2007–08 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens

2007–08 season
Chairman	Demis Nikolaidis
Manager	Lorenzo Serra Ferrer (until 12 February 2008) Nikos Kostenoglou
Superleague Greece	3rd (2nd in regular season)
Greek Cup	Fifth Round
UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round
UEFA Cup	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: Ismael Blanco (19) All: Ismael Blanco (21)
Highest home attendance	40,955 vs Olympiacos (30 March 2008)
Lowest home attendance	5,032 vs Panathinaikos (14 May 2008)
Average home league attendance	20,228
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

For the 2007/08 season, AEK Athens F.C. competed in its 49th consecutive season in the Greek topflight.

Overview

AEK bolstered the strength of their squad with the signings of Brazilian legend Rivaldo, following up with several other strong signings in Arruabarrena and Ismael Blanco. The club sold 25,495 season tickets.

After finishing 2nd in Superleague Greece previous season, AEK entered the UEFA Champions League in the 3rd Qualifying round. On 3 August, AEK were drawn against Sevilla FC, the first leg was played in Seville on 15 August, while the second leg was held at the Athens Olympic Stadium. After being eliminated from the UEFA Champions League, AEK were drawn to play with FC Salzburg in the UEFA Cup. After defeating Salzburg 3-1 on aggregate, AEK were on 9 October drawn in Group C in the UEFA Cup group stage along with Villarreal, Fiorentina, Mladá Boleslav, and Elfsborg. On 20 December, AEK booked their place in the knockout stage finishing third in the group. AEK were drawn to play Getafe CF in the next round of the UEFA Cup where they were knocked out 4-1 on aggregate. On 12 February AEK parted company with Llorenç after a poor run of form and un-successful signings.^[1] The team initially finished in the first place in the league, but after the court case between Apollon Kalamarias and Olympiacos for the illegal line-up of a player in the 1-0 Apollon Kalamaria win earlier in the season, Olympiacos were awarded the 3 points thus finishing 2 points ahead of AEK. AEK then finished 2nd in the national playoff's which saw them qualify for the UEFA Cup.

Players

Squad information

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

No. Position Player 1 MF Pantelis Kafes (Captain) 2 DF Edson Ramos Silva 3 DF Rodolfo Arruabarrena 4 DF Geraldo Alves 5 DF Traianos Dellas 6 DF Georgios Alexopoulos 7 FW Charilaos Pappas 8 MF Tam Nsaliwa 9 FW Pantelis Kapetanos 10 MF Rivaldo 11 FW Gustavo Manduca 14 MF Federico Azcárate 15 DF Socratis Papastathopoulos 16 MF Akis Zikos 18 FW Ismael Blanco 19 MF Panagiotis Lagos

No. Position Player 20 MF Manú 22 MF Panagiotis Kone 23 MF Mohammed Kallon 25 MF Vasileios Pliatsikas 27 MF Christos Bourbos 31 DF Nikolaos Georgeas 32 GK Marcelo Moretto 33 FW Nikos Liberopoulos 34 MF Panagiotis Tachtsidis 36 FW Edinho 50 GK Jürgen Macho 80 FW Giorgos Tofas 83 FW Michalis Pavlis 84 GK Giannis Arabatzis 88 MF Dániel Tőzsér 99 FW Júlio César

Players out on loan

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Since	App (L/C/E)	Goals (L/C/E)	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
—	GK		Sorrentino	29	EU	2005	64 (50/3/11)	0 (0/0/0)	2010	€100K	to Recreativo Huelva
—	RB		Barboudis	19	EU	2007	0 (0/0/0)	0 (0/0/0)	2010	€60Κ	to Fostiras
—	RB		Koutromanos	22	EU	2005	0 (0/0/0)	0 (0/0/0)	2011	€50K	to Anagennisi Karditsa
—	DM		Gentsoglou	17	EU	2006	0 (0/0/0)	0 (0/0/0)	2013	Youth system	to Nea Ionia
—	DM		Paligeorgos	18	EU	2006	1 (1/0/0)	0 (0/0/0)	2011	Youth system	to Anagennisi Karditsa
56	CM		Hetemaj	21	EU	2006	13 (7/2/4)	0 (0/0/0)	2010	€450Κ	to Apollon Kalamarias
—	RW		Diouf	19	Non-EU	2007	0 (0/0/0)	0 (0/0/0)	2011	Youth system	to Ilisiakos
—	RW		Zorbas	21	EU	2004	0 (0/0/0)	0 (0/0/0)	2011	Youth system	to Panetolikos

• Last updated: 2008-05-14
• Source:
• Ordered by position on pitch.

