2000–01 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens
2000–01 season
Chairman	Cornelius Sierhuis
Manager	Giannis Pathiakakis; (until 24 January); Toni Savevski
Stadium	Nikos Goumas Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	3rd
Greek Cup	Round of 16
UEFA Cup	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Demis Nikolaidis (15); All: Demis Nikolaidis (26)
Highest home attendance	24,404 vs Barcelona; (25 February 2001)
Lowest home attendance	770 vs AEL; (30 August 2000)
Average home league attendance	6,833
	← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

The 2000–01 season was the 77th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 42nd 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 6 August 2000 and finished on 26 May 2001.

Overview

The season started with the multinational Netmed and ENIC at the wheel and with Cornelius Sierhuis and Petros Stathis in command. Giannis Pathiakakis, having made a very good finish in the previous season, took charge of the club's transfers, having a pretty good budget. Pathiakakis after a transfer journey in Latin America bringing Fernando Navas, Emanuel Ruiz and Ferrugem to the team, but the transfer "bombs" occurred with Greek footballers. Vasilios Tsiartas returned from Sevilla after 4 years, while Theodoros Zagorakis returned from England to wear the colors of AEK Athens.

In the championship, AEK started mediocre, but the psychology went up in the European matches with the qualification against Bayer Leverkusen. The first problems, however, started with the 4–1 defeat from Olympiacos for the championship and in fact AEK finally fell psychologically later, in the cup matches and the elimination by Olympiacos. Pathiakakis left AEK after those specific matches, Toni Savevski stopped playing football and "overnight" he became the coach of the team as a "duo" with Eugène Gerards, but AEK did not manage to save many things from the season as they finished in third place, 17 points from the top. The only positive of the season was the European journey of the club, which ended at the Fourth round of the UEFA Cup, by the mighty Barcelona.^[1]

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 30 June 2001, 23:59 UTC+3.

No.	Player	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Previous club
Goalkeepers
1	Ilias Atmatsidis (Captain)	GK	(1969-04-24)24 April 1969 (aged 32)	Pontioi Veria
15	Chrysostomos Michailidis	GK	(1975-01-15)15 January 1975 (aged 26)	Eordaikos
22	Dionysis Chiotis	GK	(1977-06-04)4 June 1977 (aged 24)	AEK Athens U20
Defenders
2	Traianos Dellas	CB	(1976-01-31)31 January 1976 (aged 25)	Sheffield United
3	Ferrugem	CB / DM	(1980-10-06)6 October 1980 (aged 20)	Palmeiras
5	Nikos Kostenoglou	CB / RB	(1970-10-03)3 October 1970 (aged 30)	Skoda Xanthi
12	Charis Kopitsis	RB / RM / LM	(1969-03-05)5 March 1969 (aged 32)	Panionios
16	Nikolaos Georgeas	RB / LB / DM	(1976-12-27)27 December 1976 (aged 24)	Kalamata
17	Michalis Kasapis (Vice-captain 2)	LB / LM	(1971-08-06)6 August 1971 (aged 29)	Levadiakos
19	Grigoris Toskas	CB	(1983-01-08)8 January 1983 (aged 18)	AEK Athens U20
21	Vaios Karagiannis	LB / CB	(1968-06-25)25 June 1968 (aged 33)	A.O. Karditsa
27	Hernán Medina	CB	(1974-09-05)5 September 1974 (aged 26)	Boca Juniors
31	Christos Pitos	CB / DM / CM	(1979-09-24)24 September 1979 (aged 21)	Naoussa
32	Michalis Kapsis	CB	(1973-10-18)18 October 1973 (aged 27)	Ethnikos Piraeus
Midfielders
6	Theodoros Zagorakis	CM / DM / AM / RM / CB / RB	(1971-10-27)27 October 1971 (aged 29)	Leicester City
7	Christos Maladenis	CM / RM / LM / AM / RW / LW / SS	(1974-05-23)23 May 1974 (aged 27)	Skoda Xanthi
10	Vasilios Tsiartas	AM / RM / LM / SS	(1972-11-12)12 November 1972 (aged 28)	Sevilla
14	Akis Zikos	DM / CM	(1974-06-01)1 June 1974 (aged 27)	Skoda Xanthi
18	Georgios Passios	DM / CM / CB	(1981-08-26)26 August 1981 (aged 19)	AEK Athens U20
23	Vasilios Lakis	RM / RW / AM / CM	(1976-09-10)10 September 1976 (aged 24)	Paniliakos
24	Dimitris Karameris	CM / DM	(1983-04-16)16 April 1983 (aged 18)	AEK Athens U20
26	Bledar Kola	LM / CM / DM / LB	(1972-08-01)1 August 1972 (aged 28)	Panathinaikos
28	Milen Petkov	DM / CM / AM / RM / LM	(1974-01-12)12 January 1974 (aged 27)	CSKA Sofia
33	Fernando Navas	LM / AM / RM	(1977-01-29)29 January 1977 (aged 24)	Boca Juniors
Forwards
9	Christos Kostis	SS / CF / AM	(1972-01-15)15 January 1972 (aged 29)	Anderlecht
11	Demis Nikolaidis (Vice-captain)	CF / SS	(1973-09-17)17 September 1973 (aged 27)	Apollon Athens
20	Sotiris Konstantinidis	RW / LW / RM / LM / AM	(1979-04-19)19 April 1979 (aged 22)	Iraklis
30	Emanuel Ruiz	SS / CF	(1978-07-07)7 July 1978 (aged 22)	Boca Juniors
Left during Winter Transfer Window
4	Diyan Donchev	LB	(1974-01-08)8 January 1974 (aged 27)	Spartak Varna
—	Georgios Paraskevaidis	CB	(1982-10-09)9 October 1982 (aged 18)	AEK Athens U20
8	Toni Savevski	CM / LM / DM	(1963-07-14)14 July 1963 (aged 37)	Vardar
25	Luis Darío Calvo	AM / LW	(1977-10-10)10 October 1977 (aged 23)	Banfield

