A.E.K ( el, AEK , formally Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople''), known as A.E.K, is a major
Greek
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multi-sport club
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based in
Nea Filadelfeia
Nea Filadelfeia ( el, Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια, meaning ''New Philadelphia'') is a suburb of Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Filadelfeia-Chalkidona, of which it is the seat and a municip ...
,
Athens
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. The club is more commonly known in European competitions as A.E.K Athens.
Established in Athens in 1924 by
Greek refugees
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from
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
after the
1919–22 Greco-Turkish war and the subsequent population exchange between Greece and Turkey, it is one of the three most successful clubs in Greece. While it fields teams in many sports under the umbrella of its amateur sports arm, Amateur AEK ( el, Ερασιτεχνική ΑΕΚ; Erasitechnikί AEK)
with A.E.K. Handball team to be the best Greek handball club in European achievements having obtained one
EHF European Cup
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(in 2021) and having also reached to the finals (in 2018) and to the semi-finals (in 2019),
AEK sports club is best known for its professional
football team
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which have made some notable wins on European competitions (participating at the Semi-final of Europa League in 1977), having also obtained 12
Greek Championship
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s, 15
Greek Cup
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The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
s, 1
Greek League Cup The EPAE Cup, known as the Greek League Cup, a now defunct football competition, took place only once, in the year 1989–90 season. AEK Athens is the only winner of the League Cup, beating Panionios (3–3 and 3–1 on penalties), Aris (5–2), Le ...
, 3
Greek Super Cup
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s) and also for the professional
basketball team
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which has won the Greek Basket League eight times, the Greek Basket Cup five times, the
FIBA Saporta Cup
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twice, once the FIBA
Basketball Champions League
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and once the FIBA Intercontinental Cup.
History
1924–1945
![Konspanoudis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Konspanoudis.png)
The large Greek population of
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
, not unlike those of the other Ottoman urban centres, continued its athletic traditions in the form of numerous athletic clubs. Clubs such as Énosis Tataoúlon () and Iraklís (today
Kurtuluş S.K.) () from the
Tatavla district, Mégas Aléxandros () and Ermís () of
Galata
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, and Olympiás () of
Therapia existed to promote the
Hellenic athletic and cultural ideals. These were amongst a dozen Greek-backed clubs that dominated the sporting landscape of the city in the years preceding
World War I
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. After the war, with the influx of mainly French and British soldiers to Constantinople, many of the city clubs participated in regular competition with teams formed by the foreign troops.
Taxim,
Pera, and
Tatavla became the scene of weekly competitions in football, athletics, cycling, boxing and tennis.
Ermís, one of the most popular clubs, was formed in 1875 by the Greek community of the city.
Another club of Pera (Galata), known as Pera, since the mid-1880s, forced to change its name to
Pera Sports Club, and then Beyoğlu S.K., in 1923. Many of its athletes, with those of the other sporting clubs, fled during the population exchanges at the end of the
Greco-Turkish War, and settled mainly in Athens and
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...
.
In 1924, the founders of AEK - a group of Constantinopolitan refugees (among them many athletes from the Pera Sports Club and the other Constantinopolitan clubs) - met at the athletic shop "Lux" of Emilios Ionas and Konstantinos Dimopoulos on Veranzerou Street, in the center of Athens, and created AEK. Their intention was to create a club that provided athletic and cultural diversions for the thousands of predominantly Constantinopolitan and
Anatolia
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n refugees who had settled in the new suburbs of Athens (including
Nea Filadelfeia
Nea Filadelfeia ( el, Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια, meaning ''New Philadelphia'') is a suburb of Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Filadelfeia-Chalkidona, of which it is the seat and a municip ...
,
Nea Ionia
Nea Ionia ( el, Νέα Ιωνία, meaning New Ionia) is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region. It was named after Ionia, the region in Anatolia from which many Greeks migrated in the 1920s as a part of the ...
,
Nea Chalkidona
Nea Chalkidona ( el, Νέα Χαλκηδόνα, meaning New Chalcedon) is a suburb of Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Filadelfeia-Chalkidona, of which it is a municipal unit.
Nea Chalkidona is ...
,
Nea Smyrni
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).
![AEK Athens volley 1932](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/AEK_Athens_volley_1932.jpg)
AEK's first president,
Konstantinos Spanoudis (1871–1941), a journalist and associate of the Prime Minister
Eleftherios Venizelos
Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos ( el, Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος, translit=Elefthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, ; – 18 March 1936) was a Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movem ...
, petitioned the government to set aside land for the establishment of a sports ground. In 1926, land in Nea Filadelfeia that was originally set aside for refugee housing, was donated as a training ground for the refugees' sports activities. AEK began using the ground for training, albeit unofficially.
In 1930, the property where AEK trained was officially signed over to the club. Venizelos soon approved the plans to build what was to become AEK's home ground for the next 70 years, the
Nikos Goumas Stadium
Nikos Goumas Stadium ( el, Στάδιο Νίκος Γκούμας) was a multi-purpose stadium in Nea Filadelfeia, a northwestern suburb of Athens, Greece. It was used mostly for football matches and was the home stadium of AEK Athens F.C. It is ...
. The liberal politician was present at the inauguration of the stadium.
AEK Athletic Club was established in 1924 and is one of the most successful departments of AEK. One of the first sections of the AEK athletic club was cycling. M. Kaloudis was a winner in the Balkan Games (in 1940 in Bucharest when he was third) and was one of the founders of the Chamber. He first appeared in 1929 and was followed by Petoun, Tarsinian and Krisalis. Another cycling ace was Kouvelis, who won the gold medal in the Balkan Games of 1940 in the race of 33 kilometers. Both Kaloudis and his Kouvelis participated in the Olympic Games in London in 1948.
1945–1960
In the Olympic Games of 1948 in London, M. Kaloudis led to the new excursion of AEK in cycling. At the beginning of the 1950s, the sport had blossomed and AEK competed with Panionios and Panathinaikos. The department then had a plethora of skilled cyclists as Davouti, Kouyioumtzis (won the race Athens-Loutraki 1952), Chatziargyri, Georgiadis, Arapi, Barda, Alexis, Tzioti, Barla, Trasian, etc.
AEK Table Tennis Club acquired the third position, both in men and in young men championships, in Greece in 1959. AEK Athens Table Tennis (ping-pong) Club, participated in Greek championships during the decades of 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
1961–1970
AEK was the first ever Greek basketball team to participate in the FIBA European Champions Cup (now called the
EuroLeague)
Final Four,
in 1966, which was held in Bologna, Italy. Two years later, AEK was the first-ever Greek team, not only to reach a
FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup
The FIBA Saporta Cup was the name of the second-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, where the domestic National Cup winners, from all over Europe, played against each other. The competition was organized by FIBA E ...
Final
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** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
, but also to win a European-wide title. On April 4, 1968, AEK captained by
Giorgos Amerikanos, defeated
Slavia VŠ Praha
USK Praha, ( cs, Univerzitní Sportovní Klub Praha, University Sports Club Prague), formerly known as Slavia VŠ Praha ( cs, Slavia Vysoké Školy Praha), is a Czech professional basketball club that was founded in 1953 in the city of Prague. ...
, by a score of 89–82, in Athens, in front of 80,000 spectators (at the time, the
Guinness world record
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in basketball attendance) in
Kallimarmaron Stadium.
AEK Athens V.C. is the volleyball team of the Greek sports club AEK. It was re-founded in 1967 by Jason Platsi. Over the years AEK have struggled to stay in the top flight of Greek volleyball, competing in A2 (Greece's second division) and A1.
The Boxing Club was founded in 1969 and during the 1970s had its first success.
1971–1980
The football team, with star player the striker
Thomas Mavros
Thomas Mavros ( el, Θωμάς Μαύρος, born 31 May 1954) is a Greek former international football player who played as a striker. He was "the flag" of AEK Athens, that led the club to huge success, during the 70's and 80's. Mavros is regar ...
, reached the semi-finals of
UEFA Cup
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in 1977, where they were eliminated by
Juventus
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. The Italian team eventually won the trophy.
With many star players they continued appearing in European (
UEFA Champions League
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and
UEFA Cup
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) competitions.
1981–1990
AEK Table Tennis Club acquired the third position in Greek Cups of 1984 and 1985. The relevant department of AEK was inactive for almost 23 years (1986–2009).
1991–2000
The football team, under the guidance of ex-player
Dušan Bajević
Dušan "Duško" Bajević ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Бајевић, ; gr, Ντούσαν Μπάγεβιτς, ''Doúsan Báyevits''; born 10 December 1948) is a Bosnian professional Manager (association football), football manager and former player. H ...
won three consecutive championships in 1992, 1993 and 1994.
Since 1995, AEK also has a women's volley club team, which has advanced to the final of the Greek Cup (2011).
The department of fencing was founded in 1996.
The basketball team reached the
FIBA EuroLeague's
Final Four in Barcelona in 1998, and beat
Benetton Treviso, by a score of 69–66, before losing in the
EuroLeague Final
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Title holders
* ......1958 Rīgas ASK
* 195 ...
to
Kinder Bologna, by a score of 44–58. In 2000, on 11 April, AEK won their second international trophy, the
FIBA Saporta Cup
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, by defeating
Kinder Bologna 83–76.
The biggest success for the boxing department came in the late 1990s, with
Tigran Ouzlian
Tigran Ouzlian (, born February 11, 1968) is a Greek amateur boxer of Armenian descent. He represented Greece as a featherweight at the 1996 Summer Olympics and as a lightweight at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, offici ...
,
Artur Mikaelyan
Artur Mikaelyan ( hy, Արթուր Միքայելյան, el, Αρτούρ Μικαελιάν; born March 8, 1970, in Kirovakan, Armenian SSR) is an Armenian–Greek amateur boxer.
Mikaelyan won a bronze medal at the 1995 World Amateur ...
and
Mike Arnaoutis
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(who became a professional boxer in the United States).
2001–2010
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AEK H.C. is also another growing department of AEK. It was founded by a decision of the General Assembly of AEK on July 12, 2005. On August 5, 2005, the Greek Handball Federation accepted a merger of GA Ilioupolis with the ''Handball Sports Union of Constantinople''. In 2007 AEK HC was 3rd in A1 and gained the first participation in European Cups. On 31 May 2009, AEK HC won the Greek Cup in Serres.
The department of
AEK Futsal Club was established in 2008 by a merger with ''Enosi Geraka futsal team'' and participated in B'Ethniki (second division), where it finished first at the regular season and second after play-off games. However, for the period 2009–10 AEK futsal club is playing again at B'Ethniki, due to a decision taken by EPO (Greek Football Federation), forbidding all team mergers generally. AEK Futsal Club terminated at second position of B'Ethniki after play-off games in April 2010 and gained the participation in A'Ethniki (first division) for the period 2010–11 and has been advanced to the semi-finals of the Greek Cup (2011).
The Chess department was founded by a decision of the General Assembly of AEK on 12 July 2005. The department staffed directly by 3 September 2005 is a member of the Greek Chess Federation. In 2006 AEK Chess Club was Greek Cup finalist and in 2008 Greek Cup semi-finalist (third place). Also won the Attica Cup in 2006 and the Attica Rapid Championships in 2006, 2009 and 2010. In 2010 participated at A' Ethniki (1st Division) and took the seventh place.
AEK VC had its finest moment with coach Stelios Prosalikas, as has prevailed in the final four of the European Cup Winners Cup. The races held (9–10 March 2000) in the closed Nea Liosia and AEK lost in the semi-final by Cuneo, but won 3–1 Galatasaray in the small final and won the third place.
2011–2020
In 2011,
AEK FC won the
Greek Cup
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The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
.
In 2011,
AEK HC won the
Greek Championship
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.
Also, on 26 February 2011,
AEK HC advanced to the quarter-final (best 8) of
European Challenge Cup
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by defeating Sporting Lisboa.
In 2012,
AEK WVC won the
Greek Women Championship.
In 2013,
AEK HC make Double won the
Greek Championship
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and the
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
.
In 2014,
AEK HC won the
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
.
In 2014,
AEK VC won the
Greek Men's League Cup.
In 2016,
AEK FC won the
Greek Cup
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The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
.
In
2018
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,
AEK BC
AEK Basketball Club ( el, ΚΑΕ ΑΕΚ ; Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ''Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupóleos'', "Athletic Union of Constantinople"), also known as AEK B.C. or AEK, and more commonly kno ...
won the
FIBA Champions League and the
Greek Cup.
In 2018,
AEK FC won the
Greek Championship
The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ...
.
In 2018,
AEK Futsal
AEK Futsal Club is a Greek futsal club established in 2008 by a merger with the O.F. Geraka Futsal team. They participated in the B'Ethniki (second division) that year, where they finished 1st in the regular season and 2nd in the playoffs. AE ...
won the
Greek Cup
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The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
.
Also, in 2018,
AEK HC reached the final of
Challenge Cup
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.
In 2019,
AEK BC
AEK Basketball Club ( el, ΚΑΕ ΑΕΚ ; Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ''Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupóleos'', "Athletic Union of Constantinople"), also known as AEK B.C. or AEK, and more commonly kno ...
won the
FIBA Intercontinental Cup
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.
In 2019,
AEK Futsal
AEK Futsal Club is a Greek futsal club established in 2008 by a merger with the O.F. Geraka Futsal team. They participated in the B'Ethniki (second division) that year, where they finished 1st in the regular season and 2nd in the playoffs. AE ...
won the
Greek Championship
The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ...
.
In 2019, AEK Women's Futsal won the Hellenic Futsal Greek Championship.
In 2020,
AEK BC
AEK Basketball Club ( el, ΚΑΕ ΑΕΚ ; Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ''Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupóleos'', "Athletic Union of Constantinople"), also known as AEK B.C. or AEK, and more commonly kno ...
won the
Greek Cup.
In 2020
AEK Futsal
AEK Futsal Club is a Greek futsal club established in 2008 by a merger with the O.F. Geraka Futsal team. They participated in the B'Ethniki (second division) that year, where they finished 1st in the regular season and 2nd in the playoffs. AE ...
won the
Greek Championship
The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ...
.
In 2020,
AEK HC won the
Greek Championship
The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ...
.
In 2021,
AEK HC won the
Greek Championship
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, the
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
and the
EHF European Cup
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, a historic treble.
Crest and colours
Since the club's foundation AEK adopted the image of a
double-headed eagle
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on a
golden yellow
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The web color ''gold'' is sometimes referred to as ''golden'' to distinguish it from the color ''metallic gold''. The use of ''gold'' as a color term in traditio ...
background. The emblem and colours were chosen as a reminder for the lost homelands and they represent the club's historical ties to
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
. Its usage also survived as a decorative element in the
Greek Orthodox Church
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, which was the inheritor of the
Byzantine legacy during the Ottoman Empire, while it remained a popular symbol among Greeks. In modern Greece various variations of the two-headed eagles are used in Church flags (based on Byzantine flag patterns and
heraldic emblems) and officially by the
Hellenic Army
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; the bird found also its way into the Greek coat of arms for a brief period in 1925–1926.
Departments
AEK is an amateur multi-sports club with the mission to create and advance as many sports as it is possible and its main professional and semiprofessional teams operate independently.
The club has teams in many sports, including
athletics
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Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...
,
cycling
Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from two ...
,
boxing
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...
,
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
,
fencing
Fencing is a group of three related combat sports. The three disciplines in modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also ''saber''); winning points are made through the weapon's contact with an opponent. A fourth discipline, s ...
,
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
,
wrestling
Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...
,
weightlifting
Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...
,
gymnastics
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...
,
swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...
,
water polo
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...
both male and female teams,
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
,
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
,
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...
,
kickboxing
Kickboxing is a combat sports, combat sport focused on kicking and punch (strike), punching. The combat takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouthguards, shorts, and bare feet to favour the use of kicks. Kickboxing is pract ...
,
taekwondo
''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. T ...
,
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ; pt, jiu-jitsu brasileiro ) is a self-defence martial art and combat sport based on grappling, ground fighting (ne-waza) and submission holds. BJJ focuses on the skill of taking an opponent to the ground, control ...
,
wheelchair basketball
Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing a non-disabled sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations (of ...
, and
esports
Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams. Although orga ...
, but its most popular teams primarily compete in
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
,
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
,
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
,
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...
, and
futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...
.
Titles
A.E.K. Football Club (30)
*
Greek Championships (12):
: 1939, 1940, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1979, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2018
*
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
(15):
: 1932, 1939, 1949, 1950, 1956, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1983, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2011, 2016
*
Greek League Cup The EPAE Cup, known as the Greek League Cup, a now defunct football competition, took place only once, in the year 1989–90 season. AEK Athens is the only winner of the League Cup, beating Panionios (3–3 and 3–1 on penalties), Aris (5–2), Le ...
(1):
: 1990 (record)
*
Greek Super Cup
The Greek Super Cup ( el, Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity ( el, Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek Football (soccer), association football one-match ...
(2): 1989, 1996
A.E.K. Basketball Club (17)
*
Intercontinental Cup (1):
: 2019
*
European Cup Winners' Cup / Saporta Cup (2):
: 1968, 2000
*
Champions League (1):
: 2018
*
Greek Championships (8):
: 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 2002
*
Greek Basketball Cup
The Greek Basketball Cup or Hellenic Basketball Cup (Greek language, Greek: Κύπελλο Ελλάδος καλαθοσφαίρισης ανδρών) is the top-tier level annual pro basketball national cup competition in Greece. It is organiz ...
(5):
: 1981, 2000, 2001, 2018, 2020
:
A.E.K. Handball Club (9)
*
EHF European Cup
The Men's EHF European Cup is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF). It is the third-tier competition of European club handball, after the EHF Champions League and the EHF European League ...
(1):
: 2021
*
Greek Championship
The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ...
(4):
: 2011, 2013, 2020, 2021
*
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
(4):
: 2009, 2013, 2014, 2021
A.E.K. Volleyball Club Men (1)
*
Greek Men League Cup (1):
: 2014
:
A.E.K. Volleyball Club Women (2)
*
Greek Women Championship (1):
: 2012
*
Greek Women Super Cup (1):
: 2012
:
A.E.K. Rugby League
* Greek Championship 9's (2): 2018, 2019
* Greek Championship 13's (2): 2018, 2019
A.E.K. Futsal Men (5)
*
Greek Championship
The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ...
(2)
: 2019, 2020
*
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most im ...
(1)
: 2018
*
Greek Super Cup
The Greek Super Cup ( el, Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity ( el, Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek Football (soccer), association football one-match ...
(2)
: 2018, 2019
A.E.K. Futsal Women (3)
*Hellenic Futsal Super League Women (1)
: 2019
*Hellenic Futsal Greek Cup Women (1)
: 2022
*Hellenic Futsal Greek Super Cup Women (1)
: 2022
A.E.K. Cycling
* Greek Championship, Overall Standings (10)
: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1975, 1979, 1981
A.E.K. Boxing
* Greek Championship, Men (6)
: 1978, 1980, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2006
A.E.K. Athletics
* Greek Cross-Country Championships (men) 10:
: 1937, 1946, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964
* Greek Championship, Women 4:
: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
* Greek Indoor Championship, Women 3:
: 2011, 2015, 2016
* Greek Cross-Country Championship, Women 3:
: 2010, 2011, 2012
A.E.K. Fencing(12)
* Greek Championship, Women 10:
: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
* Greek Championship, Men 2:
: 2018, 2020
A.E.K. Table Tennis
* Greek Championship, Men (2):
: 2019, 2020
European and Worldwide honours
Notable supporters
*
Alekos Alavanos
Alexandros 'Alekos' Alavanos ( el, Αλέκος Αλαβάνος; born 22 May 1950 in Athens) is a Greek politician, former member of the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament. From 2004 until 2008 he was president of the Coalition o ...
, politician
*
Milena Apostolaki, politician
*
Evangelia Aravani
Evangelia Aravani ( el, Ευαγγελία Αραβανή: born 29 November 1985) is a Greek fashion model and TV presenter. In 2005, Aravani won the title of Miss Star Hellas and then was chosen to represent Greece at the Miss Universe 2005 pag ...
, model
*
Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Eleftheria Arvanitaki (Greek: Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη) (born 17 October 1957 in Piraeus) is a Greek folk singer. She originates from the island of Icaria. Arvanitaki has worked with important musicians, such as Cesária Évora, Ar ...
, singer
*
Vasilis Avlonitis
Vasilis Avlonitis ( el, Βασίλης Αυλωνίτης; 1 January 1904 – 10 March 1970) was one of the most famous old-school Greek comedians. He performed in numerous films and stage productions in the mid to late 20th century.
Vasilis Av ...
, actor
*
Bartholomew I of Constantinople
Bartholomew I ( el, Βαρθολομαῖος Αʹ, , tr, I. Bartholomeos; born 29 February 1940) is
the 270th archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, since 2 November 1991. In accordance with his title, he is regarded as the ''pr ...
, is the 270th and current
Archbishop of Constantinople
The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and ''primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of the ...
and
Ecumenical Patriarch
The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of th ...
*
Maria Bakodimou Maria Bakodimou (Μαρία Μπακοδήμου) (b. 1965) is a Greek television personality,talk show presenter and fashion designer. She co-hosted the National Final to select the Greek representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. She ha ...
, TV presenter
*
Sotiria Bellou
Sotiria Bellou ( el, Σωτηρία Μπέλλου) (August 22, 1921 – August 27, 1997) was a Greek singer and performer of the ''rebetiko'' style of music. She was one of the most famous ''rebetisa'' of all, mentioned in many music guides, a ...
,
rebetiko
Rebetiko ( el, ρεμπέτικο, ), plural rebetika ( ), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek music which have come to be grouped together since the s ...
singer
*
Kostas Bigalis, singer
*
Nives Celsius
Nives Zeljković (; born 18 December 1981), known by her stage name Nives Celzijus or Nives Celsius, is a Croatian model, singer and writer.
Personal and media life
Nives was born in Zagreb, at the time part of Yugoslavia. Her biological, estra ...
, model
*
Rallia Christidou
Rallia Christidou (Greek: Ραλλία Χρηστίδου, ) is a popular Greek singer originating from Neo Irakleio, Athens. She started her studies in classic guitar and received a diploma from the National music school of Greece. Her name ro ...
, singer
*
Nikos Dimou
Nikos Dimou ( el, Νίκος Δήμου), born in 1935 in Athens, is a Greek writer and columnist. He started out as a copywriter and went on to become one of the best-known Greek intellectuals.
Biography
He graduated from Athens College an ...
, writer
*
Tasos Giannopoulos, actor
*
Manolis Glezos
Manolis Glezos ( el, Μανώλης Γλέζος; 9 September 1922 – 30 March 2020) was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and folk hero, best known for his participation in the World War II resistance.
In Greece, he is best r ...
, politician
*
Pavlos Haikalis
Pavlos Haikalis (also Chaikalis; el, Παύλος Χαϊκάλης) is a Greek actor and politician.
