1985–86 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens

1985–86 season
Chairman	Andreas Zafiropoulos
Manager	Jacek Gmoch (until 12 June) Nikos Christidis
Stadium	Athens Olympic Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	3rd
Greek Cup	Semi-finals
UEFA Cup	First round
Top goalscorer	League: Håkan Sandberg (12) All: Márton Esterházy (17)
Highest home attendance	74,465 vs Olympiacos (9 February 1986)
Lowest home attendance	1,454 vs Chalkida (12 February 1986)
Average home league attendance	27,584
Biggest win	AEK Athens 10–0 Ilioupoli
Biggest defeat	Real Madrid 5–0 AEK Athens
Home colours Away colours
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The 1985–86 season was the 62nd season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 27th 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 8 September 1985 and finished on 23 June 1986.

Supplier: Zita Hellas
Sponsor(s): Ethniki Asfalistiki

Home

Away

In the summer of 1985, AEK "moved" to the Athens Olympic Stadium, due to construction works at the AEK Stadium. Both Olympiacos and Panathinaikos already used the same stadium as their home ground at the time, which resulted in the introduction of league games on Saturday, so that all 3 teams could be served simultaneously. Antonis Georgiadis left the team's bench for Olympiacos, while Zafiropoulos hired Jacek Gmoch, who had won the 1984 double and he had reached the semi-finals of the European Cup with Panathinaikos. Christos Ardizoglou left the club to end his career at Apollon Athens, a team where he started his career, since for various reasons he failed to transfer to Olympiacos. In December, both Vangelis Vlachos and Lysandros Georgamlis left for Panathinaikos and greatly affected the team's later performance in the league. In the transfer period of December, AEK were strengthened with the addition of Greek-Australian expatriate, Jim Patikas.

AEK started the league with two convincing victories against PAOK and Aris, but the continuation was not proportional. The whole season was a year of successive ups and downs in the performance of the team, which could not acquire duration and rhythm. The club presented two different faces in their struggles at home and away matches. While at home they finished undefeated, but with 7 draws that knocked them out of the title race, at the away matches they gathered 7 defeats in 15 games. The team finished at the third place where they were tied with Iraklis, 7 points behind the champion Panathinaikos and 2 behind the second OFI. In the UEFA Cup, AEK were eliminated by the mighty Real Madrid, who were the eventual winners, in the first round, despite winning the first leg at Athens. In the Cup, AEK reached the semi-finals where they were eliminated by Panathinaikos in a margin. Top scorer at the league was Håkan Sandberg with 12 goals and Márton Esterházy in total with 17 goals, while Theologis Papadopoulos had a very good season. One of the few positives of that season was that AEK achieved an average league ticket record in their history with 31,254 tickets per game.^[1]

However, the whole season was accompanied by the court thriller that was reserved for the end. AEK were playing in the penultimate matchday in Serres against Panserraikos. ΑΕΚ wanted the victory to stay on track for a ticket to the next season's UEFA Cup. On April 19, at the eve of the match, the general manager of AEK, Giannis Chrysovitsianos, was arrested on the accusation that he tried to bribe the players of Panserraikos, Michalis Galatidis, Giorgos Sfakianakis and Giannis Antoniadis, through Giorgos Rigas, to underperform the game. The match took place normally with Panserraikos winning by 2–0, a result that eventually did not help him avoid relegation. The result of this whole story was that the league standings were not secured, until the case was finalized. Eventually, that happened in mid-June, with AEK being punished with the deduction of 3 points, but from the next season's championship. Thus, the organizing authority decided to conduct a third place play-off match between AEK and Iraklis. Iraklis considered a scandal the decision of the punishment of AEK for next year, as well as the acquittal of OFI for the double doping of their player, Alejandro Hisis. The play-off match was set for June 23 at Volos. The delay of the conduction of the match was such that Esterházy played in the match, after competing with his national team at the FIFA World Cup in Mexico. Meanwhile Gmoch left the club, with Nikos Christidis sitting at the bench for the match. Iraklis, disagreed with the conduction of the play-off match, considering themselves wronged by the non-punishment of AEK for the current season. Nevertheless they were forced to show up in order for the club not to be punished and tried to make a parody of the match. The squad of Iraklis was consisted of only 10 players, since according to their management, the rest of the players were on vacation. At the 53rd minute and while the match was at 0–0, Iraklis were left with 6 players after Zifkas and Karaiskos were sent off, while Santexis and Adamou left injured. According to the regulation, the referee interrupted the match and was awarded 2–0 to AEK, who won the European ticket.^[2]

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 23 June 1986, 23:59 UTC+3.

