unique greek football club that participated to the group stage<br />
of Champions League (2002-2003) without loosing even one game (0-0 and 1-1 with Genk,<br />
3-3 and 2-2 with Real and 0-0 and 1-1 with Roma).<br />
At 2006-2007, AEK participated to the group stage of Champions League for 3rd time at<br />
the last 5 years, having won Hearts (at third qualifying round) two times (2-1 in Scotland <br />
and 3-0 at OAKA) and at the group stage won Milan 1-0 and Lille 1-0 at OAKA and took another<br />
2 points from Anderlecht (1-1 at OAKA and 2-2 in Belgium).<br />
For the time being (2007-2008), AEK has been advanced to the third round of UEFA Cup,<br />
where will play against Getafe, on 13th February 2008 at OAKA and on 21st February 2008 in<br />
Spain.<br />
<br />
==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panagiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Christos Vasilopoulos]]<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]] - [[2002]], [[2004]] - [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2006]] - to date)<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
**1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
**1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local <br />
talent for overseas export, such as [[Vasilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Kostis]], [[Vasilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], <br />
[[Triantafillos Macheridis]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Theodoros Zagorakis]], <br />
[[Michalis Kapsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Fanis Gekas]], <br />
[[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], <br />
[[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Vangelis Moras]],<br />
[[Leonidas Kapandais]], [[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
**1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
**1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local <br />
talent for overseas export, such as [[Vasilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Kostis]], [[Vasilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], <br />
[[Triantafillos Macheridis]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Theodoros Zagorakis]], <br />
[[Michalis Kapsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Fanis Gekas]], <br />
[[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], <br />
[[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Vangelis Moras]], [[Leonidas<br />
Kapandais]], [[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31502AEK FC2008-01-03T11:41:01Z<p>Patik 21: /* 2000s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
<br />
<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
<br />
The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
<br />
In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
<br />
By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
<br />
[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
<br />
The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
<br />
===1980s===<br />
During the decade of 1980s, AEK won only 3 titles: The Greek Cup of 1983 by winning PAOK <br />
2-0 (Mavros,V.Vlachos) at OAKA, with 73.000 fans of AEK to be present.<br />
The Championship of 1989 by winning Olympiakos 1-0 (Karagiozopoulos) at OAKA on 7th May<br />
1989 (one of the best days of AEK fans) and the Super-Cup of 1989 by winning Panathinaikos <br />
on penalty kicks (1-1 at normal time of game) at OAKA.<br />
<br />
===1990s===<br />
The decade of 1990s was the best for AEK,as won 3 consecutive Championships (1992,1993,1994)<br />
2 consecutive Cups (1996 by winning Apollon 7-1 at OAKA and 1997 by winning Panathinaikos on<br />
penalty Kicks at Karaiskaki stadium, as the normal time of game was 0-0).<br />
In addition, AEK won the League Cup of 1990 (by winning Olympiakos 3-2 at OAKA), the<br />
Mediterranean Cup of 1991 (by winning OFI 1-0 at Rizoupoli) and the Super Cup of 1996 by<br />
winning again Panathinaikos on penalty kicks at Karaiskaki (1-1 at the normal time of game).<br />
At the period 1994-1995, AEK became the first greek football club that participated to<br />
the group stage of Champions League (best 16 teams of Europe), as won Glascow Rangers two<br />
times (2-0 at Nea Filadelphia and 1-0 in Scotland).<br />
At 1996-1997 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup and simultaneously became<br />
the unique greek football club having taken part at the quarter final of all European<br />
Competitions.<br />
At 1997-1998 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup for 2nd consecutive season<br />
and became the first greek football cup having achieved such a record.<br />
<br />
===2000s===<br />
AEK won the cups of 2000 (by winning Ionikos 3-0 at OAKA) and 2002 (by winning Olympiakos<br />
2-1 at OAKA) and also became the first greek football club that reached to the fourth round<br />
of UEFA Cup for third consecutive season (2001,2002,2003).<br />
In addition, AEK became the unique greek football club that participated to the group stage<br />
of Champions League (2002-2003) without loosing even one game (0-0 and 1-1 with Genk,<br />
3-3 and 2-2 with Real and 0-0 and 1-1 with Roma).<br />
At 2006-2007, AEK participated to the group stage of Champions League for 3rd time at<br />
the last 5 years, having won Hearts (at third qualifying round) two times (2-1 in Scotland <br />
and 3-0 at OAKA) and at the group stage won Milan 1-0 and Lille 1-0 at OAKA and took another<br />
2 points from Anderlecht (1-1 at OAKA and 2-2 in Belgium).<br />
For the time being, AEK is very close to be champion for 2007-2008 as after 14 games at<br />
Superleague, is at the first position with 33 points, having 11 wins (5 wins at OAKA and<br />
6 wins away).<br />
<br />
==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]] - [[2002]], [[2004]] - [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2006]] - to date)<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31501AEK FC2008-01-03T11:36:02Z<p>Patik 21: /* 2000s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
<br />
<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
<br />
The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
<br />
In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
<br />
By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
<br />
[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
<br />
The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
<br />
===1980s===<br />
During the decade of 1980s, AEK won only 3 titles: The Greek Cup of 1983 by winning PAOK <br />
2-0 (Mavros,V.Vlachos) at OAKA, with 73.000 fans of AEK to be present.<br />
The Championship of 1989 by winning Olympiakos 1-0 (Karagiozopoulos) at OAKA on 7th May<br />
1989 (one of the best days of AEK fans) and the Super-Cup of 1989 by winning Panathinaikos <br />
on penalty kicks (1-1 at normal time of game) at OAKA.<br />
<br />
===1990s===<br />
The decade of 1990s was the best for AEK,as won 3 consecutive Championships (1992,1993,1994)<br />
2 consecutive Cups (1996 by winning Apollon 7-1 at OAKA and 1997 by winning Panathinaikos on<br />
penalty Kicks at Karaiskaki stadium, as the normal time of game was 0-0).<br />
In addition, AEK won the League Cup of 1990 (by winning Olympiakos 3-2 at OAKA), the<br />
Mediterranean Cup of 1991 (by winning OFI 1-0 at Rizoupoli) and the Super Cup of 1996 by<br />
winning again Panathinaikos on penalty kicks at Karaiskaki (1-1 at the normal time of game).<br />
At the period 1994-1995, AEK became the first greek football club that participated to<br />
the group stage of Champions League (best 16 teams of Europe), as won Glascow Rangers two<br />
times (2-0 at Nea Filadelphia and 1-0 in Scotland).<br />
At 1996-1997 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup and simultaneously became<br />
the unique greek football club having taken part at the quarter final of all European<br />
Competitions.<br />
At 1997-1998 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup for 2nd consecutive season<br />
and became the first greek football cup having achieved such a record.<br />
<br />
===2000s===<br />
AEK won the cups of 2000 (by winning Ionikos 3-0 at OAKA) and 2002 (by winning Olympiakos<br />
2-1 at OAKA) and also became the first greek football club that reached to the fourth round<br />
of UEFA Cup for third consecutive season (2001,2002,2003).<br />
In addition, AEK became the unique greek football club that participated to the group stage<br />
of Champions League (2002-2003) without loosing even one game (0-0 and 1-1 with Genk,<br />
3-3 and 2-2 with Real and 0-0 and 1-1 with Roma).<br />
At 2006-2007, AEK participated to the group stage of Champions League for 3rd time at<br />
the last 5 years, having won Hearts (at third qualifying round) two times (2-1 in Scotland <br />
and 3-0 at OAKA) and at the group stage won Milan 1-0 and Lille 1-0 at OAKA and took another<br />
2 points from Anderlecht (1-1 at OAKA and 2-2 in Belgium).<br />
For the time being, AEK is very close to be champion for 2007-2008 as after 14 games of<br />
Superleague, is at the first position with 33 points, having 11 wins (5 wins at OAKA and<br />
6 wins away).<br />
<br />
==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]] - [[2002]], [[2004]] - [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2006]] - to date)<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31500AEK FC2008-01-03T11:28:23Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1990s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
<br />
<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
<br />
The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
<br />
In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
<br />
By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
<br />
[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
<br />
The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
<br />
===1980s===<br />
During the decade of 1980s, AEK won only 3 titles: The Greek Cup of 1983 by winning PAOK <br />
2-0 (Mavros,V.Vlachos) at OAKA, with 73.000 fans of AEK to be present.<br />
The Championship of 1989 by winning Olympiakos 1-0 (Karagiozopoulos) at OAKA on 7th May<br />
1989 (one of the best days of AEK fans) and the Super-Cup of 1989 by winning Panathinaikos <br />
