AEK Athens

1992–93 season
Chairman	Dimitris Melissanidis
Manager	Dušan Bajević
Stadium	Nikos Goumas Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	1st
Greek Cup	Semi-finals
Greek Super Cup	Runners-up
UEFA Champions League	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Vasilis Dimitriadis (33) All: Vasilis Dimitriadis (44)
Highest home attendance	31,050 (vs PSV Eindhoven) (21 October 1992)
Lowest home attendance	2,791 (vs Atromitos) (27 January 1993)
Average home league attendance	13,716
Biggest win	AEK Athens 7–0 Korinthos
Biggest defeat	PSV Eindhoven 3–0 AEK Athens
Home colours Away colours

The 1992–93 season was the 69th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 34th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup, the Greek Super Cup and the UEFA Champions League. The season began on 16 August 1992 and finished on 6 June 1993.

Kits

Supplier: Diadora
Sponsor(s): Phoenix Asfaleies

Home

Away

Overview

Another great season for AEK Athens, which won the league for the second season in a row. The summer of 1992 was historic anyway, since the club changed hands after 11 whole years. Andreas Zafiropoulos transferred the majority of the shares to the duo of Melissanidis-Karras.^[1] The new owners of the club, without being famous for their huge "wealth" at the time, but with their experience from managing smaller clubs, their passion for football and their indisputable abilities, proved to be decisive factors during their administrative tenure. The first thing they did was to back up Dušan Bajević. However, their term in the team began with great difficulties since two very important players from the previous season left before the 2 businessmen took over the team. Specifically, Daniel Batista chose to move to Olympiacos, while Giorgos Savvidis decided to return to Cyprus. On the other hand, they made some not so impressive, but useful transfers with the acquisition of Slišković, Agorogiannis, Mitropoulos, Papadopoulos and Atmatsidis. Furthermore in December Tsiartas and Kopitsis were transferred to the team.

Bajević again displayed a well-worked team, which passionately claimed the championship since the beginning of the season, while also presenting quite a beautiful sight. Eventually, AEK won the championship for the second consecutive season, this time with a one-point difference from the second-placed Panathinaikos. Biggest victory of the season, the impressive 7–0 over Korinthos.^[2] The victory during the last game against the indifferent Olympiacos in Nea Filadelfeia, sealed the title over Panathinaikos. AEK had the total of 17 wins out of 17 games in their ground and were first in the standings for 32 of the 34 matchdays of the championship.

In the First round of UEFA Champions League, AEK faced APOEL in a seemingly very easy draw for the Greek champions. Fast enough, their excitement proved reckless in the first leg, which ended at 1–1. Thus, the Cypriots gained a qualification advantage and AEK's trip to Nicosia was predicted to be much more difficult than expected. In the second leg, AEK led relatively early with 2–0, however, towards the end of the match and after defensive mistakes, they were equalized, with the result that until the end of the match was in danger of being disqualified. The Cypriots pressed hard, the moments in defense were nightmarish, however, after hard work and suffering, the team secured qualification to the second round of the competition. AEK's next opponent was the mighty PSV Eindhoven, who lined up with all their stars except Romário, who Westerhof kept in the bench. Very quickly, however, due to Vanenburg's injury, the great Brazilian striker entered the game and forced AEK to back down in the second half, despite their offensive approach until that time. During the second half, AEK took the lead with a goal of incredible beauty by Dimitriadis, but from then on, the Dutch began to press hard and show their footballing qualities with AEK resisting successfully and finally securing the precious victory. The rematch in the Netherlands did not start with the best of signs, as already at the end of the game in the match at Nikos Goumas Stadium, Romário boldly declared that PSV would not face a problem in the rematch because he himself would score 3 goals! In a nightmarish night for Christos Vasilopoulos, Romário's "prophecy" came true and PSV scattered AEK with a score of 3–0, with three goals from the Brazilian superstar! At no point in the game was the team of Bajević able to react and fatefully came the fair disqualification.

