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Levadiakos
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Full nameAPO Levadiakos Football Club
Nickname(s)The Blue-Greens
Short nameAPOL
Founded1 December 1961; 62 years ago (1961-12-01)
GroundLevadia Municipal Stadium
Capacity5,915[1]
OwnerAndreas Kolokythas
ChairmanKonstantinos Kolokythas
ManagerSotiris Antoniou
LeagueSuper League 2
2019–20Super League 2, 4th
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Levadiakos Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Λεβαδειακός) is a Greek professional football club that plays in the Super League Greece 2. Based in Livadeia, Greece, the club was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki, forerunner of the Super League, after ten seasons in minor divisions in the 2005–06 season, as runner-up of the Football League in 2004–05.[2] It was then relegated to the Beta Ethniki again in 2006–07[3] and returned to the top tier in 2008–09. The club finished one level above relegation that year but was relegated back to the second division by finishing 14th in 2009–10.[4]

History

Levadiakos started in 1961, when local clubs Trofonios and Pallevadiaki merged into a greater club.[5] Straight after, Levadiakos played in the second division being close to relegation in almost every season. In the 1980s, the team was upgraded and in May 1987, players and supporters of the club celebrated the team's first ever promotion to Alpha Ethniki. Levadiakos stayed there only for four seasons, returning again only in 1994 and 1995. After their second relegation, Levadiakos declined and went very lower, even struggling to clinch promotion to the 3rd division of Greece. But once more, everything changed suddenly and the team reached again the Greek Super League after ten years, in 2005,[6] but was immediately relegated.[7] In the next summer, Levadiakos bought many expensive players and appointed Georgi Vasilev as manager.[8] Vasiliev achieved to get the team to the Super League once again, and in the 2007–08 season he struggled, but managed to avoid going down again. Nevertheless, he resigned from the club and he was succeeded by Momčilo Vukotić.[9]

Crest and colours

The club's crest has blue and green vertical stripes. It comes from the colours of Pallevadiaki (green) and Trofonios (blue), the clubs that joined in order to establish Levadiakos. The colour common to both teams was white, which was also the basic colour of the group in the early years of its foundation.

Stadium

Levadiakos' stadium was built in 1952. The stadium is located in Livadeia, about 130 km north-west of Athens. The stadium itself is located on the south side of Livadeia.[10]

Players

Current squad

As of 5 February 2020[11]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Greece GRE Giannis Angelopoulos
2 DF Greece GRE Stathis Chatzilampros
3 MF Greece GRE Marios Vichos
4 MF Greece GRE Giorgos Nikas
8 MF Ivory Coast CIV Emmanuel Koné
9 FW Greece GRE Vangelis Mantzios (captain)
12 MF Honduras HON Alfredo Mejía
14 DF Greece GRE Thanasis Panteliadis
17 FW Greece GRE Tilemachos Karampas
21 MF Greece GRE Zisis Karachalios
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 MF Greece GRE Chrysovalantis Kozoronis
24 DF Greece GRE Panagiotis Liagas
25 MF Greece GRE Triantafyllos Tsapras
29 FW France FRA Ulrich N'Nomo
31 FW Greece GRE Panagiotis Symelidis
77 DF Greece GRE Leonidas Argyropoulos
86 FW Greece GRE Vangelis Makris
88 GK Montenegro MNE Vuko Vujović
94 DF Greece GRE Giorgos Mygas

Former managers

Personnel

Ownership and current board

Position Staff
Owners Greece Andreas Kolokythas (59.93%)
Greece Konstantinos Kolokythas (10.60%)
President Greece Konstantinos Kolokythas
Vice-President Greece Lampros Balokas
CEO Greece Dimitris Pantiskos
Board member Greece Georgios Tsabis
Board member Greece Panagiota Kyriazi
Board member Greece Loukas Koutriaris

Coaching staff

Position Name Nationality
Manager Sotiris Antoniou Greece
Physical fitness coach Loukas Loulos Greece
Goalkeeping coach Kostas Toskas Greece
Physiotherapist Loukas Karamanis Greece
Physiotherapist Nikos Papathanasiou Greece
Masseur Thanasis Nikolaou Greece
Masseur Grigoris Ioannou Greece
Caregiver Dimitris Papadas Greece

References

  1. ^ "levadiakos.gr". levadiakos.gr. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  2. ^ "Greece 2004/05". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  3. ^ "Greece 2005/06". Rsssf.com. 2006-08-20. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  4. ^ "Relegation with victory for Levadiakos" (in Greek). enet.gr. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
  5. ^ "History of Levadiakos" (in Greek). levadiakosfc.gr.
  6. ^ "Akratitos, Larissa and Levadiakos promoted to Alpha Ethniki" (in Greek). in.gr. Retrieved 25 May 2005.
  7. ^ "The incubus of 2006" (in Greek). ritorno2015.com.
  8. ^ "Levadiakos tooks over the Bulgarian Georgi Vasilev" (in Greek). in.gr. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
  9. ^ "Vukotić, the new head coach of Levadiakos" (in Greek). sport24.gr. Retrieved 9 June 2008.
  10. ^ "The stadium of Levadiakos" (in Greek). levadiakosnews.wordpress.com.
  11. ^ "Roster". superleaguegreece.net. Retrieved 2 January 2018.

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