1959–60 AEK Athens F.C. season

AEK Athens
1959–60 season
Chairman	Nikos Goumas
Manager	Lukas Aurednik
Stadium	AEK Stadium
Alpha Ethniki	2nd
Greek Cup	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: ; Kostas Nestoridis (32); All: ; Kostas Nestoridis (42)
Highest home attendance	20,000 vs Olympiacos; (10 January 1960)
Lowest home attendance	2,000 vs Victoria; (14 October 1959)
Average home league attendance	10,376
Biggest win	AEK Athens 7–0 PAO Kalogreza
Biggest defeat	Doxa Drama 2–0 AEK Athens; Olympiacos Chalkida 2–0 AEK Athens
Home colours	Away colours
	← 1958–59 1960–61 →

The 1959–60 season was the 36th season in the existence of AEK Athens F.C. and the first season in the top flight of Greek football. They competed in the Alpha Ethniki and the Greek Cup. The season began on 23 September 1959 and finished on 31 July 1960.

Kits

Home

Away

Overview

From the previous season, discussions had taken place for the creation of a single championship of a national division. The HFF was divided and hesitated to decide, as the reactions of the local associations were varied. However, two factors were decisive in the final decision of the Greek football officials. On the one hand, the ever-intensifying pressure of the UEFA for the establishment of a national division championship so that the representation of Greece in the European Cups would become more meritorious and on the other hand, the government's will to institutionalize the PRO-PO. That led the HFF to decide in the creation and the establishment of the first and second national divisions and the replacement of the regional championships with a single national championship.^[1]

In the summer of 1959, AEK were strengthened with the striker, Stefanos Demiris, the goalkeeper, Kimon Dimitriou, central defender, Dimitris Diakakis and Giannis Marditsis from Egaleo. The signings were not buzzing as everyone felt that the squad was complete and ready to win the championship. AEK, being the only contender against the omnipotence of Olympiacos in the 1950s, entered the new championship focused exclusively on winning the title. After all, they were one step away from the previous season's title, when in the last match at the Karaiskakis Stadium they led by 0–2 in the first 10 minutes, but were tied and the title eventually went to the red and whites.

At the beginning season in the Cup, AEK faced and eliminated with characteristic ease and big scores a series of teams of smaller categories, such as Proodos Patisia with a 5–0 victory, Victoria with a 7–1 victory, Ilisiakos with a 3–1 victory, Dafni Athens with a 3–1 victory, PAO Kalogreza with 7-0 victory and Atromitos with a 1–0 victory. AEK were not able to qualify for the round of 16 of the tournament as in the round of 32, as they faced the away defeat by 2–0 and the elimination by Olympiacos Chalkida on 10 April. Vlachos scored both goals for the club of Chalkida in the 50th and 88th minute.

