2020–21 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens
2020–21 season
President	Evangelos Aslanidis
Administrative Leader	Dimitris Melissanidis
Manager	Massimo Carrera; (until 22 December); Manolo Jiménez
Stadium	Athens Olympic Stadium
Super League	4th (After play-offs); 3rd (Regular Season)
Greek Cup	Semi-finals
Europa League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Karim Ansarifard (13); All: Karim Ansarifard (14)

The 2020–21 season was AEK Athens' 60th competitive season in the top flight of Greek football, 11th season in the Super League 1, and 97th year in existence as a football club. They also compete in the Greek Cup and in the UEFA Europa League. The season covers the period from 20 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Players

Squad statistics

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 as of 16 May 2021, 23:00 EEST UTC+3.

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	League		Cup		Europa League		Total		Discipline
No.	Pos.	Name	Age	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	Panagiotis Tsintotas	27	17	0	5	0	5	0	27	0	4	0
16	GK	Vasilis Chatziemmanouil	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	GK	Giorgos Athanasiadis	28	19	0	1	0	1	0	21	0	0	0
99	GK	Giorgos Theocharis	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	Michalis Bakakis (VC2)	30	15	0	0	0	3	0	18	0	1	0
3	DF	Hélder Lopes	32	29	1	6	0	2	0	37	1	7	0
5	DF	Ionuț Nedelcearu	25	25	1	4	0	6	0	35	1	9	0
15	DF	Žiga Laci	18	11	0	2	0	0	0	13	0	2	0
19	DF	Dmytro Chyhrynskyi (VC3)	34	16	0	3	0	5	0	24	0	6	0
24	DF	Stratos Svarnas	23	30	0	4	0	7	0	41	0	7	0
26	DF	Nassim Hnid	24	10	0	2	0	2	0	14	0	3	1
33	DF	Oleh Danchenko	26	7	0	4	0	0	0	11	0	3	0
37	DF	Vedad Radonja	19	1	0	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
40	DF	Mario Mitaj	17	10	0	2	0	1	0	13	0	0	0
88	DF	Stavros Vasilantonopoulos	29	13	1	2	0	8	1	23	2	3	0
Midfielders
4	MF	Damian Szymański	26	21	3	6	1	0	0	27	4	5	0
6	MF	Nenad Krstičić	30	25	1	4	0	7	0	36	1	16	0
8	MF	André Simões (VC)	31	18	2	3	0	5	1	26	3	6	0
20	MF	Petros Mantalos (C)	29	33	2	5	1	7	1	45	4	10	1
25	MF	Kostas Galanopoulos (VC4)	23	19	4	4	1	4	0	27	5	5	0
28	MF	Yevhen Shakhov	30	25	3	3	0	7	0	35	3	6	2
51	MF	Giannis Sardelis	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Forwards
9	FW	Levi García	23	26	5	5	1	4	0	35	6	5	0
11	FW	Karim Ansarifard	31	34	13	5	0	8	1	47	14	4	0
14	FW	Christos Albanis	26	22	2	5	0	2	0	29	2	2	0
17	FW	Muamer Tanković	26	27	4	5	2	5	2	37	8	5	0
18	FW	Nélson Oliveira	29	26	6	4	2	6	2	36	10	6	0
35	FW	Michalis Kosidis	19	6	0	1	0	0	0	7	0	0	0
52	FW	Efthymis Christopoulos	20	3	0	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
53	FW	Theodosis Macheras	21	16	1	4	0	5	0	25	1	0	0
Left during Summer Transfer window
12	FW	Bright Enobakhare	23	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Left during Winter Transfer window
22	DF	Emanuel Insúa	30	13	0	0	0	6	0	18	0	10	1
27	DF	Paulinho	29	10	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	2	1
29	MF	David Simão	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	MF	Anel Šabanadžović	22	2	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0
70	MF	Giannis Fivos Botos	20	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
10	FW	Marko Livaja	27	17	3	1	0	5	2	23	5	8	0
69	FW	Petar Karaklajić	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Transfers

