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1960–61 season
Chairman	Nikos Goumas
Manager	Lukas Aurednik (until January) Tryfon Tzanetis
Stadium	AEK Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	4th
Greek Cup	Quarter-finals
Balkans Cup	5th
Top goalscorer	League: Kostas Nestoridis (27) All: Kostas Nestoridis (44)
Highest home attendance	28,268 vs Olympiacos (4 June 1961)
Lowest home attendance	2,000 vs PAO Kalogreza (8 March 1961)
Average home league attendance	12,970
Biggest win	AEK Athens 9–0 AE Kesarianis
Biggest defeat	Fenerbahçe 5–1 AEK Athens
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The 1960–61 season was the 37th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the second consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup and the Balkans Cup. The season began on 18 September 1960 and finished on 25 June 1961.

Overview

AEK Athens continued this season with one of their "Patriarchs", Tryfon Tzanetis in the technical leadership, who was officially hired in January with the task of revitalizing the team. However, his predecessor, Lukas Aurednik, remained in the team and alongside Christos Ribas formed a coaching triumvirate with Tzanetis apparently having the first say, but Auretnik maintaining the tactical support and the acceptance of the vast majority of the fans. Aurednik promoted the team's future star, Spyros Pomonis from their academies, while the additions of Thanasis Gouvas from A.E. Messolonghi and Aris Tsachouridis from Makedonikos were also noteworthy.

The first objections to the objectivity of the referees begun and made their appearance in Greek football, culminating in the Athenian derby, in the following matchday. Three days before the match there was strong dissatisfaction with the presence of certain people from Panathinaikos in the central arbitration committee. AEK was severely wronged by the referee Ioannidis and the dissatisfaction was confirmed since the referee denied an obvious penalty to Nestoridis in the 87th minute and while the score was 2–2. In the tension that followed, the referee showed Anastasiadis a red card and the refusal of the latter to come out of the pitch resulted in the game being awarded to Panathinaikos and AEK being zeroed. Another 2 consecutive defeats followed, which kept AEK away from the top. The incidents with the referees continued, with the suspension of the match against Proodeftiki and its resumption 4 months later, as on 18 February in Karaiskakis Stadium, at the 80th minute, while the game was at 1–1, Gouvas scored a goal where the ball hit the inner post at the bottom of the goal and went out again with the referee Bakirzis indicating "play on", considering that the ball hit the post. A scuffle between players followed on the pitch and after several incidents the referee called it off and it was repeated on 14 June, when AEK was indifferent and mathematically out of the title. In the rest of the season, the team briought mediocre results, losing in both matches to the then strong Panionios, while they achieved a 4–1 victory over Olympiacos. The 27 goals scored by Kostas Nestoridis, who emerged again as the top scorer of the league, did not manage to give AEK anything better than fourth place.

AEK entered the Cup facing AE Kaisarianis in December and they achieved one of the highest scoring victories in their history with 9–0. In the next round they eliminated Agioi Anargyroi easily with 5–1 and then Doxa Metaxourgio with 3–2. Afterwards they played against PAO Kalogreza and eliminated them with 2–1 and in the next round they faced Niki Plakas and won with a triumphant 8–1. In the round of 32, AEK came across Prasina Poulia, one of the historic teams from Kalamata, who would compete in Athens for the first time. The match was held under intense emotional charge due to the presence of Kleanthis Maropoulos and the Messinian team held a historic 2–2 draw until the 60th minute, when AEK "woke up" and in the end the result was a satisfying 7–3. In the round of 16, they easily eliminated Proodetiki by 4–1, but in the quarter-finals, Iraklis ended their course in the institution, by winning them with 1–0 in Thessaloniki.

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 25 June 1961, 23:59 UTC+2.

Player	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
Sotiris Fakis		GK	1934 (aged 26–27)	1957	Amyna Ambelokipoi	Free	1963
Stelios Serafidis		GK	(1935-08-06)6 August 1935 (aged 25)	1953	AEK Athens U20	—	1972
Kimon Dimitriou		GK	1938 (aged 22–23)	1959	Propontis Chalkida	Free	1961
Defenders
Giannis Marditsis		CB / ST	(1933-02-19)19 February 1933 (aged 28)	1959	Egaleo	₯103,000	1964
Petros Stamatelopoulos		LB	(1934-03-19)19 March 1934 (aged 27)	1959	Panerythraikos	₯100,000	1962
Nikos Melissis		CB / DM / ST	1936 (aged 24–25)	1953	PAO Kalogreza	Free	1961
Mimis Anastasiadis		RB / CB / ST	(1936-10-26)26 October 1936 (aged 24)	1956	A.O. Nea Ionia	Free	1964
Alekos Sofianidis		LB / LM / LW	(1937-08-03)3 August 1937 (aged 23)	1959	Beşiktaş	Free	1969
Antonis Gavanas		CB	1938 (aged 22–23)	1956	Ethnikos Asteras	Free	1961
Theofilos Vernezis		RB / CB / GK	1938 (aged 22–23)	1956	AEK Athens U20	—	1965
Dimitris Tzaneras		CB / DM	1942 (aged 18–19)	1960	Atromitos Piraeus	Free	1962
Dimitris Diakakis		CB	1942 (aged 18–19)	1959	Free agent	Free	1961
Midfielders
Pavlos Emmanouilidis		RM / RW / ST / SS	(1929-01-01)1 January 1929 (aged 32)	1947	AEK Athens U20	—	1961
Miltos Papapostolou		DM / CB	(1935-09-09)9 September 1935 (aged 25)	1956	Egaleo	Free	1965
Giorgos Petridis		AM / SS / ST	(1938-02-10)10 February 1938 (aged 23)	1957	Pera Club	Free	1966
Stelios Skevofilakas		LM / RM / AM	(1939-01-06)6 January 1939 (aged 22)	1960	Eleftheroupoli	Free	1972
Thanasis Gouvas		AM / RW / SS / ST	(1939-04-00)April 1939 (aged 22)	1960	A.E. Messolonghi	Free	1965
Thymios Polyzos		CM	1939 (aged 21–22)	1956	Free agent	Free	1961
Stefanos Demiris		AM / SS / ST	(1941-01-19)19 January 1941 (aged 20)	1959	AE Kavalas	—	1961
Alekos Daispangos		DM / CB	1942 (aged 18–19)	1960	AEK Athens U20	—	1964
Forwards
Kostas Nestoridis		ST / SS	(1930-03-15)15 March 1930 (aged 31)	1955	Panionios	Free	1966
Andreas Stamatiadis (Captain)		RW / LW / SS / ST	(1935-08-16)16 August 1935 (aged 25)	1952	AEK Athens U20	—	1969
Christos Ampos		LW / SS / ST	(1937-10-19)19 October 1937 (aged 23)	1956	AO Kifisia	Free	1962
Dimitris Tsanoulas		ST	1938 (aged 22–23)	1956	Free agent	Free	1961
Argyris Argyropoulos		ST	1939 (aged 21–22)	1958	AEK Athens U20	—	1962
Nikos Zagotsis		ST / SS	(1940-03-16)16 March 1940 (aged 21)	1960	AEK Athens U20	—	1965
Aris Tsachouridis		LW / LM / RM / RW	(1940-12-10)10 December 1940 (aged 20)	1960	Makedonikos	Free	1965
Spyros Pomonis		LW / LM	(1944-02-12)12 February 1944 (aged 17)	1960	AEK Athens U20	—	1973

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
DF	Dimitris Tzaneras	Atromitos Piraeus	Free transfer	1 July 1960	30 June 1962
ΜF	Alekos Daispangos	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1960	30 June 1964
MF	Stelios Skevofilakas	Eleftheroupoli	Free transfer	1 April 1961	30 June 1972
MF	Thanasis Gouvas	A.E. Messolonghi	Free transfer	1 July 1960	30 June 1965
FW	Aris Tsachouridis	Makedonikos	Free transfer	1 July 1960	30 June 1965
FW	Spyros Pomonis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1960	30 June 1973
FW	Nikos Zagotsis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1960	30 June 1965

Out

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Thanasis Tsangaris	Panerythraikos	End of contract	1 July 1960
MF	Kostas Zografos	Free agent	End of contract	1 July 1960
MF	Giannis Kanakis	Retired		1 July 1960
AM	Samaras	Free agent	End of contract	1 July 1960
FW	Loukas Sismanis	Free agent	End of contract	1 July 1960

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure: ₯0

Income: ₯0

Net Total: ₯0

Pre-season and friendlies

4 September 1960 Friendly	AEK Athens	7–1	Dafni Dafniou	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

14 September 1960 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	A.S.D.A.N	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

26 October 1960 Friendly	AEK Athens	5–0	Aris Petroupolis	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

2 November 1960 Friendly	AEK Athens	7–2	Attikos	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

9 November 1960 Friendly	Trofonios	0–6	AEK Athens

25 December 1960 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–3	Partizan	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

8 February 1961 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–0	Greece military	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

22 March 1961 Friendly	Greece	5–1	AEK Athens

1 April 1961 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–4	Fenerbahçe	Nea Filadelfeia
16:00 EET (UTC+2)	Loukanidis 45' Toumpelis 76'	Report	Erdem 30' Bartu 42', 46' Gündüz 65'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 31,960
Note: Four footballers of Panathinaikos, Takis Loukanidis, Kostas Toumpelis, Vangelis Panakis and Dimitris Pyrgolios competed with AEK.

