# 1963–64 AEK Athens F.C. season

The 1963–64 season was the 40th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the fifth consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki, the Greek Cup and the European Cup. The season began on 15 September 1963 and finished on 17 June 1964.

## Overview

The management of AEK Athens, in the summer of 1963, proceeded with a brave restructuring of the team's roster. The Syrian Ibrahim Mughrabi returned to his homeland, Thanasis Gouvas and the Cypriots, Panikos Krystallis and Dimitris Zagylos left, while Giannis Marditsis, after his participation in the first match against Monaco, effectively withdrew from the team. Several players were added to the roster, such as the goalkeeper, Theodoros Maniateas from Panthisiakos and Panagiotis Charalambidis from Iraklis, the striker of Atromitos, Kostas Papageorgiou and most importantly, Fanis Tasinos who emerged as the best left midfielder of the previous season with Pagkorinthiakos. Along with the renewal of the roster, the administration of yellow–blacks surprised everyone by removing from the technical leadership Jenő Csaknády, the coach who crowned them Champion in the previous season. The Austrian Heinrich Müller was hired in his place. One of the first innovations under the new coach was the "removal of permanency" in the position under the goalposts, of the team's main goalkeeper Stelios Serafidis and the promotion to the starting eleven of the then substitute goalkeeper, Vangelis Petrakis.
AEK started their competitive obligations, playing for the first time in their history in the UEFA competitions, as they qualified in the preliminary round of the European Cup, having won the championship of the previous season. The draw brought them against the French champions, Monaco. The first appearance in a UEFA match quickly turned into a nightmare as they faced an imposing 7–2 defeat at Stade Municipal du Ray, on 18 September. The rematch in Athens on 2 October, was purely procedural, as 1–1 draw couldn't change anything in the qualification outcome, as it was secured by the Monegasques from the first match.
AEK started the championship race with 3 losses and 1 draw conceding a total of 8 goals in these games. Taking into account the 7–2 defeat in the team's maiden European appearance in Monaco, Serafidis returned to the starting eleven, but precious ground had been already lost in the title race. In the next 14 Championship matches, the yellow–blacks conceded only 3 goals, 2 of which in their fourth defeat in Drama against Doxa Drama, which gave a greater advantage to the advancing Panathinaikos. AEK eventually finished in third place in the table, 13 points from the top. The 72 goals they achieved won them the best attack, while after 4 consecutive firsts of Kostas Nestoridis, the title of the top scorer of the league "passed" to Mimis Papaioannou, who with 29 goals kept the award within the club.
In the Greek Cup AEK eliminated Anagennisi Arta by crushing them away from home on 26 April with 0–7. The round of 16 brought AEK against PAOK again away from home on 24 May, where AEK won 0–3 in extra time, after the 0–0 at the regular time. The away matches continued in the quarter-finals, where AEK faced Proodeftiki on 3 June at Karaiskakis Stadium and eliminated them by 0–1. The draw for the semi-finals brought Panathinaikos and Olympiacos against each other at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium and Pierikos against AEK in Katerini. On 17 June the clearly superior AEK won by 1–3 and easily advanced to the final. In the other semi-final, which was held on the same day, a derby took place that was destined to go down in history for non-competitive reasons and characterized as the "Holocaust of Leoforos". After the match ended a draw at the regular time and the relaxed tempo by all players during the second half, as well as the extra time, enraged the crowd of fans of both teams and now certain that the match was fixed for a replay match to be set, broke the railings, destroyed the billboards and floodlights of the stadium and invaded the pitch. There they gathered all the wooden objects and set them on fire, and then attacked football players, referees and coaches, together and without getting involved with each other. The police did everything they could, but with the extent of the incidents, the intervention of the public prosecutor was called for. The HFF punished both teams for the events and fearing worse incidents, did not set one and recognized the finalist AEK, as the winner of the tournament by declaring it to UEFA as the country's representative in the organization for the next season's European Cup Winners' Cup. Many years later the HFF, recognizing the unjustified gap that had been created, awarded the trophy to AEK as well.

