1996–97 AEK Athens F.C. season

For the 1996-97 season, AEK F.C. competed in the Greek League, the Greek Cup and in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

AEK Athens

1996–97 season
Chairman	Michalis Trochanas
Manager	Petros Ravousis
Alpha Ethniki	2nd
Greek Cup	Winners
Cup Winners' Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Christos Kostis (21) All: Christos Kostis (24)
Highest home attendance	27,200 (vs Paris Saint Germain)
Lowest home attendance	329 (vs Lykoi)
Home colours Away colours

Players

Squad information

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 Dionisis Chiotis — GK  GRE Elias Atmatsidis — GK  GRE Vassilis Karagiannis — DF  GRE Michalis Kasapis — DF  GRE Vassilis Borbokis — DF  GRE Nikos Kostenoglou — DF  GRE Giorgos Koutoulas — DF  ROU Anton Doboș — DF  GRE Stelios Manolas — DF  GRE Michalis Vlachos — DF  GRE Vaios Karagiannis — DF  GRE Kostas Pavlopoulos

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  GEO Temur Ketsbaia — MF  GRE Charis Kopitsis — MF  GRE Mattheos Platakis — MF  MKD Toni Savevski — MF  GRE Triantafyllos Machairidis — FW  GRE Christos Maladenis — FW  GRE Christos Kostis — FW  GRE Demis Nikolaidis — FW  GRE Daniel Batista Lima — FW  GRE Vasilis Dimitriadis — FW  BRA Marcelo Veridiano — FW  GRE Giorgos Kartalis

Competitions

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	34	26	6	2	72	14	+58	84	Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2	AEK Athens	34	22	6	6	75	28	+47	72	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	OFI	34	20	6	8	51	28	+23	66	Qualification for UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4	PAOK	34	19	9	6	53	28	+25	66
5	Panathinaikos	34	20	4	10	60	25	+35	64

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

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
34	22	6	6	75	28	+47	72	15	0	2	47	12	+35	7	6	4	28	16	+12

Source:

First round

12 September 1996 First leg	AEK Athens	1–0	Chemlon Humenné	Athens, Greece
20:15	Batista  44'	Lineups		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 15,141 Referee: Yuri Chebotarev (Russia)

26 September 1996 Second leg	Chemlon Humenné	1–2 (1–3 agg.)	AEK Athens	Humenné, Slovakia
15:30	Diňa  1'	Lineups	Nikolaidis  19' Batista  44'	Stadium: Chemlon Stadion Attendance: 14,600 Referee: Mateo Beusan (Croatia)

Second round

17 October 1996 First leg	Olimpija Ljubljana	0–2	AEK Athens	Ljubljana, Slovenia
18:00		Lineups	Kostis  12' Ketsbaia  49'	Stadium: Bežigrad Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Atanas Uzunov (Bulgaria)

31 October 1996 Second leg	AEK Athens	4–0 (6–0 agg.)	Olimpija Ljubljana	Athens, Greece
20:00	Savevski  5' Batista  34' Maladenis  80' Kostis  84'	Lineups		Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 14,482 Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Germany)

Quarter-finals

6 March 1997 First leg	Paris Saint-Germain	0–0	AEK Athens	Paris, France
20:30		Lineups		Stadium: Parc des Princes Attendance: 21,952 Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)

20 March 1997 Second leg	AEK Athens	0–3 (0–3 agg.)	Paris Saint-Germain	Athens, Greece
20:15		Lineups	Loko  21', 44', 81'	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Antonio López Nieto (Spain)

Final

The 55th Greek Cup Final was played at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium.

April 16, 1997

AEK Athens	0 – 0	Panathinaikos
Penalties
Kopitsis Borbokis Nikolaidis Doboş Atmatsidis	5 – 3	Warzycha Konstantinidis Georgiadis Markos

Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 21,926

Referee: Giorgos Psychomanis (Athens)

AEK	Panathinaikos

AEK ATHENS: 1 Ilias Atmatsidis 4 Vassilis Borbokis 3 Michalis Kasapis (C) 6 Stelios Manolas 3 Nikos Kostenoglou 5 Triantafyllos Machairidis 10 Temuri Ketsbaia 7 Toni Savevski  98' 8 Daniel Batista 9 Christos Kostis  83' 11 Demis Nikolaidis Substitutes: 16 Charis Kopitsis  83' 15 Veridiano Marcelo  98'  120' 14 Anton Doboş  120' Manager: Petros Ravousis

PANATHINAIKOS: 1 Józef Wandzik 2 Stratos Apostolakis (C) 6 Marinos Ouzounidis 4 Giannis Goumas 3 Thanasis Kolitsidakis  35'  119' 8 Giorgos Alexopoulos  105' 7 Giorgos Georgiadis 5 Dimitris Markos 9 Krzysztof Warzycha 10 Bledar Kola  97' 11 Alexis Alexoudis  112' Substitutes: 15 Giorgos Kapouranis  97' 16 Kostas Konstantinidis  105' 17 Giorgos Nasiopoulos  112' Manager: Velimir Zajec

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Christoforos Zografos (Athens) Christos Ioannidis (Serres) Fourth official: Panagiotis Varouchas (Athens)

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Three named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions.