AEK Athens

1962–63 season
Chairman	Nikos Goumas
Manager	Jenő Csaknády
Stadium	AEK Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	1st
Greek Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Kostas Nestoridis (24) All: Kostas Nestoridis (28)
Highest home attendance	35,000 vs Panathinaikos (23 June 1963)
Lowest home attendance	4,623 vs Iraklis (2 June 1963)
Average home league attendance	19,830
Biggest win	AEK Athens 7–1 Olympiacos Kalamata
Biggest defeat	AEK Athens 0–2 Panathinaikos
Home colours

The 1962–63 season was the 39th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the fourth consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki and the Greek Cup. The season began on 27 September 1962 and finished on 7 July 1963.

Overview

Since the beginning of the previous season, Nikos Goumas had set his sights on AEK Athens winning the league. With a series of actions and without sparing any expenses, he tried to upgrade the club at all levels. The Nea Filadelfeia Stadium had already been modernized by acquiring turf and reconstructed spectator stands and since January 1962, when it was officially inaugurated, was the most modern stadium in Greece.^[1][2] The legendary Kleanthis Maropoulos, as agent of the club, had the task of protecting the team from any threats from behind-the-scenery.^[3] The transfer reinforcement of the team in the summer was a precursor of the good presence of the club in this season. In that transfer period, the international Syrian striker, Ibrahim Mughrabi, who came to Athens and AEK after leaving his studies in Damascus, Manolis Kanellopoulos, Sofos Koulidis and Manolis Klikopoulos from Egaleo, the goalkeeper Vangelis Petrakis from Aris and most importantly of the talented Mimis Papaioannou from Veria arrived.^[4] All of the above was preceded by the arrival and assumption of duties as the team's coach, the Hungarian-German Jenő Csaknády, a successful coach in the Bundesliga, which was an unapproachable size for the Greek data of the time. Csaknády showed from the beginning that he intended to put AEK in the professional model of big European clubs with his main weapons being the iron discipline and the equal treatment of everyone, regardless of name and reputation, without, of course, lagging behind in sophisticated training methods and tactical systems. The insightful Csaknády, after a few days of training, understood the value and quality of the "treasure" that was hidden behind the young Papaioannou and expressing his intention to use him immediately and as a key member, he forced the managers to rush to Veria and pay the fee of 175 thousand drachmas requested by the people of his club to immediately include the player in the team's roster without waiting for his "release" after the usual one year ban from the pitches. The discipline that was now part of everyday life in the yellow-blacks, although it deprived the great Kostas Nestoridis of his participation in the August friendly against Barcelona at the Camp Nou,^[5] thus paying together with Mimis Anastasiadis their late arrival for the previous friendly against Panegialios, endowed the team with admirable cohesion, players who gave everything for each other and all together for the whole and absolute commitment to the great goal of winning the title. The German "standards" of Csaknády mandated the start of preparation from August 1, in contrast to the Greek teams that considered a few days' preparation of 15–20 days, starting after August 15, to be sufficient. The early gathering of the players and the non-negotiable attitude of Csaknády on this issue may have "cost" the captain, Andreas Stamatiadis a few days of the family vacation to Italy, but they shielded the players with increased levels physical condition, capable of helping her cope with the demands of the Championship with complete success.

The start of the league showed that the scenario of the previous seasons would be repeated with AEK and Panathniakos fighting for the title and Olympiacos waiting to take advantage of their possible missteps by chasing and this his first title in the established first national division. The excessive certainty of the "greens" for a new Championship conquest was so such that led them not to strengthen the already existing team by transfer, considering it too complete. The big three engaged in a battle winning and losing points and after AEK prevailed over Olympiacos at Karaiskakis Stadium by 1–3 on the 13th matchday,^[6] they found themselves at the top together with 33 points. However, on February, the defeat at the same stadium by Ethnikos, removed the yellow-blacks from the top and filled them with pessimism. AEK responded with a counterattack, starting with a streak of 8 consecutive victories from the 19th matchday to the 26th matchday and combined with the draw of Panathinaikos in the same matchday, they found themselves at the top of the table. The following matchday against Panathinaikos at home in an inconclusive match despite AEK's laziness, they lost by 0–2 and the greens were the undisputed favorite for their fourth consecutive title.^[7] After the end of the three final matches AEK and Panathinaikos were tied at the top with 77 points each. The regulation of the championship stipulated a play-off match between the two and in the event of a tie declared the team with the best goal ration in the regular season as the champion.^[8]

