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AEK Athens

1995–96 season
Chairman	Michalis Trochanas
Manager	Dušan Bajević
Stadium	Nikos Goumas Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	2nd
Greek Cup	Winners
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Vasilios Tsiartas (26) All: Vasilios Tsiartas (32)
Highest home attendance	23,000 vs Borussia Mönchengladbach (2 November 1995)
Lowest home attendance	828 vs Panegialios (25 October 1995)
Average home league attendance	10,362
Biggest win	Apollon Athens 1–7 AEK Athens AEK Athens 6–0 Athinaikos
Biggest defeat	Borussia Mönchengladbach 4–1 AEK Athens
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The 1995–96 season was the 72nd season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 37th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. The season began on 20 August 1995 and finished on 29 May 1996.

Kits

Supplier: Kappa
Sponsor(s): Ethniki Asfalistiki, Filmnet

Home

Away

Overview

In the summer of 1995, the new major shareholder and president of the team was Michalis Trochanas. In collaboration with Dušan Bajević, he maintained the already very good existing roster and strengthened it with Batista, who returned from Olympiacos, Maladenis and Pavlopoulos. AEK had a quality player material and this was largely due to the fact that many players who were already in the team were having one of the best seasons of their careers. Bajević managing to fit all the stars of the roster in the starting eleven, built a team that seemed capable of "destroying" any domestic opponent.

In the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the team after defeating Sion in the first round they were eliminated by Borussia Mönchengladbach in the second round.

AEK played incredible football scoring 87 goals in 34 matches but finished second, behind Panathinaikos, which was much less spectacular, but proved to be slightly more substantial. During the second round, AEK lost much of their self-concentration as a team, due to the Bajević issue. The journalistic information from reports of Olympiacos, who insisted that he had agreed with Sokratis Kokkalis for his move to Olympiacos on the coming summer. Initially those rumors sounded like a joke on the side of AEK, however, the more the Bosnian-Greek coach did not deny them, the greater became the anxiety and insecurity in the club, in which Bajević was then worshiped as a god and the whole story affected the competitive part. At the same time, a big part of the issue was caused by the eccentric announcements of the idiosyncratic Michalis Trochanas, whose behavior in general was later invoked by Bajević for his eventual departure. The victory of Panathinaikos in April at the Olympic Stadium, also played an important role in the outcome of the championship.

The fantastic football that AEK played this season was rewarded by winning the Cup. A conquest that left no room for doubt, since the "yellow-blacks" after qualifying as first in their group, they eliminated with relative ease at knock-out stage Iraklis and both their rivals, Olympiacos and Panathinaikos in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, respcetivelly. In the final AEK scored a record of 7 goals against Apollon Athens, winning by 7–1, despite the dismissal of Batista at the 52nd minute.

In the end, AEK lost the championship, but the football they played during the season remained not only in the history of the club, but of Greek football in general. All the players who usually made up the starting line-up stood out, with Vasilios Tsiartas finishing as the league's top scorer with 26 goals and Kostis, Ketsbaia and Batista also scoring a double-digit number of goals.

