2018–19 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens
2018–19 season
President	Evangelos Aslanidis
Administrative Leader	Dimitris Melissanidis
Manager	Marinos Ouzounidis
Stadium	Olympic Stadium
Super League	TBD
Greek Cup	TBD
Champions League	Third Qualifying Round
	← 2017–18 2019–20 →

The 2018–19 season is AEK Athens Football Club's 58th competitive season in the top flight of Greek football, 9th season in the Super League Greece, and 95th year in existence as a football club. They also compete in the Greek Cup and in the UEFA Champions League. The season covers the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.

Events

May 25, 2018 Manolo Jimenez decides against renewing his contract in order to return to Spain and take over Las Palmas in order to be closer to his family.^[1]
May 25, 2018 Marinos Ouzounidis becomes the new head coach of AEK.^[2]
June 26, 2018 Christos Albanis joins AEK from Apollon Smyrnis on a three year deal.^[3]
June 26, 2018 Makis Giannikoglou joins AEK from PAS Giannina signing three year deal.^[4]
June 28, 2018 Marios Oikonomou joins AEK on loan from Bologna.^[5]
June 29, 2018 Marko Livaja signs a three year contract joining AEK permanently having spent last season on loan from Las Palmas.^[6]
July 2, 2018 Vladimir Matijašević becomes the new Sports Director of AEK.^[7]

Players

Squad statistics

Updated as of 5 July 2018, 00:21 UTC +2.

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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	GK	Panagiotis Tsintotas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	GK	Makis Giannikoglou	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	Michalis Bakakis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF	Hélder Lopes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF	Marios Oikonomou	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF	Vassilis Lampropoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	DF	Rodrigo Galo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	DF	Uroš Ćosić	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	DF	Dmytro Chygrynskiy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	DF	Niklas Hult	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	DF	Giorgos Giannoutsos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
6	MF	Astrit Ajdarević	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	MF	André Simões (vc)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	MF	Petros Mantalos (c)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	MF	Panagiotis Kone	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	MF	Konstantinos Galanopoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF	Paris Bampis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	MF	Erik Morán	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
77	MF	Christos Giousis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
7	FW	Christos Albanis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	FW	Giorgos Giakoumakis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW	Marko Livaja	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	FW	Anastasios Bakasetas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	FW	Viktor Klonaridis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	FW	Dimitris Melikiotis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
70	FW	Christos Antoniou	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Left during Summer Transfer window
Left during Winter Transfer Window

Transfers

In

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred From	Fee	Date	Contract Until
7	GK	Christos Albanis	Apollon Smyrni	Umknown	26 June 2018	June 2021
40	GK	Makis Giannikoglou	PAS Giannina	Unknown	26 June 2018	June 2021
10	FW	Marko Livaja	Las Palmas	€1.8m	29 June 2018	June 2021

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source

Out

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred To	Fee	Date	Source
4	DF	Ognjen Vranjes	Anderlecht	€3.5m	20 June 2018	^[8]
7	FW	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos	Olympiacos	Unknown	1 July 2018
16	GK	Panagiotis Dounis	Free agent	End of contract	1 July 2018
24	FW	Masoud Shojaei	Free agent	End of contract	1 July 2017
22	GK	Giannis Anestis	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	End of contract	1 July 2017
18	MF	Jakob Johansson	Rennes	End of contract	1 July 2018
11	FW	Sergio Araujo	Las Palmas	End of loan	1 July 2017
55	DF	Adam Tzanetopoulos	Apollon Smyrnis	Released	5 July 2017

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred To	Fee	Date	Source

Loan in

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	Loaned From	Fee	Date	End	Permanent Transfer option	Source
4	DF	Marios Oikonomou	Bologna	Loan	2 July 2018	June 2019

Loan out

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	Loaned To	Fee	Date	End	Source
–	DF	Stavros Vasilantonopoulos	Lamia	Free	1 July 2018	30 June 2019

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	Loaned To	Fee	Date	End	Source