On June 23 AEK and Panathinaikos lined up in the Stadium of Nea Filadelfeia, has been chosen as the venue for the match. Panathinaikos took the lead in the 8th minute with a goal by Toumelis, but immediately after that the Papaioannou-Nestoridis duo took action with two goals by the former in the 23rd and 27th minute and one by the latter in the 39th minute from a direct corner kick made it 3–1, bringing AEK close to the Title. The "greens" took advantage of a period of inactivity of AEK and with goals from Linoxilakis in the 64th minute and Panagiotidis in the 65th minute, equalized the match at 3–3. This was the final score as a and even though Panathinaikos was superior in goal difference as they had +47 against the +45 of AEK, but the goal ratio defined by the regulation gave AEK the title with 3.14 against the 2.68 of the "greens". As AEK won their first post-war league and the first since the establishment of national divisions, Kostas Nestoridis, for the 5th time in a row and for the last time in his career, was the top scorer in the championship with 23 goals.^[9][10]

In the Greek Cup, AEK reached the round of 32 without a match, just like all the teams that had reached the round of 16 in the previous season. There they defeated Olympiacos Kalamata with 7–1 at home and qualified to the round of 16, where they got the ticket for the quarter-finals by eliminating Atromitos with a 0–3 victory at Peristeri. In the quarter-finals, Aris, with a header from Panitsidis in the 9th minute, defeated AEK by 1–0 at Thessaloniki and eliminated them from the tournament.^[11]

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 7 July 1963, 23:59 UTC+2.

Player	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
Stelios Serafidis		GK	(1935-08-06)6 August 1935 (aged 27)	1953	AEK Athens U20	—	1972
Vangelis Petrakis		GK	(1938-09-07)7 September 1938 (aged 24)	1962	Aris	Free	1967
Defenders
Manolis Klikopoulos		CB	1932 (aged 30–31)	1962	Egaleo	Free	1965
Giannis Marditsis		CB / ST	(1933-02-19)19 February 1933 (aged 30)	1959	Egaleo	₯103,000	1964
Petros Stamatelopoulos		LB	(1934-03-19)19 March 1934 (aged 29)	1959	Panerythraikos	₯100,000	1962
Mimis Anastasiadis		RB / CB / ST	(1936-10-26)26 October 1936 (aged 26)	1956	A.O. Nea Ionia	Free	1964
Giannis Doukas		CB / DM	(1937-06-06)6 June 1937 (aged 26)	1962	Free agent	Free	1965
Alekos Sofianidis		LB / LM / LW	(1937-08-03)3 August 1937 (aged 25)	1959	Beşiktaş	Free	1969
Aleko Yordan		CB	(1938-01-10)10 January 1938 (aged 25)	1962	Beykoz	Free	1969
Manolis Kanellopoulos		RB / CB	(1938-01-12)12 January 1938 (aged 25)	1962	Egaleo	Free	1965
Theofilos Vernezis		RB / CB / GK	1938 (aged 24–25)	1956	AEK Athens U20	—	1965
Stamatis Skafidas		RB / CB	1944 (aged 18–19)	1962	AEK Athens U20	—	1965
Midfielders
Miltos Papapostolou		DM / CB	(1935-09-09)9 September 1935 (aged 27)	1956	Egaleo	Free	1965
Giorgos Petridis		AM / SS / ST	(1938-02-10)10 February 1938 (aged 25)	1957	Pera Club	Free	1966
Panikos Krystallis		AM / SS / CM / RM / LM	(1938-07-01)1 July 1938 (aged 25)	1961	Apollon Limassol	₯1,900,000	1964
Stelios Skevofilakas		LM / RM / AM	(1939-01-06)6 January 1939 (aged 24)	1960	Eleftheroupoli	Free	1972
Thanasis Gouvas		AM / RW / SS / ST	(1939-04-00)April 1939 (aged 24)	1960	A.E. Messolonghi	Free	1965
Sofos Koulidis		CM / AM	1939 (aged 23–24)	1962	Egaleo	Free	1965
Forwards
Kostas Nestoridis		ST / SS	(1930-03-15)15 March 1930 (aged 33)	1955	Panionios	Free	1966
Andreas Stamatiadis (Captain)		RW / LW / SS / ST	(1935-08-16)16 August 1935 (aged 27)	1952	AEK Athens U20	—	1959
Dimitris Zagylos		RW	(1938-03-15)15 March 1938 (aged 25)	1961	Anorthosis Famagusta	₯320,000	1964
Ibrahim Mughrabi		ST	1939 (aged 23–24)	1962	Halab Al-Ahli	Free	1963
Nikos Zagotsis		ST / SS	(1940-03-16)16 March 1940 (aged 23)	1960	AEK Athens U20	—	1965
Aris Tsachouridis		LW / LM / RM / RW	(1940-12-10)10 December 1940 (aged 22)	1960	Makedonikos	Free	1965
Mimis Papaioannou		SS / ST / AM	(1942-08-23)23 August 1942 (aged 20)	1962	Veria	₯175,000	1970
Spyros Pomonis		LW / LM	(1944-02-12)12 February 1944 (aged 19)	1960	AEK Athens U20	—	1973
Nikos Spyropoulos		CF	1945 (aged 17–18)	1962	Free agent	Free	1963

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
GK	Vangelis Petrakis	Aris	Transfer	Free	1 July 1962	30 June 1967
DF	Manolis Klikopoulos	Egaleo	Transfer	Free	30 July 1962	30 June 1965
DF	Giannis Doukas	Free agent	Transfer	Free	1 July 1962	30 June 1965
DF	Aleko Yordan	Beykoz	Transfer	Free	1 July 1962	30 June 1969
DF	Manolis Kanellopoulos	Egaleo	Transfer	Free	30 July 1962	30 June 1965
DF	Stamatis Skafidas	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	—	1 July 1962	30 June 1965
MF	Sofos Koulidis	Egaleo	Transfer	Free	1 July 1962	30 June 1965
FW	Mimis Papaioannou	Veria	Transfer	₯175,000	1 July 1962	30 June 1970	[12]
FW	Ibrahim Mughrabi	Halab Al-Ahli	Transfer	Free	1 July 1962	30 June 1963
FW	Nikos Spyropoulos	Free agent	Transfer	Free	1 July 1962	30 June 1963

Out

Pos.	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
GK	Sotiris Fakis	Egaleo	End of contract	—	1 July 1962
DF	Dimitris Tzaneras	Free agent	End of contract	—	1 July 1962
MF	Alekos Daispangos	Panegialios	Transfer	Free	1 July 1962
MF	Stefanos Demiris	Panegialios	End of contract	—	1 July 1962
FW	Christos Ampos	Alexander the Great	End of contract	—	1 July 1962
FW	Argyris Argyropoulos	Panegialios	End of contract	—	1 July 1962
FW	Simos Vavaleros	Egaleo	Transfer	Free	1 July 1962

Pre-season and friendlies

AEK Athens v Panegialios

18 August 1962 Friendly	AEK Athens	5–3	Panegialios	Nea Filadelfeia
	Zagotsis			Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Apollon Limassol

19 August 1962 Friendly	AEK Athens	7–3	Apollon Limassol	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

Barcelona v AEK Athens

25 August 1962 Friendly	Barcelona	6–1	AEK Athens	Barcelona
	Villaverde 24', 29' Camps 42' Kocsis 59' Vergés 72' Ré 82'	Report	Zagotsis	Stadium: Camp Nou

AEK Athens v Ethnikos Piraeus

2 September 1962 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–1	Ethnikos Piraeus	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Partizan

26 December 1962 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–1	Partizan	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Příbram

6 January 1963 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–4	Příbram	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Petrolul Ploiești

19 February 1963 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	Petrolul Ploiești	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

Olympiacos v AEK Athens

15 April 1963 Friendly	Olympiacos	7–1	AEK Athens	Piraeus
	Besis 10' Polychroniou 21' Psychos 22', 60' Gavezos 56' Grigoriadis 66', 89'	Report	Loukanidis 43' (o.g.)	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Vangelis Vernardakis (Piraeus)
Note: Both clubs used players from their reserve and youth teams.