International players

Giorgos Alexopoulos Traianos Dellas Pantelis Kafes Panagiotis Lagos

Nikos Liberopoulos Sokratis Papastathopoulos Rodolfo Arruabarrena Mohamed Kallon

Jürgen Macho Tam Nsaliwa Rivaldo Dániel Tőzsér

Squad changes

• 

  Charilaos Pappas (2009)

• 

  Jürgen Macho (2010-03-03)

• 

  Manú (2011)

• 

  Edson Ratinho (2011)

• 

  Geraldo Alves (2010)

• 

  Rodolfo Arruabarrena (2007)

• 

  Panagiotis Tachtsidis (2012-07-25)

In:

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Ref.
3	LB		Arruabarrena	31	EU	Villarreal	Transfer	Summer	2010	Free	aekfc.gr
83	CF		Pavlis	17	EU	Youth system	Promotion	Summer	2010	—
11	LW		Manduca	26	EU	Youth system	Transfer	Summer	2010	€750K	aekfc.gr
2	RB		Edson Ratinho	20	Non-EU	Mogi Mirim	Transfer	Summer	2012	€250K	aekfc.gr
8	DM		Nsaliwa	25	EU	Panionios	Transfer	Summer	2010	€450K	aekfc.gr
10	SS		Rivaldo	35	EU	Olympiacos	Transfer	Summer	2009	Free	aekfc.gr
27	RM		Bourbos	23	EU	Kerkyra	Loan Return	Summer	2010	—
40	RW		Zorbas	17	EU	Niki Volos	Loan Return	Summer	2011	—
80	RW		Tofas	17	EU	Ethnikos Piraeus	Loan Return	Summer	2010	—
87	RB		Koutromanos	20	EU	Thrasyvoulos	Loan Return	Summer	2011	—
4	CB		Geraldo	26	EU	Paços de Ferreira	Transfer	Summer	2010	€300K	uefa.com
14	CB		Azcárate	23	EU	Atlético Madrid	Transfer	Summer	2011	Free	aekfc.gr
7	SS		Pappas	24	EU	Olympiacos	Transfer	Summer	2010	Free	aekfc.gr
89	RB		Barboudis	18	EU	Ilisiakos	Transfer	Summer	2010	€60K
32	GK		Moretto	29	Non-EU	Benfica	Loan	Summer	2008	Free	uefa.com
—	RW		Diouf	18	Non-EU	Xam-Xam	Transfer	Summer	2011	Free	aekfc.gr
18	CF		Blanco	23	Non-EU	Colón	Loan	Summer	2008	€450K	aekfc.gr
20	RW		Manú	25	EU	Benfica	Loan	Summer	2008	Free
50	GK		Macho	30	EU	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Transfer	Summer	2009	€300K	aekfc.gr
34	CM		Tachtsidis	16	EU	Youth system	Promotion	Summer	2010	—
—	DM		Gentsoglou	17	EU	Panachaiki	Loan return	Winter	2013	—
23	AM		Kallon	28	Non-EU	Monaco	Transfer	Winter	2008	Free	aekfc.gr
36	CF		Edinho	25	EU	Vitória de Setúbal	Loan	Winter	2008	€150K

Total spending: €2,71M

Out:

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
13	RB		Pautasso	27	EU	Olimpia	Released	Summer	Free	aekfc.gr
5	CB		Cirillo	30	EU	Levante	Released	Summer	Free	aekfc.gr
11	LW		Manduca	26	EU	Benfica	Loan return	Summer	—	aekfc.gr
79	CF		Kampantais	25	EU	Arminia Bielefeld	End of contract	Summer	Free	arminia-bielefeld.de
14	LB		Tziortziopoulos	28	EU	Omonia Nicosia	End of contract	Summer	Free	aekfc.gr
7	DM		Kyriakidis	21	EU	Larissa	Transfer	Summer	€300K	uefa.com
25	DM		Emerson	35	Non-EU	APOEL	End of contract	Summer	Free	uefa.com
4	CB		Moras	25	EU	Bologna	End of contract	Summer	Free
22	GK		Chiotis	30	EU	Kerkyra	End of contract	Summer	Free
22	RW		Lakis	30	EU	PAOK	Released	Summer	Free	aekfc.gr
28	GK		Sorrentino	28	EU	Recreativo	Loan	Summer	€340K	aekfc.gr
—	RW		Zorbas	20	EU	Panachaiki	Loan	Summer	Free
—	CF		Komvolidis	19	EU	Iraklis Thessaloniki	Released	Summer	Free
17	AM		Ivić	30	Non-EU	Aris	Released	Summer	Free
90	DM		Gentsoglou	16	EU	Panachaiki	Loan	Summer	Free
—	RW		Diouf	19	Non-EU	Ilisiakos	Loan	Winter	Free
56	CM		Hetemaj	21	EU	Apollon Kalamaria	Loan	Winter	Free
—	DM		Gentsoglou	17	EU	Nea Ionia	Loan	Winter	Free

