Egaleo F.C.

Egaleo F.C.

Full name	Egaleo
Nickname(s)	Egaleo
Founded	1931
Ground	Stavros Mavrothalassitis Egaleo, Athens, Greece
Chairman	George Giannarakis
Manager	Krzysztof Warzycha
League	Delta Ethniki
2010-11	Delta Ethniki Group 8, 3rd
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Egaleo F.C. (Greek: Π.Α.Ε. Αιγάλεω) is a Greek football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens. Founded in 1931, it currently plays in Greece's fourth division, holding home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium, with a 14,000-seat capacity.

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, four clubs in the district merged with 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 best ever classification, fourth, 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 F.C. 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 2009-2010 season, due to the merger being declared illegal by the Greek Council of State, Egaleo F.C. was relegated to the Delta Ethniki.

Honours

National

• Second Division: 1960–61, 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01
• Third Division: 1998–99
• Fourth Division: 1995–96

Local

• Third Division: 1947–48
• Second Division: 1949–50
• A2 Division: 1953–54
• Athens Football Clubs Association: 1959–60, 1960–61

Notable former players

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

Notable former managers

• Les Shannon
• Ilie Dumitrescu
• Lefter Küçükandonyadis

Technical staff

Name	Role
Soulis Pappas	Manager
Stelios Aspradakis	Assistant Manager
Christos Maimanis	Trainer

European matches

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
2002–03	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd Round	Fulham F.C.	1–1	0–1
2003-04	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd Round	FC 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	FK 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