AEK Athens

1963–64 season
Chairman	Alexandros Makridis
Manager	Heinrich Müller
Stadium	AEK Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	3rd
Greek Cup	Winners
European Cup	Preliminary round
Top goalscorer	League: Mimis Papaioannou (29) All: Mimis Papaioannou (34)
Highest home attendance	35,000 vs Olympiacos (22 September 1963)
Lowest home attendance	6,573 vs Panionios (19 April 1964)
Average home league attendance	15,115
Biggest win	Anagennisi Arta 0–7 AEK Athens
Biggest defeat	Monaco 7–2 AEK Athens
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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.

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5] Many years later the HFF, recognizing the unjustified gap that had been created, awarded the trophy to AEK as well.^[6]

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	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 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

Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
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	[7]

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
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

Expenditure: ₯700,000

Income: ₯0

Net Total: ₯700,000

AEK Athens v Daring Club Motema Pembe

11 December 1963 Friendly	AEK Athens	4–1	Daring Club Motema Pembe	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Bucharest mixed

27 December 1963 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	Bucharest mixed	Nea Filadelfeia
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Tsachouridis 57'		85'	Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK Athens v Panathinaikos

3 January 1964 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–0	Panathinaikos	Nea Filadelfeia
	Theofanidis 44', 72' Petridis 86'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 8,423 Referee: Epaminondas Chatzinikolaou (Athens)

AEK Athens v Olympiacos

6 January 1964 Friendly	AEK Athens	6–1	Olympiacos	Nea Filadelfeia
	Stamatiadis 4', 28' Papaioannou 6' Nestoridis 10' Papageorgiou 85' Petridis 89'	Report	Psychos 45'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 16,127 Referee: Tsatsoglou

AEK Athens v Austria Wien

5 February 1964 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–0	Austria Wien	Nea Filadelfeia
15:30 EET (UTC+2)				Stadium: AEK Stadium

AEK entered the Greek Cup at the round of 32.

As Panathinaikos and Olympiacos were ejected from the competition, the final was scratched and AEK Athens were awarded the cup.^[5]

Monaco v AEK Athens

18 September 1963 First leg	Monaco	7–2	AEK Athens	Nice, France
16:30 EET (UTC+2)	Cossou 9', 31', 42', 57' Douis 17', 87' Dijbrill 22'	Report	Nestoridis 80' Tasinos 82'	Stadium: Stade Municipal du Ray Attendance: 13,406 Referee: Raoul Righi (Italy)
Note: First ever UEFA game for AEK.

AEK Athens v Monaco

2 October 1963 Second leg	AEK Athens	1–1 (3–8 agg.)	Monaco	Athens, Greece
16:00 EET (UTC+2)	Theofanidis 66'	Report	Theo 89' (pen.)	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 12,660 Referee: Gino Rigato (Italy)

As of 17 June 1964

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		European Cup		Total
			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

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
	MF	Stelios Skevofilakas	1	0	0	1
	MF	Emilios Theofanidis	0	0	1	1
Own goals			1	0	0	1
Totals			72	14	3	89

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
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

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		17	3	0	20

As of 17 June 1964

N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup			European Cup			Total			Notes
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

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

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