on penalty kicks (1-1 at normal time of game) at OAKA.<br />
<br />
===1990s===<br />
The decade of 1990s was the best for AEK,as won 3 consecutive Championships (1992,1993,1994)<br />
2 consecutive Cups (1996 by winning Apollon 7-1 at OAKA and 1997 by winning Panathinaikos on<br />
penalty Kicks at Karaiskaki stadium, as the normal time of game was 0-0).<br />
In addition, AEK won the League Cup of 1990 (by winning Olympiakos 3-2 at OAKA), the<br />
Mediterranean Cup of 1991 (by winning OFI 1-0 at Rizoupoli) and the Super Cup of 1996 by<br />
winning again Panathinaikos on penalty kicks at Karaiskaki (1-1 at the normal time of game).<br />
At the period 1994-1995, AEK became the first greek football club that participated to<br />
the group stage of Champions League (best 16 teams of Europe), as won Glascow Rangers two<br />
times (2-0 at Nea Filadelphia and 1-0 in Scotland).<br />
At 1996-1997 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup and simultaneously became<br />
the unique greek football club having taken part at the quarter final of all European<br />
Competitions.<br />
At 1997-1998 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup for 2nd consecutive season<br />
and became the first greek football cup having achieved such a record.<br />
<br />
===2000s===<br />
AEK won the cups of 2000 (by winning Ionikos 3-0 at OAKA) and 2002 (by winning Olympiakos<br />
2-1 at OAKA) and also became the first greek football club that reached to the fourth round<br />
of UEFA Cup for third consecutive season (2001,2002,2003).<br />
In addition, AEK became the unique greek football club that participated to the group stage<br />
of Champions League (2002-2003) without loosing even one game (0-0 and 1-1 with Genk,<br />
3-3 and 2-2 with Real and 0-0 and 1-1 with Roma).<br />
At 2006-2007, AEK participated to the group stage of Champions League for 3rd time at<br />
the last 5 years, having won Hearts (at third qualifying round) two times (2-1 in Scotland <br />
and 3-0 at OAKA) and at the group stage won Milan 1-0 and Lille 1-0 at OAKA and took another<br />
2 points from Anderlecht (1-1 at OAKA and 2-2 in Belgium).<br />
<br />
==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]] - [[2002]], [[2004]] - [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2006]] - to date)<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31499AEK FC2008-01-03T11:25:26Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1970s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
<br />
<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
<br />
The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
<br />
In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
<br />
By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
<br />
[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
<br />
The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
<br />
===1980s===<br />
During the decade of 1980s, AEK won only 3 titles: The Greek Cup of 1983 by winning PAOK <br />
2-0 (Mavros,V.Vlachos) at OAKA, with 73.000 fans of AEK to be present.<br />
The Championship of 1989 by winning Olympiakos 1-0 (Karagiozopoulos) at OAKA on 7th May<br />
1989 (one of the best days of AEK fans) and the Super-Cup of 1989 by winning Panathinaikos <br />
on penalty kicks (1-1 at normal time of game) at OAKA.<br />
<br />
===1990s===<br />
The decade of 1990s was the best for AEK,as won 3 consecutive Championships (1992,1993,1994)<br />
2 consecutive Cups (1996 by winning Apollon 7-1 at OAKA and 1997 by winning Panathinaikos on<br />
penalty Kicks at Karaiskaki stadium, as the normal time of game was 0-0).<br />
In addition, AEK won the League Cup of 1990 (by winning Olympiakos 3-2 at OAKA), the<br />
Mediterranean Cup of 1991 (by winning OFI 1-0 at Rizoupoli) and the Super Cup of 1996 by<br />
winning again Panathinaikos on penalty kicks at OAKA (1-1 at the normal time of game).<br />
At the period 1994-1995, AEK became the first greek football club that participated to<br />
the group stage of Champions League (best 16 teams of Europe), as won Glascow Rangers two<br />
times (2-0 at Nea Filadelphia and 1-0 in Scotland).<br />
At 1996-1997 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup and simultaneously became<br />
the unique greek football club having taken part at the quarter final of all European<br />
Competitions.<br />
At 1997-1998 AEK reached the quarter final of Cup Winners Cup for 2nd consecutive season<br />
and became the first greek football cup having achieved such a record.<br />
<br />
===2000s===<br />
AEK won the cups of 2000 (by winning Ionikos 3-0 at OAKA) and 2002 (by winning Olympiakos<br />
2-1 at OAKA) and also became the first greek football club that reached to the fourth round<br />
of UEFA Cup for third consecutive season (2001,2002,2003).<br />
In addition, AEK became the unique greek football club that participated to the group stage<br />
of Champions League (2002-2003) without loosing even one game (0-0 and 1-1 with Genk,<br />
3-3 and 2-2 with Real and 0-0 and 1-1 with Roma).<br />
At 2006-2007, AEK participated to the group stage of Champions League for 3rd time at<br />
the last 5 years, having won Hearts (at third qualifying round) two times (2-1 in Scotland <br />
and 3-0 at OAKA) and at the group stage won Milan 1-0 and Lille 1-0 at OAKA and took another<br />
2 points from Anderlecht (1-1 at OAKA and 2-2 in Belgium).<br />
<br />
==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]] - [[2002]], [[2004]] - [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2006]] - to date)<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31474AEK FC2008-01-02T13:18:05Z<p>Patik 21: /* Coaches */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
<br />
<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
<br />
The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
<br />
In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
<br />
By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
<br />
[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
<br />
The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
<br />
==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]] - [[2002]], [[2004]] - [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2006]] - up to now<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31473AEK FC2008-01-02T13:17:07Z<p>Patik 21: /* Coaches */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
<br />
<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
<br />
The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
<br />
In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
<br />
By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
<br />
[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
<br />
The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
<br />
==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]] - [[2002]], [[2004]] - [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2006]]) up to now<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31472AEK FC2008-01-02T13:13:34Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1970s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
<br />
This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
<br />
It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
<br />
<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
<br />
The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
<br />
In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
<br />
By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
<br />
[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
<br />
The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (being the unique Greek football club having achieved this record),<br />
eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
<br />
==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]], [[2002]], [[2005]], [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2007]])<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31471AEK FC2008-01-02T13:11:29Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1960s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
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This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
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It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
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<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
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The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
<br />
In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
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In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
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By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
<br />
===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
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[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
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The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
In 1969 AEK became the first Greek football club that reached the quarter-final of<br />
European Champions Cup.<br />
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===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
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==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]], [[2002]], [[2005]], [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2007]])<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
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[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31469AEK FC2008-01-02T13:06:13Z<p>Patik 21: /* Titles */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
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This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
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It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
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<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
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The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
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In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias Athens and won 2-0.<br />
