Egaleo F.C.

Egaleo

Full name	A.O. Egaleo Football Club
Founded	1931; 91 years ago (1931)
Ground	Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium
Capacity	8,217
Owner	Paltoglou Family
Chairman	Ioannis Paltoglou
Manager	Apostolos Charalampidis
League	Super League Greece 2
2020–21	Football League Greece, 9th (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Egaleo Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Αιγάλεω 1931) is a Greek professional football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931). The team currently compete 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 12 January 2022

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 Nikos Fylaktos 4 DF  GRE Georgios Kalyvas 5 DF  GRE Michalis Papanikolas 7 MF  GRE Alexandros Piastopoulos 8 MF  GRE Giannis Stamatakis 10 FW  GRE Ilias Tsiligiris (captain) 11 FW  GRE Makis Voukelatos 13 DF  GRE Theodoros Papoutsogiannopoulos 16 MF  GRE Pavlos Laskaris 17 FW  GRE Antonis Trimmatis (on loan from Atromitos) 19 DF  GRE Spyros Vlachos 20 GK  GRE Georgios Sikalias 21 DF  GRE Antonis Anastasiou 22 DF  GRE Konstantinos Panagiotou

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 MF  ALB Luan Skenderaj 26 FW  GRE Argyris Brebos 30 MF  GRE Konstantinos Tsitsaris 32 MF  GRE Athanasios Daktylidis 33 FW  GRE Georgios Barbarousis 55 DF  GRE Giannis Andreou 56 FW  GRE Georgios Drenogiannis 65 GK  GRE Nikos Sfyridis 66 DF  GRE Athanasios Danas 70 DF  GRE Gerasimos Papangelis 73 MF  GRE Nikos Katharios 77 FW  GRE Alexandros Arnarellis 88 MF  ALB Gertin Hoxhalli 99 FW  GRE Alexandros Kavvadias (on loan from Panetolikos)

Out on loan[]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  GRE Michalis Valioutis (at Charavgiakos until 30 June 2022)

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
	Manager
	Assistant Manager
	Trainer

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

Sources[]

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

External links[]

• 2003–04 EUFO team profile
• GOAL4Replay team profile
• Egaleo Ultras Group