12 April 1961 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–0	Greece gendarmerie	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

28 May 1961 Friendly	AE Nikopolis	2–2	AEK Athens

28 June 1961 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–3	Santos	Ampelokipoi
		Report	Pelé 36' Coutinho 40', 44'	Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Attendance: 16,823 Referee: Dimosthenis Stathatos (Athens)

28 June 1961 Friendly	Fenerbahçe	0–2	AEK Athens	Ampelokipoi
				Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium

Competitions

Overall record

Last updated: 25 June 1961
Source: Competitions

Alpha Ethniki

League table

1. AEK Athens and Atromitos Piraeus were deducted 1 points each.
2. 6th place playoff: Ethnikos Piraeus–Doxa Drama 2–1.

Results summary

Source: Competitive matches

Results by Matchday

Fixtures

Greek Cup

Matches

Balkans Cup

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Steagul Roșu Brașov (C)	8	5	3	0	18	7	2.571	13	Winners
2	Levski Sofia	8	3	2	3	16	11	1.455	8
3	Partizani Tirana	8	3	2	3	8	6	1.333	8
4	Fenerbahçe	8	2	4	2	9	11	0.818	8
5	AEK Athens	8	1	1	6	8	24	0.333	3

Matches

15 February 1961 1	AEK Athens	2–4	Steagul Roșu Brașov	Athens, Greece
15:30 EET (UTC+2)	Nestoridis 24' Petridis 81'		Năftănăilă 29' Meszaros 36' Szigeti 50' Nagy 64' (pen.)	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Todor Gerov (Bulgaria)

29 March 1961 2	AEK Athens	2–2	Fenerbahçe	Athens, Greece
16:00 EET (UTC+2)	Nestoridis 39' (pen.) Petridis 40'	Report	Aytaç 13' Gündüz 61' Küçükandonyadis 63'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 18,500 Referee: Konstantin Dinov (Bulgaria)

26 April 1961 3	Fenerbahçe	5–1	AEK Athens	Istanbul, Turkey
	Küçükandonyadis 3', 26' Gündüz 17' Bartu 20' Has 41'	Report	Tsachouridis 49'	Stadium: BJK İnönü Stadium Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Stelian Mataiser (Romania)

17 May 1961 4	AEK Athens	3–1	Levski Sofia	Athens, Greece
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Nestoridis 44', 66' Gouvas 74'	Report	Sokolov 32'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Cezmi Basar (Turkey)

5	Steagul Roșu Brașov	2–0 (Awarded)	AEK Athens	Brașov, Romania
				Stadium: Tineretului Stadium
Note: After Steagul Roșu Brașov won the trophy on 15 November 1961, AEK Athens withdrew from the tournament.

6	Levski Sofia	2–0 (Awarded)	AEK Athens	Sofia, Bulgaria
				Stadium: Levski Stadium
Note: After Steagul Roșu Brașov won the trophy on 15 November 1961, AEK Athens withdrew from the tournament.

7	Partizani Tirana	2–0 (Awarded)	AEK Athens	Tirana, Albania
				Stadium: Dinamo Stadium
Note: After Steagul Roșu Brașov won the trophy on 15 November 1961, AEK Athens withdrew from the tournament.

8	AEK Athens	0–2 (Awarded)	Partizani Tirana	Athens, Greece
				Stadium: AEK Stadium
Note: After Steagul Roșu Brașov won the trophy on 15 November 1961, AEK Athens withdrew from the tournament.

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 25 June 1961

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		Balkans Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Sotiris Fakis	21	0	4	0	2	0	27	0
—	GK	Stelios Serafidis	8	0	3	0	3	0	14	0
—	GK	Kimon Dimitriou	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
Defenders
—	DF	Giannis Marditsis	21	0	5	0	4	0	30	0
—	DF	Petros Stamatelopoulos	17	0	7	0	0	0	24	0
—	DF	Nikos Melissis	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	0
—	DF	Mimis Anastasiadis	14	1	4	0	4	0	22	1
—	DF	Alekos Sofianidis	14	5	5	1	3	0	22	6
—	DF	Antonis Gavanas	5	0	2	0	0	0	7	0
—	DF	Theofilos Vernezis	24	0	1	0	4	0	29	0
—	DF	Dimitris Tzaneras	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
—	DF	Dimitris Diakakis	12	0	4	0	0	0	16	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Pavlos Emmanouilidis	0	0	3	2	0	0	3	2
—	MF	Miltos Papapostolou	24	1	5	0	4	0	33	1
—	MF	Giorgos Petridis	24	4	5	2	4	2	33	8
—	MF	Stelios Skevofilakas	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
—	MF	Thanasis Gouvas	26	7	3	0	3	1	32	8
—	MF	Thymios Polyzos	18	1	6	0	3	0	27	1
—	MF	Stefanos Demiris	9	2	4	3	1	0	14	5
—	MF	Alekos Daispangos	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Forwards
—	FW	Kostas Nestoridis	28	27	5	13	4	4	37	44
—	FW	Andreas Stamatiadis	29	9	8	9	4	0	41	18
—	FW	Christos Ampos	22	7	3	2	1	0	26	9
—	FW	Dimitris Tsanoulas	1	0	2	0	1	0	4	0
—	FW	Argyris Argyropoulos	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
—	FW	Nikos Zagotsis	2	0	1	3	0	0	3	3
—	FW	Aris Tsachouridis	6	1	3	3	3	1	12	5
—	FW	Spyros Pomonis	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0