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In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
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By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
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===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). <br />
During the German occupation of the country, AEK won two unofficial titles in [[1941]] and [[1943]]. Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
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[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
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The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
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===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
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==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
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==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1941]]<br />
*[[1943]]<br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1932]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
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*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]], [[2002]], [[2005]], [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2007]])<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31467AEK FC2008-01-02T13:03:45Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1960s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
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This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
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It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
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<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
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The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
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In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias-Athinwn and won 2-0.<br />
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In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
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By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
AEK won also the unofficial (due to second world war) championships of 1941 and 1943.<br />
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===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
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[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
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The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 20 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
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===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
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==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
<br />
==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1931]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
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<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
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*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]], [[2002]], [[2005]], [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2007]])<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31464AEK FC2008-01-02T12:30:43Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1920s - 1930s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
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This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
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It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
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<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
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The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
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In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias-Athinwn and won 2-0.<br />
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In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
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By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
AEK won also the unofficial (due to second world war) championships of 1941 and 1943.<br />
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===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
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[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
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The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 23 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
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==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
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==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1931]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
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<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
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*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]], [[2002]], [[2005]], [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2007]])<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31463AEK FC2008-01-02T12:27:47Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1920s - 1930s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
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This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
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It was on 13th April 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos <br />
Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
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<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
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The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
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In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias-Athinwn and won 2-0.<br />
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In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
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By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
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===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
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[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
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The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 23 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
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==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
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==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1931]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Star Players==<br />
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<br />
=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
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*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
||<br />
*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
||<br />
*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
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=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
||<br />
*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]], [[2002]], [[2005]], [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2007]])<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=AEK_FC&diff=31462AEK FC2008-01-02T12:26:02Z<p>Patik 21: /* 1920s - 1930s */</p>
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<div>[[Image:AEK-team-crest.png|thumb|250px|AEK - the team crest]]<br />
==Club History==<br />
===1920s - 1930s===<br />
A group of refugees that came to [[Athens]] in [[1922]] had a great desire to keep their home-land tradition going by creating on [[April 13]], [[1924]] the '''Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos''' ('''AEK''') soccer club. This was not the rebirth of one of the clubs that used to be in [[Constantinople]] (now Istanbul) but a brand new team. The reason that this team was formed was to keep tradition going, as well as to keep all the Constantinople refugees united.<br />
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This new club created by these refugees not only grew strong roots and followers from Constantinople but throughout Greece as well. Since its inception the club has always been a contender in the Greek soccer championship. The individuals responsible for creating AEK were Aimilios and Menelaos Ionas, and Kostas Dimopoulos who had sports stores in Athens. It was in these stores that young people from Constantinople used to gather and throw out ideas of creating a soccer club.<br />
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It was on that May 1924 night that the Ionas brothers, Kostas Dimopoulos, Miltos Ieremiadis, Timoleon Tagaris, Menelaos Karotseris, Paulos Kehayas, and [[Kostas Spanoudis]] (a man that worshipped sports) made the decision to create a soccer club. The name was to be Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos, it's crest was to be the Byzantine "[[two-headed eagle]]", and the colors of the team yellow and black.<br />
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<div style="float:left;padding:10px;">[[Image:AEK-old.png|thumb|80px|center|The old team crest]]</div><br />
[[Image:AEK-team1949.jpg|thumb|250px|right|1949 team photo]]<br />
The first board of directors was comprised of Kostas Spanoudis (President), Nikos Eleopoulos (Vice President), Kostas Dimopoulos (General Secretary), Timoleon Tagaris (Treasurer), and Menelaos Karotseris and Miltos Ieremiadis (board members). These were the beginning stages for the soon to be club that would unite all the Greeks from Constantinople, [[Asia Minor]] and from all parts of the country.<br />
