Paniliakos F.C.

Paniliakos FC

Full name	Paniliakos Athlitikos Omilos
Nickname(s)	"Pirgiotes","Red Boys"
Founded	1958
Ground	Pirgos Municipal Stadium, Pyrgos, Greece (Capacity: 6,750)
Chairman	Kostas Ntavaris
Manager	Sotiris Antoniou
League	Football League 2
2010-11	Football League 2, 12th (South Group)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Paniliakos (also uncommonly Panileiakos) was founded in 1958 from the union of four teams from the city of Pyrgos (Ethnikos, Iraklis, A.E.K., Apollon). It was a vision of three people: Lampaounas, Galanopoulos and Liatsis.

Paniliakos was the team of Serbia and Montenegro international Predrag Đorđević, before moving to Olympiacos, Greece international Stelios Giannakopoulos, and of Vassilis Lakis, also a Greece international.

Paniliakos is a very important club for Greek football history, due to its constant presence in the Greek first division and its amazing results, especially during the 1990s. However, the past few years the club has known a decline, since former president of the club, Sakis Stavropoulos, owner of "International Service", a major Greek enterprise decided to give up on the team. A series of bad results has brought historic Paniliakos in the 4th Division of Greece.

Season to season

Season Played	Greek League	Clubs competed	Position finished	Points	W - D - L
1994–1995	Beta Ethniki		1st
1995–1996	Alpha Ethniki		12th
1996–1997	Alpha Ethniki		7th
1997–1998	Alpha Ethniki		12th
1998–1999	Alpha Ethniki	18	13th	38	11 - 5 - 18
1999–2000	Alpha Ethniki	18	13th	40	12 - 4 - 18
2000–2001	Alpha Ethniki	16	14th (relegated)	29	7 - 8 - 15
2001–2002	Beta Ethniki		10th
2002–2003	Beta Ethniki		2nd (promoted)
2003–2004	Alpha Ethniki	16	15th (relegated)	21	4 - 9 - 17
2004–2005	Beta Ethniki		8th
2005–2006	Beta Ethniki		16th
2006–2007	Gamma Ethniki	18	15th	33	9 - 6 - 19
2007–2008	Delta Ethniki		5th
2008–2009	Delta Ethniki		3rd
2009–2010	Delta Ethniki		1st
2010–2011	Football League 2	16	12th	37	9 - 10 - 11
2011–2012	Football League 2	11

2011/12 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 Sakis Theodorakopoulos 2 DF Christos Maniatis 3 DF Kostantinos Nikolopoulos 5 DF Dimitris Akparidis 6 MF Matthaios Thoniatis 7 MF Pavlos Kyriakidis 8 MF Nikos Kalfas 11 MF Giannis Sotiropoulos 12 GK Giannis Kapetanakis 13 DF Lefteris Vatsis 14 MF Aristeidis Lottas 17 MF Dionysis Plastourgos 19 MF Nikos Dimopoulos 21 DF Dimitris Tafarlis

No. Position Player 22 MF Dimitris Bravos 23 MF Dionusis Trigazis 30 GK Giorgos Labropoulos 33 DF Giannis Kolokas 37 FW Christos Tomaras - GK Panagiotis Lolas 55 DF Lampros Gatsoris 17 DF Giorgos Antoniou 10 DF Giorgos Tsetiroklis 20 MF Stratos Xitzidis 27 MF Sakis Sotiropoulos 77 FW Vangelis Valaoras 9 FW Nikos Makridis (on loan from Kalloni)

Notable players

Stelios Giannakopoulos Predrag Đorđević Božidar Bandović Vassilis Lakis Loukas Vyntra Bernard Barnjak Zoran Slišković Giannis Taralidis Nikos Kyzeridis Miltiadis Sapanis Marinos Ouzounidis Konstantinos Nebegleras Takis Gonias Giorgos Koltzos Xenophontas Moschogiannis Nikolaos Karabelas Ilias Manikas Athanasios Tsigas Carlos Marcora César Rosales Leszek Pisz Patrick Ogunsoto

Notable coaches

Sakis Tsiolis Georgios Paraschos Μάκης Κατσαβάκης Arie Haan Babis Tennes Petros Ravousis Vassilis Daniil Ioannis Kyrastas Juan Ramón Rocha

External links

• Paniliakos.Net
• Paniliakos Fans
• Paniliakos Blog