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.
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| Full name | Αθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω A.O. Egaleo Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | City [1] | ||
| Founded | 1931 | ||
| Ground | Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 8,217 | ||
| Chairman | Achilleas Karachalios | ||
| Manager | Apostolos Charalampidis | ||
| League | Super League Greece 2 | ||
| 2023–24 | Super League Greece 2, 6th | ||
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Club colours are blue and white.
History
editEgaleo 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
editDomestic
editLeagues
edit- Second Division
- Third Division
- Fourth Division
- Winners (2): 1995–96, 2012–13
Regional
editLeagues
edit- Athens FCA Championship
- Winners (8): 1947–48, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1959–60, 1960–61, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
Cups
edit- Athens FCA Cup
- Winners (1): 2014−15
Supporters
editThe ultras group Gate 12 have friendly relation with fans of CD Leganés, the towns of Egaleo and Leganés happen to be twinned too.
Players
editCurrent squad
edit- As of 9 September 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Notable former players
editInternationally 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
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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 |
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 Dragan Đukanović
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Manager |
 Stavros Bairamis
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Assistant manager |
| Konstantinos Diallas
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Fitness Coach |
European matches
edit| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away |
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| 2002–03 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 3rd Round |  Fulham
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1–1 | 0–1 |
| 2003–04 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 3rd Round |  Koper
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2–3 | 2–2 |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | 1st Round |  Gençlerbirliği
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1–0 | 1–1 |
| Group Stage (Group E) |
Middlesbrough
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0–1 | |||
 Partizan Belgrade
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0–4 | ||||
 Lazio
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2–2 | ||||
 Villarreal
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0–4 | ||||
| 2005–06 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 3rd Round |  Žalgiris Vilnius
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1–3 | 3–2 |
References
edit- ^ "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)