2007–08 APOEL FC season

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APOEL
2007–08 season
ChairmanKyriakos Zivanaris
Manager
Aris Limassol

(30 January 2008)
Average home league attendance6,445 (all competitions)

The 2007–08 season was

football club
.

The club won the championship the previous season so it played in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers.

Manager

Ivan Jovanović who managed to help the club to win the Cypriot Cup at the end of the season.[1]

Squad

Last update: 16 April 2008[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Cyprus CYP Michalis Morfis
4 DF Greece GRE Michalis Kapsis
5 DF Romania ROU Daniel Florea
7 MF Cyprus CYP
Constantinos Charalambides
8 DF France FRA Bark Seghiri
9 FW Greece GRE Nikos Machlas
11 MF Cyprus CYP Marios Louka
12 GK North Macedonia MKD Jane Nikolovski
14 DF Netherlands NED Joost Broerse
15 DF Cyprus CYP
Marios Antoniades
17 MF Cyprus CYP Marinos Satsias (captain)
18 DF Cyprus CYP Demetris Daskalakis
20 MF Cyprus CYP Constantinos Makrides
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 MF Portugal POR
Helio Pinto
24 DF Greece GRE Christos Kontis
26 DF Portugal POR Nuno Morais
30 FW Serbia SRB Nenad Mirosavljević
31 FW Brazil BRA
Zé Carlos
32 DF Albania 
ALB
 		Altin Haxhi
33 MF Cyprus CYP Chrysis Michael
40 MF Cyprus CYP Giorgos Economides
60 GK Cyprus CYP Kyriacos Ioannou
69 FW Serbia SRB
Nemanja Corović
71 MF Cyprus CYP Marios Theodorou
77 DF Cyprus CYP Panayiotis Panayiotou
88 GK Cyprus CYP Tasos Kissas

Squad changes

In:

No.
 Pos.
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
EU

 Moving from
 Type
 Transfer
window 		Ends
 Transfer
fee 		Source
26
DM
 Portugal Morais 23 EU Chelsea England Transfer Green tickY Summer 2009 Free reuters.com
12 GK North Macedonia Nikolovski 33 Non-EU Slaven Belupo Croatia Transfer Green tickY Summer 2009 Free —
6
DM
 Brazil
Emerson
 35 EU AEK Athens Greece Transfer Green tickY Summer 2008 Free uefacup.com
21
LW
 Brazil Tavares 23 Non-EU Porto Alegre Brazil Transfer Green tickY Summer 2010 Free —
14
CF
 Brazil
Evilasio
 27 Non-EU Porto Alegre Brazil Transfer Green tickY Summer 2008 Free —
31
CF
 Brazil
Zé Carlos
 32 EU Braga Portugal Transfer Green tickY Summer 2009 Free uefa.com
7
RW
 Brazil
Rubens
 22 Non-EU Villa Rio Brazil Loan → Summer 2008 Free —
69
CF
 Serbia
Corović
 31 Non-EU AEL Limassol Loan → Summer 2008 Free —
32
LB
 Albania Haxhi 32 EU Ergotelis Greece Transfer Green tickY Winter 2009 Free —
14
CB
 Netherlands Broerse 28 EU Utrecht Netherlands Transfer Green tickY Winter 2009 Free nu.nl
30
CF
 Serbia Mirosavljević 30 Non-EU
Smederevo Serbia
 Transfer Green tickY Winter 2009 Free —
7
RW
 Cyprus Charalambides 26 EU Carl Zeiss Jena Germany Transfer Green tickY Winter 2010 Free —

Total expenditure: Decrease €0

Out:

N
 Pos.
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
EU

 Moving to
 Type
 Transfer
window 		Transfer
fee 		Source
9
LW
 Costa Rica Gómez 32 Non-EU Deportivo Saprissa Costa Rica Loan return → Summer — —
99
CF
 Cyprus Neophytou 30 EU AEK Larnaca End of contract Red XN Summer Free —
22
LB
 Cyprus Sampson 25 EU AEL Limassol End of contract Red XN Summer Free —
29
CF
 Argentina Solari 26 EU UNAM Mexico Transfer Green tickY Summer €200K —
6
CB
 Cyprus Okkarides 29 EU
Apollon Limassol
 End of contract Red XN Summer Free —
12 GK Cyprus Kythreotis 26 EU ASIL Lysi End of contract Red XN Summer Free —
7
RW
 Peru
Barreto
 24 Non-EU Universidad San Martín Peru Mutual consent Red XN Summer Free —
14
CF
 Brazil
Evilasio
 27 Non-EU
Pelita Bandung Raya Indonesia
 Contract termination Red XN Winter Free —
19
RB
 Cyprus Elia 28 EU Ethnikos Achna Loan → Winter Free —
7
RW
 Brazil Rubens 23 Non-EU Villa Rio Brazil Loan return → Winter — —
21
LW
 Brazil Tavares 23 Non-EU Maribor Slovenia Mutual consent Red XN Winter Free —
22
LM
 Greece Sapanis 31 EU Ionikos Greece Mutual consent Red XN Winter Free —
6
DM
 Brazil
Emerson
 35 EU Madureira Brazil Mutual consent Red XN Winter Free —
10
AM
 Portugal
Fernandes
 29 EU Metalurh Donetsk Ukraine Transfer Green tickY Winter €200K —