Transfers

In

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
3	DF	Ferrugem	Palmeiras	Transfer	₯650,000,000	11 July 2000	30 June 2003	^[2]^[3]
4	DF	Diyan Donchev	Spartak Varna	Transfer	₯200,000,000	13 July 2000	30 June 2002	^[4]
6	MF	Theodoros Zagorakis	Leicester City	Transfer	Free	3 July 2000	30 June 2003	^[5]
9	FW	Christos Kostis	Anderlecht	Transfer	Free	19 July 2000	30 June 2001	^[6]
10	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	Sevilla	Transfer	₯900,000,000	6 July 2000	30 June 2003	^[7]
19	DF	Grigoris Toskas	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	29 November 2000	30 June 2005	^[8]
22	GK	Dionysis Chiotis	Proodeftiki	End of loan	—	1 July 2000	30 June 2005
24	MF	Dimitris Karameris	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	29 November 2000	30 June 2005	^[8]
25	MF	Luis Darío Calvo	Banfield	Transfer	Free	31 July 2001	30 June 2002	^[9]
30	FW	Emanuel Ruiz	Boca Juniors	Transfer	Free	4 July 2000	30 June 2005	^[10]
33	MF	Fernando Navas	Boca Juniors	Transfer	₯700,000,000	4 July 2000	30 June 2005	^[10]^[11]
—	FW	Georgios Trichias	Athinaikos	End of loan	—	1 July 2000	31 December 2003

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
16	DF	Nikolaos Georgeas	Kalamata	Transfer	₯500,000,000	17 January 2001	30 June 2006	^[12]
19	MF	Bledar Kola	Panathinaikos	Transfer	Free	19 January 2001	31 December 2003	^[13]
31	DF	Christos Pitos	Naoussa	Transfer	Free	18 January 2001	30 June 2006
—	MF	Ivan Rusev	Spartak Varna	Transfer	Free	1 January 2001	30 June 2005

Out

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
6	MF	Dimitris Markos	Aris	Contract termination	—	1 July 2000	^[14]
9	FW	Nenad Bjeković	Fortuna Sittard	Contract termination	—	31 July 2000	^[9]
10	MF	Dragan Ćirić	Barcelona	End of loan	—	1 July 2000
16	MF	Arnar Grétarsson	Lokeren	End of contract	—	1 July 2000
18	MF	Evripidis Katsavos	OFI Crete	End of contract	—	5 July 2000	^[15]
19	FW	Giorgos Kavazis	Kalamata	End of contract	—	1 July 2000
24	MF	Vladimir Matijašević	Red Star	End of contract	—	1 July 2000
25	DF	Giannis Kalitzakis	Ethnikos Asteras	End of contract	—	1 July 2000	^[16]
29	DF	Davide Belotti	Vicenza	End of loan	—	1 July 2000
30	MF	Pablo Cantero	Central Córdoba	Contract termination	—	1 July 2000
—	GK	Vasilis Karagiannis	Diagoras	End of contract	—	1 July 2000
—	DF	Filippo Dal Moro	Roma	End of loan	—	1 July 2000

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
4	DF	Diyan Donchev	Spartak Varna	Contract termination	—	19 January 2001	^[13]
8	MF	Toni Savevski	Retired		—	31 January 2001	^[17]
25	MF	Luis Darío Calvo	Kalamata	Contract termination	—	29 January 2001	^[18]

Loan in

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
27	DF	Hernán Medina	Boca Juniors	₯300,000,000	25 January 2001	30 June 2001	Y	^[19]

Loan out

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy
22	GK	Lefteris Petkaris	Kilkisiakos	Free	1 July 2000	30 June 2001	N
31	FW	Ilias Anastasakos	Kalamata	Free	1 July 2000	30 June 2001	N
—	FW	Georgios Trichias	Panetolikos	Free	1 July 2000	30 June 2001	N

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
—	DF	Georgios Paraskevaidis	Panionios	Free	1 January 2001	30 June 2001	N
—	MF	Ivan Rusev	Athinaikos	Free	31 January 2001	30 June 2001	N	^[20]

Renewals

No.	Pos	Player	Date	Former Exp Date	New Exp Date	Source
19	DF	Grigoris Toskas	29 November 2000	—	30 June 2005	^[8]
21	DF	Vaios Karagiannis	18 July 2000	30 June 2000	30 June 2001
24	MF	Dimitris Karameris	29 November 2000	—	30 June 2005	^[8]

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure

Summer: ₯2,450,000,000

Winter: ₯300,000,000

Total: ₯2,750,000,000

Income

Summer: ₯0

Winter: ₯0

Total: ₯0

Net Totals

Summer: ₯2,450,000,000

Winter: ₯300,000,000

Total: ₯2,750,000,000

Pre-season and friendlies

21 July 2000 Friendly	Harkemase Boys	0–2	AEK Athens	Arnhem
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)			Tsiartas Nikolaidis	Stadium: De Branding Training Center

23 July 2000 Friendly	Nijmegen	1–0	AEK Athens	Arnhem
	Hristov 26'	Report		Stadium: De Branding Training Center Attendance: 3,000

27 July 2000 Friendly	Heracles Almelo	0–2	AEK Athens	Arnhem
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)			Konstantinidis Nikolaidis	Stadium: De Branding Training Center

31 July 2000 Friendly	Agioi Anargyroi	0–4	AEK Athens	Ano Liosia
		Report	Lakis 6' Konstantinidis 25' (pen.) Maladenis 80' Ruiz 90'	Stadium: Ano Liosia Municipal Stadium Attendance: 2,500

4 August 2000 Nova Supersports Cup	AEK Athens	4–2	Rapid Wien	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Tsiartas 25', 77' Nikolaidis 30' Kasapis 90' (pen.)	Report	Wagner 10' Radovic 47' (pen.)	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

5 August 2000 Nova Supersports Cup	AEK Athens	2–3	Brescia	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Tsiartas 14' Nikolaidis 57'	Report	Hübner 20', 28' Filippini 76'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

21 August 2000 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–1	Atromitos	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

24 August 2000 Friendly	Roma	0–0	AEK Athens	Rome
22:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico

3 September 2000 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–2	Espanyol	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Nikolaidis 85'			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

8 September 2000 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–1	Kalamata	Nea Filadelfeia
7:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Tsiartas			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

15 October 2000 Friendly	Atromitos	2–2	AEK Athens	Peristeri
				Stadium: Peristeri Stadium

18 October 2000 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–0	Egaleo	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Navas Tsiartas			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

21 October 2000 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–4	Proodeftiki	Nea Filadelfeia
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Konstantinidis Nikolaidis Tsiartas			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

31 January 2001 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–0	Atromitos	Nea Filadelfeia
	Nikolaidis 8' Medina 33' (pen.), 66'			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium

6 February 2001 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	Panelefsiniakos	Thrakomakedones
	Medina 15'	Report	Brilis 75'	Stadium: AEK Athens' training complex

Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	25	3	2	84	22	+62	78	Qualification for Champions League first group stage
2	Panathinaikos	30	20	6	4	61	20	+41	66	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
3	AEK Athens	30	19	4	7	61	34	+27	61	Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round
4	PAOK	30	14	9	7	66	48	+18	51	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round^[a]
5	Iraklis	30	14	4	12	45	40	+5	46

Source: Galanis Sports Data
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Goals against; 7) Play-offs (neutral ground); 8) Draw.
(Note: Criterion 7 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ PAOK were qualified for first round of the 2001–02 UEFA Cup as Greek Football Cup winners.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	19	4	7	61	34	+27	61	11	2	2	35	16	+19	8	2	5	26	18	+8

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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	D	W	L	W	L	W	L	W	D	W	D	L	W	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	D	W	W	L	W	W	W	W
Position	2	2	2	2	4	2	6	4	5	3	4	3	3	6	5	4	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3

Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Fixtures

18 September 2000 Matchday 1	AEK Athens	2–0	Iraklis	Nea Filadelfeia
20:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Nikolaidis 43', 80'			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 13,012 Referee: Makis Efthimiadis (Drama)

24 September 2000 Matchday 2	Athinaikos	0–3	AEK Athens	Nea Smyrni
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)			Ruiz 20', 35' Petkov 80'	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 4,188 Referee: Christos Daglis (Thessaloniki)

1 October 2000 Matchday 3	AEK Athens	2–2	Ethnikos Asteras	Nea Filadelfeia
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Kapsis 37' Nikolaidis 44'		Alexoudis 54' Thomaidis 87'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 4,741 Referee: Panagiotis Nikou (Imathia)