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
4	MF	Damian Szymański	Akhmat Grozny	Transfer	€1,300,000	1 July 2020	30 June 2024	[1]
5	DF	Ionuț Nedelcearu	Ufa	Transfer	€550,000	5 October 2020	30 June 2024	[2]
9	FW	Levi García	Beitar Jerusalem	Transfer	€2,600,000^[a]	16 September 2020	30 June 2025	[3]
11	FW	Karim Ansarifard	Al-Sailiya	Transfer	Free	25 August 2020	30 June 2023	[4]
12	FW	Bright Enobakhare	Wolves	Transfer	Free	1 July 2020	30 June 2023	[5]
16	GK	Vasilis Chatziemmanouil	Fostiras	End of loan	—	1 July 2020	30 June 2021
17	FW	Muamer Tanković	Hammarby	Transfer	Free	6 October 2020	30 June 2024	[6]
22	DF	Emanuel Insúa	Panathinaikos	Transfer	Free	13 August 2020	30 June 2023	[7]
26	DF	Nassim Hnid	Sfaxien	Transfer	€600,000	20 August 2020	30 June 2024	[8]
28	MF	Yevhen Shakhov	Lecce	Transfer	Free	19 September 2020	30 June 2022	[9]
29	MF	David Simão	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	End of loan	—	31 July 2020	30 June 2022
37	DF	Vedad Radonja	Dinamo Zagreb U19	Transfer	Undisclosed	18 September 2020	30 June 2025	[10]
40	DF	Mario Mitaj	AEK Athens U17	Promotion	—	12 August 2020	30 June 2023	[11]
69	FW	Petar Karaklajić	Proleter	Transfer	Undisclosed	7 August 2020	30 June 2025	[12]
88	DF	Stavros Vasilantonopoulos	Górnik Zabrze	End of loan	—	31 July 2020	30 June 2021
99	GK	Giorgos Theocharis	AEK Athens U19	Promotion	—	27 August 2020	30 June 2024	[13]
—	GK	Panagiotis Ginis	Aspropyrgos	End of loan	—	1 July 2020	30 June 2023
—	GK	Thanasis Pantos	Ethnikos Piraeus	End of loan	—	1 July 2020	30 June 2020
—	DF	Michalis Bousis	Ergotelis	End of loan	—	1 July 2020	30 June 2023
—	DF	Giorgos Kornezos	Ionikos	End of loan	—	1 July 2020	30 June 2024
—	DF	Giorgos Giannoutsos	Alki Oroklini	End of loan	—	1 July 2020	30 June 2021
—	MF	Paris Babis	Platanias	End of loan	—	1 July 2020	30 June 2022
—	FW	Miloš Deletić	Asteras Tripolis	End of loan	—	1 July 2020	30 June 2022
—	FW	Christos Giousis	Platanias	End of loan	—	1 July 2020	30 June 2022
—	FW	Giannis Iatroudis	Ergotelis	Transfer	Free	7 August 2020	30 June 2024	[14]
—	FW	Giorgos Giakoumakis	Górnik Zabrze	End of loan	—	1 July 2020	30 June 2021

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	From	Type	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
33	DF	Oleh Danchenko	Rubin Kazan	Transfer	€400,000	31 January 2021	30 June 2024	[15]
35	FW	Michalis Kosidis	AEK Athens U19	Promotion	—	2 February 2021	30 June 2026	[16]

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
1	GK	Vasilis Barkas	Celtic	Transfer	€5,000,000^[b]	30 July 2020	[17]
4	DF	Marios Oikonomou	Copenhagen	Transfer	€1,000,000	3 September 2020	[18]
11	FW	Sergio Araujo	Las Palmas	End of loan	—	31 July 2020
12	FW	Bright Enobakhare	Free agent	Contract termitation	—	5 October 2020	[19]
17	FW	Victor Klonaridis	APOEL	End of contract	—	7 July 2020	[20]
21	DF	Ognjen Vranješ	Anderlecht	Loan termitation	—	16 June 2020	[21]
23	DF	Niklas Hult	Hannover 96	End of contract	—	28 August 2020	[22]
—	GK	Thanasis Pantos	Kallithea	End of contract	—	30 July 2020	[23]
—	FW	Giorgos Giakoumakis	VVV-Venlo	Transfer	€200,000^[c]	11 August 2020	[24]