Renewals/Buyout clauses

No.	Pos	Player	Renewal/Buyout Clause	Date	Former Exp Date	New Exp Date	Source

Overall transfer activity

Spending

Summer: €1,800,000

Winter: €0

Total: €1,800,000

Income

Summer: €3,500,000

Winter: €0

Total: €3,500,000

Pre-season and friendlies

Win Draw Loss

7 July 2018 Friendly^[9]	Miedź Legnica	1-0	AEK Athens	Kielce
20:00 UTC +3				Stadium: Kielce City Stadium

13 July 2018 Friendly^[9]	AEK Athens	v	AEK Larnaca	Kielce
17:00 UTC +3				Stadium: Kielce City Stadium

21 July 2018 Friendly^[9]	AEK Athens	v	Atromitos
20:00 UTC +3

25 July 2018 Friendly^[9]	Aris	v	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:00 UTC +3				Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium

Competitions

Super League Greece

League Table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	PAOK^[a] (C)	30	26	4	0	66	14	+52	80	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2	Olympiacos	30	24	3	3	71	17	+54	75	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3	AEK Athens^[b]	30	18	6	6	50	19	+31	57	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
4	Atromitos	30	15	7	8	41	28	+13	52	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
5	Aris	30	15	4	11	46	33	+13	49	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round

Source: Super League Greece, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Goals against 7) Play-offs (neutral ground); 8) Draw.
(Note: Criteria 7 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).^[12]
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ PAOK were deducted 2 points by court decision.^[10]
^ AEK Athens were deducted 3 points by court decision.^[11]

Results summary

Last updated: 5 July 2018.
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by Matchday

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Greek Cup

Fixtures

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UEFA Champions League

Fixtures

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Goal scorers

No.	Pos.	Nation	Name	Superleague	Europe	Cup	Total
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References

^ "Manolo, thank you for everything" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 25 May 2018.
^ "Marinos Ouzounidis becomes the new head coach" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 25 May 2018.
^ "Albanis joins AEK FC". aekfc.gr. 26 June 2018.
^ "AEK is ideal for every Greek" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 26 June 2018.
^ "Crucial for me the Champions League" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 28 June 2018.
^ "Marko Livaja sings for three more years". aekfc.gr. 29 June 2018.
^ "Vladimir Matijašević becomes new Sports Director at AEK" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 2 July 2018.
^ "Ognjen Vranjes joins Anderlecht" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 26 June 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "AEK FC Matches" (in Greek). aekfc.gr.
^ "Αφαίρεση δύο βαθμών στο πρωτάθλημα της επόμενης σεζόν". protothema.gr. 27 August 2018.
^ sdna.gr Aφαίρεση τριών βαθμών στην ΑΕΚ!
^ "Super League Greece 2018/2019". soccerway.com. 7 February 2020.

External links

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[table_note_PAOK0.22334408444508-11] PAOK were deducted 2 points by court decision.^[10]

[table_note_AEK0.22334408444508-13] AEK Athens were deducted 3 points by court decision.^[11]

[1] "Manolo, thank you for everything" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 25 May 2018.

[2] "Marinos Ouzounidis becomes the new head coach" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 25 May 2018.

[3] "Albanis joins AEK FC". aekfc.gr. 26 June 2018.

[4] "AEK is ideal for every Greek" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 26 June 2018.

[5] "Crucial for me the Champions League" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 28 June 2018.

[6] "Marko Livaja sings for three more years". aekfc.gr. 29 June 2018.

[7] "Vladimir Matijašević becomes new Sports Director at AEK" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 2 July 2018.

[8] "Ognjen Vranjes joins Anderlecht" (in Greek). aekfc.gr. 26 June 2018.

[AEKfriendlies-9] "AEK FC Matches" (in Greek). aekfc.gr.

[10] "Αφαίρεση δύο βαθμών στο πρωτάθλημα της επόμενης σεζόν". protothema.gr. 27 August 2018.

[12] sdna.gr Aφαίρεση τριών βαθμών στην ΑΕΚ!

[14] "Super League Greece 2018/2019". soccerway.com. 7 February 2020.

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