Supplier: CapelliSponsor(s): Pame stoiximaFeatures: LG Corp The season started for the first time in three years with the same coach at the team's bench, Massimo Carrera, but in the shadow of the fourth consecutive lost cup final in September.

Theoretically, the club had made changes to improve their roster, buying Damian Szymański who was previously on loan, while signing Ionuț Nedelcearu, Yevhen Shakhov, Levi García, Muamer Tanković and Karim Ansarifard among others, with several of the players that arrived had unknown or with little experience at a high level.

On the other hand, Vasilis Barkas, Marios Oikonomou, Niklas Hult, Daniele Verde and Victor Klonaridis departed, while the permanent stay of Ognjen Vranješ and Sergio Araujo once again did not occur.

[1] Luck smiled for AEK, as the draw for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League brought them facing St. Gallen.

With terrible performances in all matches with the exception of an imposing away victory against Zorya and a good image in the home defeat against Leicester, AEK's European course ended poorly, as they did not manage to claim the qualification and finished last in the group.

AEK were going well in the league, but the turing point where the team's performance fell as the previous seasons was after the trip to Ukraine away game against Zorya.

On AEK's return from Luhansk, five players and their coach were diagnosed with COVID-19,[3][4] with the result that the team suddenly lost its identity and began to display the competitive issues of previous seasons.

[6] The former footballer of the club who had just retired in the summer as a player, Panagiotis Kone, took over as the new technical director[7] and as the new coach, an old acquaintance, Manolo Jiménez in his fourth spell at AEK,[8] with the aim, as in the previous ones, to first improve the defense and then take the team as high as possible.

In the cup, after two expected but not easy qualifications against Apollon Smyrnis and Volos, faced another embarrassing elimination from PAOK with two defeats in the semi-finals.