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Full Name	Athlitiki Enosi Lemesou AEL
Official Emblem
Founded	Octomber 4th, 1930
Nicknames	"Leontes" (Lions)
Titles	225
Club colours	Yellow and Blue
Ground	Tsirion Stadium
Chairman	Andreas Sofokleous
Websites	AEL F.C. Official Website AEL B.C. Official Website AEL futsal Official Website

Athlitiki Enosis Lemesou (Greek: Αθλητική Ένωσις Λεμεσού) commonly known as AEL Limassol (Greek: ΑΕΛ Λεμεσού), is a Greek Cypriot multisport club based in the city of Lemesos, the port of Cyprus. Currently AEL maintains a football team, men's and women's basketball teams, women's voleyball team, bowling team, Cycling team and a newly established Futsal team (1st year) and women's handball team (2nd year). AEL is considered to be one of the biggest clubs in Cyprus and the most successful, numbering 225 trophys in all departments.

AEL Limassol was founded on Octomber 4th, 1930, by 31 athletes and eminent people of limassol.

Contents 1 Football team 1.1 Stadium 1.2 Supporters 1.3 Current squad 1.4 Notable former Players 1.5 Presidential History 1.6 Managerial History 1.7 Honours 1.8 U21 Football Team Titles 1.9 U17 Football Team Titles 2 Basketball Team (Proteas EKA AEL) 3 Women's Basketball Team (KV Imperial AEL) 3.1 KV Imperial AEL roster 4 Women Volleyball Team (Tranbunker Danoi ΑΕΛ) 4.1 Tranbunker Danoi ΑΕΛ Roster 5 Bowling Team 6 Cycling Team 7 Defunct Sports departments 7.1 Field Hockey 7.2 Handball 7.3 Men's Volleyball 7.4 Waterpolo 7.5 References 7.6 External links

[edit] Football team

AEL FC is one of the founding members of the Cyprus Football Association and has participated in all first division leagues since the early 30's except the 1997-98 period when it participated in the second division championship ^[1].

[edit] Stadium

AEL FC plays in the 13,331 seater, Tsirion Stadium, also known as the Olympia Stadium (G.S.O). Tsirion Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Limassol, Cyprus. It is mostly used for football matches and is also the home ground of Apollon Limassol and Aris Limassol. The stadium was built in 1975 with the help of the generous contributor and great philanthropist, Mr. Petros Tsiros, thus the name of stadium.

[edit] Supporters

AEL has very dedicated followers and in terms of ticket sales it is the 3rd Cypriot club of all times, thus the 3rd most supported team on the island. For the cup final of 1985 against EPA Larnaca almost 15000 AEL fans followed their team in nicosia(record). For the cup final of 2009 more than 14000 AEL fans traveled to Nicosia for the game in GSP stadium where they lost from Peyia. There were sold 10919 tickets at total (of which 9600 were sold in 6 hours, something unusual for Cypriot standards).

The main supporter group of the team is SY.F.AEL ({{|ΣΥ.Φ.ΑΕΛ Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων ΑΕΛ}}) otherwise known as Gate 3. The latter name originated from the gate used to enter the East stand at Tsirion Stadium where AEL fans are sited. Organized fan groups of AEL also exist outside Cyprus in countries like Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki), the United Kingdom and Russia.

[edit] Current squad

As of 10 September 2009, according to combined sources on the official website

No. Position Player 1 GK Panos Constantinou 2 DF Dossa Júnior 3 DF Rui Júnior 4 MF Pantelis Pitsillos 5 DF Stelios Parpas 7 MF Menelaos Aristeidou 8 MF Christos Charalampous 9 FW Freddy 10 MF Clayton 11 FW Demetris Theofanous 12 FW Nicola Vitorovic 13 MF Dušan Kerkez 18 MF Allie Andrew

No. Position Player 20 MF Maxime Larroque 21 DF Andrés Rouga 22 MF Pedro Miguel Torrao 23 GK Michael Haunschmid 26 MF André Caldeira 28 MF Hélio Roque 29 DF Edwin Ouon 30 MF Simos Krassas 31 DF Hamad Ndikumana 50 FW Serjão 55 MF Miguel Vargas 80 MF Angelos Efthymiou 81 DF Loizos Kakoyiannis 82 GK Charalambos Kairinos

For recent transfers, see List of Cypriot football transfers summer 2009.

• Manager: Nir Klinger
• Assistant Manager: Felix Naim
• Goalkeeper Coach: Jovan Savic

[edit] Notable former Players

See also category: AEL FC players

Yasser Hussain Luciano De Bruno Roman Gonzalo Diaz Luciano de Souza Clayson Joseph Afusi Mutiu Adepoju Aime Koudou Osman Kalfaoğlu Jean-Paul Boeka-Lisasi David Hannah Dalibor Filipovic Andre Tondeskado Kleopas Giannou Daniel Carriço

Gennadiy Litovchenko Marko Simeunovič Amir Karič Muamer Vugdalič Spasoje Bulajič Simon Seslar Miha Golob József Sebök Attila Tököli Géza Mészöly (footballer) Gábor Torma Markus Hiden Liasos Louka Giannis Sampson Predrag Ocokoljić

Jarosław Krzyżanowski Olgierd Moskalewicz Radosław Kałużny Ilie Stan Marian Savu Corneliu Papură Tibor Selymes Jens Paeslack Thomas Epp Klimenti Tsitaishvili Jörgen Wålemark Sása Jovanović Jairo Castillo Seyni N'Diaye Tiquinho Felipe Azevedo Zé Nando

[edit] Presidential History

v • d • e AEL Limassol Presidents
Name	From	To
Σταύρος Πίττας	1930	1932
Κρίτων Τορναρίτης	1932	1934
Γιάγκος Λιμανίτιτης	1934	1953
Νίκος Σολομωνίδης	1953	1971
Νίκος Κούντας	1971	1976
Γεώργιος Τορναρίτης	1976	1982
Λώρης Λυσιώτης	1982	1996
Δημήτρης Σολομωνίδης	1996	2002
Γιώργος Φραντζής	2002	2003
Ακης Ελληνας	2003	2005
Αγις Αγαπίου	2005	2006
Μάριος Ηροδότου	2006	2008

[edit] Managerial History

See also category: AEL FC managers

1930-1932 – Dimitris Tsiepis 1932-1946 – Argiris Gavalas 1946-1948 – Costas Vasiliou 1948-1956 – Argiris Gavalas Spiros Elia Ferdinard Ceplar Christos Christodoulou Ulhen Fitz Georgios Eisaggeleas Costas Pambou "Mavrokolos" Hanz Reindreich Stefan Tourbeik Moustakas Julius Reiner Loizos Pantelidis Apostol Chachevski

Panikos Chrystallis Chemely Tomov Peter McParland František Havránek Vladimir Svets Dušan Uhrin Ntounai František Cipro Anatoliy Byshovets Stanislav Sankovic Tomislav Kaloperović Andreas Kissonergis Diethelm Ferner Keiza Farkas Panikos Orphanides Kalman Missi

2000-2000 – Loizos Mavroudis 2000-2002 – Andreas Michaelides 2002-2003 – Ioannis Matzourakis 2003-2003 – Loizos Mauroudis 2003-2004 – Henk Houwaart 2004-2005 – Oleg Protasov 2005-2005 – Loizos Mauroudis 2005-2006 – Bojan Prašnikar 2006-2007 – Loizos Mauroudis 2007-2007 – Eli Guttman 2007-2008 – Mariano Barreto 2008-2009 – Andreas Michaelides 2009-2009 – Mihai Stoichiţă 2009-present – Nir Klinger

v • d • e AEL Limassol Managers
Nationality	Name	Nationality	Name	Nationality	Name
Cyprus	Δημήτρης Τσιέπης	Greece	Αργύρης Γαβαλάς	Cyprus	Κώστας Βασιλείου
Cyprus	Σπύρος Ηλία	Austria	Ferdinard Ceplar	Greece	Χρίστος Χριστοδούλου
Austria	Ούλχεν Φιτς	Greece	Γεώργιος Εισαγγελέας	Cyprus	"Μαυρόκολος"
Austria	Χανς Ρίεντριχτ	Hungary	Στέφαν Τούρμπεικ	Cyprus	Μουστάκας
Hungary	Τζούλιους Ρέινερ	Cyprus	Λοίζος Παντελίδης	Bulgaria	Αποστόλ Τσατσέφσκι
Cyprus	Πανίκος Κρυστάλλης	Bulgaria	Χέμελυ Τόμωφ	Ireland	Πίτερ Μακπάρλαντ
Czech	Φράντισεκ Χαβράνεκ	Czech	Βλαντμίρ Σβετς	Czech	Dušan Uhrin
Czech	Ντούναι	Czech	József Cipro	Yugoslavia	Stanislav Sankovic
Yugoslavia	Τόμας Καλοπέροβιτς	Cyprus	Ανδρεάς Κισσονέργης	Germany	Diethelm Ferner
Slovakia	Κέυζα Φάρκας	Cyprus	Πανίκος Ορφανίδης	Hungary	Κάλμαν Μίσοι
Greece	Ioannis Matzourakis	Cyprus	Αντρέας Μιχαηλίδης	Netherland	Henk Houwaart
Ukraine	Oleg Protasov	Slovenia	Bojan Prašnikar	Cyprus	Λοίζος Μαυρουδής

[edit] Honours

• Cypriot Championship: 5
  

1941, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1968

• Cypriot Cup: 6
  

1939, 1940, 1948, 1985, 1987, 1989

• LTV Super Cup: 3
  

1953, 1968, 1985

• K.A. Severi Cup: 3
  

1953, 1955, 1956

• Cypriot Second Division: 1
  

1997

[edit] U21 Football Team Titles

• Cypriot U21 Championship: 11
  

1940, 1951, 1960, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2008

[edit] U17 Football Team Titles

• Cypriot U17 Championship: 3
  

2005, 2006, 2007

• Cyprus U17 Cup: 1
  

1997

v • d • e AEL Limassol Presidents
Name	From	To
Σταύρος Πίττας	1930	1932
Κρίτων Τορναρίτης	1932	1934
Γιάγκος Λιμανίτιτης	1934	1953
Νίκος Σολομωνίδης	1953	1971
Νίκος Κούντας	1971	1976
Γεώργιος Τορναρίτης	1976	1982
Λώρης Λυσιώτης	1982	1996
Δημήτρης Σολομωνίδης	1996	2002
Γιώργος Φραντζής	2002	2003
Ακης Ελληνας	2003	2005
Αγις Αγαπίου	2005	2006
Μάριος Ηροδότου	2006	2008

v • d • e AEL Limassol Managers
Nationality	Name	Nationality	Name	Nationality	Name
Cyprus	Δημήτρης Τσιέπης	Greece	Αργύρης Γαβαλάς	Cyprus	Κώστας Βασιλείου
Cyprus	Σπύρος Ηλία	Austria	Ferdinard Ceplar	Greece	Χρίστος Χριστοδούλου
Austria	Ούλχεν Φιτς	Greece	Γεώργιος Εισαγγελέας	Cyprus	"Μαυρόκολος"
Austria	Χανς Ρίεντριχτ	Hungary	Στέφαν Τούρμπεικ	Cyprus	Μουστάκας
Hungary	Τζούλιους Ρέινερ	Cyprus	Λοίζος Παντελίδης	Bulgaria	Αποστόλ Τσατσέφσκι
Cyprus	Πανίκος Κρυστάλλης	Bulgaria	Χέμελυ Τόμωφ	Ireland	Πίτερ Μακπάρλαντ
Czech	Φράντισεκ Χαβράνεκ	Czech	Βλαντμίρ Σβετς	Czech	Dušan Uhrin
Czech	Ντούναι	Czech	József Cipro	Yugoslavia	Stanislav Sankovic
Yugoslavia	Τόμας Καλοπέροβιτς	Cyprus	Ανδρεάς Κισσονέργης	Germany	Diethelm Ferner
Slovakia	Κέυζα Φάρκας	Cyprus	Πανίκος Ορφανίδης	Hungary	Κάλμαν Μίσοι
Greece	Ioannis Matzourakis	Cyprus	Αντρέας Μιχαηλίδης	Netherland	Henk Houwaart
Ukraine	Oleg Protasov	Slovenia	Bojan Prašnikar	Cyprus	Λοίζος Μαυρουδής

[edit] Basketball Team (Proteas EKA AEL)

see full article Proteas EKA AEL

[edit] Women's Basketball Team (KV Imperial AEL)

Women Basketball Team Titles
Championship titles:	8	(1993, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008,2009)
Cup titles:	8	(1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006, 2008,2009)
Super Cup titles:	5	(1998, 2006, 2007,2008,2009)
Women U21 Basketball Team Titles
Championship titles:	8	(1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2008)
Women U17 Basketball Team Titles
Championship titles:	1	(2005)
Cup titles:	1	(2005)

[edit] KV Imperial AEL roster

Number	Name	Position	Height (m)
	Αννα Μιχαήλ	Center	1.75
	Ερση Κυριάκου	Centre	1.82
	Κάλια Παπαδοπούλου	Play Maker	1.66
	Χριστιάνα Μενελάου	Play Maker	1.59
	Αφροδίτη Σαρκά	Shooting Guard	1.69
	Λουκία Λάρκου	Shooting Guard	1.71
	Στάλω Φαίδωνος	Forward	1.76
	Δωρίνα Ιωαννίδου	Forward	1.70
	Γιάννα Κλεάνθους	Forward	1.70
	Biljana Pavicevic	Centre	1.92
	Marija Petrovic	Shooting Guard	1.75
	Andrea Pinter	Guard	1.74
	Ancuta Stoenescu	Guard	1.71
	Andrea Gardenale	Forward	1.96
	Gardner-Combs Andrea	Center	1.91
	Betty Lennox	Center	1.59
	Λίνος Γαβριήλ	Coach
	Χρίστος Σπύρου	Assistant Coach

[edit] Women Volleyball Team (Tranbunker Danoi ΑΕΛ)

Fullname	Tranbunker Danoi ΑΕΛ
Nicknames	Βασίλισσα (Greek) Queen (English)
Tranbunker Danoi ΑΕΛ founded	1976
Team Colors	Yellow With Blue
Arena	Nicos Solomonidis
Arena Nickname	Το κλουβί (Greek) The Cage (English)
Arena Capacity	3000

Women Volleyball Team Titles
Championship titles:	27	(1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006)
Cup titles:	27	(1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
Super Cup titles:	10	(1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Women U21 Volleyball Team Titles
Championship titles:	9	(1987, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008)
Cup titles:	3	(2000, 2002, 2004)
Women U17 Volleyball Team Titles
Championship titles:	9	(1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,2006)
Cup titles:	1	(2000)

A Founding member of the Cyprus Volleyball Federation in 1976, AEL's women team has dominated in the Cypriot volleyball. The team's achievements are phenomenal; Out of the 32 seasons played so far in Cyprus since the commencement of the women's volleyball league, the team won the Championship 27 times. Out of the 31 cups they won it 27 times, 24 consecutive times, from 1980 until 2003. Also they have won the Championship 15 consecutive times, from 1977 until 1991. They have also the amazing records of winning the Double 12 times from 1980 until 1991 and 9 times from 1993 until 2001. In the past the club had also a men's team for 10 years which participated in the Cypriot Championship.

[edit] Tranbunker Danoi ΑΕΛ Roster

Number	Player
1	Marina Christophorou
11	Mayia Deprova
3	Marina Pepekou
4	Skevi Ioannidou
5	Oxana Pavlou
6	Sotia Papakyriakou
9	Marina Isova
10	Cesara Ruxadoyu
2	Manolina Costantinidou
14	Josephine Socratous
15	Dora Yiallouri
16	Tania Tomihova
Coach	Roula Katchambi

[edit] Bowling Team

The bowling club was founded in 1999 and the same year became a member of the Limassol District Federation. In 2001, the team participated in the Cypriot Championship as one of the two representatives of the Limassol District Federation. In 2003 the team won its first trophy by winning the Limassol District Federation Cup and in 2006 its first Championship by winning the Limassol District Federation Championship. The home of the team is the Galaktika Bowling Center.

Player
Christos Krassas
Nikolas kleanthous
Michalis Perikleous
Georgios Georgiou
Andros Kalogirou
Demetris Demetriou
Panikos Kleanthous

Bowling Team Titles
Limassol Championship:	3	(2006,2008,2009)
Limassol Cup:	5	(2003,2004,2005,2007,2008)

[edit] Cycling Team

The cycling team was founded in 2001 and the same year became a member of the Limassol District Federation. The first men's cycling team consisted of the following : Ομηρος Χριστοφόρου, Παντελής Τίμινης, Μιχάλης Τσουλόφτας, Ηρόδοτος Κυριάκου, Σωτήρης Σκουταρίδης, Δημήτρης Αραούζος

Cycling Team Titles
General - Road cup:	3	(2004, 2005, 2006)
Men - Road cup:	3	(2004, 2005, 2006)
Masters 1 - Road cup:	1	(2006)
Masters 2 - Road cup:	2	(2004, 2005)

[edit] Defunct Sports departments

Apart from the currently active sports departments, AEL had in the past some other sports departments, which today are defunct. Despite this, these currently not active departments had all won titles for AEL when they were active.

[edit] Field Hockey

In the past AEL Limassol had a field hockey team which is currently not active. The team had plenty of victories led by its star player Renos Antoniadis. In 1931, AEL won the Cup in a match which was played in Larnaca. One year later, the team became Cypriot Champions. The team consisted of the following players: Antoniadis, Pareas, Frangos, Christophides, Michaelides, Kalogirou, Victor Mousteris, Anastasiadis and Williamson. However, there were no further hockey competitions in Cyprus afterwards, as the other teams hockey teams of the era closed down their hockey departments because of financial problems.

[edit] Handball

Another AEL sport department that currently does not exist is the handball. The team was active for a small period of time but that did not stop the team from adding another trophy to the hundreds that AEL won in various other sports. On June 11, 1989, a day after the football team of the club won the Cypriot Cup, the handball team won the Cypriot Cup in handball by beating Youth Centre Larnaca 23-19 in the final which was played in Lefkotheo Indoor Hal, Nicosia.

[edit] Men's Volleyball

AEL maintains 3 teams for women's volleyball but does not currently have a men's Volleyball team.

[edit] Waterpolo

AEL was also active in maritime sports, especially those that needed team articipation. AEL pioneered in Regattas in 1932, 1933 and 1934 in the Cyprus Regatta Games. The members of the team were Nearchos Pieris, Christakis Dixon, Andreas Araouzos, Sotiris Antoniades and Maximos Morides. The club had also a waterpolo team which was unbeaten Cypriot Champions. The team achieved a noted victory against a selected team of the Royal Navy which were then Mediterranean Champions. Apart from the Cypriot Championships, AEL won the Mediterranean Naval Cup.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• AEL Limassol football club Official Website
• AEL NEWS Unofficial Website
• TV AEL ARENA
• EKA AEL Official Website
• Official SY.F.AEL Fans Website
• AEL NEWS Unofficial Website

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v • d • e AEL Limassol – current squad 1 Panos · 2 D. Júnior · 3 Júnior · 5 Parpas · 6 Pitsillos · 7 Aristeidou · 8 Charalampous · 9 Freddy · 10 Clayton · 11 Theofanous · 12 Vitorovic · 13 Kerkez · 18 Andrew · 19 Pulpo · 21 Rouga · 22 Torrao · 23 Haunschmid · 26 Caldeira · 28 Hélio Roque · 29 Ouon E. · 30 Krassas · 31 Ndikumana · 50 Serjão · 55 Vargas · 80 Efthymiou · 81 Kakoyiannis · 82 Kairinos · Manager: Klinger