Diagoras

Full name	Football Societe Anonyme Gymnastic Club Diagoras 1905 Greek: Ποδοσφαιρική Ανώνυμη Εταιρεία Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Διαγόρας 1905
Nickname(s)	Γηραιός (Old man) Kυανέρυθροι (The cyan and red)
Founded	March 25, 1905; 119 years ago (March 25, 1905)
Ground	Diagoras Stadium
Capacity	3,693 [1]
Chairman	Michalis Stathopoulos
Manager	Ratko Dostanić
League	Super League 2
2022–23	Super League 2, 10th
Home colours Away colours

PAE G.S. Diagoras 1905 ( Greek: ΠΑΕ Γ.Σ. Διαγόρας 1905) is a Hellenic professional football club based in Rhodes city founded in 1905.

Diagoras is named after the island's ancient athlete Diagoras.

The team first played under Ottoman Rule until the short lived independence of the Dodecanese in 1912 and then under the italian occupation of the island. No matches at all were held during the Balkan Wars and the team played only with other local teams until the Dodecanese joined with the rest of Greece in 1948.

History

Due to the club's extensive social, cultural, athletic, and particularly patriotic activities, the fascist Italian authorities in occupation decided to dissolve it in 1929. Diagoras reconstituted in 1945, just prior to the liberation of Rhodes and the union with the rest of Hellas. He first joined the Beta Ethniki (2nd national division) in its creation in 1962-'63. They played in Alpha Ethniki (1st national division) between 1986-1989.

In 1987, the club reached the semi-finals of the Greek Cup, losing to OFI.

Diagoras returned to Beta Ethinki in 2008 until 2012.

In the 2019–2020 season, Diagoras finished in third place of the Football League (3rd tier) and was promoted to the Super League 2 (Beta Ethniki), the second tier of the professional football in Hellas. ^[2]

Players

Current squad

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 Georgios Ladas 2 DF   GRE Angelos Tsavos 4 DF   GRE Konstantinos Dimitriou 5 MF   GRE Serafim Maniotis 7 MF   GRE Georgios Lleshaj 8 MF   IDN Luke Xavier Keet 9 FW   GRE Antonis Dermitzakis 10 MF   GRE Vasilios Tsiantoulas 11 FW   GRE Christos Tachmatzidis 12 MF   GRE Mattheos Mountes (on loan from Atromitos) 13 GK   GRE Vasilios Sifakis (on loan from OFI) 14 MF   GRE Athanasios Papatolios 16 FW   GRE Konstantinos Volakis (on loan from Panathinaikos B) 17 MF   GRE Nikolaos Klonaris 18 DF   POL Wiktor Matyjewicz (on loan from Athens Kallithea)

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF   GRE Michalis Stamatoulas (on loan from Atromitos) 20 MF   GRE Georgios Fekkas 21 MF   GRE Sokratis Filimonas Moustakas 22 DF   ARG Juan Manuel Arias 23 DF   GRE Nikitas Nikolis 24 MF   NED Jonathan 26 DF   GRE Stergios Dimopoulos 31 GK   GRE Giannis Galanis 33 FW   GRE Michalis Manias 68 GK   GRE Panagiotis Avgerinos 75 MF   NGA Mubaraq Adeshina Gata (on loan from Asteras Tripolis) 77 DF   GRE Georgios Manolakis 88 MF   SRB Viktor Lukić

League participation

• First Division (3): 1986–1989
• Second Division (22): 1962–1968, 1974–1975, 1980–1986, 1989–1992, 2008–2012, 2020–present
• Third Division (9): 1978–1980, 1992–1993, 2005–2008, 2017–2020
• Fourth Division (5): 1993–1994, 2002–2005, 2012–2013
• Local Championships (8): 1998–2002, 2013–2017

Notable wins

Honours

Domestic

Leagues:

• Second Division
  • Winners (1): 1985–86
    • Runners-up (4): 1963–64, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1982–83
• Third Division
  • Winners (3): 1974, 1979–80, 2007–08
    • Runners-up (1): 2018–19
• Fourth Division
  • Winners (1): 2004–05
• Dodecanese FCA Championship (Local Championship)
  • Winners (17): 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1973–74, 1978–79, 2001–02, 2016–17

Cups:

• Dodecanese FCA Cup (Local Cup)
  • Winners (13): 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1974, 2004, 2017, 2018

• Dodecanese Super Cup: Winners 2019

Rivalries: A.S. Rodos 1968

References

External links

• diagorasrodoufc.com