AEK Athens

1985–86 season
Chairman	Andreas Zafiropoulos
Manager	Jacek Gmoch (until 30 May) Nikos Christidis
Stadium	Athens Olympic Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	3rd
Greek Cup	Semi-finals
UEFA Cup	First Round
Top goalscorer	League: Håkan Sandberg (12) All: Márton Esterházy (17)
Highest home attendance	74,465 vs Olympiacos (9 February 1986)
Lowest home attendance	1,454 vs Chalkida (12 February 1986)
Average home league attendance	27,584
Biggest win	AEK Athens 10–0 Ilioupoli
Biggest defeat	Real Madrid 5–0 AEK Athens
Home colours

The 1985–86 season was the 62nd season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 27th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup and the UEFA Cup. The season began on 8 September 1985 and finished on 23 June 1986.

Overview

In the summer of 1985, AEK "moved" to the Athens Olympic Stadium, due to construction works at the AEK Stadium. Both Olympiacos and Panathinaikos already used the same stadium as their home ground at the time, which resulted in the introduction of league games on Saturday, so that all 3 teams could be served simultaneously. Antonis Georgiadis left the team's bench for Olympiacos, while Zafiropoulos hired Jacek Gmoch, who had won the 1984 double and he had reached the semi-finals of the European Cup with Panathinaikos. Christos Ardizoglou left the club to end his career at Apollon Athens, a team where he started his career, since for various reasons he failed to transfer to Olympiacos. In December, both Vangelis Vlachos and Lysandros Georgamlis left for Panathinaikos and greatly affected the team's later performance in the league. In the transfer period of December, AEK were strengthened with the addition of Greek-Australian expatriate, Jim Patikas.

AEK started the league with two convincing victories against PAOK and Aris, but the continuation was not proportional. The whole season was a year of successive ups and downs in the performance of the team, which could not acquire duration and rhythm. The club presented two different faces in their struggles at home and away matches. While at home they finished undefeated, but with 7 draws that knocked them out of the title race, at the away matches they gathered 7 defeats in 15 games. The team finished at the third place where they were tied with Iraklis, 7 points behind the champion Panathinaikos and 2 behind the second OFI. In the UEFA Cup, AEK were eliminated by the mighty Real Madrid, who were the eventual winners, in the first round, despite winning the first leg at Athens. In the Cup, AEK reached the semi-finals where they were eliminated by Panathinaikos in a margin. Top scorer at the league was Håkan Sandberg with 12 goals and Márton Esterházy in total with 17 goals, while Theologis Papadopoulos had a very good season. One of the few positives of that season was that AEK achieved an average league ticket record in their history with 31,254 tickets per game.^[1]

However, the whole season was accompanied by the court thriller that was reserved for the end. AEK were playing in the penultimate matchday in Serres against Panserraikos. ΑΕΚ wanted the victory to stay on track for a ticket to the next season's UEFA Cup. On April 19, at the eve of the match, the general manager of AEK, Giannis Chrysovitsianos, was arrested on the accusation that he tried to bribe the players of Panserraikos, Michalis Galatidis, Giorgos Sfakianakis and Giannis Antoniadis, through Giorgos Rigas, to underperform the game. The match took place normally with Panserraikos winning by 2–0, a result that eventually did not help him avoid relegation. The result of this whole story was that the league standings were not secured, until the case was finalized. Eventually, that happened in mid-June, with AEK being punished with the deduction of 3 points, but from the next season's championship. Thus, the organizing authority decided to conduct a third place play-off match between AEK and Iraklis. Iraklis considered a scandal the decision of the punishment of AEK for next year, as well as the acquittal of OFI for the double doping of their player, Alejandro Hisis. The play-off match was set for June 23 at Volos. The delay of the conduction of the match was such that Esterházy played in the match, after competing with his national team at the FIFA World Cup in Mexico. Meanwhile Gmoch left the club, with Nikos Christidis sitting at the bench for the match. Iraklis, disagreed with the conduction of the play-off match, considering themselves wronged by the non-punishment of AEK for the current season. Nevertheless they were forced to show up in order for the club not to be punished and tried to make a parody of the match. The squad of Iraklis was consisted of only 10 players, since according to their management, the rest of the players were on vacation. At the 53rd minute and while the match was at 0–0, Iraklis were left with 6 players after Zifkas and Karaiskos were sent off, while Santexis and Adamou left injured. According to the regulation, the referee interrupted the match and was awarded 2–0 to AEK, who won the European ticket.^[2]

