A.E.K. FC
ΠΑΕ Α.Ε.Κ.
ATHLETIC UNION OF CONSTANTINOPLE, AEK Athens, counts 91 years of history being a symbol of memory and long-established presence in sports both in Greece and abroad with many domestic and international distinctions in many sports. Especially in football, AEK Athens has 28 national titles (11 Championships, 14 Greek Cups, two Super Cups, one League Cup) while the club represented several times the Greek colors in European competitions with highlight the route to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup 1976-77. AEK Basketball was the first Greek team, in years completely different to the sport that won the European title, to win the European Champions Cup in 1968, while in 2000 AEK B.C won the second international trophy. AEK Athens is not just a sports club. AEK prides for its origins and its emblem. It is the symbol of exile, the banner of thousands of Greek souls uprooted in 1922 from the soils of Asia Minor, leaving behind homes, belongings and, worse, dead and missing brothers. Two years later, the refugees’ nostalgia for the lost homeland and their love for sports has been characterized by these three letters that initially embraced the Greek refugees and have being adored in the decades that followed by millions of others. The double-headed eagle of the Byzantine Empire and the colors, yellow and black, are glorified for 91 years by AEK in the stadiums of Greece and the world