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	To	Type	Fee	Date	Source
27	DF	Paulinho	Gil Vicente	Contract termitation	—	26 January 2021	[25]
10	FW	Marko Livaja	Hajduk Split	Contract termitation	—	17 February 2021	[26]

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
7	FW	Daniele Verde	Spezia	€300,000	26 September 2020	30 June 2021	Y	[27]
31	DF	Kostas Stamoulis	Lamia	Free	1 October 2020	30 June 2021	N	[28]
—	GK	Panagiotis Ginis	Ionikos	Free	12 September 2020	30 June 2021	N	[29]
—	DF	Giorgos Kornezos	Asteras Vlachioti	Free	13 August 2020	30 June 2021	N	[30]
—	DF	Michalis Bousis	Apollon Larissa	Free	6 October 2020	30 June 2021	N	[31]
—	DF	Giorgos Giannoutsos	Episkopi	Free	6 October 2020	30 June 2021	N	[31]
—	MF	Paris Babis	Apollon Larissa	Free	6 October 2020	30 June 2021	N	[31]
—	FW	Giannis Iatroudis	Volendam	Free	2 October 2020	30 June 2021	N	[32]
—	FW	Miloš Deletić	Lamia	Free	2 October 2020	30 June 2021	N	[33]
—	FW	Christos Giousis	Panachaiki	Free	5 October 2020	30 June 2021	N	[34]

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date	Until	Option to buy	Source
22	DF	Emanuel Insúa	Aldosivi	Free	16 February 2021	30 June 2021	Y	[35]
30	MF	David Simão	Moreirense	Free	2 January 2021	30 June 2021	Y	[36]
44	MF	Anel Šabanadžović	Željezničar	Free	3 March 2021	30 June 2021	N	[37]
69	FW	Petar Karaklajić	Rad	Free	12 January 2021	30 June 2021	N	[38]
70	MF	Giannis Fivos Botos	Go Ahead Eagles	Free	30 December 2020	30 June 2022	N	[39]

Notes

a. ^{^} Beitar Jerusalem maintains a 40% of the player's rights.[40]

b. ^{^} plus €1,000,000 bonuses.

c. ^{^} plus 15% of resale fee.

Renewals

No.	Pos	Player	Date	Former Exp Date	New Exp Date	Source
14	FW	Christos Albanis	7 January 2021	30 June 2021	30 June 2024	[41]
16	GK	Vasilis Chatziemmanouil	10 August 2020	30 June 2021	30 June 2025	[42]
20	MF	Petros Mantalos	15 June 2021	30 June 2022	30 June 2024	[43]
24	DF	Stratos Svarnas	22 September 2020	30 June 2023	30 June 2025	[44]
25	MF	Kostas Galanopoulos	25 August 2020	30 June 2021	30 June 2023	[45]
35	FW	Michalis Kosidis	2 February 2021	—	30 June 2026	[16]
40	DF	Mario Mitaj	12 August 2020	—	30 June 2023	[11]
40	DF	Mario Mitaj	2 February 2021	30 June 2023	31 December 2023	[46]
53	FW	Theodosis Macheras	2 February 2021	30 June 2023	30 June 2026	[46]
99	GK	Giorgos Theocharis	27 August 2020	—	30 June 2024	[13]

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure

Summer: €5,050,000

Winter: €400,000

Total: €5,050,000

Income

Summer: €6,500,000

Winter: €0

Total: €6,500,000

Net Totals

Summer: €1,450,000

Winter: €400,000

Total: €1,050,000

Pre-season and friendlies

23 August 2020 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–2	Atromitos	Marousi
19:00 EET, UTC+02:00	Paulinho 26'	Report	Svarnas 16' (o.g.) Umbides 57' (pen.)	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Angelos Evangelou (Athens)