The first championship of the first national division started on 25 October and the captain of AEK, Giannis Kanakis was the scorer of its first ever goal, when in the 3rd minute of the match against Ethnikos Piraeus at the Karaiskakis Stadium shaped the final 0–1 for AEK. However, the "dark clouds" did not take long to make their appearance, showing in the most emphatic way that the renaming of the Championship and the change in the way it was conducted did not automatically mean the termination of the issues of previous years. Only in the 11th matchday on 17 January, AEK played in Thessaloniki facing Aris and while the score was 2–1 with goals from Grigoriadis, Sismanidis and Giorgos Petridis, in the 84th minute the Piraeus referee Damalitis in the midst of constant changes of decisions and vacillating between suggesting a penalty or an indirect overturning of an AEK player in the area of Aris, caused a conflict between the players and stop the match which was repeated ten days later with the Italian referee Eugenio Rigato and showed the two teams tied at 2-2. The serious injury of Kostas Nestoridis in the home match against Proodeftiki on 24 January kept him away from the stadiums for about a month and AEK away from the 3 points of victory as during this period AEK achieved 3 draws. The final tie at the top with Panathinaikos proved the importance of these ties. Against everyone the Union was kept alive in the hunt for the title and being a pioneer, competed on 18 June at the Karaiskakis Stadium, against Proodeftiki. The pitch turned into a fighting arena and after a lot of banter between the players and several expulsions, it ended with a 2–2 draw with Serafidis and Petridis among the expelled. The strange thing about the story was that although the referee Začević had not recorded their suspensions on the match sheet, the two players were punished based on the report of the observer and their monthly ban finally took effect starting from the title play-off against Panathinaikos. Even under these conditions, AEK remained first with a 2-point difference from the second Panathinaikos, until the fateful day of 24 July when they line up at the Nea Smyrni Stadium against Panionios. The rumors were talking all week about the friendly relations of Kostas Nestoridis with his former teammates at Panionios and discounting a comfortable victory for AEK. The rebuttal came in force as Panionios took the lead with 2–0, Nestoridis reduced it to 2–1, the red and blues made it 3–1 and the own goal of Kazantzidis in the 90th minute simply made the score 3–2, proving that for the players of Panionios, duty prevailed over friendship. It did not prove to be the same at the Karaiskakis Stadium, where at the same time Olympiacos, leading at the half-time with 1–0 against the "greens", thought that duty and "friendship" can be shared by a half-time and underperforming the second half, were defeated by 1–4 from Panathinaikos giving them the points needed to get in the tie with AEK and participate in the championship play-off.

The play-off match on the last day of July found AEK decimated by suspensions, with Sotiris Fakis under the goalposts for the first time and disappointed by the turn the Championship race took as a result of Panathinaikos prevailing 2–1 despite a 0–1 lead given to AEK by Christos Ampos in the 14th minute, and the first title of the Alpha Ethniki was "painted" green.^[2] In all this several clubs had contributed, including Panionios and Apollon Athens, who citing success at the box office and financial support of their coffers, had accepted, with the title race in its final stretch, the holding of their home games against Panathinaikos in their bigger home ground of Leoforos Alexandras Stadium.

The end of the season found AEK in second place in the championship having the best attack with 77 goals and Kostas Nestoridis the top scorer with 33 goals in 27 matches, who in several games seemed to take them by the hand and single-handedly lead them to their first post-war title. From about the middle of the season, the greatest post-war captain of AEK, Giannis Kanakis, had retired as a footballer, while at the end of the season, Thanasis Tsangaris, Loukas Sismanis and Kostas Zografos also departed.^[3]

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 31 July 1960, 23:59 UTC+2.

