Supplier: NikeSponsor(s): Pame stoiximaFeatures: Car.gr, LG Corp After a season in which European participation was secured at the last moment, the decision was made to make changes across the squad.

[1] Several transfers were made, with the permanent return of the old acquaintances, Ognjen Vranješ and Sergio Araujo, while international players, such as Cican Stanković, Georgios Tzavellas, Lazaros Rota, Ehsan Hajsafi, Milad Mohammadi and Nordin Amrabat also arrived.

Players with great contribution in the previous seasons with the likes of Dmytro Chyhrynskyi, Hélder Lopes, Nenad Krstičić and Nélson Oliveira left the team.

The start of the season found AEK in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa Conference League, facing Velež Mostar, a relative "unknown" club in Europe with the only thing that the yellow-black fans knew about was that they were the team that Dušan Bajević began his football and coaching career.

Without anything changing, the match eventually went to penalty shootout, where the most humiliating elimination in the European history of AEK Athens took place, as they lost 2–3 by Velež Mostar.

As usual the change of coach initially brought some positive results, but it quickly became apparent that many things were missing from the team to emerge as real contenders for the title.

In the cup, AEK making an extensive rotation and the coach giving time to players that didn't compete much during the previous games easily passed through A.E.

AEK entered the play-offs at the 4th place and with consecutive matches that it was unable to win, came to play its exit in Europe on the penultimate matchday at Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium against Aris.

[7] The situation in the team looked bleak and although the management had already reached an agreement with Matías Almeyda to become the next season's coach, there was barely a chance of the recovery of the club.

AEK were reaching the most crucial path of their history, as on the following year was the one that they would return to their natural ground, the nearly-completed Agia Sophia Stadium and it seemed that it would happen at perhaps the worst competitive timing.