# 2021–22 Aris Thessaloniki F.C. season

The 2021–22 season was the 108th season in the existence of Aris Thessaloniki F.C. and the club's 4th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football since their return there. In addition to the Super League 1, Aris were participating in this season's editions of the Greek Cup and the inaugural edition of UEFA Europa Conference League.

## First-team squad

| # | Name | Nationality | Position(s) | Date of birth (Age) | Signed From |
| Goalkeepers ||||||
| 1 | Denis César | | GK | (1987-04-14)April 14, 1987 (aged 35) | Gil Vicente |
| 23 | Julián Cuesta | | GK | (1991-03-28)March 28, 1991 (aged 31) | Wisła Kraków |
| 99 | Marios Siampanis | | GK | (1999-09-28)September 28, 1999 (aged 22) | Olympiacos |
| Defenders ||||||
| 2 | Salem Mbakata | / | RB | (1998-04-19)April 19, 1998 (aged 24) | Free Agent |
| 3 | Lumor Agbenyenu | | LB / LM | (1996-08-15)August 15, 1996 (aged 25) | Sporting CP |
| 4 | Fabiano Leismann | | CB / RB | (1991-11-18)November 18, 1991 (aged 30) | Denizlispor |
| 5 | Georgios Delizisis (captain) | | CB | (1987-12-01)December 1, 1987 (aged 34) | Apollon Smyrni |
| 14 | Jakub Brabec | | CB | (1992-08-06)August 6, 1992 (aged 29) | Viktoria Plzeň |
| 21 | Daniel Sundgren | | RB / RM / DM | (1990-11-22)November 22, 1990 (aged 31) | AIK Fotboll |
| 22 | Cristian Ganea | / | LB / LM / LW | (1992-05-24)May 24, 1992 (aged 30) | Athletic Bilbao |
| 25 | Christos Marmaridis | | RB | (2002-05-25)May 25, 2002 (aged 20) | Club's Academy |
| 27 | Panagiotis Sengiergis | | LB | (2001-06-23)June 23, 2001 (aged 20) | Club's Academy |
| 29 | Yohan Benalouane | / | CB / RB / LB | (1987-03-28)March 28, 1987 (aged 35) | Free Agent |
| 44 | Kyriakos Aslanidis | | CB | (2002-03-11)March 11, 2002 (aged 20) | Club's Academy |
| 66 | Emanuel Šakić | | RB / RM / DM | (1991-01-25)January 25, 1991 (aged 31) | Sturm Graz |
| Midfielders ||||||
| 8 | Lerin Duarte | / | CM / AM | (1990-08-11)August 11, 1990 (aged 31) | Heracles Almelo |
| 13 | Cheick Doukouré | / | DM / CM | (1992-09-11)September 11, 1992 (aged 29) | Leganés |
| 17 | Badou Ndiaye | | CM / DM / AM | (1990-10-27)October 27, 1990 (aged 31) | Stoke City |
| 26 | Javier Matilla (vice-captain) | | CM / DM | (1988-08-16)August 16, 1988 (aged 33) | Gimnàstic de Tarragona |
| 35 | Zisis Saliaris | | CM | (2003-04-25)April 25, 2003 (aged 19) | Club's Academy |
| 88 | Lucas Sasha | / | DM / LB / RB | (1990-03-01)March 1, 1990 (aged 32) | Ludogorets Razgrad |
| Forwards ||||||
| 7 | Daniel Mancini | / | RW / LW / SS | (1996-11-11)November 11, 1996 (aged 25) | Girondins de Bordeaux |
| 9 | Dimitris Manos | | ST / SS / RW | (1994-09-16)September 16, 1994 (aged 27) | Olympiacos |
| 10 | Mateo García | / | RW / LW | (1996-09-10)September 10, 1996 (aged 25) | Red Star Belgrade |
| 11 | Kostas Mitroglou | | ST | (1988-03-12)March 12, 1988 (aged 34) | Olympique de Marseille |
| 12 | Mohanad Ali | | ST | (2000-06-20)June 20, 2000 (aged 21) | Al-Duhail |
| 15 | Juan Iturbe | / | LW / RW / SS | (1993-06-04)June 4, 1993 (aged 28) | UNAM Pumas |
| 16 | Bruno Gama | | RW / LW / SS | (1987-11-15)November 15, 1987 (aged 34) | Alcorcón |
| 18 | Facundo Bertoglio | / | LW / RW / SS | (1990-06-30)June 30, 1990 (aged 31) | Aldosivi |
| 19 | Cristian López | | ST | (1989-04-27)April 27, 1989 (aged 33) | Las Palmas |
| 20 | Izet Hajrović | / | LW / RW / AM | (1991-08-04)August 4, 1991 (aged 30) | Dinamo Zagreb |
| 47 | Aboubakar Kamara | / | ST / RW / LW | (1995-03-07)March 7, 1995 (aged 27) | Fulham |
| 50 | Luis Palma | | LW / ST / AM | (2000-01-17)January 17, 2000 (aged 22) | Vida |

## Transfers and loans
### Transfers in

| Entry date | Position | No. | Player | From club | Fee |
| June 2021 | FW | 20 | / Izet Hajrović | Dinamo Zagreb | Free |
| July 2021 | GK | 1 | Denis César | Gil Vicente | Free |
| July 2021 | DF | 4 | Fabiano Leismann | Denizlispor | Free |
| July 2021 | MF | 17 | Badou Ndiaye | Stoke City | Free |
| July 2021 | DF | 3 | Lumor Agbenyenu | Sporting CP | Free |
| August 2021 | FW | 15 | / Juan Iturbe | UNAM Pumas | Free |
| August 2021 | FW | 47 | / Aboubakar Kamara | Fulham | 3.500.000 € |
| August 2021 | DF | 14 | Jakub Brabec | Viktoria Plzeň | Free |
| January 2022 | FW | 50 | Luis Palma | Vida | 200.000 € |
| January 2022 | MF | 13 | / Cheick Doukouré | Leganés | Free |
| February 2022 | DF | 2 | / Salem Mbakata | Free Agent | Free |

### Transfers out

| Exit date | Position | No. | Player | To club | Fee |
| June 2021 | DF | 4 | Toni Datković | Real Salt Lake | 120.000 € |
| June 2021 | GK | 30 | Zacharie Boucher | Free Agent | Released |
| June 2021 | MF | 20 | Ergys Kaçe | Free Agent | Released |
| June 2021 | DF | 92 | / Lindsay Rose | Legia Warsaw | 600.000 € |
| June 2021 | DF | 40 | Petros Bagalianis | Free Agent | Released |
| June 2021 | MF | 38 | Petros Bakoutsis | Free Agent | Released |
| August 2021 | DF | 3 | Apostolos Martinis | Panathinaikos B | Released |
| August 2021 | FW | 77 | Bruno Felipe | Sheriff Tiraspol | Released |
| January 2022 | FW | 33 | Konstantinos Chatzipirpiridis | Iraklis | Released |
| January 2022 | MF | 6 | / James Jeggo | Eupen | Released |

### Loans in

| Start date | End date | Position | No. | Player | From club | Fee | Ref. |
| August 2021 | June 2022 | FW | 12 | Mohanad Ali | Al-Duhail | None | |

### Loans out

| Start date | End date | Position | No. | Player | To club | Fee |
| January 2021 | December 2021 | MF | 34 | Ali Adem | Shkupi | None |
| August 2021 | June 2022 | DF | 31 | Panagiotis Tsagalidis | Kalamata | None |
| August 2021 | December 2021 | DF | 44 | Kyriakos Aslanidis | Olympiacos Volos | None |
| August 2021 | December 2021 | FW | 33 | Konstantinos Chatzipirpiridis | Olympiacos Volos | None |
| January 2022 | June 2022 | MF | 34 | Ali Adem | Veria | None |

### Transfer summary
## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Current position / round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
| Super League 1 | Matchday 1 | — | 3rd | 13 September 2021 | 17 May 2022 |
| Regular Season | Matchday 1 | — | 4th | 13 September 2021 | 6 March 2022 |
| Play-off Round | Matchday 1 | — | 3rd | 13 March 2022 | 17 May 2022 |
| Greek Cup | Round of 16 | — | Quarter-finals | 1 December 2021 | 26 January 2022 |
| UEFA Europa Conference League | Second qualifying round | — | Second qualifying round | 22 July 2021 | 29 July 2021 |
Updated to match played 17 May 2022 Source: Competitions

### Overview

| Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Super League 1 | 36 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 39 | 28 | +11 | 050.00 |
| Greek Cup | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 050.00 |
| UEFA Europa Conference League | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 050.00 |
| Total | 42 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 46 | 33 | +13 | 050.00 |
| Super League 1 | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Super League 1 | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Regular Season | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 28 | 21 | +7 | 050.00 |
| Play-off Round | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 050.00 |
| Total | 36 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 39 | 28 | +11 | 050.00 |

#### Managers' Overview
##### Germán Burgos

| Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Super League 1 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 061.54 |
| Greek Cup | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| UEFA Europa Conference League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Total | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 061.54 |
Updated to match played 17 May 2022 Source: Competitions

### Super League 1
#### Regular season
##### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 2 | PAOK | 26 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 50 | 24 | +26 | 53 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 3 | AEK Athens | 26 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 42 | 28 | +14 | 46 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 4 | Aris | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 28 | 21 | +7 | 45 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 5 | Panathinaikos | 26 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 41 | 21 | +20 | 42 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 6 | PAS Giannina | 26 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 28 | 24 | +4 | 40 | Qualification for the Play-off round |

##### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 6 March 2022. Source:

##### Results by matchday

| Matchday | 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 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | L | W | W | D | W | W | L | W | L | W | W | L | D | W | L | W | D | D | W | W | L | L | D | W | W |
| Position | 5 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

##### Matches
#### Play-off Round
##### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Olympiacos (X) | 36 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 62 | 26 | +36 | 83 | Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round |
| 2 | PAOK | 36 | 19 | 7 | 10 | 58 | 33 | +25 | 64 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Aris Thessaloniki | 36 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 39 | 28 | +11 | 62 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round |
| 4 | Panathinaikos | 36 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 52 | 26 | +26 | 61 | |
| 5 | AEK Athens | 36 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 56 | 42 | +14 | 56 | |
| 6 | PAS Giannina | 36 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 34 | 42 | −8 | 46 | |

##### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 17 May 2022. Source: Super League

##### Results by matchday

| Matchday | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Ground | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | D | D | W | W | L | L | W | W | W |
| Position | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |

##### Matches
### UEFA Europa Conference League
#### Second qualifying round
## Squad statistics
### Appearances

    As of match played 17 May 2022
| # | Position | Nat. | Player | Super League 1 | Super League 1 | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | UECL | UECL | Total | Total |
| # | Position | Nat. | Player | Apps | Starts | Apps | Starts | Apps | Starts | Apps | Starts |
| 1 | GK | | Denis César | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 |
| 2 | DF | / | Salem Mbakata | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | DF | | Lumor Agbenyenu | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 6 |
| 4 | DF | | Fabiano Leismann | 32 | 32 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 37 |
| 5 | DF | | Georgios Delizisis | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 |
| 7 | FW | / | Daniel Mancini | 31 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 30 |
| 8 | MF | / | Lerin Duarte | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | | Dimitris Manos | 19 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 4 |
| 10 | FW | / | Mateo García | 30 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 15 |
| 11 | FW | | Kostas Mitroglou | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | | Mohanad Ali | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | / | Cheick Doukouré | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6' |
| 14 | DF | | Jakub Brabec | 35 | 35 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 39 |
| 15 | FW | / | Juan Iturbe | 33 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 19 |
| 16 | FW | | Bruno Gama | 27 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 33 | 20 |
| 17 | MF | | Badou Ndiaye | 31 | 24 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 27 |
| 18 | FW | / | Facundo Bertoglio | 23 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 18 |
| 19 | FW | | Cristian López | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| 20 | FW | / | Izet Hajrović | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| 21 | DF | | Daniel Sundgren | 27 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 28 |
| 22 | DF | / | Cristian Ganea | 31 | 28 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 32 |
| 23 | GK | | Julián Cuesta | 27 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 29 |
| 25 | DF | | Christos Marmaridis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | | Javier Matilla | 29 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 22 |
| 27 | DF | | Panagiotis Sengergis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | / | Yohan Benalouane | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 |
| 35 | MF | | Zisis Saliaris | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | DF | | Kyriakos Aslanidis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 47 | FW | / | Aboubakar Kamara | 32 | 31 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 34 |
| 50 | FW | | Luis Palma | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 |
| 66 | DF | | Emanuel Šakić | 18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 11 |
| 88 | MF | / | Lucas Sasha | 30 | 26 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 32 |
| 99 | GK | | Marios Siampanis | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Players who left the club during this season ||||||||||||
| | FW | | Bruno Felipe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | MF | / | James Jeggo | 15 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 17 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 36 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 42 | 42 |

### Goals

    As of match played 17 May 2022
| Ranking | Position | Nat. | Player | Super League 1 | Greek Cup | UECL | Total |
| 1 | FW | / | Aboubakar Kamara | 8 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | FW | | Bruno Gama | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | FW | / | Daniel Mancini | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | MF | | Badou Ndiaye | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | FW | / | Mateo García | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | MF | / | Lucas Sasha | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | FW | | Luis Palma | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | FW | / | Juan Iturbe | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | DF | | Jakub Brabec | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | / | Facundo Bertoglio | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | DF | | Daniel Sundgren | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | MF | | Javier Matilla | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | DF | | Emanuel Šakić | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | MF | / | Cheick Doukouré | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | DF | | Fabiano Leismann | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | DF | / | Salem M'Bakata | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | | Dimitris Manos | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 39 | 5 | 2 | 46 |

### Clean Sheets

    As of match played 17 May 2022
| # | Nat. | Player | Super League 1 | Greek Cup | UECL | Total |
| 23 | | Julián Cuesta | 14 | 2 | 0 | 16 |
| 1 | | Denis César | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 99 | | Marios Siampanis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | Total | Total | 18 | 2 | 0 | 20 |
* ↑ In the home game against Lamia for the Quarter-finals, Aris used Cuesta and Denis

## Players' awards
### NIVEA MEN Player of the Club

| Nat. | Player | Ref |
| | Daniel Mancini | |