2006–07 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens
2006–07 season
Chairman	Demis Nikolaidis
Manager	Lorenzo Serra Ferrer
Stadium	Athens Olympic Stadium
Super League	2nd
Greek Cup	Round of 32
UEFA Champions League	Group stage
UEFA Cup	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: ; Nikos Liberopoulos (18); All: ; Nikos Liberopoulos (20)
Highest home attendance	56,203 vs Milan; (21 November 2006)
Lowest home attendance	12,992 vs Ergotelis; (30 September 2006)
Average home league attendance	22,737
Biggest win	AEK Athens 5–0 AEL
Biggest defeat	AEK Athens 1–4 Panathinaikos; Milan 3–0 AEK Athens
	← 2005–06 2007–08 →

The 2006–07 season was the 83rd season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 48th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Super League, the Greek Cup, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The season began on 9 August 2006 and finished on 13 May 2007.

Kits

Supplier: Adidas
Sponsor(s): LG Corp
Features: Diners Club, Forthnet

Home

Away

Third

Overview

The third season in a row for the presidency of Demis Nikolaidis, who decided at the end of the previous season that it was time to part ways with the team with Fernando Santos, despite the good presence of the Portuguese technician on the team's bench. The reason was that the president of AEK was looking for a coach who played more offensive style and gave a lot of weight to young players and the team's academies. Nikolaidis ended up with the acclaimed Spanish coach Lorenzo Serra Ferrer, who,^[1] among other things, has served in the academies and in the first team of the great Barcelona. One of the team's key leaders, Kostas Katsouranis, left AEK, following Santos to Benfica. On the other hand, Akis Zikos returned after a four-year absence in Monaco.

AEK started the season relatively "numb", but then recovered and especially from the 7th matchday onwards when they makes 7 consecutive victories. Another streak of 6 wins later in the 2nd round, but those were not enough to achieve more than the eventual second place finish. They finished 8 points above Panathinaikos, but another 9 below the champion Olympiacos. For yet another season, however, there were complaints from many teams in the league about the treatment of the red and whites by the referees.

In the Greek Cup, AEK was a surprise victim, eliminated in the first round by the team of Chaidari in a single match, after the 0–0 in regular time, a score that did not change even in extra time, despite the expulsion of 2 players of Chaidari, while in the penalty shootout Chaidari won by 5–4.

AEK's chance for their fourth participation in the groups of the Champions League passed through the matches with the Scottish Hearts, an opponent that was not easy, but certainly not intimidating either. First match at Murrayfield Stadium, Serra Ferrer showed a super attacking AEK, who missed many chances in the first half. In the replay, Serra Ferrer's team slowed down and Hearts made it 1–0. Finally, the Greek team found the way to the net at the end of the game and in the overtime they made their big comeback. The final score was 1–2 and qualification was very close for the yellow-blacks. In the second leg in Athens in front of over 45,000 people, AEK's superiority was clear again from the start of the match had the full control, missed some chances, but failed to score. With 3 goals towards the end of the game, AEK finally got a very nice qualification with two wins. AEK competed again in Champions League groups after 3 years and were drawn in the 8th group with the eventual winner of the institution, Milan, Lille and Anderlecht. There, AEK with a total of 2 wins, including a home win against the great Milan, 2 draws and 2 losses they finished 3rd and were out of the competition, continuing in the UEFA Cup.

AEK were drawn with Paris Saint-Germain for the round of 32 and their task was certainly not easy at all. First match on February 14 at Olympic Stadium in front of around 30,000 spectators, Ferrer in a rather incomprehensible decision, decided to rest some players. However, Paul Le Guen was doing something similar by leaving some of his key players on the bench. At the end of the first half, Paris opened the score, while in the replay, AEK again conceded a goal at the end of the game. The qualification was already essentially over for AEK, while it was noteworthy that during the match Demis Nikolaidis was strongly disapproved of by a large part of the world for the relaxed attitude shown by AEK in the match. The rematch at the Parc des Princes was more formal than essential and Le Guen decided to start with a line-up with several reserves, while Ferrer on the other hand made a mix-up in the line-up. The French once again scored at the end of each half and won with the same score and the European campaign of the yellow-blacks ended there.

The greatest wins of the season were the 5–0 against AEL, the 4–0 against Panionios and an by 1–2 over Panathinaikos, away from home. The top scorer of the team and of the league was Nikos Liberopoulos with 18 goals. Also 9 goals were scored by Júlio César and 8 goals by Leonidas Kampantais.^[2]

Management team

Position	Staff
Manager	Lorenzo Serra Ferrer
Assistant manager	Pep Segura
Fitness coach	Pep Alomar
Technical director	Eugène Gerards
Director of Football	Ilija Ivić
Academy director	Toni Savevski
Academy manager	Bledar Kola
Scout	Eugène Gerards
Head of Medical	Lakis Nikolaou
Physiotherapist	Christos Karvounidis

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 13 May 2007, 23:59 UTC+3.