Player	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
Spyros Ikonomopoulos		GK	(1959-07-25)25 July 1959 (aged 26)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1989
Theologis Papadopoulos		GK	(1960-01-12)12 January 1960 (aged 26)	1984	AEL	₯9,000,000	1989
Defenders
Makis Chatzis		RB / LB	(1957-03-30)30 March 1957 (aged 29)	1984	Apollon Athens	₯6,750,000	1989
Panagiotis Stylianopoulos		RB / LB	(1957-09-04)4 September 1957 (aged 28)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1986
Ilias Armodoros		LB	(1960-01-25)25 January 1960 (aged 26)	1985	Ethnikos Piraeus	Free	1990
Takis Karagiozopoulos		CB / DM / ST	(1961-02-04)4 February 1961 (aged 25)	1981	Veria	Free	1991
Polyvios Chatzopoulos		CB / DM	(1961-07-17)17 July 1961 (aged 24)	1985	Panionios	₯10,400,000	1990
Stelios Manolas		CB / RB	(1961-07-13)13 July 1961 (aged 24)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1988
Stefanos Porfyris		CB	(1965-09-02)2 September 1965 (aged 20)	1985	AEK Athens U20	—	1987
Midfielders
Pavlos Dimitriou		AM / LB	(1957-03-24)24 March 1957 (aged 29)	1985	Panserraikos	₯11,000,000	1989
Dinos Ballis		AM / CM / DM / SS / ST / CB	(1957-05-25)25 May 1957 (aged 29)	1981	Aris	₯17,000,000	1986
Pavlos Papaioannou		DM / RB / RM	(1959-05-19)19 May 1959 (aged 27)	1983	Rodos	₯10,000,000	1988
Nikos Pias		CM	(1960-04-07)7 April 1960 (aged 26)	1984	Rodos	₯1,350,000	1989
Babis Akrivopoulos		AM / SS / ST	(1961-09-04)4 September 1961 (aged 24)	1983	Veria	Free	1988
Jim Patikas		RM / LM / RW / LW / SS	(1963-10-18)18 October 1963 (aged 22)	1985	Sydney Croatia	₯5,000,000	1988
Dimitris Stafylidis		CM	(1965-01-01)1 January 1965 (aged 21)	1985	AEK Athens U20	—	1988
Forwards
Thomas Mavros (Captain)		ST / LW	(1954-05-31)31 May 1954 (aged 32)	1976	Panionios	Free	1987
Márton Esterházy		SS / ST / RW / LW / AM	(1956-04-09)9 April 1956 (aged 30)	1984	Honvéd	₯90,000,000	1987
Håkan Sandberg		ST	(1958-07-27)27 July 1958 (aged 27)	1984	IFK Göteborg	₯8,000,000	1988
Andreas Voitsidis		ST / RW / LW	(1960-04-28)28 April 1960 (aged 26)	1984	Kastoria	₯2,400,000	1989
Giannis Dintsikos		ST / SS / RW / LW / AM	(1960-06-25)25 June 1960 (aged 26)	1981	Kastoria	Free	1991
Georgios Christodoulou		ST / SS / LW	(1967-05-20)20 May 1967 (aged 19)	1985	Akratitos	Free	1988
Left during Winter Transfer Window
Christos Arvanitis		GK	(1953-01-23)23 January 1953 (aged 33)	1982	Olympiacos	Free	1986
Lysandros Georgamlis (Vice-captain)		RB / CB / DM / LB	(1962-02-25)25 February 1962 (aged 24)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1985
Vangelis Vlachos		AM / CM	(1962-01-06)6 January 1962 (aged 24)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1989
Michalis Pytharoulis		ST	1966 (aged 19–20)	1984	A.O. Agios Nikolaos	Free	1989

Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
GK	Fanis Kofinas	Korinthos	End of loan	—	1 July 1985	30 June 1987
DF	Polyvios Chatzopoulos	Panionios	Transfer	₯10,400,000	21 June 1985	30 June 1990	[3]
DF	Stefanos Porfyris	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1985	30 June 1987
DF	Ilias Armodoros	Ethnikos Piraeus	Transfer	Free	5 July 1985	30 June 1990	[4]
MF	Dimitris Stafylidis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1985	30 June 1988
FW	Georgios Christodoulou	Akratitos	Transfer	Free[a]	11 July 1985	30 June 1988	[5]

Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
MF	Jim Patikas	Sydney Croatia	Transfer	₯5,000,000[6]	12 December 1985	30 November 1988	[7]
MF	Pavlos Dimitriou	Panserraikos	Transfer	₯11,000,000	16 December 1985	30 June 1989	[8]

