2011–12 AC Omonia season

AC Omonia
2011–12 season
Chairman	Miltiades Neophytou
Manager	Neophytos Larkou
Stadium	GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Cypriot First Division	3rd
LTV Super Cup	Runners-up
Cypriot Cup	Winners
Europa League	Play-off round
Top goalscorer	League: ; Freddy (17); All: ; Freddy (18)
Highest home attendance	16,419 vs APOEL ; (11 December 2011)
Lowest home attendance	0 vs APOEL (March 31, 2012)
Average home league attendance	8,921
	← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 season is Omonia's 57th season in the Cypriot First Division and 63rd year in existence as a football club. On 22 June, the first training session for the season took place at GSP Stadium. The pre-season tour this season was in Poland. The team entered the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round on 28 July and won the first leg in Cyprus against ADO Den Haag. One week later, they eliminated the Dutch team and were drawn against Red Bull Salzburg in the play-off round. A comeback and a 2–1 win and the team still had the chance to advance to the group stages. Omonia lost 0–1 in Austria and were eliminated on the away goals rule. Omonia won the Cypriot Cup last season and therefore played in the Cypriot Super Cup on 7 August against the rivals APOEL but the team lost 0–1.

Current squad

Last Update: January 28, 2012

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	MNE	Dragoslav Jevrić
2	DF	NGA	Rasheed Alabi
5	DF	GRE	Christos Karipidis (1st Vice-Captain)
6	MF	SUI	Vero Salatić
7	MF	CYP	Georgios Efrem
8	MF	FRA	Bryan Bergougnoux (on loan from Lecce)
10	MF	POR	Bruno Aguiar
11	MF	CYP	Andreas Avraam
13	MF	CYP	Constantinos Makrides (Captain)
15	GK	CYP	Giorgos Loizou
16	MF	ZIM	Noel Kaseke
17	FW	CYP	Theodosis Kyprou
18	DF	CYP	Christoforos Charalambous
19	DF	ISR	David Ben Dayan


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	DF	ALG	Sofiane Cherfa
24	DF	ISR	Yuval Spungin
25	FW	BRA	Andre Alves
26	FW	CYP	Ioannis Chadjivasilis
28	DF	POR	Margaça
29	DF	ESP	Iago Bouzón
30	GK	CYP	Antonis Georgallides
32	GK	GRE	Makis Giannikoglou
40	MF	CYP	Charalambos Kyriakou
44	MF	BRA	Leandro (2nd Vice-Captain)
46	MF	CYP	Stathis Aloneftis
77	FW	CYP	Demetris Christofi
99	FW	ANG	Freddy

For recent transfers, see List of Cypriot football transfers summer 2011.
Also, see List of Cypriot football transfers winter 2011–12.

Squad changes

In:

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
9	MF	Alexandre	27	EU	Enosis Neon Paralimni	Transfer	Summer	2013	€150,000	omonoianews.com
21	GK	Frascarelli	26	Non-EU	APOP Kinyras	Transfer	Summer	2013	Free	kifines.com
55	FW	Tadić	23	EU	Arminia Bielefeld	Transfer	Summer	2013	Free	omonoianews.com
28	LB	Margaça	25	EU	AEK Larnaca	Transfer	Summer	2013	€170,000	omonoianews.com
6	DM	Salatić	25	EU	Grasshopper Club Zürich	Transfer	Summer	2013	Free	supermpala.com
20	CB	Cherfa	26	EU	Châteauroux	Transfer	Summer	2013	Free	kerkida.net
99	FW	Freddy	32	Non-EU	AEL Limassol	Transfer	Summer	2013	€50,000	omonoia.com.cy
19	LB	Ben Dayan	33	EU	Hapoel Tel Aviv	Transfer	Winter	2013	Free	kifines.com

Out:

N	Pos.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
1	GK	Asprogenous	31	EU	AEP Paphos	Transfer	Summer	Free	sportnetcy.com
33	LB	Charalambous	30	EU	Alki Larnaca	Released	Summer	N/A	omonoianews.com
32	FW	LuaLua	30	EU	Blackpool	Released	Summer	N/A	omonoia.com.cy
N/A	MF	Katsis	21	EU	Alki Larnaca	Loan	Summer	Free	sportnetcy.com
N/A	DF	Espasandín	26	EU		Released	Summer	N/A	supermpala.com
6	MF	Panagi	24	EU	Alki Larnaca	Transfer	Summer	Free	sport-fm.com.cy
4	CB	Wenzel	33	EU	Kerkyra	End of contract	Summer	Free	omonoia.com.cy
9	MF	Alexandre	27	EU	AEK Larnaca	Transfer	Winter	N/A

Last updated: 2011-07-30

Club

Captains

Competitions

Pre-season

04-07-2011 Friendly	Polonia Środa	1 – 2	Omonia
18:00 CET	Przybyłek 66'		Rengifo 6' Christofi 72'

05-07-2011 Friendly	Arka Gdynia	0 – 1	Omonia
18:00 CET			Aguiar 39'

08-07-2011 Friendly	Lechia Gdańsk	2 – 2	Omonia
18:30 CET	53' 56'		Salatić 19' Christofi 28'

11-07-2011 Friendly	Zagłębie Lubin	2 – 1	Omonia
18:00 CET	Małkowski 33' Pawłowski 42'		Aguiar 50' (pen.)

14-07-2011 Friendly	Widzew Łódź	3 – 4	Omonia
18:00 CET	Panka 8' Dudu 47' (pen.) Radzio 82'		Efrem 10' 17' Tadić 31' Christofi 34'

22-07-2011 Friendly	Omonia	1 – 2	Calcio Catania	GSP Stadium, Nicosia
19:05 CET	Aguiar 72'		Ledesma 51' Augustyn 90+1'

12-08-2011 Friendly	Enosis	1 – 0	Omonia	Tasos Markou Stadium, Paralimni
19:30 CET	Moukouri 79'

04-09-2011 Friendly	Ermis	1 – 3	Omonia	Ammochostos Stadium, Larnaca
18:00 UTC+2	González 10'		Leandro 36' Rengifo 39' Freddy 52'

Laiki Bank League

Classification

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AEL Limassol	26	18	6	2	33	7	+26	60	Qualification for second round, Group A
2	Omonia Nicosia	26	17	6	3	47	16	+31	57
3	APOEL	26	17	5	4	39	13	+26	56
4	Anorthosis Famagusta	26	15	7	4	30	12	+18	52
5	AEK Larnaca	26	11	9	6	33	21	+12	42	Qualification for second round, Group B

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head away goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
29	17	6	6	49	22	+27	57	9	2	4	24	12	+12	8	4	2	25	10	+15

Last updated: April 23, 2012.
Source: UEFA

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	D	D	L	W	W	W	L	W	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	D	L	L	L	W	W	W

Updated to match(es) played on April 29, 2012. Source: UEFA
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Disciplinary records

No.	Pos.	Player
1	GK	Jevrić	0	0
30	GK	Georgallides	0	0
2	DF	Alabi	1	0
5	DF	Karipidis	3	0
11	DF	Avraam	2	1
16	DF	Kaseke	4	0
19	DF	Ben Dayan	1	0
20	DF	Cherfa	7	1
24	DF	Spungin	3	0
28	DF	Margaça	5	0
29	DF	Bouzón	2	1
6	MF	Salatić	4	0
7	MF	Efrem	6	1
8	FW	Bergougnoux	0	0
10	MF	Aguiar	5	0
13	MF	Makrides	2	0
25	MF	Alves	0	0
44	MF	Leandro	4	0
46	MF	Aloneftis	3	0
77	FW	Christofi	3	0
99	FW	Freddy	2	0

Matches

Kick-off times are in UTC+2.

