1985–86 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens
1985–86 season
Chairman	Andreas Zafiropoulos
Manager	Jacek Gmoch; (until 12 June); Nikos Christidis
Stadium	Athens Olympic Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	3rd
Greek Cup	Semi-finals
UEFA Cup	First round
Top goalscorer	League: ; Håkan Sandberg (12); All: ; Márton Esterházy (17)
Highest home attendance	74,465 vs Olympiacos; (9 February 1986)
Lowest home attendance	1,454 vs Chalkida; (12 February 1986)
Average home league attendance	27,584
Biggest win	AEK Athens 10–0 Ilioupoli
Biggest defeat	Real Madrid 5–0 AEK Athens
Home colours	Away colours
	← 1984–85 1986–87 →

The 1985–86 season was the 62nd season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the 27th 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 8 September 1985 and finished on 23 June 1986.

Kits

Supplier: Zita Hellas
Sponsor(s): Ethniki Asfalistiki

Home

Away

Overview

In the summer of 1985, AEK "moved" to the Athens Olympic Stadium, due to construction works at the AEK Stadium. Both Olympiacos and Panathinaikos already used the same stadium as their home ground at the time, which resulted in the introduction of league games on Saturday, so that all 3 teams could be served simultaneously. Antonis Georgiadis left the team's bench for Olympiacos, while Zafiropoulos hired Jacek Gmoch, who had won the 1984 double and he had reached the semi-finals of the European Cup with Panathinaikos. Christos Ardizoglou left the club to end his career at Apollon Athens, a team where he started his career, since for various reasons he failed to transfer to Olympiacos. In December, both Vangelis Vlachos and Lysandros Georgamlis left for Panathinaikos and greatly affected the team's later performance in the league. In the transfer period of December, AEK were strengthened with the addition of Greek-Australian expatriate, Jim Patikas.

AEK started the league with two convincing victories against PAOK and Aris, but the continuation was not proportional. The whole season was a year of successive ups and downs in the performance of the team, which could not acquire duration and rhythm. The club presented two different faces in their struggles at home and away matches. While at home they finished undefeated, but with 7 draws that knocked them out of the title race, at the away matches they gathered 7 defeats in 15 games. The team finished at the third place where they were tied with Iraklis, 7 points behind the champion Panathinaikos and 2 behind the second OFI. In the UEFA Cup, AEK were eliminated by the mighty Real Madrid, who were the eventual winners, in the first round, despite winning the first leg at Athens. In the Cup, AEK reached the semi-finals where they were eliminated by Panathinaikos in a margin. Top scorer at the league was Håkan Sandberg with 12 goals and Márton Esterházy in total with 17 goals, while Theologis Papadopoulos had a very good season. One of the few positives of that season was that AEK achieved an average league ticket record in their history with 31,254 tickets per game.^[1]

However, the whole season was accompanied by the court thriller that was reserved for the end. AEK were playing in the penultimate matchday in Serres against Panserraikos. ΑΕΚ wanted the victory to stay on track for a ticket to the next season's UEFA Cup. On April 19, at the eve of the match, the general manager of AEK, Giannis Chrysovitsianos, was arrested on the accusation that he tried to bribe the players of Panserraikos, Michalis Galatidis, Giorgos Sfakianakis and Giannis Antoniadis, through Giorgos Rigas, to underperform the game. The match took place normally with Panserraikos winning by 2–0, a result that eventually did not help him avoid relegation. The result of this whole story was that the league standings were not secured, until the case was finalized. Eventually, that happened in mid-June, with AEK being punished with the deduction of 3 points, but from the next season's championship. Thus, the organizing authority decided to conduct a third place play-off match between AEK and Iraklis. Iraklis considered a scandal the decision of the punishment of AEK for next year, as well as the acquittal of OFI for the double doping of their player, Alejandro Hisis. The play-off match was set for June 23 at Volos. The delay of the conduction of the match was such that Esterházy played in the match, after competing with his national team at the FIFA World Cup in Mexico. Meanwhile Gmoch left the club, with Nikos Christidis sitting at the bench for the match. Iraklis, disagreed with the conduction of the play-off match, considering themselves wronged by the non-punishment of AEK for the current season. Nevertheless they were forced to show up in order for the club not to be punished and tried to make a parody of the match. The squad of Iraklis was consisted of only 10 players, since according to their management, the rest of the players were on vacation. At the 53rd minute and while the match was at 0–0, Iraklis were left with 6 players after Zifkas and Karaiskos were sent off, while Santexis and Adamou left injured. According to the regulation, the referee interrupted the match and was awarded 2–0 to AEK, who won the European ticket.^[2]

Management team

Position	Staff
Manager	Nikos Christidis
Goalkeeping coach	Stelios Serafidis
Head of Medical	Lakis Nikolaou
Physiotherapist	Nikos Pantazis

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 23 June 1986, 23:59 UTC+3.

Player	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
Spyros Ikonomopoulos	GK	(1959-07-25)25 July 1959 (aged 26)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1989
Theologis Papadopoulos	GK	(1960-01-12)12 January 1960 (aged 26)	1984	AEL	₯9,000,000	1989
Defenders
Makis Chatzis	RB / LB	(1957-03-30)30 March 1957 (aged 29)	1984	Apollon Athens	₯6,750,000	1989
Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	RB / LB	(1957-09-04)4 September 1957 (aged 28)	1978	AEK Athens U20	—	1986
Ilias Armodoros	LB	(1960-01-25)25 January 1960 (aged 26)	1985	Ethnikos Piraeus	Free	1990
Takis Karagiozopoulos	CB / DM / ST	(1961-02-04)4 February 1961 (aged 25)	1981	Veria	Free	1991
Polyvios Chatzopoulos	CB / DM	(1961-07-17)17 July 1961 (aged 24)	1985	Panionios	₯10,400,000	1990
Stelios Manolas	CB / RB	(1961-07-13)13 July 1961 (aged 24)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1988
Stefanos Porfyris	CB	(1965-09-02)2 September 1965 (aged 20)	1985	AEK Athens U20	—	1990
Midfielders
Pavlos Dimitriou	AM / LB	(1957-03-24)24 March 1957 (aged 29)	1985	Panserraikos	₯11,000,000	1989
Dinos Ballis	AM / CM / DM / SS / ST / CB	(1957-05-25)25 May 1957 (aged 29)	1981	Aris	₯17,000,000	1986
Pavlos Papaioannou	DM / RB / LB / RM	(1959-05-19)19 May 1959 (aged 27)	1983	Rodos	₯10,000,000	1988
Nikos Pias	CM	(1960-04-07)7 April 1960 (aged 26)	1984	Rodos	₯1,350,000	1989
Babis Akrivopoulos	AM / SS / ST	(1961-09-04)4 September 1961 (aged 24)	1983	Veria	₯8,400,000	1988
Jim Patikas	RM / LM / RW / LW / SS	(1963-10-18)18 October 1963 (aged 22)	1985	Sydney Croatia	₯5,000,000	1988
Dimitris Stafylidis	CM	(1965-01-01)1 January 1965 (aged 21)	1985	AEK Athens U20	—	1988
Forwards
Thomas Mavros (Captain)	ST / LW	(1954-05-31)31 May 1954 (aged 32)	1976	Panionios	₯4,000,000	1987
Márton Esterházy	SS / ST / RW / LW / AM	(1956-04-09)9 April 1956 (aged 30)	1984	Honvéd	₯25,000,000	1986
Håkan Sandberg	ST	(1958-07-27)27 July 1958 (aged 27)	1984	IFK Göteborg	₯8,000,000	1988
Andreas Voitsidis	ST / RW / LW	(1960-04-28)28 April 1960 (aged 26)	1984	Kastoria	₯2,400,000	1989
Giannis Dintsikos	ST / SS / RW / LW / AM	(1960-06-25)25 June 1960 (aged 26)	1981	Kastoria	₯20,000,000	1991
Georgios Christodoulou	ST / SS / LW	(1967-05-20)20 May 1967 (aged 19)	1985	Akratitos	Free	1988
Left during Winter Transfer Window
Christos Arvanitis	GK	(1953-01-23)23 January 1953 (aged 33)	1982	Olympiacos	₯7,000,000	1986
Lysandros Georgamlis (Vice-captain)	RB / CB / DM / LB	(1962-02-25)25 February 1962 (aged 24)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1985
Vangelis Vlachos	AM / CM	(1962-01-06)6 January 1962 (aged 24)	1979	AEK Athens U20	—	1989
Michalis Pytharoulis	ST	1966 (aged 19–20)	1984	A.O. Agios Nikolaos	Free	1989

Transfers

In

Summer

Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
GK	Fanis Kofinas	Korinthos	Loan return	1 July 1985	30 June 1987
DF	Polyvios Chatzopoulos	Panionios	₯10,400,000	21 June 1985	30 June 1990	^[3]
DF	Stefanos Porfyris	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1985	30 June 1990
DF	Ilias Armodoros	Ethnikos Piraeus	Free transfer	5 July 1985	30 June 1990	^[4]
MF	Dimitris Stafylidis	AEK Athens U20	Promotion	1 July 1985	30 June 1988
FW	Georgios Christodoulou	Akratitos	Free transfer^[a]	11 July 1985	30 June 1988	^[5]

Winter

Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
MF	Jim Patikas	Sydney Croatia	₯5,000,000^[6]	12 December 1985	30 November 1988	^[7]
MF	Pavlos Dimitriou	Panserraikos	₯11,000,000	16 December 1985	30 June 1989	^[8]

Out

Summer

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Stavros Letsas	Egaleo	Contract termination	9 August 1985	^[9]
ΜF	Christos Ardizoglou	Apollon Athens	Contract termination	15 July 1985	^[10]

Winter

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
GK	Christos Arvanitis	Olympiacos	₯6,000,000^[b]	16 December 1985	^[11]
DF	Lysandros Georgamlis	Panathinaikos	₯9,100,000	22 November 1985	^[12]
MF	Vangelis Vlachos	Panathinaikos	₯16,000,000^[c]	10 December 1985	^[13]

