2009–10 Aris Thessaloniki F.C. season

Aris Thessaloniki

2009–10 season

Chairman

Thanasis Athanasiadis

Manager

Mazinho
Héctor Cúper

Super League

4th (5th in regular season)

Greek Cup

Finalists

Top goalscorer

League: Cámpora (11)
All: Cámpora (13)

Home colours

Away colours

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Aris Thessaloniki F.C. competes in the Greek topflight after finishing sixth last season.

Overview

Events

Transfers

3 June: Midfielder Leandro Gracián agrees to join Aris from Boca Juniors^[1]
10 June: Midfielder Mehdi Nafti agrees to join Aris from Birmingham City^[2]
11 June: Midfielder Athanassios Prittas agrees to extend for three years his contract with Aris^[3]
13 June: Forward Sebastián Abreu agrees to join Aris from Real Sociedad^[4]
13 June: Defender Efthimios Koulouheris agrees to extend for three years his contract with Aris^[5]
17 June: Defender Carlos Arano agrees to join Aris from Huracán^[6]
21 June: Midfielder Ian Daly agrees to join Aris from Manchester City^[7]
26 June: Defender Cristian Nasuti agrees to join Aris from River Plate^[8]
1 July: Forward Christos Aravidis agrees to join Aris from Panionios^[9]
6 July: Midfielder Vasilios Rovas agrees to join Aris from Atromitos^[10]
7 July: Defender Kristi Vangjeli agrees to extend for three years his contract with Aris^[11]

Current squad

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Michalis Sifakis
2	DF	Darcy Dolce Neto
3	DF	Carlos Arano
4	DF	Efthimios Kouloucheris (vice-captain)
5	DF	Ronaldo Guiaro
6	MF	Mehdi Nafti
7	MF	Toni Calvo
8	MF	Nacho García
9	MF	Dario Fernandez
10	FW	Sergio Koke (captain)
11	FW	Freddy Adu (on loan from Benfica)
14	FW	Eddie Johnson (on loan from Fulham)
15	DF	Cristian Nasuti
17	MF	Camel Meriem
18	FW	Javier Cámpora

No.	Position	Player
20	MF	Javito
22	DF	Thomas Graikos
23	FW	Christos Aravidis
25	DF	César Ortiz
27	MF	Charalambos Economopoulos
28	GK	Michal Peškovič
29	DF	Giannis Agtzidis
32	DF	Kristi Vangjeli
33	FW	Stavros Labriakos
40	GK	Stivi Frasheri
47	DF	Mavroudis Bougaidis
55	MF	Athanassios Prittas
86	GK	Renato Piovezan
99	FW	Ian Daly

Players on loan

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

No.		Position	Player
		FW	Felipe Sanchón Huerta (to Girona until June 2009)
		DF	Marco Aurelio (to Racing Santander until June 2010)

Foreign players

Up to five non-EU nationals can be registered and given a squad number for the first team in the Greek Super league. Non-EU nationals with European ancestry can claim citizenship from the nation their ancestors came from. If a player does not have European ancestry he can claim Greek citizenship after playing in Greece for 5 years.

EU Nationals

EU Nationals (Dual citizenship)

Non-EU Nationals

International players

Squad changes

In:

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
11	MF	ARG	Gracián	26	Non-EU	Boca Juniors	Loan	Summer	2010	$250K	arisfc.gr
6	MF	TUN	Nafti	30	EU	Birmingham City	Transfer	Summer	2011	Free	arisfc.gr
13	FW	URU	Abreu	32	Non-EU	Real Sociedad	Transfer	Summer	2010	Free	arisfc.gr
3	DF	ARG	Arano	29	EU	Huracán	Transfer	Summer	2011	Free	arisfc.gr
99	MF	IRE	Daly	19	EU	Manchester City	Transfer	Summer	2011	Free	arisfc.gr
15	DF	ARG	Nasuti	26	EU	River Plate	Loan	Summer	2010	Free	arisfc.gr
23	FW	GRE	Aravidis	22	EU	Panionios	Transfer	Summer	2012	Free	arisfc.gr
12	MF	GRE	Rovas	25	EU	Atromitos	Transfer	Summer	2012	Free	arisfc.gr

Total spending: $250K

Out:

P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
GK	SVK	Kelemen	29	EU	Numancia	End of contract	Summer	Free	[]
GK	GRE	Karatziovalis	33	EU	Doxa Drama	End of contract	Summer	Free	[]
DF	BRA	Aurélio	26	Non-EU	Racing Santander	Release Contract	Summer	Free	[]
DF	GRE	Karabelas	24	EU	AEK Athens	End of contract	Summer	Free	[]
MF	ESP	Vitolo	25	EU	PAOK	End of Loan	Summer	Free	[]
MF	BRA	Siston	28	Non-EU		Release Contract	Summer	Free	[]
MF	URU	Regueiro	30	EU	Nacional	Release Contract	Summer	Free	[]
MF	BRA	Gentil	29	EU	Coritiba	End of contract	Summer	Free	[ ]
FW	POL	Włodarczyk	32	EU		Release Contract	Summer	Free	[]
MF	ARG	Battión	27	Non-EU	Banfield	Loan	Summer	Loan	[]
FW	GRE	Papazoglou	21	EU	PAOK	End of contract	Summer	Free	[]
DF	URU	Lembo	31	Non-EU		Release Contract	Summer	Free	[]

Total income: €0

Last updated: 2009-06-24

Squad stats

No.	Nat	Pos	Player	Total		Super League Greece		Greek Cup
No.	Nat	Pos	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1		GK	Michalis Sifakis	36	0	30	0	6	0
2		DF	Darcy Dolce Neto	38	4	31	3	7	1
3		DF	Carlos Arano	34	0	29	0	5	0
5		DF	Ronaldo Guiaro	34	1	27	1	7	0
6		MF	Mehdi Nafti	30	4	24	4	6	0
7		MF	Toni Calvo	36	7	31	5	5	2
8		MF	Nacho García	22	0	18	0	4	0
9		MF	Darío Fernández	28	0	24	0	4	0
10		FW	Sergio Koke	39	7	32	3	7	4
11		MF	Leandro Gracián	13	0	12	0	1	0
11		MF	Freddy Adu	11	2	9	1	2	1
12		MF	Vasilios Rovas	6	0	5	0	1	0
13		FW	Sebastian Abreu	9	5	8	3	1	2
14		FW	Eddie Johnson	19	5	14	5	5	0
15		DF	Cristian Nasuti	35	1	28	1	7	0
17		MF	Camel Meriem	13	0	9	0	4	0
18		FW	Javier Cámpora	35	15	30	13	5	2
20		MF	Javito	37	3	30	1	7	2
21		DF	Valentin Roberge	6	0	5	0	1	0
22		DF	Thomas Graikos	1	0	1	0	0	0
23		FW	Christos Aravidis	9	0	9	0	0	0
25		DF	Flavio	10	1	9	1	1	0
25		DF	César Ortiz	2	0	2	0	0	0
27		MF	Charalambos Economopoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0
28		GK	Michal Peškovič	8	0	7	0	1	0
31		DF	Efthimios Koulouheris	18	0	18	0	0	0
32		DF	Kristi Vangjeli	12	0	11	0	1	0
33		FW	Stavros Labriakos	12	0	11	0	1	0
55		MF	Athanassios Prittas	26	1	19	1	7	0
84		MF	Pitu Garcia	11	1	10	0	1	1
86		GK	Renato Piovezan	10	0	10	0	0	0
99		MF	Ian Daly	8	0	7	0	1	0

Players in italics have left during the season.

Disciplinary record

Captains

Source: arisfc.gr

Club

Management

Position	Staff
Manager	Héctor Cúper
Assistant manager	Hose Carlos Fandagushi
Fitness Coach	David Rodriguez
Coach	Xavi Tamarit
Goalkeeping Coach	Ribeiro Diaz Wellerson
Youth Team Coach	Anastassios Theos

Last updated: 13 June 2009
Source: arisfc.gr

Kit

Supplier: Reebok
Sponsor(s): EKO

Home

Away

Source: arisfc.gr

Other information

Chairman	Thanasis Athanasiadis
Director of football	Georgios Koltsidas
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium (18,800 / 120x80 m)

Source: [12]

Manager stats

Name	Nat	From	To	Record							Honours
Name	Nat	From	To	P	W	D	L	F	A	%W	Honours
Mazinho		August 20, 2009	October 30, 2009	9	3	5	1	10	8	–	–
Héctor Cúper		October 30, 2009	End of season	9	11	7	9	33	29	–	–

