2005–06 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens
2005–06 season
Chairman	Demis Nikolaidis
Manager	Fernando Santos
Stadium	Athens Olympic Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	2nd
Greek Cup	Runners-up
UEFA Cup	First round
Top goalscorer	League: Nikos Liberopoulos (14); All: Nikos Liberopoulos (16)
Highest home attendance	34,842 vs Olympiacos; (2 October 2005)
Lowest home attendance	4,102 vs Agrotikos Asteras; (22 February 2006)
Average home league attendance	16,752

AEK Athens F.C. competed for the 47th consecutive season in the Greek top flight and 82nd year in existence as a football club. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup and the UEFA Cup. The season begun at 29 August 2005 and finished at 14 May 2006.

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 30 June 2006, 23:59 UTC+3.

No.	Player	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Previous club
Goalkeepers
1	Stefano Sorrentino	GK	(1979-03-28)28 March 1979 (aged 27)	Torino
12	Giannis Arabatzis	GK	(1984-05-28)28 May 1984 (aged 22)	Makrochori
22	Dionysis Chiotis	GK	(1977-06-04)4 June 1977 (aged 29)	AEK Athens U20
Defenders
3	Nikola Malbaša	LB / LM	(1977-09-12)12 September 1977 (aged 28)	Terek Grozny
5	Bruno Cirillo	CB / RB	(1977-03-21)21 March 1977 (aged 29)	Lecce
6	Georgios Alexopoulos	CB / RB	(1977-02-07)7 February 1977 (aged 29)	Egaleo
14	Stavros Tziortziopoulos	LB / CB / LM	(1978-08-15)15 August 1978 (aged 27)	Panionios
18	Vangelis Moras	CB / DM / RB	(1981-08-26)26 August 1981 (aged 24)	Proodeftiki
19	Dimitrios Koutromanos	RB / LB / DM	(1987-02-25)25 February 1987 (aged 19)	Panetolikos
24	Christos Kontis	RB / CB / LB	(1975-05-13)13 May 1975 (aged 31)	Panionios
31	Nikolaos Georgeas	RB / LB / DM	(1976-12-27)27 December 1976 (aged 29)	Kalamata
55	Traianos Dellas (Vice-captain)	CB	(1976-01-31)31 January 1976 (aged 30)	Roma
Midfielders
8	Miltiadis Sapanis	CM / LM / AM	(1976-01-28)28 January 1976 (aged 30)	Panathinaikos
10	Panagiotis Kone	AM / RM / LM / RW / LW / CM	(1987-07-26)26 July 1987 (aged 18)	Lens U19
17	Vladan Ivić	AM / CM / RM / LM	(1977-05-07)7 May 1977 (aged 29)	Borussia Mönchengladbach
20	Vasilios Pliatsikas	DM / CM / RB / CB	(1988-04-20)20 April 1988 (aged 18)	Chaidari
21	Kostas Katsouranis (Captain)	CM / DM / RM / LM / AM / CB / RB / LB	(1979-06-21)21 June 1979 (aged 27)	Panachaiki
23	Vasilios Lakis	RM / RW / AM / CM	(1976-09-10)10 September 1976 (aged 29)	Crystal Palace
25	Emerson	DM / CM	(1972-04-12)12 April 1972 (aged 34)	Skoda Xanthi
26	Ilias Kyriakidis	DM / CM / AM	(1985-08-05)5 August 1985 (aged 20)	Ionikos
27	Louay Chanko	DM / CM / AM / RM	(1979-11-29)29 November 1979 (aged 26)	Malmö
28	Christos Bourbos	RM / RB / RW / DM	(1983-06-01)1 June 1983 (aged 23)	PAS Giannina
—	Panagiotis Zorbas	AM / RW / LM / LW / CM	(1987-04-21)21 April 1987 (aged 19)	Bayer 04 Leverkusen U19
Forwards
7	Alessandro Soares	RW / SS / CF / LW	(1973-02-05)5 February 1973 (aged 33)	OFI
9	Angelos Komvolidis	LW / CF	(1988-03-14)14 March 1988 (aged 18)	VfB Stuttgart U19
11	Oleh Venhlinskyi	CF / SS / RW	(1978-03-21)21 March 1978 (aged 28)	Dnipro
33	Nikos Liberopoulos (Vice-captain 2)	SS / CF / AM	(1975-08-04)4 August 1975 (aged 30)	Panathinaikos
35	Pantelis Kapetanos	CF / RW	(1983-06-08)8 June 1983 (aged 23)	Iraklis
99	Júlio César	LW / SS / AM / RW / CF	(1980-02-26)26 February 1980 (aged 26)	Gil Vicente
Left during Winter Transfer Window
15	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	CB / RB / LB / DM	(1988-06-09)9 June 1988 (aged 18)	Apollon Petalidiou
30	Simos Krassas	RW / LW / RM / LM	(1982-06-10)10 June 1982 (aged 24)	AEL Limassol

