2000–01 AEK Athens F.C. season explained

Club:	AEK Athens
Season:	2000–01
Manager:	Giannis Pathiakakis (until 25 January) Toni Savevski
Mgrtitle:	Manager
Chairman:	Cornelius Sierhuis
Chrtitle:	Chairman
League:	Alpha Ethniki
League Result:	3rd
Cup1:	Greek Cup
Cup1 Result:	Round of 16
Cup2:	UEFA Cup
Cup2 Result:	Round of 16
League Topscorer:	Demis Nikolaidis (15)
Season Topscorer:	Demis Nikolaidis (25)
Highest Attendance:	24,404 vs Barcelona (25 February 2001)
Lowest Attendance:	676 vs Kozani (6 August 2000)
Average Attendance:	6,800
Largest Win:
Largest Loss:
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Prevseason:	1999–2000
Nextseason:	2001–02

The 2000–01 season was the 77th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 42nd 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 6 August 2000 and finished on 26 May 2001.

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Overview

The season started with the multinational Netmed and ENIC at the wheel and with Cornelius Sierhuis and Petros Stathis in command. Giannis Pathiakakis, having made a very good finish in the previous season, took charge of the club's transfers, having a pretty good budget. After a transfer journey in Latin America he brought Fernando Navas, Emanuel Ruiz and Ferrugem to the team, but the transfer "bombs" occurred with Greek footballers. Vasilios Tsiartas returned from Sevilla after 4 years, while Theodoros Zagorakis returned from England to wear the colors of AEK Athens.

In the first round of the UEFA Cup, AEK were drawn against Hungarian Vasas. At Ferenc Puskás Stadium, AEK appeared sluggish, but at the start of the second half, they woke up and quickly scored 2 goals, while later the laziness returned with the result of being equalizing with 2 goals in the last minutes of the match. In rematch of Nikos Goumas Stadium AEK appeared more serious and with Maladenis, who was the protagonist of the match, scored a goal in the 27th minute and two minutes later, won a penalty scored by Nikolaidis, with the 2–0 being the final score. The next opponent for the yellow-blacks were Herfølge from Denmark. First match in Athens, where the amazing Nikolaidis scored an impressive of 4 of goals and Zikos scored another goal with a nice shot and AEK achieved an emphatic victory. In the rematch, the Danes took the lead from very early on with AEK equalizing. In the second half, Herfølge again took the lead with a penalty and the match ended with an unacceptable defeat for the Greek club. In the round of 32, the difficult times came for AEK, who were drawn with the German Bayer Leverkusen, were in the top of the Bundesliga at that time. The first match at the BayArena, where in a historic night for the Greek team, AEK took the lead early on, but then conceded 2 goals. However, AEK pressed and equalized, but before the celebrations were stopped, Bayer made it 3–2 with the yellow-blacks equalizing with a penalty. In the 79th minute, AEK made it 3–4 and while the Germans continued to press hard eventually AEK's defense hold again, conceding a goal at the end of the game which ended in the impressive 4–4. The rematch of Nikos Goumas on 7th December was an even more impressive night for AEK who scored at the beginning of the match, while in the second half they doubled their lead with a direct free kick and achieved a huge qualification win, which was one of the important in their European history. In the round of 16, things became even more difficult since AEK were drawn with the great Barcelona of Rivaldo, Kluivert, Overmars, Luis Enrique, Guardiola and De Boer. In the first leg at Nea Filadelfeia in a fantastic atmosphere, AEK stood up well, but a mistake by the yellow-black defense in the 42nd minute was enough for the Spanish team to open the score, where it remained until the end of the match and their few hopes of qualification they seemed to fly away. In the rematch at Camp Nou, the Greek club entered strongly, but Barcelona did not panic and crushed the yellow-blacks with a wide score of 5–0. AEK Athens' European run ended with elimination by the mighty Spanish team.^[1]

In the cup, AEK initially played in a group with Panathinaikos, AEL, Ethnikos Piraeus, Kozani and Olympiacos Volos and passed as second behind Panathinaikos in the next round, where it were drawn against Olympiacos. The first match took place in Nea Filadelfeia, where AEK entered the match well and took the lead with Nikolaidis. However, in a tackle by Zikos, where ended up to Nikolaidis, went to score another goal, the referee whistled for a foul. Zikos protested and the referee sent him off with a second yellow. In the midst of chaos that followed the referee expelled Nikolaidis as well with a straight red. AEK with 9 men, were equalized and as the heated crowd in the stands were angrier, Petros Stathis made a decision that would mark the history of the club and after whispering to Pathiakakis, 3 players of AEK fell down pretending to be wounded. The AEK ultras broke the railings of the roof and invade the pitch and as a result the match was suspended with the red and whites winning by 2–0 without a match. In the rematch Pathiakakis made a confusing decision, using a mixture of substitutes and main players in the lineup in another nightmare evening for AEK, where the match ended in a 6–1 defeat. After the game Pathiakakis left AEK.^[2]

In the championship, AEK started mediocre, but the psychology went up in the European matches with the qualification against Bayer Leverkusen. The first problems, however, started with the 4–1 defeat from Olympiacos for the championship and eventually AEK fell psychologically later, in the elimination from the cup by Olympiacos. After the departure of Pathiakakis, Toni Savevski retired as a footballer and "overnight" he became the coach of the team as a "duo" with Eugène Gerards,^[3] however AEK did not manage to save many things from the season, as they finished in third place, 17 points from the top.

Management team

Players

Squad information

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 26 May 2001, 23:59 UTC+3.

No.	Player	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
1	Ilias Atmatsidis (Captain)	GK	June 30, 2001	1992	Pontioi Veria	Free	2002
15	Chrysostomos Michailidis	GK	June 30, 2001	1997	Eordaikos	Free	2005
22	Dionysis Chiotis	GK	June 30, 2001	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	2005
Defenders
2	Traianos Dellas	CB	June 30, 2001	1999	Sheffield United	Free	2002
3	Ferrugem	CB / DM	June 30, 2001	2000	Palmeiras	Free	2005
5	Nikos Kostenoglou	CB / RB	June 30, 2001	1994	Skoda Xanthi	₯100,000,000	2003
12	Charis Kopitsis	RB / RM / LB / LM	June 30, 2001	1992	Panionios	Free	2001
16	Nikolaos Georgeas	RB / LB / DM	June 30, 2001	2001	Kalamata	₯500,000,000	2006
17	Michalis Kasapis (Vice-captain 2)	LB / LM	June 30, 2001	1993	Levadiakos	₯50,000,000	2002
19	Grigoris Toskas	CB	June 30, 2001	2000	AEK Athens U20	—	2005
21	Vaios Karagiannis	LB / CB	June 30, 2001	1990	A.O. Karditsa	Free	2001
27	Hernán Medina	CB / DM	June 30, 2001	2001	Boca Juniors	₯100,000,000	2001
31	Christos Pitos	CB / DM / CM	June 30, 2001	2001	Naoussa	Free	2006
32	Michalis Kapsis	CB	June 30, 2001	1999	Ethnikos Piraeus	₯80,000,000	2003
Midfielders
6	Theodoros Zagorakis	CM / DM / AM / RM / CB / RB	June 30, 2001	2000	Leicester City	Free	2003
7	Christos Maladenis	CM / RM / LM / AM / RW / LW / SS	June 30, 2001	1995	Skoda Xanthi	₯120,000,000	2003
10	Vasilios Tsiartas (Vice-captain 3)	AM / RM / LM / SS	June 30, 2001	2000	Sevilla	₯1,100,000,000	2003
14	Akis Zikos	DM / CM	June 30, 2001	1998	Skoda Xanthi	₯130,000,000	2002
18	Georgios Passios	DM / CM / CB	June 30, 2001	1997	AEK Athens U20	—	2003
23	Vasilios Lakis	RM / RW / AM / CM / RB	June 30, 2001	1998	Paniliakos	₯320,000,000	2003
24	Dimitris Karameris	CM / DM	June 30, 2001	2000	AEK Athens U20	—	2005
26	Bledar Kola	LM / CM / DM / LB	June 30, 2001	2001	Panathinaikos	Free	2003
28	Milen Petkov	DM / CM / AM / RM / LM	June 30, 2001	2000	CSKA Sofia	₯260,000,000	2003
33	Fernando Navas	LM / AM / RM	June 30, 2001	2000	Boca Juniors	₯700,000,000	2005
Forwards
9	Christos Kostis	SS / ST / AM / RW / LW	June 30, 2001	2000	Anderlecht	Free	2001
11	Demis Nikolaidis (Vice-captain)	ST / SS	June 30, 2001	1996	Apollon Athens	₯288,000,000	2004
20	Sotiris Konstantinidis	RW / LW / RM / LM / AM	June 30, 2001	1999	Iraklis	Free	2004
30	Emanuel Ruiz	SS / ST / RW	June 30, 2001	2000	Boca Juniors	Free	2005
Left during Winter Transfer Window
4	Diyan Donchev	LB / CB	June 30, 2001	2000	Spartak Varna	₯200,000,000	2003
—	Georgios Paraskevaidis	CB	June 30, 2001	2000	AEK Athens U20	—	2005
8	Toni Savevski	CM / LM / DM	June 30, 2001	1988	Vardar	₯34,000,000	2001
25	Luis Darío Calvo	AM / LW	June 30, 2001	2000	Banfield	Free	2002

