AEK Athens

1991–92 season
Chairman	Kostas Generakis (until 17 June) Dimitris Melissanidis
Manager	Dušan Bajević
Stadium	Nikos Goumas Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	1st
Greek Cup	Semi-finals
UEFA Cup	Third round
Top goalscorer	League: Vasilis Dimitriadis (28) All: Vasilis Dimitriadis (31)
Highest home attendance	30,000 vs Spartak Moscow (6 November 1991)
Lowest home attendance	1,094 vs Ionikos (22 January 1992)
Average home league attendance	14,302
Biggest win	AEK Athens 6–0 Panionios
Biggest defeat	PAOK 3–0 AEK Athens
Home colours Away colours

The 1991–92 season was the 68th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 33rd 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 18 August 1991 and finished on 7 June 1992.

Kits

Supplier: Diadora
Sponsor(s): Ethniki Asfalistiki

Home

Away

Overview

A great season for AEK Athens, which were proclaimed champion of Greece. In the summer of 1991, Andreas Zafiropoulos was still the major shareholder of the club, but Kostas Generakis had taken over as president of the team. The new management of the team put the clubs finances of in order and at the same time proceeded with three successful transfers that would play a decisive role both in the specific year and in the future of the team. Specifically, the last season's European champion with Red Star Belgrade, Refik Šabanadžović, the international striker of Aris, Vasilis Dimitriadis and the top scorer of last season's second division and promising young striker from Veria, Alexis Alexandris arrived at the club. At the same time, the full support for Dušan Bajević was continued by the new administration. Furthermore, on 7 September, "AEK Stadium" was renamed into "Nikos Goumas Stadium", after the former president of the club, who had a significant financial contribution in various phases of its construction.^[1]

The coach of AEK created a very good team and AEK stared at the league almost from the beginning. In the end, the team presented a solid substance in their game, while from time to time they offered a great spectacle and won the title, admittedly, with a difference of 3 points from the second Olympiacos. The decisive role for the conquest of the trophy was played by the 10 consecutive wins until the penultimate matchday, when the conquest for the title was already judged. It was remarkable that in the celebrations of the title in Toumba Stadium during the last matchday, about 6,000 fans of AEK were present and watched the match and the awarding of the championship trophy to the team. The most emphatic victories of the season were in the 6–0 against Panionios and 5–1 against Panachaiki at home and the 1–5 over Doxa Drama away from home, while the yellow-blacks won the title without winning any derby against Panathinaikos and Olympiacos.

In the UEFA Cup, luck smiled at AEK as they were drawn for the first round with the Albanian Vllaznia Shkodër. Thus, in September they travel to Shkodër, where they faced bigger problems than the local team, contrary to the predictions of a very comfortable victory. Vllaznia surprised AEK and in the first twenty minutes, they put a lot of pressure on them. However, as the minutes went on and after the initial excitement of the Albanians, AEK leveled the game and took the away victory with a beautiful goal by Dimitriadis. The rematch in Nikos Goumas Stadium had already acquired a procedural character and the formality of the case ended very quickly, since only at the 8th minute Papaioannou eliminated any possibility of the Albanians taking a positive result. AEK cleared the obligation with a second goal and just waited for the draw for the second round of the competition. This time, the draw was tough against Aleksandr Mostovoi's and Valery Karpin's Spartak Moscow. In the vast and cold Luzhniki Stadium they managed to achieve a difficult goalless draw against Oleg Romanchev's squad. In Athens, the Russians took the lead in the 15th minute with a penalty by Mostovoi and everything seemed to be over. However, with a rare display of soul and crowd that overwhelmed the stadium, AEK managed to turn the game around in the last half hour of the match. The whole crowd believed it and transmitted their energy to the team and in the 64th minute the in-form Batista leveled the game and in an amazing atmosphere 11 minutes later, Dimitriadis gave AEK a qualifying score. In the minutes that followed, the Russians put an incredible amount of pressure on the goalposts of the Minou and missed many chances to turn the tables on their side, but AEK endured and eventually celebrated a huge qualification. For the next round, AEK were drawn against the historic Torino. In the first match at home the stadium was buzzing, AEK was carried away by the excitement and closed Toro in their frames. Finally, the goal would come after a powershot from Batista with the completion of the 22nd minute. AEK continued attacking at the same pace and which played by the Italians' first counterattack. The shock was huge and before the team realized it, Torino completed the comeback. What followed was an attacking monologue by AEK, but the counter-type Italians managed to save their backs and just accept the equalizer from Šabanadžović. AEK arrived in Turin for the rematch knowing that their task was by definition difficult. They pressed on and worried Emiliano Mondonico's team, but early in the second half, Toro with an impressive header by Casagrande, ended the qualification case. Several years later and due to the preliminary investigation into the "Calciopolis" scandal, the then general manager of Torino, Luciano Mozzi, was accused of having also influenced the referees in Toro's European matches that season, securing favor for the Piedmontese club and in the games against AEK.^[2]

