It was remarkable that in the celebrations of the title in Toumba Stadium during the last matchday, about 6,000 fans of AEK were present and watched the match and the awarding of the championship trophy to the team.

Thus, in September they travel to Shkodër, where they faced bigger problems than the local team, contrary to the predictions of a very comfortable victory.

The rematch in Nikos Goumas Stadium had already acquired a procedural character and the formality of the case ended very quickly, since only at the 8th minute Papaioannou eliminated any possibility of the Albanians taking a positive result.

In the vast and cold Luzhniki Stadium they managed to achieve a difficult goalless draw against Oleg Romanchev's squad.

However, with a rare display of soul and crowd that overwhelmed the stadium, AEK managed to turn the game around in the last half hour of the match.

In the minutes that followed, the Russians put an incredible amount of pressure on the goalposts of the Minou and missed many chances to turn the tables on their side, but AEK endured and eventually celebrated a huge qualification.

They pressed on and worried Emiliano Mondonico's team, but early in the second half, Toro with an impressive header by Casagrande, ended the qualification case.

Several years later and due to the preliminary investigation into the "Calciopolis" scandal, the then general manager of Torino, Luciano Mozzi, was accused of having also influenced the referees in Toro's European matches that season, securing favor for the Piedmontese club including the games against AEK.

In the semi-finals, AEK came across PAOK and although in the first leg they theoretically got a "qualification-score" at Nea Filadelfeia with 2–0 they were eliminated at extra time with a 3–0 loss at Thessaloniki.

Leaders of this team were Manolas in defense, Savevski with Šabanadžović in midfield and the quartet of Dimitriadis-Batista-Savvidis-Alexandris on the front that "spat fire".

Immediately after, the duo Melissanidis-Karras expressed interest in the purchase of the shares of Zafiropoulos[3] and the way was opened for them to get to work with the management of the club.