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AEK Athens

1978–79 season
Chairman	Loukas Barlos
Manager	Ferenc Puskás (until 17 March) Andreas Stamatiadis
Stadium	AEK Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	1st
Greek Cup	Runners-up
European Cup	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Thomas Mavros (31) All: Thomas Mavros (40)
Highest home attendance	35,000 vs Nottingham Forest (18 October 1978)
Lowest home attendance	2,204 vs Kavala (8 November 1978)
Average home league attendance	14,631
Biggest win	AEK Athens 7–0 Kavala
Biggest defeat	Nottingham Forest 5–1 AEK Athens
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The 1978–79 season was the 55th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 20th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup and the European Cup. The season began on 3 September 1978 and finished on 16 June 1979.

Overview

The peculiarities of the 1978–79 season could well mark it as historic for the Greek Football, while it was also the last semi-professional season as with the enactment of law 879/79 in March, all the football clubs were obliged to be converted into S.A. to participate in the first professional championship of the next season. In the summer, there was an "epidemic" of transfers by iconic players among the big teams. AEK were the only club that was left intact. Georgios Delikaris moved from Olympiacos to Panathinaikos, Antonis Antoniadis followed the opposite path and Mimis Domazos left Panathinaikos. Loukas Barlos seized the chance and signed him to AEK. Thus, for one season, AEK had in their roster at the same time the two best Greek footballers of the century, both born in 1942, both named "Mimis": Papaioannou and Domazos. The addition of the "general", Mimis Domazos to the roster, with his leadership skills and tactical mind, gave the already impressive team, the element that made them one of the most spectacular that have ever played in the Greek stadiums. Furthermore, after the departure of the double winner, Zlatko Čajkovski for Zürich, Barlos brought to the club's bench the great Ferenc Puskás, who alongside Domazos were the architects of Panathinaikos' campaign to the 1971 European Cup Final, hoping that AEK would do a similar breakthrough at the European stage.

In the championship, AEK started impressively and were ahead in the standings. Olympiacos were the only rival for the title. While AEK were generously scattering goals and spectacle, while in the opposite of the event, there were many official complaints of the opponents of Olympiacos for attempts of bribery. In the 12th matchday, Oikonomou of Apollon Athens and on the 23rd and the goalkeeper of PAS Giannina, Lisa, reported of bribery on the side of Olympiacos and on the 32nd matchday, after their match against Olympiacos, Rodos punished Doxakis, Papaoikonomou and Skartados for having reduced performance in the match as Olympiacos turned their 3–1 lead in 23 minutes, with the help of the referee as well.

AEK also started their obligations in the European Cup against Porto. The quality of the opponent and the fullness of AEK foreshadowed two ambiguous matches with an uncertain outcome. In Nea Filadelfeia, AEK and their fans experienced a magical European night and witnessed the club's biggest victory in the European Cup with 6–1, which gave AEK a largely securing qualification to the next round. In the rematch AEK opened the score in the first half and in the last half hour of the match they turned off the engines as the Portuguese grabbed the opportunity and scored four goals. Next opponent for AEK, Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest. The "reds" having learned not to underestimate their opponents and being aware of AEK's impressive performance against Porto, came to Nea Filadelfeia for the first leg, completely focused on their goal. Nottingham took the lead early on and at the 21st minute, AEK were left with 10 players after the suspension of Milton Viera. At the end of the half Nottingham doubled their lead and until the match was over the Englishmen played conservatively with AEK managing to reduce in the final 1–2. In the second leg AEK entered the pitch knowing well that a difficult night that awaited them. In the first half, Nottingham easily scored three goals having lost several opportunities to a widen the score, while at the second half, AEK reduced to 3–1 with a header from Bajević. Nottingham completed their imposing appearance with a 5–1 victory and eventually won the trophy.

Towards the end of the championship, AEK presented an inexplicable decline in their performance and in the face of the risk of losing the title after the away defeat by Aris on March 11, Barlos decided to remove Puskás from bench of the team and assigned it to his assistant, Andreas Stamatiadis for the rest of the season. In the cup, it was the first year that the two legged tie, for the quarter-finals and the semi-finals were established, according to the model of European cups. AEK marched through the first three rounds eliminating Kavala, Proodeftiki and Acharnaikos, respectively. In the quarter-final against Anagennisi Epanomi after a 1–1 away draw, AEK won 2–0 in the second leg and qualified to the semi-finals where they faced Panachaiki. In Patras, they were defeated by 3–2, but at home AEK won easily by 5–1. In the final AEK met Panionios who came from two consecutive unexpected qualifications. In the game, while AEK managed to take the lead early on, Panionios succeeded in putting AEK to "sleep", by not letting them impose their frenetic tempo and completed the comeback winning by 3–1, in one of the biggest surprises in the history of the institution.