Total income: €640K

Last updated: 2010-01-06

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

No. Position Player 77 MF Giorgos Paligiorgos (on loan to Anagennisi Karditsa) 87 DF Dimitris Koutromanos (on loan to Anagennisi Karditsa)

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

No. Position Player 89 DF Nikos Barboudis (on loan to Fostiras)

Squad stats

Players in italics have left during the season.

				Total						Super League Greece					Greek Cup					Champions League					UEFA Cup
Country	N	P	Name	GS	A	Mins.	Gls.	Y	R	A	Mins.	Gls.	Y	R	A	Mins.	Gls.	Y	R	A	Mins.	Gls.	Y	R	A	Mins.	Gls.	Y	R
	1	CM	Kafes	29	35		3	14		25		3	11		2			2		1					7			1
	2	RB	Edson Ratinho	33	38		1	7		28		1	4		2			1		2					6			2
	3	LB	Arruabarrena	25	25			6		16			3							1			1		8			2
	4	CB	Geraldo	31	34		1	11		26			8		1			1		2					5		1	2
	5	CB	Dellas	31	32		2	8	1	24		2	7	1	1					1					6			1
	7	SS	Pappas	3	13		2	2		8		1	2							1					4		1
	8	DM	Nsaliwa	25	32		2	8		22		1	6							2					8		1	2
	9	CF	Kapetanos	2	3		1			2					1		1
	10	AM	Rivaldo	41	43		15	3		35		12	3							2		1			6		2
	11	LW	Samouhos	24	32		25	30		22		25	30		1					2					7
	14	CB	Azcárate	2	2					1					1
	15	CB	Papastathopoulos	33	37		1	12		28		1	8		1			1		1			1		7			2
	16	DM	Zikos	24	24			9		20			6							2			2		2			1
	18	CF	Blanco	34	43		21	3		34		20	3		2										7		1
	19	LM	Lagos	12	17			2		15			2		1										1
	20	RW	Manú	8	20			5		13			3		2			2							5
	22	AM	Kone	5	20		2	4		13		1	4		1					1					5		1
	23	AM	Kallon	6	13		3	2		11		3	2												2
	25	DM	Pliatsikas	8	11			4		11			4
	27	RM	Bourbos	20	20			5		16			4		2					1			1		1
	31	RB	Georgeas	5	8			2		8			2
	32	GK	Moretto	23	25			1	1	16			1	1	2					2					5
	33	CF	Liberopoulos	35	39		13	5		30		13	2		1			1		2					6			2
	34	CM	Tachtsidis	1	2					1					1
	36	CF	Edinho	12	15		6	4		15		6	4
	50	GK	Macho	24	24			3	1	21			3	1											3
	56	CM	Hetemaj		1										1
	83	CF	Pavlis	1	8		1			7		1								1
	84	GK	Arabatzis	1	1					1
	88	DM	Tőzsér	16	24		1	4		14		1	3		2					2					6			1
	99	LW	Júlio César	14	28		4	2		19		3	2		2		1			2					5

Last updated: 2009-05-31
Source: Match reports in competitive matches, galanissportsdata.com
Ordered by start team, game starts and position on pitch (from back right to front left)
0 shown as blank
Country: when 2 flags, 1st flag = country that plays for internationally, 2nd flag = country of birth; N = number on jersey; P = Position; Name = Name on jersey (for more extended name, pause the mouse pointer on the name); GS = Game Started; A = Appearances.

Start formations

Qnt	Formation	Match(es)
29	4-4-2	3, 5-6, 8-9, 11-13, 15-19, 22-30, 33, 35, 38-42
6	4-4-1-1	1-2, 7, 10, 20, 31
4	4-2-3-1	14, 21, 32, 36
2	4-4-2 diamond or 4-1-2-1-2	4, 34
1	4-3-2-1 (the 'Christmas Tree' formation)	37

Source: Match reports in Competitive matches
Only competitive matches.