Players

Squad information

NOTE: The players are the ones that have been announced by the AEK Athens' press release. No edits should be made unless a player arrival or exit is announced. Updated 23 June 1986, 23:59 UTC+3.

Player	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
Spyros Ikonomopoulos		GK	(1959-07-25)25 July 1959 (aged 26)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1993
Theologis Papadopoulos		GK	(1960-01-12)12 January 1960 (aged 26)	1984	AEL	Free	1989
Defenders
Makis Chatzis		RB / LB	(1957-03-30)30 March 1957 (aged 29)	1984	Apollon Athens	Free	1992
Panagiotis Stylianopoulos		RB / LB	(1957-09-04)4 September 1957 (aged 28)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1988
Ilias Armodoros		LB	(1960-01-25)25 January 1960 (aged 26)	1985	Ethnikos Piraeus	Free	1987
Takis Karagiozopoulos		CB / DM / ST	(1961-02-04)4 February 1961 (aged 25)	1981	Veria	Free	1993
Polyvios Chatzopoulos		CB / DM	(1961-07-17)17 July 1961 (aged 24)	1985	Panionios	Free	1989
Stelios Manolas		CB / RB	(1961-07-13)13 July 1961 (aged 24)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1988
Stefanos Porfyris		CB	(1965-09-02)2 September 1965 (aged 20)	1985	AEK Athens U20	—	1987
Midfielders
Pavlos Dimitriou		AM / LB	(1957-03-24)24 March 1957 (aged 29)	1985	Panserraikos	Free	1987
Dinos Ballis		AM / CM / DM / SS / ST / CB	(1957-05-25)25 May 1957 (aged 29)	1981	Aris	₯17,000,000	1986
Pavlos Papaioannou		DM / RB / RM	(1959-05-19)19 May 1959 (aged 27)	1983	Rodos	₯10,000,000	1993
Nikos Pias		CM	(1960-04-07)7 April 1960 (aged 26)	1984	Rodos	Free	1988
Jim Patikas		RM / LM / RW / LW / SS	(1963-10-18)18 October 1963 (aged 22)	1985	Sydney Croatia	Free	1993
Dimitris Stafylidis		CM	(1965-01-01)1 January 1965 (aged 21)	1985	AEK Athens U20	—	1987
Forwards
Thomas Mavros (Captain)		ST / SS	(1954-05-31)31 May 1954 (aged 32)	1976	Panionios	Free	1988
Márton Esterházy		SS / ST / RW / LW / AM	(1956-04-09)9 April 1956 (aged 30)	1984	Honvéd	Free	1987
Håkan Sandberg		ST	(1958-07-27)27 July 1958 (aged 27)	1984	IFK Göteborg	₯25,000,000	1987
Andreas Voitsidis		ST	(1960-04-28)28 April 1960 (aged 26)	1984	Kastoria	Free	1987
Giannis Dintsikos		ST / SS / RW / LW / AM	(1960-06-25)25 June 1960 (aged 26)	1981	Kastoria	Free	1989
Georgios Christodoulou		ST / SS / LW	(1967-05-20)20 May 1967 (aged 19)	1985	Akratitos	Free	1991
Left during Winter Transfer Window
Christos Arvanitis		GK	(1953-01-23)23 January 1953 (aged 33)	1982	Olympiacos	Free	1986
Lysandros Georgamlis (Vice-captain)		RB / CB / DM	(1962-02-25)25 February 1962 (aged 24)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1985
Babis Akrivopoulos		AM / SS / ST	(1961-09-04)4 September 1961 (aged 24)	1983	Veria	Free	1986
Vangelis Vlachos		AM / CM	(1962-01-06)6 January 1962 (aged 24)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1985