Transfers

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
5	DF	Bruno Cirillo	Lecce	Transfer	Free	14 July 2005	30 June 2008	[1]
6	DF	Georgios Alexopoulos	Egaleo	Transfer	Free	1 July 2005	30 June 2011
7	FW	Alessandro Soares	OFI Crete	Transfer	€150,000	1 July 2005	30 June 2006
8	MF	Miltiadis Sapanis	Panathinaikos	Transfer	Free	1 July 2005	30 June 2008	[2]
9	FW	Aggelos Komvolidis	VfB Stuttgart U19	Transfer	€50,000	1 July 2005	30 June 2010
10	MF	Panagiotis Kone	Lens U19	Transfer	Free	29 July 2005	30 June 2010	[3]
11	FW	Oleh Venhlinskyi	Dnipro	Transfer	€850,000	22 June 2005	30 June 2007	[4]
15	DF	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	Apollon Petalidiou	Transfer	Free	1 July 2005	30 June 2008	[5]
19	DF	Dimitris Koutromanos	Panetolikos	Transfer	€50,000	1 July 2005	30 June 2010
20	MF	Vasilis Pliatsikas	Chaidari	Transfer	Free	1 July 2005	30 June 2010
23	MF	Vassilis Lakis	Crystal Palace	Transfer	Free	1 July 2005	30 June 2008	[6]
27	MF	Louay Chanko	Malmö	Transfer	€250,000	3 August 2005	30 June 2008	[7]
55	DF	Traianos Dellas	Roma	Transfer	Free	19 September 2005	30 June 2007	[8]
—	MF	Nikos Pourtoulidis	Thrasyvoulos	End of loan	—	1 July 2005	30 June 2006
—	MF	Dimitris Karameris	Levadiakos	End of loan	—	1 July 2005	30 June 2010
—	MF	Panagiotis Zorbas	Bayer 04 Leverkusen U19	Transfer	Free	1 July 2005	30 June 2011

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
1	GK	Stefano Sorrentino	Torino	Transfer	Free	1 January 2006	30 June 2009
25	MF	Emerson	Skoda Xanthi	Transfer	€150,000	23 January 2006	30 June 2007	[9]
35	FW	Pantelis Kapetanos	Iraklis	Transfer	€400,000	19 January 2006	30 June 2011	[10]
—	FW	Leonidas Kampantais	Anorthosis Famagusta	End of loan	—	1 January 2006	30 June 2007

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
1	GK	Chrysostomos Michailidis	Atromitos	End of contract	—	1 July 2005	[11]
4	DF	Bruno Alves	Porto	End of loan	—	30 June 2005
5	DF	Nikos Kostenoglou	Retired		—	1 July 2005	[12]
7	FW	Alessandro Soares	OFI Crete	End of loan	—	1 July 2005
8	MF	Ivan Rusev	Levadiakos	End of contract	—	1 July 2005	[13]
9	MF	Milen Petkov	Atromitos	End of contract	—	1 July 2005	[14]
10	FW	Sotiris Konstantinidis	Ionikos	End of contract	—	1 July 2005
15	DF	Dimitris Koutsikos	Agios Dimitrios	End of contract	—	1 July 2005
20	FW	Ilias Solakis	Doxa Drama	Transfer	Free	1 July 2005
29	FW	Christos Christoforidis	Apollon Kalamarias	Transfer	Free	1 July 2005
39	DF	Grigoris Toskas	Kerkyra	End of contract	—	1 July 2005
44	FW	Nikos Voulgaris	Kerkyra	Transfer	Free	1 July 2005
77	MF	Paulo Assunção	Porto	End of loan	—	30 June 2005
—	FW	Christos Kostis	Alki Larnaca	End of contract	—	1 July 2005