29-08-2011 Matchweek 1	Omonia	4 – 1	Alki Larnaca	GSP Stadium
18:00 UTC+2	Efrem 7' Efrem 32' Freddy 39' Bouzón 61' Christofi 90'	report	Aspas 10' Dobrašinović 37' David Solari 53' Fusco 82'	Attendance: 6.732 Referee: Stelios Trifonos

11-09-2011 Matchweek 2	Aris Limassol	1 – 1	Omonia	Tsirion Stadium
19:00 UTC+2	Vasiliou 27' Ioannou 35' Kerkez 88'	report	Margaça 85' Karipidis 87'	Attendance: 5.162 Referee: Vasilis Dimitriou

02-11-2011 Matchweek 3	Omonia	1 – 0	AEL Limassol	GSP Stadium
16:00 UTC+2	Kaseke 21' Freddy 71'	report	Airosa 28' Júnior 36' Monteiro 90'	Attendance: 0 Referee: Stelios Trifonos

24-09-2011 Matchweek 4	Anorthosis	0 – 1	Omonia	Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium
18:00 UTC+2	Roncatto 65' Rezek 74' Angelov 77'	report	Freddy 45' 45' Margaça 47' Bouzón 71' Aguiar 89'	Attendance: 10.500 Referee: Marios Nikolaidis

01-10-2011 Matchweek 5	Omonia	2 – 0	Ermis Aradippou	GSP Stadium
18:00 UTC+2	Aguiar 48' Freddy 55'	report	Dante Formica 32' Charara 37' Angelis Charalambous 61' Héctor González 71'	Attendance: 5.103 Referee: Thomas Mouskos

15-10-2011 Matchweek 6	Anagennisi Dherynia	1 – 1	Omonia	Tasos Markou Stadium
18:00 UTC+2	Spungin 20'o.g. Robert Alviž 24' Giorgos Giannakou 43' Georgios Tofas 65' Athanasios Pindonis 79' Guzmán 85'	report	Alex da Silva 45' Efrem 50' Aloneftis 90' Cherfa 90'	Attendance: 5.800 Referee: Christos Elia

22-10-2011 Matchweek 7	Omonia	2 – 0	AEK Larnaca	GSP Stadium
18:00 UTC+2	Freddy 20' Aguiar 22' Christofi 44' Kaseke 75' Spungin 79'	report	G.García 6' J.Demetriou 42' Priso 46' Dimech 56'	Attendance: 6.500 Referee: Leontios Trattou

29-10-2011 Matchweek 8	Olympiakos Nicosia	0 – 2	Omonia	GSP Stadium
18:00 UTC+2	Paulinho 14' Mércio 39'	report	Aguiar 14' pen. Kaseke 36' Margaça 43' Salatić 51' Avraam 72' Cherfa 77' 78'	Attendance: 2.696 Referee: Vasilis Demetriou

05-11-2011 Matchweek 9	Omonia	2 – 0	Apollon Limassol	GSP Stadium
18:00 UTC+2	Freddy 69' Freddy 72' Freddy 89'	report	Hamdani 78'	Attendance: 10.800 Referee: Christos Nikolaides

19-11-2011 Matchweek 10	Ethnikos Achna	0 – 1	Omonia	Dasaki Stadium
18:00 UTC+2	Wender 47'	report	Aguiar 45' Christofi 59' Christofi 67' Karipidis 90'	Attendance: 1.200 Referee: Kostas Pseudiotis

26-11-2011 Matchweek 11	Omonia	2 – 2	Nea Salamina	GSP Stadium
18:00 UTC+2	Freddy 45' Freddy 69' Leandro 77' Kaseke 90'	report	Gray 20' Dickson 49' Roque 80'	Attendance: 10.266 Referee: Dimitris Masias