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The first team consisted from Kitsios, M. Ieremiadis, Asderis, Kehayas, Paraskevas, Dimopoulos, Karagiannidis, Baltas, Milas, Iliadis, and Georgiadis. One of the first hurdles that AEK encountered was the absence of a soccer pitch. In the first days of the club the players used to have practice at the grounds of the [[Temple of Zeus|Zeus Temple]] but later they were invited to use the Panathinaikos stadium.<br />
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In November [[1924]], AEK played it's first game against Aias-Athinwn and won 2-0.<br />
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In [[1928]], AEK joined [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in their dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] ([[EPO]]) and did not participate in the first official Greek football championship.<br />
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By [[1929]], the dispute was resolved. AEK won their first title in [[1932]]: the very first [[Greek Football Cup]] ever contested. By the late [[1930s]], AEK became a powerhouse winning two consecutive league titles ([[1939]], [[1940]]) and became the first Greek club to win the domestic double in [[1939]].<br />
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===1940s - 1950s===<br />
[[World War II]] brought AEK's streak to an end, however the war did not affect their squad, unlike Olympiakos and Panathinaikos who lost players either in the war itself or the civil disturbances that followed it commencing in December, [[1944]] ([[Dekemvriana]]). Yet, the late [[1940s]] and the [[1950s]] were dry years for AEK league-wise. Success was limited to winning the Greek Cup in [[1949]], [[1950]] and [[1956]].<br />
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[[1930s]] superstar, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] retired in the late [[1940s]] but a new name arrived in Nea Filadelfia in [[1957]]: [[Kostas Nestoridis]]. <br />
===1960s===<br />
Led by "Nestoras", AEK came within a whisker of winning the first Greek national title in [[1960]]: with just two games remaining, they were three points ahead of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]. However, disaster struck as they drew against [[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]] and lost to [[Panionios FC|Panionios]] to finish even on points with Panathinaikos. The one-game playoff was won by the greens 2-1, leaving AEK supporters with very bitter memories of what might have been.<br />
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The [[1963]] season started with a new coach at AEK's helm - German-based Hungarian [[Jeno Csaknady]] - and a young forward from [[Veria]] on the roster - [[Mimis Papaioannou]]. Panathinaikos seemed poised to repeat their achievement of winning the previous national championships, when, in a reversal of [[1960]], they unexpectedly lost 4-2 to [[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]] and finished the season even on points with AEK, with the yellow-black club having the advantage in goal differential. AEK led the one-game playoff 3-1 only to be equalised 3-3. A fourth Panathinaikos goal was called back for offside and AEK were champions once more after a drought of 23 years.<br />
Csaknady left but returned, once more, to lead AEK to the championship in [[1968]]. During the [[1960s]], AEK was awarded the Greek Cup in [[1964]] and [[1966]], both times without playing a final game. <br />
[[Image:Papaioannou-Mavros.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mimis Papaioannou]] and [[Thomas Mavros]] at a more recent date.]]<br />
===1970s===<br />
Coached by [[Branko Stankovic]] and led by Papaioannou, AEK managed to win the national title in [[1971]]. That same year, a 17-year old lad broke into the regular lineup of the second-place finisher Panionios. He would, in time, tie his name with the decade that AEK supporters remember fondly. His name: [[Thomas Mavros]].<br />
In [[1974]], [[Loukas Barlos]], an Aris supporter from [[Thessaloniki]], assumed the Presidency of the club. He hired [[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] to replace Stankovic as coach and staffed AEK's roster with such talent as: Mavros, Dedes, Skrekis and the Intzoglou brothers from Panionios, speedster [[Christos Ardizoglou]] from Apollon Athens, [[Takis Nikoloudis|Nikoloudis]] from Iraklis and [[Dusan Bajevic]] from abroad.<br />
In [[1977]], Barlos' investments paid off handsomely in Europe as AEK reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup eliminating Dynamo Moscow, Derby County, Red Star and QPR in the process.<br />
The next two years would see AEK win the Greek championship though an upset 3-1 loss to Panionios in the [[1979]] Greek Cup final somewhat marred an otherwise unforgetable decade.<br />
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==The Anthem==<br />
The lyrics<ref>[http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=9564 The lyrics to the anthem] (in Greek)</ref> to the official anthem were writen by [[Christos Kolokotronis]], music by [[Stelios Kazantzidis]] and it was first performed by [[Mimis Papaioannou]].The latest anthem was written by [[Lefteris Papadopoulos]] (composer and an AEK fanatic), music by [[Christos Nikolopoulos]] and performed by [[Yannis Frangoulis]]. The new anthem was broadcasted for the first time on the [[August 2|2nd of August]] [[1995]].<br />
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTh87IAYLY Click to see] a recent performance by Mimis Papioannou<br />
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==Titles==<br />
{| style="width:420px;"<br />
|- valign=top<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Championships</div><br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1940]] <br />
*[[1963]] <br />
*[[1968]]<br />
*[[1971]]<br />
*[[1978]]<br />
*[[1979]]<br />
*[[1989]]<br />
*[[1992]] <br />
*[[1993]] <br />
*[[1994]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">Greek Cups</div><br />
*[[1931]] <br />
*[[1939]] <br />
*[[1949]] <br />
*[[1950]] <br />
*[[1956]] <br />
*[[1964]] <br />
*[[1966]] <br />
*[[1978]] <br />
*[[1983]] <br />
*[[1996]] <br />
*[[1997]] <br />
*[[2000]] <br />
*[[2002]]<br />
|| <div style="background: beige; padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px; border:1px solid #dedede; font-weight:bold; margin-right:6px; width:134px;">League Cup</div><br />
*[[1990]]<br />
|}<br />
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==Star Players==<br />
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=== 20s - 40s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
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*[[Nikos Kitsios]]<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]]<br />
*[[Miltos Ieremiadis]]<br />
*N. Baltas<br />
*A. Kehayas<br />
*V. Paraskevas<br />
*K. Dimopoulos<br />
*Karayiannidis<br />
*A. Milas<br />
*P. Dimitriadis<br />
*Eliadis<br />
*[[Giorgos Yiamalis]]<br />
*[[Christoforos Pantermalis]]<br />
*Georgiadis<br />
*Filis<br />
*Spiridis<br />
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*[[Giorgos Papadopoulos (football)|Giorgos Papadopoulos]] <br />
*[[Kostas Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Gasparis]]<br />
*Vlantis<br />
*Papantoniou<br />
*Polizos<br />
*[[Spyros Sklavounos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Manettas]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Eliaskos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]]<br />
*[[Mallios Galits]]<br />
*[[Kleanthis Maropoulos]]<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]]<br />
*[[Christos Rimbas]]<br />
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]<br />
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*[[Michalis Delavinias]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mageiras]]<br />
*[[Xenophon Markopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Goulios]]<br />
*Nikolois<br />
*[[Kostas Christodoulou]]<br />
*D. Kapantais<br />
*[[Panagiotis Patakas]]<br />
|}<br />
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=== 50s - 60s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Kostas Poulis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kanakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]<br />
*[[Elias Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Emmanouilidis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]]<br />
*[[Stelios Serafeidis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Sofianidis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Anastasiadis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Marditsis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Papageorgiou]]<br />
*[[Stelios Skevofilakas]]<br />
*[[Miltiadis Papapostolou]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Fakis]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Demiris]]<br />
*[[Christos Ambos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Iordanou]]<br />
*[[Mimis Simigdalas]]<br />
*P. Stamatelopoulos<br />
*Tzaneras<br />
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*[[Spyros Pomonis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kefalidis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Vasiliou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Balopoulos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Krystallis]]<br />
*[[Aris Tsahouridis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Petrakis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Petridis]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Ventouris]]<br />
*[[Kostas Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Lefteris Antoniadis|Lefteris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Karafeskos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Stathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Maniateas]]<br />
*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]<br />
*[[Manolis Klikopoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Kanellopoulos]]<br />
*[[Fanis Tasinos]]<br />
*[[Theophilos Vernezis]]<br />
*[[Thanasis Gouvas]]<br />
*Kirmizas<br />
*Karapoulitidis<br />
*Sevastopoulos<br />
||<br />
*A. Karakidis<br />
*[[Manolis Frangoudakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Zagylos]]<br />