In the institution of the cup, AEK having easily passed the first round in a group with Doxa Vyronas, EAR, Panachaiki and Aris Nikaias and having then also easily eliminated Ionikos and Iraklis, faced OFI in the quarter-finals. After a "white" draw in the first match, AEK won in Crete and qot the qualification. In the semi-finals, AEK came across PAOK and although in the first leg they theoretically got a "qualification-score" at Nea Filadelfeia with 2–0 they were eliminated at extra time with a 3–0 loss at Thessaloniki.

Leaders of this team were Manolas in defense, Savevski with Šabanadžović in midfield and the quartet of Dimitriadis-Batista-Savvidis-Alexandris on the front that "spat fire". However, the rest of the "starters" also had a great performance. The top scorer of the team and of the league was Dimitriadis with 28 goals.

On 27 May 1992, Kostas Generakis resigned from the Presidency of AEK. Immediately after, the duo Melissanidis-Karras expressed interest in the purchase of the shares of Zafiropoulos^[3] and the way was opened for them to get to work with the management of the club.^[4]

Management team

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

Players

Squad information

NOTE: The players are the ones that have been announced by the AEK Athens' press release. No edits should be made unless a player arrival or exit is announced. Updated 7 June 1992, 23:59 UTC+3.

Player	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
Antonis Minou (Vice-captain)		GK	(1958-05-04)4 May 1958 (aged 34)	1988	Panathinaikos	₯50,000,000	1993
Spyros Ikonomopoulos		GK	(1959-07-25)25 July 1959 (aged 32)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1993
Fanis Kofinas		GK	(1960-09-05)5 September 1960 (aged 31)	1982	Pelopas Kiato	Free	1992
Defenders
Makis Chatzis		RB / LB	(1957-03-30)30 March 1957 (aged 35)	1984	Apollon Athens	Free	1992
Takis Karagiozopoulos		CB / DM / ST	(1961-02-04)4 February 1961 (aged 31)	1981	Veria	Free	1993
Stelios Manolas		CB / RB	(1961-07-13)13 July 1961 (aged 30)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1993
Giorgos Peppes		CB	(1961-10-26)26 October 1961 (aged 30)	1986	Ethnikos Piraeus	Free	1992
Christos Vasilopoulos		RB / LB	(1962-11-12)12 November 1962 (aged 29)	1987	Panachaiki	Free	1993
Georgios Koutoulas		CB / LB	(1967-02-09)9 February 1967 (aged 25)	1987	AEK Athens U20	—	1999
Vaios Karagiannis		LB / CB	(1968-06-25)25 June 1968 (aged 24)	1990	A.O. Karditsa	Free	1995
Georgios Theodoridis		CB	(1973-07-08)8 July 1973 (aged 18)	1991	Doxa Markochori	Free	1996
Midfielders
Pavlos Papaioannou		DM / RB / RM	(1959-05-19)19 May 1959 (aged 33)	1983	Rodos	₯10,000,000	1993
Giorgos Savvidis (Captain)		AM / RM / RW / SS / ST	(1961-02-08)8 February 1961 (aged 31)	1987	Omonia	₯40,000,000	1990
Lampros Georgiadis		AM / LM / LB	(1963-07-11)11 July 1963 (aged 28)	1986	Anagennisi Arta	₯12,000,000	1993
Toni Savevski		CM / LM / DM	(1963-07-14)14 July 1963 (aged 28)	1988	Vardar	Free	1993
Jim Patikas		RM / LM / RW / LW / SS	(1963-10-18)18 October 1963 (aged 28)	1985	Sydney Croatia	Free	1993
Refik Šabanadžović		DM / CM / CB / RB	(1965-08-02)2 August 1965 (aged 26)	1991	Red Star Belgrade	₯30,000,000	1996
Stavros Stamatis		DM / CM / CB / RB / LB / AM	(1966-01-31)31 January 1966 (aged 26)	1988	Charavgiakos	Free	1995
Forwards
Daniel Batista		ST / SS / AM	(1964-09-09)9 September 1964 (aged 27)	1989	Ethnikos Piraeus	Free	1992
Vasilis Dimitriadis		ST	(1966-02-01)1 February 1966 (aged 26)	1991	Aris	₯95,000,000	1993
Frank Klopas		SS / ST / AM	(1966-09-01)1 September 1966 (aged 25)	1988	Chicago Sting	Free	1994
Alexis Alexandris		ST / SS	(1968-10-21)21 October 1968 (aged 23)	1991	Veria	Free	1994
Giorgos Kakousios		ST	(1972-01-16)16 January 1972 (aged 20)	1991	1. FC Nürnberg II	Free	1993
Left during Winter Transfer Window
Spyros Goumas		ST	(1970-02-24)24 February 1970 (aged 22)	1989	AEK Athens U20	—	1992

