2011–12 Aris Thessaloniki F.C. season

Aris Thessaloniki

2011–12 season
Chairman	Thanasis Athanasiadis
Manager	Manuel Machado
Super League	6th
Greek Cup	Fifth Round
Top goalscorer	League: Nery Castillo (5) All: Nery Castillo (6)
Highest home attendance	12.320 (vs PAOK)
Lowest home attendance	6.584 (vs Levadiakos)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

Aris Thessaloniki F.C. competes in the Greek topflight. They started their Greek campaign after finishing sixth in last season's league.

Events

• 16 June: Forward Athanassios Kanoulas agrees to join Aris from Epanomi ^[1]
• 21 June: Winger Karim Soltani agrees to join Aris from Iraklis ^[2]
• 21 June: Winger Nery Castillo agrees to join Aris from Shakhtar Donetsk ^[3]
• 5 July: Defender Oriol Lozano released.^[4]
• 5 July: Winger Deividas Česnauskis is released.^[5]
• 5 July: Midfielder Kostas Kapetanos agrees to join Aris from Olympiakos Volos ^[6]
• 5 July: Defender Dimitris Kotsonis agrees to join Aris from Paniliakos ^[7]
• 12 July: Winger Toni Calvo is released.^[8]
• 27 July: Midfielder Konstantinos Mendrinos is released.^[9]
• 27 July: Midfielder Manolis Papasterianos agrees to join Aris from Iraklis^[10]
• 9 August: Midfielder Daisuke Sakata is released.^[11]
• 18 August: Defender Francis Dickoh agrees to join Aris.^[11]
• 30 August: Forward Victoras Iacob agrees to join Aris in one-year deal.^[11]
• 30 August: Defender Kristi Vangjeli released after a €300,000 deal with Chornomorets Odesa.^[12]
• 30 September: Defender Khalifa Sankare agrees to join Aris in three years deal.
• 30 September: Winger Javier Umbides agrees to join Aris in three years deal.
• 30 September: Goalkeeper Eldin Jakupović agrees to join Aris in a two-year deal.
• 30 September: Midfielder Noé Acosta agrees to join Aris in a one-year deal.
• 4 November: Michal Probierz is appointed as manager.
• 21 December: Forward Victoraș Iacob is released.
• 5 January: Manager Michał Probierz is released.
• 10 January: Midfielder Jurica Vranješ is released.
• 15 January: Manuel Machado is appointed as manager.
• 20 January: Defender Giannis Agtzidis is released.
• 27 January: Forward Danijel Cesarec is released.
• 28 January: Midfielder Charalambos Economopoulos joined Vyzas on loan.
• 28 March: Forward Thanasis Topouzis is released.

Current squad

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Since	App	Goals	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
13	GK		Sifakis (c)	32	EU	2008	80	0	2012	€50,000
1	GK		Vellidis	29	EU	2010	26	0	2013	free
84	GK		Jakupović	32	EU	2011	1	0	2012	free
25	GK		Dioudis	23	EU	2011	0	0	2015	Youth system
2	RB		Neto	35	Non-EU	2007	118	12	2012	€200,000
16	LB		Michel	35	EU	2010	50	0	2012	free	Second nationality: Italy
24	CB		Lazaridis (vc)	37	EU	2010	48	4	2012	free
16	CB		Dickoh	33	EU	2011	7	1	2013	free	Second nationality: Denmark
15	CB		Giannitsis	24	EU	2011	0	0	2015	Youth system
4	CB		Papazaharias	31	EU	2010	8	0	2013	free
19	CB		Sankaré	32	Non-EU	2011	13	1	2014	free
30	CB		Kotsonis	27	EU	2010	0	0	2014	free
14	DM		Faty	30	EU	2010	21	1	2013	free	Second nationality: Senegal
8	CM		Toja	31	Non-EU	2010	24	0	2013	€200,000
5	CM		Papasterianos	29	EU	2011	0	0	2013	free
55	DM		Prittas	37	EU	2007	73	1	2012	free
88	DM		Nacho García	35	Non-EU	2005	0	0	2012	free
12	CM		Katidis	23	EU	2010	3	0	2013	Youth system
7	RW		Soltani	32	EU	2011	0	0	2012	free	Second nationality: France
10	LW		Castillo (vc)	32	EU	2011	10	2	2013	free	Second nationality: Greece
19	AM		Kapetanos	32	EU	2010	0	0	2013	free
17	RW		Kasnaferis	29	EU	2010	11	0	2013	free
33	RW		Umbides	34	Non-EU	2011	5	0	2013	free
77	LW		Acosta	32	EU	2011	5	0	2013	free
20	RW		Gianniotas	23	EU	2011	2	1	2014	Youth system
28	AM		Triantafyllakos	25	EU	2011	0	0	2014	€100,000
99	CF		Aggeloudis	25	EU	2011	1	0	2015	Youth system
22	CF		Kanoulas	24	EU	2011	0	0	2014	€100,000