*[[Ibrahim Mughrabi]]<br />
*Chr. Antonopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Kachris]]<br />
|}<br />
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=== 70s - 80s ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Yiannis Dandelis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Lavaridis]]<br />
*[[Apostolos Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nestor Errea]]<br />
*[[Thomas Mavros]]<br />
*[[Stefanos Theodoridis]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Vicente]]<br />
*[[Lazaros Papadopoulos (football)|Lazaros Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Fanis]]<br />
*[[Christos Ardizoglou]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*[[Timo Zahnleiter]]<br />
*[[Takis Timotheou]]<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Nikolaou]]<br />
*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]<br />
*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Dedes]]<br />
*[[Christos Intzoglou]]<br />
*[[Fotis Outsikas]]<br />
*[[Tasos Konstantinou]]<br />
*[[Alekos Papadopoulos (football)|Alekos Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]]<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]]<br />
*[[Milton Viera]]<br />
*[[Mimis Domazos]]<br />
*[[Panikos Hadjiloizos]]<br />
*[[Stelios Manolas]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Dintsikos]]<br />
*[[Spyros Oikonomopoulos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Panagiotis Stylianopoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Thodis]]<br />
*[[Pavlos Papaioannou]]<br />
*[[Babis Akrivopoulos]]<br />
*[[Lyssandros Georgamlis]]<br />
*[[Christos Arvanitis]]<br />
*[[Kostas Kottis]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Patikas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Savvidis]]<br />
*[[Miroslaw Okonski]]<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]]<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Peppes]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Johnny Paraprastanitis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Pias]]<br />
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]<br />
*[[Marton Esterhazy]]<br />
*[[Theologis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Frank Klopas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Koutoulas]]<br />
*[[Henrik Nielsen]]<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]]<br />
*[[Lambros Georgiadis]]<br />
*[[Rizos Lelis]]<br />
*Zarzopoulos<br />
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*Kypritidis<br />
*Karahisaridis<br />
*Kontopoulos<br />
*Karypidis<br />
*Makos<br />
*Panayiotopoulos<br />
*[[Giorgos Sidiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Spiros Stefanidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Tsamis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Skrekis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlantis]]<br />
*[[Aris Damianidis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Mousouris]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vlachonikolis]]<br />
*Apostolopoulos<br />
*Chr. Kalaitzidis<br />
*Argyros<br />
*[[Giorgos Hadjiioannidis]]<br />
*Kalogeropoulos<br />
*[[Stavros Stamatis]]<br />
|}<br />
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=== 90s - Today ===<br />
{| width=90%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Daniel Batista]]<br />
*[[Vaios Karagiannis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Milopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Dimitriadis]]<br />
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]<br />
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]<br />
*[[Fanis Kofinas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Agoroyiannis]]<br />
*[[Charis Kopitsis]]<br />
*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]<br />
*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zoran Sliskovic]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Tsiartas]]<br />
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Karayiannis]]<br />
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kasapis]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Kostenoglou]]<br />
*[[Timur Ketsbaia]]<br />
*[[Christos Kostis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Mirtsekis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Saravakos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Pavlopoulos]]<br />
*[[Christos Maladenis]]<br />
*[[Anton Dobos]]<br />
*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]<br />
*[[Veridiano Marcelo]]<br />
*[[Demis Nikolaidis]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Alexis]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Kalitzakis]]<br />
*[[Evripidis Katsavos]]<br />
*[[Arnar Gretarsson]]<br />
*[[Kelvin Sebwe]] <br />
*[[Giorgos Donis]]<br />
*[[Goran Tomic]]<br />
*[[Boban Babuncki]]<br />
*[[Alwin Warren Cekoli]]<br />
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]<br />
*[[Vangelis Kefalas]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Passios]]<br />
*[[Ilia Iliev]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Lakis]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Markos]]<br />
*[[Rodriguez Mendez]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Brango Mihajlovic]]<br />
*[[Christopher Wreh]]<br />
*[[Paris Zoumboulis]]<br />
*[[Chrysostomos Michailidis]]<br />
*[[Davide Belotti]]<br />
*[[Traianos Dellas]]<br />
*[[Goran Petric]]<br />
*[[Dragan Ciric]]<br />
*[[Pablo Contrero]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Kavazis]]<br />
*[[Vladan Matjasevic]] <br />
*[[Milen Petkov]] <br />
*[[Andreas Zikos]]<br />
*[[Nenad Bjekovic]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Konstantinidis]]<br />
*[[Dionysis Chiotis]]<br />
*[[Dian Donchev]]<br />
*[[Ramos Laserda Feruzem]]<br />
*[[Nikos Georgeas]]<br />
*[[Luis Dario Calvo]]<br />
*[[Blendar Kola]]<br />
*[[Fernando Navas]]<br />
*[[Christos Pitos]]<br />
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]<br />
*[[Ernar Cezar Medina]]<br />
*[[Manuel Ruiz]]<br />
*[[Sotiris Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Carlos Gamarra]]<br />
*[[Sergio Silva Maricha]]<br />
*[[Erik Rabesandratana]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Xenidis]]<br />
*[[Antonio Santos Folha]]<br />
*[[Ilija Ivic]]<br />
*[[Stathis Kappos]]<br />
*[[Gregorsz Mielcharski]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Trichias]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Kostas Katsouranis]]<br />
*[[Michel Kreek]]<br />
*[[Mauricio Wright]]<br />
*[[Walter Centeno]]<br />
*[[Ivan Rusev]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]<br />
*[[Ilias Solakis]] <br />
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Vangelis Moras]]<br />
*[[Goran Popov]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Toskas]]<br />
*[[Nikolaos Lyberopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]<br />
*[[Christos Tsevas]]<br />
*[[Stefano Sorrentino]]<br />
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]<br />
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Alexopoulos]]<br />
*[[Emerson Moises Costa|Emerson]]<br />
*[[Nikola Malbasa]]<br />
*[[Simos Krassas]]<br />
*[[Vladimir Ivic]]<br />
*[[Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza|Julio Cesar]]<br />
*[[Oleg Venglinskyi]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Kone]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kapetanos]]<br />
*[[Panagiotis Lagos]]<br />
*[[Leonidas Kabantais]]<br />
*[[Martin Pautasso]]<br />
*[[Andrija Delibasic]]<br />
*[[Elias Kyriakidis]]<br />
*[[Perparim Hetemaj]]<br />
*[[Daniel Tozser]]<br />
*[[Gustavo Manduca]]<br />
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]<br />
*[[Rodolfo Arruabarrena]]<br />
*[[Rivaldo]]<br />
*[[Federico Azcarate]]<br />
*[[Ismael Blanco]]<br />
*[[Edson Ramos]]<br />
*[[Geraldo Alves]]<br />
*[[Socrates Papastathopoulos]]<br />
*[[Charis Pappas]]<br />
*[[Evaristo Manu|Manu]]<br />
|}<br />
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==Coaches==<br />
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1933]])<br />
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1934]] - [[1948]])<br />
*[[Giorgos Daispangos]] ([[1948]])<br />
*[[Jack Bimby]] ([[1948]] - [[1951]])<br />
*[[Tryfon Tzanetis]] ([[1952]], [[1955]], [[1961]], [[1962]])<br />
*[[Harry Aurednik]] ([[1960]])<br />
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1963]], [[1968]])<br />
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1969]] - [[1973]])<br />
*[[Stan Anderson]] ([[1974]])<br />
*[[Frantisek Fadrhonc]] ([[1975]] - [[1978]])<br />
*[[Ferenc Puskas]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Andreas Stamatiadis]] ([[1979]])<br />
*[[Zlatko Cajkovski]] ([[1978]], [[1982]])<br />
*[[Herman Stesl]] ([[1980]])<br />
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1981]])<br />
*[[Hans Tilkowski]] ([[1982]])<br />
*[[Kostas Nestoridis]] ([[1982]], [[1983]])<br />
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1983]])<br />
*[[John Barnswell]] ([[1984]])<br />
*[[Wenzel Halama]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]])<br />
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1986]])<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Nikos Christidis]] ([[1987]])<br />
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1988]])<br />
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1989]] - [[1996]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])<br />
*[[Petros Ravousis]] ([[1997]])<br />
*[[Dumitru Dumitriu]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Antonis Minou]] ([[1998]])<br />
*[[Dragoslav Stepanovic]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Takis Karagiozopoulos]] ([[1999]], [[2000]])<br />
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1999]])<br />
*[[Ljubisa Tumbakovic]] ([[2000]])<br />
*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]] ([[2000]], [[2001]])<br />
*[[Toni Savevski]] ([[2001]])<br />
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2001]], [[2002]], [[2005]], [[2006]])<br />
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2004]])<br />
*[[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]] ([[2007]])<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Football Clubs]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31461Football A Division2008-01-02T12:01:19Z<p>Patik 21: /* Domestic Doubles */</p>