Transfers

In

Summer

	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	From	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Fee	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Date	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Contract Until	Source
3		Palmeiras	Free transfer		30 June 2005	^[4]
4		Spartak Varna	₯200,000,000		30 June 2003	^[5]
6		Leicester City	Free transfer		30 June 2003	^[6]
9		Anderlecht	Free transfer		30 June 2001	^[7]
10		Sevilla	₯1,100,000,000^[8]		30 June 2003	^[9]
19		AEK Athens U20	Promotion		30 June 2005	^[10]
22		Proodeftiki	Loan return		30 June 2005
24		AEK Athens U20	Promotion		30 June 2005
30		Boca Juniors	Free transfer		30 June 2005	^[11]
33		Boca Juniors	₯700,000,000		30 June 2005	^[12]
—		Ethnikos Piraeus	Loan return		30 June 2001
—		Athinaikos	Loan return		31 December 2005

Winter

	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	From	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Fee	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Date	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Contract Until	Source
16		Kalamata	₯500,000,000		30 June 2006	^[13]
19		Panathinaikos	Free transfer		30 June 2004	^[14]
31		Naoussa	₯5,500,000^[15]		30 June 2006	^[16]
—		Spartak Varna	Free transfer		30 June 2004	^[17]

Out

Summer

	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	To	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Fee	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Date	Source
6		Aris	Contract termination		^[18]
9		Fortuna Sittard	Contract termination
10		Barcelona	Loan return
16		Lokeren	End of contract
18		OFI	Contract termination		^[19] ^[20]
24		Red Star	End of contract
25		Ethnikos Asteras	End of contract		^[21]
27		Roma	Loan return
29		Vicenza	Loan return
30		Central Córdoba	Contract termination
—		Diagoras	End of contract
—		Apollon Kalamarias	Contract termination

Winter

	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	To	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Fee	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Date	Source
4		Spartak Varna	Contract termination
8		align=center colspan=2	Retired		^[22]

Loan in

Summer

		width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	From	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Fee	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Date	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Until	Option to buy	Source
25			Boca Juniors	Free		30 June 2002		^[23]

Winter

		width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	From	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Fee	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Date	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Until	Option to buy	Source
27			Boca Juniors	₯100,000,000		30 June 2001		^[24] ^[25]

Loan out

Summer

	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	To	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Fee	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Date	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Until	Option to buy	Source
19		Kalamata	Free		30 June 2001		^[26]
22		Kilkisiakos	Free		30 June 2001
31		Kalamata	Free		30 June 2001
—		Agios Nikolaos	Free		30 June 2001
—		Panetolikos	Free		30 June 2001

Winter

	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	To	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Fee	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Date	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Until	Option to buy	Source
25		Kalamata	Free		30 June 2001		^[27] ^[28]
—		Panionios	Free		30 June 2001
—		Athinaikos	Free		30 June 2001		^[29]

a. On 28 December 2001, FIFA awarded Palmeiras the fee of ₯650,000,000, as compensation, due to the player's free transfer upon his contract's expiration.^[30]

b. plus Diyan Donchev as an exchange.

Contract renewals

	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Date	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Former Exp. Date	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	New Exp. Date	Source
15			30 June 2002	30 June 2005	^[31]
21			30 June 2000	30 June 2001

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure

Summer: ₯2,650,000,000

Winter: ₯105,500,000

Total: ₯2,755,500,000

Income

Summer: ₯0

Winter: ₯0

Total: ₯0

Net Totals

Summer: ₯2,650,000,000

Winter: ₯105,500,000

Total: ₯2,755,500,000

Competitions

Alpha Ethniki

See main article: 2000–01 Alpha Ethniki.