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
1	GK	Stefano Sorrentino	Torino	End of loan	—	1 January 2006

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
1	GK	Stefano Sorrentino	Torino	€100,000	7 July 2005	30 June 2006	Y	[15]

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy
11	FW	Leonidas Kampantais	Anorthosis Famagusta	Free	1 July 2005	30 June 2006	N
27	DF	Panagiotis Stergiatos	Doxa Drama	Free	1 July 2005	30 June 2006	N
—	MF	Dimitris Karameris	Apollon Smyrnis	Free	1 July 2005	30 June 2006	N
—	MF	Nikos Pourtoulidis	Thrasyvoulos	Free	1 July 2005	30 June 2006	N

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
15	DF	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	Niki Volos	Free	20 January 2006	30 June 2006	N
30	FW	Simos Krassas	Panionios	€75,000	5 January 206	30 June 2006	N	[16]
—	FW	Leonidas Kampantais	Panionios	€50,000	3 January 2006	30 June 2007	Y	[17]

Renewals

No.	Pos	Player	Date	Former Exp Date	New Exp Date	Source
1	GK	Stefano Sorrentino	1 January 2006	30 June 2006^[a]	30 June 2009
99	FW	Júlio César	1 January 2006	31 December 2008	30 June 2009

Notes

a. ^{^} AEK Athens enabled the player's buy-out clause, prematurely. The player's loan was expiring at 30 June 2006.

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure

Summer: €1,350,000

Winter: €550,000

Total: €1,900,000

Income

Summer: €0

Winter: €150,000

Total: €0

Net Totals

Summer: €1,350,000

Winter: €400,000

Total: €1,750,000

Manager stats

Name	Nat	From	To	Record							Honours
Name	Nat	From	To	P	W	D	L	F	A	%W	Honours
Fernando Santos		August 29, 2005	May 14, 2006	40	24	8	8	52	27	60.00	–

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

Pre-season and friendlies

20 July 2005 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–4	Paris Saint-Germain	Thonon-les-Bains
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Cissé 6' Pauleta 11', 52' (pen.) Rozehnal 73'	Stadium: Stade Joseph-Moynat

23 July 2005 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–0	Rapid București	Cogne
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Venhlinskyi 40' Krassas 52'	Report		Stadium: Cogne training center

27 July 2005 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–0	Reggina	Cogne
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Komvolidis 77'	Report		Stadium: Cogne training center

6 August 2005 Friendly	Charlton Athletic	1–3	AEK Athens	London
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Rommedahl 33'	Report	Liberopoulos 20' (pen.) Lakis 47' Krassas 90+1'	Stadium: The Valley Attendance: 10,000

8 August 2005 Friendly	Chaidari	1–0	AEK Athens	Haidari
	Tsoukalidis 60'			Stadium: Takis Charalambidis Stadium Attendance: 2,000

13 August 2005 Friendly	OFI Crete	0–1	AEK Athens	Heraklion
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)			Ivić 59'	Stadium: Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium Attendance: 12,000

21 August 2005 Friendly	PAOK	2–0	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Feutchine 48' Christodoulopoulos 75'	Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 15,000

2 September 2005 Friendly	Thrasyvoulos	1–2	AEK Athens	Fyli
18:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Giannikidis 1'		Papastathopoulos 26' Júlio César 52'	Stadium: Fyli Municipal Stadium

15 September 2005 Friendly

AEK Athens

1–4

Ilisiakos

Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	23	1	6	63	23	+40	70	Qualification for Champions League group stage
2	AEK Athens	30	21	4	5	42	20	+22	67[lower-alpha 1]	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
3	Panathinaikos	30	21	4	5	55	23	+32	67[lower-alpha 1]	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Iraklis	30	15	6	9	39	31	+8	51
5	Skoda Xanthi	30	13	8	9	31	25	+6	47

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:

Head-to-head record: AEK Athens–Panathinaikos 3–0, Panathinaikos–AEK Athens 1–0.

