2014–15 AEK Athens F.C. season

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Having been promoted to the second division of Greek football, AEK needed to win yet another promotion in order to return to the normal division for this and to end the unhappy period of the smaller divisions. Quite a few additions on the roster with Petros Mantalos the standing out, as well as Hélder Barbosa. During the winter transfer window, AEK made a particularly successful transfer, that of Jakob Johansson, who proved to be a tremendously useful tool in the midfield. The season started with a delay due to a protest by the second division teams, except AEK, which they demanded more money from OPAP. Due to the delay in the start of the championship, AEK played many friendly games, the most important of which was against Roma and Panathinaikos.

AEK started the league sluggishly, however without facing any point losses, with their opponents playing harsh against them, unable to fill the gap in quality of the rosters. After a few matches, the course of AEK became easier, with victories coming easily and the team occasionally playing good football. With the exception of 2 away matches where AEK drew, the team won all of their matches finishing first in their group. The play-offs that year between the top three teams of each group, forced AEK to compete until June, without any interest since essentially everything had already been decided by the normal duration of the championship. AEK and Iraklis easily won the promotion to the first division with the yellowblacks finishing first in the standings. Thus, AEK finally finished their big return in the great category of the country.

AEK, after a year's absence, returned to the Greek Cup, starting from the preliminary round where they faced Fokikos, who they eliminated with 2 wins. Then they participated in the group stage, where they were placed with 2 first division teams, Atromitos and Panthrakikos, as well as Iraklis Psachna. With 2 wins and 1 draw, AEK advanced to the round of 16 as first. The next opponent was Kerkyra, who were also a first division team and after the 1–1 draw away from home, AEK prevailed with 2–0 at Olympic Stadium to face Olympiacos in the next round. In the first match at Karaiskakis Stadium, AEK were better and made the 0–1 with Olympiacos unable to react and with questionable fouls, brought their players into the area of AEK and made it 1–1. Nothing changed after that, with AEK being more pressing and dominating the midfield, with some of their clean attacks being ruled offside. In the rematch on 11 March, the Olympic Stadium was full of yellowblack fans and AEK were having the match under control at 0–0, but after the serious injury of Mantalos, they gave Olympiacos space to press and in the last minutes of the game, with a controversial goal, made the score 0–1 and the coach of Olympiacos, Pereira and Kasami, moved towards the stands making obscene gestures.[1] A few ultras of AEK invaded for seconds and the match was interrupeted and later awarded to Olympiacos with 0–3.[2]

• 30 July 2014: The Greek parliament passed the bill for AEK Stadium.[3]
• 7 September 2014: AEK Athens' player Petros Mantalos debuted in Greece national team, against Romania.[4]
• 18 November 2014: Michalis Bakakis becomes AEK Athens' 101st player to play for the Greece national team, in a friendly match against Serbia.[5]
• 27 March 2015 AEK were deducted 3 points for interruption of the match, 2 games behind closed doors and fine of 17,000€ after violations at the Cup match against Olympiacos on 11 March 2015 at Olympic Stadium.[6] The game was awarded 0-3 to Olympiacos.
• 4 April 2015 AEK Athens finished the Football League regular season with 12 Home wins, 10 Away wins and 2 Away draws. AEK Athens will enter the Promotion play-offs with 10 points bonus.
• 11 July 2015 AEK Athens finally returns to Super League.[7]