After retiring as a player, he returned to KF Skenderbeu as manager of the club[1] and led them to their first ever European competition.
His grandfather, Giovani Pilika, was a lawyer who moved to Korçë from Athens and comes from a noble Stradiote family that inhabited Cephalonia.
This is due to the fact there were only Greek schools in southern Albania until 1908 with it being the lingua franca and also his paternal grandfather and father having lived in Greece.
The first debut of Aleko Pilika was marked in the first week of the championship, on March 22, 1959, replacing Angjel Dvoran, in a match in Elbasan.
Dinamo came third in Group A with only one win at home coming from a 2–0 victory over Besiktas[6] in which Aleko himself scored the first goal of the game in the 5th minute.
In the summer of 1965, Aleko left Dinamo to return to KF Skenderbeu, even though there was no official transfer back nor did his contract expire.
Aleko joined the 1975–1976 season for Skenderbeu in Kategoria e Pare the second division in the Albanian football league.
Then in the final phase known as the championship round which is the top 6 teams continue to face each other only they came second place to Dinamo with 40 points a total of 12 more, making them runners up in the league under the coaching of Aleko Pilika.
[1][12] However, in the 1977-78 Albanian National Championship they came last in the league, 12th place with 18 points which led to the relegation of Skenderbeu back into the Kategoria e pare.
[14] Aleko and the club, after the recent season, decided to part ways in the summer of 78, leading him to be replaced by Kosta Koça.
Aleko in the 1996–97 Albanian National Championship returned as manager of KF Skenderbeu,[15] but with the team came 18th, last in the league with 14 points.