Loan out

Summer

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
GK	Fanis Kofinas	Ionikos	Free	15 July 1985	30 June 1987	N	^[14]
DF	Dimos Tsimiliotis	Acharnaikos	Free	15 July 1985	30 June 1986	N	^[15]

Winter

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
FW	Michalis Pytharoulis	Vyzas Megara	Free	28 November 1985	30 November 1986	N	^[16]

Notes

a. ^{^} AEK gave as an exchange from their reserve team Kagarakis, Keramiotis and Voulgarelis, plus Dimas and Aravidis as a loan.

b. ^{^} Plus the incomes from a friendly match between the clubs in the following summer.

c. ^{^} During the previous season, Vlachos was at the end of his five-year contract and Zafiropoulos proposed a relatively small offer for a renewal, while the player had also an offer from Vardinogiannis, to move to Panathinaikos, which he accepted.^[17] As the club owed him money as well he demanded to move to the "greens" on free. A court series that lasted several months began, which resulted in Vlachos moving for Panathinaikos. The cost of the transfer was ₯16,000,000 in cash plus the incomes from a friendly match between the clubs in the following summer.

Contract renewals

Pos.	Player	Date	Former Exp. Date	New Exp. Date	Source
DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	13 June 1986	30 June 1986	30 June 1991	^[18]
FW	Håkan Sandberg	28 May 1986	30 June 1986	30 June 1988	^[19]
FW	Giannis Dintsikos	13 June 1986	30 June 1986	30 June 1991	^[18]

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure

Summer: ₯10,400,000

Winter: ₯16,000,000

Total: ₯26,400,000

Income

Summer: ₯0

Winter: ₯31,100,000

Total: ₯31,100,000

Net Totals

Summer: ₯10,400,000

Winter: ₯15,100,000

Total: ₯4,700,000

Pre-season and friendlies

18 July 1985 Friendly	Brage	0–2	AEK Athens	Borlänge
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)		^[20]	Esterházy 14' (pen.) Sandberg 59'	Stadium: Domnarvsvallen Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Borlenie (Sweden)

23 July 1985 Friendly	Örebro	2–3	AEK Athens	Borlänge
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Hammar 33' Ingdahl 52'	^[21]	Ballis 34' Dintsikos 36' Esterházy 66' (pen.)	Stadium: Domnarvsvallen Attendance: 1,500

25 July 1985 Friendly	Västerås	0–1	AEK Athens	Västerås
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)		^[22]	Sandberg 31'	Stadium: Arosvallen Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Karlsson (Sweden)

27 July 1985 Friendly	Krylbo IF	5–7	AEK Athens	Krylbo
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Larsson 3' Persson 10', 20', 42' Vestman 58'	^[23]	Sandberg 5', 57' (pen.) Christodoulou 15' Karagiozopoulos 39' (pen.) Dintsikos 67' Zarikos 68' Pias 75'	Stadium: Arosvallen Attendance: 2,000

28 July 1985 Friendly	Ludvika FK	0–4	AEK Athens	Ludvika
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)		^[24]	Sandberg 55', 87' (pen.) Dintsikos 59' Kak 79' (o.g.)	Stadium: Hillängens IP Attendance: 4,500

12 August 1985 Friendly	Iraklis	4–3	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Maloumidis 17' (pen.) Chatzopoulos 35' (o.g.) Adamou 43' D. Papadopoulos 89'	^[25]	Armodoros 44' Arvanitis 45' P. Papaioannou 62' Sandberg 77'	Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Panagiotis Koutris (Thessaloniki)

14 August 1985 Friendly	AEL	3–2	AEK Athens	Larissa
	Valaoras 19' Parafestas 59' (pen.) Tsiolis 69'	^[26]	Esterházy 65', 71', 79'	Stadium: Alcazar Stadium Attendance: 7,717 Referee: Kostas Lappas (Karditsa)

19 August 1985 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–3	Honvéd	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Ballis 4' Papaioannou 78'	^[27]	Sikesdi 39' Gyimesi 64' Bodonyi 4'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 23,710^[28] Referee: Giorgos Koukoulakis (Heraklion)

21 August 1985 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	Olympiacos	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Karagiozopoulos 30' Sandberg 42', 43' Pias 69'	^[29]	Skouras 43' Mitropoulos 71'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Makis Germanakos (Athens)

26 August 1985 Friendly	AEK Athens	0–1	PAS Giannina	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)		^[30]	Lappas 26' Pasialis 76'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 8,430 Referee: Stratos Kannos (Athens)

30 August 1985 Friendly	Ethnikos Piraeus	0–1	AEK Athens	Piraeus
21:15 EEST (UTC+3)			Dintsikos 82'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Referee: Sfondylis

1 September 1985 Friendly	Apollon Athens	0–0	AEK Athens	Rizoupoli
17:30 EEST (UTC+3)		^[31]		Stadium: Rizoupoli Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Vangelis Markou (Larissa)