Player	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)	Signed	Previous club	Transfer fee	Contract until
Goalkeepers
Sotiris Fakis	GK	1934 (aged 25–26)	1957	Amyna Ambelokipoi	Free	1963
Stelios Serafidis	GK	(1935-08-06)6 August 1935 (aged 24)	1953	AEK Athens U20	—	1972
Kimon Dimitriou	GK	1938 (aged 21–22)	1959	Propontis Chalkida	Free	1961
Defenders
Thanasis Tsangaris	RB / LB	1929 (aged 30–31)	1953	Apollon Athens	Free	1960
Giannis Marditsis	CB / ST	(1933-02-19)19 February 1933 (aged 27)	1959	Egaleo	₯103,000	1964
Petros Stamatelopoulos	LB	(1934-03-19)19 March 1934 (aged 26)	1959	Panerythraikos	₯100,000	1962
Nikos Melissis	CB / DM / ST	1936 (aged 23–24)	1953	PAO Kalogreza	Free	1961
Mimis Anastasiadis	RB / CB / ST	(1936-10-26)26 October 1936 (aged 23)	1956	A.O. Nea Ionia	Free	1964
Alekos Sofianidis	LB / LM / LW	(1937-08-03)3 August 1937 (aged 22)	1959	Beşiktaş	Free	1969
Antonis Gavanas	CB	1938 (aged 21–22)	1956	Ethnikos Asteras	Free	1961
Theofilos Vernezis	RB / CB / GK	1938 (aged 21–22)	1956	AEK Athens U20	—	1965
Dimitris Diakakis	CB	1942 (aged 17–18)	1959	Free agent	Free	1961
Midfielders
Giannis Kanakis (Captain)	RM / LM / RB / LB	(1927-08-27)27 August 1927 (aged 32)	1949	AE Kavalas	Free	1960
Pavlos Emmanouilidis	RM / RW / ST / SS	(1929-01-01)1 January 1929 (aged 31)	1947	AEK Athens U20	—	1961
Miltos Papapostolou	DM / CB	(1935-09-09)9 September 1935 (aged 24)	1956	Egaleo	Free	1965
Giorgos Petridis	AM / SS / ST	(1938-02-10)10 February 1938 (aged 22)	1957	Pera Club	Free	1966
Thymios Polyzos	CM	1939 (aged 20–21)	1956	Free agent	Free	1961
Kostas Zografos	CM	1941 (aged 18–19)	1955	Free agent	—	1960
Stefanos Demiris	AM / SS / ST	(1941-01-19)19 January 1941 (aged 19)	1959	AE Kavalas	—	1961
Samaras	AM	1941 (aged 18–19)	1958	Free agent	Free	1959
Forwards
Kostas Nestoridis	ST / SS	(1930-03-15)15 March 1930 (aged 30)	1955	Panionios	Free	1966
Andreas Stamatiadis	RW / LW / SS / ST	(1935-08-16)16 August 1935 (aged 24)	1952	AEK Athens U20	—	1969
Christos Ampos	LW / SS / ST	(1937-10-19)19 October 1937 (aged 22)	1956	AO Kifisia	Free	1962
Dimitris Tsanoulas	ST	1938 (aged 21–22)	1956	Free agent	Free	1961
Argyris Argyropoulos	ST	1939 (aged 20–21)	1958	AEK Athens U20	—	1962
Loukas Sismanis	ST	1939 (aged 20–21)	1958	Athinaikos	Free	1960

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Date	Contract Until	Source
GK	Kimon Dimitriou	Propontis Chalkida	Free transfer	1 July 1959	30 June 1961
DF	Giannis Marditsis	Egaleo	₯103,000^[a]	1 July 1959	30 June 1964
DF	Dimitris Diakakis	Free agent	Free transfer	1 July 1959	30 June 1961
DF	Petros Stamatelopoulos	Panerythraikos	₯100,000	3 August 1959	30 June 1962	^[4]
DF	Alekos Sofianidis	Beşiktaş	Free transfer	1 July 1959	30 June 1969
MF	Stefanos Demiris	AE Kavalas	Free transfer	1 July 1959	30 June 1962

a. ^{^} plus Stavros Giafaloglou, Giannis Chaniotis and Kostas Chatzimichail.

Out

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Date
GK	Anastasiou	Free agent	End of contract	1 July 1959
DF	Lelos Adamantidis	Pankorinthiakos	End of contract	1 July 1959
MF	Kostas Poulis	Propontis Chalkida	End of contract	1 July 1959
MF	Stavros Giafaloglou	Egaleo	Free transfer	1 July 1959
FW	Giannis Chaniotis	Egaleo	Free transfer	1 July 1959
FW	Kostas Chatzimichail	Egaleo	Free transfer	1 July 1959
FW	Panagiotis Kourtidis	Free agent	End of contract	1 July 1959

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure: ₯203,000

Income: ₯0

Net Total: ₯203,000

Pre-season and friendlies

30 August 1959 Friendly	AEK Athens	8–1	Kronos	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

2 September 1959 Friendly	AEK Athens	7–0	Eleftheroupoli	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

6 September 1959 Friendly	PAOK	1–0	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
17:30 EET (UTC+2)	Kiourtzis 21'			Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 15,000
Note: Ιnauguration of the Toumba Stadium.^[5]

14 September 1959 Friendly	AEK Athens	8–1	Athinaikos	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

16 September 1959 Friendly	AEK Athens	4–2	AO Karava	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

20 September 1959 Friendly	AEK Athens	4–0	Asteras Athens	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

27 September 1959 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–0	Atromitos	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

30 September 1959 Friendly	AEK Athens	4–1	Poseidon Glyfada	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

4 October 1959 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	AE Nikaias	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

17 October 1959 Friendly	AEK Athens	3–0	Ethnikos Piraeus	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

15 November 1959 Friendly	Panargiakos	2–3	AEK Athens	Argos
				Stadium: Argos Municipal Stadium

20 January 1960 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–3	Greece military	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

24 February 1960 Giannis Kanakis Testimonial	AEK Athens	2–0	Greece	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium
Note: 45-minute match

24 February 1960 Giannis Kanakis Testimonial	AEK Athens	2–2	Greece military	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium
Note: 45-minute match

17 April 1960 Friendly	AEK Athens	2–2	First Vienna	Nea Filadelfeia
			Senekowitsch	Stadium: AEK Stadium

16 May 1960 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	América Mineiro	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

6 June 1960 Friendly	AEK Athens	1–1	Flamengo	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: AEK Stadium

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	25 October 1959	24 July 1960	Matchday 1	2nd	30	21	7	2	72	27	+45	070.00
Championship play-off	31 July 1960		Final	Runners-up	1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	000.00
Greek Cup	23 September 1959	10 April 1960	First round	Round of 32	7	6	0	1	26	5	+21	085.71
Total					38	27	7	4	99	34	+65	071.05

Last updated: 31 July 1960
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	22	5	3	59	20	+39	79^[a]	Qualification for European Cup
2	AEK Athens	30	21	7	2	72	27	+45	79^[a]
3	Olympiacos	30	16	8	6	52	24	+28	70
4	Apollon Athens	30	13	10	7	52	33	+19	66
5	Panionios	30	14	6	10	46	31	+15	64

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

^ ^a ^b Championship Play-off: Panathinaikos–AEK Athens 2–1 (see below).

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	21	7	2	72	27	+45	79	14	1	0	47	11	+36	7	6	2	25	16	+9

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	Η	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A
Result	W	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	D	W	D	W	D	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	L
Position	3	2	2	1	5	3	3	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2

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

Fixtures

25 October 1959 1	Ethnikos Piraeus	0–1	AEK Athens	Piraeus
13:15 EET (UTC+2)			Kanakis 3'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 9,134 Referee: Aristidis Ioannidis (Thessaloniki)
Note: Giannis Kanakis scored the first goal in the history of the first division.

1 November 1959 2	AEK Athens	5–1	Pankorinthiakos	Nea Filadelfeia
13:15 EET (UTC+2)	Stamatiadis 1', 36' Nestoridis 14', 44' Sofianidis 22'		Kois 69' (pen.)	Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Koulouvardis (Athens)

8 November 1959 3	Panathinaikos	2–2	AEK Athens	Ampelokipoi
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Papaemmanouil 10' Benardos 67'		Demiris 3', 71'	Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Attendance: 22,956 Referee: Dimosthenis Stathatos (Athens)

19 November 1959 4	AEK Athens	3–0	Iraklis	Nea Filadelfeia
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Stamatiadis 11' Nestoridis 85' Kanakis 89'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 7,251 Referee: Achilleas Grammatikopoulos (Piraeus)
Note: The game was originally for 11 November, but was postponed because obligations of some players with the National Team.

22 November 1959 5	Doxa Drama	2–0	AEK Athens	Drama
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Grigoriadis 28' Ioannou 77'			Stadium: Doxa Drama Stadium Attendance: 4,825 Referee: Petros Tzouvaras (Thessaloniki)
Note: At the 80th minute Anastasiadis left the game due to an injury.

29 November 1959 6	AEK Athens	2–0	AE Nikaia	Nea Filadelfeia
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Nestoridis 16', 87'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 4,658 Referee: Papaioannou

6 December 1959 7	Panegialios	1–4	AEK Athens	Aigio
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Makris 71'		Nestoridis 15', 40', 51' Ampos 34'	Stadium: Aigio National Stadium Attendance: 4,876 Referee: Thodoros Giavropoulos (Piraeus)
Note: Kostas Nestoridis scored the first hat-trick in the history of the first division.

