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2007–08 season
Chairman	Kyriakos Zivanaris
Manager	Marinos Ouzounidis (Until 6 January 2008) Ivan Jovanović (From 8 January 2008)
Stadium	GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Cypriot First Division	2nd
Cypriot Cup	Winners
Cyprus FA Shield	Runners-up
UEFA Champions League	First qualifying round
Top goalscorer	League: Constantinos Makrides (13) All: Constantinos Makrides (15)
Highest home attendance	17,446 vs Omonia (8 December 2007)
Lowest home attendance	373 vs Aris Limassol (30 January 2008)
Average home league attendance	6,445 (all competitions)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2007–08 season was APOEL's 68th season in the Cypriot First Division and 80th year in existence as a football club.

The club won the championship the previous season so it played in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers.

Manager Marinos Ouzounidis left the club by mutual consent on 6 January 2008, due to the club's lower-than-expected performance in the Cypriot First Division and two days later he was replaced by Ivan Jovanović who managed to help the club to win the Cypriot Cup at the end of the season.

Squad

Last update: 16 April 2008

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  CYP Michalis Morfis 4 DF  GRE Michalis Kapsis 5 DF  ROU Daniel Florea 7 MF  CYP Constantinos Charalambides 8 DF  FRA Bark Seghiri 9 FW  GRE Nikos Machlas 11 MF  CYP Marios Louka 12 GK  MKD Jane Nikolovski 14 DF  NED Joost Broerse 15 DF  CYP Marios Antoniades 17 MF  CYP Marinos Satsias (captain) 18 DF  CYP Demetris Daskalakis 20 MF  CYP Constantinos Makrides

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  POR Helio Pinto 24 DF  GRE Christos Kontis 26 DF  POR Nuno Morais 30 FW  SRB Nenad Mirosavljević 31 FW  BRA Zé Carlos 32 DF  ALB Altin Haxhi 33 MF  CYP Chrysis Michael 40 MF  CYP Giorgos Economides 60 GK  CYP Kyriacos Ioannou 69 FW  SRB Nemanja Corović 71 MF  CYP Marios Theodorou 77 DF  CYP Panayiotis Panayiotou 88 GK  CYP Tasos Kissas

Squad changes

In:

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
26	DM		Morais	23	EU	Chelsea	Transfer Y	Summer	2009	Free	reuters.com
12	GK		Nikolovski	33	Non-EU	Slaven Belupo	Transfer Y	Summer	2009	Free	—
6	DM		Emerson	35	EU	AEK Athens	Transfer Y	Summer	2008	Free	uefacup.com
21	LW		Tavares	23	Non-EU	Porto Alegre	Transfer Y	Summer	2010	Free	—
14	CF		Evilasio	27	Non-EU	Porto Alegre	Transfer Y	Summer	2008	Free	—
31	CF		Zé Carlos	32	EU	Braga	Transfer Y	Summer	2009	Free	uefa.com
7	RW		Rubens	22	Non-EU	Villa Rio	Loan →	Summer	2008	Free	—
69	CF		Corović	31	Non-EU	AEL Limassol	Loan →	Summer	2008	Free	—
32	LB		Haxhi	32	EU	Ergotelis	Transfer Y	Winter	2009	Free	—
14	CB		Broerse	28	EU	Utrecht	Transfer Y	Winter	2009	Free	nu.nl
30	CF		Mirosavljević	30	Non-EU	Smederevo	Transfer Y	Winter	2009	Free	—
7	RW		Charalambides	26	EU	Carl Zeiss Jena	Transfer Y	Winter	2010	Free	—

Total expenditure: €0

Out:

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
9	LW		Gómez	32	Non-EU	Deportivo Saprissa	Loan return →	Summer	—	—
99	CF		Neophytou	30	EU	AEK Larnaca	End of contract N	Summer	Free	—
22	LB		Sampson	25	EU	AEL Limassol	End of contract N	Summer	Free	—
29	CF		Solari	26	EU	UNAM	Transfer Y	Summer	€200K	—
6	CB		Okkarides	29	EU	Apollon Limassol	End of contract N	Summer	Free	—
12	GK		Kythreotis	26	EU	ASIL Lysi	End of contract N	Summer	Free	—
7	RW		Barreto	24	Non-EU	Universidad San Martín	Mutual consent N	Summer	Free	—
14	CF		Evilasio	27	Non-EU	Pelita Bandung Raya	Contract termination N	Winter	Free	—
19	RB		Elia	28	EU	Ethnikos Achna	Loan →	Winter	Free	—
7	RW		Rubens	23	Non-EU	Villa Rio	Loan return →	Winter	—	—
21	LW		Tavares	23	Non-EU	Maribor	Mutual consent N	Winter	Free	—
22	LM		Sapanis	31	EU	Ionikos	Mutual consent N	Winter	Free	—
6	DM		Emerson	35	EU	Madureira	Mutual consent N	Winter	Free	—
10	AM		Fernandes	29	EU	Metalurh Donetsk	Transfer Y	Winter	€200K	—

Total income: €400K

Last updated: 31 January 2008

Club

Management Position Staff Manager Ivan Jovanović Assistant manager Yiannos Ioannou Team manager Michalis Hadjipieris Goalkeeping coach Foto Strakosha Fitness coach Petros Papapetrou Team doctor Costas Schizas Last updated: 16 April 2008 Source: apoelfc.com.cy

Kit Supplier: Lotto Sponsor(s): MTN Home Away Third Source: apoelfc.com.cy

Other information

Chairman	Kyriakos Zivanaris
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	GSP Stadium (22,859 / 105x68 m)

Source: apoelfc.com.cy

Competitions

Overall

Updated to match played 20 May 2008
Source: Competitions

Marfin Laiki League

Classification

Results summary

Last updated: 11 May 2008.
Source: soccerway.com

Results by round

Playoffs table

The first 12 teams are divided into 3 groups. Points are carried over from the first round.

Group A

Matches

All times for the Domestic Competitions at EET

Regular season

APOEL	3–2	Doxa
Machlas 53', 70' Michael 71' (pen.)	Report	Da Costa 26', 84'

Anorthosis	1–0	APOEL
Nikolaou 57'	Report

APOEL	4–0	APOP Kinyras
Michael 14', 71' (pen.) Makrides 30' Machlas 42'	Report

EN Paralimni	1–0	APOEL
Eleftheriou 44'	Report

APOEL	3–1	Nea Salamis
Satsias 65' Machlas 68' Fernandes 79'	Report	Dolores 63'

APOEL	2–0 Awarded	Apollon
Pinto 30' Machlas 36'	Report

Olympiakos	2–2	APOEL
González 27' Panigutti 67'	Report	Machlas 50' Makrides 74'

APOEL	1–0	AEK
Makrides 55' (pen.)	Report

Alki	0–4	APOEL
	Report	Machlas 21', 59' Makrides 67' Fernandes 70'

APOEL	2–1	Ethnikos Achna
Kontis 16' Michael 74'	Report	Georgiades 59'

Aris	2–2	APOEL
Mihalcea 62' Seper 75'	Report	Makrides 13' Michael 90+5' (pen.)

APOEL	1–0	Omonia
Makrides 16' (pen.)	Report

AEL	1–1	APOEL
Tiquinho 62'	Report	Pinto 43'

Doxa	2–2	APOEL
Kamal 52' Da Costa 88'	Report	Daskalakis 11' Makrides 38' (pen.)

APOEL	0–1	Anorthosis
	Report	Skopelitis 90+1'

APOP Kinyras	1–1	APOEL
Efthymiou 90+2'	Report	Corović 84'

APOEL	0–1	EN Paralimni
	Report	Freddy 45'

Nea Salamis	1–3	APOEL
Louka 83' (pen.)	Report	Zé Carlos 36', 45', 59'

Apollon	0–2 Awarded	APOEL
Risso 30' (pen.) Torresi 32'	Report	Zé Carlos 19' Michael 90+3' (pen.)

