# 1984–85 AEK Athens F.C. season

The 1984–85 season was the 61st season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 26th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki and the Greek Cup. The season began on 23 September 1984 and finished on 16 June 1985.

## Kits

Supplier: Zita Hellas Sponsor(s): Nissan
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## Overview

In the summer of 1984, Zafiropoulos returned to the spotlight of the administrative activities of the club and took over the presidency. The team continued to be in a state of competitive change. Petros Ravousis, one of the team's pillars for 12 years, left and continued at Levadiakos and Takis Nikoloudis to Apollon Kalamarias, since the previous December. AEK were strengthened with the Swedish striker, Håkan Sandberg from Göteborg and Czech midfielder, František Štambachr. From the Greek market, AEK acquired Nikos Pias, Theologis Papadopoulos, Andreas Votsidis and Makis Chatzis. The coach was Václav Halama, a Czech by origin, with a spells at the benches of Austria Vien and Munich 1860. Zafiropoulos hired him with great ambition, while he was presented as a coach that controlled the locker rooms, however, these expectations were shortly refuted.
AEK did not start well, even though they showed elements of a strongly offensive team in the pitch. In the first 10 games, the team achieved 4 wins, 5 draws and 1 defeat, while away from home they managed to win only once. In first round of the cup, AEK were drawn to play against Lamia away from home. In the "dry" stadium of the home team, AEK experienced one of the most shameful and unexpected eliminations in the history of the institution. The team did not treat the match with seriousness and at the 20th minute were behind with a goal by Mantzikos. In the remaining minutes AEK players did not manage to do anything resulting in their elimination from the tournament.
At the end of the 10th matchday Zafiropoulos proceeded to replace Halama, who had lost control of the locker rooms, with the former coach of Aris, Antonis Georgiadis. The team made changes also in their roster, as well. In December, Štambachr left for Apollon Athens, due to the fact that he occupied a foreigner's position, Lakis Stergioudas moved to PAOK and Paraprastanitis alongside Kottis for Egaleo. On the other hand, the president of the "yellow blacks" performed a great deal as he dressed the Hungarian Márton Esterházy in AEK Athens' colors. The Hungarian ace quickly proved his value, as together with Thomas Mavros and Håkan Sandberg composed a "magic" triplet for the double-headed eagle. The team played very offensive football for the season while Thomas Mavros finished as the league's top scorer, with 27 goals and alongside Sandberg scored the 42 of the total 58 goals of the team. Nevertheless, although AEK finished the league with only 3 defeats all of them away from home, remained at third place in the league, equaling the second Panathinaikos, 3 points behind PAOK.