No.	Player	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
22	Dionysis Chiotis (Vice-captain 2)	GK	(1977-06-04)4 June 1977 (aged 30)	1994	AEK Athens U20	—	2007
28	Stefano Sorrentino	GK	(1979-03-28)28 March 1979 (aged 28)	2005	Torino	Free	2009
84	Giannis Arabatzis	GK	(1984-05-28)28 May 1984 (aged 23)	2002	Makrochori	€22,000	2007
—	Antonis Lykouris	GK	(1986-01-13)13 January 1986 (aged 21)	2006	AEK Athens U20	—	2009
Defenders
4	Vangelis Moras	CB / DM / RB	(1981-08-26)26 August 1981 (aged 25)	2003	Proodeftiki	€260,000	2007
5	Bruno Cirillo	CB / RB	(1977-03-21)21 March 1977 (aged 30)	2005	Lecce	Free	2008
6	Georgios Alexopoulos	CB / RB	(1977-02-07)7 February 1977 (aged 30)	2005	Egaleo	Free	2008
13	Martin Pautasso	RB / RM	(1979-05-17)17 May 1979 (aged 28)	2006	Independiente	Free	2010
14	Stavros Tziortziopoulos	LB / CB / LM	(1978-08-15)15 August 1978 (aged 28)	2004	Panionios	Free	2007
15	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	CB / RB / LB / DM	(1988-06-09)9 June 1988 (aged 19)	2005	Apollon Petalidiou	Free	2008
31	Nikolaos Georgeas	RB / LB / DM	(1976-12-27)27 December 1976 (aged 30)	2001	Kalamata	€1,500,000	2008
55	Traianos Dellas (Captain)	CB	(1976-01-31)31 January 1976 (aged 31)	2005	Roma	Free	2007
81	Nikolaos Kourkoulas	CB	(1989-03-11)11 March 1989 (aged 18)	2006	AEK Athens U20	—	2009
90	Savvas Gentsoglou	CB / DM / CM	(1990-09-19)19 September 1990 (aged 16)	2006	AEK Athens U20	—	2009
Midfielders
1	Pantelis Kafes	CM / DM / AM / RM / LM	(1978-06-24)24 June 1978 (aged 29)	2007	Olympiacos	Free	2009
7	Ilias Kyriakidis	DM / CM / AM	(1985-08-05)5 August 1985 (aged 21)	2004	Ionikos	€200,000	2009
10	Panagiotis Kone	AM / RM / LM / RW / LW / CM	(1987-07-26)26 July 1987 (aged 19)	2005	Lens U19	Free	2010
11	Gustavo Manduca	RM / AM / RW / LM / LW / CM / SS / ST	(1980-06-08)8 June 1980 (aged 27)	2006	Benfica	Free	2007
16	Akis Zikos	DM / CM	(1974-06-01)1 June 1974 (aged 33)	2006	Monaco	Free	2008
17	Vladan Ivić	AM / CM / RM / LM	(1977-05-07)7 May 1977 (aged 30)	2004	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Free	2007
19	Panagiotis Lagos	LM / LW / LB / CM / DM	(1985-07-18)18 July 1985 (aged 21)	2006	Iraklis	€900,000	2010
20	Vasilios Pliatsikas	DM / CM / RB / CB	(1988-04-20)20 April 1988 (aged 19)	2005	Chaidari	Free	2010
23	Vasilios Lakis	RM / RW / AM / CM / RB	(1976-09-10)10 September 1976 (aged 30)	2005	Crystal Palace	Free	2008
25	Emerson	DM / CM	(1972-04-12)12 April 1972 (aged 35)	2006	Skoda Xanthi	€150,000	2007
56	Përparim Hetemaj	CM / DM / AM / RM / LM / RW / LW	(1986-12-12)12 December 1986 (aged 20)	2006	HJK Helsinki	€450,000	2010
70	Guillaume Plessis	DM	(1985-01-16)16 January 1985 (aged 22)	2006	Clermont Foot	Free	2007
88	Dániel Tőzsér	AM / CM / DM / LM	(1985-05-12)12 May 1985 (aged 22)	2006	Ferencváros	€150,000	2010
92	Georgios Paligeorgos	DM / CM	(1990-02-09)9 February 1990 (aged 17)	2006	AEK Athens U20	—	2011
Forwards
33	Nikos Liberopoulos (Vice-captain)	SS / ST / AM	(1975-08-04)4 August 1975 (aged 31)	2003	Panathinaikos	Free	2009
35	Pantelis Kapetanos	ST / RW	(1983-06-08)8 June 1983 (aged 24)	2006	Iraklis	€400,000	2011
79	Leonidas Kampantais	ST / SS / RW	(1982-03-08)8 March 1982 (aged 25)	2004	Aris	Free	2007
83	Michalis Pavlis	SS / ST / RW / LW	(1989-09-22)22 September 1989 (aged 17)	2006	AEK Athens U20	—	2011
99	Júlio César	LW / SS / AM / RW / ST	(1980-02-26)26 February 1980 (aged 27)	2005	Gil Vicente	€540,000	2009
Left during Winter Transfer Window
24	Ifeanyi Udeze	LB / CB	(1980-07-21)21 July 1980 (aged 26)	2006	PAOK	Free	2009
—	Panagiotis Stergiatos	CB	(1986-03-03)3 March 1986 (aged 21)	2003	AEK Athens U20	—	2008
—	Vasilios Vallianos	LB	(1988-09-11)11 September 1988 (aged 18)	2006	AEK Athens U20	—	2011
8	Miltiadis Sapanis	CM / LM / AM	(1976-01-28)28 January 1976 (aged 31)	2005	Panathinaikos	Free	2008
—	Nikolaos Kaltsas	DM / CM / AM / RM	(1989-06-28)28 June 1989 (aged 18)	2006	AEK Athens U20	—	2011
9	Andrija Delibašić	ST	(1981-04-24)24 April 1981 (aged 26)	2006	Mallorca	Free	2007

