Michalis Arkadis

Michalis Arkadis (; 4 October 1937 – 20 May 1990) was a Greek shipowner and a football official, who served as president of AEK Athens.

Early life Arkadis had studied maritime science at the University of Southampton and was a successful shipowner based in Piraeus.

AEK Athens He was actively involved with AEK since the early 1970's and was a member of many boards of directors under the presidency of Loukas Barlos. In the 1982–83 season, when the then owner of AEK, Andreas Zafiropoulos stepped down from the presidency of the club, Arkadis he took over as president of AEK. During his presidency, he hired Helmut Senekowitsch as coach and won the Greek Cup in 1983. In the summer of the same year since he was unable to respond financially in the contract renewal of the team's star, Thomas Mavros he resigned in order for the new president, Lefteris Panagidis takes over.

Personal life His daughter, Angeliki is the general manager of AEK and his son is Nikolaos is Insurance and Financial Broker.

Death Arkadis died suddenly on the 20 May 1990, at the age of 52, from an acute heart attack at Rizoupoli Stadium, a few minutes before the start of the match of AEK Athens against Apollon Athens, which he was preparing to watch.