In the first round of the Greek Cup, AEK easily finished first in a group with Apollon Athens, Panargiakos, Poseidon Michaniona. Afterwards they easily eliminated Ionikos with 2 victories and with much more difficulty, Atromitos. In the quarter-finals, they lost 1–0 to AEL at the Alcazar Stadium and won 1–0 at home. The match went to extra time, at the beginning of which AEL scored, but in the end with 2 goals the yellow-blacks got a great qualification-thriller, with a final score of 3–1. In the semi-finals of the tournament, AEK were drawn with Olympiacos, from whom they lost in the first match 1–0, away from home. In the rematch, AEK equalized the score of the first match and the match went to extra time for the 3rd consecutive round. The red and whites scored with a questionable penalty and then made it 1–2, while AEK again scoring 2 goals in the last quarter of overtime, simply got an honorable victory with 3–2 and their elimination from the tournament.

The leaders of AEK for this important season were Vasilis Dimitriadis, Toni Savevski, Stelios Manolas, Alexis Alexandris, Refik Šabanadžović and Antonis Minou.^[3] Dimitriadis was the top scorer of AEK and of the league with 33 goals in 34 matches and even emerged as the 2nd scorer in Europe, winning the European Silver Shoe.^[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 6 June 1993, 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 35)	1988	Panathinaikos	₯50,000,000	1993
Spyros Ikonomopoulos		GK	(1959-07-25)25 July 1959 (aged 33)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1993
Ilias Atmatsidis		GK	(1969-04-24)24 April 1969 (aged 24)	1992	Pontioi Veria	Free	1999
Defenders
Takis Karagiozopoulos		CB / DM / ST	(1961-02-04)4 February 1961 (aged 32)	1981	Veria	Free	1993
Stelios Manolas		CB / RB	(1961-07-13)13 July 1961 (aged 31)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1993
Christos Vasilopoulos (Captain)		RB / LB	(1962-11-12)12 November 1962 (aged 30)	1987	Panachaiki	Free	1993
Giorgos Agorogiannis		RB / RM / RW	(1966-05-03)3 May 1966 (aged 27)	1992	AEL	Free	1995
Georgios Koutoulas		CB / LB	(1967-02-09)9 February 1967 (aged 26)	1987	AEK Athens U20	—	1999
Manolis Papadopoulos		CB	(1968-04-22)22 April 1968 (aged 25)	1992	Ionikos	Free	1995
Vaios Karagiannis		LB / CB	(1968-06-25)25 June 1968 (aged 25)	1990	A.O. Karditsa	Free	1995
Charis Kopitsis		RB / RM / LM	(1969-03-05)5 March 1969 (aged 24)	1992	Panionios	Free	1998
Midfielders
Tasos Mitropoulos		AM / SS / ST	(1957-08-23)23 August 1957 (aged 35)	1992	Olympiacos	Free	1993
Pavlos Papaioannou		DM / RB / RM	(1959-05-19)19 May 1959 (aged 34)	1983	Rodos	₯10,000,000	1993
Lampros Georgiadis		AM / LM / LB	(1963-07-11)11 July 1963 (aged 29)	1986	Anagennisi Arta	₯12,000,000	1993
Toni Savevski		CM / LM / DM	(1963-07-14)14 July 1963 (aged 29)	1988	Vardar	Free	1993
Refik Šabanadžović		DM / CM / CB / RB	(1965-08-02)2 August 1965 (aged 27)	1991	Red Star Belgrade	₯30,000,000	1996
Stavros Stamatis		DM / CM / CB / RB / LB / AM	(1966-01-31)31 January 1966 (aged 27)	1988	Charavgiakos	Free	1995
Vasilios Tsiartas		AM / RM / LM / SS	(1972-11-12)12 November 1972 (aged 20)	1992	Naoussa	₯100,000,000	1998
Forwards
Vasilis Dimitriadis		ST	(1966-02-01)1 February 1966 (aged 27)	1991	Aris	₯95,000,000	1993
Zoran Slišković		ST / SS / RW	(1966-03-01)1 March 1966 (aged 27)	1992	HAŠK Građanski	Free	1994
Frank Klopas		SS / ST / AM	(1966-09-01)1 September 1966 (aged 26)	1988	Chicago Sting	Free	1994
Alexis Alexandris		ST / SS	(1968-10-21)21 October 1968 (aged 24)	1991	Veria	Free	1994
Samouil Drakopulos		ST	(1974-07-31)31 July 1974 (aged 18)	1992	Grasshopper	Free	1995
Left during Winter Transfer window
Georgios Theodoridis		CB	(1973-07-08)8 July 1973 (aged 19)	1991	Doxa Markochori	Free	1996
Jim Patikas		RM / LM / RW / LW / SS	(1963-10-18)18 October 1963 (aged 29)	1985	Sydney Croatia	Free	1993
Giorgos Kakousios		ST	(1972-01-16)16 January 1972 (aged 21)	1991	1. FC Nürnberg II	Free	1993

