2013–14 Atromitos F.C. season

Atromitos Athens F.C.

2013–14 season
Chairman	Georgios Spanos
Manager	Georgios Paraschos
Stadium	Peristeri Stadium (Capacity: 10,200)
Europa League	Play-off round
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2013–14 season of Atromitos F.C. is the 91st in the club's history and the second consecutive season that the club will be participating in the UEFA Europa League. It will also be the sixth consecutive season that the club will be competing in Superleague Greece.

Events

Squad Changes

• 8 June: A termination of contract with Manolo occurs, since the player couldn't live up to the expectations of the club.^[1]
• 10 June: Papadopoulos signs a two-year contract with the club.^[2]
• 15 June: Fotis Georgiou signs a three-year contract with the club.^[3]
• 17 June: Chigozie Udoji leaves the club, since his contract doesn't get renewed, despite the fact that he was in the starting eleven a lot of games last season.^[4]
• 19 June: Socrates Fytanidis renews his contract with the club for four years.^[5]
• 26 June: Javier Umbides signs a two-year contract with the club.^[6]
• 27 June: Pitu Garcia renews his contract with the club for one more year.^[7]
• 30 June: Christos Arkoudas signs a one-year contract with the club.^[8]
• 1 July: The first training of the club for the new year took place, and every member of the club, not only the players, was sanctificated, with 1,000 fans present at the stadium.^[9]
• 3 July: Michalis Sifakis signs a one-year contract with the club, with an option of a one-year renewal.^[10]
• 7 July: Luigi Cennamo signs a one-year contract with the club, with a one-year renewal option.^[11]
• 8 August: Njazi Kuqi signs a mutual consent termination of his contract with the club.^[12]

Important Moments

• 29 August: Atromitos achieve their first win in European matches, as well as their first away win in Europe, beating AZ Alkmaar 0–2. Unfortunately, this win was insufficient to give them the ticket for the group stage, since Atromitos had lost the first leg at home 1–3, with Alkmaar proceeding on away goals.

Club

Athletic staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Georgios Paraschos
Coach assistant	Panayiotis Gungides
Goalkeeping coach	Slobodan Sujica
Fitness coach	Sotirios Kakaryias
Technical Director	Ioannis Aggelopoulos
General Director	Spyridon Sofianos
Scouter	Apostolos Apostolou
Medical Director	Nikolaos Piskopakis
Doctor	Petros Kapralos
Physiotherapist	Panayiotis Ambeliotis
Physiotherapist	Nikolaos Zafiropoulos
Caregiver	Nikolaos Katsikas
Exercise Physio	Georgios Ziogas
Bus driver	Angelos Verikakis

Other information

President & CEO	Georgios Spanos
Vice President	Evangelos Batayiannis
Vice CEO	Ekaterini Koxenoglou
Ground Manager	Panayiotis Michaletos
Press Director	Pavlos Katonis
Marketing Director	Spyridon Boulousis
Security Director	Georgios Petrou
Information Director	Roberto Panayos
Accountants Director	Vasilios Karakatsanis
Club Lawyer	Argirios Livas
Secretary Director	Christina Moschona
Tickets Director	Marios Panayos
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Peristeri Stadium (10,200 / 102x65 metres)

Players

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	League			Cup			Europa League			Total			Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Start	Apps	Goals	Start	Apps	Goals	Start	Apps	Goals	Start
Goalkeepers
1	GK	Luigi Cennamo	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	GK	Michalis Sifakis	29	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	2	0	0
35	GK	Vasilios Barkas	19	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	3	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	Theodoros Papoutsoyiannopoulos	19	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	1	0	0
3	DF	Arango Jamal	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF	Stathis Tavlaridis	33	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	3	2	0
6	DF	Sokratis Fytanidis	29	3	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	2	5	0	5	1	0
13	DF	Evangelos Nastos	33	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	3	0	0
18	DF	Kostas Giannoulis	26	3	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	5	0	4	1	0
24	DF	Nikolaos Lazaridis	34	3	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	2	5	0	5	1	0
35	DF	Christos Gromitsaris	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	DF	Christos Arkoudas	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
7	MF	Eduardo Brito	31	3	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	0	4	1	0
8	MF	Fotis Georgiou	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	MF	Thanasis Karagounis	22	1	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	2	3	1	4	0	0
14	MF	Manolis Kallergis	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	MF	Panayiotis Ballas	20	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	2	0	0
17	MF	Walter Iglesias	28	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	2	1	0
21	MF	Elini Dimoutsos	25	2	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	4	2	0
23	MF	Javier Umbides	31	3	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	2	5	1	5	1	0
26	MF	Pitu Garcia	29	3	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	2	5	0	5	2	0
Forwards
9	FW	Stefano Napoleoni	32	3	1	2	0	0	0	2	2	2	5	3	4	1	0
11	FW	Dimitris Papadopoulos	27	3	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	5	2	3	0	0
20	FW	Tasos Karamanos	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	FW	Fábio Moreira Tavares	23	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0