Biography
Pavlos Haikalis was born in Katakolo, Elis, on 30 October 1959. He, and his older brother Thanasis Haikalis (1948-2022), was rais ...
, actor and politician
*
Kostas Hatzichristos
Kostas Hatzichristos or Costas Hajihristos ( el, Κώστας Χατζηχρήστος; 1921 – October 3, 2001) was a Greek actor.
Biography
He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, to a large family of thirteen members, he was the eleventh chil ...
, actor
*
Nasos Iliopoulos, SYRIZA's Press representative
*
Antonis Kafetzopoulos, actor
*
Stelios Kazantzidis
Stelios Kazantzidis (Greek: Στέλιος Καζαντζίδης; 29 August 1931 – 14 September 2001) was one of the most prominent Greek singers. A leading singer of Greek popular music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's fore ...
, singer
*
Panos Kammenos
Panagiotis "Panos" Kammenos ( el, Παναγιώτης "Πάνος" Καμμένος, ; born 12 May 1965) is a Greek politician and the founder of the right-wing party "Independent Greeks", which formed the governing coalition of the Hellenic Par ...
, politician
*
Panos Kiamos
Panos Kiamos (Greek: Πάνος Κιάμος, ) is a Greek laiko–pop singer.
Early life
Kiamos was born on 4 October 1975 in Athens, where he spent the rest of his adolescent life. In 1994, at the age of 18, he passed the entry exams for me ...
, singer
*
Lambros Konstantaras
Lambros Konstantaras (13 March 1913 – 28 June 1985) was a Greek film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1940 and 1981. He was born and died in Athens.
Biography
He was born in 1913, in Kolonaki, Athens. He studied acting in Paris an ...
, actor
*
Fotis Kouvelis
Fotis-Fanourios Kouvelis ( el, Φώτης-Φανούριος Κουβέλης; born 3 September 1948) is a Greek lawyer and leftist politician.
Biography
Kouvelis was born in Volos. He studied law and political science at the University of Athe ...
, former leader of
Democratic Left
*
Vassilis Logothetidis
Vasilis Logothetidis (Greek: Βασίλης Λογοθετίδης; 1897 – 20 February 1960) was a Greek comedian. He is considered one of the most significant modern Greek actors.
Logothetidis was born as Vasilis Tavlaridis (Βασίλης Τ ...
, actor
*
Stelios Mainas, actor
*
Yannis Maris
Yannis Tsirimokos (1916–1979) was a Greek left-wing journalist, better known under the name Yannis Maris (Γιάννης Μαρής) as a writer of detective fiction. From 1953, Maris wrote over forty short and well plotted novels that at the ...
, detective fiction writer
*
Giorgos Mitsakis
Giorgos Mitsakis ( el, Γιώργος Μητσάκης; Constantinople, 1921 - Athens, 17 November 1993) was a Greek composer and lyricist of numerous ''rebetika'' and folk songs, as well as a skillful bouzouki player. He was also known by the ni ...
, musician
*
George Mitsikostas
Giorgos Mitsikostas ( el, Γιώργος Μητσικώστας) (born 12 October 1968) is a famous Greek comedic impressionist in Greece.
Biography
He started his professional career by impersonating Greek public figures, mainly sports people (e ...
, comedian
*
Sotiris Moustakas
Sotiris Moustakas ( el, Σωτήρης Μουστάκας) (17 September 1940 – 4 June 2007) was a Greek Cypriot actor born in Kato Platres, Limassol. His acting career lasted for over four decades, with 1960s–80s as his most successful y ...
, actor
*
Katerina Moutsatsou
Katerina Moutsatsou or Moutsatsos ( el, Κατερίνα Μουτσάτσου), is a Los Angeles-based Greek actress, producer, writer, and activist. She is the author and producer of experimental films, videos, and animation series, which focus ...
, actress
*
Aristotle Onasis, one of the world's richest men
*
Tzimis Panousis
Tzimis Panousis (; 12 February 1954 – 13 January 2018) was a Greek musician, stand-up comedian and occasional film and theater actor born in Athens, where he spent most of his life. He is often seen as the modern-day Aristophanes. His fan ...
, musician
*
Pantelis Pantelidis, musician and singer
*
James Pantemis, football player
*
Errika Prezerakou
Errika Prezerakou ( el, Έρρικα Πρεζεράκου, born 8 March 1975 in Nea Filadelfeia) is a former Greek pole vaulter.
Biography
Her personal best was 4.25 metres, a height she cleared both outdoor (in Athens 2003) and indoor (in Paia ...
, pole vaulter
*
Lefteris Papadopoulos
Lefteris (Eleftherios) Papadopoulos ( el, Λευτέρης Παπαδόπουλος) is a Greek lyricist, writer and journalist.
Lefteris Papadopoulos was born in Athens, Greece on 14 November 1935. He is the son of Greek refugees, with a fath ...
, lyricist
*
Ange Postecoglou
Angelos Postecoglou ( el, Άγγελος Ποστέκογλου, ; born 27 August 1965) is an Australian association football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic.
Born in Greece, he moved ...
, football manager
*
Stathis Psaltis
Stathis Psaltis ( el, Στάθης Ψάλτης; 27 February 1951 – 21 April 2017) was a Greek cinema, TV and theatre comic actor. He was best known for starring in many 1980s films, as many as four a year. He has been called "iconic" and a "h ...
, actor
*
Stelios Perpiniadis,
rebetiko
Rebetiko ( el, ρεμπέτικο, ), plural rebetika ( ), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek music which have come to be grouped together since the s ...
musician
*
Miltiadis Papaioannou, politician
*
Prince Nikolaos of Denmark
*
Stan, singer
*
Yannis Stournaras
Yannis (or Giannis) Stournaras ( el, Γιάννης Στουρνάρας; born 10 December 1956) is a Greek economist who has been the Governor of the Bank of Greece since June 2014.
Previously, he had been the Greek Minister of Finance from 5 Ju ...
, Governor of the Bank of Greece
*
Pandelis Thalassinos
Pantelis Thalassinos ( el, Παντελής Θαλασσινός) is a Greeks, Greek singer and songwriter.
Biography
He was born in Keratsini, Piraeus (regional unit), Piraeus on 11 June 1958. His father, Michalis, hailed from the island of Ch ...
, musician
*
Gianna Terzi, singer
*
Marios Tokas
Marios Tokas ( el, Μάριος Τόκας) (8 June 1954 – 27 April 2008) was a Cypriot composer of traditional music born in Limassol, Cyprus. During the 1974 invasion, he fought as a soldier against the Turkish invaders. In 1975, he went to At ...
, composer
*
Sakis Tolis
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He has recently produced som ...
, singer
*
Makis Triantafyllopoulos
Efthimios "Makis" Triantafillopoulos ( el, Μάκης Τριανταφυλλόπουλος; born 14 August 1954) is a Greek journalist and publisher. He was, along with Themos Anastasiadis, the publisher of Proto Thema newspaper and host of two ...
, Greek journalist
*
Kostas Tsakonas, actor
*
Stefanos Tsitsipas
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, tennis player
*
Giorgos Vasiliou, actor
*
Pantelis Voulgaris
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, film director
*
Kostas Voutsas, actor
*
Despoina Vandi
Despina Vandi - ΣΤΑ 'ΔΩΣΑ ΟΛΑΑ ( el, Δέσποινα Βανδή, ), born as Despina Malea () on 22 July 1969, is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six y ...
, singer
*
Eleni Vitali
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Career and life
Eleni Vitali was born in Athens on September 19, 1954 into a musical ...
, singer
*
Nikos Xanthopoulos
Nikos Xanthopoulos ( el, Nίκος Ξανθόπουλος; 14 March 1934 – 22 January 2023) was a Greek actor, known for his roles in the 1960s era Greek Drama Cinema. He was also a singer of Greek folk bouzouki, having released many albums an ...
, actor
*
Zannino
Zannino ( gr, Ζαννίνο; born Yannis Papadopoulos; 21 August 1923 – 27 May 1995) was a Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a ...
, actor
*
Peggy Zina
Panagiota-Calliope Chrysicopoulou ( el, Παναγιώτα-Καλλιόπη Χρυσικοπούλου; born 8 March 1975), known professionally as Peggy Zina ( el, Πέγκυ Ζήνα), is a Greek singer. She made her recording debut in 1995 wi ...
, singer
AEK Presidential history
Gallery
File:AEK 1925.jpg, ΑΕΚ in 1925
File:Kleanthis Maropoulos.jpg, Kleanthis Maropoulos
Kleanthis Maropoulos ( el, Κλεάνθης Μαρόπουλος; 1919 – 3 January 1991) was a Greek footballer who played as a striker for AEK Athens He was a star footballer during the 1930's and 1940's and arguably the greatest Greek playe ...
File:Dusan Bajevic.jpg, Dušan Bajević
Dušan "Duško" Bajević ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Бајевић, ; gr, Ντούσαν Μπάγεβιτς, ''Doúsan Báyevits''; born 10 December 1948) is a Bosnian professional Manager (association football), football manager and former player. H ...
File:Lekidis-nikolaidis.jpg, Demis Nikolaidis
Themistoklis "Demis" Nikolaidis ( el, Ντέμης Νικολαΐδης; born 17 September 1973) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was the forty second president of AEK Athens, and is considered one of the fi ...