Goalscorers

As of 25 June 1961

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Balkans Cup	Total
1	FW	Kostas Nestoridis	27	13	4	44
2	FW	Andreas Stamatiadis	9	9	0	18
3	FW	Christos Ampos	7	2	0	9
4	MF	Thanasis Gouvas	7	0	1	8
	MF	Giorgos Petridis	4	2	2	8
6	DF	Alekos Sofianidis	5	1	0	6
7	MF	Stefanos Demiris	2	3	0	5
	FW	Aris Tsachouridis	1	3	1	5
9	FW	Nikos Zagotsis	0	3	0	3
10	MF	Pavlos Emmanouilidis	0	2	0	2
11	DF	Mimis Anastasiadis	1	0	0	1
	MF	Miltos Papapostolou	1	0	0	1
	MF	Thymios Polyzos	1	0	0	1
Own goals			1	0	0	1
Totals			66	38	8	112

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Kostas Nestoridis	Panegialios	6–0 (H)	18 September 1960	Alpha Ethniki
Aris Tsachouridis	AE Kesarianis	9–0 (H)	11 December 1960	Greek Cup
Kostas Nestoridis	Agioi Anargyroi	5–1 (H)	12 January 1961	Greek Cup
Kostas Nestoridis	Atromitos Piraeus	7–0 (H)	22 January 1961	Alpha Ethniki
Nikos Zagotsis	Niki Plakas	8–1 (H)	15 March 1961	Greek Cup
Andreas Stamatiadis	Niki Plakas	8–1 (H)	15 March 1961	Greek Cup
Kostas Nestoridis	Prasina Poulia	7–3 (H)	2 April 1961	Greek Cup
Kostas Nestoridis	Fostiras	4–2 (H)	23 April 1961	Alpha Ethniki
Kostas Nestoridis	Proodeftiki	4–1 (H)	7 May 1961	Greek Cup

Clean sheets

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 25 June 1961

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Balkans Cup	Total
1	Sotiris Fakis	9	0	0	9
2	Stelios Serafidis	2	0	0	2
	Kimon Dimitriou	1	1	0	2
Totals		12	1	0	13

Disciplinary record

As of 25 June 1961

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			Balkans Cup			Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Sotiris Fakis
—	GK		Stelios Serafidis
—	GK		Kimon Dimitriou
Defenders
—	DF		Giannis Marditsis
—	DF		Petros Stamatelopoulos
—	DF		Nikos Melissis
—	DF		Mimis Anastasiadis			1									1
—	DF		Alekos Sofianidis
—	DF		Antonis Gavanas
—	DF		Theofilos Vernezis
—	DF		Dimitris Tzaneras
—	DF		Dimitris Diakakis
Midfielders
—	MF		Pavlos Emmanouilidis
—	MF		Miltos Papapostolou
—	MF		Giorgos Petridis
—	MF		Stelios Skevofilakas
—	MF		Thanasis Gouvas
—	MF		Thymios Polyzos
—	MF		Stefanos Demiris
—	MF		Alekos Daispangos
Forwards
—	FW		Kostas Nestoridis
—	FW		Andreas Stamatiadis
—	FW		Christos Ampos
—	FW		Dimitris Tsanoulas
—	FW		Argyris Argyropoulos
—	FW		Nikos Zagotsis
—	FW		Aris Tsachouridis
—	FW		Spyros Pomonis

Awards

Player	Pos.	Award	Source
Kostas Nestoridis	FW	Alpha Ethniki Top Scorer
Kostas Nestoridis	FW	Greek Cup Top Scorer

References

1. ^ "ΘΕΜΑ: Παναθηναϊκός-ΑΕΚ: Ένα αθηναϊκό ντέρμπι σαν… ταινία παλιά, που ψάχνει τη "λάμψη" της". amna.gr.
2. ^ Πάλλης, Κώστας. "Το λάθος... έφερε τεσσάρα". oldfootball.gr.
3. "Περίοδος 1960-1961". aekpedia.com (in Greek). 19 May 2015.

External links

• AEK Athens F.C. Official Website
• A.E.K. FC Database

• AEK Athens F.C. seasons
• Greek football clubs 1960–61 season