The end of the championship found AEK and Olympiacos, even in the first place with 56 points and a play-off match for the title was set. Olympiacos either in fear of a possible embarrassment from AEK, or as part of an unofficial deal with the HFF in exchange for silencing allegations of bribery and consequently avoiding demotion, were not going to show up to the match. The excuse was the protest for the refereeing of Charalampos Pamporidis against OFI in the last matchday, considering him responsible for not managing to complete the comeback of a 3–1 loss that would resulted in winning the league. On June 16, at the stadium on Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, AEK were the only team lined up on the pitch. The absence of Olympiacos automatically declared AEK champion with a 2–0 victory without a match. During the season AEK were an unstoppable football machine that dismantled their opponents as they achieved the league's best offense with a total of 90 goals, rewarding their opponents 6 times with 5 goals and 2 with 7 goals. Thomas Mavros was declared the top scorer of the league with 31 goals and 40 in total, winning the European Silver Shoe, just 3 goals behind Kees Kist. In the third place of the top scorers of the league was Dušan Bajević with 24 goals and in the 8th, Takis Nikoloudis with 12. That season would be the last at AEK for the emblematic leader, Mimis Papaioannou which after 17 consecutive years of presence, he would be passed on the pantheon of the legends in the history of the club.

Management team

Position	Staff
Manager	Andreas Stamatiadis
Goalkeeping coach	Stelios Serafidis
Physiotherapist	Nikos Pantazis

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 16 June 1979, 23:59 UTC+3.

Player	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
Nikos Christidis		GK	(1944-08-02)2 August 1944 (aged 34)	1976	Aris	Free	1982
Lakis Stergioudas		GK	(1952-12-11)11 December 1952 (aged 26)	1972	Niki Poligyrou	Free	1985
Spyros Ikonomopoulos		GK	(1959-07-25)25 July 1959 (aged 19)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1984
Defenders
Apostolos Toskas		CB	(1947-12-28)28 December 1947 (aged 31)	1969	Trikala	Free	1979
Lakis Nikolaou (Captain)		CB / RB / ST / DM	(1949-07-17)17 July 1949 (aged 29)	1971	Atromitos	₯600,000	1979
Babis Intzoglou		RB / LB / CB	(1949-04-01)1 April 1949 (aged 30)	1976	Panionios	Free	1980
Giannis Mousouris		RB / RM / ST	(1951-01-26)26 January 1951 (aged 28)	1977	AEL	₯3,000,000	1982
Petros Ravousis		CB / RB	(1954-10-01)1 October 1954 (aged 24)	1972	Aetos Skydra	Free	1985
Aris Damianidis		CB / RB	(1955-03-02)2 March 1955 (aged 24)	1977	Egaleo	Free	1980
Dimitris Kotsos		LB	(1955-03-30)30 March 1955 (aged 24)	1978	Kastoria	Free	1980
Stavros Letsas		RB / RM / CB	(1957-03-06)6 March 1957 (aged 22)	1978	Agioi Anargyroi	Free	1986
Panagiotis Stylianopoulos		RB / LB	(1957-09-04)4 September 1957 (aged 21)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1986
Theodoros Apostolopoulos		CB	1959 (aged 19–20)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1980
Midfielders
Mimis Domazos		AM / SS	(1942-01-22)22 January 1942 (aged 37)	1978	Panathinaikos	Free	1980
Milton Viera		CM / DM	(1946-05-11)11 May 1946 (aged 33)	1977	Olympiacos	Free	1980
Lazaros Papadopoulos		RM / RW	(1950-01-03)3 January 1950 (aged 29)	1973	Veria	Free	1979
Dionysis Tsamis		CM / DM / AM	(1951-05-21)21 May 1951 (aged 28)	1972	Panetolikos	₯2,300,000	1980
Takis Nikoloudis		CM / AM / RM / LM	(1951-08-26)26 August 1951 (aged 27)	1977	Iraklis	Free	1981
Christos Ardizoglou		RM / LM / RW / AM	(1953-03-25)25 March 1953 (aged 26)	1974	Apollon Athens	₯5,000,000	1982
Christos Kalaitzidis		LM	(1959-02-06)6 February 1959 (aged 20)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1981
Dimitris Kokkinopoulos		RM / RW	1960 (aged 18–19)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1980
Forwards
Mimis Papaioannou (Vice-captain)		SS / ST / AM	(1942-08-23)23 August 1942 (aged 36)	1962	Veria	₯175,000	1979
Dušan Bajević		ST / SS	(1948-12-10)10 December 1948 (aged 30)	1977	Velež Mostar	Free	1981
Tasos Konstantinou		RW / SS / ST / RM / AM	(1951-03-11)11 March 1951 (aged 28)	1972	EPA Larnaca	Free	1980
Thomas Mavros		ST / LW	(1954-05-31)31 May 1954 (aged 25)	1976	Panionios	₯4,000,000	1980