Transfers

In

Summer

No.	Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
13	DF	Martin Pautasso	Independiente	Free transfer	5 July 2006	30 June 2010	^[3]
15	DF	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	Niki Volos	Loan return	1 July 2006	30 June 2011
16	MF	Akis Zikos	Monaco	Free transfer	14 August 2006	30 June 2008	^[4]
19	MF	Panagiotis Lagos	Iraklis	€900,000	7 July 2006	30 June 2010	^[5]
24	DF	Ifeanyi Udeze	PAOK	Free transfer	11 August 2006	30 June 2009	^[6]
56	MF	Përparim Hetemaj	HJK Helsinki	€450,000	15 June 2006	30 June 2010	^[7]
70	MF	Guillaume Plessis	Clermont Foot	Free transfer	1 July 2006	30 June 2007
79	FW	Leonidas Kampantais	Panionios	Loan return	1 July 2006	30 June 2007
81	DF	Nikolaos Kourkoulas	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 2006	30 June 2010
83	FW	Michalis Pavlis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 2006	30 June 2011
88	MF	Dániel Tőzsér	Ferencváros	€150,000	1 July 2006	30 June 2010
90	DF	Savvas Gentsoglou	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 2006	30 June 2009
92	MF	Georgios Paligeorgos	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 2006	30 June 2011
—	GK	Giannis Fysekis	Ethnikos Alexandroupoli	Free transfer	25 July 2006	30 June 2011	^[8]
—	GK	Antonis Lykouris	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 2006	30 June 2009
—	DF	Panagiotis Stergiatos	Doxa Drama	Loan return	1 July 2006	30 June 2008
—	DF	Vasilios Vallianos	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 2006	30 June 2011
—	MF	Nikolaos Kaltsas	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 2006	30 June 2011
—	MF	Nikos Pourtoulidis	Thrasyvoulos	Loan return	1 July 2006	30 June 2006
—	MF	Dimitris Karameris	Apollon Smyrnis	Loan return	1 July 2006	30 June 2010
—	MF	Manolis Tsagarogiannakis	Agia Paraskevi	Loan return	1 July 2006	30 June 2009
—	FW	Simos Krassas	Panionios	Loan return	1 July 2006	30 June 2008

Winter

No.	Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
1	MF	Pantelis Kafes	Olympiacos	Free transfer	29 January 2007	30 June 2009	^[9]
—	DF	Dimitrios Koutromanos	Thrasyvoulos	Loan termination	1 January 2007	30 June 2011
—	MF	Georgios Tofas	Enosis Neon Paralimni	Free transfer	1 January 2007	30 June 2010
—	FW	Angelos Komvolidis	Thrasyvoulos	Loan termination	1 January 2007	30 June 2010

Out

Summer

No.	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
3	DF	Nikola Malbaša	TuS Koblenz	Free transfer	1 July 2006
7	FW	Alessandro Soares	Anorthosis Famagusta	End of contract	1 July 2006	^[10]
11	FW	Oleh Venhlinskyi	Chornomorets Odesa	Contract termination	29 June 2006	^[11]
21	MF	Kostas Katsouranis	Benfica	€2,300,000^[a]	22 June 2006	^[12]
24	DF	Christos Kontis	APOEL	Contract termination	1 July 2006
27	MF	Louay Chanko	Hammarby	Contract termination	19 July 2006	^[13]
—	MF	Nikos Pourtoulidis	Asteras Tripolis	End of contract	1 July 2006
—	MF	Dimitris Karameris	Thiva	End of contract	1 July 2006
—	FW	Simos Krassas	Apollon Kalamarias	Contract termintion	26 July 2006	^[14]

Notes

a. ^{^} plus 25% of resale fee and the incomes from their scheduled friendly game which came to be €294,390.^[15]

Winter

No.	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
8	MF	Miltiadis Sapanis	APOEL	Free transfer	10 January 2007	^[16]
9	FW	Andrija Delibašić	Mallorca	Loan termintion	30 January 2007	^[17]
24	DF	Ifeanyi Udeze	Bendel Insurance	Contract termintion	30 January 2007	^[17]