Management team

Position	Staff
Manager	Dušan Bajević
Assistant manager	Petros Ravousis
Fitness coach	Dimitris Bouroutzikas
Head of Medical	Lakis Nikolaou
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 29 May 1996, 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 36)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1997
Ilias Atmatsidis		GK	(1969-04-24)24 April 1969 (aged 27)	1992	Pontioi Veria	Free	1999
Vasilis Karagiannis		GK	(1969-09-27)27 September 1969 (aged 26)	1993	Diagoras	Free	2000
Dionysis Chiotis		GK	(1977-06-04)4 June 1977 (aged 19)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	2005
Defenders
Stelios Manolas (Captain)		CB / RB	(1961-07-13)13 July 1961 (aged 34)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1996
Georgios Koutoulas		CB / LB	(1967-02-09)9 February 1967 (aged 29)	1987	AEK Athens U20	—	1999
Michalis Vlachos		CB / DM	(1967-09-20)20 September 1967 (aged 28)	1993	Olympiacos	Free	1997
Vaios Karagiannis		LB / CB	(1968-06-25)25 June 1968 (aged 28)	1990	A.O. Karditsa	Free	2000
Konstantinos Pavlopoulos		CB	(1968-07-02)2 July 1968 (aged 27)	1995	OFI	Free	1998
Vasilios Borbokis		RB / RM	(1969-02-10)10 February 1969 (aged 27)	1993	Apollon Kalamarias	Free	1997
Charis Kopitsis		RB / RM / LB / LM	(1969-03-05)5 March 1969 (aged 27)	1992	Panionios	Free	1997
Nikos Kostenoglou		CB / RB	(1970-10-03)3 October 1970 (aged 25)	1994	Skoda Xanthi	₯100,000,000	1998
Michalis Kasapis		LB / LM	(1971-08-06)6 August 1971 (aged 24)	1993	Levadiakos	₯50,000,000	1998
Georgios Theodoridis		CB	(1973-07-08)8 July 1973 (aged 22)	1991	Doxa Markochori	₯5,700,000	1997
Midfielders
Toni Savevski (Vice-captain)		CM / LM / DM	(1963-07-14)14 July 1963 (aged 32)	1988	Vardar	₯34,000,000	1996
Refik Šabanadžović		DM / CM / CB / RB	(1965-08-02)2 August 1965 (aged 30)	1991	Red Star Belgrade	₯47,800,000	1996
Temur Ketsbaia		RM / LM / RW / LW / AM / CM	(1968-03-18)18 March 1968 (aged 28)	1994	Anorthosis Famagusta	₯200,000,000	1997
Vasilios Tsiartas		AM / RM / LM / SS	(1972-11-12)12 November 1972 (aged 23)	1992	Naoussa	₯100,000,000	1998
Christos Maladenis		CM / RM / LM / AM / RW / LW / SS	(1974-05-23)23 May 1974 (aged 22)	1995	Skoda Xanthi	₯120,000,000	2000
Giorgos Ananiadis		RM	(1974-10-16)16 October 1974 (aged 21)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	1997
Giorgos Angelis		AM	(1975-08-18)18 August 1975 (aged 20)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	1997
Forwards
Dimitris Saravakos		RW / LW / SS / AM	(1961-07-26)26 July 1961 (aged 34)	1994	Panathinaikos	Free	1997
Daniel Batista		ST / SS / AM	(1964-09-09)9 September 1964 (aged 31)	1995	Olympiacos	Free	1998
Vasilis Dimitriadis		ST	(1966-02-01)1 February 1966 (aged 30)	1991	Aris	₯95,000,000	1997
Christos Kostis		SS / ST / AM / RW / LW	(1972-01-15)15 January 1972 (aged 24)	1994	Iraklis	₯450,000,000	1998
Ilias Anastasakos		ST / LW / LM	(1978-03-03)3 March 1978 (aged 18)	1995	A.O. Dafniou	Free	2002
Left during Winter Transfer Window
Stavros Stamatis		DM / CM / CB / RB / LB / AM	(1966-01-31)31 January 1966 (aged 30)	1988	Charavgiakos	₯22,000,000	1995

Transfers

In

Summer

Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
DF	Georgios Theodoridis	Edessaikos	Loan return	1 July 1995	30 June 1997
DF	Konstantinos Pavlopoulos	OFI	Free transfer	1 July 1995	30 June 1998
MF	Stathis Karalagas	Marko	Loan return	1 January 1995	30 June 1997
MF	Christos Maladenis	Skoda Xanthi	₯120,000,000	1 July 1995	30 June 2000
FW	Ilias Anastasakos	A.O. Dafniou	Free transfer	1 July 1995	30 June 2002
FW	Daniel Batista	Olympiacos	Free transfer	1 July 1995	30 June 1998

Out

Summer

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Manolis Papadopoulos	Apollon Athens	End of contract	1 July 1995
DF	Fanouris Chalaris	Fostiras	Free transfer	1 July 1995
DF	Dimitris Konstantelos	Free agent	Contract termination	1 July 1995
DF	Georgios Agorogiannis	Panionios	End of contract	1 July 1995
MF	Stathis Karalagas	Agios Dimitrios	Free transfer	1 July 1995
FW	Samouil Drakopulos	PAS Giannina	End of contract	1 July 1995

Winter

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
MF	Stavros Stamatis	Ionikos	Free transfer	31 December 1995

Contract renewals

Pos.	Player	Date	Former Exp. Date	New Exp. Date	Source
DF	Georgios Koutoulas	30 May 1996	30 June 1996	30 June 1999
DF	Vaios Karagiannis	1 July 1995	30 June 1995	30 June 2000
FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	30 May 1996	30 June 1997	30 June 1998

Overall transfer activity

Pre-season and friendlies

17 July 1995 Friendly	Wil	0–2	AEK Athens	Wil
			Dimitriadis 16' Saravakos 17'	Stadium: Sportpark Bergholz
Note: 45-minute match.

17 July 1995 Friendly	Bayer Leverkusen	0–2	AEK Athens	Wil
			Batista 17', 27'	Stadium: Sportpark Bergholz
Note: 45-minute match.

