# 1975–76 AEK Athens F.C. season

The 1975–76 season was the 52nd season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 17th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup and the UEFA Cup. The season began on 17 September 1975 and finished on 23 May 1976.

## Kits

| Home | Away |

## Overview

In the summer of 1975, Loukas Barlos, setting aside everything else, threw himself into the acquisition of Thomas Mavros. The 21-year-old striker of Panionios had dazzled everyone with his talent and had decided that it was time to move on to one of the greats of the league. Barlos, according to his favorite strategy, was in favor of the proper gallant player in his offer, but Panionios was blocking the transfer. The president of AEK approached Mavros and convinced him immediately, showing his love for AEK and football. Mavros pushed for the transfer, but collided with a relentless attitude of Panionios. A legal dispute began, based on a finding of Thomas's brother and his lawyer that had to do with their father's unsigned consent when the minor Thomas first joined Panionios. The ending of this dispute came a year later after the out-of-court settlement between the two clubs, with Mavros paying the price of a complete absence of one year from the stadiums, recalling the respective case of Nestoridis several years ago. Fadrhonc's work in the football department was becoming effective, creating a team that combined spectacle and results.
After two consecutive years of absence from the European competitions, AEK returned in the UEFA Cup. The draw brought them against the Yugoslav Vojvodina. The first match took place at Karađorđe Stadium and ended 0–0. Fantronk's team confirmed their superiority and took the victory and the qualification with a score of 3–1. In the second round, the draw brought AEK against the Czechoslovak Inter Bratislava. In the first match at Bratislava, AEK faced defeat by 2–0. In the rematch at Nea Filadelfeia the Czechoslovaks "froze" the stadium opening the score at the 2nd minute and the task of AEK became even more difficult. The Union managed to turn the tie by scoring three goals in the second half, but unfortunately the fourth goal that would send them to the next round did not occur. In the league, AEK remained undefeated for 23 consecutive games and reached seven matches before the finish holding their luck in their own hands. Unfortunately, in the next two matches they suffered an equal number of defeats from Panathinaikos and Aris and in combination with the defeat from PAOK, they finished at second place, 5 points from the top, handing over the title to PAOK. The offensiveness that Fadrhonc gave to team's playing style, resulted in Georgios Dedes as the league's top scorer with 15 goals, while in the top 10 were also Walter Wagner and Mimis Papaioannou with 11 goals each. In the Greek Cup, AEK reached the semi-finals, where they lost 2–3 and were eliminated by Olympiacos.

## Management team

| Position | Staff |
| Manager | František Fadrhonc |
| Assistant manager | Andreas Stamatiadis |
| Goalkeeping coach | Stelios Serafidis |
| 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 23 May 1976, 23:59 UTC+3.
| Player | Position(s) | Date of birth (Age) | Signed | Previous club | Transfer fee | Contract until |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||
| Giorgos Sidiropoulos | GK | (1949-06-25)25 June 1949 (aged 27) | 1973 | AO Trikala | Free | 1978 |
| Lakis Stergioudas | GK | (1952-12-11)11 December 1952 (aged 23) | 1972 | Niki Poligyrou | Free | 1985 |
| Defenders ||||||||
| Giorgos Skrekis | RB / CB | (1945-02-02)2 February 1945 (aged 31) | 1974 | Panionios | Free | 1977 |
| Spyros Stefanidis | CB / RB | (1946-12-18)18 December 1946 (aged 29) | 1973 | Panserraikos | Free | 1976 |
| Apostolos Toskas | CB | (1947-12-28)28 December 1947 (aged 28) | 1969 | Trikala | Free | 1979 |
| Lakis Nikolaou | CB / RB / ST / DM | (1949-07-17)17 July 1949 (aged 26) | 1971 | Atromitos | ₯600,000 | 1979 |
| Sakis Zarzopoulos | CB / RB / LB | (1949-12-15)15 December 1949 (aged 26) | 1973 | Panserraikos | Free | 1977 |
| Stefanos Theodoridis | CB / RB | (1950-06-19)19 June 1950 (aged 26) | 1969 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1978 |
| Petros Ravousis | CB / RB | (1954-10-01)1 October 1954 (aged 21) | 1972 | Aetos Skydra | Free | 1985 |
| Midfielders ||||||||
| Timo Zahnleiter | CM / DM | (1948-12-16)16 December 1948 (aged 27) | 1974 | 1860 München | Free | 1978 |
| Takis Timotheou | AM / CB | 1949 (aged 26–27) | 1974 | APOEL | Free | 1976 |
| Lazaros Papadopoulos | RM / RW | (1950-01-03)3 January 1950 (aged 26) | 1973 | Veria | Free | 1979 |
| Dionysis Tsamis | CM / DM / AM | (1951-05-21)21 May 1951 (aged 25) | 1972 | Panetolikos | ₯2,300,000 | 1980 |
| Christos Ardizoglou | RM / LM / RW / LW / AM / LB | (1953-03-25)25 March 1953 (aged 23) | 1974 | Apollon Athens | ₯5,000,000 | 1982 |
| Fotis Outsikas | LM / LB / LW | (1957-05-26)26 May 1957 (aged 19) | 1975 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1980 |
| Forwards ||||||||
| Mimis Papaioannou (Captain) | SS / ST / AM | (1942-08-23)23 August 1942 (aged 33) | 1962 | Veria | ₯175,000 | 1979 |
| Georgios Dedes | ST / SS / RW / LW | (1943-02-25)25 February 1943 (aged 33) | 1974 | Panionios | Free | 1977 |
| Walter Wagner | ST / SS / RW / LW | (1949-07-26)26 July 1949 (aged 26) | 1974 | Austria Wien | Free | 1977 |
| Tasos Konstantinou | RW / SS / ST / RM / AM | (1951-03-11)11 March 1951 (aged 25) | 1972 | EPA Larnaca | Free | 1980 |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | From | Fee | Date | Contract Until | Source |
| MF | Fotis Outsikas | AEK Athens U20 | Promotion | 1 July 1975 | 30 June 1980 | |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | To | Fee | Date |
| GK | Giorgos Daditsos | Panachaiki | End of contract | 1 July 1975 |
| DF | Victor Theofilopoulos | Kastoria | End of contract | 1 July 1975 |
| MF | Giorgos Lavaridis | Panserraikos | End of contract | 1 July 1975 |
| MF | Vangelis Makos | Panionios | End of contract | 1 July 1975 |
| FW | Jorge Falero Fanìs | Montevideo Wanderers | End of contract | 1 July 1975 |

### Overall transfer activity

Expenditure: ₯0
Income: ₯0
Net Total: ₯0

## 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 | 5 October 1975 | 23 May 1976 | Matchday 1 | 2nd | 30 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 57 | 18 | +39 | 060.00 |
| Greek Cup | 2 November 1975 | 12 May 1976 | First round | Semi-finals | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 5 | +13 | 080.00 |
| UEFA Cup | 17 September 1975 | 5 November 1975 | First round | Second round | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 39 | 24 | 9 | 6 | 81 | 27 | +54 | 061.54 |
Last updated: 23 May 1976 Source: Competitions

### Alpha Ethniki
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | PAOK (C) | 30 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 60 | 17 | +43 | 49 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
| 2 | AEK Athens | 30 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 57 | 18 | +39 | 44 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 3 | Olympiacos | 30 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 48 | 28 | +20 | 41 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Panathinaikos | 30 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 47 | 28 | +19 | 38 | |
| 5 | PAS Giannina | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 40 | 33 | +7 | 36 | |

#### 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 | H | A | 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 |
| Result | W | W | W | W | D | W | D | W | D | W | W | D | W | D | W | D | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | L | L | W | L | D | W | L |
| Position | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

#### Fixtures
### UEFA Cup
#### First round
#### Second round
## Statistics
### Squad statistics

    As of 23 May 1976
| No. | Pos | Player | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | UEFA Cup | UEFA Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||
| — | GK | Giorgos Sidiropoulos | 22 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| — | GK | Lakis Stergioudas | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Defenders |||||||||||
| — | DF | Giorgos Skrekis | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 1 |
| — | DF | Spyros Stefanidis | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| — | DF | Apostolos Toskas | 23 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| — | DF | Lakis Nikolaou | 29 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 37 | 3 |
| — | DF | Sakis Zarzopoulos | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| — | DF | Stefanos Theodoridis | 22 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| — | DF | Petros Ravousis | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
| Midfielders |||||||||||
| — | MF | Timo Zahnleiter | 27 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 3 |
| — | MF | Takis Timotheou | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| — | MF | Lazaros Papadopoulos | 18 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 1 |
| — | MF | Dionysis Tsamis | 30 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 39 | 1 |
| — | MF | Christos Ardizoglou | 25 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 10 |
| — | MF | Fotis Outsikas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards |||||||||||
| — | FW | Mimis Papaioannou | 30 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 38 | 15 |
| — | FW | Georgios Dedes | 27 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 19 |
| — | FW | Walter Wagner | 27 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 36 | 16 |
| — | FW | Tasos Konstantinou | 24 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 32 | 12 |

### Goalscorers

    As of 23 May 1976
| Rank | Pos. | Player | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | UEFA Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | Georgios Dedes | 15 | 4 | 0 | 19 |
| 2 | FW | Walter Wagner | 11 | 3 | 2 | 16 |
| 3 | FW | Mimis Papaioannou | 11 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
| 4 | FW | Tasos Konstantinou | 8 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | MF | Christos Ardizoglou | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 6 | DF | Lakis Nikolaou | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | MF | Timo Zahnleiter | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | DF | Giorgos Skrekis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | Dionysis Tsamis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | Lazaros Papadopoulos | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | 57 | 18 | 6 | 81 |

### Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.
| Player | Against | Result | Date | Competition |
| Georgios Dedes | Kastoria | 4–0 (H) | 5 October 1975 | Alpha Ethniki |
| Mimis Papaioannou | Agios Dimitrios | 7–0 (H) | 2 November 1975 | Greek Cup |
| Christos Ardizoglou | Olympiakos Neon Liosion | 6–1 (H) | 10 March 1976 | Greek Cup |
| Georgios Dedes | Pierikos | 5–0 (H) | 16 May 1976 | 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 23 May 1976
| Rank | Player | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | UEFA Cup | Total |
| 1 | Giorgos Sidiropoulos | 14 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
| 2 | Lakis Stergioudas | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Totals | Totals | 17 | 3 | 1 | 21 |

### Disciplinary record

    As of 23 May 1976
| N | P | Name | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | UEFA Cup | Total | Total |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||||||||
| — | GK | Giorgos Sidiropoulos | | | | | | |
| — | GK | Lakis Stergioudas | | | | | | |
| Defenders |||||||||||||||||
| — | DF | Giorgos Skrekis | | | | | | |
| — | DF | Spyros Stefanidis | 1 | | | | 1 | |
| — | DF | Apostolos Toskas | | | | | | |
| — | DF | Lakis Nikolaou | 2 | | | 1 | 3 | |
| — | DF | Sakis Zarzopoulos | | | | | | |
| — | DF | Stefanos Theodoridis | | | | | | |
| — | DF | Petros Ravousis | | | 1 | | 1 | |
| Midfielders |||||||||||||||||
| — | MF | Timo Zahnleiter | | | | | | |
| — | MF | Takis Timotheou | | | | | | |
| — | MF | Lazaros Papadopoulos | 1 | | | | 1 | |
| — | MF | Dionysis Tsamis | | | 1 | | 1 | |
| — | MF | Christos Ardizoglou | | 1 | | | | 1 |
| — | MF | Fotis Outsikas | | | | | | |
| Forwards |||||||||||||||||
| — | FW | Mimis Papaioannou | | | | | | |
| — | FW | Georgios Dedes | | | 1 | | 1 | |
| — | FW | Walter Wagner | 1 | | | | 1 | |
| — | FW | Tasos Konstantinou | | | | | | |

## Awards

| Player | Pos. | Award | Source |
| Georgios Dedes | FW | Alpha Ethniki Top Scorer | |
| Christos Ardizoglou | MF | Greek Cup Top Scorer (shared) | |