Total income: Increase €400K

Last updated: 31 January 2008

Club

Other information

Chairman Cyprus Kyriakos Zivanaris
Ground (capacity and dimensions) GSP Stadium (22,859 / 105x68 m)

Source: apoelfc.com.cy

Competitions

Overall

Competition Started round Final
position / round 		First match Last match
Marfin Laiki League — 2nd 2 September 2007 10 May 2008
UEFA Champions League 1st qualifying 1st qualifying 17 July 2007 24 July 2007
Cypriot Cup 4th round Winners 24 October 2007 17 May 2008
Cyprus FA Shield
 Final Runners-up 25 August 2008

Updated to match played 20 May 2008
Source: Competitions

Marfin Laiki League

Main article: 2007–08 Cypriot First Division

Classification

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1
Anorthosis Famagusta
 26 19 7 0 49 13 +36 64 Qualification for second round, Group A
2 APOEL 26 16 5 5 51 19 +32 53
3 Omonia 26 14 6 6 36 22 +14 48
4 AEK Larnaca 26 12 5 9 34 32 +2 41
5
Apollon Limassol
 26 10 9 7 40 33 +7 39 Qualification for second round, Group B
Source: soccerway.com

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
32 18 7 7 58 28  +30 61 12 2 2 33 10  +23 6 5 5 25 18  +7

Last updated: 11 May 2008.
Source: soccerway.com

Results by round

Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132
GroundHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
ResultWLWLWWDWWWDWDDLDLWWWWWWWLWWDLWDL
Updated to match(es) played on 11 May 2008. Source: apoelfc.com.cy
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Playoffs table

The first 12 teams are divided into 3 groups. Points are carried over from the first round.

Group A

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1
Anorthosis Famagusta
(C) 		32 20 12 0 58 19 +39 72 Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2 APOEL 32 18 7 7 58 28 +30 61 Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3 Omonia 32 14 10 8 42 31 +11 52
4 AEK Larnaca 32 14 8 10 46 42 +4 50
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions

Matches

All times for the Domestic Competitions at EET

Regular season

Doxa
Machlas 53', 70'
Michael 71' (pen.)		 Report Da Costa 26', 84'
Attendance: 7,950
Referee: Panikos Andronikou
APOEL
Nikolaou 57' Report
Attendance: 7,922
Referee: Panayiotis Gerasimou
APOP Kinyras
Michael 14', 71' (pen.)
Makrides 30'
Machlas 42'		 Report
Attendance: 6,549
Referee: Harris Glykis
APOEL
Eleftheriou 44' Report
Tasos Markos Stadium, Paralimni
Attendance: 2,332
Referee: Panikos Andronikou
Nea Salamis
Fernandes
79'		 Report Dolores 63'
Attendance: 6,934
Referee: Panikos Andronikou
APOEL
2–0
Awarded[note 1]		Apollon
Pinto 30'
Machlas
36'		 Report
Attendance: 10,389
Referee: Stelios Trifonos
APOEL
González 27'
Panigutti
67'		 Report Machlas 50'
Makrides 74'
Attendance: 6,844
Referee: Antonis Constantinides
APOEL
1–0AEK
Makrides 55' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 6,576
Referee: Leontios Trattou
APOEL
Report
Fernandes
70'
Attendance: 1,951
Referee: Harris Glykis
APOEL
2–1Ethnikos Achna
Kontis 16'
Michael 74'		 Report Georgiades 59'
Attendance: 6,931
Referee: Leontios Trattou
APOEL
Mihalcea 62'
Seper 75'		 Report Makrides 13'
Michael 90+5' (pen.)
Tsirion Stadium, Limassol
APOEL
1–0Omonia
Makrides 16' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 17,446
Referee: Stelios Trifonos
APOEL
Tiquinho 62' Report
Pinto
43'
Tsirion Stadium, Limassol
APOEL
Kamal 52'
Da Costa
88'		 Report Daskalakis 11'
Makrides 38' (pen.)
Attendance: 3,850
Referee: Antonis Constantinides
Anorthosis
Report Skopelitis 90+1'
Attendance: 12,968
Referee: Costas Kapitanis
APOEL
Efthymiou 90+2' Report
Corović
84'
Peyia Municipal Stadium,
Peyia, Paphos
APOEL
0–1EN Paralimni
Report
Freddy
45'
Attendance: 4,256
Referee: Marios Panayi
APOEL
Louka 83' (pen.) Report
Zé Carlos
36', 45', 59'
Attendance: 807
Referee: Marios Tsaggaris
APOEL
Torresi
32'		 Report
Zé Carlos 19'
Michael 90+3' (pen.
)
Tsirion Stadium, Limassol
APOEL
4–0Olympiakos
Charalambides
89'		 Report
Attendance: 5,554
Referee: Panayiotis Gerasimou
APOEL
Report
Zé Carlos 58', 67'
Makrides
81'
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Christos Ilia
Alki
Machlas 15'
Broerse 86'
Satsias 90+2'		 Report
Attendance: 3,976
Referee: Marios Tsaggaris
APOEL
Report Machlas 23'
Makrides 79'
Attendance: 1,300
Referee: Harris Glykis
Aris
Charalambides 45', 88'
Louka
72'		 Report
Attendance: 3,884
Referee: Panikos Andronikou
APOEL
Maris
78'		 Report Mirosavljević 36'
Attendance: 15,789
Referee: Christos Ilia
APOEL
2–0AEL
Makrides 52' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 4,993
Referee: Stelios Tryfonos