29 October 2000 Matchday 4	Ionikos	0–2	AEK Athens	Nikaia
17:00 EET (UTC+2)			Tsiartas 82' Kasapis 90'	Stadium: Nikaia Municipal Stadium Attendance: 3,573 Referee: Manolis Giannadakis (Lasithi)

4 November 2000 Matchday 5	Olympiacos	4–1	AEK Athens	Marousi
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Giovanni 19' Niniadis 52' Álvez 63' Đorđević 77'		Nikolaidis 10'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 26,138 Referee: Giorgos Tsaggarakis (Chania)

12 November 2000 Matchday 6	AEK Athens	2–1	Panachaiki	Nea Filadelfeia
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Tsiartas 39' Ruiz 41'		Papadopoulos 87'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 3,886 Referee: Giorgos Borovilos (Arcadia)

19 November 2000 Matchday 7	Kalamata	3–1	AEK Athens	Kalamata
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Soares 13' Boateng 59' Frantzeskos 70'		Zikos 83'	Stadium: Messiniakos Stadium Attendance: 1,710 Referee: Stavros Flotsios (Boeotia)

27 November 2000 Matchday 8	AEK Athens	4–2	PAS Giannina	Nea Filadelfeia
16:00 EET (UTC+2)	Dellas 26' Nikolaidis 29' Konstantinidis 73', 82'		Garozis 4' Kormaris 64'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 2,699 Referee: Spyros Voulgaris (Piraeus)

2 December 2000 Matchday 9	Panionios	2–0	AEK Athens	Nea Smyrni
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Gonias 27' (pen.) Préget 41'			Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 2,169 Referee: Thanasis Briakos (Epirus)

10 December 2000 Matchday 10	AEK Athens	3–1	Aris	Nea Filadelfeia
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Tsiartas 28' (pen.) Nikolaidis 40', 71'		Kyzeridis 19'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 8,072 Referee: Kostas Vallianos (Aetoloacarnania)

18 December 2000 Matchday 11	OFI	3–3	AEK Athens	Heraklion
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Silva 11' Ipirotis 14' Muñoz 32'		Kostenoglou 20' Tsiartas 67' (pen.) Maladenis 84'	Stadium: Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium Attendance: 3,696 Referee: Giorgos Tsaggarakis (Chania)

3 January 2001 Matchday 12	AEK Athens	2–1	Paniliakos	Nea Filadelfeia
16:00 EET (UTC+2)	Navas 42', 45'		Dedes 76'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 4,567 Referee: Thanasis Briakos (Epirus)

7 January 2001 Matchday 13	AEK Athens	1–1	Panathinaikos	Nea Filadelfeia
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Tsiartas 90+2' (pen.)		Liberopoulos 28'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 12,301 Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Athens)

14 January 2001 Matchday 14	PAOK	2–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Frousos 50', 80' (pen.)		Ruiz 36'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 7,058 Referee: Spyros Papadakos (Laconia)

21 January 2001 Matchday 15	AEK Athens	2–0	Skoda Xanthi	Nea Filadelfeia
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Maladenis 4' Tsiartas 71'			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 3,589 Referee: Theofilaktos Papapanagiotou (Piraeus)
Note: Last league game for Giannis Pathiakakis as AEK's coach and end of career for Toni Saveski as footballer, with the later replacing Pathiakakis as the team's coach.

28 January 2001 Matchday 16	Iraklis	1–2	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Fofonka 79'		Lakis 60' Ruiz 83'	Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 7,519 Referee: Giorgos Borovilos (Arcadia)

5 February 2001 Matchday 17	AEK Athens	2–1	Athinaikos	Nea Filadelfeia
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Tsiartas 37' Zikos 43'		Touré 4'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 4,101 Referee: Pavlos Papilias (Piraeus)

11 February 2001 Matchday 18	Ethnikos Asteras	0–3	AEK Athens	Kaisariani
16:00 EET (UTC+2)			Petkov 39' Tsiartas 55' (pen.) Nikolaidis 66'	Stadium: Michalis Kritikopoulos Stadium Attendance: 3,980 Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Thessaloniki)

18 February 2001 Matchday 19	AEK Athens	2–0	Ionikos	Alexandroupoli
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Nikolaidis 46', 81'			Stadium: Alexandroupoli Municipal Stadium Attendance: 3,319 Referee: Giorgos Douros (Corinthia)
Note: The match was held in the Alexandroupoli Stadium because AEK had been punished with 3 games away from home for fan invasion during the Cup game against Olympiacos.