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Alpha Ethniki	8 September 1985	27 April 1986	Matchday 1	3rd	30	13	10	7	42	28	+14	043.33
3rd place play-off	23 June 1986		Final	Winners	1	1	0	0	0	0	+0	100.00
Greek Cup	6 November 1985	21 May 1986	First round	Semi-finals	9	5	2	2	22	7	+15	055.56
UEFA Cup	18 September 1985	2 October 1985	First round	First round	2	1	0	1	1	5	−4	050.00
Total					42	20	12	10	65	40	+25	047.62

Last updated: 23 June 1986
Source: Competitions

Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Panathinaikos (C)	30	18	7	5	58	26	+32	43	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	OFI	30	16	6	8	41	31	+10	38	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round^[a]
3	AEK Athens	30	13	10	7	42	28	+14	36	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round^[a]
4	Iraklis	30	14	8	8	34	22	+12	36
5	Olympiacos	30	14	6	10	57	42	+15	34	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round^[b]

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match.
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ AEK Athens and Iraklis tied at third place with 36 points. Despite AEK was found guilty for bribe against Panserraikos, the HFF punished the club with three points deduction from 1986–87 season. A play-off game was scheduled to play in Volos on 23 June. Iraklis made a protest and showed up with 10 players. At the 53rd minute with the score at 0–0, the match interrupted permanently. At this minute Iraklis after two red cards and 2 injuries, stay with 6 players on the field. The game forfeited to AEK with 2–0.
^ Since Panathinaikos, winners of 1985–86 Greek Football Cup, was qualified for the 1986–87 European Cup, losing cup finalists Olympiacos earned a spot in the first round of the 1986–87 European Cup Winners' Cup.

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	13	10	7	42	28	+14	36	8	7	0	26	9	+17	5	3	7	16	19	−3

Source: Competitive matches

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	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	W	L	D	W	L	D	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	L	D	L	D	D	W	W	L	W	W	D	D	D	W	L	D
Position	1	2	4	5	3	6	7	5	6	5	2	2	3	3	3	5	7	6	6	5	4	6	5	2	4	3	4	3	3	3

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

Fixtures

8 September 1985 1	Aris	0–3	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
17:30 EEST (UTC+3)			Dintsikos 2' Esterházy 24' Sandberg 60'	Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 34,478 Referee: Stratos Kannos (Athens)

14 September 1985 2	AEK Athens	1–0	PAOK	Marousi
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Manolas 25'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 54,408 Referee: Kostas Adamopoulos (Athens)

22 September 1985 3	Doxa Drama	1–0	AEK Athens	Drama
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Ljumović 74'			Stadium: Doxa Drama Stadium Attendance: 8,443 Referee: Nikos Andreou (Athens)

29 September 1985 4	Olympiacos	2–2	AEK Athens	Marousi
15:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Šestić 34' Anastopoulos 80' (pen.)		Esterházy 74', 86'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 74,419 Referee: Giannis Batras (Karditsa)

6 October 1985 5	AEK Athens	2–1	Apollon Kalamarias	Marousi
15:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Sandberg 33' Mavros 70'		Katrakilakis 85'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 18,157 Referee: Stratos Kannos (Athens)

13 October 1985 6	OFI	2–0	AEK Athens	Heraklion
15:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Samaras 61' Tsirimokos 75'			Stadium: Ergotelis Stadium Attendance: 8,490 Referee: Nikos Chrysanis (Imathia)

19 October 1985 7	AEK Athens	2–2	AEL	Marousi
17:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Sandberg 22' Mavros 34'		Valaoras 56' Ziogas 82'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 26,541 Referee: Petros Kalpakidis (Thessaloniki)

3 November 1985 8	PAS Giannina	0–1	AEK Athens	Ioannina
15:00 EET (UTC+2)			Sandberg 21'	Stadium: Zosimades Stadium Attendance: 13,130 Referee: Periklis Vasilakis (Athens)

10 November 1985 9	AEK Athens	1–1	Panionios	Marousi
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Manolas 47'		Aposporis 75'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 36,144 Referee: Stavros Zakestidis (Thessaloniki)

24 November 1985 10	AEK Athens	3–0	Panachaiki	Marousi
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Esterházy 3', 8' Dintsikos 82'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 12,969 Referee: Stefanos Tsirikidis (Thessaloniki)

1 December 1985 11	Apollon Athens	0–3	AEK Athens	Rizoupoli
14:45 EET (UTC+2)			Stafylidis 23' Sandberg 68' Esterházy 80'	Stadium: Rizoupoli Stadium Attendance: 11,607 Referee: Tasos Kaklamanos (Arcadia)

8 December 1985 12	AEK Athens	2–0	Ethnikos Piraeus	Marousi
14:45 EET (UTC+2)	Esterházy 9' (pen.) Dintsikos 25'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 23,732 Referee: Giorgos Koukoulakis (Heraklion)
Note: At the 28th minute, the referee was injured and since the medical assistance did not work, he was forced to leave the match, which started with a 42-minute delay. The first linesman, Panagiotakis took the place of the referee and the position of the linesman was taken by Giakoumatos, after a draw with three other spectators referees. In the interruption, while the score was 2–0, Ethnikos made an objection for the match to be repeated.

15 December 1985 13	Iraklis	3–0	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
14:45 EET (UTC+2)	Papadopoulos 39' Adamou 69' Karaiskos 86'			Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 20,746 Referee: Stefanos Tsirikidis (Thessaloniki)

22 December 1985 14	AEK Athens	3–0	Panserraikos	Marousi
14:45 EET (UTC+2)	Ballis 8', 87' Sandberg 79'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 7,234 Referee: Panagiotis Koutris (Thessaloniki)

5 January 1986 15	Panathinaikos	2–1	AEK Athens	Marousi
14:45 EET (UTC+2)	Saravakos 3' Antoniou 56'		Ballis 33'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 74,493 Referee: Meletis Voutsaras (Athens)

11 January 1986 16	AEK Athens	1–1	Aris	Marousi
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Esterházy 81'		Kouis 77'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 31,930 Referee: Giannis Batras (Karditsa)

26 January 1986 17	PAOK	2–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Singas 18' Vasilakos 59'		Mavros 43'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 24,113 Referee: Michalis Matsoukas (Euboea)

2 February 1986 18	AEK Athens	1–1	Doxa Drama	Marousi
15:30 EET (UTC+2)	Manolas 52'		Pahatouridis 53'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 9,680 Referee: Dimitris Dodos (Athens)
Note: AEK players entered the pitch with a 10-minute delay as protest for bad refereeing.

9 February 1986 19	AEK Athens	0–0	Olympiacos	Marousi
15:30 EET (UTC+2)				Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 74,465 Referee: Christos Kolokythas (Athens)
Note: All time attendance record for AEK Athens.^[32]

16 February 1986 20	Apollon Kalamarias	0–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
15:30 EET (UTC+2)			Esterházy 16'	Stadium: Aris Stadium Attendance: 1,725 Referee: Stratos Kannos (Athens)

23 February 1986 21	AEK Athens	1–0	OFI	Marousi
15:30 EET (UTC+2)	Dintsikos 75'			Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 36,917 Referee: Vangelis Markou (Larissa)

2 March 1986 22	AEL	2–0	AEK Athens	Larissa
15:30 EET (UTC+2)	Kolomitrousis 15' Valaoras 27'			Stadium: Alcazar Stadium Attendance: 13,839 Referee: Stefanos Tsirikidis (Thessaloniki)

8 March 1986 23	AEK Athens	4–1	PAS Giannina	Marousi
16:30 EET (UTC+2)	Sandberg 18' Esterházy 31', 38' Mavros 83'		Maipas 10'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 17,402 Referee: Christos Kolokythas (Athens)

16 March 1986 24	Panionios	0–1	AEK Athens	Nea Smyrni
15:30 EET (UTC+2)			Sandberg 83'	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 13,364 Referee: Dimitris Naoum (Thessaloniki)

23 March 1986 25	Panachaiki	2–2	AEK Athens	Patras
16:00 EET (UTC+2)	Vujadinović 76' Giotis 84'		Sandberg 4', 62'	Stadium: Panachaiki Stadium Attendance: 11,307 Referee: Vasilis Nikakis (Aetoloacarnania)

30 March 1986 26	AEK Athens	1–1	Apollon Athens	Marousi
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Dintsikos 77'		Athanasiadis 75'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 24,849 Referee: Tasos Kantartzis (Thessaloniki)

6 April 1986 27	Ethnikos Piraeus	1–1	AEK Athens	Piraeus
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Konstantinidis 45' (pen.)		Chatzopoulos 37'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 19,797 Referee: Stefanos Tsirikidis (Thessaloniki)

12 April 1986 28	AEK Athens	4–1	Iraklis	Marousi
18:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Karagiozopoulos 26' Ballis 51' Sandberg 66', 72' (pen.)		Papaioannou 89' (pen.)	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 29,834 Referee: Giannis Batras (Karditsa)

20 April 1986 29	Panserraikos	2–0	AEK Athens	Serres
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Gekas 14' Galatidis 50' (pen.)			Stadium: Serres Municipal Stadium Attendance: 11,390 Referee: Stavros Zakestidis (Thessaloniki)

27 April 1986 30	AEK Athens	0–0	Panathinaikos	Marousi
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)				Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 64,542 Referee: Giannis Triantafyllou (Dodecanese)

