# 2011–12 AC Omonia season

The 2011–12 season is Omonia's 57th season in the Cypriot First Division and 63rd year in existence as a football club. On 22 June, the first training session for the season took place at GSP Stadium. The pre-season tour this season was in Poland. The team entered the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round on 28 July and won the first leg in Cyprus against ADO Den Haag. One week later, they eliminated the Dutch team and were drawn against Red Bull Salzburg in the play-off round. A comeback and a 2–1 win and the team still had the chance to advance to the group stages. Omonia lost 0–1 in Austria and were eliminated on the away goals rule. Omonia won the Cypriot Cup last season and therefore played in the Cypriot Super Cup on 7 August against the rivals APOEL but the team lost 0–1.

## Current squad

Last Update: January 28, 2012
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | MNE | Dragoslav Jevrić |
| 2 | DF | NGA | Rasheed Alabi |
| 5 | DF | GRE | Christos Karipidis (1st Vice-Captain) |
| 6 | MF | SUI | Vero Salatić |
| 7 | MF | CYP | Georgios Efrem |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Bryan Bergougnoux (on loan from Lecce) |
| 10 | MF | POR | Bruno Aguiar |
| 11 | MF | CYP | Andreas Avraam |
| 13 | MF | CYP | Constantinos Makrides (Captain) |
| 15 | GK | CYP | Giorgos Loizou |
| 16 | MF | ZIM | Noel Kaseke |
| 17 | FW | CYP | Theodosis Kyprou |
| 18 | DF | CYP | Christoforos Charalambous |
| 19 | DF | ISR | David Ben Dayan |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | DF | ALG | Sofiane Cherfa |
| 24 | DF | ISR | Yuval Spungin |
| 25 | FW | BRA | Andre Alves |
| 26 | FW | CYP | Ioannis Chadjivasilis |
| 28 | DF | POR | Margaça |
| 29 | DF | ESP | Iago Bouzón |
| 30 | GK | CYP | Antonis Georgallides |
| 32 | GK | GRE | Makis Giannikoglou |
| 40 | MF | CYP | Charalambos Kyriakou |
| 44 | MF | BRA | Leandro (2nd Vice-Captain) |
| 46 | MF | CYP | Stathis Aloneftis |
| 77 | FW | CYP | Demetris Christofi |
| 99 | FW | ANG | Freddy |
For recent transfers, see List of Cypriot football transfers summer 2011. Also, see List of Cypriot football transfers winter 2011–12.

### Squad changes

In:
| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Moving from | Type | Transfer window | Ends | Transfer fee | Source |
| 9 | MF | Alexandre | 27 | EU | Enosis Neon Paralimni | Transfer | Summer | 2013 | €150,000 | omonoianews.com |
| 21 | GK | Frascarelli | 26 | Non-EU | APOP Kinyras | Transfer | Summer | 2013 | Free | kifines.com |
| 55 | FW | Tadić | 23 | EU | Arminia Bielefeld | Transfer | Summer | 2013 | Free | omonoianews.com |
| 28 | LB | Margaça | 25 | EU | AEK Larnaca | Transfer | Summer | 2013 | €170,000 | omonoianews.com |
| 6 | DM | Salatić | 25 | EU | Grasshopper Club Zürich | Transfer | Summer | 2013 | Free | supermpala.com |
| 20 | CB | Cherfa | 26 | EU | Châteauroux | Transfer | Summer | 2013 | Free | kerkida.net |
| 99 | FW | Freddy | 32 | Non-EU | AEL Limassol | Transfer | Summer | 2013 | €50,000 | omonoia.com.cy |
| 19 | LB | Ben Dayan | 33 | EU | Hapoel Tel Aviv | Transfer | Winter | 2013 | Free | kifines.com |
Out:
| N | Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Moving to | Type | Transfer window | Transfer fee | Source |
| 1 | GK | Asprogenous | 31 | EU | AEP Paphos | Transfer | Summer | Free | sportnetcy.com |
| 33 | LB | Charalambous | 30 | EU | Alki Larnaca | Released | Summer | N/A | omonoianews.com |
| 32 | FW | LuaLua | 30 | EU | Blackpool | Released | Summer | N/A | omonoia.com.cy |
| N/A | MF | Katsis | 21 | EU | Alki Larnaca | Loan | Summer | Free | sportnetcy.com |
| N/A | DF | Espasandín | 26 | EU | | Released | Summer | N/A | supermpala.com |
| 6 | MF | Panagi | 24 | EU | Alki Larnaca | Transfer | Summer | Free | sport-fm.com.cy |
| 4 | CB | Wenzel | 33 | EU | Kerkyra | End of contract | Summer | Free | omonoia.com.cy |
| 9 | MF | Alexandre | 27 | EU | AEK Larnaca | Transfer | Winter | N/A | |
Last updated: 2011-07-30

## Club
### Captains

* Constantinos Makrides
* Christos Karipidis
* Leandro Marcolini Pedroso de Almeida

## Competitions
### Laiki Bank League
#### Classification

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | AEL Limassol | 26 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 33 | 7 | +26 | 60 | Qualification for second round, Group A |
| 2 | Omonia Nicosia | 26 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 47 | 16 | +31 | 57 | Qualification for second round, Group A |
| 3 | APOEL | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 39 | 13 | +26 | 56 | Qualification for second round, Group A |
| 4 | Anorthosis Famagusta | 26 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 30 | 12 | +18 | 52 | Qualification for second round, Group A |
| 5 | AEK Larnaca | 26 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 33 | 21 | +12 | 42 | Qualification for second round, Group B |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: April 23, 2012. Source: UEFA

#### 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 | 31 | 32 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | W | D | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | D | L | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | W | W | D | W | W | D | L | L | L | W | W | W |

#### Disciplinary records

| No. | Pos. | Player | | | |
| 1 | GK | Jevrić | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | Georgallides | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Alabi | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Karipidis | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | DF | Avraam | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | Kaseke | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | Ben Dayan | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | Cherfa | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | Spungin | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | Margaça | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | Bouzón | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | Salatić | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | Efrem | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | FW | Bergougnoux | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | Aguiar | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | Makrides | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | Alves | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | Leandro | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | MF | Aloneftis | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | FW | Christofi | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | Freddy | 2 | 0 | 0 |

#### Matches

Kick-off times are in UTC+2.

#### Second round
##### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | AEL Limassol (C) | 32 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 37 | 10 | +27 | 68 | Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round |
| 2 | APOEL | 32 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 46 | 19 | +27 | 66 | Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Omonia | 32 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 56 | 23 | +33 | 66 | Qualification for Europa League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Anorthosis Famagusta | 32 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 36 | 21 | +15 | 59 | Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round |
* 1 2 APOE: 7pts; OMO: 4pts
* 1 2 The 2011–12 Cypriot Cup winners, Omonia, qualified for the third qualifying round of UEFA Europa League. Since they finished third, the fourth-placed team of the league also qualified for the Europa League.

##### Matches
### UEFA Europa League
#### Third qualifying round

* Omonia won 3-1 on aggregate.

#### Play-off round

* Red Bull Salzburg 2–2 Omonia on aggregate. Red Bull Salzburg won on away goals.

### Cypriot Cup
#### Second round

* Omonia won 10-1 on aggregate.

#### Quarter-finals

* Omonia won 9-0 on aggregate.

#### Semi-finals

* Omonia won 3-1 on aggregate.