Uefa Europa League 2011/12 Season Match Press Kit
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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT SK Sturm Graz AEK Athens FC Group L - Matchday 6 Stadion Graz Liebenau, Graz Wednesday 14 December 2011 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Team facts.........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................6 Match-by-match lineups....................................................................................................8 Match officials..................................................................................................................10 Legend............................................................................................................................11 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa League match. For more detailed factual information, and in-depth competition statistics, please refer to the matchweek press kit, which can be downloaded at: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/index.html SK Sturm Graz - AEK Athens FC Wednesday 14 December 2011 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadion Graz Liebenau, Graz Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 29/09/11 GS AEK Athens FC - SK Sturm Graz 1-2 Athens Standfest 50(og); Burgstaller 87, Haas 90+2 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/97 R2 SK Sturm Graz - AEK Athens FC 1-0 Graz Spiteri 82 agg: 1-2 23/10/97 R2 AEK Athens FC - SK Sturm Graz 2-0 Athens Batista 75, Veridiano 84 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SK Sturm Graz 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 3 3 AEK Athens FC 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 3 3 SK Sturm Graz - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 05/11/09 GS SK Sturm Graz - Panathinaikos FC 0-1 Graz Katsouranis 70 22/10/09 GS Panathinaikos FC - SK Sturm Graz 1-0 Athens Salpingidis 60(p) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 20/02/01 2ndGS Panathinaikos FC - SK Sturm Graz 1-2 Athens Goumas 73; Schopp 25, Haas 42 14/02/01 2ndGS SK Sturm Graz - Panathinaikos FC 2-0 Graz Haas 60, Kocijan 85 AEK Athens FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/10/07 R1 FC Salzburg - AEK Athens FC 1-0 Salzburg Lokvenc 20 agg: 1-3 20/09/07 R1 AEK Athens FC - FC Salzburg 3-0 Athens Geraldo Alves 2, Rivaldo 57, Kone 88 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/11/94 GS AEK Athens FC - FC Salzburg 1-3 Athens Vlachos 28; Pfeiffenberger 7, 9, Hasenhüttl 76 14/09/94 GS FC Salzburg - AEK Athens FC 0-0 Vienna Record versus clubs from opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SK Sturm Graz 3 2 0 1 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 7 4 0 3 7 6 AEK Athens FC 4 2 0 2 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 7 2 1 4 7 7 Last updated 12/12/11 17:18:23CET 2 Previous meetings SK Sturm Graz - AEK Athens FC Wednesday 14 December 2011 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadion Graz Liebenau, Graz Match background SK Sturm Graz and AEK Athens FC are playing for pride on matchday six with both sides already out of the running for a qualifying berth in UEFA Europa League Group L. • AEK and Shamrock Rovers FC are the only sides yet to pick up a point in the group stage, but the Greek side could steal third place with a win in Austria. Previous meetings • Sturm staged a dramatic fightback to win 2-1 when the sides met on matchday two. Trailing to Joachim Standfest's own goal (50), they rallied following Traianos Dellas's 53rd-minute dismissal, Thomas Burgstaller (87) and Mario Haas (90+2) scoring to win the game. • The sides met in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup second round with Dumitru Dumitriu's AEK getting the better of Ivica Osim's Sturm, winning 2-0 at home before losing 1-0 in Graz. • The teams in Graz on 6 November 1997 were: Sturm: Sidorczuk, Posch, Haas, Prilasnig, Vastić, Foda, Reinmayr, Neukirchner (Bardel 70), Mählich, Hopfer (Spiteri 74), Schupp (Kocijan 54). AEK: Atmatzidis, Kasapis, Dobos, Kostenoglou, Vlachos, Savevski, Nikolaidis, Kopitsis, Veridiano (Maladinis 57, Machairidis 62), Grétarsson (Daniel Batista 89), Kalitzakis. • Current Sturm coach Franco Foda played in both legs, as did striker Mario Haas, now 37. Foda was booked in the first match. • AEK technical director Arnar Grétarsson and new coach Nikos Kostenoglou also featured in both legs. Match background • Sturm's seven games against Greek teams have ended W4 D0 L3 (W2 D0 L1 in Graz). Their most recent opponents were Panathinaikos FC, against whom they twice lost 1-0 in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League group stage. • In total, AEK's seven games against Austrian sides have ended W2 D1 L4 (W0 D1 L2 in Austria, where they have yet to score). They have not been paired with an Austrian side since eliminating FC Salzburg in the first round of the 2007/08 UEFA Cup. • AEK's Nikos Liberopoulos featured in both legs of Panathinaikos's meetings with Sturm in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League second group stage; Sturm won 2-0 at home and 2-1 away, with Haas scoring in both fixtures. Imre Szabics came on as a substitute for Sturm in the second leg. • Sturm are on a three-game losing streak at home in Europe, with their only group stage win this season having come at AEK. • AEK are without a win in six European games (a draw and then five defeats) since a 1-0 triumph at FC Dinamo Tbilisi in the UEFA Europa League play-offs. Team facts • AEK have conceded 295 goals in UEFA competition; this will be their 196th game. • Former German international defender Foda finished his playing career at Sturm following spells with 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart among other German teams. He joined Sturm's coaching staff after hanging up his boots, and following a brief spell in charge in 2003, has led the first team since 2006. • AEK parted company with Spanish coach Manuel Jiménez by mutual consent in early October. Kostenoglou – who made over 220 league appearances for AEK at centre-back between 1994 and 2005 – has been named as his replacement. • The 41-year-old started his coaching career in the club's youth system before assisting Lorenzo Serra Ferrer and, when the Spaniard was dismissed, taking over as caretaker until the end of 2007/08. He was most recently in charge of Larissa FC (2011), following a spell with Asteras Tripolis FC (2008-09). Last updated 12/12/11 17:18:23CET 3 Match background SK Sturm Graz - AEK Athens FC Wednesday 14 December 2011 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadion Graz Liebenau, Graz Team facts SK Sturm Graz Formed: 1909 Nickname: Die Schwoazn (The Blacks) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 3 (2011) Austrian Cup: 4 (2010) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: play-off round 2009/10: group stage 2008/09: second qualifying round 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2005/06: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round 2004/05: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2003/04: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2002/03: third round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2001/02: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Sturm v FK Petrovac 06/08/09, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round second leg 5-0: Sturm v FC Rànger's 25/06/05, UEFA Intertoto Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 1-2 on six occasions, most recently v AEK Athens FC 29/09/11, UEFA Europa League group stage • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Sturm v Valencia CF 07/03/01, UEFA Champions League second group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Real Madrid CF v Sturm 21/10/98, UEFA Champions League group stage 5-0 twice, most recently AS Monaco FC v Sturm 27/09/00, UEFA Champions League first group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 5-0: Sturm v FK Petrovac (see above) • Biggest away win 1-2 three times, most recently v AEK Athens FC (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-3: Sturm v S.S. Lazio 28/11/02, third round first leg 0-2: Sturm v RSC Anderlecht 20/10/11, group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach v Sturm 13/09/78, first round first leg Last updated 12/12/11 17:18:23CET 4 Team facts SK Sturm Graz - AEK Athens FC Wednesday 14 December 2011 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadion Graz Liebenau, Graz AEK Athens FC Formed: 1924 Nickname: Kitrinomavri (Yellow and Blacks) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 11 (1994) Greek Cup: 14 (2011) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: group stage 2009/10: group stage 2008/09: second qualifying round 2007/08: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2006/07: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2005/06: first round 2004/05: group stage 2003/04: