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: Castillo (5) All: 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 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 Anagennissi Epanomi FC ^[1]

• 21 June: Winger Karim Soltani agrees to join Aris from Iraklis FC ^[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 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 released.^[8]

• 27 July: Midfielder Konstantinos Mendrinos released.^[9]

• 27 July: Midfielder Manolis Papasterianos agrees to join Aris from Iraklis FC ^[10]

• 9 August: Midfielder Daisuke Sakata 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.^[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 Jakupovic agrees to join Aris in a two-year deal.

• 30 September: Midfielder Noe Acosta agrees to join Aris in a one-year deal.

• 4 November: Michal Probierz appointed as manager.

• 21 December: Forward Victoras Iacob released.

• 5 January: Manager Michal Probierz released.

• 10 January: Midfielder Jurica Vranjes released.

• 15 January: Manuel Machado appointed as manager.

• 20 January: Defender Giannis Agtzidis released.

• 27 January: Forward Danijel Cesarec released.

• 28 January: Midfielder Charalambos Economopoulos joined Vyzas F.C. on loan.

• 28 March: Forward Thanasis Topouzis released.

Current squad

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Since	App	Goals	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
13	GK		Sifakis (c)	31	EU	2008	80	0	2012	€0.05M
1	GK		Vellidis	28	EU	2010	26	0	2013	free
84	GK		Jakupovic	31	EU	2011	1	0	2012	free
25	GK		Dioudis	22	EU	2011	0	0	2015	Youth system
2	RB		Neto	34	Non-EU	2007	118	12	2012	€0.2M
16	LB		Michel	34	EU	2010	50	0	2012	free	Second nationality: Italy
24	CB		Lazaridis (vc)	36	EU	2010	48	4	2012	free
16	CB		Dickoh	33	EU	2011	7	1	2013	free	Second nationality: Denmark
15	CB		Giannitsis	23	EU	2011	0	0	2015	Youth system
4	CB		Papazaharias	30	EU	2010	8	0	2013	free
19	CB		Sankare	31	Non-EU	2011	13	1	2014	free
30	CB		Kotsonis	27	EU	2010	0	0	2014	free
14	DM		Faty	29	EU	2010	21	1	2013	free	Second nationality: Senegal
8	CM		Toja	30	Non-EU	2010	24	0	2013	€0.2M
5	CM		Papasterianos	28	EU	2011	0	0	2013	free
55	DM		Prittas	37	EU	2007	73	1	2012	free
88	DM		Nacho Garcia	35	Non-EU	2005	0	0	2012	free
12	CM		Katidis	22	EU	2010	3	0	2013	Youth system
7	RW		Soltani	31	EU	2011	0	0	2012	free	Second nationality: France
10	LW		Castillo (vc)	31	EU	2011	10	2	2013	free	Second nationality: Greece
19	AM		Kapetanos	31	EU	2010	0	0	2013	free
17	RW		Kasnaferis	28	EU	2010	11	0	2013	free
33	RW		Umbides	33	Non-EU	2011	5	0	2013	free
77	LW		Acosta	32	EU	2011	5	0	2013	free
20	RW		Gianniotas	22	EU	2011	2	1	2014	Youth system
28	AM		Triantafyllakos	24	EU	2011	0	0	2014	€0.1M
99	CF		Aggeloudis	24	EU	2011	1	0	2015	Youth system
22	CF		Kanoulas	23	EU	2011	0	0	2014	€0.1M

• Last updated: 11 September 2010
• Source:
• Ordered by position on pitch.

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 Thessaloniki) MF Kostas Kapetanos (from Olympiakos Volos) DF Dimitris Kotsonis (from Paniliakos) MF Vassilis Triantafyllakos (from Odysseas Anagennisi) MF Emmanouil Papasterianos (from Iraklis Thessaloniki) DF Francis Dickoh (from Hibernian) FW Victoras Iacob (from Iraklis Thessaloniki) DF Khalifa Sankare (from Olympiakos Volos) MF Javier Umbides (from Olympiakos Volos) GK Eldin Jakupovic (from Olympiakos Volos) MF Noe 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

Management

Position	Staff
Manager	Manuel Machado
Assistant manager	Bazilho Fernandes Marques
Fitness Coach	Giannis Gioris
Fitness Coach	Jose Augusto Arauzo
Physio	Vaggelis Pantazis
Goalkeeping Coach	Giannis Plavoukos
Scout	Leonidas Vosdou