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	21	4	5	42	20	+22	67	12	2	1	26	8	+18	9	2	4	16	12	+4

Source:

Results by Matchday

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	D	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	W	W	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	D
Position	11	6	6	4	4	4	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2

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

Fixtures

29 August 2005 Matchday 1	Atromitos	0–0	AEK Athens	Peristeri
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)				Stadium: Peristeri Stadium Attendance: 6,883 Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Heraklion)

11 September 2005 Matchday 2	AEK Athens	2–0	Iraklis	Marousi
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Liberopoulos 18' Júlio César 44'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Ilias Mazarakos (Arta)

18 September 2005 Matchday 3	AEK Athens	1–1	Egaleo	Marousi
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Liberopoulos 77'		Cesarec 71'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 19,680 Referee: Michalis Germanakos (Athens)

25 September 2005 Matchday 4	AEL	0–1	AEK Athens	Larissa
15:30 EEST (UTC+3)			Venhlinskyi 58'	Stadium: Alkazar Attendance: 11,763 Referee: Thanasis Briakos (Epirus)

2 October 2005 Matchday 5	AEK Athens	1–3	Olympiacos	Marousi
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Alexopoulos 41'		Đorđević 54' (pen.) Konstantinou 87' Okkas 88'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 34,842 Referee: Iraklis Tsikinis (Messinia)

16 October 2005 Matchday 6	Ionikos	0–1	AEK Athens	Piraeus
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)			Liberopoulos 32'	Stadium: Neapolis Public Stadium Attendance: 1,890 Referee: Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)

23 October 2005 Matchday 7	AEK Athens	3–0	Panathinaikos	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Liberopoulos 83' Chanko 88' Lakis 90+1'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 28,623 Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Thessaloniki)

31 October 2005 Matchday 8	Panionios	0–2	AEK Athens	Nea Smyrni
21:00 EET (UTC+2)			Liberopoulos 86' Soares 85'	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 3,778 Referee: Christos Vasileiou (Thessaly)

5 November 2005 Matchday 9	AEK Athens	2–0	Kallithea	Marousi
19:15 EET (UTC+2)	Lakis 21' Liberopoulos 52'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 15,057 Referee: Vasilis Skoufitsas (Athens)

21 November 2005 Matchday 10	Akratitos	1–2	AEK Athens	Ano Liosia
21:00 EET (UTC+2)	Gustavinho 83'		Lakis 10' Liberopoulos 80'	Stadium: Yiannis Pathiakakis Stadium Attendance: 1,869 Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Argolida)

27 November 2005 Matchday 11	Levadiakos	0–1	AEK Athens	Livadeia
19:00 EET (UTC+2)			Katsouranis 29'	Stadium: Levadia Municipal Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Dimitris Kalopoulos (Thessaloniki)

4 December 2005 Matchday 12	AEK Athens	2–1	PAOK	Marousi
19:15 EET (UTC+2)	Cirillo 26' Soares 90+1'		Mięciel 20'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 27,247 Referee: Thanasis Briakos (Epirus)

10 December 2005 Matchday 13	OFI	0–1	AEK Athens	Heraklion
16:00 EET (UTC+2)			Júlio César 71'	Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 4,993 Referee: Dimitris Kalopoulos (Thessaloniki)

17 December 2005 Matchday 14	AEK Athens	2–1	Apollon Kalamarias	Marousi
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Liberopoulos 77' Alexopoulos 90'		Orfanos 87'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Vasilis Paboridis (Kilkis)

8 January 2006 Matchday 15	Skoda Xanthi	0–0	AEK Athens	Xanthi
19:00 EET (UTC+2)				Stadium: Skoda Xanthi Arena Attendance: 5,332 Referee: Dimitris Dabosis (Pieria)

