2017–18 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens

2017–18 season

President

Evangelos Aslanidis

Administrative Leader

Dimitris Melissanidis

Manager

Stadium

1st

Second round

Third Qualifying Round

Europa League

Play off Round

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

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The 2017–18 season is AEK Athens Football Club's 57th competitive season in the top flight of Greek football, 8th season in the Super League Greece, and 94th year in existence as a football club. They also compete in the Greek Cup and in the UEFA Champions League for the first time since the 2007–08 season, having earned the first position in playoffs for the first time last season.

Events

June 7, 2017 Ilias Vouras and Christos Aravidis leave the club as their contract is not renewed.^[1]
June 9, 2017 AEK players Anastasios Bakasetas, Petros Mantalos and Ognjen Vranješ face each other at an international national team match for 2018 World Cup qualifying round, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Greece, at Bilino Polje Stadium, Zenica. Mantalos and Vranješ played all 90 minutes, Mantalos missing a great chance for Greece at 82nd minute, when shot the ball out at a one-on-one against Asmir Begović. The match ended 0–0, satisfying Greece, who needed at least the draw to stay at the top two places.
June 10, 2017 In Nea Philadelphia the presentation of the book from journalist Nikos Angelidis called "Every AEK of the world" took place. The book had as a subject the 302 clubs of the world that are named or were named after AEK and have the two-headed eagle as an emblem. AEK FC president, Evangelos Aslanidis went to the presentation and made a speech. AEK FC is a sponsor of the book.^[2]
June 14, 2017 The minister of infrastructure, transport and networks, Christos Spirtzis, signs the necessary height-related study for Agia Sophia Stadium, the proposed stadium for AEK in Nea Philadelphia. As the club's official announcement states, the particular study was "the last obstacle" for the start of the construction of the stadium, and the official construction license for the stadium is about to be published "within the next days".^[3]
June 21, 2017 Portuguese left-back Hélder Lopes signs a two-year deal with AEK, in a free transfer from Las Palmas.^[4]
June 27, 2017 Ronald Vargas and Dimitrios Kolovetsios leave the club as no deal for their announcement was made.^[5]
June 29, 2017 Greek-Belgian winger Viktor Klonaridis signs a three-year deal with AEK from RC Lens.^[6] On the same day, Superleague newcomers Lamia F.C. announced a loan transfer of Stavros Vasilantonopoulos from AEK.^[7]
July 1, 2017 Croatian striker Marko Livaja signs from Las Palmas on a season long loan deal for €200,000 with a purchase option of €1,800,000 in the summer of 2018. Livaja became the third player which was transferred from Las Palmas to AEK within 2017, after Sergio Araujo and Hélder Lopes. Marko, as presented in the official club video, will wear the shirt with number 10.^[8]
July 3, 2017 Serbian centre-back Uroš Ćosić signs with AEK for three years, with an extension clause of one more year, in a full transfer from Empoli F.C.. Uroš, as observed in the official video of his signing, will wear the shirt with number 15.^[9]
July 5, 2017 Icelander left winger Arnór Traustason signs with AEK on loan for one year from Rapid Wien, with a permanent buyout clause at the summer of 2018. Arnór, as presented in the official video, will wear the shirt with number 30.^[10] This transfer would be the seventh summer transfer for AEK of summer 2017. On the same day, newly promoted to Superleague club Lamia F.C. officially announced that, after Stavros Vasilantonopoulos, another player will be loaned from AEK to Lamia, midfielder Ilias Tselios.^[11]
July 12, 2017 The talk of AEK administrative leader, Dimitris Melissanidis, during the AEK Sports Club General Assembly, was featured in an official AEK F.C. TV video. Melissanidis mentioned all the "hindrances" during the "extremely painful road" until the license which would enable the, then proposed, Agia Sophia Stadium broke ground. The official announcement states that procedures are ending and that the stadium will soon break ground, and that the members whose actions toughened the procedures for the stadium were unanimously deleted from the club.^[12]
July 14, 2017 The UEFA Champions League draw brought Russian club CSKA Moscow as opponents of AEK for the third qualifying round.^[13]
July 24, 2017 It is officially announced from the official AEK website, that the club has received the official construction license, so that the Agia Sophia Stadium breaks ground, simultaneously inviting the team fans to celebrate the license in the upcoming match against CSKA Moscow for the Champions League third qualifying round.^[14]
July 25, 2017 As mentioned the day before, AEK obtained the official construction license, announcing it officially on the football club page, with the title "It's not a dream! IT'S A FACT!", inviting the fans of AEK to the sanctification on upcoming Thursday, where the new stadium will break ground at Nea Filadelfeia.^[15] In the same day, the construction license was featured on the giant screen of the Olympic Stadium, where AEK faced CSKA Moscow for the Champions League.
July 27, 2017 The sanctification for the beginning of the construction of Agia Sophia Stadium took place, with more than 15,000 fans of AEK being present, in Nea Filadelfeia, with the club officially thanking them for their presence. Among others, he club's administrative leader Dimitris Melissanidis, former club player Stelios Serafidis made a speech about the new stadium. Dimitris Melissanidis, in his speech, mentioned, among others, that "the walls of Agia Sophia will be high, invincible and will never, ever, fall again!".^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]
July 28, 2017 Agia Sophia Stadium officially broke ground.^[18]

