AEK FC

Kostas Negrepontis was in the last years of his career, when AEK won its first title. During the first Cup competition in the 1931-32 season, AEK made it to the final of November 8, 1931 at Alexandras Avenue against the then powerful Aris from Thessaloniki.

The 1950s had only few good times in store for AEK. In 1951, shortly after the historical 2-2 against Austria Wien, Bibie suddenly left, whereas Kleanthis Maropoulos and Michalis Delavinias, the last two great players from the pre-war team, retired from action.

Summer of 1981 started with AEK in the hands of sports clothing businessman Andreas Zafeiropoulos. The new major shareholder was quite well off, but not that strong to face shipowners Ntaifas and Vardinogiannis who owned Olympiacos and Panathinaikos respectively.

As of the summer of 1997, AEK has been through continuous changes at all levels: from ownership and presidents (the first president under ENIC was the renowned orthopedist Pandelis Nikolaou, also a former glory of the team, but he was succeeded by Kostas Generakis in late 1998, whereas Stefanos Mamatzis took over in 1999) to the people running the company and the team.

On November 2, 2008, Demis Nikolaidis, feeling annoyed by the fact that footballers had been heckled, activated his resignation from the presidency. AEK turned a page and its first move was to open up to iconic figures from the yellow-black history. Takis Kanellopoulos and Nikos Koulis took up a leading role and agreed with Dusan Bajevic that the latter was to become the team's coach for the third time.

Since the summer of 2015 AEK Athens belongs back in Super League. The 2014-15 season, the second of "exile" in the lower categories, resembled as a final rehearsal return