AEK Athens F.C. Academy

Main article: AEK (sports club)

AEK FC Academy

Full name	AEK FC Academy
Founded	1930's
Ground	OPAP Sports Center
Owner	AEK F.C.
Chairman	Evangelos Aslanidis
Technical Director	Michalis Mitrotasios
Home colours Away colours Third colours

AEK (sports club) was one of the first Greek clubs to found a youth academy back in 1934, while AEK F.C. manage them since 1979.

History

AEK was one of the first Greek clubs to found a youth academy back in 1934.

Famous players have been produced by AEK youth development system over the years.

Some of the most notable include: Tryfon Tzanetis (1933–1950), Kleanthis Maropoulos (1934–1952), Andreas Stamatiadis (1950–1969), Stelios Skevofilakas (1960–1973), Nikos Karoulias (1973–1974) Stelios Manolas (1978–1998), Spyros Oikonomopoulos (1978–1994), Vangelis Vlachos (1979–1985), Lysandros Georgamlis (1979–1986), Pantelis Konstantinidis (1993–1994), Dionisis Chiotis (1995–1998, 2000–2007), Sokratis Papastathopoulos (2005–2008), Savvas Gentsoglou (2006–2012), Panagiotis Tachtsidis (2007–2010), Kostas Manolas (2009–2012) and Viktor Klonaridis (2010–2012).

Players

AEK U20 squad

AEK U20 is the youth team of AEK. They participate in the Superleague U20 championship. They play their home games at the OPAP Sports Center in Spata.

P. ^{^} Players with professional contract.

As of 22 April 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	GRE	Athanasios Pantos
—	GK	GRE	Giannis Papadopoulos
—	GK	GRE	Evangelos Gritsopoulos
—	DF	GRE	Giannis Vidalis
—	DF	GRE	Dimitrios Pechlivanidis
—	DF	GRE	Giannis Grammatikas
—	DF	GRE	Panagiotis Kontoes
—	DF	GRE	Panagiotis Kofsanidis
—	DF	GRE	Alkiviadis Markopouliotis [P]
—	DF	GRE	Giorgos Giannoutsos
—	DF	GRE	Giorgos Papazoglou
—	DF	GRE	Dimitrios Psanis
—	MF	GRE	Konstantinos Galanopoulos [P]

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	GRE	Dimitrios Georgamlis
—	MF	GRE	Vassilios Karvounidis
—	MF	ALB	Dimitri Lici
—	MF	GRE	Lazaros Michas
—	MF	ARM	Vasil Posoyan
—	MF	GRE	Ilias Tselios [P]
—	FW	GRE	Christos Antoniou
—	FW	GRE	Nikos Spiliotis
—	FW	GRE	Alexandros Asprogiannis
—	FW	GRE	Andreas Vlachomitros [P]
—	FW	GRE	Antonios Kyriazis [P]
—	FW	GRE	Dimitrios Tzathas [P]
—	FW	SRB	Velemir Dobrivoje

Notable players

• 
  Players of the academy of AEK in 1934
• 
  Dionisis Chiotis
• 
  Sokratis Papastathopoulos

Notable players coming from the club's youth departments include:

• Christos Aravidis
• Dionisis Chiotis
• Lysandros Georgamlis
• Savvas Gentsoglou
• Viktor Klonaridis
• Pantelis Konstantinidis
• Kostas Manolas
• Stelios Manolas
• Kleanthis Maropoulos
• Sokratis Papastathopoulos
• Michalis Pavlis
• Andreas Stamatiadis
• Stelios Skevofilakas
• Panagiotis Tachtsidis
• Tryfon Tzanetis
• Vangelis Vlachos

Personnel

Academies staff

Position	Name	Nationality
Technical Director	Michalis Mitrotasios
Coordinator on organizational issues	Nikos Georgeas
Head Scouting and operational issues	Stavros Letsas
Departments caretaker	Dimitris Sarafidis
Goalkeeping coach	Chrisostomos Michailidis
Goalkeeping coach	Elias Atmatsidis
Fitness coach	Dimitris Stergiopoulos
Under20 coach	Stelios Manolas
Under20 assistant coach	Nikos Panagiotaras
Under17 coach	Markos Dimos
Under16 coach	Dimitris Roussos
Under15 coach	Ivan Nedeljković
Under14 coach	Angelos Chatzopoulos
Under13 coach	Dionysis Katramados
Under12 coach	Stelios Orfanidis
Under11 coach	Tasos Kyriakopoulos
Under10 coach	Michalis Pavlis
Scout	Michalis Vlachos
Scout	Charis Kopitsis

External links

• AEK Academies