10 October 2020 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–0	Ionikos	Spata
17:00 EET, UTC+02:00	Hnid 16' Livaja 72' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Spata Training Centre Attendance: Behind closed doors

Super League Greece

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Olympiacos	26	21	4	1	64	13	+51	67	Qualification for the Play-off round
2	Aris Thessaloniki	26	15	6	5	34	16	+18	51
3	AEK Athens	26	14	6	6	41	29	+12	48
4	PAOK	26	13	8	5	49	26	+23	47
5	Panathinaikos	26	13	6	7	30	19	+11	45

Source: Superleague Greece
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against

Results by Matchday

Matchday	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
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	D	W	W	L	D	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	D	L	W	W	W	D	L	W	L	W	D	D	W	L
Position	4	5	2	5	5	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	2	2	2	3	2	4	3	4	4	3	3

Updated to match(es) played on 14 March 2021. Source: Super League Greece
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Fixtures

16 December 2020 Matchday 1	AEK Athens	1–1	Olympiacos	Marousi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Simões 80'	Report	Vrousai 57'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia) Man of the Match: André Simões
Note: The match was postponed to 16 December due to the 2019–20 Cup final between them.

19 September 2020 Matchday 2	Panetolikos	0–2	AEK Athens	Agrinio
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Livaja 68' Mantalos 87'	Stadium: Panetolikos Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Praxitelis Zachariadis (Macedonia) Man of the Match: Panagiotis Tsintotas

27 September 2020 Matchday 3	AEK Athens	3–0	Lamia	Marousi
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)	García 14' Krstičić 65' Enobakhare 85'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Athanasios Tzilos (Larissa) Man of the Match: Theodosis Macheras

4 October 2020 Matchday 4	Atromitos	1–0	AEK Athens	Peristeri
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Goutas 24'	Report		Stadium: Peristeri Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Tasos Papapetrou (Athens) Man of the Match: Charis Charisis

18 October 2020 Matchday 5	AEK Athens	1–1	PAOK	Marousi
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Ansarifard 23'	Report	Murg 89'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany) Man of the Match: Karim Ansarifard

25 October 2020 Matchday 6	PAS Giannina	0–1	AEK Athens	Ioannina
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Ansarifard 16' (pen.)	Stadium: Zosimades Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Aris Diamantopoulos (Arcadia) Man of the Match: Nassim Hnid

1 November 2020 Matchday 7	AEK Athens	2–1	OFI	Marousi
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Nedelcearu 34' Shakhov 74'	Report	Sturgeon 6'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Aristomenis Koutsiaftis (Arta) Man of the Match: Yevhen Shakhov

14 January 2021 Matchday 8	Aris	0–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:30 EET (UTC+2)		Report	García 64'	Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia) Man of the Match: Levi García
Note: The game was schuduled for 8 November but was postponed to 14 January 2021 due to the COVID-19 cases in AEK's team.

22 November 2020 Matchday 9	AEK Athens	4–1	AEL	Rizoupoli
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Macheras 55' Ansarifard 72' Simões 78' Galanopoulos 89'	Report	Sparv 68'	Stadium: Georgios Kamaras Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Vasilis Fotias (Pella) Man of the Match: Theodosis Macheras
Note: Change of venue due to unavailability of the Olympic Stadium.

29 November 2020 Matchday 10	Asteras Tripolis	1–2	AEK Athens	Tripoli
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Barrales 44'	Report	Livaja 13' Ansarifard 58'	Stadium: Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Ioannis Papadopoulos (Macedonia) Man of the Match: Marko Livaja

6 December 2020 Matchday 11	AEK Athens	1–2	Panathinaikos	Marousi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Oliveira 87'	Report	Macheda 34' Kourbelis 45+2'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Man of the Match: Lucas Villafáñez

13 December 2020 Matchday 12	Apollon Smyrnis	3–4	AEK Athens	Rizoupoli
17:15 EET (UTC+2)	Fernández 8' Tsabouris 6' Baxevanidis 90+3'	Report	Ansarifard 6', 25' García 19' Oliveira 88'	Stadium: Georgios Kamaras Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Efstathios Gortsilas (Macedonia) Man of the Match: Karim Ansarifard

21 December 2020 Matchday 13	AEK Athens	2–2	Volos	Rizoupoli
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Tankovic 7' Ansarifard 70'	Report	Ferrari 16' Warda 34'	Stadium: Georgios Kamaras Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Dodecanese) Man of the Match: Julián Bartolo
Note: Change of venue due to unavailability of the Olympic Stadium.