Last updated: 30 August 2010
Source: arisfc.gr

Kit

Supplier: Under Armour
Sponsor(s): Kino

Home Colours

Away Colours

Third Colours

Goalkeeper's Home Colours

Goalkeeper's Away Colours

Source: arisfc.gr

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	30	11	6	13	33	42	−9	39
8	PAS Giannina	30	10	8	12	30	35	−5	38
9	Aris	30	10	10	10	29	33	−4	40
10	OFI	30	10	7	13	27	32	−5	37
11	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

PAS Giannina v Aris

27 August 2011 Matchday 1	PAS Giannina	0 – 0	Aris	Zosimades Stadium, Ioannina
21:30 EEST		report		Attendance: 3578 Referee: Tritsonis Stavros

Aris v Atromitos

11 September 2011 Matchday 2	Aris	0 – 1	Atromitos	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
18:15 EEST		report	Mitroglou  19'	Attendance: 8551 Referee: Spathas Ilias

Aris v Skoda Xanthi

2 October 2011 Matchday 5	Aris	0 – 0	Skoda Xanthi	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
16:00 EEST				Attendance: 9322 Referee: Styliaras Dimitris

Ergotelis v Aris

16 October 2011 Matchday 6	Ergotelis	1 – 1	Aris	Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
18:15 EEST	Budimir  90'		Sankare  45'	Attendance: 1,129 Referee: Thanos Dimitris

Aris v PAOK

23 October 2011 Matchday 7	Aris	1 – 1	PAOK	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
20:30 EEST	Lazaridis  3'		Papazoglou  48'	Attendance: 12,320 Referee: Giahos Thanasis

AEK v Aris

30 October 2011 Matchday 8	AEK	3 – 0	Aris	Olympic Stadium, Athens
17:30 EET	Lazaridis  10' (o.g.) Liberopoulos  39' Cala  78'			Attendance: 6,379 Referee: Kakkos Tasos

Aris v Olympiacos

5 November 2011 Matchday 9	Aris	2 – 3	Olympiacos	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
19:30 EET	Toja  77' Faty  85'		Djebbour  7' Modesto  28' Makoun  83'	Attendance: 7,776 Referee: Sidiropoulos Tasos

OFI v Aris

20 November 2011 Matchday 10	OFI	0 – 1	Aris	Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium, Heraklion
17:15 EET		Report	Gianniotas  31'	Attendance: 3,586 Referee: Mitsios Christos

Panionios v Aris

27 November 2011 Matchday 11	Panionios	2 – 1	Aris	Nea Smyrni Stadium, Athens
17:15 EET	Schembri  39' Kuqi  58'		Cesarec  73'	Attendance: 1684 Referee: Stavros Tritsonis

Aris v Panathinaikos

4 December 2011 Matchday 12	Aris	3 – 1	Panathinaikos	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
19:30 EET	Cesarec  12' Dickoh  44' Neto  48'	Report	Boumsong  38'	Attendance: 8,954 Referee: Ilias Spathas

Asteras Tripolis v Aris

11 December 2011 Matchday 13	Asteras Tripolis	1 – 0	Aris	Asteras Tripolis Stadium, Tripoli
15:00 EET	Usero  31'	Report		Attendance: 1,906 Referee: Dimitrios Thanos

Aris v Panetolikos

18 December 2011 Matchday 14	Aris	0 – 0	Panetolikos	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
17:15 EET		Report		Attendance: 7,362 Referee: Michael Koukoulakis

Aris v Doxa Drama

28 December 2011 Matchday 3	Aris	2 – 0	Doxa Drama	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
19:30 EET	Umbides  13' Kapetanos  79'	Report		Attendance: 6,901 Referee: Mihail Voskakis

Kerkyra v Aris

4 January 2012 Matchday 15	Kerkyra	1 – 0	Aris	Kerkyra Stadium, Kerkyra
15:00 EET	Martin  48'	Report		Attendance: 1,067 Referee: Dimitrios Styliaras

Aris v PAS Giannina

8 January 2012 Matchday 16	Aris	1 - 0	PAS Giannina	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
15:00 EET	Castillo  12'	Summary		Attendance: 6,742 Referee: Charalambos Kalogeropoulos