## 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 17 June 1964, 23:59 UTC+2.
| Player | Position(s) | Date of birth (Age) | Signed | Previous club | Transfer fee | Contract until |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||
| Stelios Serafidis | GK | (1935-08-06)6 August 1935 (aged 28) | 1953 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1972 |
| Vangelis Petrakis | GK | (1938-09-07)7 September 1938 (aged 25) | 1962 | Aris | Free | 1967 |
| Defenders ||||||||
| Giannis Marditsis | CB / ST | (1933-02-19)19 February 1933 (aged 31) | 1959 | Egaleo | ₯103,000 | 1964 |
| Mimis Anastasiadis | RB / CB / ST | (1936-10-26)26 October 1936 (aged 27) | 1956 | A.O. Nea Ionia | Free | 1964 |
| Alekos Sofianidis | LB / LM / LW | (1937-08-03)3 August 1937 (aged 26) | 1959 | Beşiktaş | Free | 1969 |
| Aleko Yordan | CB | (1938-01-10)10 January 1938 (aged 26) | 1962 | Beykoz | Free | 1969 |
| Manolis Kanellopoulos | RB / CB | (1938-01-12)12 January 1938 (aged 26) | 1962 | Egaleo | Free | 1965 |
| Theofilos Vernezis | RB / CB / GK | 1938 (aged 25–26) | 1956 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1965 |
| Panagiotis Charalampidis | CB / DM | (1938-07-18)18 July 1938 (aged 25) | 1963 | Iraklis | Free | 1966 |
| Panagiotis Stasinopoulos | CB | 1944 (aged 19–20) | 1963 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1969 |
| Midfielders ||||||||
| Miltos Papapostolou | DM / CB | (1935-09-09)9 September 1935 (aged 28) | 1956 | Egaleo | Free | 1965 |
| Giorgos Petridis | AM / SS / ST | (1938-02-10)10 February 1938 (aged 26) | 1957 | Pera Club | Free | 1966 |
| Stelios Skevofilakas | LM / RM / AM | (1939-01-06)6 January 1939 (aged 25) | 1960 | Eleftheroupoli | Free | 1972 |
| Sofos Koulidis | CM / AM | 1939 (aged 24–25) | 1962 | Egaleo | Free | 1965 |
| Emilios Theofanidis | CM / CB | (1939-11-30)30 November 1939 (aged 24) | 1963 | Aris Ptolemaidas | Free | 1965 |
| Fanis Tasinos | LM / CM | (1941-10-28)28 October 1941 (aged 22) | 1963 | Korinthos | ₯500,000 | 1966 |
| Michalis Simigdalas | CM | (1944-06-23)23 June 1944 (aged 20) | 1963 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1969 |
| Giorgos Karafeskos | CM / DM / RM / RW | (1946-12-08)8 December 1946 (aged 17) | 1963 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1974 |
| Forwards ||||||||
| Kostas Nestoridis | ST / SS | (1930-03-15)15 March 1930 (aged 34) | 1955 | Panionios | Free | 1966 |
| Andreas Stamatiadis (Captain) | RW / LW / SS / ST | (1935-08-16)16 August 1935 (aged 28) | 1952 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1969 |
| Aris Tsachouridis | LW / LM / RM / RW | (1940-12-10)10 December 1940 (aged 23) | 1960 | Makedonikos | Free | 1965 |
| Kostas Papageorgiou | ST | (1941-01-01)1 January 1941 (aged 23) | 1963 | Atromitos | ₯200,000 | 1969 |
| Mimis Papaioannou | SS / ST / AM | (1942-08-23)23 August 1942 (aged 21) | 1962 | Veria | ₯175,000 | 1970 |
| Spyros Pomonis | LW / LM | (1944-02-12)12 February 1944 (aged 20) | 1960 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1973 |
| Nikos Sevastopoulos | RW / SS / AM / ST | (1945-02-26)26 February 1945 (aged 19) | 1963 | AEK Athens U20 | — | 1971 |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | From | Fee | Date | Contract Until |
| DF | Panagiotis Charalampidis | Iraklis | Free transfer | 1 July 1963 | 30 June 1966 |
| DF | Panagiotis Stasinopoulos | AEK Athens U20 | Promotion | 1 July 1963 | 30 June 1969 |
| MF | Michalis Simigdalas | AEK Athens U20 | Promotion | 1 July 1963 | 30 June 1969 |
| MF | Emilios Theofanidis | Aris Ptolemaidas | Free transfer | 1 July 1963 | 30 June 1965 |
| MF | Fanis Tasinos | Korinthos | ₯500,000 | 1 July 1963 | 30 June 1966 |
| MF | Giorgos Karafeskos | AEK Athens U20 | Promotion | 1 July 1963 | 30 June 1974 |
| FW | Nikos Sevastopoulos | AEK Athens U20 | Promotion | 1 July 1963 | 30 June 1971 |
| FW | Kostas Papageorgiou | Atromitos | ₯200,000 | 1 July 1963 | 30 June 1969 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | To | Fee | Date |
| DF | Manolis Klikopoulos | Free agent | Contract termination | 1 July 1963 |
| DF | Giannis Doukas | Free agent | End of contract | 1 July 1963 |
| DF | Stamatis Skafidas | Panegialios | Free transfer | 1 July 1963 |
| DF | Petros Stamatelopoulos | Panachaiki | Free transfer | 1 August 1963 |
| MF | Thanasis Gouvas | Chicago Olympic | Free transfer | 1 July 1963 |
| MF | Panikos Krystallis | Apollon Limassol | Free transfer | 1 July 1963 |
| FW | Dimitris Zagylos | Anorthosis Famagusta | Free transfer | 1 October 1963 |
| FW | Ibrahim Mughrabi | Al Ahli | End of contract | 1 July 1963 |
| FW | Nikos Zagotsis | Panachaiki | Free transfer | 1 July 1963 |
| FW | Nikos Spyropoulos | Free agent | End of contract | 1 July 1963 |