3 January 2021 Matchday 14	Olympiacos	3–0	AEK Athens	Piraeus
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	El-Arabi 13', 68' Valbuena 90+4' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands) Man of the Match: Youssef El-Arabi

6 January 2021 Matchday 15	AEK Athens	1–0	Panetolikos	Marousi
17:15 EET (UTC+2)	Galanopoulos 41'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Evangelos Manouhos (Argolida) Man of the Match: Konstantinos Galanopoulos

11 January 2021 Matchday 16	Lamia	0–1	AEK Athens	Lamia
19:30 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Ansarifard 9'	Stadium: Lamia Municipal Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Aristomenis Koutsiaftis (Arta) Man of the Match: Karim Ansarifard

17 January 2021 Matchday 17	AEK Athens	2–1	Atromitos	Marousi
21:30 EET (UTC+2)	Oliveira 63' (pen.) Livaja 73'	Report	Christodoulopoulos 89' (pen)	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Dimitris Karantonis (Imathia) Man of the Match: Marko Livaja

24 January 2021 Matchday 18	PAOK	2–2	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Crespo 40' Vieirinha 70'	Report	Shakhov 18' Galanopoulos 50'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia) Man of the Match: Vieirinha

27 January 2021 Matchday 19	AEK Athens	0–2	PAS Giannina	Marousi
17:15 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Križman 33' (pen.) Léo 87'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Evangelos Manouhos (Argolida) Man of the Match: Marvin Peersman

31 January 2021 Matchday 20	OFI	0–2	AEK Athens	Heraklion
15:00 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Shakhov 43' Tankovic 71'	Stadium: Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Praxitelis Zachariadis (Macedonia) Man of the Match: Yevhen Shakhov

7 February 2021 Matchday 21	AEK Athens	0–2	Aris	Marousi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Rose 29' Silva 90+1'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia) Man of the Match: James Jeggo

15 February 2021 Matchday 22	AEL	2–4	AEK Athens	Larissa
17:15 EET (UTC+2)	Nikolias 70' Acuña 80'	Report	Oliveira 14' (pen.), 43' Albanis 90' Szymański 90+7'	Stadium: Alcazar Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Efstathios Gortsilas (Macedonia) Man of the Match: Giorgos Athanasiadis
Note: The game was scheduled for 14 February but was postponed to 15 February due to snowfall.

20 February 2021 Matchday 23	AEK Athens	2–2	Asteras Tripolis	Marousi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Szymański 40', 68'	Report	Fernández 16' Suárez 18'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Man of the Match: Damian Szymański

28 February 2021 Matchday 24	Panathinaikos	1–1	AEK Athens	Ampelokipoi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Vélez 58'	Report	García 73'	Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria) Man of the Match: Fran Vélez

8 March 2021 Matchday 25	AEK Athens	2–0	Apollon Smyrnis	Marousi
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Ansarifard 7', 25'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Athanasios Tzilos (Larissa) Man of the Match: Karim Ansarifard

14 March 2021 Matchday 26	Volos	1–0	AEK Athens	Volos
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Douvikas 45+3' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Panthessaliko Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Evangelos Manouhos (Argolida) Man of the Match: Anastasios Douvikas

Results by Matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Ground	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	L	L	W	W	D	L	L	W	D	D
Position	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4

Updated to match(es) played on 16 May 2021. Source: slgr.gr
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Fixtures

21 March 2021 Matchday 1	PAOK	3–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:30 EET (UTC+2)	Živković 3', 89' Świderski 46'	Report	Oliveira 45+3'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro) Man of the Match: Andrija Živković

