2004–05 AEK Athens F.C. season

For the 2004-05 season, AEK Athens F.C. competed in its 46th consecutive season in the Greek topflight.

AEK Athens

2004–05 season
Chairman	Demis Nikolaidis
Manager	Fernando Santos
Alpha Ethniki	3rd
Greek Cup	Semi-finals
UEFA Cup	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Soares (11) All: Soares (15)
Highest home attendance	63,129 vs Olympiacos (7 November 2004)
Lowest home attendance	763 vs Ag. Dimitrios (22 December 2004)
Average home league attendance	21,925
Home colours Away colours Third colours

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  SCG Nikola Malbaša 4 DF  POR Bruno Alves 7 FW  BRA Soares 8 MF  BUL Milen Petkov 10 MF  BUL Ivan Rusev 12 GK  GRE Chrisostomos Michailidis 14 DF  GRE Stavros Tziortziopoulos 17 MF  SCG Vladimir Ivić 18 DF  GRE Vangelis Moras 19 FW  GRE Leonidas Kabantais 21 MF  GRE Kostas Katsouranis 22 GK  CYP Dionisis Chiotis

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 DF  GRE Christos Kontis 25 DF  GHA Kofi Amponsah 26 MF  GRE Ilias Kyriakidis 28 DF  GRE Christos Bourbos 31 DF  GRE Nikos Georgeas (captain) 32 DF  MKD Goran Popov 33 FW  GRE Nikos Liberopoulos 50 FW  SWE Christos Christoforidis 77 MF  BRA Paulo Assunção 80 FW  CYP Simos Krassas 99 FW  BRA Júlio César

Players on loan

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  POR Bruno Alves (from Porto until June 2005) 7 FW  BRA Soares (from OFI until June 2005) 77 MF  BRA Paulo Assunção (from Porto until June 2005)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  GRE Dimitris Karameris (to Levadiakos until June 2005) — MF  GRE Nikos Pourtoulidis (to Thrasyvoulos until June 2005)

Foreign players

In the Greek league only five non-EU nationals can be registered and given a squad number for the first team. Those non-EU nationals with European ancestry can claim citizenship from the nation their ancestors came from. If a player does not have European ancestry he can claim Greek citizenship after playing in Greece for 7 years.

EU Nationals Milen Petkov Ivan Rusev Simos Krassas Bruno Alves

EU Nationals (Dual citizenship) Paulo Assunção Sakis Theodoropoulos

Non-EU Nationals Júlio César Soares Kofi Amponsah Vladimir Ivić Nikola Malbaša

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  Bruno Alves (2011)
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  Paulo Assunção (2010)

International players

Dionisis Chiotis Kostas Katsouranis Nikos Liberopoulos

Milen Petkov Kofi Amponsah

Vladimir Ivić Nikola Malbaša

Squad changes

Summer

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  POR Bruno Alves (on loan from Porto for free) 6 DF  GRE Stelios Maistrellis (loan return from Akratitos) 7 FW  BRA Soares (on loan from OFI for 60K) 11 FW  GRE Leonidas Kabantais (from Aris for free) 14 DF  GRE Stavros Tziortziopoulos (from Panionios for free) 20 FW  GRE Ilias Solakis (loan return from Niki Volou) 44 DF  GRE Christos Kontis (from Panionios for free) 28 DF  GRE Christos Bourbos (from PAS Giannina F.C. for free) 50 FW  SWE Christos Christoforidis (from Assyriska for free) 30 MF  CYP Simos Krassas (from AEL for 150K) 44 GK  GRE Nikos Voulgaris (from Torino for 100K) 77 MF  POR Paulo Assunção (on loan from Porto for free) Total spending: €310K

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  GRE Vasilis Borbokis (to Anorthosis Famagusta for free) 5 DF  GRE Nikos Kostenoglou (retired) 6 MF  GRE Thodoris Zagorakis (to Bologna for free) 10 MF  GRE Vasilis Tsiartas (to Köln for free) 17 DF  GRE Michalis Kasapis (to Thrasyvoulos for free) 32 DF  GRE Michalis Kapsis (to Bordeaux for 500K) Total income: €500K

Winter

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  SCG Nikola Malbaša (from Terek for free) 17 MF  SCG Vladimir Ivić (from Borussia Mönchengladbach for free) 26 MF  GRE Ilias Kyriakidis (from Ionikos for 200K) 99 FW  BRA Júlio César (from Gil Vicente for 540K) Total spending: €740K

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 2 MF  CAN Stathis Kappos (to Aris for free) 6 DF  GRE Stelios Maistrellis (to Levadiakos for free) 15 DF  GRE Dimitris Koutsikos (to Athinaikos for free) 19 MF  GRE Manolis Tsagarogiannakis (to Agia Paraskevi for free) 32 DF  GRE Christos Tsevas (to Akratitos for free) Total income: €0