14 January 2006 Matchday 16	AEK Athens	2–1	Atromitos	Marousi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Liberopoulos 31' Venhlinskyi 89'		Zacharopoulos 45' (pen.)	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 10,443 Referee: Apostolos Nikolaidis (Thessaloniki)

29 January 2006 Matchday 17	Iraklis	4–0	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Lagos 14', 74' Herrera 62' Epalle 83'			Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 9,490 Referee: Vasilis Terovitsas (Aetoloacarnania)

4 February 2006 Matchday 18	Egaleo	0–2	AEK Athens	Egaleo
17:45 EET (UTC+2)			Liberopoulos 84' Cirillo 90+1'	Stadium: Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium Attendance: 2,969 Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Argolida)

12 February 2006 Matchday 19	AEK Athens	1–0	AEL	Marousi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Katsouranis 13'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 18,646 Referee: Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)

19 February 2006 Matchday 20	Olympiacos	3–0	AEK Athens	Piraeus
20:00 EET (UTC+2)	Okkas 88' Rivaldo 65', 90+3'			Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 31,127 Referee: Iraklis Tsikinis (Messinia)

26 February 2006 Matchday 21	AEK Athens	2–0	Ionikos	Marousi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Venhlinskyi 21' Katsouranis 90+8'		Perrone 39'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 11,591 Referee: Dimitris Kalopoulos (Thessaloniki)

5 March 2006 Matchday 22	Panathinaikos	1–0	AEK Athens	Marousi
19:15 EET (UTC+2)	Bišćan 52'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 31,446 Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Argolida)

12 March 2006 Matchday 23	AEK Athens	2–0	Panionios	Marousi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Katsouranis 20' Ivić 71'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 8,353 Referee: Antonis Kouklakis (Chania)

18 March 2006 Matchday 24	Kallithea	1–4	AEK Athens	Kallithea
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Tsigas 83'		Ivić 11' Alexopoulos 44' Emerson 77' Kapetanos 90+3'	Stadium: Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium Attendance: 2,805 Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Argolida)

26 March 2006 Matchday 25	AEK Athens	2–0	Akratitos	Marousi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Liberopoulos 18', 37'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 11,894 Referee: Dimitris Detsis (Athens)

2 April 2006 Matchday 26	AEK Athens	2–0	Levadiakos	Marousi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Ivić 36' Liberopoulos 59'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,140 Referee: Theofilos Fotiadis (Thessaloniki)

9 April 2006 Matchday 27	PAOK	2–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Alexopoulos 73' (o.g.) Salpingidis 79'		Katsouranis 90+1' (pen.)	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 10,300 Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Heraklion)

16 April 2006 Matchday 28	AEK Athens	2–0	OFI	Marousi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Katsouranis 7' Liberopoulos 34'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 13,882 Referee: Dimitris Kalopoulos (Thessaloniki)

30 April 2006 Matchday 29	Apollon Kalamarias	0–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)			Lakis 62'	Stadium: Kalamaria Stadium Attendance: 2,144 Referee: Ilias Mazarakos (Arta)

14 May 2006 Matchday 30	AEK Athens	0–0	Skoda Xanthi	Marousi
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)				Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 21,779 Referee: Dimitris Dabosis (Pieria)

Greek Cup

AEK entered the Greek Cup at the fourth round.

Round of 32

26 October 2005 Round of 32	PAS Giannina	0–3	AEK Athens	Ioannina
16:00 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Papastathopoulos 7' Soares 29' Moras 41'	Stadium: Zosimades Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Vasilis Terovitsas (Aetoloacarnania)

Round of 16

21 December 2005 Round of 16	AEK Athens	1–1	Ethnikos Piraeus	Marousi
16:00 EET (UTC+2)	Soares 90+2'	Report	Da Silva 90+4'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Heraklion)