3rd place play-off

23 June 1986 Play-off match	AEK Athens	2–0 (Awarded)	Iraklis	Volos
20:10 EEST (UTC+3)		Report		Stadium: Volos Municipal Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Giannis Triantafyllou (Dodecanese)
Note: Iraklis did not like the court's decision for AEK Athens' punishment and threatened not to show up in the match. After pressure and with the risk of punishment, Iraklis showed up with ten men, who entered the pitch in pairs and thus the match started with a 10-minute delay. Shortly before the match began, Zifkas was injured in the warm-up and Iraklis started the match with 9 players. At the 19th minute Zifkas entered the match and 5 minutes later kicked Pias who reacted and both were sent-off. Karaiskos who was booked from the 4th minute, went to execute every foul of Iraklis and delayed at every execution. At the 45th minute he went to execute a foul and provocatively did not allow the game to be continued. Before the referee approached him to show him the second yellow, he left by himself for the changing rooms and Iraklis was left with 8 players. At the 51st minute, Santexis fell to the ground and was carried off field on a stretcher. 3 minutes later, Adamou tackled Stafylidis and he himself fell to the ground, suffering. He came out with a stretcher and after a 6-minute break Adamou said that he could not continue, resulting in Iraklis were left with only 6 players. By regulation, the match was awarded 2–0 to AEK Athens.^[2]

Greek Cup

Matches

6 November 1985 First round	AEK Athens	10–0	Ilioupoli	Marousi
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Esterházy 15', 27', 38' Ballis 18', 63' Dintsikos 41', 86' Karagiozopoulos 45' Sandberg 53' (pen.), 61'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 1,653 Referee: Nikos Kapetanakis (Piraeus)

Round of 32

4 December 1985 First leg	AEK Athens	1–1	Kallithea	Marousi
14:45 EET (UTC+2)	Armodoros 54' Sandberg 75'	Report	Nikolaidis 28' Korobelis 52'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 2,574 Referee: Giorgos Amygdalis (Serres)

29 December 1985 Second leg	Kallithea	0–1 (1–2 agg.)	AEK Athens	Kallithea
14:15 EET (UTC+2)	Nikolaidis 67' Karagiorgas 73'	Report	Dintsikos 27' Ballis 75'	Stadium: Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium Attendance: 5,650 Referee: Giannis Iatropoulos (Piraeus)

Round of 16

22 January 1986 First leg	Chalkida	1–2	AEK Athens	Chalcis
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Vagenas 21' Merditis 52' Koulouris 72'	Report	Esterházy 53', 80' Sandberg 58'	Stadium: Municipal Stadium of Chalkida Attendance: 11,104 Referee: Lampros Michailidis (Piraeus)

12 February 1986 Second leg	AEK Athens	2–0 (4–1 agg.)	Chalkida	Marousi
14:45 EET (UTC+2)	Esterházy 28' Manolas 62'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 1,454 Referee: Petros Kalpakidis (Thessaloniki)

Quarter-finals

12 March 1986 First leg	AEK Athens	3–0	Panachaiki	Marousi
16:00 EET (UTC+2)	Sandberg 14' Stylianopoulos 37' Stafylidis 65' Chatzopoulos 78' Christodoulou 84'	Report	Zerdevas 51' Filippopoulos 57'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 12,677 Referee: Stavros Zakestidis (Thessaloniki)

9 April 1986 Second leg	Panachaiki	1–0 (1–3 agg.)	AEK Athens	Patras
16:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Dalakas 52'		Armodoros 42'	Stadium: Panachaiki Stadium Attendance: 5,293 Referee: Orestis Pavlidis (Dodecanese)

Semi-finals

11 May 1986 First leg	AEK Athens	2–2	Panathinaikos	Marousi
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Manolas 11' Patikas 17', 24', 27' Sandberg 30' 90' Stafylidis 47'		Zajec 35' Gerothodoros 36' Vlachos 47' Batsinilas 59' Minou 86'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 52,284 Referee: Kostas Dimitriadis (Piraeus)

21 May 1986 Second leg	Panathinaikos	2–1 (4–3 agg.)	AEK Athens	Marousi
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Saravakos 33' Batsinilas 42' Dimopoulos 53' Vamvakoulas 60'		Papaioannou 4' Karagiozopoulos 11' (pen.) Stafylidis 14' Manolas 33' Ballis 82' 90'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Vasilis Nikakis (Aetoloacarnania)

UEFA Cup

First round

18 September 1985 First leg	AEK Athens	1–0	Real Madrid	Athens, Greece
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Papaioannou 10' Georgamlis 69' Chatzopoulos 78'	Report		Stadium: Athens Olympic Stadium Attendance: 39,819 Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

2 October 1985 Second leg	Real Madrid	5–0 (5–1 agg.)	AEK Athens	Madrid, Spain
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Georgamlis 8' (o.g.) Butragueño 18' Chendo 20' Sanchís 21' Valdano 32' Sánchez 59'	Report	Sandberg 18'	Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Stadium Attendance: 85,000 Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 23 June 1986

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		UEFA Cup		Total
No.	Pos	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	0
—	GK	Theologis Papadopoulos	23	0	7	0	0	0	30	0
Defenders
—	DF	Makis Chatzis	24	0	7	0	2	0	33	0
—	DF	Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	14	0	5	1	0	0	19	1
—	DF	Ilias Armodoros	25	0	8	0	2	0	35	0
—	DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	25	1	7	2	2	0	34	3
—	DF	Polyvios Chatzopoulos	19	1	8	0	2	0	29	1
—	DF	Stelios Manolas	20	3	7	1	2	0	29	4
—	DF	Stefanos Porfyris	2	0	3	0	0	0	5	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Pavlos Dimitriou	15	0	5	0	0	0	20	0
—	MF	Dinos Ballis	22	4	7	2	1	0	30	6
—	MF	Pavlos Papaioannou	27	0	6	0	2	1	35	1
—	MF	Nikos Pias	24	0	6	0	2	0	32	0
—	MF	Babis Akrivopoulos	5	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
—	MF	Jim Patikas	12	0	3	2	0	0	15	2
—	MF	Dimitris Stafylidis	11	1	8	0	0	0	19	1
Forwards
—	FW	Thomas Mavros	17	4	4	0	1	0	22	4
—	FW	Márton Esterházy	29	11	6	6	2	0	37	17
—	FW	Håkan Sandberg	29	12	6	4	2	0	37	16
—	FW	Andreas Voitsidis	13	0	5	0	0	0	18	0
—	FW	Giannis Dintsikos	20	5	4	3	1	0	25	8
—	FW	Georgios Christodoulou	6	0	2	1	0	0	8	1
Left during Winter Transfer Window
—	GK	Christos Arvanitis	7	0	0	0	2	0	9	0
—	DF	Lysandros Georgamlis	7	0	1	0	2	0	10	0
—	MF	Vangelis Vlachos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	FW	Michalis Pytharoulis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goalscorers

As of 23 June 1986

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	UEFA Cup	Total
1	FW	Márton Esterházy	11	6	0	17
2	FW	Håkan Sandberg	12	4	0	16
3	FW	Giannis Dintsikos	5	3	0	8
4	MF	Dinos Ballis	4	2	0	6
5	FW	Thomas Mavros	4	0	0	4
5	DF	Stelios Manolas	3	1	0	4
7	DF	Takis Karagiozopoulos	1	2	0	3
8	MF	Jim Patikas	0	2	0	2
9	DF	Polyvios Chatzopoulos	1	0	0	1
	MF	Dimitris Stafylidis	1	0	0	1
	DF	Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	0	1	0	1
	FW	Georgios Christodoulou	0	1	0	1
	MF	Pavlos Papaioannou	0	0	1	1
Own goals			0	0	0	0
Totals			42	22	1	65

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Source
Márton Esterházy	Ilioupoli	10–0 (H)	6 November 1985	Greek Cup	^[33]

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 23 June 1986

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	UEFA Cup	Total
1	Theologis Papadopoulos	10	3	0	13
2	Christos Arvanitis	2	0	1	3
3	Spyros Ikonomopoulos	0	1	0	1
Totals		12	4	1	17

Disciplinary record

As of 23 June 1986

N	P	Nat.	Name										Notes
N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki			Greek Cup		UEFA Cup	Total			Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Spyros Ikonomopoulos
—	GK		Theologis Papadopoulos
Defenders
—	DF		Makis Chatzis	2						2
—	DF		Panagiotis Stylianopoulos	1						1
—	DF		Ilias Armodoros	3			2			5
—	DF		Takis Karagiozopoulos	7						7
—	DF		Polyvios Chatzopoulos	3			1		1	5
—	DF		Stelios Manolas	9			2			11
—	DF		Stefanos Porfyris
Midfielders
—	MF		Pavlos Dimitriou	2						2
—	MF		Dinos Ballis	4		1	3	1		7	1	1
—	MF		Dimitris Pittas
—	MF		Pavlos Papaioannou	7	1		1			8	1
—	MF		Nikos Pias	4		1				4		1
—	MF		Babis Akrivopoulos
—	MF		Jim Patikas	2			1			3
—	MF		Dimitris Stafylidis	3			3			6
Forwards
—	FW		Thomas Mavros	2						2
—	FW		Márton Esterházy	4						4
—	FW		Håkan Sandberg	8			3	1	1	12	1
—	FW		Andreas Voitsidis	1						1
—	FW		Giannis Dintsikos	2	1					2	1
—	FW		Georgios Christodoulou
Left during Winter Transfer Window
—	GK		Christos Arvanitis	1						1
—	DF		Lysandros Georgamlis						1	1
—	MF		Vangelis Vlachos
—	FW		Michalis Pytharoulis

References

^ "Περίοδος 1985-1986". aekpedia.com (in Greek). 22 May 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Μια ταινία παλιά που τέλος δεν έχει". sdna.gr. 16 February 2020.
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^ Διονύσης Αβούρης (6 July 1985). "Ο Αρμοδώρος στην ΑΕΚ με υπόδειξη του Γκμοχ!". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 3.
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^ Γιώργος Πάστρας (13 December 1985). "Ελληνοαυστραλός διεθνής άσος στην ΑΕΚ". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 4.
^ Γιώργος Πάστρας (17 December 1985). "Με 14 εκατομμύρια η ΑΕΚ τον Δημητρίου". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 4.
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^ Γ. Στεφανής (11 December 1985). "Πράσσινος ο Βλάχος". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 4.
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External links

[table_note_res_UC10.27974560264486-32] AEK Athens and Iraklis tied at third place with 36 points. Despite AEK was found guilty for bribe against Panserraikos, the HFF punished the club with three points deduction from 1986–87 season. A play-off game was scheduled to play in Volos on 23 June. Iraklis made a protest and showed up with 10 players. At the 53rd minute with the score at 0–0, the match interrupted permanently. At this minute Iraklis after two red cards and 2 injuries, stay with 6 players on the field. The game forfeited to AEK with 2–0.