## Management team

| Position | Staff |
| Manager | Antonis Georgiadis |
| Assistant manager | Nikos Christidis |
| Goalkeeping coach | Stelios Serafidis |
| 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 16 June 1985, 23:59 UTC+3.
| Player | Position(s) | Date of birth (Age) | Signed | Previous club | Transfer fee | Contract until |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||
| Christos Arvanitis | GK | (1953-01-23)23 January 1953 (aged 32) | 1982 | Olympiacos | ₯7,000,000 | 1986 |
| Spyros Ikonomopoulos | GK | (1959-07-25)25 July 1959 (aged 25) | 1978 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1989 |
| Theologis Papadopoulos | GK | (1960-01-12)12 January 1960 (aged 25) | 1984 | AEL | ₯9,000,000 | 1989 |
| Defenders ||||||||
| Makis Chatzis | RB / LB | (1957-03-30)30 March 1957 (aged 28) | 1984 | Apollon Athens | ₯6,750,000 | 1989 |
| Stavros Letsas | RB / RM / CB | (1957-03-06)6 March 1957 (aged 28) | 1978 | Agioi Anargyroi | Free | 1986 |
| Panagiotis Stylianopoulos | RB / LB | (1957-09-04)4 September 1957 (aged 27) | 1978 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1986 |
| Pavlos Papaioannou | RB / LB / DM / RM | (1959-05-19)19 May 1959 (aged 26) | 1983 | Rodos | ₯10,000,000 | 1988 |
| Takis Karagiozopoulos | CB / DM / ST | (1961-02-04)4 February 1961 (aged 24) | 1981 | Veria | Free | 1986 |
| Stelios Manolas | CB / RB | (1961-07-13)13 July 1961 (aged 23) | 1979 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1989 |
| Lysandros Georgamlis | RB / CB / DM / LB | (1962-02-25)25 February 1962 (aged 23) | 1979 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1985 |
| Dimos Tsimiliotis | CB | (1966-11-02)2 November 1966 (aged 18) | 1984 | Anagennisi Mantoudi | ₯2,000,000 | 1989 |
| Midfielders ||||||||
| Christos Ardizoglou (Captain) | RM / LM / RW / LW / AM / LB | (1953-03-25)25 March 1953 (aged 32) | 1974 | Apollon Athens | ₯5,000,000 | 1986 |
| Dinos Ballis | AM / CM / DM / SS / ST / CB | (1957-05-25)25 May 1957 (aged 28) | 1981 | Aris | ₯17,000,000 | 1986 |
| Nikos Pias | CM | (1960-04-07)7 April 1960 (aged 25) | 1984 | Rodos | ₯1,350,000 | 1989 |
| Babis Akrivopoulos | AM / SS / ST | (1961-09-04)4 September 1961 (aged 23) | 1983 | Veria | ₯8,400,000 | 1988 |
| Vangelis Vlachos (Vice-captain 2) | AM / CM | (1962-01-06)6 January 1962 (aged 23) | 1979 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1989 |
| Forwards ||||||||
| Thomas Mavros (Vice-captain) | ST / LW | (1954-05-31)31 May 1954 (aged 31) | 1976 | Panionios | ₯4,000,000 | 1987 |
| Márton Esterházy | SS / ST / RW / LW / AM | (1956-04-09)9 April 1956 (aged 29) | 1984 | Honvéd | ₯25,000,000 | 1986 |
| Håkan Sandberg | ST | (1958-07-27)27 July 1958 (aged 26) | 1984 | IFK Göteborg | ₯8,000,000 | 1986 |
| Andreas Voitsidis | ST / RW / LW | (1960-04-28)28 April 1960 (aged 25) | 1984 | Kastoria | ₯2,400,000 | 1989 |
| Giannis Dintsikos | ST / SS / RW / LW / AM | (1960-06-25)25 June 1960 (aged 25) | 1981 | Kastoria | ₯20,000,000 | 1986 |
| Michalis Pytharoulis | ST | 1966 (aged 18–19) | 1984 | A.O. Agios Nikolaos | Free | 1989 |
| Left during Winter Transfer Window ||||||||
| Lakis Stergioudas | GK | (1952-12-11)11 December 1952 (aged 32) | 1972 | Niki Poligyrou | Free | 1985 |
| Vangelis Paraprastanitis | LB / CB / DM | (1955-02-10)10 February 1955 (aged 30) | 1979 | Trikala | Free | 1985 |
| František Štambachr | LM / CM / AM | (1953-02-13)13 February 1953 (aged 32) | 1984 | Dukla Prague | ₯14,000,000 | 1986 |
| Manolis Kottis | ST / LW | (1955-01-25)25 January 1955 (aged 30) | 1980 | Rodos | Free | 1985 |

## Transfers
### In
#### Summer

| Pos. | Player | From | Fee | Date | Contract Until |
| GK | Theologis Papadopoulos | AEL | ₯9,000,000 | 22 June 1984 | 30 June 1989 |
| DF | Dimos Tsimiliotis | Anagennisi Mantoudi | ₯2,000,000 | 10 July 1984 | 30 June 1989 |
| DF | Makis Chatzis | Apollon Athens | ₯6,750,000 | 25 June 1984 | 30 June 1989 |
| MF | Nikos Pias | Rodos | ₯1,350,000 | 29 June 1984 | 30 June 1989 |
| MF | František Štambachr | Dukla Prague | ₯14,000,000 | 11 June 1984 | 30 June 1986 |
| FW | Håkan Sandberg | IFK Göteborg | ₯8,000,000 | 5 July 1984 | 30 June 1986 |
| FW | Andreas Voitsidis | Kastoria | ₯2,400,000 | 10 July 1984 | 30 June 1989 |
| FW | Michalis Pytharoulis | A.O. Agios Nikolaos | Free transfer | 13 July 1984 | 30 June 1989 |

#### Winter

| Pos. | Player | From | Fee | Date | Contract Until | Source |
| FW | Márton Esterházy | Honvéd | ₯25,000,000 | 12 December 1984 | 31 December 1986 | |

### Out
#### Summer

| Pos. | Player | To | Fee | Date |
| DF | Petros Ravousis | Levadiakos | Contract termination | 5 August 1984 |
| MF | Spyros Thodis | Anagennisi Karditsa | End of contract | 4 August 1984 |
| MF | George Christopoulos | Canberra City | Loan termination | 1 July 1984 |
| FW | Giorgos Chatziioannidis | PAS Giannina | ₯2,800,000 | 16 July 1984 |

#### Winter

| Pos. | Player | To | Fee | Date |
| GK | Lakis Stergioudas | PAOK | Contract termination | 23 November 1984 |
| DF | Vangelis Paraprastanitis | Egaleo | ₯500,000 | 17 December 1984 |
| MF | František Štambachr | Apollon Athens | Contract termination | 14 December 1984 |
| FW | Manolis Kottis | Egaleo | ₯1,200,000 | 1 December 1984 |

### Contract renewals

| Pos. | Player | Date | Former Exp. Date | New Exp. Date |
| GK | Spyros Ikonomopoulos | 8 June 1984 | 30 June 1984 | 30 June 1989 |
| DF | Stelios Manolas | 23 November 1984 | 30 November 1984 | 30 November 1989 |
| MF | Vangelis Vlachos | 8 June 1984 | 30 June 1984 | 30 June 1989 |

### Overall transfer activity
## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Alpha Ethniki | 23 September 1984 | 16 June 1985 | Matchday 1 | 3rd | 30 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 58 | 29 | +29 | 053.33 |
| Greek Cup | 31 October 1984 | 31 October 1984 | First round | First round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 31 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 58 | 30 | +28 | 051.61 |
Last updated: 16 June 1985 Source: Competitions

### Alpha Ethniki
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | PAOK (C) | 30 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 54 | 26 | +28 | 46 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
| 2 | Panathinaikos | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 61 | 30 | +31 | 43 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 3 | AEK Athens | 30 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 58 | 29 | +29 | 43 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Olympiacos | 30 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 53 | 23 | +30 | 42 | |
| 5 | Iraklis | 30 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 59 | 33 | +26 | 41 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Competitive matches

#### 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 | 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 |
| Result | D | W | D | W | D | W | D | L | W | D | W | W | D | W | L | W | L | W | W | D | W | D | D | W | W | W | D | W | D | W |
| Position | 8 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |

#### Fixtures
### Greek Cup
## Statistics
### Squad statistics

    As of 16 June 1985
| No. | Pos | Player | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||
| — | GK | Christos Arvanitis | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| — | GK | Spyros Ikonomopoulos | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| — | GK | Theologis Papadopoulos | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| Defenders |||||||||
| — | DF | Makis Chatzis | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 0 |
| — | DF | Stavros Letsas | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| — | DF | Panagiotis Stylianopoulos | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| — | DF | Pavlos Papaioannou | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| — | DF | Takis Karagiozopoulos | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 1 |
| — | DF | Stelios Manolas | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| — | DF | Lysandros Georgamlis | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 0 |
| — | DF | Dimos Tsimiliotis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders |||||||||
| — | MF | Christos Ardizoglou | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
| — | MF | Dinos Ballis | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| — | MF | Nikos Pias | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 |
| — | MF | Babis Akrivopoulos | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| — | MF | Vangelis Vlachos | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 1 |
| Forwards |||||||||
| — | FW | Thomas Mavros | 29 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 27 |
| — | FW | Márton Esterházy | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 3 |
| — | FW | Håkan Sandberg | 29 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 15 |
| — | FW | Andreas Voitsidis | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| — | FW | Giannis Dintsikos | 22 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 5 |
| — | FW | Michalis Pytharoulis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Left during Winter Transfer Window |||||||||
| — | GK | Lakis Stergioudas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| — | DF | Vangelis Paraprastanitis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| — | MF | František Štambachr | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| — | FW | Manolis Kottis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Goalscorers