AEK Athens v Portuguesa

21 April 1963 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–2	Portuguesa	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

Competitions

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 7 July 1963

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Stelios Serafidis	31	0	3	0	34	0
—	GK	Vangelis Petrakis	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
—	DF	Manolis Klikopoulos	7	0	0	0	7	0
—	DF	Giannis Marditsis	19	0	3	0	22	0
—	DF	Petros Stamatelopoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	DF	Mimis Anastasiadis	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	DF	Giannis Doukas	8	0	0	0	8	0
—	DF	Alekos Sofianidis	31	0	2	0	33	0
—	DF	Aleko Yordan	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	DF	Manolis Kanellopoulos	28	0	3	0	31	0
—	DF	Theofilos Vernezis	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	DF	Stamatis Skafidas	3	0	1	0	4	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Miltos Papapostolou	19	0	3	0	22	0
—	MF	Giorgos Petridis	22	3	1	0	23	3
—	MF	Panikos Krystallis	8	1	0	0	8	1
—	MF	Stelios Skevofilakas	30	1	2	0	32	1
—	MF	Thanasis Gouvas	4	1	0	0	4	1
—	MF	Sofos Koulidis	2	0	0	0	2	0
Forwards
—	FW	Kostas Nestoridis	30	24	3	4	33	28
—	FW	Andreas Stamatiadis	22	4	3	1	25	5
—	FW	Dimitris Zagylos	4	2	3	2	7	4
—	FW	Ibrahim Mughrabi	22	7	1	2	23	9
—	FW	Nikos Zagotsis	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	FW	Aris Tsachouridis	18	4	3	0	21	4
—	FW	Mimis Papaioannou	31	18	2	1	33	19
—	FW	Spyros Pomonis	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	FW	Nikos Spyropoulos	2	0	0	0	2	0

Goalscorers

As of 7 July 1963

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Total
1	FW	Kostas Nestoridis	24	4	28
2	FW	Mimis Papaioannou	18	1	19
3	FW	Ibrahim Mughrabi	7	2	9
4	FW	Andreas Stamatiadis	4	1	5
5	FW	Aris Tsachouridis	4	0	4
	FW	Dimitris Zagylos	2	2	4
7	MF	Giorgos Petridis	3	0	3
8	MF	Stelios Skevofilakas	1	0	1
	MF	Thanasis Gouvas	1	0	1
	MF	Panikos Krystallis	1	0	1
Own goals			4	0	4
Totals			69	10	79

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Ibrahim Mughrabi	Egaleo	7–2 (H)	27 September 1962	Alpha Ethniki	[14]
Kostas Nestoridis	Apollon Athens	4–3 (H)	24 March 1963	Alpha Ethniki	[15]
Kostas Nestoridis	Olympiacos Kalamata	7–1 (H)	19 May 1963	Greek Cup
Kostas Nestoridis5	Iraklis	5–0 (H)	2 June 1963	Alpha Ethniki	[13]

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 7 July 1963

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Total
1	Stelios Serafidis	15	1	16
Totals		15	1	16

Disciplinary record

As of 7 July 1963

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Stelios Serafidis
—	GK		Vangelis Petrakis
Defenders
—	DF		Manolis Klikopoulos
—	DF		Giannis Marditsis
—	DF		Petros Stamatelopoulos
—	DF		Mimis Anastasiadis
—	DF		Giannis Doukas
—	DF		Alekos Sofianidis
—	DF		Aleko Yordan
—	DF		Manolis Kanellopoulos
—	DF		Theofilos Vernezis
—	DF		Stamatis Skafidas
Midfielders
—	MF		Miltos Papapostolou			1						1
—	MF		Giorgos Petridis
—	MF		Panikos Krystallis
—	MF		Stelios Skevofilakas
—	MF		Thanasis Gouvas
—	MF		Sofos Koulidis
Forwards
—	FW		Kostas Nestoridis
—	FW		Andreas Stamatiadis
—	FW		Dimitris Zagylos
—	FW		Ibrahim Mughrabi
—	FW		Nikos Zagotsis
—	FW		Aris Tsachouridis
—	FW		Mimis Papaioannou
—	FW		Spyros Pomonis
—	FW		Nikos Spyropoulos

Awards

Player	Pos.	Award	Source
Kostas Nestoridis	FW	Alpha Ethniki Top Scorer

References

External links

• AEK Athens F.C. Official Website