11 January 2006 Replay match	Ethnikos Piraeus	1–1 (a.e.t.) (2–2 agg.) (3–4 p)	AEK Athens	Rizoupoli
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Petrov 119'	Report	Cirillo 113'	Stadium: Georgios Kamaras Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)
	Penalties
	Morales Da Silva Dovas Petrov Kouboulis		Katsouranis Dellas Kontis Júlio César Cirillo

Quarter-finals

8 February 2006 First leg	Niki Volos	0–0	AEK Athens	Volos
19:00 EET (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: Panthessaliko Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Lazaros Polatian (Pella)

22 February 2006 Second leg	AEK Athens	2–0 (2–0 agg.)	Niki Volos	Marousi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Liberopoulos 26' Katsouranis 68' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 4,629 Referee: Vasilis Terovitsas (Aetoloacarnania)

Semi-finals

21 March 2006 First leg	AEK Athens	3–0	Agrotikos Asteras	Marousi
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Liberopoulos 59' Moras 80' Sapanis 85'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 4,102 Referee: Romanos Kontogiannidis (Xanthi)

12 April 2006 Second leg	Agrotikos Asteras	1–0 (1–3 agg.)	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
16:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Tsouklis 90'	Report		Stadium: Agrotikos Asteras Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Lazaros Polatian (Pella)

Final

10 May 2006 Final	Olympiacos	3–0	AEK Athens	Heraklion
18:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Konstantinou 61' Ivić 70' (o.g.) Castillo 90'	Report		Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 22,079 Referee: Vasilis Terovitsas (Aetoloacarnania)

UEFA Cup

First round

15 September 2005 First leg	Zenit Saint Petersburg	0–0	AEK Athens	Saint Petersburg, Russia
18:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report		Stadium: Petrovsky Stadium Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Tommy Skjerven (Norway)

29 September 2005 Second leg	AEK Athens	0–1 (0–1 agg.)	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Athens, Greece
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Arshavin 89'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 23,121 Referee: Florian Meyer (Germany)

UEFA rankings

UEFA team ranking

#	Previous	Team	Ranking
54	49	Mallorca	40.006
—	49	Málaga	40.006
56	78	Lens	39.757
57	38	AEK Athens	39.587
58	39	Anderlecht	38.981
59	55	Beşiktaş	38.634

UEFA country ranking

#	Previous	League	Ranking
6	6	Liga Sagres	44.041
7	7	Eredivisie	41.331
8	8	Alpha Ethniki	32.081
9	13	Russian Premier League	31.833
10	25	Liga I	31.457

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 30 June 2006

No.	Pos	Player	League		Cup		UEFA Cup		Total
No.	Pos	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	Stefano Sorrentino	25	0	3	0	2	0	30	0
12	GK	Giannis Arabatzis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	GK	Dionisis Chiotis	5	0	5	0	0	0	10	0
Defenders
3	DF	Nikola Malbaša	16	0	3	0	2	0	21	0
5	DF	Bruno Cirillo	24	2	2	1	2	0	28	3
6	DF	Georgios Alexopoulos	30	3	3	0	2	0	35	3
14	DF	Stavros Tziortziopoulos	9	0	4	0	0	0	13	0
18	DF	Vangelis Moras	13	0	6	2	1	0	20	2
19	DF	Dimitris Koutromanos	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
24	DF	Christos Kontis	15	0	4	0	2	0	21	0
31	DF	Nikolaos Georgeas	25	0	5	0	0	0	30	0
55	DF	Traianos Dellas	6	0	6	0	0	0	12	0
Midfielders
8	MF	Miltiadis Sapanis	12	0	3	1	0	0	15	1
10	MF	Panagiotis Kone	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
17	MF	Vladan Ivić	27	3	5	0	2	0	34	3
20	MF	Vasilis Pliatsikas	3	0	4	0	0	0	7	0
21	MF	Kostas Katsouranis	29	6	4	1	2	0	35	7
23	MF	Vassilis Lakis	28	4	5	0	1	0	34	4
25	MF	Emerson	13	1	4	0	0	0	17	1
26	MF	Ilias Kyriakidis	3	0	7	0	1	0	11	0
27	MF	Louay Chanko	21	1	4	0	1	0	26	1
28	MF	Christos Bourbos	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
—	MF	Panagiotis Zorbas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
7	FW	Alessandro Soares	28	2	8	2	2	0	38	4
9	FW	Aggelos Komvolidis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	FW	Oleh Venhlinskyi	15	3	4	0	2	0	21	3
33	FW	Nikos Liberopoulos	27	14	5	2	2	0	34	16
35	FW	Pantelis Kapetanos	10	1	4	0	0	0	14	1
99	FW	Júlio César	28	2	7	0	2	0	37	2
Left during Winter Transfer Window
15	DF	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	1
30	FW	Simos Krassas	3	0	1	0	1	0	5	0