26 February 2001 Matchday 20	AEK Athens	1–2	Olympiacos	Heraklion
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Tsiartas 36'		Giannakopoulos 19' Đorđević 28'	Stadium: Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium Attendance: 4,836 Referee: Paraskevas Chelis (Kavala)

5 March 2001 Matchday 21	Panachaiki	1–0	AEK Athens	Patras
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Solakis 35' (pen.)			Stadium: Kostas Davourlis Stadium Attendance: 2,743 Referee: Spyros Voulgaris (Piraeus)

12 March 2001 Matchday 22	AEK Athens	3–0	Kalamata	Rhodes
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Zagorakis 17' Tsiartas 51' (pen.) Kostis 80'			Stadium: Diagoras Stadium Attendance: 1,250 Referee: Paraskevas Chelis (Kavala)

19 March 2001 Matchday 23	PAS Giannina	2–2	AEK Athens	Ioannina
16:00 EET (UTC+2)	Kormaris 74' Kebadze 90+4'		Nikolaidis 37', 77'	Stadium: Zosimades Stadium Attendance: 5,393 Referee: Giorgos Borovilos (Arcadia)

1 April 2001 Matchday 24	AEK Athens	5–1	Panionios	Nea Filadelfeia
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Lérant 7' (o.g.) Tsiartas 10' (pen.) Konstantinidis 44', 57', 80'		Roberts 34'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 2,858 Referee: Christoforos Zografos (Athens)

7 April 2001 Matchday 25	Aris	0–3	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)			Nikolaidis 16' Petkov 81', 84'	Stadium: Aris Stadium Attendance: 3,482 Referee: Paraskevas Chelis (Kavala)

22 April 2001 Matchday 26	AEK Athens	1–2	OFI	Nea Filadelfeia
17:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Konstantinidis 45'		Kiassos 36', 85'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 4,467 Referee: Dimitris Pontikis (Thessaloniki)

29 April 2001 Matchday 27	Paniliakos	0–3	AEK Athens	Pyrgos
17:30 EEST (UTC+3)			Tsiartas 41' Lakis 75' Konstantinidis 89'	Stadium: Pyrgos Stadium Attendance: 3,442 Referee: Giorgos Tsaggarakis (Chania)

7 May 2001 Matchday 28	Panathinaikos	0–1	AEK Athens	Ampelokipoi
17:30 EEST (UTC+3)			Nikolaidis 77'	Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Attendance: 4,109 Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Thessaloniki)

19 May 2001 Matchday 29	AEK Athens	3–2	PAOK	Nea Filadelfeia
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Tsiartas 13' (pen.) Nikolaidis 26' Konstantinidis 65'		Borbokis 35' Spasić 43'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 6,070 Referee: Paraskevas Chelis (Kavala)

26 May 2001 Matchday 30	Skoda Xanthi	0–1	AEK Athens	Xanthi
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)			Tsiartas 88'	Stadium: A.O. Xanthi Stadium Attendance: 934 Referee: Spyros Voulgaris (Piraeus)

Greek Cup

First round

Group 6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	PAO	AEK	AEL	ETP	KOZ	OLV
1	Panathinaikos	10	9	0	1	25	7	+18	27	Round of 16		2–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	4–1
2	AEK Athens	10	8	1	1	38	10	+28	25	Round of 16	3–1		1–0	8–0	5–2	9–1
3	AEL	10	3	2	5	10	13	−3	11		0–2	2–2		1–2	2–1	2–0
4	Ethnikos Piraeus	10	3	1	6	10	23	−13	10		0–3	0–3	0–1		2–1	3–1
5	Kozani	10	2	2	6	13	23	−10	8		1–3	1–4	1–1	1–1		2–0
6	Olympiacos Volos	10	2	0	8	10	30	−20	6		0–3	1–2	1–0	3–2	2–3

Source: epo.gr

Matches

6 August 2000 Matchday 1	AEK Athens	5–2	Kozani	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Konstantinidis 43', 65', 86' Lakis 44', 68'	Report	Kaounos 7' Teliadis 52'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Antonis Vassaras (Thessaloniki)

9 August 2000 Matchday 2	Olympiacos Volos	1–2	AEK Athens	Volos
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Veletanis 45+1'	Report (page 31)	Konstantinidis 48' Ruiz 75'	Stadium: Volos Municipal Stadium Attendance: 2,900 Referee: Giorgos Borovilos (Arcadia)

13 August 2000 Matchday 3	Panathinaikos	2–1	AEK Athens	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Sypniewski 35' Vokolos 79'	Report (page 31)	Tsiartas 55' (pen.)	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 6,490 Referee: Kostas Finokaliotis (Athens)

17 August 2000 Matchday 4	AEK Athens	8–0	Ethnikos Piraeus	Nea Filadelfeia
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Navas 28', 41' Nikolaidis 34' (pen.), 62', 65', 76' Konstantinidis 86', 89'	Report (page 32)		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 1,063 Referee: Giorgos Tsaggarakis (Chania)

28 August 2000 Matchday 5	Kozani	1–4	AEK Athens	Kozani
18:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Kaounos 58'	Report (page 33)	Konstantinidis 15' Calvo 59' Navas 61' Maladenis 76'	Stadium: Kozani Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Panagiotis Nikou (Imathia)