[table_note_res_CWC10.27974560264486-33] Since Panathinaikos, winners of 1985–86 Greek Football Cup, was qualified for the 1986–87 European Cup, losing cup finalists Olympiacos earned a spot in the first round of the 1986–87 European Cup Winners' Cup.

[1] "Περίοδος 1985-1986". aekpedia.com (in Greek). 22 May 2015.

[IraAEK-2] "Μια ταινία παλιά που τέλος δεν έχει". sdna.gr. 16 February 2020.

[3] Γιώργος Πάστρας (22 June 1985). "Πήραμε αυτόν που θέλαμε". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 6.

[4] Διονύσης Αβούρης (6 July 1985). "Ο Αρμοδώρος στην ΑΕΚ με υπόδειξη του Γκμοχ!". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 3.

[5] Γιώργος Πάστρας (12 July 1985). "Τον Χριστοδούλου". Athetic Echo (in Greek). p. 6.

[6] Γιώργος Πάστρας (14 December 1985). "Ο Πατίκας". Athetic Echo (in Greek). p. 4.

[7] Γιώργος Πάστρας (13 December 1985). "Ελληνοαυστραλός διεθνής άσος στην ΑΕΚ". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 4.

[8] Γιώργος Πάστρας (17 December 1985). "Με 14 εκατομμύρια η ΑΕΚ τον Δημητρίου". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 4.

[9] Χάρης Λουκάτος (10 August 1985). "Τον Λέτσα από την ΑΕΚ πήρε για 4 χρόνια το Αιγάλεω". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 4, 6.

[10] Κ. Πάσχος (16 July 1985). "Ο Αρδίζογλου μετά από 11 χρόνια ξαναγύρισε στον Απόλλωνα!". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 3 & 4.

[11] Κ. Θωμόπουλος (17 December 1985). "Ο Ολυμπιακός πήρε τον Αρβανίτη 10εκ". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 4.

[12] Γιώργος Πάστρας (23 November 1985). "Ο Γεωργαμλής στον Παναθηναϊκό". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 4.

[13] Γ. Στεφανής (11 December 1985). "Πράσσινος ο Βλάχος". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 1, 4.

[14] Κ. Νάκης (16 July 1985). "Ο Ιωνικός πήρε τον Κοφινά". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 3, 6.

[15] Διονύσης Δ. Τσακασιάνος (16 July 1985). "Φοβερές μεταγραφές έκανε ο Αχαρναϊκός". Athetic Echo (in Greek). pp. 2, 3.

[16] Γιώργος Πάστρας (29 November 1985). "Λίγες οι πιθανότητες για Μαύρο". Athetic Echo (in Greek). p. 5.

[17] "Κιτρινόμαυρες "σημαίες" που άλλαξαν ιστό". oneloveaek. 10 January 2014.

[KarAEK-18] Γιώργος Πάστρας (14 June 1986). "Αρμοδώρος - Χατζής έπαιξαν ξύλο στην προπόνηση της ΑΕΚ!". Athetic Echo (in Greek). p. 4.

[19] Γιώργος Πάστρας (29 May 1986). "Ο Σαν έμεινε άλλα 2 χρόνια!". Athetic Echo (in Greek). p. 4.

[20] wspaper Athletic Echo 19/7/1985 pages 1, 4

[21] wspaper Athletic Echo 24/7/1985 page 1

[22] wspaper Athletic Echo 26/7/1985 pages 1, 4

[23] wspaper Athletic Echo 29/7/1985 pages 1, 6

[24] wspaper Athletic Echo 29/7/1985 pages 1, 4

[25] wspaper Athletic Echo 13/8/1985 pages 1, 4

[26] wspaper Athletic Echo 17/8/1985 pages 1, 3

[27] wspaper Athletic Echo 20/8/1985 pages 1, 3

[28] Γιώργος Πάστρας (21 August 1985). "Σε τρείς βδομάδες έτοιμη η ΑΕΚ". Athetic Echo (in Greek). p. 4.

[29] wspaper Athletic Echo 22/8/1985 pages 1, 4

[30] wspaper Athletic Echo 27/8/1985 pages 1, 4

[31] wspaper Athletic Echo 2/9/1985 pages 1, 4

[34] "Γέμισέ το!". tanea.gr.

[35] "1985-86 ΚΥΠΕΛΛΟ Φάση των 76 ΑΕΚ-ΗΛΙΟΥΠΟΛΗ" – via YouTube.

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