Transfers

In

Summer

Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
DF	Georgios Theodoridis	Doxa Markochori	Transfer	Free	1 July 1991	30 June 1996
MF	Refik Šabanadžović	Red Star Belgrade	Transfer	₯30,000,000[a]	1 July 1991	30 June 1996	[5]
FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	Aris	Transfer	₯95,000,000[b]	8 July 1991	30 June 1993	[6]
FW	Alexis Alexandris	Veria	Transfer	Free	1 July 1991	30 June 1994
FW	Giorgos Kakousios	1. FC Nürnberg II	Transfer	Free	1 July 1991	30 June 1993

Notes

a. ^{^} the last installment of the transfer fee.

b. ^{^} plus the incomes from their two scheduled friendly games.

Out

Summer

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Anastasios Pourikas	Kallithea	End of contract	—	1 July 1991
MF	Giorgos Famelis	Apollon Athens	End of contract	—	1 July 1991
MF	Giorgos Papakostoulis	Atromitos	Transfer	Free	1 July 1991
MF	Panagiotis Pangratis	Atromitos	End of contract	—	1 July 1991
MF	Mirosław Okoński	Korinthos	End of contract	—	1 July 1991
FW	Georgios Christodoulou	Proodeftiki	End of contract	—	1 July 1991
FW	Giannis Milopoulos	Paniliakos	Transfer	₯32,000,000	1 July 1991	[7]

Winter

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
FW	Spyros Goumas	Charavgiakos	Transfer	Free	31 December 1991

Contract renewals

Pos.	Player	Date	Former Exp. Date	New Exp. Date	Source
GK	Antonis Minou	1 July 1991	30 June 1991	30 June 1993

Pre-season and friendlies

Kirchen-Hausen v AEK Athens

20 July 1991 Friendly	Kirchen-Hausen	1–16	AEK Athens
6:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Fritsch 6'		Dimitriadis 11', 20', 30', 41' Patikas 16' Alexandris 28', 43' Manolas 35' Savvidis 38', 44' Klopas 50', 77' Stamatis 55', 86' Chatzis 57' Georgiadis 82'
Note: With the team of Kirchen-Hausen also used players from Disiegen and Buchhausen.