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Stavros Letsas	Egaleo	Contract termination	—	9 August 1985	[9]
ΜF	Christos Ardizoglou	Apollon Athens	Contract termination	—	15 July 1985	[10]

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
GK	Christos Arvanitis	Olympiacos	Tranfer	₯6,000,000[b]	16 December 1985	[11]
DF	Lysandros Georgamlis	Panathinaikos	Transfer	₯9,100,000	22 November 1985	[12]
MF	Vangelis Vlachos	Panathinaikos	Transfer	₯16,000,000[c]	10 December 1985	[13]

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
GK	Fanis Kofinas	Ionikos	Free	15 July 1985	30 June 1987	N	[14]

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
FW	Michalis Pytharoulis	Vyzas Megara	Free	28 November 1985	30 November 1986	N	[15]

Notes

Pos.	Player	Date	Former Exp. Date	New Exp. Date	Source
DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	13 June 1986	30 June 1986	30 June 1991	[17]
FW	Håkan Sandberg	28 May 1986	30 June 1986	30 June 1988	[18]
FW	Giannis Dintsikos	13 June 1986	30 June 1986	30 June 1991	[19]

Brage v AEK Athens

18 July 1985 Friendly	Brage	0–2	AEK Athens	Borlänge
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)		[20]	Esterházy 14' (pen.) Sandberg 59'	Stadium: Domnarvsvallen Attendance: 2,000

Örebro v AEK Athens

23 July 1985 Friendly	Örebro	2–3	AEK Athens	Borlänge
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Hammar 33' Ingdahl 52'	[21]	Ballis 34' Dintsikos 36' Esterházy 66' (pen.)	Stadium: Domnarvsvallen Attendance: 1,500

Västerås v AEK Athens

25 July 1985 Friendly	Västerås	0–1	AEK Athens	Västerås
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)		[22]	Sandberg 31'	Stadium: Arosvallen Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Karlsson (Sweden)

Krylbo IF v AEK Athens

27 July 1985 Friendly	Krylbo IF	5–7	AEK Athens	Krylbo
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Larsson 3' Persson 10', 20', 42' Vestman 58'	[23]	Sandberg 5', 57' (pen.) Christodoulou 15' Karagiozopoulos 39' (pen.) Dintsikos 67' Zarikos 68' Pias 75'	Stadium: Arosvallen Attendance: 2,000

Ludvika FK v AEK Athens

28 July 1985 Friendly	Ludvika FK	0–4	AEK Athens	Ludvika
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)		[24]	Sandberg 55', 87' (pen.) Dintsikos 59' Kak 79' (o.g.)	Stadium: Hillängens IP Attendance: 4,500

Iraklis v AEK Athens

12 August 1985 Friendly	Iraklis	4–3	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Maloumidis 17' (pen.) Chatzopoulos 35' (o.g.) Adamou 43' D. Papadopoulos 89'	[25]	Armodoros 44' Arvanitis  45' P. Papaioannou 62' Sandberg 77'	Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Panagiotis Koutris (Thessaloniki)

AEL v AEK Athens

16 August 1985 Friendly	AEL	3–2	AEK Athens	Larissa
	Valaoras 19' Parafestas 59' (pen.) Tsiolis 69'	[26]	Esterházy 65', 71', 79'	Stadium: Alcazar Stadium Attendance: 7,717 Referee: Kostas Lappas (Karditsa)

AEK Athens v Honvéd

19 August 1985 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–3	Honvéd	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Ballis 4' Papaioannou 78'	[27]	Sikesdi 39' Gyimesi 64' Bodonyi 4'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 23,710[28] Referee: Giorgos Koukoulakis (Heraklion)

AEK Athens v Olympiacos

21 August 1985 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	Olympiacos	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Karagiozopoulos  30' Sandberg 42',  43' Pias  69'	[29]	Skouras  43' Mitropoulos 71'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Makis Germanakos (Athens)

AEK Athens v PAS Giannina

26 August 1985 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–1	PAS Giannina	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)		[30]	Lappas 26' Pasialis  76'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 8,430 Referee: Stratos Kannos (Athens)

AEK Athens v Real Madrid

18 September 1985 First leg	AEK Athens	1–0	Real Madrid	Athens, Greece
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Papaioannou 10' Georgamlis  69' Chatzopoulos  78'	Report		Stadium: Athens Olympic Stadium Attendance: 39,819 Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

Real Madrid v AEK Athens

2 October 1985 Second leg	Real Madrid	5–0 (5–1 agg.)	AEK Athens	Madrid, Spain
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Georgamlis 8' (o.g.) Butragueño 18' Chendo 20' Sanchís  21' Valdano 32' Sánchez 59'	Report	Sandberg  18'	Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Stadium Attendance: 85,000 Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