Transfers

In

Summer

Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
GK	Ilias Atmatsidis	Pontioi Veria	Transfer	Free	1 July 1992	30 June 1999
DF	Manolis Papadopoulos	Ionikos	Transfer	Free	1 July 1992	30 June 1995
DF	Giorgos Agorogiannis	Levadiakos	Transfer	Free	1 July 1992	30 June 1995
MF	Tasos Mitropoulos	Olympiacos	Transfer	Free	1 July 1992	30 June 1993	[5]
FW	Zoran Slišković	HAŠK Građanski	Transfer	Free	1 July 1992	30 June 1994
FW	Samouil Drakopulos	Grasshopper	Transfer	Free	1 July 1992	30 June 1995

Winter

Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
DF	Charis Kopitsis	Panionios	Transfer	Free	31 December 1992	30 June 1998
MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	Naoussa	Transfer	₯100,000,000	30 November 1992	30 June 1998	[6][7]

Out

Summer

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
GK	Fanis Kofinas	Egaleo	End of contract	—	1 July 1992
DF	Giorgos Peppes	Ethnikos Piraeus	End of contract	—	1 July 1992
DF	Makis Chatzis	Retired		—	1 July 1992
MF	Giorgos Savvidis	Omonia	End of contract	—	1 July 1992	[8]
FW	Daniel Batista	Olympiacos	End of contract	—	1 July 1992	[9]

Winter

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
MF	Jim Patikas	Athinaikos	Contract termination	—	31 December 1992
FW	Giorgos Kakousios	Diagoras	Transfer	Free	31 December 1992

Loan out

Winter

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
DF	Georgios Theodoridis	Pierikos	Free	1 January 1993	30 June 1993	N

Pre-season and friendlies

Malaysia v AEK Athens

19 July 1992 Friendly	Malaysia	0–4	AEK Athens	Wil
17:30 EEST (UTC+3)			Slišković 47' Patikas 58', 65' Dimitriadis 80'	Stadium: Wil Training Center

Hellas Schierstein v AEK Athens

26 July 1992 Friendly	Hellas Schierstein	2–25	AEK Athens	Wil
	Koustidakos 87' Tsachpinis 89'		Dimitriadis 10', 22', 24', 36', 40', 42', 45' Alexandris 26', 33' Patikas 34', 38' Paço 48', 52', 67' Mitropoulos 55', 86' Kakiousos 57', 58' Koutoulas 59', 70', 80' Georgiadis 71' Ladogiannis 79' Loukinas 84' Karagiozopoulos 90'	Stadium: Wil Training Center Attendance: 2,000

FC Wil v AEK Athens

28 July 1992 Friendly	FC Wil	0–3	AEK Athens	Wil
18:30 EEST (UTC+3)			Paço 35' Mitropoulos 50' Karagiozopoulos 88'	Stadium: Wil Training Center

Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid v AEK Athens

29 July 1992 Friendly	Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid	0–2	AEK Athens	Wil
			Patikas 17' Dimitriadis 55'	Stadium: Wil Training Center

AEK Athens v Iraklis

3 August 1992 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–0	Iraklis	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

AEK Athens v Sheffield Wednesday

5 August 1992 Friendly	AEK Athens	4–0	Sheffield Wednesday	Nea Filadelfeia
	Dimitriadis 22' (pen.), 44' Paço 66' Anderson 85' (o.g.)			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

