Egaleo F.C.

For the basketball section, see Egaleo B.C.

Egaleo

Full name	A.O. Egaleo Football Club
Founded	3 November 1946 (1946-11-03)
Ground	Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium
Capacity	8,217
Chairman	Ioannis Paltoglou
Manager	Thomas Grafas
League	Football League
2018–19	Gamma Ethniki (Group 7), 1st (promoted)
Website	http://aoaigaleo.gr/
Home colours Away colours

Egaleo Football Club (Template:Lang-el) is a Greek football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931), it holds home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium.

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, 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

National

• Second Division: 1960–61, 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01
• Third Division: 1998–99, 2018–19
• Fourth Division: 1995–96, 2012–13

Local

• Third Division: 1947–48
• Second Division: 1949–50
• A2 Division: 1953–54
• Athens Football Clubs Association: 1959–60, 1960–61, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
• Local Cup: 2014–15

Fans

The ultras group Gate 12 have friendly relation with fans of CD Leganés, the towns of Egaleo and Leganés happen to be twinned too.

Players

Current squad

As of 26 September 2019

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	GRE	Georgios Tsaftaridis
3	DF	GRE	Georgios Magakis
4	DF	GRE	Stathis Syriopoulos
5	DF	GRE	Michalis Papanikolas
6	DF	GRE	Panagiotis Spyropoulos
7	FW	GRE	Ilias Tsiliggiris
8	MF	GRE	Giannis Stamatakis
9	FW	GRE	Antonis Petropoulos
10	MF	BRA	Rogério Martins
11	FW	BRA	Paolo Farinola
17	MF	GRE	Konstantinos Tsitsaris
19	FW	SEN	Secouba Diatta
20	GK	GRE	Georgios Sikalias
23	MF	GRE	Vasilios Baxevanos

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
26	MF	GRE	Theodoros Katsaras
28	FW	GRE	Giannis Chatziioannidis
29	DF	GRE	Vangelis Gotovos
33	DF	GRE	Dimitrios Psanis
60	MF	GRE	Stathis Lamprou
65	GK	GRE	Nikolaos Sfyridis
71	GK	GRE	Dimitrios Glotsos
88	MF	GRE	Georgios Katsikogiannis
99	FW	GRE	Omiros Syrengelas
—	DF	GRE	Gerasimos Papangelis
—	MF	GRE	Michalis Maris
—	FW	GRE	Konstantinos Christou
—	GK	GRE	Giannis Asimellis

Notable former players

Internationally 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
• Dimitrios Kalogerakos
• 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

• Les Shannon
• Ilie Dumitrescu
• Lefter Küçükandonyadis

Notable Chairmen

• 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

Name	Role
	Manager
	Assistant Manager
	Trainer

European matches

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
2002–03	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd Round	Fulham	1–1	0–1
2003–04	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd Round	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	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