Transfers

In

Summer

Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
GK	Fanis Kofinas	Korinthos	End of loan	—	1 July 1985	30 June 1992
DF	Polyvios Chatzopoulos	Panionios	Transfer	Free	1 July 1985	30 June 1989
DF	Stefanos Porfyris	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1985	30 June 1987
DF	Ilias Armodoros	Ethnikos Piraeus	Transfer	Free	1 July 1985	30 June 1987
MF	Dimitris Stafylidis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1985	30 June 1987
FW	Georgios Christodoulou	Akratitos	Transfer	Free	11 July 1985	30 June 1991

Winter

Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
MF	Jim Patikas	Sydney Croatia	Transfer	Free	31 December 1985	30 June 1993
MF	Pavlos Dimitriou	Panserraikos	Transfer	Free	31 December 1985	30 June 1987

Out

Summer

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Stavros Letsas	Egaleo	End of contract	—	1 July 1985
ΜF	Christos Ardizoglou	Apollon Athens	Contract termination	—	1 July 1985
FW	Michalis Pytharoulis	Free agent	End of contract	—	1 July 1985

Winter

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
GK	Christos Arvanitis	Olympiacos	Contract termination	—	1 December 1985
DF	Lysandros Georgamlis	Panathinaikos	End of contract	—	1 December 1985
MF	Babis Akrivopoulos	Veria	Contract termination	—	31 December 1985
MF	Vangelis Vlachos	Panathinaikos	End of contract[a]	—	1 December 1985

Notes

a. ^{^} During the previous season, Vlachos was at the end of his five year contract and Zafiropoulos proposed a relatively small offer for a contract renewal. Vlachos had also an offer from Vardinogiannis, to move to Panathinaikos which he accepted. At 26 April 1985, he filed an appeal to EEODEP, asking for debts from AEK and making use of his five-year term, asked to be released from the club so he could play for Panathinaikos. It was the beginning of a court series that lasted several months, which resulted in Vlachos playing for Panathinaikos, but only after his contract with AEK had expired.^[3]

Loan out

Summer

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
GK	Fanis Kofinas	Ionikos	Free	1 June 1985	30 June 1987	N

Pre-season and friendlies

Brage v AEK Athens

18 July 1985 Friendly	Brage	0–2	AEK Athens	Borlänge
			Esterházy 41' (pen.) Sandberg 59'	Stadium: Domnarvsvallen

Örebro v AEK Athens

23 July 1985 Friendly	Örebro	2–3	AEK Athens	Borlänge
				Stadium: Domnarvsvallen

Västerås v AEK Athens

25 July 1985 Friendly	Västerås	0–1	AEK Athens	Borlänge
				Stadium: Domnarvsvallen

AEK Athens v Honvéd

19 August 1985 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–3	Honvéd	Marousi
				Stadium: Olympic Stadium

Competitions

UEFA Cup

Main article: 1985–86 UEFA Cup

First round

AEK Athens v Real Madrid

18 September 1985 First leg	AEK Athens	1–0	Real Madrid	Athens, Greece
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Papaioannou 10'	Report		Stadium: Athens Olympic Stadium Attendance: 39,819 Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

Real Madrid v AEK Athens

2 October 1985 Second leg	Real Madrid	5–0 (5–1 agg.)	AEK Athens	Madrid, Spain
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Georgamlis 8' (o.g.) Butragueño 18' Chendo 20' Valdano 32' Sánchez 59'	Report		Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Stadium Attendance: 85,000 Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 23 June 1986