Playoffs

APOEL
Kaiafas 21' (pen.) Report
Charalambides
80'
Attendance: 11,306
Referee: Georgios Kasnaferis
Anorthosis
Zé Carlos
90+2'		 Report Nikolaou 82'
Attendance: 10,027
Referee: Michalis Koukoulakis
APOEL
Paiva 85' Report
Attendance: 925
Referee: Leontios Trattou
APOEL
2–1AEK
Michael 62' (pen.)
Mirosavljević 73'		 Report Adorno 82'
Attendance: 2,740
Referee: Yiannis Anastasiou
APOEL
2–2Omonia
Makrides 33'
Kontis 69'		 Report Kaseke 31'
Chailis 54'
Attendance: 3,693
Referee: Panayiotis Gerasimou
APOEL
Sosin 9', 49', 58' Report
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Marios Tsaggaris

UEFA Champions League

Main article: 2007–08 UEFA Champions League

First qualifying round

APOEL Cyprus
2–0Belarus BATE Borisov
Michael 42' (pen.)
Machlas 61'		 Report
Attendance: 10,971
Referee: Olivier Thual
APOEL
Stasevich 14'
Platonaw 74'
Bliznyuk
104'		 Report
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: William Collum

BATE won 3–2 on aggregate.

Cyprus FA Shield

Main article:
Cyprus FA Shield
Anorthosis
Pinto
68'		 Report
Nicolaou 59' (pen.
)
Attendance: 5,356
Referee: Iraklis Tsikinidis

Cypriot Cup

Main article: 2007–08 Cypriot Cup

Fourth round

APOEL
6–0Olympos Xylofagou
Fernandes 73'
Makrides
76'		 Report
Attendance: 1,322
Referee: Demetris Demetriou
APOEL
Report
Corović 60'
Sapanis
78'
Attendance: 39
Referee: Yiannakis Ioannou

APOEL won 9–0 on aggregate.

Group B

Final table
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Anorthosis (A) 6 4 2 0 10 4 +6 14 Advanced to Semi-Finals
2 APOEL (A) 6 3 2 1 9 4 +5 11
3
Ayia Napa (B
) 		6 2 0 4 6 12 −6 6
4
Aris Limassol (A
) 		6 1 0 5 9 14 −5 3
Source: [citation needed]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head away goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored.
APOEL
Sosin 84' (pen.) Report Satsias 50' (pen.)
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Panikos Andronikou
Ayia Napa
Torres 2'
Sapanis 18'
Tavares
27'		 Report Skourides 79'
Attendance: 936
Referee: Yiannis Anastasiou
APOEL
Report
Torres
90+2'
Tsirion Stadium, Limassol
18:30 EET
Aris
Corović 37'
Mirosavljević
88', 90+1'		 Report Alekou 74'
Attendance: 373
Referee: Demetris Demetriou
Anorthosis
Report
Attendance: 1,757
Referee: Leontios Trattou
APOEL
Achilleos 33' Report
Attendance: 15
Referee: Stelios Zafiris

Semi-finals

APOEL
Pletsch
33'		 Report Makrides 80'
Attendance: 11,920
Referee: Ilias Mazarakos
APOEL
2–0Omonia
Michael 41'
Mirosavljević 72'		 Report
Attendance: 12,737
Referee: Georgios Kasnaferis

APOEL won 3–2 on aggregate.

Final

Anorthosis
Morais 53'
Mirosavljević 76'		 Report
Attendance: 20,280
Referee: Dimitris Kalopoulos

APOEL won the 2007–08 Cypriot Cup (19th title).

Notes

  1. ^ Match abandoned (at 2–0) after 46 minutes due to rioting by Apollon fans. APOEL awarded the match with the existing (before interruption) 2–0 score.
  2. ^ Match abandoned (at 2–2) after 90+8 minutes due attack to the referee by Apollon players and pitch invasion by Apollon fans. APOEL awarded a 2–0 win.
  3. ^ Match played in a neutral stadium because APOEL handed stadium ban after their supporters displayed a banner with racist content in a previous game.

References

  1. ^ "Jovanović reappointed by APOEL". UEFA. 8 January 2008. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2008.
  2. ^ "Team Roster" (in Greek). APOELFC.com.cy. 16 April 2008. Archived from the original on 19 April 2008. Retrieved 16 April 2008.
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