THIS IS AEK…

Three letters…

A. E. Κ

Three words…Athletic Union Constantinople.

An Idea…

When the Constantinople refugees left the city in 1924,
two years after Mikra Asia disaster, and decided to create a club with the name Athletic Union of Constantinople their aim was to generally change Greek sports and especially Greek culture. Today, after many years they can look down from heaven and feel proud
about completing their goal.

The Athletic Union of Constantinople (AEK), as the Ecumenical Patriarch said, is more than a club of the refugees. AEK Athens is a holy idea.  AEK Athens represents human values and means culture. Besides that AEK Athens is one of the biggest and most important athletic unions in Greece, with a lot of domestic and international victories in several sports.

Far from central political powers and forever loyal to it’s sense of fair play, AEK succeeded in becoming the first Greek team to reach the top in Europe, in 1968, by winning the Super Cup in basketball at the Kalimarmaro stadium, Athens, in front of a crowd of 80,000 spectators.
It is the only team to have reached the final 8 in all European football cup games.

More than victories in field, AEK , takes pride in its origins and what its emblem stands for.  That is the two-headed eagle and its colours are yellow and black all of which are inspired by the Byzantine Empire which was lying from East to West,
where the two heads of the eagle were staring.

But with which official title can the team’s visit
to the Serbian war-zone,in 1999, be compared?

Partizan Belgrade – AEK….

Friendly match…A message of Peace and Hope,in the middle of war.

AEK is much more than just a team, a union…

It’s a Way of Life!