Egaleo F.C.

Summary

Egaleo Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Αιγάλεω 1931) is a Greek professional football club based in Aigaleo, a suburban town in the Athens urban area, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931). The team currently competes in the Super League 2, the second tier of Greek football and it holds home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium.

Egaleo
Full nameΑθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω
A.O. Egaleo Football Club
Nickname(s)City [1]
Founded1931; 93 years ago (1931)
GroundStavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium
Capacity8,217
ChairmanKonstantinos Tsikrikas
ManagerApostolos Charalampidis
LeagueSuper League Greece 2
2022–23Super League Greece 2, 10th

Club colours are blue and white.

History edit

Egaleo was founded in 1931 by Demetrios Haniotis and Georgios Aronis, as Athletic Union of Ierapolis (Αθλητική Ένωση Ιεραπόλεως – Athlitiki Enosis Ieropoleos). In 1946, three other clubs in the district merged with A.E. Ierapoleos to form Athletic Club Egaleo (Αθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω – Athlitikos Omilos Egaleo), which managed to reach for the first time the first division in 1961.

In the 2003–04 season, Egaleo managed its second better ever classification, fifth (fourth in the 1970–71 season), playing UEFA Cup for the first time in 2004–05, appearing in the group stages (after defeating Gençlerbirliği of Turkey 2–1 score on aggregate) with FK Partizan, S.S. Lazio, Middlesbrough and Villarreal CF, which ended with the conquest of just one point. In the league, the club finished sixth, trailing PAOK by just one point.

After a disappointing 2006–07, Egaleo was relegated back to the second level. Another relegation followed in the next year, and a third in 2008–09.

In August 2009, a merger between Egaleo and Ilisiakos F.C. took place, as the other club participated in the second division, with the purchase being made effective by Egaleo's owner Thomas Mitropoulos; the new club, which took Ilisiakos' place, was renamed Egaleo A.O.

At the end of the 2009–10 season, due to the merger being declared illegal by the Greek Council of State, Egaleo FC was relegated to the Delta Ethniki.

Honours edit

Domestic edit

Leagues edit

Winners (4): 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01
Winners (2): 1998–99, 2018–19
Winners (2): 1995–96, 2012–13

Regional edit

Leagues edit

  • Athens FCA Championship
    • Winners (8): 1947–48, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1959–60, 1960–61, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17

Cups edit

Supporters edit

The ultras group Gate 12 have friendly relation with fans of CD Leganés, the towns of Egaleo and Leganés happen to be twinned too.

Players edit

Current squad edit

As of 6 January 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   GRE Dimitrios Katsimitros
2 DF   GRE Pantelis Theologou
3 MF   GRE Iraklis Garoufalias
5 DF   ALB Kostandin Kariqi
6 MF   SLE John Kamara
7 FW   GRE Georgios Daviotis
8 MF   ARG Cristian Ramírez
9 FW   GRE Christos Kollas (captain)
10 FW   SRB Bogdan Stamenković
11 MF   GRE Anastasios Dimitriadis
14 MF   GRE Nikos Konstantakopoulos
15 DF   GRE Ilias Evangelou
17 FW   GRE Christos Marathonitis
19 FW   GRE Michalis Bastakos
20 DF   GRE Angelos Zioulis
21 FW   GRE Stavros Zarokostas
22 DF   GRE Efthymis Pavlakis
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 FW   ALB Markeljan Misku
27 DF   GRE Vasilios Politis
29 MF   GRE Paris Babis
30 DF   GRE Konstantinos Tampas
31 GK   GRE Dimitrios Fontalis
33 GK   GRE Ilias Kyritsis
37 GK   GRE Vasilios Tsimopoulos
40 MF   NGA Philip Ikeocha
45 FW   GRE Giannis Varkas
55 DF   ALB Antonio Miço
60 DF   SUR Delvechio Blackson
70 FW   GRE Ioakim Zygeridis
73 GK   RUS Gleb Nesposudniy
77 FW   ALB Emiljano Bullari
88 MF   GRE Konstantinos Chatzidimpas
99 MF   NGA David Nazim

Notable former players edit

Internationally capped players or players who have over 50 appearances for the club

Notable former managers edit

Notable Chairmen edit

  •   Yiorghos Martinis (first chairman)
  •   Nikolaos Michos
  •   Dimitris Chaniotis
  •   Yannis Tresos
  •   Yiorghos Karabateas
  •   Yannis Panteliadis
  •   Dimitri Tusmanov
  •   Yiorghos Dalakouras
  •   Alexandros Stavropoulos
  •   Christos Kanellopoulos
  •   Victor Mitropoulos
  •   Dimitris Kalogeropoulos
  •   Alexis Kougias
  •   Ioannis Paltoglou

Technical staff edit

Name Role
  Dragan Đukanović Manager
  Stavros Bairamis Assistant manager
  Konstantinos Diallas Fitness Coach

European matches edit

Season Competition Round Club Home Away
2002–03 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round   Fulham 1–1 0–1
2003–04 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round   Koper 2–3 2–2
2004–05 UEFA Cup 1st Round   Gençlerbirliği 1–0 1–1
Group Stage
(Group E)
  Middlesbrough 0–1
  Partizan Belgrade 0–4
  Lazio 2–2
  Villarreal 0–4
2005–06 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round   Žalgiris Vilnius 1–3 3–2

References edit

  1. ^ "Club's history | official wedsite". www.aoaigaleo.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 9 April 2022.

Sources edit

  • "Απ' τις λαμαρίνες στα σαλόνια της Ευρώπης" (Nikos D. Nikolaidis, "Embryo" Publications)

External links edit

  • 2003–04 EUFO team profile
  • GOAL4Replay team profile Archived 2009-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
  • Egaleo Ultras Group