PAEEK

PAEEK

Full name	Podosfairiki Athlitiki Enosi Eparxeias Kerynias
Founded	1953
Ground	Keryneia Epistrophi, Lakatamia (Capacity: 2,000)
Chairman	Kleanthis Georgiades
Manager	Antreas Kouloumbris
League	Cypriot Second Division
2009–10	7th
Home colours Away colours

PAEEK (GR:Podosfairiki Athlitiki Enosi Eparxeias Kerynias = "Football and sport union of Kyrenia District") is a Cypriot sports club founded in Kyrenia in 1953 by graduates of Kyrenia Gymnasium and represented the first force to be reckoned from the small city. It now plays in exile in Nicosia since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in July 1974. This union has football division competing in Cypriot second league.PAEEK used to have also a basketball division but due to economic difficulties had to suspend it for some years up to date.

Basketball

PAEEK was a founding member of the Cyprus Basketball Federation in 1966 rising to fame in the early 1970s after its basketball division won the Cyprus top division basketball league in 3 consecutive years.[1][2].

PAEEK reached the Cyprus Basketball Cup final on 5 occasions losing them all [3]. 1995 was APOEL's year, when they took the basketball double. As losers of the Cup final, PAEEK automatically qualified to represent Cyprus in Europe in the Saporta Cup [4] . They were knocked out by PAOK BC Salonika which in turn went on to reach the final of the competition.The game with PAOK BC was very special for both teams as they were all refugees and victims of the wars between Greece and Turkey.

Football

The football team has not matched the basketball team's success in terms of trophies. They have mostly hovered between the Cypriot Second and Third Divisions.Paeek Fc is considered to be the team with the most appearances in the second division of Cyprus Second Division with 41 in total.

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Michalis Morfis (Captain) 3 DF Netan Sansara 4 DF Sotiris Ptinis 5 DF Nikos Nicolaou 8 MF Pascal Nägele 10 FW Sotiris Vourkou 11 MF Viktors Morozs 13 MF Iliya Tafrov 14 MF Stavros Georgiou 15 MF Sotiris Finiris 16 MF Charalambos Aristotelous

No. Position Player 17 GK Iosif Frachimis 19 MF Andreas Alcibiades (on loan from Olympiakos Nicosia) 20 FW Kyriacos Chailis 21 DF Constantinos Pantziaris 22 DF Anastasios Demosthenous 26 MF Nicolas Oratiou (on loan from Olympiakos Nicosia) 27 MF Telmo 28 MF Anaxagoras Violaris 44 DF Moise Kandé (Vice-captain)

Colours

The colours of PAEEK shirt are symbolic with the black symbolising the sadness from the Turkish invasion in 1974 and the white symbolises the hope that one day they will return to their hometown. When this happens the colours will change back to yellow and black as they were before the Turkish invasion.

Former players

• Petros Filaniotis

Honours

Basketball

• Cyprus Basketball Division 1
  • Winner (3): 1970, 1971 and 1972.
• Cypriot Basketball Cup
  • Runner-up (5): 1969, 1970, 1971, 1995, 1999.

Football

• Cypriot Third Division
  • Winner (3): 1992, 2003, 2008

External links

• Official website
• The history of PAEEK – The First Ten Years (.pdf document in Greek).