Loan in

Summer

No.	Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
9	FW	Andrija Delibašić	Mallorca	Free	17 August 2006	30 June 2007	Y	^[18]
11	MF	Gustavo Manduca	Benfica	Free	4 August 2006	30 June 2007	Y	^[19]

Loan out

Summer

No.	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
9	FW	Angelos Komvolidis	Thrasyvoulos	Free	17 August 2006	30 June 2007	N	^[20]
19	DF	Dimitrios Koutromanos	Thrasyvoulos	Free	17 August 2006	30 June 2007	N	^[20]
28	MF	Christos Bourbos	Kerkyra	Free	17 August 2006	30 June 2007	N	^[20]
—	GK	Giannis Fysekis	Anagennisi Karditsa	Free	1 July 2006	30 June 2007	N
—	MF	Manolis Tsagarogiannakis	Thiva	Free	1 July 2006	30 June 2008	N
—	MF	Panagiotis Zorbas	Niki Volos	Free	1 July 2006	30 June 2007	N

Winter

No.	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
—	DF	Dimitrios Koutromanos	Ethnikos Piraeus	Free	1 January 2007	30 June 2007	N
—	DF	Panagiotis Stergiatos	Anagennisi Karditsa	Free	26 December 2006	30 June 2008	N	^[21]
—	DF	Vasilios Vallianos	Anagennisi Karditsa	Free	26 December 2006	30 June 2007	N	^[21]
—	MF	Nikolaos Kaltsas	Anagennisi Karditsa	Free	26 December 2006	30 June 2008	N	^[21]
—	MF	Georgios Tofas	Ethnikos Piraeus	Free	1 January 2007	30 June 2007	N
—	FW	Angelos Komvolidis	Ethnikos Piraeus	Free	1 January 2007	30 June 2007	N

Contract renewals

No.	Pos.	Player	Date	Former Exp. Date	New Exp. Date	Source
33	FW	Nikos Liberopoulos	19 July 2006	30 June 2006	30 June 2009	^[13]

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure

Summer: €1,500,000

Winter: €0

Total: €1,500,000

Income

Summer: €2,300,000

Winter: €0

Total: €2,300,000

Net Totals

Summer: €800,000

Winter: €0

Total: €800,000

Pre-season and friendlies

11 July 2006 Friendly	Grödig	0–5	AEK Athens	Flachau
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)			Kampantais 19' Liberopoulos 55', 82', 90+' Lakis 58'	Stadium: Sportplatz Flachau

15 July 2006 Friendly	Wacker Burghausen	0–4	AEK Athens	Flachau
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	César 9' Kapetanos 26' Kyriakidis 69' Tőzsér 74'	Stadium: Sportplatz Flachau

19 July 2006 Friendly	Příbram	1–1	AEK Athens	Flachau
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Lesák 24'	Report	Pliatsikas 87'	Stadium: Sportplatz Flachau

22 July 2006 Friendly	Napoli	0–1	AEK Athens	Flachau
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Pliatsikas 69'	Stadium: Sportplatz Flachau

1 August 2006 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–1	Benfica	Marousi
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Kapetanos 19', 40' Liberopoulos 23'	Report	Jorge 45'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 20,183 Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Argolida)

3 August 2006 Friendly	Chaidari	3–1	AEK Athens	Haidari
18:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Tsabouris 47' Nedeljković 52' (pen.) Koukoutselas 67'	Report	Lakis 89'	Stadium: Takis Charalambidis Stadium

12 August 2006 Friendly	Ionikos	1–1	AEK Athens	Nikaia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Onwuachi 32'	Report	Hetemaj 36'	Stadium: Neapoli Stadium

3 September 2006 Friendly	Niki Volos	2–2	AEK Athens	Volos
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Maceratesi 5' Pavlidis 79'	Report	Cirillo 64' César 85'	Stadium: Panthessaliko Stadium

17 May 2007 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–0	Anagennisi Karditsa
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Tőzsér Kampantais	Report

27 May 2007 Friendly	Benfica	2–1	AEK Athens	East Rutherford
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Bourbos 34' (o.g.) Rui Costa 74'	Report	Manduca 6'	Stadium: Giants Stadium Referee: Kevin Stott (USA)

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Super League	19 August 2006	13 May 2007	Matchday 1	2nd	30	18	8	4	60	27	+33	060.00
Greek Cup	9 November 2006	9 November 2006	Round of 32	Round of 32	1	0	1	0	0	0	+0	000.00
UEFA Champions League	9 August 2006	6 December 2006	Third qualifying round	Group stage	8	4	2	2	11	10	+1	050.00
UEFA Cup	14 February 2007	22 February 2007	Round of 32	Round of 32	2	0	0	2	0	4	−4	000.00
Total					41	22	11	8	71	41	+30	053.66

Last updated: 13 May 2007
Source: Competitions

Super League Greece

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	22	5	3	62	23	+39	71	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	AEK Athens	30	18	8	4	60	27	+33	62	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Panathinaikos	30	16	6	8	47	28	+19	54	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
4	Aris	30	11	13	6	32	26	+6	46
5	Panionios	30	12	9	9	33	31	+2	45^[a]

Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ Head-to-head record: PAOK–Panionios 1–1, Panionios–PAOK 3–1.

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	18	8	4	60	27	+33	62	11	3	1	40	13	+27	7	5	3	20	14	+6

Source: Super League Greece

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	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A
Result	D	D	D	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	W	W	D	D	D	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	L
Position	9	9	10	5	9	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2

Updated to match(es) played on 13 May 2007. Source: slgr.gr
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; P = Postponed

Fixtures

19 August 2006 1	AEK Athens	0–0	PAOK	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 23,109 Referee: Iraklis Tsikinis (Messinia)

27 August 2006 2	OFI	1–1	AEK Athens	Heraklion
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Nwafor 73'	Report	Delibašić 33'	Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 6,628 Referee: Giannis Tsachilidis (Piraeus)

9 2006 3	Atromitos	1–1	AEK Athens	Peristeri
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Koutsis 66'	Report	Pautasso 86'	Stadium: Peristeri Stadium Attendance: 2,620 Referee: Konstantinos Papastamatis (Athens)

18 September 2006 4	AEK Athens	3–0	Iraklis	Marousi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Liberopoulos 5', 54' Lakis 90+1'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 16,029 Referee: Charalabos Karatzas (Euboea)

23 September 2006 5	Olympiacos	1–0	AEK Athens	Piraeus
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Emerson 45' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 29,101 Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Thessaloniki)

30 September 2006 6	AEK Athens	3–1	Ergotelis	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Tőzsér 51' Liberopoulos 61' Lakis 85'	Report	Iachtchouk 43'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 12,992 Referee: Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)

23 October 2006 7	Panathinaikos	1–2	AEK Athens	Marousi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Papadopoulos 25'	Report	Manduca 28' (pen.) Dellas 76'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 33,199 Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Argolida)

28 October 2006 8	AEK Athens	1–0	Apollon Kalamarias	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	César 28'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,373 Referee: Romanos Kontogiannidis (Xanthi)

5 November 2006 9	Aris	1–3	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Kyriakos 5'	Report	Liberopoulos 58' César 69' Kabantais 77'	Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium Attendance: 6,718 Referee: Giannis Tsachilidis (Piraeus)

12 November 2006 10	AEK Athens	5–0	AEL	Marousi
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Manduca 10' Liberopoulos 57' Lagos 85' Tziortziopoulos 87' Kabantais 90+3'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,929 Referee: Giannis Stavridis (Pieria)

18 November 2006 11	AEK Athens	4–1	Kerkyra	Marousi
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	César 23' Liberopoulos 30' (pen.), 48' Manduca 41' (pen.)	Report	Gustavinho 2'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,706 Referee: Ilias Mazarakos (Arta)

25 November 2006 12	Egaleo	1–2	AEK Athens	Egaleo
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Nikolopoulos 33'	Report	César 31' (pen.), 73' (pen.)	Stadium: Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium Attendance: 2,882 Referee: Dimitris Kalopoulos (Thessaloniki)

2 December 2006 13	AEK Athens	2–0	Ionikos	Marousi
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	César 37', 75'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,323 Referee: Theodoros Gaitatzis (Drama)

10 December 2006 14	Skoda Xanthi	0–0	AEK Athens	Xanthi
16:45 EET (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: Skoda Xanthi Arena Attendance: 4,967 Referee: Thanasis Briakos (Epirus)

17 December 2006 15	AEK Athens	4–0	Panionios	Marousi
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Liberopoulos 24', 53', 70' Kabantais 77'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,799 Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Argolida)

6 January 2007 16	PAOK	2–0	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Arabatzis 65' Charalambidis 73'	Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 15,686 Referee: Giannis Tsachilidis (Piraeus)

14 January 2007 17	AEK Athens	3–1	OFI	Marousi
16:45 EET (UTC+2)	Tőzsér 31' Wellington 75' (o.g.) Kabantais 90'	Report	Drulić 18'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 16,335 Referee: Michalis Germanakos (Athens)

21 January 2007 18	AEK Athens	3–0	Atromitos	Marousi
16:45 EET (UTC+2)	César 80' Liberopoulos 12' Kone 90'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 16,335 Referee: Michalis Germanakos (Athens)

28 January 2007 19	Iraklis	1–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Herrera 71'	Report	Liberopoulos 44'	Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 4,105 Referee: Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)

4 February 2007 20	AEK Athens	3–3	Olympiacos	Marousi
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Nikopolidis 28' (o.g.) Konstantinou 48' (o.g.) Kabantais 71'	Report	Đorđević 45' Rivaldo 45+2' César 62'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 36,122 Referee: Thanasis Briakos (Epirus)

10 February 2007 21	Ergotelis	0–0	AEK Athens	Heraklion
16:45 EET (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 5,217 Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Thessaloniki)

18 February 2007 22	AEK Athens	1–4	Panathinaikos	Marousi
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Kapetanos 89'	Report	Goumas 3' Ninis 8' Salpingidis 24' Ivanschitz 66'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 19,810 Referee: Vasilis Terovitsas (Aetoloacarnania)

25 February 2007 23	Apollon Kalamarias	1–2	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
21:00 EET (UTC+2)	Bushi 17'	Report	Fytanidis 14' (o.g.) César 58'	Stadium: Kalamaria Stadium Attendance: 1,080 Referee: Giannis Tsachilidis (Piraeus)

3 March 2007 24	AEK Athens	3–1	Aris	Marousi
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Manduca 57' (pen.) Liberopoulos 74' Kapetanos 89'	Report	Nascimento 87'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,688 Referee: Giorgos Daloukas (Thessaly)

11 March 2007 25	AEL	0–1	AEK Athens	Larissa
16:45 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Ivić 13'	Stadium: Alkazar Stadium Attendance: 8,210 Referee: Dimitris Kalopoulos (Thessaloniki)

18 March 2007 26	Kerkyra	0–1	AEK Athens	Corfu
16:45 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Kapetanos 1'	Stadium: Kerkyra Stadium Attendance: 2,100 Referee: Christoforos Zografos (Athens)

15 April 2007 27	AEK Athens	5–2	Egaleo	Marousi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Liberopoulos 43', 49', 53' (pen.) Kabantais 61' Ivić 66'	Report	Edusei 17' Kumordzi 85'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,431 Referee: Konstantinos Papastamatis (Athens)

22 April 2007 28	Ionikos	1–5	AEK Athens	Piraeus
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Onwuachi 34'	Report	Kafes 22' Kampantais 62', 90' Liberopoulos 74', 90+3'	Stadium: Neapolis Public Stadium Attendance: 1,184 Referee: Kostas Zanetidis (Dodecanese)

29 April 2007 29	AEK Athens	0–0	Skoda Xanthi	Marousi
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 15,691 Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Argolida)

13 May 2007 30	Panionios	3–1	AEK Athens	Nea Smyrni
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Lourenço 7' Djebbour 69' Nsaliwa 70'	Report	Manduca 44'	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 4,686 Referee: Dimitris Kalopoulos (Thessaloniki)

Greek Cup

9 November 2006 Round of 32	Chaidari	0–0 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	AEK Athens	Egaleo
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Tournas 27' 94' Lampropoulos 84' 101'	Report	Kapetanos 45' Papastathopoulos 108' Kyriakidis 118'	Stadium: Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Kostas Zanetidis (Dodecanese)
	Penalties
	Chorianopoulos Tsabouris Tsirogiannis Tsibonias Yfantis Kripintiris		Delibašić Júlio César Georgeas Sapanis Liberopoulos Moras

UEFA Champions League

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 28 July 2006.

9 August 2006 First leg	Hearts	1–2	AEK Athens	Edinburgh, Scotland
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Aguiar 28' 66' Mikoliūnas 62' McCann 76'	Report	Georgeas 13' Kapetanos 89' Liberopoulos 90+2'	Stadium: Murrayfield Stadium Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Nikolai Vollquartz (Denmark)
Note: The official report states that the second goal of AEK Athens at the stoppage time was an own goal by Fyssas, but in the highlights of the game it appears clearly that it was a goal by Liberopoulos.^[22]

23 August 2006 Second leg	AEK Athens	3–0 (5–1 agg.)	Hearts	Athens, Greece
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Liberopoulos 16', 81' Georgeas 74' César 78' (pen.), 85', 80'	Report	Neilson 6' Brellier 26' 29' Mikoliūnas 40' Fyssas 58' McCann 63'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 42,925 Referee: Yuri Baskakov (Russia)

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 24 August 2006.^[23]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MIL	LIL	AEK	AND
1	Milan	6	3	1	2	8	4	+4	10	Advance to knockout stage	—	0–2	3–0	4–1
2	Lille	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	9	Advance to knockout stage	0–0	—	3–1	2–2
3	AEK Athens	6	2	2	2	6	9	−3	8	Transfer to UEFA Cup	1–0	1–0	—	1–1
4	Anderlecht	6	0	4	2	7	11	−4	4		0–1	1–1	2–2	—

Source: RSSSF

13 September 2006 1	Milan	3–0	AEK Athens	Milan, Italy
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Inzaghi 17' Maldini 23' Gourcuff 41' Kaká 76'	Report	Cirillo 27' Moras 64'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 31,836 Referee: Mike Riley (England)

26 September 2006 2	AEK Athens	1–1	Anderlecht	Athens, Greece
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	César 2', 28' Cirillo 62'	Report	Frutos 25' Vanden Borre 31' Goor 67' Tchité 78'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 38,982 Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