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		UEFA Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	0
—	GK	Theologis Papadopoulos	23	0	7	0	0	0	30	0
Defenders
—	DF	Makis Chatzis	24	0	7	0	2	0	33	0
—	DF	Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	14	0	5	1	0	0	19	1
—	DF	Ilias Armodoros	25	0	8	0	2	0	35	0
—	DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	25	1	7	2	2	0	34	3
—	DF	Polyvios Chatzopoulos	19	1	8	0	2	0	29	1
—	DF	Stelios Manolas	20	3	7	1	2	0	29	4
—	DF	Stefanos Porfyris	2	0	3	0	0	0	5	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Pavlos Dimitriou	15	0	5	0	0	0	20	0
—	MF	Dinos Ballis	22	4	7	2	1	0	30	6
—	MF	Pavlos Papaioannou	27	0	6	0	2	1	35	1
—	MF	Nikos Pias	24	0	6	0	2	0	32	0
—	MF	Jim Patikas	12	0	3	2	0	0	15	2
—	MF	Dimitris Stafylidis	11	1	8	0	0	0	19	1
Forwards
—	FW	Thomas Mavros	17	4	4	0	1	0	22	4
—	FW	Márton Esterházy	29	11	6	6	2	0	37	17
—	FW	Håkan Sandberg	29	12	6	4	2	0	37	16
—	FW	Andreas Voitsidis	13	0	5	0	0	0	18	0
—	FW	Giannis Dintsikos	20	5	4	3	1	0	25	8
—	FW	Georgios Christodoulou	6	0	2	1	0	0	8	1
Left during Winter Transfer Window
—	GK	Christos Arvanitis	7	0	0	0	2	0	9	0
—	DF	Lysandros Georgamlis	7	0	1	0	2	0	10	0
—	MF	Babis Akrivopoulos	5	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
—	MF	Vangelis Vlachos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goalscorers

As of 23 June 1986

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	UEFA Cup	Total
1	FW	Márton Esterházy	11	6	0	17
2	FW	Håkan Sandberg	12	4	0	16
3	FW	Giannis Dintsikos	5	3	0	8
4	MF	Dinos Ballis	4	2	0	6
5	FW	Thomas Mavros	4	0	0	4
	DF	Stelios Manolas	3	1	0	4
7	DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	1	2	0	3
8	MF	Jim Patikas	0	2	0	2
9	DF	Polyvios Chatzopoulos	1	0	0	1
	MF	Dimitris Stafylidis	1	0	0	1
	DF	Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	0	1	0	1
	FW	Georgios Christodoulou	0	1	0	1
	MF	Pavlos Papaioannou	0	0	1	1
Own goals			0	0	0	0
Totals			42	22	1	65

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Márton Esterházy	Ilioupoli	10–0 (H)	6 November 1985	Greek Cup	[5]

Clean sheets

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

As of 23 June 1986

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	UEFA Cup	Total
1	Theologis Papadopoulos	10	3	0	13
2	Christos Arvanitis	2	0	1	3
3	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	0	1	0	1
Totals		12	4	1	17

Disciplinary record

As of 23 June 1986

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			UEFA Cup			Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Spyros Ikonomopoulos
—	GK		Theologis Papadopoulos
Defenders
—	DF		Makis Chatzis	2									2
—	DF		Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	1									1
—	DF		Ilias Armodoros	3			2						5
—	DF		Takis Karagiozopoulos	7									7
—	DF		Polyvios Chatzopoulos	3			1			1			5
—	DF		Stelios Manolas	9			2						11
—	DF		Stefanos Porfyris
Midfielders
—	MF		Pavlos Dimitriou	2									2
—	MF		Dinos Ballis	4		1	3	1					7	1	1
—	MF		Dimitris Pittas
—	MF		Pavlos Papaioannou	7	1		1						8	1
—	MF		Nikos Pias	4		1							4		1
—	MF		Jim Patikas	2			1						3
—	MF		Dimitris Stafylidis	3			3						6
Forwards
—	FW		Thomas Mavros	2									2
—	FW		Márton Esterházy	4									4
—	FW		Håkan Sandberg	8			3	1		1			12	1
—	FW		Andreas Voitsidis	1									1
—	FW		Giannis Dintsikos	2	1								2	1
—	FW		Georgios Christodoulou
Left during Winter Transfer Window
—	GK		Christos Arvanitis	1									1
—	DF		Lysandros Georgamlis							1			1
—	MF		Babis Akrivopoulos
—	MF		Vangelis Vlachos

References

External links

• AEK Athens F.C. Official Website