Atromitos v Aris

15 January 2012 Matchday 17	Atromitos	0 - 0	Aris	Peristeri Stadium, Athens
15:00 EET		Summary		Attendance: 2,174 Referee: Michael Koukoulakis

Levadiakos v Aris

18 January 2012 Matchday 4	Levadiakos	1 - 1	Aris	Livadeia Municipal Stadium, Livadeia
17:15 EET	Favalli  54'	Summary	Gianniotas  36'	Attendance: 589 Referee: Georgios Kominis

Doxa Drama v Aris

22 January 2012 Matchday 18	Doxa Drama	1 - 3	Aris	Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
15:00 EET	Papadopoulos  19'	Summary	Noé Acosta  20' Castillo  30' (86)	Attendance: 1,165 Referee: Anastasios Kakos

Aris v Levadiakos

29 January 2012 Matchday 19	Aris	2 - 1	Levadiakos	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
17:15 EET	Castillo  50' (89)	Summary	Chumbinho  4'	Attendance: 6,584 Referee: Dimitrios Thanos

Skoda Xanthi v Aris

5 February 2012 Matchday 20	Skoda Xanthi	0 - 2	Aris	Skoda Xanthi Arena, Xanthi
19:30 EET		Summary	Umbides  58' Castillo  67'	Attendance: 1,218 Referee: Charalambos Kalogeropoulos

Aris v Ergotelis

11 February 2012 Matchday 21	Aris	1 - 1	Ergotelis	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
17:15 EET	Acosta  18'	Summary	Katsikokeris  32'	Attendance: 6,748 Referee: Giorgos Daskalopoulos

PAOK v Aris

19 February 2012 Matchday 22	PAOK	0 - 0	Aris	Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki
19:30 EET	García  14' Athanasiadis  18' Kresic  63'	Summary	Kaznaferis  5' Lazaridis  18' Faty  36' Umbides  68' Triantafyllakos  90'	Attendance: 16,041 Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Aris v AEK

3 March 2012 Matchday 23	Aris	1 - 0	AEK	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
19:30 EET	Lazaridis  79'			Attendance: 8,641 Referee: Anastassios Kakkos

Olympiacos v Aris

3 March 2012 Matchday 24	Olympiacos	3 - 0	Aris	Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
19:30 EET	Marcano  18' Holebas  45' Mirallas  69'			Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Athanasios Giachos

Aris v OFI

10 March 2012 Matchday 25	Aris	1 - 0	OFI	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
17:15 EET	Lazaridis  73'			Attendance: 6,985 Referee: Dimitrios Styliaras

Aris v Panionios

17 March 2012 Matchday 26	Aris	4 - 2	Panionios	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
17:15 EET	Faty  33' Umbides  73' Triantafyllakos  76' Neto  79'		Kuqi  39'  63'	Attendance: 7,295 Referee: Anastassios Kakkos

Panathinaikos v Aris

1 April 2012 Matchday 27	Panathinaikos	1 - 0	Aris	Olympic Stadium, Athens
19:00 EET	Rudolf  82'			Attendance: - Referee: Tasos Sidiropoulos

Aris v Asteras Tripoli

8 April 2012 Matchday 28	Aris	0 - 1	Asteras Tripoli	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
19:00 EET			Rayos  35'	Attendance: 8,293 Referee: Stavros Tritsonis

Panetolikos v Aris

18 April 2012 Matchday 29	Panetolikos	5 - 1	Aris	Panetolikos Stadium, Agrinio
19:00 EET	Pasas  13' Camara  45' Charisteas  49' Sankare  53' (o.g.) Fernandes  76'		Gianniotas  74'	Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Michalis Voskakis

Aris v Kerkyra

22 April 2012 Matchday 30	Aris	1 - 1	Kerkyra	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
19:00 EET	Acosta  37'	Report	Ioannou  24'(pen.)	Attendance: - Referee: Andreas Pappas

Goalscorers

Nery Castillo

Greek Cup

Fourth Round

Panthrakikos v Aris

22 December 2011	Panthrakikos	1 - 2	Aris	Komotini Municipal Stadium
17:00	Balu  32'	Summary	Soltani  49' Michel  74'	Referee: Andreas Pappas

Fifth Round

Atromitos v Aris

12 January 2012	Atromitos	2 - 1	Aris	Peristeri Stadium
18:00	Fytanidis  79' Mitroglou  90'	Summary	Castillo  46'	Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos

UEFA rankings

Rank	Country	Team	Points
88		Nuremberg	22.137
89		Deportivo de La Coruña	21.922
90		Aris	21.140
91		Rosenborg	20.935
92		Austria Vienna	20.765

As of 15 December 2011^[14]

Friendlies

Aris v Atromitos

15 July 2011	Aris	1 – 0	Atromitos	Karpenisi
18:50 EEST	Soltani  11'

Aris v Kerkyra

19 July 2011	Aris	1 – 1	Kerkyra	Karpenisi
19:00 EEST	Castillo  21'		Giantsis  25'

Aris v Panetolikos

21 July 2011	Aris	3 – 1	Panetolikos	Karpenisi
18:50 EEST	Castillo  7' Aggeloudis  84' Toja  86' (pen.)		Rocha  26' (pen.)

Aris v Peñarol

26 July 2011	Aris	1 – 2	Peñarol	Kleanthis Vikelidis, Thessaloniki
21:30 EEST	Soltani  40'		Pérez  21' Corujo  71' (pen.)	Referee: Christos Mitsios

Aris v PAS Giannina

31 July 2011	Aris	4 – 1	PAS Giannina	Seefeld
19:00 EEST	Sakata  41' Soltani  48' Topouzis  68' Neto  71' (pen.)		Cuevas  64' (pen.)

Aris v EN Paralimni

2 August 2011	Aris	0 – 1	EN Paralimni	Wörgl
19:00 EEST			Roushias  89'

Aris v Al-Hilal

4 August 2011	Aris	2 – 3	Al-Hilal	Garmisch-Partenkirchen
18:00 EEST	Cesarec  45' Soltani  84'		Yoo  31' Qahtani  70' Shafi  80'

Lazio v Aris

7 August 2011	Lazio	2 – 0	Aris	Rieti
22:00 EEST	Rocchi  21' Cissé  33'

Cagliari v Aris

9 August 2011	Cagliari	1 – 1	Aris	Stadio Bruno Nespoli, Olbia
21:30 EEST	Ariaudo  19'		Soltani  49'

Pierikos v Aris

17 August 2011	Pierikos	0 – 0	Aris	Municipal Stadium of Katerini, Katerini
20:00 EEST

Kerkyra v Aris

20 August 2011	Kerkyra	1 – 1	Aris	Kerkyra Stadium, Corfu
20:30 EEST	Kalantzis  33'		Neto  51'

Aris v Doxa Drama

3 September 2011	Aris	1 – 1	Doxa Drama	Kleanthis Vikelidis, Thessaloniki
18:20 EEST	Kapetanos  88'		Vertzos  24'

Anagennisi Epanomi v Aris

4 September 2011	Anagennisi Epanomi	2 – 1	Aris	Kalamaria Stadium, Thessaloniki
17:30 EEST	Georgiadis  69' Deinopapas  83'		Cesarec  64'

Apollon Kalamarias v Aris

21 September 2011	Apollon Kalamarias	0 – 2	Aris	Kalamaria Stadium, Thessaloniki
17:00 EEST			Giannis Gianniotas  43' Kostas Kapetanos  56'

Aris v Lovech

25 February 2012	Aris	1 – 1	Lovech	Kleanthis Vikelidis, Thessaloniki
15:00 EEST	Lazaridis  39'		Galin Ivanov  23'

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

Top goalscorers and assists

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Goals
1	Castillo	7
2	Umbides	3
3	Gianniotas	3
4	Lazaridis	3
5	Acosta	3

Top assists

Rank	Name	Assists
1	Umbides	7
2	Michel	3
3	Kaznaferis	2
4	Kapetanos	2
5	Sankare	2

References

13. http://www.arisfc.gr/index.cfm?pid=10
14. http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/index.html
15. http://arisfc.gr/index.cfm?pid=2&view=detail&id=2374
16. http://arisfc.gr/index.cfm?pid=2&view=detail&id=2371
17. http://arisfc.gr/index.cfm?pid=2&view=detail&id=2364
18. http://arisfc.gr/index.cfm?pid=2&view=detail&id=2352
19. http://arisfc.gr/index.cfm?pid=2&view=detail&id=2381

External links

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