Forst v AEK Athens

26 July 1991 Friendly	Forst	1–8	AEK Athens
			Alexandris Dimitriadis Šabanadžović Patikas Savevski

Mulfingen v AEK Athens

31 July 1991 Friendly	Mulfingen	1–5	AEK Athens
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)			Georgiadis 10', 37' Šabanadžović 59' Batista 67' Dimitriadis 83'

AEK Athens v Crystal Palace

5 August 1991 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–2	Crystal Palace	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Dimitriadis 25' Patikas 90'	Report	Gray 35' Bright 63'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 20,000

AEK Athens v PAOK

7 August 1991 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–1	PAOK	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Manolas 61' Antonopoulos 78' (o.g.)		Skartados 18' (pen.)	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Referee: Giannis Iatropoulos (Piraeus)

AEK Athens v Iraklis

9 August 1991 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	Iraklis	Nea Filadelfeia
	Stamatis 21'		Kushta 9'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

Panargiakos v AEK Athens

11 August 1991 Friendly	Panargiakos	2–5	AEK Athens	Argos
	Papanikolaou 28' Grillas 74'		Klopas 11', 77' Alexandris 39', 55' Dimitriadis 53' Georgiadis 88' (pen.)	Stadium: Argos Municipal Stadium

AEK Athens v Aris

14 August 1991 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–1	Aris	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Alexandris 46' Bougiouklis 74' (o.g.)			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium
Note: Friendly match as part of the transfer of Vasilis Dimitriadis.

Aris v AEK Athens

22 August 1991 Friendly	Aris	2–2	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
			Dimitriadis 10' Savevski 67'	Stadium: Aris Stadium
Note: Friendly match as part of the transfer of Vasilis Dimitriadis.

Competitions

UEFA Cup

Main article: 1991–92 UEFA Cup

First round

Vllaznia Shkodër v AEK Athens

18 September 1991 First leg	Vllaznia Shkodër	0–1	AEK Athens	Shkodër, Albania
17:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Dimitriadis 4'	Stadium: Loro Boriçi Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Frans Van Den Wijngaert (Belgium)

AEK Athens v Vllaznia Shkodër

3 October 1991 Second leg	AEK Athens	2–0 (3–0 agg.)	Vllaznia Shkodër	Athens, Greece
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Papaioannou 8' Batista 89'	Report		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 13,519 Referee: Ray Lewis (England)

Second round

Spartak Moscow v AEK Athens

23 October 1991 First leg	Spartak Moscow	0–0	AEK Athens	Moscow, Soviet Union
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report		Stadium: Central Lenin Stadium Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Lajos Hartmann (Hungary)

AEK Athens v Spartak Moscow

6 November 1991 Second leg	AEK Athens	2–1 (2–1 agg.)	Spartak Moscow	Athens, Greece
18:00 EET (UTC+2)	Batista 64' Dimitriadis 74'	Report	Mostovoi 35' (pen.)	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Antonio Martín Navarrete (Spain)

Third round

AEK Athens v Torino

27 November 1991 First leg	AEK Athens	2–2	Torino	Athens, Greece
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Batista 21' Šabanadžović 72'	Report	Casagrande 33' Bresciani 36'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 29,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)

Torino v AEK Athens

11 December 1991 Second leg	Torino	1–0 (3–2 agg.)	AEK Athens	Turin, Italy
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Casagrande 54'	Report		Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 7 June 1992

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		UEFA Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Antonis Minou	33	0	12	0	6	0	51	0
—	GK	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	GK	Fanis Kofinas	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Defenders
—	DF	Makis Chatzis	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
—	DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	13	1	7	0	2	0	22	1
—	DF	Stelios Manolas	31	4	12	3	4	0	47	7
—	DF	Giorgos Peppes	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
—	DF	Christos Vasilopoulos	28	1	8	0	5	0	41	1
—	DF	Georgios Koutoulas	18	0	9	1	5	0	32	1
—	DF	Vaios Karagiannis	30	0	12	0	6	0	48	0
—	DF	Georgios Theodoridis	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Pavlos Papaioannou	32	0	9	0	6	1	47	1
—	MF	Giorgos Savvidis	33	9	10	0	4	0	47	9
—	MF	Lampros Georgiadis	4	0	1	0	2	0	7	0
—	MF	Toni Savevski	29	3	8	2	6	0	43	5
—	MF	Jim Patikas	20	0	9	1	2	0	31	1
—	MF	Refik Šabanadžović	31	1	10	1	6	1	47	3
—	MF	Stavros Stamatis	21	2	7	0	6	0	34	2
Forwards
—	FW	Daniel Batista	30	10	11	4	5	3	46	17
—	FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	34	28	10	1	5	2	49	31
—	FW	Frank Klopas	13	1	5	2	1	0	19	3
—	FW	Alexis Alexandris	26	11	12	6	6	0	44	17
—	FW	Giorgos Kakousios	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
Left during Winter Transfer Window
—	FW	Spyros Goumas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goalscorers