Disciplinary record

As of 30 June 2006

N	P	Nat.	Name							Notes
N	P	Nat.	Name	League		Cup	UEFA Cup	Total		Notes
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Stefano Sorrentino
12	GK		Giannis Arabatzis
22	GK		Dionisis Chiotis			1		1
Defenders
3	DF		Nikola Malbaša	5		1		6
5	DF		Bruno Cirillo	7		2		9
6	DF		Georgios Alexopoulos	3			1	4
14	DF		Stavros Tziortziopoulos
18	DF		Vangelis Moras	3		2		5
19	DF		Dimitris Koutromanos
24	DF		Christos Kontis	7			2	9
31	DF		Nikolaos Georgeas	6	1	1		7	1
55	DF		Traianos Dellas			1		1
Midfielders
8	MF		Miltiadis Sapanis	1		1		2
10	MF		Panagiotis Kone
17	MF		Vladan Ivić	5		1		6
20	MF		Vasilis Pliatsikas			3		3
21	MF		Kostas Katsouranis	7		2	1	10
23	MF		Vassilis Lakis	3				3
25	MF		Emerson	2		2		4
26	MF		Ilias Kyriakidis	1		1		2
27	MF		Louay Chanko	4				4
28	MF		Christos Bourbos			1		1
—	MF		Panagiotis Zorbas
Forwards
7	FW		Alessandro Soares	2		1		3
9	FW		Aggelos Komvolidis
11	FW		Oleh Venhlinskyi	3				3
33	FW		Nikos Liberopoulos	5		1		6
35	FW		Pantelis Kapetanos
99	FW		Júlio César	3				3
Left during Winter Transfer window
15	DF		Sokratis Papastathopoulos
30	FW		Simos Krassas

Starting 11

N.	Formation	Matchday(s)
27	4–4–2	1,2 4–6, 8–16, 18–30
6	4–3–3
4	4–2–1–3	3, 7, 17
2	4–4–2 (D)
1	5–4–1

No.	Player	Pos.
28	Stefano Sorrentino	GK
5	Bruno Cirillo	RCB
6	Georgios Alexopoulos	LCB
31	Nikolaos Georgeas	RB
3	Nikola Malbaša	LB
21	Kostas Katsouranis (C)	DM
17	Vladan Ivić	CM
23	Vassilis Lakis	RM
99	Júlio César	LM
7	Alessandro Soares	SS
33	Nikos Liberopoulos	CF

Sorrentino

Cirillo

Alexopoulos

Georgeas

Malbaša

Ivić

Katsouranis (C)

Lakis

Júlio César

Soares

Liberopoulos

Last updated: 2006-06-30
Source: Squad stats and Start formations.
Only competitive matches.
Using the most used start formation.
Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).