17 October 2006 3	Lille	3–1	AEK Athens	Lens, France
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Plestan 45+2' Tavlaridis 47' Robail 61', 65' Keïta 73' Gygax 82' Makoun 90+1'	Report	Udeze 10' Papastathopoulos 38' César 42' Liberopoulos 62' Emerson 70' Ivić 68'	Stadium: Stade Félix-Bollaert Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Florian Meyer (Germany)

1 November 2006 4	AEK Athens	1–0	Lille	Athens, Greece
21:45 EET (UTC+2)	Dellas 37' Kapetanos 71' Liberopoulos 74'	Report	Tavlaridis 3' 22' Makoun 36' Keïta 45+2' Cabaye 77'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 31,148 Referee: Steve Bennett (England)

21 November 2006 5	AEK Athens	1–0	Milan	Athens, Greece
21:45 EET (UTC+2)	César 32' Tziortziopoulos 34' Tőzsér 58'	Report	Oliveira 45' Seedorf 75'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 56,203 Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)

6 December 2006 6	Anderlecht	2–2	AEK Athens	Brussels, Belgium
21:45 EET (UTC+2)	Vanden Borre 38' Frutos 63'	Report	Lakis 75' Cirillo 81'	Stadium: Constant Vanden Stock Stadium Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Peter Fröjdfeldt (Sweden)

UEFA Cup

Knockout stage

Round of 32

14 February 2007 First leg	AEK Athens	0–2	Paris Saint-Germain	Athens, Greece
21:45 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Sakho 20' Mendy 41', 88' Traoré 45+1'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 26,120 Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

22 February 2007 Second leg	Paris Saint-Germain	2–0 (4–0 agg.)	AEK Athens	Paris, France
21:45 EET (UTC+2)	Frau 42' Mendy 90+1' (pen.)	Report	Kyriakidis 20' Kapetanos 45+1'	Stadium: Parc des Princes Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Gianluca Paparesta (Italy)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 13 May 2007

No.	Pos	Player	Super League		Greek Cup		Champions League		UEFA Cup		Total
No.	Pos	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
22	GK	Dionysis Chiotis	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	7	0
28	GK	Stefano Sorrentino	25	0	0	0	7	0	2	0	34	0
84	GK	Giannis Arabatzis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	GK	Antonis Lykouris	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
4	DF	Vangelis Moras	15	0	1	0	4	0	2	0	22	0
5	DF	Bruno Cirillo	26	0	0	0	8	1	2	0	36	1
6	DF	Georgios Alexopoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	DF	Martin Pautasso	15	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	19	1
14	DF	Stavros Tziortziopoulos	15	1	0	0	3	0	2	0	20	1
15	DF	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	14	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	19	0
31	DF	Nikolaos Georgeas	12	0	1	0	6	0	1	0	20	0
55	DF	Traianos Dellas	15	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	20	1
81	DF	Nikolaos Kourkoulas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
90	DF	Savvas Gentsoglou	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	DF	Andreas Chronis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
1	MF	Pantelis Kafes	7	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	9	1
7	MF	Ilias Kyriakidis	7	0	1	0	5	0	2	0	15	0
10	MF	Panagiotis Kone	12	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	13	1
11	MF	Gustavo Manduca	23	5	0	0	3	0	2	0	28	5
16	MF	Akis Zikos	19	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	24	0
17	MF	Vladan Ivić	12	2	0	0	4	1	1	0	17	3
19	MF	Panagiotis Lagos	10	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	15	1
20	MF	Vasilios Pliatsikas	12	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	14	0
23	MF	Vasilios Lakis	21	2	1	0	5	1	1	0	28	3
25	MF	Emerson	17	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	23	0
56	MF	Përparim Hetemaj	7	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	12	0
70	MF	Guillaume Plessis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
88	MF	Dániel Tőzsér	23	2	0	0	8	0	2	0	33	2
92	MF	Giorgos Paligeorgos	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Forwards
33	FW	Nikos Liberopoulos	29	18	1	0	8	3	1	0	39	21
35	FW	Pantelis Kapetanos	15	3	1	0	5	1	2	0	23	4
79	FW	Leonidas Kampantais	21	8	0	0	1	0	0	0	22	8
83	FW	Michalis Pavlis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
99	FW	Júlio César	28	9	1	0	8	4	2	0	39	13
Left during Winter Transfer Window
24	DF	Ifeanyi Udeze	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	0
—	DF	Panagiotis Stergiatos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	DF	Vasilios Vallianos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	MF	Miltiadis Sapanis	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
—	MF	Nikolaos Kaltsas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	FW	Andrija Delibašić	10	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	15	1