Overall

Games played	48
Games won	27
Games drawn	7
Games lost	14
Goals scored	86
Goals conceded	45
Goal difference	+41
Yellow cards	134
Red cards	3
Worst discipline	Traianos Dellas ( 1 x + 8 x )
Best result	5 – 0 vs Panionios
Worst result	0 – 4 vs Aris
Most appearances	Rivaldo (43) Ismael Blanco (43)
Top scorer	Ismael Blanco (21)
Points	88/144 (61.11%)

Last updated: 2008-05-15
Source: Competitive matches and Squad stats

Club

Management

Position	Staff
Manager	Nikos Kostenoglou
Assistant manager	Pep Alomar
First team coach	Antonis Kezos
Goalkeeping coach	Slobodan Suica
Youth Team coach	Georgos Vamvakas

Last updated: 26 Feb 2008
Source: aekfc.gr

Kit

Supplier: Puma
Sponsor(s): LG
Features: Chevrolet, Forthnet

Home

Away

Third

Source: sport24.gr

Other information

Chairman	Demis Nikolaidis
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Athens Olympic Stadium (71,030 / 120x80 m)

Source: aekfc.gr

Manager stats

Name	Nat	From	To	Record							Honours
				P	W	D	L	F	A	%W
Lorenzo Serra Ferrer		15 August 2007	12 February 2008	30	17	2	11	51	26	56.66	–
Nikos Kostenoglou*		12 February 2008	14 May 2008	18	10	5	3	35	19	55.55	–
Totals	–	15 August 2007	14 May 2008	48	27	7	14	86	45	56.25	–

Key

* Served as Caretaker-manager.

Only competitive matches are counted. Wins, losses and draws are results at the final whistle; the results of penalty shootouts are not counted.

Competitions

Superleague Greece

Classification

This is the classification for the regular season:

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	21	7	2	58	23	+35	70	UEFA Champions League 2008-09 Third Qualifying Round
2	AEK Athens	30	22	2	6	65	17	+48	68	Super League Greece 2007-08 Playoffs
3	Panathinaikos	30	20	6	4	44	18	+26	66
4	Aris	30	14	8	8	32	20	+12	50
5	Panionios	30	13	6	11	39	42	−3	45

Updated to games played on 20 April 2008.
Source: Superleague Greece 2007-08
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	22	2	6	65	17	+48	68	11	2	2	38	9	+29	11	0	4	27	8	+19

Last updated: 6 April 2008.
Source: Super League Greece

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H
Result	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	W	L	W	W	L	W	W	W	L	L	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W
Position	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	3	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2

Last updated: 6 March 2008.
Source: aekfc.gr
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Playoffs Table

Last updated 13 May 2008

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts*
1	Panathinaikos	6	4	2	0	14	5	+9	21
2	AEK Athens	6	2	2	2	10	11	-1	16
3	Aris^1	6	1	2	3	9	9	0	7
4	Panionios	6	1	2	3	7	15	-8	5

	UEFA Champions League Second Qualifying Round
	UEFA Cup Second Qualifying Round
	Intertoto Cup Second Round

(*) The teams started the minileague with the following number of points:

• • AEK Athens - 8
  • Panathinaikos - 7
  • Aris - 2
  • Panionios - 0

¹ Aris is guaranteed at least to play in the UEFA Cup 2008-09 Second Qualifying Round through their Greek Cup performance.

UEFA Cup

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Villarreal	4	3	1	0	7	3	+4	10
Fiorentina	4	2	2	0	10	4	+6	8
AEK Athens	4	1	2	1	4	4	0	5
Mladá Boleslav	4	1	0	3	5	6	-1	3
Elfsborg	4	0	1	3	3	12	-9	1

(KEY: Pts= Points; Pld= Matches Played; W= Matches Won; D= Matches Drawn; L= Matches Lost; GF= Goals For; GA= Goals Against; GD= Goal Difference)

Last updated: 11 December 2007
Source: UEFA

UEFA rankings

UEFA team ranking # Form Previous Country Team Ranking 81 89 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 31.932 82 86 Austria Vienna 31.840 83 69 AEK Athens 31.525 84 77 Slavia Prague 31.496 85 79 RC Strasbourg 31.380

UEFA country ranking # Form Previous Country League Ranking 12 11 Ukrainian Premier League 30.100 13 12 Jupiler League 26.700 14 15 Superleague Greece 25.831 15 13 1. Gambrinus Liga 25.750 16 17 Axpo Super League 24.225