30 August 2000 Matchday 6	AEK Athens	1–0	AEL	Nea Filadelfeia
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Calvo 61'	Report (page 32)		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 770 Referee: Dimitris Pontikis (Thessaloniki)

6 September 2000 Matchday 7	AEK Athens	9–1	Olympiacos Volos	Nea Filadelfeia
18:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Maladenis 5', 37' Lakis 36', 52', 73' Tsiartas 40', 80' Konstantinidis 47', 57'	Report (page 33)	Manta 75'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 1,016 Referee: Manolis Giannadakis (Lasithi)

9 October 2000 Matchday 8	AEL	2–2	AEK Athens	Larissa
18:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Gentch 60' Kantimoiris 86'	Report (page 35)	Ruiz 44' Calvo 85'	Stadium: Alcazar Stadium Attendance: 545 Referee: Thanasis Briakos (Epirus)

29 November 2000 Matchday 9	AEK Athens	3–1	Panathinaikos	Nea Filadelfeia
19:45 EET (UTC+2)	Kostis 28' Konstantinidis 33', 71'	Report (page 34)	Sigurðsson 10'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 1,309 Referee: Stavros Flotsios (Boeotia)

13 December 2000 Matchday 10	Ethnikos Piraeus	0–3	AEK Athens	Kaisariani
19:30 EET (UTC+2)		Report (page 34)	Calvo 7', 37' Konstantinidis 11'	Stadium: Michalis Kritikopoulos Stadium Referee: Kiriakos Voutsalas (Thessaloniki)

Round of 16

10 January 2001 First leg	AEK Athens	0–2 (Awarded)	Olympiacos	Nea Filadelfeia
20:00 EET (UTC+2)	Nikolaidis 46'	Report	Niniadis 67'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Dimitris Pontikis (Thessaloniki)
Note: At the 52nd minute, while AEK was leading 1–0, the referee Pontikis gave a foul on a clean tackle by Zikos where the ball ended up to Nikolaidis who came out one-on-one with the opposing goalkeeper to make the score 2–0. Zikos protested calmly, but Pontikis showed him a second yellow card and expelled him. Then chaos was created and in the midst of that situation, the referee expelled Nikolaidis as well, with a straight red card. AEK played with 9 men and later Olympiacos managed to equalize with Niniadis. The atmosphere was very electrified and then Petros Stathis whispered something to Pathiakakis and right then and there, 3 AEK players fell down pretending to be injured. At the same time, AEK fans broke the railings of the gate and invaded the area behind the goalpost, resulting in the suspension of the match at the 73th minute and the 0–2 win without a match for Olympiacos.^[21]

20 April 2001 Second leg	Olympiacos	6–1 (8–1 agg.)	AEK Athens	Marousi
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Georgatos 5' Giovanni 22', 32' Ofori-Quaye 52' Álvez 79' Giannakopoulos 84'	Report	Maladenis 25'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 11,925 Referee: Makis Efthimiadis (Drama)

UEFA Cup

First round

12 September 2000 First leg	Vasas	2–2	AEK Athens	Budapest, Hungary
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Pető 89' Komódi 90'	Report	Pető 47' (o.g.) Nikolaidis 50'	Stadium: Ferenc Puskás Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Martin Ingvarsson (Sweden)

28 September 2000 Second leg	AEK Athens	2–0 (4–2 agg.)	Vasas	Athens, Greece
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Maladenis 27' Nikolaidis 30'	Report		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 11,200 Referee: Serguei Goussev (Russia)

Second round

26 October 2000 First leg	AEK Athens	5–0	Herfølge	Athens, Greece
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Nikolaidis 48', 53', 64', 75' Zikos 61'	Report		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 9,075 Referee: Paul Allaerts (Belgium)

7 November 2000 Second leg	Herfølge	2–1 (2–6 agg.)	AEK Athens	Herfølge, Denmark
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Jakobsen 1' Hermansen 47' (pen.)	Report	Petkov 33'	Stadium: Herfølge Stadion Attendance: 1,645 Referee: Paulo Paraty (Portugal)

Third round

23 November 2000 First leg	Bayer Leverkusen	4–4	AEK Athens	Leverkusen, Germany
20:15 EET (UTC+2)	Kirsten 24', 43' Kovač 48' Ramelow 90'	Report	Lakis 5' Navas 46', 79' Tsiartas 55' (pen.)	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

7 December 2000 Second leg	AEK Athens	2–0 (6–4 agg.)	Bayer Leverkusen	Athens, Greece
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Navas 16' Tsiartas 50'	Report		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 22,200 Referee: Arturo Daudén Ibáñez (Spain)

Fourth round

15 February 2001 First leg	AEK Athens	0–1	Barcelona	Athens, Greece
21:30 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Luis Enrique 41'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 24,404 Referee: Graham Poll (England)