13 December 1959 8	PAOK	1–2	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
14:45 EET (UTC+2)	Nikolaidis 74'		Kemanidis 30' (o.g.) Nestoridis 88'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 14,230 Referee: Vangelis Damalitis (Piraeus)

20 December 1959 9	Apollon Athens	0–0	AEK Athens	Ampelokipoi
15:00 EET (UTC+2)				Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Attendance: 22,799 Referee: Vangelis Vernardakis (Piraeus)

10 January 1960 10	AEK Athens	1–0	Olympiacos	Nea Filadelfeia
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Nestoridis 1'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)
Note: The way Nestoridis scored in the first minute of the match was predicted by Nestoridis himself, who had declared it to the goalkeeper of Olympiacos, Savvas Theodoridis, before the start of the game. The song of Vangelis Perpiniadis: "And like Nestoridis, no one will be, to say where the ball will be sent.” (Greek: “Και σαν τον Νεστορίδη κανένας δεν θα βγεί,να λέει πως η μπάλα εκεί θα καρφωθεί.”)^[6] was taken from this incident.

27 January 1960 11	Aris	2–2	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
	Kalliotzis 27' Panagoulias 46'		Sofianidis 24' Petridis 78'	Stadium: Aris Stadium Attendance: 12,577 Referee: Gino Rigato (Italy)
Note: A repetition of the match, which originally took place on 17 January and was interrupted at the 84th minute by the referee Damalitis, while the score was 2–1 in favor of Aris with the goals of Grigoriadis, Sismanidis and Petridis, due to incidents between the players, after a penalty that the players of AEK requested in a tackle of Kemalidis to Sofianidis. The referee did not want to continue the match, as he did not allow the linesman, Sidiropoulos to take his place, not handing over the match sheet and he never clarified whether in the tackle to Sofianidis gave penalti kick or foul. Earlier in the game, the referee had denied Nestoridis a clear penalty, who was alone in front of goal of Aris, having passed the goalkeeper and just before pushing the ball into the net he was tackled with a knee in the back from Grigoriadis with referee showing a corner kick.

24 January 1960 12	AEK Athens	4–2	Proodeftiki	Nea Filadelfeia
	Stamatiadis 23', 42' Filios 27' (o.g.) Nestoridis 70' (pen.)		Christofidis 38' Besis 47'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 8,247 Referee: Giovanni Rebuffo (Italy)

31 January 1960 13	AEK Athens	0–0	Megas Alexandros Katerinis	Nea Filadelfeia
				Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Attendance: 5,895

7 February 1960 14	Apollon Kalamarias	1–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
	Nifadopoulos 25'		Petridis 87'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 1,072 Referee: Davala (Italy)

14 February 1960 15	AEK Athens	2–0	Panionios	Nea Filadelfeia
	Ampos 63' Petridis 82'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Apostolopoulos (Patras)

21 February 1960 16	AEK Athens	4–0	Ethnikos Piraeus	Nea Filadelfeia
	Petridis 30' Nestoridis 61', 72', 87'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 10,500 Referee: Viktor Schicker (Switzerland)

28 February 1960 17	Pankorinthiakos	0–0	AEK Athens	Corinth
				Stadium: KEN Corinth Attendance: 8,242 Referee: Aristidis Ioannidis (Thessaloniki)

9 March 1960 18	AEK Athens	1–0	Panathinaikos	Nea Filadelfeia
	Nestoridis 37'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 19,090 Referee: Daniel Mellet (Switzerland)

13 March 1960 19	Iraklis	0–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
			Ampos 31'	Stadium: Aris Stadium Attendance: 11,075 Referee: Albert Guinnard (Switzerland)

6 April 1960 20	AEK Athens	4–3	Doxa Drama	Nea Filadelfeia
	Nestoridis 16', 29', 58' Sofianidis 68'		Ioannou 1', 35' Chatzimichail 47'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 15,545 Referee: Joseph Barbéran (France)
Note: The match day was originally scheduled to take on 20 March, but was canceled due to obligations of National Team.

26 March 1960 21	AE Nikaia	0–3	AEK Athens	Piraeus
15:45 EET (UTC+2)			Stamatiadis 20' Nestoridis 29' Petridis 89'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 10,574 Referee: Vlasić (Yugoslavia)

1 May 1960 22	AEK Athens	4–0	Panegialios	Nea Filadelfeia
	Petridis 55' Nestoridis 59', 75' Ampos 90'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 9,401 Referee: Giuseppe Adami (Italy)

8 May 1960 23	AEK Athens	3–1	PAOK	Nea Filadelfeia
16:15 EET (UTC+2)	Ampos 2' Nestoridis 51' Petridis 55'		Chavanidis 58'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)

5 June 1960 24	AEK Athens	5–2	Apollon Athens	Nea Filadelfeia
	Sofianidis 22', 87' Stamatiadis 47' Nestoridis 65', 74'		Mastrakoulis 58' Kamaras 89'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 11,906 Referee: Othmar Huber (Switzerland)
Note: The match day was originally scheduled to take place on 15 May, but was canceled due to obligations of National military team.

12 June 1960 25	Olympiacos	0–1	AEK Athens	Nea Filadelfeia
			Stamatiadis 63'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 20,876 Referee: Manuel Asensi Martín (Spain)
Note: The match day was originally scheduled to take place on 22 May, but was canceled due to obligations of National military team.

29 May 1960 26	AEK Athens	3–0	Aris	Nea Filadelfeia
	Nestoridis 33' (pen.) Stamatiadis 78', 88'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 12,450 Referee: Josef Shleiffer (Israel)

18 June 1960 27	Proodeftiki	2–2	AEK Athens	Piraeus
	Marditsis 44' (o.g.) Serafidis 64' (o.g.)		Nestoridis 8' Petridis 47'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 18,350 Referee: Konstantin Zečević (Yugoslavia)

26 June 1960 28	Megas Alexandros Katerinis	2–4	AEK Athens	Veria
	Karafoulidis 63' Amanatidis 86'		Petridis 8', 38' Nestoridis 30', 56'	Stadium: Veria Stadium Attendance: 3,617 Referee: Gino Rigato (Italy)

17 July 1960 29	AEK Athens	6–2	Apollon Kalamarias	Nea Filadelfeia
	Papapostolou 3' Nestoridis 5', 60', 75' Ampos 34' Sakellaridis 80' (o.g.)		Avramidis 29' Nifadopoulos 45'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 9,447 Referee: Carlo Gambarotta (Italy)

24 July 1960 30	Panionios	3–2	AEK Athens	Nea Smyrni
	Saravakos 2' Braoudakis 44' Karras 88'		Nestoridis 87' Kazantzidis 90' (o.g.)	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 7,700 Referee: Giovanni Rebuffo (Italy)

Championship play-off

31 July 1960 Play-off match	Panathinaikos	2–1	AEK Athens	Piraeus
17:00 EET (UTC+2)	Panakis 35' Papaemmanouil 48'	Report	Ampos 14'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 20,923 Referee: Daniel Mele (Switzerland)

Greek Cup

Matches

23 September 1959 First round	AEK Athens	5–0	Proodos Patisia	Nea Filadelfeia
15:30 EET (UTC+2)	Ampos 17' Kanakis 27' Tsanoulas 52' Papapostolou 75' Nestoridis 80'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Referee: Tatsikas

14 October 1959 Second round	AEK Athens	7–1	Victoria	Nea Filadelfeia
15:00 EET (UTC+2)	Nestoridis 1', 10', 67', 75' Kanakis 30' Stamatiadis 53' Petridis 85'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Alexandros Monastiriotis (Piraeus)

4 November 1959 Third round	AEK Athens	3–1	Ilisiakos	Nea Filadelfeia
	Petridis 28' Kanakis 69' Demiris 85'		Perivolas 35' Zavoritis 77'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Referee: Thodoros Giavropoulos (Piraeus)

27 December 1959 Fourth round	AEK Athens	3–1	Dafni Athens	Nea Filadelfeia
	Kanakis 22' Nestoridis 84' (pen.) Stamatiadis 88'		Angelakis 89'	Stadium: AEK Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Koufogiannakis

13 January 1960 Fifth round	AEK Athens	7–0	PAO Kalogreza	Nea Filadelfeia
	Nestoridis 10', 18', 48', 59' Emmanouilidis 15' Stamatiadis 27' Marditsis 85'			Stadium: AEK Stadium Referee: Vasilis Dimopoulos (Athens)

2 March 1960 Sixth round	AEK Athens	1–0	Atromitos	Nea Filadelfeia
	Stamatiadis 62'			Stadium: Nikos Goumas Stadium Referee: Tatsikas

10 April 1960 Round of 32	Olympiacos Chalkida	2–0	AEK Athens	Chalcis
	Vlachos 50', 90'			Stadium: Municipal Stadium of Chalkida Referee: Stamatoglou

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 31 July 1960

No.	Pos	Player	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup		Total
No.	Pos	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
—	GK	Sotiris Fakis	1	0	3	0	4	0
—	GK	Stelios Serafidis	29	0	4	0	33	0
—	GK	Kimon Dimitriou	1	0	0	0	1	0
Defenders
—	DF	Thanasis Tsangaris	5	0	4	0	9	0
—	DF	Giannis Marditsis	29	0	5	1	34	1
—	DF	Petros Stamatelopoulos	1	0	2	0	3	0
—	DF	Nikos Melissis	2	0	0	0	2	0
—	DF	Mimis Anastasiadis	28	0	5	0	33	0
—	DF	Alekos Sofianidis	24	5	2	0	26	5
—	DF	Antonis Gavanas	0	0	0	0	0	0
—	DF	Theofilos Vernezis	26	0	3	0	29	0
—	DF	Dimitris Diakakis	3	0	3	0	6	0
Midfielders
—	MF	Giannis Kanakis	6	2	4	4	10	6
—	MF	Pavlos Emmanouilidis	13	0	2	1	15	1
—	MF	Miltos Papapostolou	28	1	4	1	32	2
—	MF	Giorgos Petridis	25	10	4	2	29	12
—	MF	Thymios Polyzos	29	0	5	0	34	0
—	MF	Kostas Zografos	1	0	4	0	5	0
—	MF	Stefanos Demiris	10	2	1	1	11	3
Forwards
—	FW	Kostas Nestoridis	28	32	6	10	34	42
—	FW	Andreas Stamatiadis	29	10	7	4	36	14
—	FW	Christos Ampos	20	7	4	1	24	8
—	FW	Dimitris Tsanoulas	1	0	3	1	4	1
—	FW	Argyris Argyropoulos	1	0	0	0	1	0
—	FW	Loukas Sismanis	1	0	1	0	2	0
—	FW	Samaras	0	0	1	0	1	0

Goalscorers

As of 31 July 1960

Rank	Pos.	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Total
1	FW	Kostas Nestoridis	32	10	42
2	FW	Andreas Stamatiadis	10	4	14
3	MF	Giorgos Petridis	10	2	12
4	FW	Christos Ampos	7	1	8
5	MF	Giannis Kanakis	2	4	6
6	DF	Alekos Sofianidis	5	0	5
7	MF	Stefanos Demiris	2	1	3
8	MF	Miltos Papapostolou	1	1	2
9	DF	Giannis Marditsis	0	1	1
	MF	Pavlos Emmanouilidis	0	1	1
	FW	Dimitris Tsanoulas	0	1	1
Own goals			4	0	4
Totals			73	26	99

Hat-tricks

Numbers in superscript represent the goals that the player scored.