22 July 1995 Friendly	Freiburg	1–1	AEK Athens	Freiburg
	Todt 16'		Saravakos 72'	Stadium: Europa-Park Stadion

26 July 1995 Friendly	Bogen	0–3	AEK Athens	Bogen, Germany
			Kostis 20' Dimitriadis 49' Pavlopoulos 75'	Stadium: Stadion Kotaustraße

30 July 1995 Friendly	FC Hard	0–8	AEK Athens	Hard
			Maladenis 29' Tsiartas 30', 37' Batista 64', 82' Ketsbaia 73' Manolas 74' Dimitriadis 76'	Stadium: Waldstadion Hard

2 August 1995 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–1	Partizan	Nea Filadelfeia
	Borbokis 5' Tsiartas 26' (pen.) Pavlopoulos 56'	Report	Tešović 17'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

4 August 1995 Giorgos Savvidis Testimonial	Omonia	1–2	AEK Athens	Nicosia
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Đukanović 68'		Maladenis 78' Kostis 90'	Stadium: GSP Stadium

7 August 1995 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–2	Vasco da Gama	Nea Filadelfeia
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Kostis 75' Savevski 76' (pen.)	Report	Valdir 13' (pen.), 28'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Referee: Giorgos Spaneas (Athens)

9 August 1995 Friendly	AEK Athens	4–2	Skoda Xanthi	Nea Filadelfeia
18:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Dimitriadis 5' Ketsbaia 15' Kostis 47' Tsiartas 79'	Report	Panou 42' Vryzas 57'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

11 August 1995 Christos Ardizoglou Testimonial	AEK Athens	2–1	Apollon Athens	Nea Filadelfeia
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Dimitriadis 21', 59'	Report	Barnjak 52'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Sotiris Vorgias (Athens)

2 September 1995 Friendly	AEK Athens	5–0	Aspropyrgos	Nea Filadelfeia
	Dimitriadis (pen.) (pen.) Saravakos Kostis Borbokis			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

Competitions

Overall record

Last updated: 29 May 1996
Source: Competitions

Alpha Ethniki

League table

Results summary

Source: Competitive matches

Results by Matchday

Fixtures

Greek Cup

Group 1

Matches

Round of 32

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

First round

14 September 1995 First leg	AEK Athens	2–0	Sion	Athens, Greece
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Vlachos  36', 45' Borbokis 70' Manolas  73'	Report	Mirandinha  48' Quentin  61'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 20,740 Referee: Frans van den Wijngaert (Belgium)

28 September 1995 Second leg	Sion	2–2 (2–4 agg.)	AEK Athens	Sion, Switzerland
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Bonvin 20' Quentin  58' Giallanza 84' Lehmann  87'	Report	Atmatsidis  56' Manolas  57' Ketsbaia 82' Batista 87'	Stadium: Stade Tourbillon Attendance: 6,900 Referee: Loris Stafoggia (Italy)

Second round

19 October 1995 First leg	Borussia Mönchengladbach	4–1	AEK Athens	Mönchengladbach, Germany
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Frontzeck  20' Dahlin 50', 90' Pflipsen 55' Wynhoff 66'	Report	Kostenoglou  49' Maladenis 78' Šabanadžović  79'	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 21,200 Referee: Jorge Monteiro Coroado (Portugal)

2 November 1995 Second leg	AEK Athens	0–1 (1–5 agg.)	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Athens, Greece
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Vlachos  25'	Report	Effenberg  62', 70'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Leslie Mottram (Scotland)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 29 May 1996

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		Cup Winners' Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	GK	Ilias Atmatsidis	30	0	11	0	4	0	45	0
—	GK	Vasilis Karagiannis	4	0	3	0	0	0	7	0
—	GK	Dionysis Chiotis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
—	DF	Stelios Manolas	22	3	9	0	3	0	34	3
—	DF	Georgios Koutoulas	4	0	5	0	1	0	10	0
—	DF	Michalis Vlachos	23	0	9	0	4	1	36	1
—	DF	Vaios Karagiannis	14	0	6	0	0	0	20	0
—	DF	Konstantinos Pavlopoulos	15	1	6	0	0	0	21	1
—	DF	Vasilios Borbokis	24	2	10	1	4	1	38	4
—	DF	Charis Kopitsis	19	1	10	1	4	0	33	2
—	DF	Nikos Kostenoglou	28	0	8	1	3	0	39	1
—	DF	Michalis Kasapis	28	0	11	0	4	0	43	0
—	DF	Georgios Theodoridis	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Toni Savevski	31	2	11	0	4	0	46	2
—	MF	Refik Šabanadžović	28	3	9	1	3	0	40	4
—	MF	Temur Ketsbaia	31	14	12	4	4	1	47	19
—	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	33	26	10	6	4	0	47	32
—	MF	Christos Maladenis	28	1	9	0	4	1	41	2
—	MF	Giorgos Ananiadis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	MF	Giorgos Angelis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
—	FW	Dimitris Saravakos	17	1	7	4	3	0	27	5
—	FW	Daniel Batista	27	10	10	9	3	1	40	20
—	FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	21	1	8	2	2	0	31	3
—	FW	Christos Kostis	34	19	13	8	2	0	49	27
—	FW	Ilias Anastasakos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Left during Winter Transfer Window
—	MF	Stavros Stamatis	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	0