References

"Υπέγραψε ο Μπρούνο Τσιρίλο στην AEK". www.kathimerini.gr (in Greek). 14 July 2005.
"Συμβόλαιο 2+1 υπέγραψε στην ΑΕΚ ο Σαπάνης-Στην "Ένωση" και ο Πλιάτσικας". in.gr (in Greek). June 2, 2005.
"Τελικά με τη φανέλα της ΑΕΚ θα αγωνισθεί ο Κονέ". in.gr (in Greek). December 21, 2005.
"Βενγλίνσκι: Πήγα στην ΑΕΚ γιατί με ήθελε πάρα πολύ". aek365.org (in Greek).
"Όταν η ΑΕΚ απόκτησε τον Παπασταθόπουλο (pics+vid)" (in Greek). June 21, 2021.
"Λάκης… η επιστροφή". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).
"Στα "κιτρινόμαυρα" ο Τσάνκο". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).
"Dellas happy to return to AEK". UEFA.com. September 19, 2005.
"Ο Εμερσον στην ΑΕΚ | Flash.gr". www.flash.gr (in Greek). January 22, 2006.
"Συμβόλαιο πενταετούς συνεργασίας με την ΑΕΚ υπέγραψε ο Παντελής Καπετάνος". in.gr. January 19, 2006.
"ΑΤΡΟΜΗΤΟΣ: Απέκτησε τον Μιχαηλίδη". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).
""Αντίο" στα γήπεδα είπε ο Κωστένογλου". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).
"ΛΕΒΑΔΕΙΑΚΟΣ: Ανακοινώθηκε ο Ρούσεφ". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).
"Συμβόλαιο δύο ετών υπέγραψε στον Ατρόμητο ο Μίλεν Πέτκοφ". in.gr (in Greek). 14 June 2005.
"Η ΑΕΚ ανακοίνωσε την απόκτηση του Σορεντίνο και "κλείνει" τον Τσιρίλο". in.gr (in Greek). 7 July 2005.
""Κάτοικος" Νέας Σμύρνης μέχρι το τέλος της σεζόν ο Κρασσάς, δανεικός στον Πανιώνιο". in.gr (in Greek). 5 January 2006.
"Στα "κυανέρυθρα" ο Καμπάνταης". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).

External links

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[1] "Υπέγραψε ο Μπρούνο Τσιρίλο στην AEK". www.kathimerini.gr (in Greek). 14 July 2005.

[renamed_from_1_on_20220108152939-2] "Συμβόλαιο 2+1 υπέγραψε στην ΑΕΚ ο Σαπάνης-Στην "Ένωση" και ο Πλιάτσικας". in.gr (in Greek). June 2, 2005.

[3] "Τελικά με τη φανέλα της ΑΕΚ θα αγωνισθεί ο Κονέ". in.gr (in Greek). December 21, 2005.

[4] "Βενγλίνσκι: Πήγα στην ΑΕΚ γιατί με ήθελε πάρα πολύ". aek365.org (in Greek).

[5] "Όταν η ΑΕΚ απόκτησε τον Παπασταθόπουλο (pics+vid)" (in Greek). June 21, 2021.

[6] "Λάκης… η επιστροφή". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).

[7] "Στα "κιτρινόμαυρα" ο Τσάνκο". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).

[8] "Dellas happy to return to AEK". UEFA.com. September 19, 2005.

[9] "Ο Εμερσον στην ΑΕΚ | Flash.gr". www.flash.gr (in Greek). January 22, 2006.

[10] "Συμβόλαιο πενταετούς συνεργασίας με την ΑΕΚ υπέγραψε ο Παντελής Καπετάνος". in.gr. January 19, 2006.

[11] "ΑΤΡΟΜΗΤΟΣ: Απέκτησε τον Μιχαηλίδη". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).

[12] ""Αντίο" στα γήπεδα είπε ο Κωστένογλου". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).

[13] "ΛΕΒΑΔΕΙΑΚΟΣ: Ανακοινώθηκε ο Ρούσεφ". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).

[14] "Συμβόλαιο δύο ετών υπέγραψε στον Ατρόμητο ο Μίλεν Πέτκοφ". in.gr (in Greek). 14 June 2005.

[15] "Η ΑΕΚ ανακοίνωσε την απόκτηση του Σορεντίνο και "κλείνει" τον Τσιρίλο". in.gr (in Greek). 7 July 2005.

[16] ""Κάτοικος" Νέας Σμύρνης μέχρι το τέλος της σεζόν ο Κρασσάς, δανεικός στον Πανιώνιο". in.gr (in Greek). 5 January 2006.

[17] "Στα "κυανέρυθρα" ο Καμπάνταης". sport-fm.gr (in Greek).

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