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

Competitions

Super League Greece

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Panathinaikos (C)	30	22	4	4	54	17	+37	70	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Olympiacos	30	19	7	4	47	18	+29	64	Playoffs
3	PAOK	30	19	5	6	41	16	+25	62
4	AEK Athens	30	15	8	7	43	31	+12	53
5	Aris	30	12	10	8	35	28	+7	46
6	Kavala	30	10	9	11	31	32	−1	39
7	Atromitos	30	10	8	12	34	36	−2	38
8	Larissa	30	10	7	13	31	42	−11	37		AEL: 7 pts, 8–5 PIO: 5 pts, 4–5 IRA: 4 pts, 3–5
9	Panionios	30	9	10	11	34	35	−1	37
10	Iraklis	30	10	7	13	39	41	−2	37
11	Ergotelis	30	9	9	12	37	41	−4	36		AST 2–4 ERG ERG 4–3 AST
12	Asteras Tripolis	30	10	6	14	29	36	−7	36		AST 2–4 ERG ERG 4–3 AST
13	Skoda Xanthi	30	10	5	15	27	36	−9	35
14	Levadiakos (R)	30	9	7	14	31	44	−13	34	Relegation to the Beta Ethniki
15	PAS Giannina (R)	30	7	7	16	27	46	−19	28
16	Panthrakikos (R)	30	3	3	24	21	62	−41	12

Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match..
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (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; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Play-Offs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	PAOK	6	4	1	1	7	3	+4	16	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2	AEK Athens	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	9	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
3	Aris	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round	ARI 2–0 OLY OLY 0–0 ARI
4	Olympiacos	6	1	1	4	3	7	−4	8	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round	ARI 2–0 OLY OLY 0–0 ARI

Source: http://www.superleaguegreece.net/standings/#playoff
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.
Since Aris lost the 2009–10 Greek Cup Final against Champions League-qualified Panathinaikos, all Europa League spots will be determined by the play-off group positions.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (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; (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
36	14	12	10	0	0	0	54	11	5	2	0	0	0	3	7	8	0	0	0

Last updated: 17 June
Source: Competitive Matches

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	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A
Result	W	D	W	L	W	D	D	D	D	D	L	D	W	L	W	W	W	W	D	L	L	W	L	W	D	W	D	W	L	L

Last updated: June 26, 2010.
Source: Competitive Matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Lose; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Greek Cup

Greek Cup Final

The 68th Greek Cup Final was played at Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis" on Saturday, April 24, 2010.

24 April 2010 20:30	Panathinaikos	1 – 0	Aris	Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis" Referee: A. Kakos (Corfu)
	Leto 63'

Panathinaikos

Aris


PANATHINAIKOS:
GK	30	Alexandros Tzorvas
DF	24	Loukas Vintra
DF	31	Nikos Spiropoulos	30'
DF	8	Cédric Kanté
MF	29	Kostas Katsouranis
MF	15	Gilberto Silva (c)
MF	23	Simão Mate Junior	59'
MF	7	Sotiris Ninis		66'
MF	11	Sebastián Leto	40'	78'
FW	14	Dimitris Salpingidis		62'
FW	9	Djibril Cissé
Substitutes:
DF	22	Stergos Marinos		66'
MF	26	Giorgos Karagounis		62'
MF	17	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos		78'
Manager:
Nikos Nioplias


ARIS:
GK	1	Michalis Sifakis
DF	2	Darcy Dolce Neto
DF	32	Kristi Vangjeli
DF	15	Cristian Nasuti
DF	5	Ronaldo Guiaro
MF	55	Thanasis Prittas	47'
MF	6	Mehdi Nafti		74'
MF	7	Toni Calvo	12'	83'
MF	17	Camel Meriem		66'
FW	18	Javier Cámpora
FW	10	Sergio Koke (c)
Substitutes:
MF	9	Dario Fernandez		74'
MF	20	Javito		66'
FW	11	Freddy Adu		83'
Manager:
Héctor Cúper

MATCH OFFICIALS

Assistant referees:
- K. Dallas
- D. Tatsis
Fourth official: M. Koukoulakis

MATCH RULES

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
Penalty shootout if scores still level.
Seven named substitutes.
Maximum of 3 substitutions.

Matches

References

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2009–10 Aris Thessaloniki F.C. season

Contents

Overview

Events

Transfers

Current squad

Players on loan

Foreign players

International players

Squad changes

Squad stats

Disciplinary record

Captains

Club

Management

Kit

Other information

Manager stats

Competitions

Super League Greece

Standings

Play-Offs

Results summary

Results by round

Greek Cup

Greek Cup Final

Matches

References

External links

See also