Goalscorers

As of 29 May 1996

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Cup Winners' Cup	Total
1	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	26	6	0	32
2	FW	Christos Kostis	19	8	0	27
3	FW	Daniel Batista	10	9	1	20
4	ΜF	Temur Ketsbaia	14	4	1	19
5	FW	Dimitris Saravakos	1	4	0	5
6	MF	Refik Šabanadžović	3	1	0	4
	DF	Vasilios Borbokis	2	1	1	4
8	DF	Stelios Manolas	3	0	0	3
	FW	Vasilis Dimitriadis	1	2	0	3
10	MF	Toni Savevski	2	0	0	2
	DF	Charis Kopitsis	1	1	0	2
	MF	Christos Maladenis	1	0	1	2
13	DF	Konstantinos Pavlopoulos	1	0	0	1
	DF	Nikos Kostenoglou	0	1	0	1
	DF	Michalis Vlachos	0	0	1	1
Own goals			3	1	0	4
Totals			87	38	5	130

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Daniel Batista	Edessaikos	5–2 (A)	9 December 1995	Alpha Ethniki
Vasilios Tsiartas	Aris	4–0 (H)	4 February 1996	Alpha Ethniki
Daniel Batista	Athinaikos	5–0 (H)	28 February 1996	Greek Cup
Vasilios Tsiartas	Ionikos	6–0 (H)	10 March 1996	Alpha Ethniki
Vasilios Tsiartas	Apollon Athens	7–1 (A)	15 May 1996	Greek Cup
Vasilios Tsiartas	Athinaikos	6–0 (H)	26 May 1996	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 29 May 1996

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Cup Winners' Cup	Total
1	Ilias Atmatsidis	14	4	1	19
2	Vasilis Karagiannis	1	1	0	2
Totals		15	5	1	21

Disciplinary record

As of 29 May 1996

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			Cup Winners' Cup			Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Spyros Ikonomopoulos
—	GK		Ilias Atmatsidis	2						1			3
—	GK		Vasilis Karagiannis	1									1
—	GK		Dionysis Chiotis
Defenders
—	DF		Stelios Manolas	5		1	4	1		2			11	1	1
—	DF		Georgios Koutoulas
—	DF		Michalis Vlachos	4			3			2			9
—	DF		Vaios Karagiannis	1									1
—	DF		Konstantinos Pavlopoulos	3									3
—	DF		Vasilios Borbokis	6			1						7
—	DF		Charis Kopitsis	2			1						3
—	DF		Nikos Kostenoglou	4	1		1	1		1			6	2
—	DF		Michalis Kasapis	4	1		2						6	1
—	DF		Georgios Theodoridis
Midfielders
—	MF		Toni Savevski	2									2
—	MF		Refik Šabanadžović	4			1			1			6
—	MF		Temur Ketsbaia	4	1		1						5	1
—	MF		Vasilios Tsiartas	1			1						2
—	MF		Christos Maladenis	2			2						4
—	MF		Giorgos Ananiadis
—	MF		Giorgos Angelis
Forwards
—	FW		Dimitris Saravakos
—	FW		Daniel Batista	3			1						4
—	FW		Vasilis Dimitriadis	1									1
—	FW		Christos Kostis	2									2
—	FW		Ilias Anastasakos
Left during Winter Transfer window
—	MF		Stavros Stamatis

Starting 11

N. Formation Matchday(s) 44 4–2–1–3 1, 2, 6–33 7 3–5–2 3–5, 34 Nat. Player Pos. Ilias Atmatsidis GK Stelios Manolas (C) RCB Nikos Kostenoglou LCB Vasilios Borbokis RB Michalis Kasapis LB Refik Šabanadžović DM Toni Savevski CM Temur Ketsbaia AM Vasilios Tsiartas RW Christos Kostis LW Daniel Batista CF

Atmatsidis Manolas (C) Kostenoglou Borbokis Kasapis Šabanadžović Savevski Tsiartas Kostis Ketsbaia Batista Last updated: 1996-05-29

Awards

Player	Pos.	Award	Source
Vasilios Tsiartas	MF	Alpha Ethiniki Top Scorer
Demis Nikolaidis	FW	Greek Cup Top Scorer
Vasilios Tsiartas	MF	Greek Player of the Season (shared)
Temur Ketsbaia	MF	Foreign Player of the Season
Dušan Bajević	—	Manager of the Season

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 1995–96 season