Correct as of 27 May 2008

Matches

Competitive

M	Date	Tournament	Round	Ground	Opponent	Score^1	Report
1	2007-08-15	UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round	A	Sevilla	0 – 2
2	2007-09-03	UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round	H	Sevilla	1 – 4
3	2007-09-20	UEFA Cup	First round	H	Red Bull Salzburg	3 – 0
4	2007-09-23	Super League Greece	2	H	Atromitos	2 – 0
5	2007-09-26	Super League Greece	1	A	Veria	1 – 0
6	2007-09-30	Super League Greece	3	A	Levadiakos	4 – 0
7	2007-10-04	UEFA Cup	First round	A	Red Bull Salzburg	0 – 1
8	2007-10-07	Super League Greece	4	A	Panionios	3 – 0
9	2007-10-20	Super League Greece	5	H	Larissa	1 – 0
10	2007-10-25	UEFA Cup	Group Stage	A	IF Elfsborg	1 – 1
11	2007-10-28	Super League Greece	6	A	Xanthi	1 – 0
12	2007-11-01	Greek Cup	Fourth Round		Fostiras	2 – 0
13	2007-11-04	Super League Greece	7	H	Iraklis Thessaloniki	1 – 2
14	2007-11-11	Super League Greece	8	A	Panathinaikos	1 – 2
15	2007-11-25	Super League Greece	9	H	OFI	4 – 0
16	2007-11-29	UEFA Cup	Group Stage	H	Fiorentina	1 – 1
17	2007-12-02	Super League Greece	10	A	Aris	1 – 0
18	2007-12-05	UEFA Cup	Group Stage	A	Mladá Boleslav	1 – 0
19	2007-12-09	Super League Greece	11	H	Apollon Kalamaria	4 – 0
20	2007-12-16	Super League Greece	12	A	Olympiacos	0 – 1
21	2007-12-20	UEFA Cup	Group Stage	H	Villarreal	1 – 2
22	2007-12-23	Super League Greece	13	A	Ergotelis	4 – 1
23	2007-12-30	Super League Greece	14	H	PAOK	2 – 0
24	2008-01-06	Super League Greece	15	A	Asteras Tripoli	1 – 2
25	2008-01-09	Greek Cup	Fifth Round	A	Xanthi	0 – 2
26	2008-01-12	Super League Greece	16	H	Veria	5 – 1
27	2008-01-19	Super League Greece	17	A	Atromitos	1 – 0
28	2008-01-27	Super League Greece	18	H	Levadiakos	3 – 0
29	2008-02-03	Super League Greece	19	H	Panionios	2 – 3
30	2008-02-09	Super League Greece	20	A	Larissa	0 – 1
31	2008-02-13	UEFA Cup	Round of 32	H	Getafe	1 – 1
32	2008-02-17	Super League Greece	21	H	Xanthi	3 – 0
33	2008-02-21	UEFA Cup	Round of 32	A	Getafe	0 – 3
34	2008-02-24	Super League Greece	22	A	Iraklis Thessaloniki	1 – 0
35	2008-03-02	Super League Greece	23	H	Panathinaikos	1 – 1
36	2008-03-09	Super League Greece	24	A	OFI	4 – 1
37	2008-03-16	Super League Greece	25	H	Aris	1 – 1
38	2008-03-23	Super League Greece	26	A	Apollon Kalamaria	1 – 0
39	2008-03-30	Super League Greece	27	H	Olympiacos	4 – 0
40	2008-04-06	Super League Greece	28	H	Ergotelis	3 – 1
41	2008-04-13	Super League Greece	29	A	PAOK	4 – 0
42	2008-04-20	Super League Greece	30	H	Asteras Tripoli	2 – 0
43	2008-04-23	Super League Greece	Playoffs	H	Panionios	5 – 0
44	2008-04-30	Super League Greece	Playoffs	A	Panathinaikos	1 – 4
45	2008-05-04	Super League Greece	Playoffs	H	Aris	1 – 0
46	2008-05-07	Super League Greece	Playoffs	A	Aris	0 – 4
47	2008-05-11	Super League Greece	Playoffs	A	Panionios	2 – 2
48	2008-05-14	Super League Greece	Playoffs	H	Panathinaikos	1 – 1

Last updated: 2008-05-14
Source:
¹AEK Athens goals come first.
National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different to that of AEK Athens.
M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.

References

1. AEK call time on coach Serra Ferrer

See also