### Overall transfer activity

Expenditure: ₯700,000
Income: ₯0
Net Total: ₯700,000

## 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 | 15 September 1963 | 31 May 1964 | Matchday 1 | 3rd | 30 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 72 | 25 | +47 | 060.00 |
| Greek Cup | 26 April 1964 | 17 June 1964 | Round of 32 | Winners | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | +13 | 100.00 |
| European Cup | 18 September 1963 | 2 October 1963 | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 36 | 22 | 6 | 8 | 89 | 34 | +55 | 061.11 |
Last updated: 2 October 1963 Source: Competitions

### Alpha Ethniki
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Panathinaikos (C) | 30 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 67 | 19 | +48 | 84 | Qualification for European Cup preliminary round |
| 2 | Olympiacos | 30 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 62 | 17 | +45 | 77 | |
| 3 | AEK Athens | 30 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 72 | 25 | +47 | 71 | Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 4 | Panionios | 30 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 48 | 31 | +17 | 63 | |
| 5 | Apollon Athens | 30 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 41 | 36 | +5 | 63 | |

#### 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 | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | H | H | H | A | H | H | H | A | Η | A | H | A | A | A | H | A | A |
| Result | L | L | L | D | D | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | L | L | W | W | L | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | D |
| Position | 11 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |

#### Fixtures
### Greek Cup

AEK entered the Greek Cup at the round of 32.

#### Matches

As Panathinaikos and Olympiacos were ejected from the competition, the final was scratched and AEK Athens were awarded the cup.