Squad stats

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		UEFA Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Dionisis Chiotis	21	0	13	0	4	0	4	0
2	MF		Stathis Kappos	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
3	DF		Nikola Malbaša	17	0	13	0	4	0	0	0
4	DF		Bruno Alves	42	1	27	0	10	1	5	0
5	DF		Nikos Kostenoglou	29	0	21	0	3	0	5	0
6	DF		Stelios Maistrellis	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
7	FW		Soares	34	15	25	11	9	3	0	1
8	MF		Ivan Rusev	15	1	10	1	3	0	2	0
9	MF		Milen Petkov	25	2	15	1	6	1	4	0
10	FW		Sotiris Konstantinidis	33	2	22	0	8	2	3	0
11	FW		Leonidas Kabantais	18	4	11	2	3	2	4	0
14	DF		Stavros Tziortziopoulos	18	1	11	0	2	0	5	1
16	DF		Nikos Georgeas	9	0	6	0	1	0	2	0
17	MF		Vladimir Ivić	23	5	17	4	6	1	0	0
18	DF		Vangelis Moras	29	1	19	0	8	1	2	0
19	MF		Manolis Tsagarogiannakis	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
20	FW		Ilias Solakis	10	0	6	0	2	0	2	0
21	MF		Kostas Katsouranis	41	12	28	10	7	1	6	1
22	GK		Chrisostomos Michailidis	26	0	18	0	6	0	2	0
23	DF		Christos Kontis	37	1	25	1	8	0	4	0
25	DF		Kofi Amponsah	9	1	5	0	1	0	3	1
26	MF		Ilias Kyriakidis	16	0	11	0	5	0	0	0
28	DF		Christos Bourbos	23	1	15	0	6	1	2	0
29	FW		Christos Christoforidis	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
30	MF		Simos Krassas	36	3	24	2	6	0	6	1
32	DF		Christos Tsevas	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0
33	FW		Nikos Liberopoulos	43	13	28	9	9	3	6	1
39	FW		Grigoris Toskas	12	0	6	0	3	0	3	0
54	MF		Sakis Dione	18	6	14	4	0	0	4	2
77	DF		Paulo Assunção	35	0	23	0	8	0	4	0
99	FW		Júlio César	19	5	13	4	6	1	0	0

Players in italics have left during the season.

Manager stats

Name	Nat	From	To	Record							Honours
				P	W	D	L	F	A	%W
Fernando Santos		September 11, 2004	May 25, 2005	46	23	15	8	70	43	50.00	–

Only competitive matches are counted. Wins, losses and draws are results at the final whistle; the results of penalty shootouts are not counted.

Competitions

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos[lower-alpha 1] (C)	30	19	8	3	54	18	+36	65	Qualification for Champions League group stage
2	Panathinaikos	30	19	7	4	51	18	+33	64	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
3	AEK Athens	30	17	11	2	46	22	+24	62	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Skoda Xanthi	30	14	8	8	43	29	+14	50
5	PAOK	30	13	7	10	43	39	+4	46

Source: Galanis Sports Data
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champion.
Notes:

1. Olympiacos and Panionios originally had three points deducted for the incidents before their match in the round 16 but these deductions were cancelled on appeal.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	17	11	2	46	22	+24	62	12	2	1	25	5	+20	5	9	1	21	17	+4

Source:

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H
Result	D	W	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	D	D	D	W	W	L	W	D	D	W	W	W	D	W	D	W	W	W	L	D	W

Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

First round

All times CET

16 September 2004 First leg	Gorica	1–1	AEK Athens	Nova Gorica, Slovenia
18:30	Rodić  1'	Report	Katsouranis  41' (pen.)	Stadium: Sports Park Referee: Carlos Megía Dávila (Spain)

30 September 2004 Second leg	AEK Athens	1–0 (2–1 agg.)	Gorica	Athens, Greece
20:30	Soares  89'	Report		Stadium: Georgios Kamaras Stadium Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Lille	4	3	0	1	5	3	+2	9
Sevilla	4	2	1	1	6	4	+2	7
Alemannia Aachen	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7
Zenit St. Petersburg	4	1	2	1	9	6	+3	5
AEK Athens	4	0	0	4	4	12	−8	0

Source: RSSSF

All times CET

21 October 2004 1	Zenit St. Petersburg	5–1	AEK Athens	Saint Petersburg, Russia
18:00	Arshavin  44' Kerzhakov  48', 54', 78' Denisov  86'	Report	Krassas  3'	Stadium: Petrovsky Stadium Attendance: 21,800 Referee: Antonio Costa (Portugal)

25 November 2004 2	AEK Athens	1–2	Lille	Athens, Greece
20:00	Amponsah  72'	Report	Vitakić  26' Debuchy  63'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Bernhard Brugger (Austria)

2 December 2004 3	Sevilla	3–2	AEK Athens	Seville, Spain
20:45	Baptista  19', 89' (pen.) Antoñito  29'	Report	Liberopoulos  10' Tziortziopoulos  47'	Stadium: Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)

15 December 2004 4	AEK Athens	0–2	Alemannia Aachen	Athens, Greece
20:45		Report	Meijer  57' Gomez  84'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Serhiy Shebek (Ukraine)

UEFA rankings

UEFA team ranking # Form Previous Country Team Ranking 36 44 Club Brugge 50.476 37 32 Deportivo Alavés 50.326 38 34 AEK Athens 47.715 39 38 Anderlecht 47.476 40 54 Olympiacos 46.715

UEFA country ranking # Form Previous Country League Ranking 6 6 Liga Sagres 44.666 7 8 Eredivisie 39.831 8 7 Super League Greece 35.498 9 12 Jupiler Pro League 31.750 10 11 Clydesdale Bank Premier League 31.750

Team kit

2004

Supplier: Nike
Sponsor(s): TIM

Home

Away

Third

Source:

2005

Supplier: Adidas
Sponsor(s): TIM

Home

Away

Third

Source: aek.com 21-01-2005

Notes

References