03-12-2011 Matchweek 12	Enosis	1 – 1	Omonia	Tasos Markou Stadium
18:00 UTC+2	Semedo 23' Burchill 29' Semedo 30' Alivodić 59' Moukouri 87' Petkov 90'	report	Cherfa 46' Alex da Silva 59' Cherfa 62' Efrem 65'	Attendance: 800 Referee: Leontios Trattou

11-12-2011 Matchweek 13	Omonia	1 – 3	APOEL	GSP Stadium, Nicosia
14:30	Avraam 9' Bouzón 31'	report	Solomou 42' Solari 74', 78'	Attendance: 16,419 Referee: Marios Tsaggaris

17-12-2011 Matchweek 14	Alki Larnaca	0 – 3	Omonia	GSZ Stadium
18:00	David Solari 3' Cierzniak 31' Fusco 61' Santamaria 67' B.Fernandes 82'	report	Avraam 28' Leandro 30' Leandro 57' Makrides 61' Cherfa 82'	Attendance: 1.200 Referee: Marios Panagi

08-01-2012 Matchweek 15	Omonia	3 – 0	Aris Limassol	GSP Stadium
18:00	Alex da Silva 5' pen. Efrem 10' Efrem 55' Freddy 73'	report	Charalampous 43' Markou 53' A.Theofanous 71'	Attendance: 5.834 Referee: Vasilis Dimitriou

14-01-2012 Matchweek 16	AEL Limassol	0 – 3	Omonia	Tsirion Stadium
14:30	Bebê 31' Ouon 77'	report	Freddy 18' Avraam 31' Makrides 41' Makrides 47' Efrem 79' Salatić 83' Efrem 85'	Attendance: 12.000 Referee: Marios Panagi

21-01-2012 Matchweek 17	Omonia	0 – 1	Anorthosis	GSP Stadium
14:30	Spungin 29' Cherfa 61' Alex da Silva 89'		Andić 45' Angelov 45' Marquinhos 45' Laborde 62' Roncatto 84'	Attendance: 12.358 Referee: Stelios Trifonos

28-01-2012 Matchweek 18	Ermis Aradippou	0 – 2	Omonia	Ammochostos Stadium
18:00	Demetriou 62'	report	Margaça 61' Efrem 63' Freddy 83' (pen.) Aloneftis 87'	Attendance: 2.500 Referee: Antonis Christodoulou

05-02-2012 Matchweek 19	Omonia	2 – 0	Anagennisi Dherynia	GSP Stadium
18:00	Freddy 63' (pen.) Efrem 76' Freddy 89' (pen.)	report	Bangura 25' Gogolos 63' Spyrou 88'	Attendance: 5.835 Referee: Savvas Zafiris

11-02-2012 Matchweek 20	AEK Larnaca	2 – 1	Omonia	GSZ Stadium
18:00	Mrdaković 45' Mrdaković 45' Mrdaković 58' Linssen 62' Serrán 64' Alex da Silva 70' de Cler 77'	report	Cherfa 55' Salatić 90'	Attendance: 6.500 Referee: Vasilis Dimitriou

18-02-2012 Matchweek 21	Omonia	1 – 0	Olympiakos Nicosia	GSP Stadium
18:00	Efrem 53' Freddy 57' Salatić 85'	report	Rodriguez 10' Aurélio 45' Paulinho 61' Mércio 65' Kučuković 90'	Attendance: 3.822 Referee: Dimitris Chrisostomou

25-02-2012 Matchweek 22	Apollon Limassol	2 – 5	Omonia	Tsirion Stadium
15:00	Merkis 31' Bangura 54' (pen.)	report	Christofi 19' Aguiar 25' Spungin 31' Freddy 41' Aguiar 55' Avraam 85' Salatić 85' Alves 90'	Attendance: 6.850 Referee: Charalambos Skapoullis

04-03-2012 Matchweek 23	AC Omonia	1 – 1	Ethnikos Achna	GSP Stadium
18:00	Ben Dayan 63' Aloneftis 88' Makrides 90' Karipidis 98'	report	Vattis 30' Pincelli 36' Elia 70' Nuredinoski 78' Simov 89'	Attendance: 6.172 Referee: Marios Panayi