### European Cup
#### Preliminary round
## Statistics
### Squad statistics

    As of 17 June 1964
| No. | Pos | Player | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | European Cup | European Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||
| — | GK | Stelios Serafidis | 26 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 0 |
| — | GK | Vangelis Petrakis | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Defenders |||||||||||
| — | DF | Giannis Marditsis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| — | DF | Mimis Anastasiadis | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| — | DF | Alekos Sofianidis | 24 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| — | DF | Aleko Yordan | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| — | DF | Manolis Kanellopoulos | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 1 |
| — | DF | Theofilos Vernezis | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| — | DF | Panagiotis Charalampidis | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| — | DF | Panagiotis Stasinopoulos | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Midfielders |||||||||||
| — | MF | Miltos Papapostolou | 28 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 0 |
| — | MF | Giorgos Petridis | 13 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 3 |
| — | MF | Stelios Skevofilakas | 29 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 1 |
| — | MF | Sofos Koulidis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| — | MF | Emilios Theofanidis | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| — | MF | Fanis Tasinos | 24 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 5 |
| — | MF | Michalis Simigdalas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| — | MF | Giorgos Karafeskos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards |||||||||||
| — | FW | Kostas Nestoridis | 24 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 15 |
| — | FW | Andreas Stamatiadis | 29 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 2 |
| — | FW | Aris Tsachouridis | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| — | FW | Kostas Papageorgiou | 25 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 22 |
| — | FW | Mimis Papaioannou | 28 | 29 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 34 |
| — | FW | Spyros Pomonis | 21 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 4 |
| — | FW | Nikos Sevastopoulos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |

### Goalscorers

    As of 17 June 1964
| Rank | Pos. | Player | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | European Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | Mimis Papaioannou | 29 | 5 | 0 | 34 |
| 2 | FW | Kostas Papageorgiou | 20 | 2 | 0 | 22 |
| 3 | FW | Kostas Nestoridis | 10 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
| 4 | MF | Fanis Tasinos | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | FW | Spyros Pomonis | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | MF | Giorgos Petridis | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | FW | Andreas Stamatiadis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | DF | Manolis Kanellopoulos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | Stelios Skevofilakas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | Emilios Theofanidis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | 72 | 14 | 3 | 89 |

### Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.
| Player | Against | Result | Date | Competition |
| Mimis Papaioannou | Aris | 3–0 (H) | 20 October 1963 | Alpha Ethniki |
| Mimis Papaioannou | Ethnikos Piraeus | 4–0 (H) | 8 December 1963 | Alpha Ethniki |
| Mimis Papaioannou | Anagennisi Arta | 7–0 (Α) | 26 April 1964 | Greek Cup |

### 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 17 June 1964
| Rank | Player | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | European Cup | Total |
| 1 | Stelios Serafidis | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 2 | Vangelis Petrakis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Totals | Totals | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |

### Disciplinary record

    As of 17 June 1964
| N | P | Name | Alpha Ethniki | Total |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||||||||
| — | GK | Stelios Serafidis | | |
| — | GK | Vangelis Petrakis | | |
| Defenders |||||||||||||||||
| — | DF | Giannis Marditsis | | |
| — | DF | Mimis Anastasiadis | | |
| — | DF | Alekos Sofianidis | | |
| — | DF | Aleko Yordan | | |
| — | DF | Manolis Kanellopoulos | | |
| — | DF | Theofilos Vernezis | | |
| — | DF | Panagiotis Charalampidis | | |
| — | DF | Panagiotis Stasinopoulos | | |
| Midfielders |||||||||||||||||
| — | MF | Miltos Papapostolou | 1 | 1 |
| — | MF | Giorgos Petridis | | |
| — | MF | Stelios Skevofilakas | | |
| — | MF | Sofos Koulidis | | |
| — | MF | Emilios Theofanidis | | |
| — | MF | Fanis Tasinos | | |
| — | MF | MMichalis Simigdalas | | |
| — | MF | Giorgos Karafeskos | | |
| Forwards |||||||||||||||||
| — | FW | Kostas Nestoridis | | |
| — | FW | Andreas Stamatiadis | | |
| — | FW | Aris Tsachouridis | | |
| — | FW | Kostas Papageorgiou | | |
| — | FW | Mimis Papaioannou | | |
| — | FW | Spyros Pomonis | | |
| — | FW | Nikos Sevastopoulos | | |

## Awards

| Player | Pos. | Award | Source |
| Mimis Papaioannou | FW | Alpha Ethniki Top Scorer | |