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1950 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local <br />
talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Costis]], [[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], <br />
[[Triantafillos Macheridis]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Thodoris Zagorakis]], <br />
[[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Fanis Gekas]], <br />
[[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], <br />
[[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Vagelis Moras]], <br />
[[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31460Football A Division2008-01-02T11:54:29Z<p>Patik 21: /* Domestic Doubles */</p>
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1950 - [[AEK Athens FC|AEK]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local <br />
talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Costis]], [[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], <br />
[[Triantafillos Macheridis]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Thodoris Zagorakis]], <br />
[[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Fanis Gekas]], <br />
[[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], <br />
[[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Vagelis Moras]], <br />
[[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local <br />
talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Costis]], [[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], <br />
[[Triantafillos Macheridis]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Thodoris Zagorakis]], <br />
[[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Fanis Gekas]], <br />
[[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], <br />
[[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Vagelis Moras]], <br />
[[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31458Football A Division2008-01-02T11:47:57Z<p>Patik 21: /* Outstanding Players */</p>
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local <br />
talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Costis]], [[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], <br />
[[Triantafillos Macheridis]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Thodoris Zagorakis]], <br />
[[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos <br />
Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], <br />
[[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Vagelis Moras]], [[Grigoris <br />
Georgatos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local <br />
talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Costis]], [[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], <br />
[[Triantafillos Macheridis]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Thodoris Zagorakis]], <br />
[[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos <br />
Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios <br />
Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Vagelis Moras]], [[Grigoris Georgatos]], <br />
[[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31456Football A Division2008-01-02T11:47:05Z<p>Patik 21: /* Outstanding Players */</p>
<hr />
<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local <br />
talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Costis]], [[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], <br />
[[Triantafillos Macheridis]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Thodoris Zagorakis]], [[Michalis <br />
Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], <br />
[[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], <br />
[[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Vagelis Moras]], [[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] <br />
and others.<br />
<br />
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local <br />
talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Costis]], [[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], [[Triantafillos <br />
Macheridis]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Thodoris Zagorakis]], [[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis <br />
Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], <br />
[[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], <br />
[[Vagelis Moras]], [[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31454Football A Division2008-01-02T11:44:38Z<p>Patik 21: /* Outstanding Players */</p>
<hr />
<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Costis]], [[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], <br />
[[Thodoris Zagorakis]], [[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]],<br />
[[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], <br />
[[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Vagelis Moras]],<br />
[[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Costis]], [[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], <br />
[[Thodoris Zagorakis]], [[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]],<br />
[[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos <br />
Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Vagelis Moras]],<br />
[[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31452Football A Division2008-01-02T11:42:45Z<p>Patik 21: /* Outstanding Players */</p>
<hr />
<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Christos Costis]], [[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], <br />
[[Thodoris Zagorakis]], [[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]], [[Fanis <br />
Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], <br />
[[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Sotiris <br />
Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31451Football A Division2008-01-02T11:40:41Z<p>Patik 21: /* Outstanding Players */</p>
<hr />
<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Thodoris Zagorakis]], <br />
[[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]] [[Fanis Gekas]],<br />
[[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], <br />
[[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31450Football A Division2008-01-02T11:40:10Z<p>Patik 21: /* Outstanding Players */</p>
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Vassilis Tsiartas]], [[Giorgos Donis]],<br />
[[Vassilis Borbokis]], [[Michalis Vlachos]], [[Vassilis Lakis]], [[Thodoris Zagorakis]], <br />
[[Michalis Capsis]], [[Akis Zikos]], [[Demis Nikolaidis]] [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos <br />
Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios <br />
Giannakopoulos]], [[Kostas Katsouranis]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31280Football A Division2007-12-28T12:24:58Z<p>Patik 21: /* Greek Championship */</p>
<hr />
<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki,<br />
are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31279Football A Division2007-12-28T12:24:06Z<p>Patik 21: /* Greek Championship */</p>
<hr />
<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most of the<br />
championships in Alpha Ethniki, are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31278Football A Division2007-12-28T12:23:04Z<p>Patik 21: /* Greek Championship */</p>
<hr />
<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most championship in Alpha Ethniki are Olympiacos (35), Panathinaikos (19) and AEK (13).<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31277Football A Division2007-12-28T12:18:45Z<p>Patik 21: /* Domestic Doubles */</p>
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most championship in Alpha Ethniki is Olympiacos.<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===League Cups / Mediterranean Cups===<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Greek_Football_Cup&diff=31276Greek Football Cup2007-12-28T12:15:52Z<p>Patik 21: /* Performance By Club */</p>
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<div>The '''Greek football Cup''' is the main "knockout" cup competition in [[Greece|Greek]] [[Football (soccer)|football]].<br />
<br />
The competition is a knockout (single elimination) tournament.<br />
<br />
==Finals==<br />
<br />
*1932 '''AEK''' 5-3 Aris (2-2) (Held on [[8 November]] [[1931]]) ''Scorers: 5΄ [[Elias Eliaskos|Eliaskos]] 1-0, 8΄ Baltas 2-0, 40΄ [[Nikos Kitsos|Kitsos]] 2-1, 43΄ Kitsos 2-2, 65΄ Baltas 3-2, 70΄ [[Alekos Oikonomou|Economou]] (own goal) 4-2, 78΄[[Kostas Negrepontis|Negrepontis]] 5-2, 80΄ Kitsos 5-3''<br />
*1933 '''Ethnikos''' 2-1 Aris '''(Replay)''' (0-0) ''Scorers: 48΄ [[Dionysis Kaltekis|Kaltekis]], 54΄ I. Tsiritakis, 55΄ Alexopoulos''<br />
*1934-1938 '''Competition was not played'''<br />
*1939 '''AEK''' 2-1 PAOK (1-1) ''Scorers: 31΄ Ioannidis, 43΄ [[Alekos Hadjistavridis|Hadjistavridis]], 73΄ [[Vasilis Manettas|Manettas]]''<br />
*1940 '''Panathinaikos''' 3-1 Aris (3-0) ''Scorers: 9΄ [[Dimitris Baltasis|Baltasis]], 10΄ [[Takis Triantafyllis|Triantafyllis]], 13΄ [[Antonis Migiakis|Migiakis]], 61΄ [[Demosthenes Hadjinikolaou|Hatzinikolaou]]''<br />
*1941 '''Tournament abandoned'''<br />
*1942-46 '''Competition was not played'''<br />
*1947 '''Olympiakos''' 5-0 Iraklis (3-0) ''Scorers: 13΄, 31΄, 78΄ [[Yiannis Vazos|Vazos]], 17΄ [[Angelos Vasiliadis|Vasiliadis]], 79΄ Hadjistavridis''<br />
*1948 '''Panathinaikos''' 2-1 AEK (1-1) ''Scorers: 16΄, 49΄ [[Nikos Simos|Simos]], 20΄ [[Kleanthis Maropoulos|Maropoulos]]''<br />
*1949 '''AEK''' 2-1 Panathinaikos '''(Replay,aet)''' (First game 0-0 Abandoned at 19΄ into extra time due to improper lighting) (Second game 2-1 (1-0) extra time ''Scorers: 38΄ [[Panagiotis Patakas|Patakas]], 69΄ [[Charalambos Fylaktos|Fylaktos]], 105΄ Patakas'')<br />
*1950 '''AEK''' 4-0 Aris (2-0) ''Scorers: 6΄ Maropoulos, 45΄ [[Giorgos Goulios|Goulios]], 63΄, 67΄ Kountouris''<br />
*1951 '''Olympiakos''' 4-0 PAOK (1-0) ''Scorers: 27΄ [[Andreas Mouratis|Mouratis]], 66΄ [[Giorgos Darivas|Darivas]], 75΄, 80΄ [[Babis Drosos|Drossos]]''<br />
*1952 '''Olympiakos''' 2-0 Panionios '''(Replay)''' (First leg: 2-2 (1-1) ''Scorers: 30΄ [[Giorgos Kopanidis|Kopanidis]], 34΄, 60΄ Tsolias, 90΄ Drossos'' ) ( Second leg 2-0 (1-0) ''Scorers: 5΄ Darivas, 68΄ [[Giorgos Kansos|Kansos]]'')<br />