10-03-2012 Matchweek 24	Nea Salamina	1 – 4	Omonia	Ammochostos Stadium
18:00	Gray 6' Oper 53' García 88'	report	Freddy 21' Cherfa 23' Makrides 35' Makrides 39' Margaça 74' Leandro 76' Freddy 88'(pen.)	Attendance: 3.500 Referee: Leontios Ttrattou

17-03-2012 Matchweek 25	Omonia	1 – 0	Enosis	GSP Stadium
18:00	Bouzón 43' Alves 77' Bergougnoux 88'	report	Sade 10' Zulu 82' Trenson 90'	Attendance: 0 Referee: Vasilis Dimitriou

23-03-2012 Matchweek 26	APOEL	0 – 0	Omonia	GSP Stadium
16:00	Boaventura 24' Poursaitidis 43' Jorge 71' Manduca 75'	report	Cherfa 40' Aloneftis 45' Karipidis 75' Efrem 82'	Attendance: 18.000 Referee: Dimitris Masias

Second round

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AEL Limassol (C)	32	20	8	4	37	10	+27	68	Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2	APOEL	32	20	6	6	46	19	+27	66^[a]	Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round
3	Omonia	32	20	6	6	56	23	+33	66^[a]	Qualification for Europa League third qualifying round^[b]
4	Anorthosis Famagusta	32	17	8	7	36	21	+15	59	Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round^[b]

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ ^a ^b APOE: 7pts; OMO: 4pts
^ ^a ^b The 2011–12 Cypriot Cup winners, Omonia, qualified for the third qualifying round of UEFA Europa League. Since they finished third, the fourth-placed team of the league also qualified for the Europa League.

Matches

31-03-2012 Matchweek 1	Omonia	1 – 2	APOEL	GSP Stadium
17:00	Christofi 56' Salatić 79' Karipidis 85'	report	Sousa 44' Sousa 45' Morais 89' Manduca 90'	Attendance: 0 Referee: Thomas Mouskos

08-04-2012 Matchweek 2	AEL Limassol	2 – 0	Omonia	Tsirion Stadium
17:00	Bebê 15' Monteiro 23' Vouho 35' (pen.) Airosa 51' Dédé 79'	report	Salatić 11' Cherfa 40' Bouzón 59' Spungin 86'	Attendance: 9.890 Referee: Vasilis Dimitriou

21-04-2012 Matchweek 3	Omonia	1 – 2	Anorthosis	GSP Stadium
17:00	Aloneftis 84'		Marquinhos 60' Laborde 77' Roncatto 90'	Attendance: 0 Referee: Leontios Trattos

28-04-2012 Matchweek 4	Anorthosis	0 – 4	Omonia	Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium
17:00	Janício 16' Sprockel 83'	report	Ben Dayan 20' Spungin 22' Aloneftis 36' Karipidis 53' Ben Dayan 43' Alves 67' Alves 75' Bergougnoux 89'	Attendance: 0 Referee: Dimitris Chrisostomou

05-05-2012 Matchweek 5	APOEL	1 – 2	Omonia	GSP Stadium
17:00	Almeida 40' Morais 90'	report	Ben Dayan 20' Avraam 22' Cherfa 65' Christofi 78' Alabi 79'	Attendance: 14.000 Referee: Leontios Trattou

12-05-2012 Matchweek 6	Omonia	1 – 0	AEL Limassol	GSP Stadium
16:00	A.Kyriakou 88'(o.g.)	report		Attendance: 0 Referee: Leontios Trattou

UEFA Europa League

Third qualifying round

28-07-2011 First leg	Omonia	3 – 0	ADO Den Haag	GSP Stadium, Nicosia
19:30 CET	Alexandre 38' (pen.) Leandro 53' Rengifo 58' Aguiar 73' Christofi 76' Karipidis 87'	report	Kum 37' Verhoek 37' Lukšík 55'	Attendance: 12,326 Referee: Carlos Xistra

04-08-2011 Second leg	ADO Den Haag	1 – 0	Omonia	Kyocera Stadion, The Hague
20:00 CET	Verhoek 18' Chery 42' Immers 50' Derijck 53'	report	Alex 8' Efrem 12' Alabi 64' Christofi 88'	Attendance: 13,268 Referee: Marco Borg

Omonia won 3-1 on aggregate.

