1991–92 AEK Athens F.C. season

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.

Supplier: Diadora
Sponsor(s): Ethniki Asfalistiki

Home

Away

In the summer of 1991 Kostas Generakis had taken over as president, despite Andreas Zafiropoulos remaining as the major shareholder of the club. The new management put the club's finances of in order, provided full support for Dušan Bajević as of the previous years and at the same time proceeded with three successful transfers that would play a decisive role not only throughout the season, but in the future years as well. 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 from Veria, Alexis Alexandris arrived at the club. 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]

Bajević created a great team that stared in the league almost from the beginning. In the end, AEK presented a solid performance 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 ten consecutive wins until the penultimate matchday played a decisive role for the conquest of the trophy. Thus, in the final matchday at Toumba Stadium, about 6,000 fans of AEK attended the awarding ceremony of the championship trophy to their team. The most emphatic victories of the season were a 6–0 against Panionios, a 5–1 against Panachaiki at home, while they also won Doxa Drama by 1–5 away from home. Furthermore, the yellow-blacks manged to win the title without winning any derby against both Panathinaikos and Olympiacos.

In the UEFA Cup, luck smiled at AEK as they were drawn for the first round against the Albanian Vllaznia Shkodër. Thus, in September they traveled to Shkodër, where they faced bigger problems than expected from the local team. Vllaznia surprised the yellow-blacks, as they put a lot of pressure on from the beginning. However, as the minutes went by and the initial excitement of the Albanians wore out, AEK leveled the game and took the away victory with a goal by Dimitriadis. The rematch at Nikos Goumas Stadium had already acquired a procedural character and the qualification case ended very quickly, with the quick goal by Papaioannou, which ended 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 and got them 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 first quarter with a penalty by Mostovoi and the qualification seemed to be over. However, with a rare display of soul and with the crowd that overwhelmed the stadium, AEK managed to turn the game around in the last half hour of the match. The whole crowd believed the turnaround and transmitted their energy to the team and at the 64th minute Batista leveled the game and 11 minutes later, Dimitriadis gave AEK the lead. In the minutes that followed, the Russians put an incredible amount of pressure on the goalpost of 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, the team was carried away by the excitement and closed Toro in their area, taking the lead early on with a powershot from Batista. AEK continued attacking at the same pace and which payed 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 concede the equalizer by 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 of that season, securing favor for the Piedmontese club including the games against AEK.^[2]

In the Cup, AEK easily qualified as winners of their group with Doxa Vyronas, EAR, Panachaiki and Aris Nikaias. In the knockout stage, they easily eliminated Ionikos and Iraklis, as well. In the quarter-finals they faced OFI and after a goaless draw in the first match, AEK won in Crete and got 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 a 2–0 win, they were eliminated in the extra time at Thessaloniki with a 3–0 loss.

The leaders of this team were Manolas in defense, Savevski with Šabanadžović in midfield and Dimitriadis, Batista, Savvidis and Alexandris in the offense. However, the rest of the "starters" had also great performance. In his debut season with AEK, Dimitriadis managed to emerge as the top scorer of the league with 28 goals.

At the end of the season Generakis resigned from the presidency of AEK. Immediately after, the business duo of Dimitris Melissanidis and Ioannis Karras made an offer for the shares of Zafiropoulos.^[3] The major shareholder of AEK who was looking for a buyer, initiated the proper procedures and the path for them was opened in order to get to work with the management of the club and its preperation of the following season.^[4]

Position	Staff
Manager	Dušan Bajević
Assistant manager	Petros Ravousis
Goalkeeping coach	Stelios Serafidis
Fitness coach	Panagiotis Sechidis
Fitness coach	Dimitris Bouroutzikas
Scout	Aris Tsachouridis
Head of Medical	Lakis Nikolaou
Physiotherapist	Nikos Pantazis
Physiotherapist	Giorgos Psarogiannis
Caretaker	Nikos Koromilas
Caretaker	Michalis Keramidopoulos

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 2)		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	₯6,750,000	1994
Takis Karagiozopoulos (Vice-captain)		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
Christos Vasilopoulos		RB / LB	(1962-11-12)12 November 1962 (aged 29)	1986	Panachaiki	₯8,000,000	1993
Georgios Koutoulas		CB / LB	(1967-02-09)9 February 1967 (aged 25)	1987	AEK Athens U20	—	1993
Vaios Karagiannis		LB / CB	(1968-06-25)25 June 1968 (aged 24)	1990	A.O. Karditsa	₯11,000,000	1996
Georgios Theodoridis		CB	(1973-07-08)8 July 1973 (aged 18)	1991	Doxa Markochori	₯5,700,000	1995
Midfielders
Pavlos Papaioannou		DM / RB / LB / RM	(1959-05-19)19 May 1959 (aged 33)	1983	Rodos	₯10,000,000	1993
Giorgos Savvidis (Captain)		RM / AM / RW / SS / ST	(1961-02-08)8 February 1961 (aged 31)	1987	Omonia	₯20,940,600	1992
Lampros Georgiadis		LM / AM / LB	(1963-07-11)11 July 1963 (aged 28)	1986	Anagennisi Arta	₯12,000,000	1994
Toni Savevski		CM / LM / DM	(1963-07-14)14 July 1963 (aged 28)	1988	Vardar	₯34,000,000	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	₯18,700,000	1994
Stavros Stamatis		DM / CM / CB / RB / LB / AM	(1966-01-31)31 January 1966 (aged 26)	1988	Charavgiakos	₯22,000,000	1993
Nikos Ladogiannis		CM	(1972-06-12)12 June 1972 (aged 20)	1991	AEK Athens U20	—	1996
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	1993
Alexis Alexandris		ST / RW	(1968-10-21)21 October 1968 (aged 23)	1991	Veria	₯45,000,000	1994
Giorgos Kakousios		ST	(1972-01-16)16 January 1972 (aged 20)	1991	1. FC Nürnberg II	Free	1994
Left during Winter Transfer Window
Giorgos Peppes		CB	(1961-10-26)26 October 1961 (aged 30)	1986	Ethnikos Piraeus	₯10,000,000	1991
Spyros Goumas		ST	(1970-02-24)24 February 1970 (aged 22)	1989	AEK Athens U20	—	1992

Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
DF	Georgios Theodoridis	Doxa Markochori	₯5,700,000[5]	6 July 1991	30 June 1995	[6]
MF	Refik Šabanadžović	Red Star Belgrade	₯18,700,000[5]	15 July 1991	30 June 1994	[7]
MF	Nikos Ladogiannis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1991	30 June 1996
FW	Dimosthenis Batalis	Kallithea	Loan return	1 July 1991	30 November 1991
FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	Aris	₯95,000,000[a]	8 July 1991	30 June 1993	[8]
FW	Alexis Alexandris	Veria	₯45,000,000[9]	5 July 1991	30 June 1994	[10]
FW	Giorgos Kakousios	1. FC Nürnberg II	Free transfer	1 July 1991	30 June 1994

Notes

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Anastasios Pourikas	Kallithea	End of contract	1 July 1991	[12][13]
MF	Giorgos Famelis	AO Vouliagmenis	Loan return	1 July 1991	[14]
MF	Giorgos Papakostoulis	Atromitos	End of contract	1 July 1991	[12][15]
MF	Panagiotis Pangratis	Atromitos	End of contract	2 July 1991	[12][16]
MF	Mirosław Okoński	Korinthos	Contract termination	11 June 1991	[17][18]
FW	Dimosthenis Batalis	Kallithea	Free transfer	1 July 1991
FW	Giannis Milopoulos	Paniliakos	Contract termination	6 July 1991	[19][20]

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Giorgos Peppes	Ethnikos Piraeus	End of contract	16 December 1991	[21]
FW	Spyros Goumas	Charavgiakos	Free transfer	1 December 1991	[22]

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
FW	Georgios Christodoulou	Pezoporikos	Free	23 August 1991	30 June 1993	N	[23]

Pos.	Player	Date	Former Exp. Date	New Exp. Date	Source
DF	Vaios Karagiannis	19 June 1992	30 June 1992	30 June 1996	[24]

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Alpha Ethniki	1 September 1991	7 June 1992	Matchday 1	Winners	34	23	8	3	72	25	+47	067.65
Greek Cup	18 August 1991	29 April 1992	Group Stage	Semi-finals	12	7	4	1	21	9	+12	058.33
UEFA Cup	18 September 1991	11 December 1991	First round	Third round	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	050.00
Total					52	33	14	5	100	38	+62	063.46

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AEK Athens (C)	34	23	8	3	72	25	+47	54	Qualification for Champions League first round
2	Olympiacos	34	20	11	3	74	30	+44	51	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Panathinaikos	34	21	6	7	66	21	+45	48	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	PAOK	34	13	13	8	44	44	0	39
5	Apollon Athens	34	14	7	13	35	34	+1	35

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	23	8	3	72	25	+47	54	13	4	0	42	8	+34	10	4	3	30	17	+13

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AEK	DXV	EAR	PNA	ARN
1	AEK Athens	4	2	2	0	8	3	+5	6	Round of 32			—	—	4–2	3–0
2	Doxa Vyronas	4	2	1	1	8	5	+3	5			0–0		3–2	—	—
3	EAR	4	2	1	1	7	5	+2	5			1–1	—		2–0	—
4	Panachaiki	4	2	0	2	9	7	+2	4			—	2–1	—		5–0
5	Aris Nikaias	4	0	0	4	2	14	−12	0			—	1–4	1–2	—

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	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
—	MF	Nikos Ladogiannis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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
—	DF	Giorgos Peppes	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
—	FW	Spyros Goumas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

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	[37]
Vasilis Dimitriadis	Panionios	6–0 (H)	3 May 1992	Alpha Ethniki	[38]

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

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		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
—	MF		Nikos Ladogiannis
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
—	DF		Giorgos Peppes	1									1
—	FW		Spyros Goumas

Player	Pos.	Award	Source
Vasilis Dimitriadis	FW	Alpha Ethniki Top Scorer
Toni Savevski	MF	Foreign Player of the Season	[39]
Dušan Bajević	—	Foreign Manager of the Season	[39]

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