Transfers

Summer transfers

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player FW Thanassis Kanoulas (from Anagennisi Epanomi) MF Nery Castillo (from Shakhtar Donetsk) MF Karim Soltani (from Iraklis) MF Kostas Kapetanos (from Olympiakos Volos) DF Dimitris Kotsonis (from Paniliakos) MF Vassilis Triantafyllakos (from Odysseas Anagennisi) MF Emmanouil Papasterianos (from Iraklis) DF Francis Dickoh (from Hibernian) FW Victoraș Iacob (from Iraklis) DF Khalifa Sankaré (from Olympiakos Volos) MF Javier Umbides (from Olympiakos Volos) GK Eldin Jakupović (from Olympiakos Volos) MF Noé Acosta (from Olympiakos Volos)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Juanma (released) 5 DF Ronaldo Guiaro (released) 3 DF Oriol Lozano (free transfer to Real Murcia) 33 MF Deividas Česnauskis (free transfer to Baku) 7 MF Toni Calvo (released) 19 MF Konstantinos Mendrinos (released) 88 MF Daisuke Sakata (released) 32 DF Kristi Vangjeli (€300,000 transfer to Chornomorets Odesa)

Club

Board of Directors

Chairman	Thanasis Athanasiadis
Director of football	Giannis Michalitsos
Executive Director	Giannis Kontis
Managing Director	Antonios Zabetas
A Vice	Dimitris Sarris
B Vice	Ilias Poppis
C Vice	Themistoklis Bekiaris
Member	Dimis Papaioannou
Member	Stratos Eugeniou
Member	Agapitos Valogiorgis
Member	Tasos Orfanidis
Member	Christos Grollios
Commercial Director	Georgios Eleftheroudes
Press Officer	Chryssanthos Tsaltides
General Manager	Georgios Koltsidas
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium (22,800 / 120x80 m)

Source: ^[13]

Competitions

Overview

Competition	Result
Superleague Greece	9th position
Greek Cup	Excluded on 5th round

Super League Greece

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	Levadiakos !Levadiakos	30	11	6	13	33	42	−9	39
8	PAS Giannina !PAS Giannina	30	10	8	12	30	35	−5	38
9	Aris !Aris	30	10	10	10	29	33	−4	40
10	OFI !OFI	30	10	7	13	27	32	−5	37
11	Skoda Xanthi !Skoda Xanthi	30	10	6	14	31	35	−4	36

Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Home/Away

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	10	10	10	29	33	−4	40	7	5	3	19	14	+5	3	5	7	10	19	−9

Source:

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

Goalscorers

Nery Castillo

Greek Cup

Fourth Round

Fifth Round

UEFA rankings

Rank	Country	Team	Points
88		1. FC Nürnberg	22.137
89		Deportivo La Coruña	21.922
90		Aris	21.140
91		Rosenborg	20.935
92		Austria Wien	20.765

As of 15 December 2011^[14]

Friendlies

Source: ^{[15] [16] [17] [18] [19]}

Top goalscorers and assists

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Goals
1	Nery Castillo	7
2	Javier Umbides	3
3	Giannis Gianniotas	3
4	Nikolaos Lazaridis	3
5	Noé Acosta	3

Top assists

Rank	Name	Assists
1	Javier Umbides	7
2	Michel	3
3	Konstantinos Kasnaferis	2
4	Kostas Kapetanos	2
5	Khalifa Sankaré	2

References

External links

• Aris Thessaloniki F.C. official website
• Aris Thessaloniki FC on Superleaguegreece.net