Niki Volos F.C.

Niki Volos

Full name	Niki Volos Football Club
Founded	19 August 1924 (1924-08-19)
Ground	Panthessaliko Stadium
Capacity	22,500
Manager	Giorgos Koutsis
League	Gamma Ethniki
2017–18	Gamma Ethniki (Group 4), 2nd
Website	https://www.nikifc.gr/
Home colours Away colours

Niki Volos Football Club is a Greek football club based in the city of Volos, in the region of Magnesia. The club currently competes in Gamma Ethniki, the 3rd league of Greek football.

Colours and crest

Niki Volou crest displays the goddess Nike as depicted in the statue Winged Victory of Samothrace. The image of the goddess was the original emblem of the Smyrna-based athletic club Panionios, one of the most popular Greek athletic clubs of Ionia, before it was uprooted and re-established in Athens after the Greco-Turkish War. The founding members of Niki Volou FC, many of them refugees from Smyrna (now Izmir) and the surrounding region, decided to restore the emblem as part of their new club.

Players

Current squad

As of 30 August 2018

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	GRE	Manolis Apostolidis
—	GK	GRE	Vangelis Raptis
—	GK	GRE	Konstantinos Papadopoulos
—	DF	GRE	Christos Kartsabas
—	DF	GRE	Giannis Vergos
—	DF	GRE	Nikos Papadimas
—	DF	GRE	Anastasios Kantoutsis
—	DF	GRE	Theodoros Papadopoulos
—	MF	GRE	Alexandros Kartsabas
—	MF	GRE	Alexandros Tsianakas
—	MF	ALB	Neti Meçe

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	GRE	Alexandros Tseberidis
—	MF	SRB	Aleksa Vukomanović
—	MF	GRE	Giorgos Iordanidis
—	MF	FRA	Christopher Makengo
—	FW	GRE	Giannis Diniotakis
—	FW	POR	Fábio
—	FW	ALB	Florenc Keri
—	FW	GRE	Christos Tzioras
—	FW	GRE	Giannis Domatas
—	FW	GRE	Dimitrios Tzathas

Honours

• Football League
  • Winners (2): 1960–61, 2013–14
• Football League 2
  • Winners (2): 1975–76, 1995–96
• Delta Ethniki
  • Winners (2):: 1992–93, 2001–02
• Thessaly FCA Championship
  • Winners (15):: 1932-33, 1937-38, 1945-46, 1947-48, 1948-49, 1949-50, 1950-51, 1952-53, 1953-54, 1955-56, 1956-57, 1957-58, 1959-60, 1960-61, 1975-76
• Thessaly FCA Cup
  • Winners (5):: 1975-76, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2015-16, 2017-18

Supporters

The club's most famous supporters group is the one consisting of members from "Blue Club", fan club established in 1985, the so-called Indians. The fan club is also recognized as "Blue Club Panagiotis Ntokouzis", named after one of the founding members of the fan club who died in a motorcycle accident. Another club, particularly famous among the majority of Greek ultras, is the "Blue Angels club 1994" established in 1994.

Friendships:

• Dunav Ruse
• Astana

Managers

• Stelios Manolas (Nov 6, 2012–Feb 17, 2013)
• Luciano (Dec 18, 2013–Jan 17, 2014)
• Wiljan Vloet (July 1, 2014–Sept 14, 2014)
• Sven Vandenbroeck (Sept 14, 2014–Oct 20, 2014)
• Panagiotis Tzanavaras (Oct 20, 2014–Dec 31, 2014)
• Fangio Buyse (July 1, 2017 - September 28, 2018)
• Giorgos Koutsis (September 28, 2018 - present)

External links

• Official website Template:Gr icon