APOEL	4–0	Olympiakos
Corović 19' Makrides 44' Broerse 86' Charalambides 89'	Report

AEK	0–3	APOEL
	Report	Zé Carlos 58', 67' Makrides 81'

APOEL	3–0	Alki
Machlas 15' Broerse 86' Satsias 90+2'	Report

Ethnikos Achna	0–2	APOEL
	Report	Machlas 23' Makrides 79'

APOEL	3–0	Aris
Charalambides 45', 88' Louka 72'	Report

Omonia	2–1	APOEL
Cafú 21' Maris 78'	Report	Mirosavljević 36'

APOEL	2–0	AEL
Makrides 52' (pen.)	Report

Playoffs

Omonia	1–2	APOEL
Kaiafas 21' (pen.)	Report	Michael 42' (pen.) Charalambides 80'

APOEL	1–1	Anorthosis
Zé Carlos 90+2'	Report	Nikolaou 82'

AEK	1–0	APOEL
Paiva 85'	Report

APOEL	2–1	AEK
Michael 62' (pen.) Mirosavljević 73'	Report	Adorno 82'

APOEL	2–2	Omonia
Makrides 33' Kontis 69'	Report	Kaseke 31' Chailis 54'

Anorthosis	3–0	APOEL
Sosin 9', 49', 58'	Report

UEFA Champions League

First qualifying round

APOEL	2–0	BATE Borisov
Michael 42' (pen.) Machlas 61'	Report

BATE Borisov	3–0 (a.e.t.)	APOEL
Stasevich 14' Platonaw 74' Bliznyuk 104'	Report

BATE won 3–2 on aggregate.

Cyprus FA Shield

APOEL	1–2	Anorthosis
Pinto 68'	Report	Boaventura 17' Nicolaou 59' (pen.)

Cypriot Cup

Fourth round

APOEL	6–0	Olympos Xylofagou
Tavares 7', 52' Corović 43' Fernandes 73' Makrides 76'	Report

Olympos Xylofagou	0–3	APOEL
	Report	Tavares 42' Corović 60' Sapanis 78'

APOEL won 9–0 on aggregate.

Group B

Anorthosis	1–1	APOEL
Sosin 84' (pen.)	Report	Satsias 50' (pen.)

APOEL	3–1	Ayia Napa
Torres 2' Sapanis 18' Tavares 27'	Report	Skourides 79'

Aris	0–2	APOEL
	Report	Louka 35' Torres 90+2'

APOEL	3–1	Aris
Corović 37' Mirosavljević 88', 90+1'	Report	Alekou 74'

Ayia Napa	1–0	APOEL
Achilleos 33'	Report

Semi-finals

Omonia	2–1	APOEL
Mguni 8' Pletsch 33'	Report	Makrides 80'

APOEL	2–0	Omonia
Michael 41' Mirosavljević 72'	Report

APOEL won 3–2 on aggregate.

Final

APOEL	2–0	Anorthosis
Morais 53' Mirosavljević 76'	Report

APOEL won the 2007–08 Cypriot Cup (19th title).

Notes

1. Match abandoned (at 2–0) after 46 minutes due to rioting by Apollon fans. APOEL awarded the match with the existing (before interruption) 2–0 score.
2. Match abandoned (at 2–2) after 90+8 minutes due attack to the referee by Apollon players and pitch invasion by Apollon fans. APOEL awarded a 2–0 win.
3. Match played in a neutral stadium because APOEL handed stadium ban after their supporters displayed a banner with racist content in a previous game.

References

1. "Jovanović reappointed by APOEL". UEFA. 8 January 2008. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2008.
2. "Team Roster" (in Greek). APOELFC.com.cy. 16 April 2008. Archived from the original on 19 April 2008. Retrieved 16 April 2008.

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