*1953 '''Olympiakos''' 3-2 AEK (2-0) ''Scorers: 20΄ Kopanidis, 37΄ Kansos, 79΄ Darivas, 83΄ [[Babis Serafeidis|Serafidis]], 88΄ [[Yiannis Kanakis|Kanakis]]''<br />
*1954 '''Olympiakos''' 2-0 Doxa Dramas ''Scorers: 31΄ Drossos, 38΄ Darivas''<br />
*1955 '''Panathinaikos''' 2-0 PAOK ''Scorers: 24΄ [[Giorgos Kourtzidis|Kourtzidis]], 31΄ [[Vangelis Panakis|Panakis]]''<br />
*1956 '''AEK''' 2-1 Olympiakos (1-1) ''Scorers: 22΄ Chaniotis, 26΄ Darivas, 67΄ Kanakis''<br />
*1957 '''Olympiakos''' 2-0 Iraklis (1-0) ''Scorers: 38΄ [[Babis Kotridis|Kotridis]], 73΄ [[Elias Yfantis|Yfantis]]''<br />
*1958 '''Olympiakos''' 5-1 Doxa Dramas (2-0) ''Scorers: 22΄ [[Sotiris Gavetsos|Gavetzos]], 43΄ [[Thanasis Bebis|Bebis]], 52΄ [[Alekos Nalbandis|Nalbandis]], 63΄, 87΄ [[Kostas Polychroniou|Polychroniou]], 89΄ Yfantis''<br />
*1959 '''Olympiakos''' 2-1 Doxa Dramas (0-0) ''Scorers: 47΄ [[Antonis Georgiadis|A. Georgiadis]], 52΄ Yfantis, 59΄ [[Thanasis Bebis|Bebis]]''<br />
*1960 '''Olympiakos''' 3-0 Panathinaikos '''(Replay)''' (A΄ leg match 1-1 (0-1) ''Scorers: 17΄ [[Andreas Papaemmanouil|Papaemmanouil]], 50΄ [[Thanasis Bebis|Bebis]]'') (B΄ leg match 3-0 (2-0) ''Scorers: 25΄, 35΄ (pen) Polychroniou, 82΄ [[Giorgos Sideris|Sideris]]'')<br />
*1961 '''Olympiakos''' 3-0 Panionios (1-0) ''Scorers: 34΄ [[Kostas Papazoglou|K. Papazoglou]], 69΄, 88΄ [[Giorgos Sideris|Sideris]]''<br />
*1962 '''Not awarded''' ¹<br />
*1963 '''Olympiakos''' 3-0 Pierikos (2-0) ''Scorers: 30΄ Polychroniou, 39΄ [[Aristides Papazoglou|A. Papazoglou]], 65΄ Sideris''<br />
*1964 '''AEK''' ²<br />
*1965 '''Olympiakos''' 1-0 Panathinaikos ''Scorer: 5΄ Sideris''<br />
*1966 '''AEK''' ³<br />
*1967 '''Panathinaikos''' 1-0 Panionios ''Scorer: 56΄ [[Charis Grammos|Grammos]]''<br />
*1968 '''Olympiakos''' 1-0 Panathinaikos ''Scorer: 75΄ [[Pavlos Vasiliou|Vasiliou]]''<br />
*1969 '''Panathinaikos''' 1-1 Olympiakos '''(Panathinaikos won on lots)''' ''Scorers: 49΄ Sideris, 55΄ [[Mimis Domazos|Domazos]]''<br />
*1970 '''Aris''' 1-0 PAOK ''Scorer: 8΄ [[Manolis Keramidas|Keramidas]]''<br />
*1971 '''Olympiakos''' 3-1 PAOK (2-0) ''Scorers: 19΄ [[Thanasis Angelis|Angelis]], 43΄ [[Nikos Gioutsos|Gioutsos]], 46΄ [[Stavros Sarafis|Sarafis]], 81΄ [[Pampoulis]]''<br />
*1972 '''PAOK''' 2-1 Panathinaikos (1-0) ''Scorers: 2΄, 88΄ [[Giorgos Koudas|Koudas]], 89΄ Papadimitriou''<br />
*1973 '''Olympiakos''' 1-0 PAOK ''Scorer: 46΄ Angelis''<br />
*1974 '''PAOK''' 2-2 Olympiakos '''[5-4 pen]''' (1-0), extra time 2-2, penalties 5-4 ''Scorers: 19΄ [[Yves Triantafillos|Triantafillos]], 50΄ [[Dimitris Paridis|Paridis]], 72΄ [[Achilleas Aslanidis|Aslanidis]], 79΄ [[Michalis Kritikopoulos|Kritikopoulos]]''<br />
*1975 '''Olympiakos''' 1-0 Panathinaikos ''Scorer: 35΄ [[Kostas Davourlis|Davourlis]]''<br />
*1976 '''Iraklis''' 4-4 Olympiakos '''(6-5 pen)''' 2-2 (0-1)extra time 4-4, penalties 6-5 ''Scorers: 25΄ [[Vasilis Chatzipanagis|Chatzipanagis]], 60΄ [[Vasilis Siokos|Siokos]], 72΄ [[Vangelis Kousoulakis|Kousoulakis]], 81΄ [[Milton Viera|Viera]] , 102΄ [[Vasilis Chatzipanagis|Chatzipanagis]], 111΄ [[Dimitris Gessios|Gessios]], 115΄ [[Petros Karavitis|Karavitis]], 119΄ [[Apostolos Glezos|Glezos]]''<br />
*1977 '''Panathinaikos''' 2-1 PAOK (1-1)''Scorers: 29΄ Papadimitriou, 43΄ [[Christos Terzanidis|Terzanidis]], 83΄ Vakalis''<br />
*1978 '''AEK''' 2-0 PAOK (0-0)''Scorers: 56΄ [[Dusan Bajevic|Bajevic]], 80΄ [[Thomas Mavros|Mavros]]''<br />
*1979 '''Panionios''' 3-1 AEK ''Scorers: 3΄ [[Tasos Konstantinou|Tassos]], 51΄[[Nikos Anastopoulos|Anastopoulos]], 67΄ [[Noni Lima|Lima]], 84΄ [[Yiannis Pathiakakis|Pathiakakis]]''<br />
*1980 '''Kastoria''' 5-2 Iraklis (1-1)''Scorers: 16΄ Kalampakas, 41΄[[Lakis Simaioforidis|Simeoforidis]], 49΄ [[Yiannis Dintsikos|Dintsikos]] 70΄, 87΄ και 90΄ Tsironis , 80΄ Mavrodoulakis''<br />
*1981 '''Olympiakos''' 3-1 PAOK (1-0) ''Scorers: 18΄ [[Yiannis Damanakis|Damanakis]] (own goal), 61΄Orfanos, 62΄Damanakis, 92΄ Kousoulakis''<br />
*1982 '''Panathinaikos''' 1-0 Larisa ''Scorer: 49΄Charalampidis''<br />
*1983 '''AEK''' 2-0 PAOK ''Scorers: 27΄ [[Thomas Mavros|Mavros]], 80΄ Vlachos''<br />
*1984 '''Panathinaikos''' 2-0 Larisa ''Scorers: 18΄ Galitsios (own goal), 38΄ Antoniou''<br />
*1985 '''Larisa''' 4-1 PAOK ''Scorers: 39΄,73΄ [[Michalis Ziogas|Ziogas]], 47΄ Kmiecik, 55΄Skartados, 78΄ [[Yiannis Valaoras|Valaoras]]''<br />
*1986 '''Panathinaikos''' 4-0 Olympiakos (1-0) ''Scorers: 24΄Vlachos, 52΄ [[Christos Dimopoulos|Chr. Dimopoulos]], 57΄, 72΄ [[Dimitris Saravakos|Saravakos]]''<br />
*1987 '''OFI''' 1-1 Iraklis '''(3-1 pen)''' ''Scorers: 30΄ [[Savvas Kofidis|Kofidis]], 34΄Charalampidis''<br />
*1988 '''Panathinaikos''' 2-2 Olympiakos '''(4-3 pen)''' ''extra time 2-2, penalties 4-3 Scorers: 31΄ [[Dimitris Saravakos|Saravakos]] (pen), 59΄ [[Juan Gilberto Funes|Funes]] (pen), 96΄ Funes (pen), 101΄ [[Christos Dimopoulos|Chr. Dimopoulos]]''<br />
*1989 '''Panathinaikos''' 3-1 Panionios ''Scorers: 8΄Mavridis, 35΄Zakkas, 44΄ [[Christos Dimopoulos|Dimopoulos]] (pen), 46΄ [[Dimitris Saravakos|Saravakos]]''<br />
*1990 '''Olympiakos''' 4-2 OFI ''Scorers: 12΄ [[Yiotis Tsalouchidis|Tsalouchidis]], 29΄ [[Lajos Detari|Detari]], 48΄Vlachos, 53΄Tsibos, 69΄Tsalouchidis, 89΄ Detari''<br />
*1991 '''Panathinaikos''' 3-0 2-1 Athinaikos ''(First-leg match 0-3 (0-0) Scorers: 70΄Kourbanas, 78΄[[Krzysztof Warzycha|Warzycha]], 88΄ Vlachos) (Return match 2-1 (0-1) Scorers: 45΄Zotalis, 71΄[[Dimitris Saravakos|Saravakos]], 84΄ Kourbanas)''<br />
*1992 '''Olympiakos''' 1-1 2-0 PAOK ''(First-leg match 1-1 (0-0): Scorers: 52΄Skartados, 63΄ Tsalouchidis)(Return match 2-0 (1-0) Scorers: 21΄[[Gennady Litovchenko|Litovchenko]], 62΄ Tsalouchidis)''<br />
*1993 '''Panathinaikos''' 1-0 Olympiakos ''Scorer: 13΄ [[Krzysztof Warzycha|Warzycha]]''<br />
*1994 '''Panathinaikos''' 3-3 AEK '''(aet, 4-2 pen)''' (1-0), ''extra time 3-3, penalties 4-2 Scorers: 31΄ [[Krzysztof Warzycha|Warzycha]], 54΄ [[Stelios Manolas|Manolas]] (own goal), 71΄Alexandris, 77΄ [[Vasilis Dimitriadis|Dimitriadis]], 95΄Alexandris, 115΄Markos''<br />
*1995 '''Panathinaikos''' 1-0 AEK '''(aet)''' ''Scorer: 118΄ [[Krzysztof Warzycha|Warzycha]] (pen)''<br />
*1996 '''AEK''' 7-1 Apollon ''Scorers: 11΄Batista, 22΄, 48΄(pen), 76΄ [[Vasilis Tsiartas|Tsiartas]], 34΄Batista, 60΄ [[Timur Ketsbaia|Ketsbaia]], 78΄Barniak, 89΄ Kostis''<br />
*1997 '''AEK''' 0-0 Panathinaikos '''(5-3 pen)'''<br />
*1998 '''Panionios''' 1-0 Panathinaikos ''Scorer: 53΄ Nalitzis''<br />
*1999 '''Olympiakos''' 2-0 Panathinaikos ''Scorers: 54΄Mavrogenidis, 90΄Ofori-quay''<br />
*2000 '''AEK''' 3-0 Ionikos (1-0) ''Scorers: 37΄ [[Demis Nikolaidis|Nikolaidis]], 76΄Petkov, 81΄Maladenis''<br />
*2001 '''PAOK''' 4-2 Olympiakos ''Scorers: Egomitis, [[Stefanos Borbokis|Borbokis]], Georgiadis, Nalitzis, Djordjevic, Choutos''<br />
*2002 '''AEK''' 2-1 Olympiakos (0-0)''Scorers: 52΄ Konstandinidis, 70΄ [[Giovanni]], 82΄I.Ivic''<br />
*2003 '''PAOK''' 1-0 Aris ''Scorer: 24΄ Georgiadis''<br />
*2004 '''Panathinaikos''' 3-1 Olympiakos ''Scorers: 3΄ Papadopoulos, 65΄ Giovanni, 68΄, 80΄ [[Michalis Konstantinou|Konstantinou]]''<br />
*2005 '''Olympiakos''' 3-0 Aris ''Scorers: 56΄ Djordjevic (pen), 70΄ [[Rivaldo]], 90΄ Djordjevic''<br />
*2006 '''Olympiakos''' 3-0 AEK ''Scorers: 61΄ [[Michalis Konstantinou|Konstantinou]], 71΄ V.Ivic (og), 90΄ [[Nery Castillo|Castillo]]''<br />
*2007 '''Larissa''' 2-1 Panathinaikos ''Scorers: [[Jozef Kozley|Kozley]] 3', [[Dimitris Papadopoulos]] 43' (penalty), [[Henry Antchouet|Antchouet]] 82''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Notes'''<br />
<br />
*¹ - The final between Panathinakos and Olympiakos was abandoned at 0-0 the Cup was not awarded.<br />
<br />
*² - The semifinal between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos was abandoned at 1-1 in extra time and never finished; this left AEK as the only finalists and they were awarded the Cup by the Greek FA. <br />
<br />
*³ - The Cup was awarded to AEK Athens after Olympiakos failed to show for the final.<br />
<br />
==Performance By Club==<br />
{| style="border:1px; border-color:slategray; border-style: solid; padding:4px;"<br />
|- style="background:navajowhite;"<br />
| width=35%| '''Club'''<br />
| width=10%| '''Wins'''<br />
|width=55%| '''Winning Years'''<br />
|- valign=top<br />
| [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
| 22<br />
| 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1981, 1990, 1992, 1999, 2005, 2006<br />
|- valign=top style="background:#EFEFEF;"<br />
| [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
| 16<br />
| 1940, 1948, 1955, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2004<br />
|- valign=top<br />
| [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
| 13<br />
| 1932, 1939, 1949, 1950, 1956, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1983, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002<br />
|- style="background:#EFEFEF;"<br />
| [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
| 4<br />
| 1972, 1974, 2001, 2003<br />
|-<br />
| [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]]<br />
| 2<br />
| 1986, 2007<br />
|- style="background:#EFEFEF;"<br />
| [[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
| 2<br />
| 1979, 1998<br />
|- <br />
| [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 1970<br />
|- style="background:#EFEFEF;"<br />
||[[Ethnikos Piraeus FC|Ethnikos Piraeus]]<br />
||1<br />
||1933<br />
|-<br />
||[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
||1<br />
||1976<br />
|- style="background:#EFEFEF;"<br />
||[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
||1<br />
||1980<br />
|-<br />
||[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
||1<br />
||1987<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31275Football A Division2007-12-28T12:12:45Z<p>Patik 21: /* Super Cups */</p>
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most championship in Alpha Ethniki is Olympiacos.<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1971 - AEK<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Football_A_Division&diff=31274Football A Division2007-12-28T12:11:45Z<p>Patik 21: /* EPO-sanctioned championships */</p>
<hr />
<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most championship in Alpha Ethniki is Olympiacos.<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
