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Steady
Match19 Oct 2026
AE Kition are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 17 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market19 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AE Kition, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Petros Ioannou out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AE Kition will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jorge Miramón was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; AE Kition are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Marcus Rohdén falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
4.77 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Petros Ioannou out for 36 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AE Kition will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mathías González is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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Market5 Oct 2026
Jakob Novak hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AE Kition can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; AE Kition are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Miramón is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Omonoia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
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Boardroom
Wages eat 112% of everything AE Kition earn
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Waldo
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Market
The Riad Bajić talk will not go away
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Player ratings
An afternoon Álex Cardero will want back
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Upbeat
Match23 Sep 2026
AE Kition bow out of the cup
Anorthosis go through and AE Kition go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marcus Rohdén, 35, rolls back the years — 8.41
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.41 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Rohdén is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Riad Bajić’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AE Kition.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
5.49 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Triumph
Match19 Sep 2026
AE Kition make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AE Kition have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jorge Miramón was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for AE Kition, 1‑0 the final word against Doxa in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
One of those days for Waldo
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. AE Kition scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jorge Miramón falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Riad Bajić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.63 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Robert Mudražija. 1‑0 against Ermis, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jakob Novak dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 13. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Gustavo Ledes, 33, rolls back the years — 7.81
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.81 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AE Kition can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Jairo shuts the door
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jorge Miramón was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marcus Rohdén falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.80 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 2‑0 win over Agia Napa, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Đorđe Ivanović
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Waldo in the eights
A performance of 8.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AE Kition can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mike van der Hoorn was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at AE Kition
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market31 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nektarios Charalambous has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market31 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Grigoris Demetriou has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market31 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Grigoris Papoulis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AE Kition, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Miramón is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at AE Kition
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad24 Aug 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at AE Kition has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market24 Aug 2026
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Harald Martin Hauso arrives at AE Kition with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
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Steady
The terraces17 Aug 2026
AE Kition sell a favourite for $1.4M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Yerson Chacón was one of the reasons people came, and $1.4M does not replace that by itself.
Market17 Aug 2026
AE Kition say no — this time
The offer from Aris for Yahav Gurfinkel was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Riad Bajić, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market17 Aug 2026
Yerson Chacón has left for Omonoia in a $1.4M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mike van der Hoorn was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market17 Aug 2026
Anorthosis paid $340.0K and AE Kition took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
AEL come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AE Kition did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mike van der Hoorn was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Chabos Kyriakou and AE Kition agree another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Dimitris Dimitriou again, and this time the name on the line is Anorthosis. AE Kition are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Đorđe Ivanović’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
AE Kition say no — this time
The offer from Volos NPS for Marcus Rohdén was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mike van der Hoorn and AE Kition agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Yerson Chacón has come up in conversations AE Kition were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Miramón is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Riad Bajić in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Riad Bajić has his answer from AE Kition; what he does with it is the next window’s story.