22 February 2001 Second leg	Barcelona	5–0 (6–0 agg.)	AEK Athens	Barcelona, Spain
22:00 EET (UTC+2)	Luis Enrique 22', 31', 60' Rivaldo 57' Gerard 87' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Camp Nou Attendance: 33,623 Referee: Stefano Braschi (Italy)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 30 June 2001

No.	Pos	Player	League		Cup		UEFA Cup		Total
No.	Pos	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	Ilias Atmatsidis	25	0	9	0	8	0	42	0
15	GK	Chrysostomos Michailidis	3	0	4	0	0	0	7	0
22	GK	Dionysis Chiotis	3	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
Defenders
2	DF	Traianos Dellas	19	1	10	0	3	0	32	1
3	DF	Ferrugem	22	0	5	0	6	0	33	0
5	DF	Nikos Kostenoglou	19	1	10	0	5	0	34	1
12	DF	Charis Kopitsis	6	0	11	0	2	0	19	0
16	DF	Nikolaos Georgeas	9	0	0	0	0	0	9	0
17	DF	Michalis Kasapis	24	1	9	0	8	0	41	1
19	DF	Grigoris Toskas	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0
21	DF	Vaios Karagiannis	7	0	7	0	1	0	15	0
27	DF	Hernán Medina	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
—	DF	Christos Pitos	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
32	DF	Michalis Kapsis	25	1	8	0	7	0	40	1
Midfielders
6	MF	Theodoros Zagorakis	23	1	5	0	7	0	35	1
7	MF	Christos Maladenis	26	2	8	4	6	1	40	7
10	MF	Vasilios Tsiartas	27	14	3	3	8	2	38	19
14	MF	Akis Zikos	23	2	6	0	8	1	37	3
18	MF	Georgios Passios	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	0
23	MF	Vasilios Lakis	28	2	7	6	8	1	43	9
24	MF	Dimitris Karameris	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0
26	MF	Bledar Kola	9	0	1	0	0	0	10	0
28	MF	Milen Petkov	22	4	7	0	6	1	35	5
33	MF	Fernando Navas	10	2	5	3	6	3	21	8
Forwards
9	FW	Christos Kostis	7	1	5	2	0	0	12	3
11	FW	Demis Nikolaidis	25	15	4	5	8	6	37	26
20	FW	Sotiris Konstantinidis	22	8	11	11	4	0	37	19
30	FW	Emanuel Ruiz	23	5	9	2	7	0	39	7
Left during Winter Transfer Window
4	DF	Diyan Donchev	1	0	5	0	0	0	6	0
—	DF	Georgios Paraskevaidis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	MF	Toni Savevski	3	0	8	0	1	0	12	0
25	MF	Luis Darío Calvo	1	0	8	4	0	0	9	4

Disciplinary record

As of 30 June 2001

N	P	Nat.	Name												Notes
N	P	Nat.	Name	League			Cup			UEFA Cup		Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Ilias Atmatsidis	2						1		3
15	GK		Chrysostomos Michailidis			1								1
22	GK		Dionysis Chiotis
Defenders
2	DF		Traianos Dellas	3			3					6
3	DF		Ferrugem	4						1		5
5	DF		Nikos Kostenoglou	5			1			2		8
12	DF		Charis Kopitsis	1		1	3					4		1
16	DF		Nikolaos Georgeas	2								2
17	DF		Michalis Kasapis	4								4
19	DF		Grigoris Toskas
21	DF		Vaios Karagiannis	5			1					6
27	DF		Hernán Medina
31	DF		Christos Pitos
32	DF		Michalis Kapsis	5			1				1	6		1
Midfielders
6	MF		Theodoros Zagorakis	4						1		5
7	MF		Christos Maladenis	5			1					6
10	MF		Vasilios Tsiartas	3								3
14	MF		Akis Zikos	7			3	1		1		11	1
18	MF		Georgios Passios
23	MF		Vasilios Lakis	2	1					1		3	1
24	MF		Dimitris Karameris
26	MF		Bledar Kola	2								2
28	MF		Milen Petkov	7			2			1		10
33	MF		Fernando Navas	1	1		1			1		3	1
Forwards
9	FW		Christos Kostis				1					1
11	FW		Demis Nikolaidis	3					1			3		1
20	FW		Sotiris Konstantinidis	1								1
30	FW		Emanuel Ruiz	3			1			1		5
Left during Winter Transfer window
4	DF		Diyan Donchev	1								1
—	DF		Georgios Paraskevaidis
8	MF		Toni Savevski
25	MF		Luis Darío Calvo

Starting 11

N.	Formation	Matchday(s)
38	4–4–2 (D)	1–10, 12, 13, 17–22, 25–29
12	4–2–3–1	11, 14–16, 23, 24, 30

No.	Player	Pos.
1	Ilias Atmatsidis (C)	GK
5	Nikos Kostenoglou	RCB
32	Michalis Kapsis	LCB
6	Theodoros Zagorakis	RB
17	Michalis Kasapis	LB
14	Akis Zikos	DM
28	Milen Petkov	RCM
7	Christos Maladenis	LCM
23	Vasilios Lakis	AM
10	Vasilios Tsiartas	SS
11	Demis Nikolaidis	CF

Atmatsidis (C)

Kostenoglou

Kapsis

Zagorakis

Kasapis

Zikos

Petkov

Maladenis

Lakis

Tsiartas

Nikolaidis

Last updated: 2001-06-30
Source: Squad stats and Start formations.
Only competitive matches.
Using the most used start formation.
Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).

