AEK Athens H.C.

The department Handball of AEK founded by a decision of the General Assembly of AEK on July 12, 2005.

On August 5, 2005, the Greek Hanball Federation, accepted a merger through absorption of the association's Board of handball GA Ilioupolis with section Handball Sports Union of Constantinople.

During the period 2006-2007, AEK Handball Club acquired the 3rd position in A1 (Greek Men's handball championship) and gained the participation at European Cups for the first time. The administration team of AEK HC for the period 2006-2007 was consisted of Nikos Georgantzoglou, Costas Stamatiadis and Dimitris Garifallidis. The coach was Giannis Arvanitis, assistant also coach of the Greece national handball team.

During the period 2007-2008, AEK participated at EHF Cup (European Handball Federation Cup) and eliminated by Dinamo Baumit Bucuresti at second round.

On May 31, 2009, AEK HC won the Greek men's handball cup, winning Filippos 33-31 in Serres and for the period 2009-2010 participated at EHF Cup Winners' Cup.

For the third round of EHF Cup Winners' Cup, AEK HC played against BSB Izmir on 14 November 2009 in Athens (losing 24-29) and on 21 November 2009 in Smyrni (draw 22-22).

During the period 2009-10, AEK H.C. terminated at 4th position of A1, gaining its European participation for 2nd consecutive time and for 3rd in general. In addition, AEK H.C. participated at the final-four of Greek men's handball cup on 29 May 2010 in Lamia, but the semi-final game against PAOK did not taken place due to fan "fights" !

For the second round of European Challenge Cup, AEK HC won Minsk (Lefkorosia) 31-25 in Athens and lost 32-27 in Minsk and therefore AEK has been advanced to the top 16 teams ! For the third round (phase of 16), AEK defeated Sporting Lisboa at penalties. AEK lost 27-23 in Lisboa, but won 27-23 in Athens and so the game went on penalty-kicks, where AEK advanced to the top 8 with final score 32-27. For the Quarter-Final (phase of 8), AEK play (Greek Men's handball championship) ed against Partizan of Beograd.

On 7th May 2011, AEK won the Final of (Greek Men's handball championship) and became the Greek Champion for 2011. AEK needed only the win against PAOK at Thessaloniki and was losing by one goal (22-21) 30 seconds before the final whistle but with great will and power scored twice (the final goal at the exact second of the final) and gained the first championship of its history just 6 years from their establishment. AEK will participate to EHF Champions League for the period 2011-12.

Honours and achievements

• 1 Greek Championship: 2011
• 1 Greek Cup Winner: 2009
• 1 Finalist in Greek Men's handball cup: 2011

External links

• AEK Handball Club (Sponsors website)