As of 7 June 1992

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	UEFA Cup	Total
1	FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	28	1	2	31
2	FW	Alexis Alexandris	11	6	0	17
	FW	Daniel Batista	10	4	3	17
4	MF	Giorgos Savvidis	9	0	0	9
5	DF	Stelios Manolas	4	3	0	7
6	MF	Toni Savevski	3	2	0	5
7	FW	Frank Klopas	1	2	0	3
	MF	Refik Šabanadžović	1	1	1	3
9	MF	Stavros Stamatis	2	0	0	2
10	DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	1	0	0	1
	DF	Christos Vasilopoulos	1	0	0	1
	DF	Georgios Koutoulas	0	1	0	1
	MF	Jim Patikas	0	1	0	1
	MF	Pavlos Papaioannou	0	0	1	1
Own goals			1	0	0	1
Totals			72	21	7	100

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Vasilis Dimitriadis	Panachaiki	5–1 (H)	12 April 1992	Alpha Ethniki	[8]
Vasilis Dimitriadis	Panionios	6–0 (H)	3 May 1992	Alpha Ethniki	[9]

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 7 June 1992

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	UEFA Cup	Total
1	Antonis Minou	17	6	3	26
2	Fanis Kofinas	0	0	0	0
Totals		17	6	3	26

Disciplinary record

As of 7 June 1992

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			UEFA Cup			Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Antonis Minou	1			1			1			3
—	GK		Spyros Ikonomopoulos
—	GK		Fanis Kofinas
Defenders
—	DF		Makis Chatzis
—	DF		Takis Karagiozopoulos	1						2			3
—	DF		Stelios Manolas	4									4
—	DF		Giorgos Peppes	1									1
—	DF		Christos Vasilopoulos	2			2			2			6
—	DF		Georgios Koutoulas	1									1
—	DF		Vaios Karagiannis	6			2			1			9
—	DF		Georgios Theodoridis
Midfielders
—	MF		Pavlos Papaioannou	5			1						6
—	MF		Giorgos Savvidis
—	MF		Lampros Georgiadis	1									1
—	MF		Toni Savevski	3									3
—	MF		Jim Patikas	1			1						2
—	MF		Refik Šabanadžović	5	1		2						7	1
—	MF		Stavros Stamatis	1									1
Forwards
—	FW		Daniel Batista	6									6
—	FW		Vasilis Dimitriadis	4			2						6
—	FW		Frank Klopas	3									3
—	FW		Alexis Alexandris							1			1
—	FW		Giorgos Kakousios
Left during Winter Transfer Window
—	FW		Spyros Goumas

Starting 11

N. Formation Matchday(s) 47 3–4–3 1–5, 7–23, 25–34 5 4–3–3 6, 11, 24 Nat. Player Pos. Antonis Minou GK Christos Vasilopoulos RCB Stelios Manolas CB Vaios Karagiannis LCB Pavlos Papaioannou RDM Refik Šabanadžović LDM Giorgos Savvidis (C) RM Toni Savevski LM Daniel Batista RW Alexis Alexandris LW Vasilis Dimitriadis CF

Minou Manolas Vasilopoulos Karagiannis Papaioannou Šabanadžović Savvidis (C) Savevski Batista Alexandris Dimitriadis Last updated: 1992-06-07

Awards

Player	Pos.	Award	Source
Vasilis Dimitriadis	FW	Alpha Ethniki Top Scorer

References

External links

• AEK Athens F.C. Official Website