Play-off round

18-08-2011 First leg	Omonia	2 – 1	Red Bull Salzburg	GSP Stadium, Nicosia
19:00 CET	Efrem 20' Freddy 35' Leandro 45+3' Cherfa 60' Margaça 90+1'	report	Alan 3' , 77' Leitgeb 29' Hierländer 34' Hinteregger 45+2' Leonardo 90+1'	Attendance: 11,858 Referee: Lee Probert

25-08-2011 Second leg	Red Bull Salzburg	1 – 0	Omonia	Red Bull Arena, Salzburg
21:05 CET	Alan 31' Hinteregger 51' Pasanen 59' 71'	report	Avraam 23' 71' Kaseke 73'	Attendance: 9,100 Referee: Gediminas Mažeika

Red Bull Salzburg 2–2 Omonia on aggregate. Red Bull Salzburg won on away goals.

LTV Super Cup

07-08-2011 Final	APOEL	1 – 0	Omonia	GSP Stadium, Nicosia
20:00 CET	Kontis 81'	report		Attendance: 9,752 Referee: Demetris Chrysostomou

Cypriot Cup

Second round

01-02-2012 First leg	Omonia	2 – 0	Nea Salamis	GSP Stadium
18:00 EET	García (o.g.) 16' Aguiar 78'			Attendance: 3.353 Referee: Dimitris Chrysostomou

08-02-2012 Second leg	Nea Salamis	1 – 8	Omonia	Ammochostos Stadium
18:00 EET	Adamou 79'		Avraam 11' Aloneftis 17' Salatić 34' Aloneftis 45' Aloneftis 65' (pen.) Alves 77' Bergougnoux 81' Aguiar 88' (pen.)	Attendance: 700 Referee: Dimitris Masias

Omonia won 10-1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

14-03-2012 First leg	Omonia	6 – 0	Ermis Aradippou	GSP Stadium
18:00 EET	Alves 27' Alves 47' Fassotte 55'(o.g.) Efrem 60' Bergougnoux 65' Avraam 73'			Attendance: 2.559 Referee: Stelios Trifonos

28-03-2012 Second leg	Ermis Aradippou	0 – 3	Omonia	Ammochostos Stadium
19:00 EEST			Christofi 18' Charalambous 82' Cherfa 91'	Attendance: 500 Referee: Marios Stamatis

Omonia won 9-0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

11-04-2012 First leg	Omonia	3 – 0	Ethnikos Achna	GSP Stadium
18:00 EEST	Margaça 38' Salatić 57' Efrem 72'		Simov 90'	Attendance: 4.347 Referee: Dimitris Chrisostomou

02-05-2012 Second leg	Ethnikos Achna	1 – 0	Omonia	Dasaki Stadium
17:00 EEST	Wender 31' (pen.)			Attendance: - Referee: Charalampos Skapoulis

Omonia won 3-1 on aggregate.

Final

16-05-2012 Final	AEL Limassol	0 – 1	Omonia	GSP Stadium
19:00 EEST	Ouon 30'		Alves 16'	Attendance: 18.407 Referee: Felix Brych

[table_hth_APOE0.41381400284069-1] APOE: 7pts; OMO: 4pts

[table_note_res_EL30.41381400284069-2] The 2011–12 Cypriot Cup winners, Omonia, qualified for the third qualifying round of UEFA Europa League. Since they finished third, the fourth-placed team of the league also qualified for the Europa League.

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