AEK Athens v PAOK

10 August 1992 Friendly	AEK Athens	4–1	PAOK	Nea Filadelfeia
	Slišković 10' Šabanadžović 60' Stamatis 63' Dimitriadis 85'	Report	Borbokis 86'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Referee: Sotiris Vorgias (Athens)

AEK Athens v Proodeftiki

12 August 1992 Friendly	AEK Athens	5–0	Proodeftiki	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Georgiadis 40', 82' (pen.) Šabanadžović 44' Slišković 57' Giannou 70' (o.g.)			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

Competitions

UEFA Champions League

Main article: 1992–93 UEFA Champions League

First round

The draw for the first round was held on 15 July 1992.^[10]

AEK Athens v APOEL

16 September 1992 First leg	AEK Athens	1–1	APOEL	Athens, Greece
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Alexandris 42'	Report	Hadjiloukas 75'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 14,794 Referee: Arie Frost (Israel)

APOEL v AEK Athens

30 September 1992 Second leg	APOEL	2–2 (3–3(a) agg.)	AEK Athens	Nicosia, Cyprus
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Gogić 77' Fasouliotis 84'	Report	Šabanadžović 30' Alexandris 70'	Stadium: Makario Stadium Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Charles Agius (Malta)
Note: The official report states that the second goal of AEK at the 70th minute was scored by Dimitriadis, but in the highlights of the game it appears clearly that the scorer is Alexandris.[11]

Second round

The draw for the first round was held on 2 October 1992.^[10]

AEK Athens v PSV Eindhoven

21 October 1992 First leg	AEK Athens	1–0	PSV Eindhoven	Athens, Greece
18:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Dimitriadis 53'	Report		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 31,050 Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)

PSV Eindhoven v AEK Athens

4 November 1992 Second leg	PSV Eindhoven	3–0 (3–1 agg.)	AEK Athens	Eindhoven, Netherlands
21:15 EET (UTC+2)	Romário 5', 51', 84'	Report		Stadium: Philips Stadion Attendance: 26,500 Referee: Fabio Baldas (Italy)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 6 June 1993

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		Greek Super Cup		Champions League		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Antonis Minou	34	0	8	0	0	0	4	0	46	0
—	GK	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	GK	Ilias Atmatsidis	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
Defenders
—	DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	9	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	13	1
—	DF	Stelios Manolas	30	1	7	0	1	0	3	0	41	1
—	DF	Christos Vasilopoulos	14	0	8	1	1	0	4	0	27	1
—	DF	Giorgos Agorogiannis	24	0	9	1	0	0	4	0	37	1
—	DF	Georgios Koutoulas	9	1	7	0	0	0	1	0	17	1
—	DF	Manolis Papadopoulos	21	0	10	0	0	0	1	0	32	0
—	DF	Vaios Karagiannis	26	0	7	0	1	0	4	0	38	0
—	DF	Charis Kopitsis	11	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	15	1
Midfielders
—	MF	Tasos Mitropoulos	26	6	9	1	1	0	3	0	39	7
—	MF	Pavlos Papaioannou	32	2	9	1	1	0	4	0	46	3
—	MF	Lampros Georgiadis	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
—	MF	Toni Savevski	32	4	10	0	1	0	4	0	47	4
—	MF	Refik Šabanadžović	31	1	7	1	1	0	3	1	42	3
—	MF	Stavros Stamatis	17	2	4	0	0	0	3	0	24	2
—	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	14	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	18	3
Forwards
—	FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	33	33	10	10	1	0	4	1	48	44
—	FW	Zoran Slišković	26	9	4	3	1	0	4	0	35	12
—	FW	Frank Klopas	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9	0
—	FW	Alexis Alexandris	31	14	10	4	1	1	4	2	46	21
—	FW	Samouil Drakopulos	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Left during Winter Transfer window
—	DF	Georgios Theodoridis	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
—	MF	Jim Patikas	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	8	0
—	FW	Giorgos Kakousios	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0

Goalscorers

As of 6 June 1993

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Greek Super Cup	Champions League	Total
1	FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	33	10	0	1	44
2	FW	Alexis Alexandris	14	4	1	2	21
3	FW	Zoran Slišković	9	3	0	0	12
4	MF	Tasos Mitropoulos	6	1	0	0	7
5	MF	Toni Savevski	4	0	0	0	4
6	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	3	0	0	0	3
	MF	Pavlos Papaioannou	2	1	0	0	3
	MF	Refik Šabanadžović	1	1	0	1	3
9	MF	Stavros Stamatis	2	0	0	0	2
10	DF	Stelios Manolas	1	0	0	0	1
	DF	Georgios Koutoulas	1	0	0	0	1
	DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	0	1	0	0	1
	DF	Charis Kopitsis	1	0	0	0	1
	DF	Giorgos Agorogiannis	0	1	0	0	1
	DF	Christos Vasilopoulos	0	1	0	0	1
Own goals			1	0	0	0	1
Totals			78	23	1	4	106

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Vasilis Dimitriadis	Poseidon Michaniona	6–0 (H)	23 August 1992	Greek Cup	[12]
Vasilis Dimitriadis	Athinaikos	5–1 (H)	13 September 1992	Alpha Ethniki	[13]
Vasilis Dimitriadis	PAOK	3–1 (H)	29 November 1992	Alpha Ethniki	[14]
Vasilis Dimitriadis	Apollon Athens	3–0 (Η)	25 April 1993	Alpha Ethniki

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 6 June 1993

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Greek Super Cup	Champions League	Total
1	Antonis Minou	14	3	0	1	18
2	Ilias Atmatsidis	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		14	3	0	1	18

Disciplinary record

As of 6 June 1993

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			Greek Super Cup			Champions League			Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Antonis Minou	1												1
—	GK		Spyros Ikonomopoulos
—	GK		Ilias Atmatsidis
Defenders
—	DF		Takis Karagiozopoulos	1			1									2
—	DF		Stelios Manolas	5			3			1			3			12
—	DF		Christos Vasilopoulos	3			2						2			7
—	DF		Giorgos Agorogiannis	4			1						1			6
—	DF		Georgios Koutoulas	1												1
—	DF		Manolis Papadopoulos	2			3									5
—	DF		Vaios Karagiannis	9	2		3						1			13	2
—	DF		Charis Kopitsis	1												1
Midfielders
—	MF		Tasos Mitropoulos	5	1		1						1			7	1
—	MF		Pavlos Papaioannou	2			1						1			4
—	MF		Lampros Georgiadis
—	MF		Toni Savevski	4									1			5
—	MF		Refik Šabanadžović	8			2						2			12
—	MF		Stavros Stamatis						1									1
—	MF		Vasilios Tsiartas	2												2
Forwards
—	FW		Vasilis Dimitriadis	4									1			5
—	FW		Zoran Slišković	7		1	1									8		1
—	FW		Frank Klopas
—	FW		Alexis Alexandris	2			3									5
—	FW		Samouil Drakopulos
Left during Winter Transfer window
—	DF		Georgios Theodoridis
—	MF		Jim Patikas	1												1
—	FW		Giorgos Kakousios

Starting 11

N. Formation Matchday(s) 50 4–2–1–3 1–34 Nat. Player Pos. Antonis Minou GK Stelios Manolas RCB Manolis Papadopoulos LCB Pavlos Papaioannou (C) RB Vaios Karagiannis LB Refik Šabanadžović DM Toni Savevski CM Tasos Mitropoulos AM Alexis Alexandris RW Zoran Slišković LW Vasilis Dimitriadis CF

Minou Manolas Papadopoulos Papaioannou (C) Karagiannis Šabanadžović Savevski Mitropoulos Alexandris Slišković Dimitriadis Last updated: 1993-06-06

Awards

Player	Pos.	Award	Source
Vasilis Dimitriadis	FW	Alpha Ethniki Top Scorer
Vasilis Dimitriadis	FW	Greek Cup Top Scorer
Stelios Manolas	DF	Greek Player of the Season
Dušan Bajević	—	Foreign Manager of the Season