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<div>The A' Division (first division) or '''Alpha Ethniki''' or, as of the 2006 - [[2007]] season, '''Super League''', is the highest professional football league in [[Greece]]. At present, 16 clubs compete in the league, playing each other team in the league twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, three clubs are relegated to ''[[Football B Division|Beta Ethniki]]'', the second-level league, to be replaced by the top three teams from that league.<br />
<br />
As of the 2005-06 season, the league is entitled to 2 entrants in the UEFA Champions League. The champion directly enters the group stage, while the runner-up must survive a two-legged tie in the third qualifying round to advance to the group stage. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If the cup winner is qualified for European competition by its league position, the losing cup finalist is granted a UEFA Cup berth. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth.<br />
<br />
==Teams==<br />
===Roster===<br />
<br />
The teams for the 2007/2008 season (in alpha order) are:<br />
<br />
#[[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
#[[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]<br />
#[[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
#[[Asteras Tripolis FC|Asteras Tripolis]] - [[Tripolis]]<br />
#[[Atromitos Athens FC|Atromitos Athens]]<br />
#[[Ergotelis FC|Ergotelis]]<br />
#[[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]]<br />
#[[AE Larisa FC|Larisa]]<br />
#[[Levadiakos FC|Levadiakos]] - [[Livadeia]]<br />
#[[OFI FC|OFI]]<br />
#[[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
#[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
#[[Panionios FC|Panionios]]<br />
#[[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
#[[SKODA Xanthi FC|SKODA Xanthi]]<br />
#[[Veria FC]] - [[Veria]]<br />
<br />
===Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki===<br />
<br />
Teams that once played in Alpha Ethniki in the previous seasons:<br />
{| width=95%<br />
|- valign=top<br />
||<br />
*[[Akratitos FC|Akratitos]]<br />
*[[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]]<br />
*[[Athinaikos FC|Athinaikos]] <br />
*[[Atromitos Piraeus FC|Atromitos Piraeus]]<br />
*[[Chalkida FC|Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Diagoras Rhodes FC|Diagoras Rhodes]]<br />
*[[Doxa Drama FC|Doxa Drama]]<br />
*[[Edessaikos FC|Edessaikos]] mid-1990s<br />
*[[Ethnikos FC|Ethnikos]]<br />
*[[Ethnikos Asteras FC|Ethnikos Asteras]]<br />
*[[Fostiras FC|Fostiras]]<br />
*[[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]]<br />
*[[Kallithea FC]]<br />
*[[Kastoria FC|Kastoria]]<br />
*[[Kavala FC|Kavala]]<br />
*[[Korinthos FC|Korinthos]]<br />
*[[Makedonikos FC|Makedonikos]]<br />
||<br />
*[[Naoussa FC|Naoussa]]<br />
*[[Niki Volos FC|Niki Volos]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Volos FC|Olympiakos Volos]]<br />
*[[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]] - [[Patras]] <br />
*[[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]]<br />
*[[Panaitolikos FC|Panaitolikos]]<br />
*[[Panelefsiniakos FC|Panelefsiniakos]]<br />
*[[Paniliakos FC|Paniliakos]] - [[Pyrgos]], 2002-03<br />
*[[Panserraikos FC|Panserraikos]]<br />
*[[PAS Giannina FC|PAS Giannina]] - [[Ioannina]] <br />
*[[Pierikos FC|Pierikos]]<br />
*[[Proodeftiki FC|Proodeftiki]]<br />
*[[Rodos FC|APS Rodos]]<br />
*[[Trikala FC|Trikala]]<br />
*[[Vyzas Megara FC|Vyzas Megara]] 1966-1970 <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Defunct Teams that once played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[AE Nikaia FC|AE Nikaia]]<br />
*[[Chalkidona FC|Chalkidona]]<br />
*[[Megas Alexandros Katerini FC|Megas Alexandros Katerini]]<br />
*[[Olympiakos Chalkida FC|Olympiakos Chalkida]]<br />
*[[Pankorinthiakos FC|Pankorinthiakos]] - Not the present-day team!<br />
<br />
=== Cypriot Teams that have played in the Alpha Ethniki===<br />
*[[Olympiakos Lefkosia FC|Olympiakos Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[AE Lemesos FC|AE Lemesos]]<br />
*[[EPA Larnaca FC|EPA Larnaca]] - now defunct<br />
*[[Omonia Lefkosia FC|Omonia Lefkosia]]<br />
*[[APOEL FC|APOEL]]<br />
<br />
==Championships==<br />
===Greek Championship===<br />
<br />
Here are teams that won the Greek Championship. The teams that won the most championship in Alpha Ethniki is Olympiacos.<br />
====Pre-[[EPO]] era====<br />
*1911 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1915 to 1923 - no championship titles due to the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]].<br />
*1923 - [[Peiraikos Syndesmos FC|Peiraikos Syndesmos]]<br />
<br />
====[[EPO]]-sanctioned championships====<br />
*1928 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1929 - N/A<br />
*1930 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1931 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1932 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1933 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1934 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1935 - N/A<br />
*1936 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1937 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1938 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1940 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1941 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World War II]])<br />
*1943 - [[AEK FC|AEK]] (unofficial due to [[World Was II]])<br />
*1946 - [[Aris FC|Aris]]<br />
*1947 - N/A<br />
*1948 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1949 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1950 - N/A<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1952 - N/A<br />
*1953 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1955 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1956 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1960 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1961 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1962 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1963 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1964 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1965 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1966 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1967 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1968 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1970 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1971 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1972 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1974 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1976 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1979 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1980 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1982 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1983 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1985 - [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1987 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1988 - [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]] the only team to ever win the Championship outside the [[Athens]] and the [[Thessaloniki]] metropolitan areas.<br />
*1989 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1990 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1992 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1993 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1994 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1996 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1997 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1998 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2000 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2001 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2002 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2003 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] <br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2007 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
===Greek Cups===<br />
The [[Greek Football Cup]] is a competition where teams from the [[Football B Division|B' Division]] and [[Football C Division|C' Divisions]] also participate. For more details on the structure of the competition and histrorical information, see [[Greek Football Cup]]<br />
<br />
===Super Cups===<br />
<br />
*1970 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1987 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1988 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1989 - AEK<br />
*1992 - Olympiacos FC<br />
*1993 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1994 - Panathinaikos<br />
*1996 - AEK<br />
<br />
===Domestic Doubles===<br />
<br />
*1939 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1947 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1951 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1954 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1957 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1958 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1959 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1969 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1973 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1975 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1977 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1978 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1981 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*1984 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1986 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1990 - [[AEK FC|AEK]]<br />
*1991 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1995 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*1999 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2004 - [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]<br />
*2005 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
*2006 - [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]]<br />
<br />
==Outstanding Players==<br />
The [[Football A Division|Alpha Ethniki]] has been extremely successful in producing local talent for overseas export, such as [[Fanis Gekas]], [[Nikos Machlas]], [[Giorgos Karagounis]], [[Traianos Dellas]], [[Nikos Dabizas]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Sotiris Kyrgiakos]] and others.<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Football Competitions]]</div>Patik 21