Goalscorers

As of 13 May 2007

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	Super League	Champions League	Total
1	33	FW	Nikos Liberopoulos	18	3	21
2	99	FW	Júlio César	9	4	13
3	79	FW	Leonidas Kampantais	8	0	8
4	11	MF	Gustavo Manduca	5	0	5
5	35	FW	Pantelis Kapetanos	3	1	4
6	23	MF	Vasilios Lakis	2	1	3
6	17	MF	Vladan Ivić	2	1	3
8	88	MF	Dániel Tőzsér	2	0	2
9	55	DF	Traianos Dellas	1	0	1
	13	DF	Martin Pautasso	1	0	1
	14	DF	Stavros Tziortziopoulos	1	0	1
	1	MF	Pantelis Kafes	1	0	1
	19	MF	Panagiotis Lagos	1	0	1
	22	MF	Panagiotis Kone	1	0	1
	9	FW	Andrija Delibašić	1	0	1
	5	DF	Bruno Cirillo	0	1	1
Own goals				4	0	4
Totals				60	11	71

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Nikos Liberopoulos	Panionios	4–0 (H)	17 December 2006	Super League	^[24]
Nikos Liberopoulos	Egaleo	5–2 (H)	15 April 2007	Super League	^[25]

Assists

As of 13 May 2007

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	Super League	Champions League	Total
1	99	FW	Júlio César	10	0	10
2	33	FW	Nikos Liberopoulos	6	2	8
3	23	MF	Vasilios Lakis	6	0	6
3	88	MF	Dániel Tőzsér	6	0	6
5	11	MF	Gustavo Manduca	5	1	5
6	79	FW	Leonidas Kampantais	4	0	4
7	5	DF	Bruno Cirillo	2	0	2
7	35	FW	Pantelis Kapetanos	2	0	2
9	55	DF	Traianos Dellas	1	0	1
	17	MF	Vladan Ivić	1	0	1
	19	MF	Panagiotis Lagos	1	0	1
	9	FW	Andrija Delibašić	1	0	1
	31	DF	Nikolaos Georgeas	0	1	1
	56	MF	Përparim Hetemaj	0	1	1
Totals				45	5	50

Clean sheets

The list is sorted by competition order when total clean sheets are equal, then by shirt number 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 13 May 2007

Rank	No.	Player	Super League	Greek Cup	Champions League	Total
1	28	Stefano Sorrentino	10	0	2	12
2	22	Dionysis Chiotis	2	1	1	4
Totals			12	1	3	16

Disciplinary record

As of 13 May 2007

N	P	Nat.	Name											Notes
N	P	Nat.	Name	Super League			Greek Cup		Champions League	UEFA Cup	Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
22	GK		Dionysis Chiotis	1							1
28	GK		Stefano Sorrentino	4							4
84	GK		Giannis Arabatzis
—	GK		Antonis Lykouris
Defenders
4	DF		Vangelis Moras	2					1		3
5	DF		Bruno Cirillo	8		1			2		10		1
6	DF		Georgios Alexopoulos
13	DF		Martin Pautasso	1							1
14	DF		Stavros Tziortziopoulos	3					1		4
15	DF		Sokratis Papastathopoulos	4			1		1		6
31	DF		Nikolaos Georgeas	1					2		3
55	DF		Traianos Dellas	3					1		4
81	DF		Nikolaos Kourkoulas
90	DF		Savvas Gentsoglou
—	DF		Andreas Chronis
Midfielders
1	MF		Pantelis Kafes
7	MF		Ilias Kyriakidis	1				1		1	2		1
10	MF		Panagiotis Kone	1							1
11	MF		Gustavo Manduca	3							3
16	MF		Akis Zikos	7							7
17	MF		Vladan Ivić	2							2
19	MF		Panagiotis Lagos
20	MF		Vasilios Pliatsikas	4							4
23	MF		Vasilios Lakis	1							1
25	MF		Emerson	3					1		4
56	MF		Përparim Hetemaj	1							1
70	MF		Guillaume Plessis
88	MF		Dániel Tőzsér	4					1		5
92	MF		Giorgos Paligeorgos
Forwards
33	FW		Nikos Liberopoulos	7					2		9
35	FW		Pantelis Kapetanos	1			1		2	1	5
79	FW		Leonidas Kampantais	6	1						6	1
83	FW		Michalis Pavlis
99	FW		Júlio César	6					3		9
Left during Winter Transfer window
24	DF		Ifeanyi Udeze	2					1		3
—	DF		Panagiotis Stergiatos
—	DF		Vasilios Vallianos
8	MF		Miltiadis Sapanis
—	MF		Nikolaos Kaltsas
9	FW		Andrija Delibašić	1							1

Starting 11

N.	Formation	Matchday(s)
35	4–4–2	1–6, 8–30
3	4–4–2 (D)
2	4–2–3–1
1	4–3–3	7

No.	Player	Pos.
28	Stefano Sorrentino	GK
4	Vangelis Moras	RCB
55	Traianos Dellas (C)	LCB
5	Bruno Cirillo	RB
14	Stavros Tziortziopoulos	LB
16	Akis Zikos	DM
88	Dániel Tőzsér	CM
23	Vasilios Lakis	RM
11	Gustavo Manduca	LM
99	Júlio César	SS
33	Nikos Liberopoulos	CF