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition
Kostas Nestoridis⁴	Victoria	7–1 (H)	14 October 1959	Greek Cup
Kostas Nestoridis	Panegialios	4–1 (A)	6 December 1959	Alpha Ethniki
Kostas Nestoridis⁴	PAO Kalogreza	7–0 (H)	13 January 1960	Greek Cup
Kostas Nestoridis	Ethnikos Piraeus	4–0 (H)	21 February 1960	Alpha Ethniki
Kostas Nestoridis	Doxa Drama	4–3 (H)	6 April 1960	Alpha Ethniki
Kostas Nestoridis	Apollon Kalamarias	6–2 (H)	17 July 1960	Alpha Ethniki

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 31 July 1960

Rank	Player	Alpha Ethniki	Greek Cup	Total
1	Stelios Serafidis	15	1	16
2	Sotiris Fakis	0	2	2
3	Kimon Dimitriou	0	0	0
Totals		15	3	18

Disciplinary record

As of 31 July 1960

N	P	Nat.	Name						Notes
N	P	Nat.	Name	Alpha Ethniki		Greek Cup	Total		Notes
Goalkeepers
—	GK		Sotiris Fakis
—	GK		Stelios Serafidis
—	GK		Kimon Dimitriou
Defenders
—	DF		Thanasis Tsangaris
—	DF		Giannis Marditsis
—	DF		Petros Stamatelopoulos
—	DF		Nikos Melissis
—	DF		Mimis Anastasiadis		1			1
—	DF		Alekos Sofianidis
—	DF		Antonis Gavanas
—	DF		Theofilos Vernezis
—	DF		Dimitris Diakakis
Midfielders
—	MF		Giannis Kanakis
—	MF		Pavlos Emmanouilidis
—	MF		Miltos Papapostolou
—	MF		Giorgos Petridis
—	MF		Thymios Polyzos		1			1
—	MF		Kostas Zografos
—	MF		Stefanos Demiris
Forwards
—	FW		Kostas Nestoridis
—	FW		Andreas Stamatiadis
—	FW		Christos Ampos
—	FW		Dimitris Tsanoulas
—	FW		Argyris Argyropoulos
—	FW		Loukas Sismanis
—	FW		Samaras

Awards

Player	Pos.	Award	Source
Kostas Nestoridis	FW	Alpha Ethniki Top Scorer
Kostas Nestoridis	FW	Greek Cup Top Scorer

References

^ "Πως άρχισε το πρωτάθλημα της Α' εθνικής το 1959". retrosport.wordpress.com (in Greek). 24 October 2009.
^ "60 χρόνια Α' Εθνική: Το μπαράζ του τίτλου του 1959-60 και ο αγώνας της χρονιάς 2001-02!". sport-fm.gr.
^ "Περίοδος 1959-1960". aekpedia.com (in Greek). 18 May 2015.
^ "Πέτρος Σταματελόπουλος". kitrinomavro.gr.
^ "Σαν σήμερα 6/9/1959 τα εγκαίνια της Τούμπας!". paokmania.gr.
^ "Σαν τον Νεστορίδη κανένας δεν θα βγει Βαγγέλης Περπινιάδης". youtube.com.

External links

[table_hth_PAO0.80267379377162-6] Championship Play-off: Panathinaikos–AEK Athens 2–1 (see below).

[1] "Πως άρχισε το πρωτάθλημα της Α' εθνικής το 1959". retrosport.wordpress.com (in Greek). 24 October 2009.

[2] "60 χρόνια Α' Εθνική: Το μπαράζ του τίτλου του 1959-60 και ο αγώνας της χρονιάς 2001-02!". sport-fm.gr.

[3] "Περίοδος 1959-1960". aekpedia.com (in Greek). 18 May 2015.

[4] "Πέτρος Σταματελόπουλος". kitrinomavro.gr.

[5] "Σαν σήμερα 6/9/1959 τα εγκαίνια της Τούμπας!". paokmania.gr.

[7] "Σαν τον Νεστορίδη κανένας δεν θα βγει Βαγγέλης Περπινιάδης". youtube.com.

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