International Players

Player Infos		Activity
National team	Player	Active	Non-A.
Greece	Michalis Sifakis	✔
Greece	Kostas Giannoulis	✔
Greece	Sokratis Fytanidis	✔
Greece	Stathis Tavlaridis		✔
Greece U21	Thanasis Karagounis	✔
Greece U20	Panayiotis Ballas	✔
Greece	Elini Dimoutsos	✔
Greece	Dimitris Papadopoulos	✔

Transfers

Summer

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
10 June 2013	FW	Dimitris Papadopoulos	Panthrakikos	Free
15 June 2013	MF	Fotis Georgiou	PAS Giannina	Free
26 June 2013	MF	Javier Umbides	Orduspor	Free
30 June 2013	DF	Christos Arkoudas	AEK Athens	Free
3 July 2013	GK	Michalis Sifakis	Charleroi	Free
7 July 2013	GK	Luigi Cennamo	Maccabi Netanya	Free

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
2 June 2013	FW	Vangelis Mantzios	Levadiakos	Free
8 June 2013	GK	Manolo	Gimnàstic	Free
17 June 2013	MF	Chigozie Udoji	Aris FC	Free
21 June 2013	DF	Ioannis Skondras	PAOK	300.000 €
1 July 2013	MF	Chumbinho	Olympiacos	Loan return
3 July 2013	GK	Velimir Radman	Expiration of contract
3 July 2013	GK	Fotis Karagiolidis	AEK Athens	Free
11 July 2013	DF	Bruno Pereira	PAS Giannina	Free
8 August 2013	FW	Njazi Kuqi	Mutual consent

Loaned out

Date	Pos.	Name	To
11 August 2013	FW	Fotis Kaimakamoudis	Mandraikos[13]
13 August 2013	DF	Anastasios Kantoutsis	Kalamata

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Superleague Greece	1	4th (Alpha Order)	—	17 August
Greek Football Cup	Round of 32	Quarter-Finals	Quarter-Finals	26 September	12 February
Europa League	Play-off round	Play-off round	Play-off round	22 August	29 August

Last updated: 7 March 2014

Superleague Greece

League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
2	Atromitos !Atromitos	27	16	7	4	43	19	+24	55	Qualification for Greek Superleague Play-Offs
3	PAOK !PAOK	27	17	4	6	54	27	+27	55
4	Panathinaikos !Panathinaikos	27	15	5	7	42	22	+20	50
5	Asteras Tripoli !Asteras Tripoli	27	13	9	5	38	25	+13	48

Updated to games played on 7 March 2014.
Source: Superleague Greece
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

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
27	16	7	4	43	19	+24	55	10	4	0	25	6	+19	6	3	4	18	13	+5

Last updated: 7 March 2014.
Source: Superleague Greece

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	31	32	33	34
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A
Result	D	L	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	D	L	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	D	D	W	W	W	W	L	W	W
Position	7	14	7	11	10	6	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2

Last updated: 7 March 2014.
Source: Super League
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Friendlies

Superleague Greece

Cup

Europa League

References

1. ↑ "Termination of contract with Manuel Reina "Manolo".". Retrieved 2 July 2013.  Published by atromitosfc.gr.
2. ↑ "Our new "star", Dimitris Papadopoulos!". Retrieved 2 July 2013.  Published by atromitosfc.gr.
3. ↑ Our second new star, Fotis Georgiou! Published by atromitosfc.gr. Retrieved 2 July 2013. In Greek.
4. ↑ Udoji leaves Atromitos. (in Greek) Published by sport-fm.gr. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
5. ↑ Renewal of contract with Socratis Fytanidis. (in Greek) Published by atromitosfc.gr. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
6. ↑ Our third new star, Javier Umbides! (in Greek) Published by atromitosfc.gr. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
7. ↑ Renewal of contract with virtuose Pitu Garcia! (in Greek) Published by atromitosfc.gr. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
8. ↑ Christos Arkoudas is a player of Atromitos! (in Greek) Published by atromitosfc.gr. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
9. ↑ Party in the first meeting of the new season! (in Greek) Published by atromitosfc.gr. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
10. ↑ The "cerberus" of the goalposts, Michalis Sifakis, is ours! (in Greek) Published by atromitosfc.gr. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
11. ↑ Cennamo Luigi a player of Atromitos! (in Greek) Published by atromitosfc.gr. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
12. ↑ Termination of contract with Njazi Kuqi. (in Greek) Published by Atromitos F.C. Official Website. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
13. ↑ Fotis Kaimakamoudis on loan to Mandraikos (in Greek) Published by [www.atromitosfc.gr Atromitos F.C. Official Website.] Retrieved 13 August 2013.
14. ↑ West Brom to play two friendlies in Shropshire. Published by [www.shropshirestar.com Shropshire Star.] Retrieved 20 July 2013.
15. ↑ EPO - Hellenic Football Federation 10 September 2013.