File:Kostas Katsouranis.jpg, Kostas Katsouranis
Kostas Katsouranis ( el, Κώστας Κατσουράνης; born 21 June 1979) is a Greek former international footballer. A versatile midfielder, who won the Super League Greek Footballer of the Year Award in 2005 and 2013, as well as the Co ...
File:20130814 AT-GR Sokratis Papastathopoulos 2738.jpg, Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Sokratis Papastathopoulos ( el, Σωκράτης Παπασταθόπουλος; born 7 June 1988), commonly known mononymously as Sokratis, is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Super League club Olympiacos.
Club ca ...
File:Rivaldo.jpg, Rivaldo
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File:Ismael Blanco 2014.jpg, Ismael Blanco
File:2017-08-02 Manolo Jimenez.jpg, Manolo Jiménez
File:DK-AEK ((cropped).jpg, Tasos Bakasetas
File:Petros Mantalos.jpg, Petros Mantalos
Petros Mantalos ( el, Πέτρος Μάνταλος; born 31 August 1991) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Super League club AEK Athens
and the Greece national team.
Club career
Skoda Xanthi
Petros ...
File:Marko Livaja.jpg, Marko Livaja
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Club caree ...
File:Jake Tsakalidis Grizzlies.jpg, Jake Tsakalidis
Iakovos "Jake" Tsakalidis ( el, Ιάκωβος Τσακαλίδης, ka, იაკოვოს წაკალიდას, born June 10, 1979) is a Georgian-born Greek former professional basketball player.
Tsakalidis, a center, holds dual cit ...
File:Claudio Coldebella 2013.JPG, Claudio Coldebella
File:Dušan Ivković.jpg, Dušan Ivković
Dušan "Duda" Ivković ( sr-cyrl, Душан "Дуда" Ивковић; 29 October 1943 – 16 September 2021) was a Serbian professional basketball player and coach. He served as head coach of the senior Serbian national basketball team from 20 ...
File:P020085Kakiouzis.jpg, Michalis Kakiouzis
Michalis "Mika" Kakiouzis (alternate spellings: Michail, Michailis, Mihalis) (Greek: Μιχάλης Κακιούζης; born November 29, 1976) is a Greek professional basketball coach and former player. He is currently working as head coach for ...
File:Nikolaos- hatzis 2009.jpg, Nikos Chatzis
Nikolaos "Nikos" Chatzis (alternative spelling: Hatzis) ( el, Νίκος Χατζής; born 3 June 1976) is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. At a height of 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, he played at the shooting guard posit ...
File:Dimosthenis Dikoudis.jpg, Dimos Dikoudis
Dimosthenis "Dimos" Dikoudis (alternate spellings include: Demosthenis, Demos, Ntikoudis) ( el, Δημοσθένης "Δήμος" Ντικούδης; born June 24, 1977 in Larissa, Greece), is a retired Greek professional basketball player. He is ...
File:Giannis Bourousis (cropped).jpg, Ioannis Bourousis
Giannis Bourousis (Greek: Γιάννης Μπουρούσης; born November 17, 1983) is a former Greek professional basketball player who last played for ASK Karditsa of the Greek A2 Basket League. He is a 7 ft 0.75 in (2.15 m) 270 lb ...
File:Nikolaos Zisis.jpg, Nikos Zisis
Nikolaos "Nikos" Zisis (alternate spelling: Zissis; el, Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Ζήσης; born August 16, 1983) is a Greek basketball executive and former professional basketball player. During his pro club playing career, at a height of ...
File:Bonsu'13-14(2).JPG, Pops Mensah-Bonsu
Nana Papa Yaw "Pops" Mensah-Bonsu (born 7 September 1983) is a British basketball executive and former player. He played college basketball for George Washington University and professionally for five NBA teams as well as clubs in Spain, France, ...
File:Dusan Sakota.jpg, Dušan Šakota
Dušan Šakota ( sr-cyr, Душан Шакота, el, Ντούσαν Σάκοτα ''Ntousan Sakota'', born 22 April 1986) is a Serbian-Greek former professional basketball player. He is 6'10 " (2.10 m) tall. He is a power forward, who possesses t ...
File:Jonas Maciulis by Augustas Didzgalvis.jpg, Jonas Mačiulis
Jonas Mačiulis (born 10 February 1985) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. Standing at , he mainly plays at the small forward position. As a member of the senior Lithuanian national team, he earned an All-EuroBasket Team sel ...
File:Cristian Ugalde - Jornada de las Estrellas de Balonmano 2013 - 02.jpg, Cristian Ugalde
References
External links
A.E.K. Sports Club official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Athletic Union Of Constantinople
A.E.K. Athens
Multi-sport clubs in Athens