References

^ "Περίοδος 2000-2001". kitrinomavro.gr. 22 May 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^ "Η ΑΕΚ παρουσίασε τον... μικρό Ντούνγκα Φερουζέμ". in.gr. 11 July 2000.
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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Ζήτα συγγνώμη". ΤΑ ΝΕΑ. 29 November 2000.
^ ^a ^b "Ανακοίνωσε την απόκτηση του Κάλβο η ΑΕΚ - Παρελθόν ο Μπιέκοβιτς". in.gr. 31 July 2000.
^ ^a ^b "Η ΑΕΚ παρουσιάσε Νάβας και Ρούις". in.gr. 4 July 2000.
^ "Που χάθηκες και εσύ.... (Νο. 6)". www.sport24.gr.
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^ "Οταν οι παίκτες της ΑΕΚ έκαναν τους τραυματίες κόντρα στον Ολυμπιακό". www.gazzetta.gr.

External links

AEK Athens F.C. Official Website

[table_note_res_UC10.077488541639172-21] PAOK were qualified for first round of the 2001–02 UEFA Cup as Greek Football Cup winners.

[1] "Περίοδος 2000-2001". kitrinomavro.gr. 22 May 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2021.

[2] "Η ΑΕΚ παρουσίασε τον... μικρό Ντούνγκα Φερουζέμ". in.gr. 11 July 2000.

[3] "650 εκατ. για Φερούζεμ!". ΤΑ ΝΕΑ. 28 December 2001.

[4] "Πρώτη του Ντόντσεφ στην ΑΕΚ". in.gr. 13 July 2000.

[5] "Και τυπικά παίκτης της ΑΕΚ ο Ζαγοράκης". in.gr. 3 July 2000.

[6] "Και τυπικά στα κιτρινόμαυρα ο Κωστής". in.gr. 19 July 2000.

[7] "Θα την ξανακάνουμε μεγάλη". tanea.gr. 7 July 2000.

[ToskAEK-8] "Ζήτα συγγνώμη". ΤΑ ΝΕΑ. 29 November 2000.

[CalvAEK-9] "Ανακοίνωσε την απόκτηση του Κάλβο η ΑΕΚ - Παρελθόν ο Μπιέκοβιτς". in.gr. 31 July 2000.

[RuizAEK-10] "Η ΑΕΚ παρουσιάσε Νάβας και Ρούις". in.gr. 4 July 2000.

[11] "Που χάθηκες και εσύ.... (Νο. 6)". www.sport24.gr.

[12] "Δέκα χρόνια Γεωργέας - 06/01 15:49". aek365.org.

[KolAEK-13] "Ανακοίνωσε Κόλα, "τέλειωσε" με Ντόντσεφ η ΑΕΚ". in.gr. 19 January 2001.

[14] "Παρουσίασε Τεννέ ο Αρης, ανακοίνωσε Μάρκο και νέο... πρόεδρο". in.gr. 27 June 2000.

[15] "Στον ΟΦΗ, Κατσαβός και Ηπειρώτης". in.gr. 5 July 2000.

[16] "Τέλος Καλιτζάκης, Μάρκος και Κατσαβός από την ΑΕΚ - Μένει ο Καραγιάννης". in.gr. 5 June 2000.

[17] "Ο Τόνι Σαβέφσκι κρέμασε και τυπικά τα ποδοσφαιρικά του παπούτσια στην ΑΕΚ". in.gr. 31 January 2001.

[18] "Καλαματιανός για έξι μήνες ο Τριαντάφυλλος Μαχαιρίδης - Στη "μαύρη θύελλα" και ο Κάλβο". in.gr. 29 January 2001.

[19] "Μπορώ να πετύχω στην ΑΕΚ - Τι δήλωσε ο Αργεντινός νεοαποκτηθείς αμυντικός". in.gr. 25 January 2001.

[20] "Πήρε τον Βούλγαρο Ιβάν Ρούσεφ". ΤΑ ΝΕΑ. 31 January 2001.

[22] "Οταν οι παίκτες της ΑΕΚ έκαναν τους τραυματίες κόντρα στον Ολυμπιακό". www.gazzetta.gr.

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