    As of 16 June 1985
| Rank | Pos. | Player | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | Thomas Mavros | 27 | 0 | 27 |
| 2 | FW | Håkan Sandberg | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| 3 | FW | Giannis Dintsikos | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | MF | Nikos Pias | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | FW | Márton Esterházy | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | DF | Takis Karagiozopoulos | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | MF | Christos Ardizoglou | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | MF | Vangelis Vlachos | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | 58 | 0 | 58 |

### Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.
| Player | Against | Result | Date | Competition |
| Giannis Dintsikos | Pierikos | 7–2 (H) | 21 October 1984 | Alpha Ethniki |
| Thomas Mavros | Apollon Athens | 3–0 (H) | 2 December 1984 | Alpha Ethniki |
| Thomas Mavros$^5$ | Egaleo | 5–2 (H) | 27 January 1985 | Alpha Ethniki |
| Håkan Sandberg | Panachaiki | 5–1 (H) | 10 February 1985 | Alpha Ethniki |
| Thomas Mavros | Aris | 3–1 (H) | 28 April 1985 | Alpha Ethniki |
| Håkan Sandberg | Ethnikos Piraeus | 3–1 (A) | 5 May 1985 | 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 1985
| Rank | Player | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | Total |
| 1 | Theologis Papadopoulos | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | Christos Arvanitis | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Spyros Ikonomopoulos | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | 9 | 0 | 9 |

### Disciplinary record

    As of 16 June 1985
| N | P | Name | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki | Total | Total | Total |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||||
| — | GK | Christos Arvanitis | 1 | | | 1 | | |
| — | GK | Spyros Ikonomopoulos | | | | | | |
| — | GK | Theologis Papadopoulos | | | | | | |
| Defenders ||||||||||||||
| — | DF | Makis Chatzis | 2 | | | 2 | | |
| — | DF | Stavros Letsas | 2 | | | 2 | | |
| — | DF | Panagiotis Stylianopoulos | 3 | | | 3 | | |
| — | DF | Pavlos Papaioannou | 2 | | | 2 | | |
| — | DF | Takis Karagiozopoulos | 5 | 1 | | 5 | 1 | |
| — | DF | Stelios Manolas | 2 | | | 2 | | |
| — | DF | Lysandros Georgamlis | | | | | | |
| — | DF | Dimos Tsimiliotis | | | | | | |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||||
| — | MF | Christos Ardizoglou | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | 1 |
| — | MF | Dinos Ballis | 5 | | | 5 | | |
| — | MF | Nikos Pias | 1 | | | 1 | | |
| — | MF | Babis Akrivopoulos | | | | | | |
| — | MF | Vangelis Vlachos | 1 | | | 1 | | |
| Forwards ||||||||||||||
| — | FW | Thomas Mavros | | | | | | |
| — | FW | Márton Esterházy | | | | | | |
| — | FW | Håkan Sandberg | 4 | | | 4 | | |
| — | FW | Andreas Voitsidis | | | | | | |
| — | FW | Giannis Dintsikos | 2 | | | 2 | | |
| — | FW | Michalis Pytharoulis | | | | | | |
| Left during Winter Transfer Window ||||||||||||||
| — | GK | Lakis Stergioudas | | | | | | |
| — | DF | Vangelis Paraprastanitis | | | | | | |
| — | MF | František Štambachr | | | | | | |
| — | FW | Manolis Kottis | | | | | | |

## Awards

| Player | Pos. | Award | Source |
| Thomas Mavros | FW | Alpha Ethniki Top Scorer | |