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AEKFootball Club also known in European competitions as AEK Athens FC, is a Greek professional football club based in Nea Filadelfeia, a suburb of Athens, Greece. The letters AEK meaning Athletic Union of Constantinople.
Establishedin Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees from Constantinople in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), AEK has become one of the three most popular clubs in Greece and the Greek diaspora and one of the three most successful teams in Greek football (including Olympiacos and Panathinaikos), winning 32 national titles and the only one to have won all the competitions organised by the Hellenic Football Federation (12 Championships and 15 Greek Cups). The club has appeared several times in European competitions (UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and the defunct UEFA Cup Winners Cup), in which it is the most successful Greek football club in terms of achievements. It is the only Greek team to have reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (1976–77) and the first Greek team to compete in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (1994–95) and also to have reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup (1968–69) and the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup Winners Cup twice (1996–97 and 1997–98).