4 April 2021 Matchday 2	AEK Athens	1–5	Olympiacos	Marousi
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Ansarifard 90'	Report	Camara 17' Masouras 23', 44' El-Arabi 35' Fortounis 74'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia) Man of the Match: Giorgos Masouras

11 April 2021 Matchday 3	Aris	1–3	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
15:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Ansarifard 90'	Report	Tankovic 12' (pen.) Vasilantonopoulos 29' Ansarifard 37' (pen.)	Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Alexey Kulbakov (Belarus) Man of the Match: Stavros Vasilantonopoulos

18 April 2021 Matchday 4	AEK Athens	3–1	Asteras Tripolis	Marousi
17:15 EEST (UTC+3)	Galanopoulos 39' Lopes 85' Albanis 90+5'	Report	Riera 41'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Angelos Evangelou (Athens) Man of the Match: Hélder Lopes

21 April 2021 Matchday 5	AEK Athens	1–1	Panathinaikos	Marousi
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)	García 90+2'	Report	Ioannidis 36'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Dennis Higler (Netherlands) Man of the Match: Kostas Galanopoulos

25 April 2021 Matchday 6	Olympiacos	2–0	AEK Athens	Piraeus
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Bruma 50', 90'	Report		Stadium: Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro) Man of the Match: Armindo Bruma

5 May 2021 Matchday 7	AEK Athens	1–2	PAOK	Marousi
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Tanković 90+2' (pen.)	Report	Krmenčík 48' Schwab 50'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Man of the Match: Michael Krmenčík

9 May 2021 Matchday 8	Panathinaikos	0–1	AEK Athens	Ampelokipoi
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Mantalos 50'	Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Yavhenii Aranovkyi (Ukraine) Man of the Match: Petros Mantalos

12 May 2021 Matchday 9	Asteras Tripolis	1–1	AEK Athens	Tripoli
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Kotsiras 63'	Report	Ansarifard 56'	Stadium: Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Angelos Evangelou (Athens) Man of the Match: Christos Albanis

16 May 2021 Matchday 10	AEK Athens	0–0	Aris	Marousi
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia) Man of the Match: Petros Mantalos

Greek Cup

AEK entered the Greek Cup at the sixth round.

Sixth round

20 January 2021 First leg	AEK Athens	2–0	Apollon Smyrnis	Marousi
21:30 (UTC+2)	Szymański 7' García 88'	Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Alexandros Tsakalidis (Chalkidiki) Man of the Match: Damian Szymański

4 February 2021 Second leg	Apollon Smyrnis	2–1 (2–3 agg.)	AEK Athens	Rizoupoli
19:30 (UTC+2)	Dauda 15' Lagos 27'	Report	Oliveira 20'	Stadium: Georgios Kamaras Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Giorgos Tzovaras (Phthiotis) Man of the Match: Abiola Dauda

Quarter-finals

10 February 2021 First leg	AEK Athens	4–2	Volos	Marousi
17:00 (UTC+2)	Mantalos 14' Tankovic 29', 32' Oliveira 36' (pen.)	Report	Douvikas 14' Mitoglou 57'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Vasilis Fotias (Pella) Man of the Match: Muamer Tankovic

4 March 2021 Second leg	Volos	1–0 (3–4 agg.)	AEK Athens	Volos
18:00 (UTC+2)	Douvikas 35' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Panthessaliko Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Giorgos Tzovaras (Phthiotis) Man of the Match: Anastasios Douvikas

Semi-finals

7 April 2021 First leg	AEK Athens	0–1	PAOK	Marousi
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Murg 90+5'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria) Man of the Match: Alexandros Paschalakis

29 April 2021 Second leg	PAOK	2–1 (3–1 agg.)	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Krmenčík 84' Živković 90+6'	Report	Galanopoulos 69'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Daniele Doveri (Italy) Man of the Match: Baba Rahman

UEFA Europa League

Qualifying

24 September 2020 Third qualifying round	St. Gallen	0–1	AEK Athens	St. Gallen, Switzerland
21:30 EEST (UTC+3)		Report	Oliveira 72'	Stadium: Kybunpark Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Alejandro Hernández (Spain)