Players

Squad statistics

Updated as of 28 July 2017, 19:41 UTC +3. (After AEK - CSKA Moscow for the Champions League)

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	League		Cup		Europe		Total		Discipline
No.	Pos.	Name	Age	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	Vasilios Barkas	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	GK	Panagiotis Tsintotas	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	GK	Giannis Anestis	26	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
87	GK	Panagiotis Dounis	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	Michalis Bakakis	26	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF	Hélder Lopes	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF	Ognjen Vranješ	28	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF	Vassilis Lambropoulos	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	DF	Rodrigo Galo	31	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
15	DF	Uroš Ćosić	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	DF	Vinícius Freitas	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	DF	Dmytro Chygrynskiy	31	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
23	DF	Dídac Vilà	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	DF	Konstantinos Manolas	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	DF	Giorgos Giannoutsos	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
55	DF	Adam Tzanetopoulos	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
6	MF	Astrit Ajdarević	27	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
7	MF	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos	31	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
8	MF	André Simões	28	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
18	MF	Jakob Johansson	27	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
20	MF	Petros Mantalos (Captain)	26	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
25	MF	Konstantinos Galanopoulos	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	MF	Patito Rodríguez	27	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
30	MF	Arnór Ingvi Traustason	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
9	FW	Hugo Almeida	33	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW	Marko Livaja	24	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
11	FW	Giorgos Giakoumakis	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	FW	Anastasios Bakasetas	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	FW	Viktor Klonaridis	25	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
31	FW	Dimitris Melikiotis	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	FW	Andreas Vlachomitros	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Transfers

In

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred From	Fee	Date	Source
16	1 !GK	Tsintotas, Panagiotis ! Panagiotis Tsintotas	Levadiakos	Free	000000002017-06-01-00001 June 2017
55	1 !DF	Tzanetopoulos, Adam ! Adam Tzanetopoulos	Iraklis	End of loan	000000002017-06-01-00001 June 2017
–	1 !MF	Vasilantonopoulos, Stavros ! Stavros Vasilantonopoulos	Veria	End of loan	000000002017-06-01-00001 June 2017
–	1 !FW	Kyriazis, Antonios ! Antonios Kyriazis	Kifisia	End of loan	000000002017-06-01-00001 June 2017
11	1 !FW	Giakoumakis, Giorgos ! Giorgos Giakoumakis	Platanias	Free	000000002017-06-01-00001 June 2017
–	1 !GK	Dounis, Panagiotis ! Panagiotis Dounis	Kallithea	End of loan	000000002017-06-12-000012 June 2017
3	1 !DF	Lopes, Hélder ! Hélder Lopes	Las Palmas	Free	000000002017-06-21-000021 June 2017	^[4]
28	1 !FW	Klonaridis, Viktor ! Viktor Klonaridis	Lens	€200,000	000000002017-06-29-000029 June 2017	^[6]
15	1 !DF	Ćosić, Uroš ! Uroš Ćosić	Empoli	€500,000	000000002017-07-03-00003 July 2017	^[9]

Out

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred To	Fee	Date	Source
11	1 !FW	Araujo, Sergio ! Sergio Araujo	Las Palmas	End of loan	000000002017-06-01-00001 June 2017
16	1 !GK	Vouras, Ilias ! Ilias Vouras		End of contract	000000002017-06-07-00007 June 2017
21	1 !FW	Aravidis, Christos ! Christos Aravidis		End of contract	000000002017-06-07-00007 June 2017
10	1 !MF	Vargas, Ronald ! Ronald Vargas		End of contract	000000002017-06-27-000027 June 2017	^[5]
14	1 !FW	Pekhart, Tomas ! Tomáš Pekhart	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	End of contract	000000002017-07-03-00003 July 2017
26	1 !DF	Kolovetsios, Dimitrios ! Dimitrios Kolovetsios	Panathinaikos	End of contract	000000002017-07-03-00003 July 2017	^[5]

Loan in

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	Loaned From	Fee	Date	End	Permanent Transfer option	Source
10	1 !FW	Livaja, Marko ! Marko Livaja	Las Palmas	€200,000	000000002017-07-01-00001 July 2017	000000002018-06-30-000030 June 2018	Yes	^[8]
30	1 !MF	Traustason, Arnór Ingvi ! Arnór Ingvi Traustason	Rapid Wien	€200,000	000000002017-07-05-00005 July 2017	000000002018-06-30-000030 June 2018	Yes	^[10]

Loan out

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	Loaned To	Fee	Date	End	Source
–	1 !DF	Vasilantonopoulos, Stavros ! Stavros Vasilantonopoulos	Lamia	Free	000000002017-06-29-000029 June 2017	000000002018-06-30-000030 June 2018	^[7]
–	1 !MF	Tselios, Ilias ! Ilias Tselios	Lamia	Free	000000002017-07-05-00005 July 2017	000000002018-06-30-000030 June 2018	^[11]

Overall transfer activity

Spending

Summer: €1,100,000

Winter: €0

Total: €1,100,000

Income

Summer: €0

Winter: €0

Total: €0

Expenditure

Summer: €1,100,000

Winter: €0

Total: €1,100,000

Pre-season and friendlies

Win Draw Loss

8 July 2017 Friendly^[20]	AEK Athens	1–1	Karpaty Lviv	Kielce
18:00 UTC +3	Giakoumakis 17'		Chacua 10'	Stadium: Kielce City Stadium

9 July 2017 Friendly^[20]	Korona Kielce	0–1	AEK Athens	Kielce
19:00 UTC +3			Klonaridis 27'	Stadium: Kielce City Stadium

14 July 2017 Friendly^[20]	AEK Athens	3–1	Banik Ostrava	Kielce
18:00 UTC +3	Lopes 17' Mantalos 41' Almeida 80' (pen.)		Sasinka 15'	Stadium: Kielce City Stadium

15 July 2017 Friendly^[20]	AEK Athens	2–0	Bnei Sakhnin	Kielce
19:00 UTC +3	Christodoulopoulos 4' Galanopoulos 14'			Stadium: Kielce City Stadium

19 July 2017 Friendly^[20]	AEK Athens	1–1	Gent	Amaroussion
20:30 UTC +3	Mantalos 74'		Andrijašević 37'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium

10 August 2017 Friendly^[20]	AEK Athens	v	Platanias	Amaroussion
20:00 UTC +3				Stadium: Olympic Stadium

Competitions

Super League

League Table

Pos	Team	Qualification or relegation
1	AEK Athens	Qualification for the championship play-offs
2	Apollon Smyrni
3	Asteras Tripoli
4	Atromitos
5	Kerkyra

Source: Superleague Greece, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against; 6) Play-offs (neutral ground); 7) Draw.
(Note: Criteria 6 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).