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
GK	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1978	30 June 1984
DF	Theodoros Apostolopoulos	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1978	30 June 1980
DF	Stavros Letsas	Agioi Anargyroi	Free transfer	1 July 1978	30 June 1986
DF	Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1978	30 June 1986
DF	Dimitris Kotsos	Kastoria	Free transfer	1 July 1978	30 June 1980
ΜF	Dimitris Kokkinopoulos	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1978	30 June 1980
ΜF	Christos Kalaitzidis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1978	30 June 1981
MF	Mimis Domazos	Panathinaikos	Free transfer	17 July 1978	30 June 1980

Out

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Stefanos Theodoridis	Olympiacos	End of contract	1 July 1978
MF	Fotis Outsikas	Acharnaikos	Contract termination	1 July 1978
MF	Giorgos Vlachonikolis	Free agent	End of contract	1 July 1978

Loan out

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
MF	Giorgos Vlantis	Panachaiki	Free	1 July 1978	30 June 1980	N

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure: ₯0

Income: ₯0

Net Total: ₯0

Pre-season and friendlies

2 August 1978 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	Nottingham Forest	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Viera 69'		Woodcock 15'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Alexopoulos

7 August 1978 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–2	Steaua București	Nea Filadelfeia
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)			Troi 38' Răducanu 81'	Stadium: AEK Stadium

9 August 1978 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–2	Brno	Nea Filadelfeia
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Bajević 30', 62' Papadopoulos 75'		Kopenec 69' Hausti 80'	Stadium: AEK Stadium

16 August 1978 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–1	Club Brugge	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Konstantinou 14', 38' Ravousis 85'		Courant 77'	Stadium: AEK Stadium

19 August 1978 Friendly	La Louvière	3–4	AEK Athens	La Louvière
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Dardenne 10' De Bolle 20' Rohde 68'		Bajević 18' Nikoloudis 21', 78' Ardizoglou 24'	Stadium: Stade du Tivoli

22 August 1978 Friendly	Beveren	3–1	AEK Athens	Beveren
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Stevens 23' Truyens 37' Albert 50'		Nikoloudis 48'	Stadium: Freethiel Stadion

23 August 1978 Friendly	Cercle Brugge	0–1	AEK Athens	Bruges
			Kalaitzidis 19'	Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium

27 August 1978 Friendly	Chalkida	0–2	AEK Athens	Chalcis
			Konstantinou 37' Vlachos 85' (o.g.)	Stadium: Municipal Stadium of Chalkida

30 August 1978 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–0	OFI	Nea Filadelfeia
17:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Bajević 37'			Stadium: AEK Stadium

22 September 1978 Friendly	AEK Athens	7–0	Ionikos	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

4 October 1978 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–5	New York Cosmos	Nea Filadelfeia
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Mavros 6', 13', 82'	Report	Seninho 3' Chinaglia 50', 64', 66' Tueart 52'	Stadium: AEK Stadium

25 October 1978 Friendly	Velež Mostar	4–2	AEK Athens	Mostar
	30' 40' 56' 61'		Papaioannou 46' Kalaitzidis 86'	Stadium: Bijeli Brijeg

26 November 1978 Friendly	AEK Athens	4–2	Saudi Arabia	Nea Filadelfeia
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Papaioannou 40' Kalaitzidis 56' (pen.), 86' Kokkinopoulos 62'		Secia 70' Khalifa 78'	Stadium: AEK Stadium