Fixtures

Greek Cup

See main article: 2000–01 Greek Football Cup.

Matches

Round of 16

UEFA Cup

See main article: 2000–01 UEFA Cup.

Fourth round

Statistics

Squad statistics

! colspan="13" style="background:#FFDE00; text-align:center" | Goalkeepers|-! colspan="13" style="background:#FFDE00; color:black; text-align:center;"| Defenders|-! colspan="13" style="background:#FFDE00; color:black; text-align:center;"| Midfielders|-! colspan="13" style="background:#FFDE00; color:black; text-align:center;"| Forwards|-! colspan="13" style="background:#FFDE00; color:black; text-align:center;"| Left during Winter Transfer Window|-|}

Goalscorers

Rank			width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Alpha Ethniki	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Greek Cup	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	UEFA Cup	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Total
1	11			15	4	6	25
2	10			14	3	2	19
2	20			8	11	0	19
4	23			2	6	1	9
5	33			2	3	3	8
6	30			5	2	0	7
6	7			2	4	1	7
8	28			4	0	1	5
9	25			0	4	0	4
10	14			2	0	1	3
10	9			1	2	0	3
12	2			1	0	0	1
	5			1	0	0	1
	32			1	0	0	1
	17			1	0	0	1
	6			1	0	0	1
Own goals	1	0	1	2
Totals	61	40	16	112

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Against	width=70 style="background:#FFDE00	Result	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Date	width=150 style="background:#FFDE00	Competition	Source
Sotiris Konstantinidis	Kozani	5–2 (H)	6 August 2000	Greek Cup	^[32]
Demis Nikolaidis⁴	Ethnikos Piraeus	8–0 (H)	17 August 2000	Greek Cup	^[33]
Vasilios Lakis	Olympiacos Volos	9–1 (H)	6 September 2000	Greek Cup	^[34]
Demis Nikolaidis⁴	Herfølge	5–0 (H)	26 October 2000	UEFA Cup	^[35]
Sotiris Konstantinidis	Panionios	5–1 (H)	1 April 2001	Alpha Ethniki	^[36]

Assists

Rank			width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Alpha Ethniki	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Greek Cup	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	UEFA Cup	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Total
1	10			8	0	0	8
2	11			4	0	0	4
3	17			3	0	0	3
4	20			2	0	0	2
4	30			2	0	0	2
6	7			1	0	0	1
	23			1	0	0	1
	33			1	0	0	1
	14			1	0	0	1
Totals	23	0	0	23

Clean sheets

The list is sorted by competition order when total clean sheets are equal, then by shirt number 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.

Rank		width=200 style="background:#FFDE00	Player	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Alpha Ethniki	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Greek Cup	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	UEFA Cup	width=120 style="background:#FFDE00	Total
1	1		9	2	3	14
2	22		2	0	0	2
3	15		0	1	0	1
Totals	11	3	3	17

Disciplinary record

|-! colspan="17" style="background:#FFDE00; text-align:center" | Goalkeepers|-! colspan="17" style="background:#FFDE00; color:black; text-align:center;"| Defenders|-! colspan="17" style="background:#FFDE00; color:black; text-align:center;"| Midfielders|-! colspan="17" style="background:#FFDE00; color:black; text-align:center;"| Forwards|-! colspan="17" style="background:#FFDE00; color:black; text-align:center;"| Left during Winter Transfer window|}

Starting 11

	Formation	Matchday(s)
38	4–4–2 (D)	1–10, 12, 13, 17–22, 25–29
12	4–2–3–1	11, 14–16, 23, 24, 30

	Player
1	Ilias Atmatsidis (C)	GK
5	Nikos Kostenoglou	RCB
32	Michalis Kapsis	LCB
6	Theodoros Zagorakis	RB
17	Michalis Kasapis	LB
14	Akis Zikos	DM
28	Milen Petkov	RCM
7	Christos Maladenis	LCM
23	Vasilios Lakis	AM
10	Vasilios Tsiartas	SS
11	Demis Nikolaidis	CF

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Περίοδος 2000-2001. 22 May 2015. aekpedia.com. el.
Web site: Οταν οι παίκτες της ΑΕΚ έκαναν τους τραυματίες κόντρα στον Ολυμπιακό. gazzetta.gr.
Web site: Πιάνουν δουλιά Γκέραρντ - Σαβέβσκι. 26 January 2001. rizospastis.gr.
Web site: Η ΑΕΚ παρουσίασε τον... μικρό Ντούνγκα Φερουζέμ. 11 July 2000. in.gr.
Web site: Πρώτη του Ντόντσεφ στην ΑΕΚ. 13 July 2000. in.gr.
Web site: Και τυπικά παίκτης της ΑΕΚ ο Ζαγοράκης. 3 July 2000. in.gr.
Web site: Και τυπικά στα κιτρινόμαυρα ο Κωστής. 19 July 2000. in.gr.
Web site: Οριστικά ο Τσάρτας στην ΑΕΚ. in.gr. 6 July 2000. Online. el.
Web site: Θα την ξανακάνουμε μεγάλη. 7 July 2000. tanea.gr.
Web site: Ζήτα συγγνώμη. 29 November 2000. tanea.gr.
Web site: Η ΑΕΚ παρουσιάσε Νάβας και Ρούις. 4 July 2000. in.gr.
Web site: Που χάθηκες και εσύ.... (Νο. 6). sport24.gr.
Web site: Δέκα χρόνια Γεωργέας. 6 January 2010. aek365.org.
Web site: Ανακοίνωσε Κόλα, "τέλειωσε" με Ντόντσεφ η ΑΕΚ. 19 January 2001. in.gr.
News: 18 January 2001. Σταμάτησε το ενδιαφέρον για την αγορά της Νάουσας. 29. Athetic Echo. Γ. Αντωνόπουλος. el.
News: 17 January 2001. Πολυ κοντά σε Λαμπριάκο. 6. Athetic Echo. Κώστας Κετσετζόγλου. el.
News: 20 January 2001. Πήρε τον Ρούσεφ. 3. Athetic Echo. Κώστας Κετσετζόγλου. el.
Web site: Παρουσίασε Τεννέ ο Αρης, ανακοίνωσε Μάρκο και νέο... πρόεδρο. 27 June 2000. in.gr.
News: 4 July 2000. Πήρε Ζαγοράκη η ΑΕΚ παρουσιάζει Νάβας και Ρουίζ. 3. Athetic Echo. el.
Web site: Στον ΟΦΗ, Κατσαβός και Ηπειρώτης. 5 July 2000. in.gr.
Web site: Τέλος Καλιτζάκης, Μάρκος και Κατσαβός από την ΑΕΚ - Μένει ο Καραγιάννης. 5 June 2000. in.gr.
Web site: Ο Τόνι Σαβέφσκι κρέμασε και τυπικά τα ποδοσφαιρικά του παπούτσια στην ΑΕΚ. 31 January 2001. in.gr.
Web site: Ανακοίνωσε την απόκτηση του Κάλβο η ΑΕΚ - Παρελθόν ο Μπιέκοβιτς. 31 July 2000. in.gr.
Web site: Μπορώ να πετύχω στην ΑΕΚ - Τι δήλωσε ο Αργεντινός νεοαποκτηθείς αμυντικός. 25 January 2001. in.gr.
Web site: Τα 5+1 «παλτά» του ελληνικού ποδοσφαίρου που δεν συμπλήρωσαν ούτε… 90λεπτο!. 21 January 2022. bnsports.gr.
News: 19 July 2000. Παραχωρούνται δανεικοί. 5. Athetic Echo. el.
News: 30 January 2001. Υπέγραψαν Μαχαιρίδης και Κάλβο στην Καλαμάτα. 13. Athetic Echo. Χρήστος Παπαγεωργίου. el.
Web site: Καλαματιανός για έξι μήνες ο Τριαντάφυλλος Μαχαιρίδης - Στη "μαύρη θύελλα" και ο Κάλβο. 29 January 2001. in.gr.
Web site: Πήρε τον Βούλγαρο Ιβάν Ρούσεφ. 31 January 2001. tanea.gr.
Web site: 650 εκατ. για Φερούζεμ!. 28 December 2001. tanea.gr.
News: 19 July 2000. Νέο συμβόλαιο για Καραγίαννη Μιχαηλίδη. 5. Athetic Echo. el.
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Web site: AEK Athens-Herfølge BK UEFA Europa League 2000/01. UEFA.com. Online.
Web site: Παν-αιώνιος… πελάτης. Σταύρος. Καζαντζόγλου. 22 October 2016. enwsi.gr. Online. el.