Last updated: August 2017.
Source: Superleague Greece

Fixtures

20 August 2017 1	AEK Athens	v	Panetolikos	Amaroussion
19:15 UTC +3				Stadium: Olympic Stadium

27 August 2017 2	PAS Giannina	v	AEK Athens	Ioannina
20:30 UTC +3				Stadium: Zosimades Stadium

Greek Cup

UEFA Champions League

Third qualifying round

25 July 2017 1st leg	AEK Athens	0–2	CSKA Moscow	Amaroussion
20:30 UTC +3	Rodríguez 90'	Report	Dzagoev 45+1' Wernbloom 56'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Referee: Marco Fritz (Germany)

2 August 2017 2nd leg	CSKA Moscow	1−0	AEK Athens	Moscow
20:00 UTC +3	Natkho 74'			Stadium: VEB Arena Referee: Benoît Millot (France)

UEFA Europa League

Play off round

17 August 2017 1st leg	Club Brugge	v	AEK Athens	Bruges
				Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium

24 August 2017 2nd leg	AEK Athens	v	Club Brugge	Amaroussion
				Stadium: Olympic Stadium

References

↑ "Vouras and Aravidis do not renew" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 7 June 2017.
↑ ""Every AEK of the world" in PPIED" (in Greek). e-filadelfeia.gr. 10 June 2017.
↑ "AEK FC Announcement" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 14 June 2017.
1 2 "Hélder Lopes signed" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 21 June 2017.
1 2 3 "AEK FC Announcement" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 27 June 2017.
1 2 "Victor Klonaridis signed for AEK FC" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 29 June 2017.
1 2 "Beginning of cooperation with Stavros Vasilantonopoulos" (in Greek). lamia1964.gr. 29 June 2017.
1 2 "Marko Livaja signs for AEK" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 1 July 2017.
1 2 "Uroš Ćosić signs for AEK" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 3 July 2017.
1 2 "Arnór Traustason signs for AEK" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 5 July 2017.
1 2 "Beginning of cooperation with Ilias Tselios" (in Greek). lamia1964.gr. 5 July 2017.
↑ "The truth for the stadium! (video included)" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 12 July 2017.
↑ "AEK will face CSKA Moscow!" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 14 July 2017.
↑ "Double celebration: Qualification and construction license!" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 24 July 2017.
↑ "It's not a dream! IT'S A FACT!" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 25 July 2017.
↑ "Dimitris Melissanidis' speech" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 27 July 2017.
↑ "Stelios Serafidis' speech" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 27 July 2017.
1 2 "In the land of our ancestors!" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 27 July 2017.
↑ "The warm "thank you"s of AEK" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 27 July 2017.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "AEK FC Matches" (in Greek). aekfc.gr.

External links

Official Website (in Greek)

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HFF competitions

Cup (Final)
Gamma Ethniki Cup

Superleague and Football Leagues

European competitions

Men	Champions League (Final) Europa League (Final)
Women	Champions League (Final)
Youth	Youth League (Final)

Club seasons
Superleague	AEK Athens Apollon Smyrni Asteras Tripoli Atromitos Kerkyra Lamia Larissa Levadiakos Olympiacos Panathinaikos Panetolikos Panionios PAOK PAS Giannina Platanias Xanthi
Football League	Aris Ergotelis Iraklis Veria
Gamma Ethniki	AEL Kalloni Kavala

Summer 2017 transfers
Winter 2017–18 transfers

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