Egaleo

Full name	Αθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω A.O. Egaleo Football Club
Nickname(s)	City [1]
Founded	1931; 93 years ago (1931)
Ground	Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium
Capacity	8,217
Chairman	Konstantinos Tsikrikas
Manager	Apostolos Charalampidis
League	Super League Greece 2
2022–23	Super League Greece 2, 10th
Home colours Away colours

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.

Club colours are blue and white.

History

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

Domestic

Leagues

• Second Division

Winners (4): 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01

• Third Division

Winners (2): 1998–99, 2018–19

• Fourth Division

Winners (2): 1995–96, 2012–13

Regional

Leagues

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

Cups

• Athens FCA Cup
  • Winners (1): 2014−15

Supporters

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

Current squad

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

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

• Anestis Agritis
• Giorgos Barkoglou
• Eleftherios Poupakis
• Giannis Skopelitis
• Kostas Papoutsis
• Antonis Petropoulos
• Sotiris Leontiou
• Victor Mitropoulos
• Dimitrios Konstantopoulos
• Agustin Kola
• Marko Marić
• Danijel Cesarec
• Daniel Edusei
• Bennard Yao Kumordzi
• Faraz Fatemi
• Olivier Makor
• Mahamadou Sidibè
• Srđan Kljajević
• Paweł Kieszek
• Aleksandar Stojanović
• Aleko Yordan
• Dragan Stojkov

Notable former managers

• Les Shannon
• Ilie Dumitrescu
• Lefter Küçükandonyadis

Notable Chairmen

• 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

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

European matches

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

Sources

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

External links

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