1 October 2020 Play-off round	AEK Athens	2–1	Wolfsburg	Athens, Greece
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Simões 64' Ansarifard 90+4'	Report	Mehmedi 45+1'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

Group stage

The group stage draw was held on 2 October 2020.[47]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	LEI	BRA	ZOR	AEK
1	Leicester City	6	4	1	1	14	5	+9	13[lower-alpha 1]	Advance to knockout phase	—	4–0	3–0	2–0
2	Braga	6	4	1	1	14	10	+4	13[lower-alpha 1]	Advance to knockout phase	3–3	—	2–0	3–0
3	Zorya Luhansk	6	2	0	4	6	11	−5	6		1–0	1–2	—	1–4
4	AEK Athens	6	1	0	5	7	15	−8	3		1–2	2–4	0–3	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:

Head-to-head points: Leicester City 4, Braga 1.

22 October 2020 Matchday 1	Braga	3–0	AEK Athens	Braga, Portugal
22:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Galeno 44' Paulinho 78' Horta 88'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Municipal de Braga Attendance: 2,200 Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

29 October 2020 Matchday 2	AEK Athens	1–2	Leicester City	Athens, Greece
19:55 EET (UTC+2)	Tanković 49'	Report	Vardy 18' (pen.) Choudhury 39'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Harald Lechner (Austria)

5 November 2020 Matchday 3	Zorya Luhansk	1–4	AEK Athens	Luhansk, Ukraine
22:00 EET (UTC+2)	Kocherhin 81'	Report	Tanković 7' Mantalos 34' Livaja 54', 81'	Stadium: Slavutych-Arena Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

26 November 2020 Matchday 4	AEK Athens	0–3	Zorya Luhansk	Athens, Greece
19:55 EET (UTC+2)		Report	Hromov 61' Kabayev 76' Yurchenko 86' (pen.)	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan)

3 December 2020 Matchday 5	AEK Athens	2–4	Braga	Athens, Greece
19:55 EET (UTC+2)	Oliveira 31' Vasilantonopoulos 89'	Report	Tormena 8' Esgaio 10' Horta 45' Galeno 83'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)

10 December 2020 Matchday 6	Leicester City	2–0	AEK Athens	Leicester, England
22:00 EET (UTC+2)	Ünder 12' Barnes 14'	Report		Stadium: King Power Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium)

Player statistics

Starting 11

N.	Formation	Match(es)
26	4–2–1–3	1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9–17, 24–26
10	4–3–3	8, 18–21
8	3–5–2	2
3	4–4–2	22, 23
3	3–4–3	5

No.	Player	Pos.
1	Panagiotis Tsintotas	GK
24	Stratos Svarnas	RCB
19	Dmytro Chyhrynskyi	LCB
88	Stavros Vasilantonopoulos	RB
3	Hélder Lopes	LB
28	Yevhen Shakhov	CM
6	Nenad Krstičić	CM
20	Petros Mantalos (C)	AM
9	Levi García	RW
17	Muamer Tanković	LW
11	Karim Ansarifard	CF

Tsintotas

Chyhrynskyi

Svarnas

Vasilantonopoulos

Lopes

Shakhov

Krstičić

Mantalos (C)

García

Tanković

Ansarifard

Last updated: 2021-07-31
Source: Squad stats and Start formations.
Only competitive matches.
Using the most used start formation.
Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).

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[table_hth_LEI0.12073957506602-48] Head-to-head points: Leicester City 4, Braga 1.

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[4] "Karim Ansarifard joins AEK FC!". aekfc.gr. Online. Retrieved 17 September 2020.

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[7] "Emanuel Insua signed for AEK FC!". aekfc.gr. Online. Retrieved 13 August 2020.

[8] "Nassim Hnid joins AEK FC!". aekfc.gr. Online. Retrieved 17 September 2020.

[9] "AEK FC signed Yevgen Shakhov!". aekfc.gr. Online. Retrieved 19 September 2020.

[10] "Vedad Radonja joins AEK FC!". aekfc.gr. Online. Retrieved 18 September 2020.

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