3 December 1978 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–2	Münster	Nea Filadelfeia
20:00 EET (UTC+2)	Konstantinou 25' (pen.) Bajević 41' Chatziioannidis 68'		Gede 8' Schütte 65'	Stadium: AEK Stadium

15 March 1979 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–2	Greece amateur	Nea Filadelfeia
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Vlachos 65' Domazos 78'		Stafylas 10' Xanthopoulos 89'	Stadium: AEK Stadium

4 April 1979 Friendly	AEK Athens	5–3	Greece military	Nea Filadelfeia
16:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Bajević 5', 22' Domazos 32' Stafylas 85'		Mavros 11' Kostikos 25' Psarras 79'	Stadium: AEK Stadium
Note: Thomas Mavros played with Greece military, against his team since he was serving in the Greek Army at the time.

1 May 1979 Friendly	OFI	1–1	AEK Athens	Heraklion
	Papadopoulos 54'		Bajević 50'	Stadium: Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium

10 May 1979 Friendly	AEL	2–0	AEK Athens	Larissa
	Yfantis 10' Vouroukos 18'			Stadium: Alcazar Stadium

6 June 1979 Mimis Papaioannou Testimonial	AEK Athens	2–3	PAOK	Nea Filadelfeia
	Schachner 48' Papadopoulos 60'	Report	Guerino 38' (pen.) Koudas 73', 80'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 8,777
Note: Friendly match in honour of Mimis Papaioannou, who was leaving AEK after 17 years of presence at the club. AEK played with a mixed team, consisting of football friends who wanted to honor Papaioannou. The yellow and black jersey that day, was worn by footballers of Aris, Giannis Venos and Georgios Firos, Fanis Theofanous of Pezoporikos Larnaca, Manolis Kottis of Rodos a year before his transfer to AEK, Walter Schachner of Austria Wien, Kurt Jara of Duisburg, Pantelidis of PAS Giannina, Eleftheriadis of Veria, Vaggis of Egaleo, Antonis Antoniadis of Olympiacos, Michalis Tzirakis and Dimitrios Papadopoulos of OFI both before moving to AEK at some time, Charalampos Xanthopoulos of Iraklis and Lakis Papaioannou of Pierikos, but most importantly by Vasilis Hatzipanagis, one of the greatest Greek footballers of all time.

Competitions

Overall record

Last updated: 16 June 1979
Source: Competitions

Alpha Ethniki

League table

1. ^ AEK Athens pronounced champions, because Olympiacos did not show up for the play-off match.

Results summary

Source: Competitive matches

Results by Matchday

Fixtures

Championship play-off

Greek Cup

Matches

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

European Cup

First round

13 September 1978 First leg	AEK Athens	6–1	Porto	Athens, Greece
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Bajević 3', 20' Ardizoglou 16' Konstantinou 39' Nikolaou 58' Mavros 60'	Report	Oliveira  45', 81' Teixeira  64'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)
Note: AEK Athens' largest victory in the European Cup.

27 September 1978 Second leg	Porto	4–1 (5–7 agg.)	AEK Athens	Porto, Portugal
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Berg  43' Vital 63', 83' Teixeira 79' Gomes 88'	Report	Intzoglou  3' Mavros 32'	Stadium: Estádio das Antas Attendance: 62,000 Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)

Second round

18 October 1978 First leg	AEK Athens	1–2	Nottingham Forest	Athens, Greece
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Viera  22'  22' Konstantinou 59' (pen.) Ravousis  62'	Report	McGovern 10' Burns  22' Birtles 45'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

1 November 1978 Second leg	Nottingham Forest	5–1 (7–2 agg.)	AEK Athens	Nottingham, England
20:30 EET (UTC+2)	Needham 12' Woodcock 35' Anderson 40' Birtles 66', 72'	Report	Bajević 50' Nikolaou  61'	Stadium: City Ground Attendance: 38,069 Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 16 June 1979

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		European Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Nikos Christidis	5	0	5	0	2	0	12	0
—	GK	Lakis Stergioudas	30	0	3	0	2	0	35	0
—	GK	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
—	DF	Apostolos Toskas	6	0	4	0	1	0	11	0
—	DF	Lakis Nikolaou	28	1	6	0	4	1	38	2
—	DF	Babis Intzoglou	17	0	3	0	4	0	24	0
—	DF	Giannis Mousouris	32	3	5	0	4	0	41	3
—	DF	Petros Ravousis	30	0	7	2	4	0	41	2
—	DF	Aris Damianidis	7	0	1	0	1	0	9	0
—	DF	Dimitris Kotsos	21	0	5	0	0	0	26	0
—	DF	Stavros Letsas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	DF	Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
—	DF	Theodoros Apostolopoulos	9	0	7	0	0	0	16	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Mimis Domazos	29	5	4	0	2	0	35	5
—	MF	Milton Viera	8	0	3	0	2	0	13	0
—	MF	Lazaros Papadopoulos	9	1	1	1	2	0	12	2
—	MF	Dionysis Tsamis	27	0	5	0	1	0	33	0
—	MF	Takis Nikoloudis	31	12	6	3	4	0	41	15
—	MF	Christos Ardizoglou	29	6	6	0	4	1	39	7
—	MF	Christos Kalaitzidis	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
—	MF	Dimitris Kokkinopoulos	5	0	3	0	0	0	8	0
Forwards
—	FW	Mimis Papaioannou	22	2	3	0	0	0	25	2
—	FW	Dušan Bajević	29	24	8	9	4	3	41	36
—	FW	Tasos Konstantinou	25	4	6	2	4	2	35	8
—	FW	Thomas Mavros	33	31	6	7	4	2	43	40

Goalscorers

As of 16 June 1979

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	European Cup	Total
1	FW	Thomas Mavros	31	7	2	40
2	FW	Dušan Bajević	24	9	3	36
3	MF	Takis Nikoloudis	12	3	0	15
4	FW	Tasos Konstantinou	4	2	2	8
5	MF	Christos Ardizoglou	6	0	1	7
6	MF	Mimis Domazos	5	0	0	5
7	DF	Giannis Mousouris	3	0	0	3
8	FW	Mimis Papaioannou	2	0	0	2
	MF	Lazaros Papadopoulos	1	1	0	2
	DF	Lakis Nikolaou	1	0	1	2
	DF	Petros Ravousis	0	2	0	2
Own goals			1	0	0	1
Totals			90	24	9	123

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Dušan Bajević	Iraklis	5–1 (H)	1 October 1978	Alpha Ethniki
Thomas Mavros	Kavala	5–2 (H)	8 November 1978	Greek Cup
Dušan Bajević	Panserraikos	5–0 (H)	31 December 1978	Alpha Ethniki
Thomas Mavros	AEL	4–2 (H)	14 January 1979	Alpha Ethniki
Thomas Mavros	Egaleo	5–0 (H)	4 February 1979	Alpha Ethniki
Thomas Mavros	Panserraikos	5–2 (A)	6 May 1979	Alpha Ethniki
Thomas Mavros	Kavala	7–0 (H)	27 May 1979	Alpha Ethniki

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 16 June 1979

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	European Cup	Total
1	Lakis Stergioudas	13	0	0	13
2	Nikos Christidis	2	3	0	5
Totals		15	3	0	18

Disciplinary record

As of 16 June 1979

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			European Cup			Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Nikos Christidis
—	GK		Lakis Stergioudas	1									1
—	GK		Spyros Ikonomopoulos
Defenders
—	DF		Apostolos Toskas	1									1
—	DF		Lakis Nikolaou			1	2			1			3		1
—	DF		Babis Intzoglou							1			1
—	DF		Giannis Mousouris	2			1						3
—	DF		Petros Ravousis	7	1		1			1			9	1
—	DF		Aris Damianidis
—	DF		Dimitris Kotsos	3									3
—	DF		Stavros Letsas
—	DF		Panagiotis Stylianopoulos
—	DF		Theodoros Apostolopoulos
Midfielders
—	MF		Mimis Domazos
—	MF		Milton Viera	1			1			2	1		4	1
—	MF		Lazaros Papadopoulos
—	MF		Dionysis Tsamis	1									1
—	MF		Takis Nikoloudis			1									1
—	MF		Christos Ardizoglou	1									1
—	MF		Christos Kalaitzidis
—	MF		Dimitris Kokkinopoulos
Forwards
—	FW		Mimis Papaioannou
—	FW		Dušan Bajević	2		1	1						3		1
—	FW		Tasos Konstantinou						1						1
—	FW		Thomas Mavros

Awards

Player	Pos.	Award	Source
Thomas Mavros	FW	Alpha Ethniki Top Scorer
Dušan Bajević	FW	Greek Cup Top Scorer

References

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External links

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

• AEK Athens F.C. seasons
• Greek football clubs 1978–79 season
• Greek football championship–winning seasons