As of 23 June 1986

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		UEFA Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	0
—	GK	Theologis Papadopoulos	23	0	7	0	0	0	30	0
Defenders
—	DF	Makis Chatzis	24	0	7	0	2	0	33	0
—	DF	Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	14	0	5	1	0	0	19	1
—	DF	Ilias Armodoros	25	0	8	0	2	0	35	0
—	DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	25	1	7	2	2	0	34	3
—	DF	Polyvios Chatzopoulos	19	1	8	0	2	0	29	1
—	DF	Stelios Manolas	20	3	7	1	2	0	29	4
—	DF	Stefanos Porfyris	2	0	3	0	0	0	5	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Pavlos Dimitriou	15	0	5	0	0	0	20	0
—	MF	Dinos Ballis	22	4	7	2	1	0	30	6
—	MF	Pavlos Papaioannou	27	0	6	0	2	1	35	1
—	MF	Nikos Pias	24	0	6	0	2	0	32	0
—	MF	Babis Akrivopoulos	5	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
—	MF	Jim Patikas	12	0	3	2	0	0	15	2
—	MF	Dimitris Stafylidis	11	1	8	0	0	0	19	1
Forwards
—	FW	Thomas Mavros	17	4	4	0	1	0	22	4
—	FW	Márton Esterházy	29	11	6	6	2	0	37	17
—	FW	Håkan Sandberg	29	12	6	4	2	0	37	16
—	FW	Andreas Voitsidis	13	0	5	0	0	0	18	0
—	FW	Giannis Dintsikos	20	5	4	3	1	0	25	8
—	FW	Georgios Christodoulou	6	0	2	1	0	0	8	1
Left during Winter Transfer Window
—	GK	Christos Arvanitis	7	0	0	0	2	0	9	0
—	DF	Lysandros Georgamlis	7	0	1	0	2	0	10	0
—	MF	Vangelis Vlachos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	FW	Michalis Pytharoulis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

As of 23 June 1986

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	UEFA Cup	Total
1	FW	Márton Esterházy	11	6	0	17
2	FW	Håkan Sandberg	12	4	0	16
3	FW	Giannis Dintsikos	5	3	0	8
4	MF	Dinos Ballis	4	2	0	6
5	FW	Thomas Mavros	4	0	0	4
	DF	Stelios Manolas	3	1	0	4
7	DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	1	2	0	3
8	MF	Jim Patikas	0	2	0	2
9	DF	Polyvios Chatzopoulos	1	0	0	1
	MF	Dimitris Stafylidis	1	0	0	1
	DF	Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	0	1	0	1
	FW	Georgios Christodoulou	0	1	0	1
	MF	Pavlos Papaioannou	0	0	1	1
Own goals			0	0	0	0
Totals			42	22	1	65

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Márton Esterházy	Ilioupoli	10–0 (H)	6 November 1985	Greek Cup	[33]

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 23 June 1986

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	UEFA Cup	Total
1	Theologis Papadopoulos	10	3	0	13
2	Christos Arvanitis	2	0	1	3
3	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	0	1	0	1
Totals		12	4	1	17

As of 23 June 1986

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			UEFA Cup			Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Spyros Ikonomopoulos
—	GK		Theologis Papadopoulos
Defenders
—	DF		Makis Chatzis	2									2
—	DF		Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	1									1
—	DF		Ilias Armodoros	3			2						5
—	DF		Takis Karagiozopoulos	7									7
—	DF		Polyvios Chatzopoulos	3			1			1			5
—	DF		Stelios Manolas	9			2						11
—	DF		Stefanos Porfyris
Midfielders
—	MF		Pavlos Dimitriou	2									2
—	MF		Dinos Ballis	4		1	3	1					7	1	1
—	MF		Dimitris Pittas
—	MF		Pavlos Papaioannou	7	1		1						8	1
—	MF		Nikos Pias	4		1							4		1
—	MF		Babis Akrivopoulos
—	MF		Jim Patikas	2			1						3
—	MF		Dimitris Stafylidis	3			3						6
Forwards
—	FW		Thomas Mavros	2									2
—	FW		Márton Esterházy	4									4
—	FW		Håkan Sandberg	8			3	1		1			12	1
—	FW		Andreas Voitsidis	1									1
—	FW		Giannis Dintsikos	2	1								2	1
—	FW		Georgios Christodoulou
Left during Winter Transfer Window
—	GK		Christos Arvanitis	1									1
—	DF		Lysandros Georgamlis							1			1
—	MF		Vangelis Vlachos
—	FW		Michalis Pytharoulis

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