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Panargiakos F.C.

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Panargiakos
Full namePanargiakos Athlitkos Podosfairikos Omilos
Nickname(s)Wolves
Founded1926; 98 years ago (1926)
GroundArgos Municipal Stadium
Capacity5,000
ChairmanStavros Tsiodras
ManagerGeorgios Vazakas
LeagueSuper League Greece 2
2023–24Gamma Ethniki (Group 3), 1st (promoted)
Websitehttp://panargeiakos.gr/

Panargiakos Football Club (Greek: Παναργειακός Α.Π.Ο.) is a Greek football club based in Argos, Greece. The association was founded in 1926. The club is a founding member of the Argolida Football Clubs Association.[1]

Panargiakos played in the First Division during the 1956–57 Panhellenic Championship and in the second level of Greek football several times: 1965–1967, 1970–1975, 1981–1982, 1990–1998, and from 2024.[2] In 2008, they were promoted to Gamma Ethniki.

History

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Panargiakos was founded in 1926 as "Pan-Hellenic Association of National Physical Education". The head of this historical movement was the writer Georgios Logothetis, who had settled in Argos since 1923, coming from Spetses. From 1926 to 1933 they participated only in friendly matches. In 1933, Panargiakos was deactivated and reactivated in 1945 as "Panargiakos APO". In 1947 they participated for the first time in an official football organization.

The biggest moment of Panargiakos's history is their participation as a South Group champion in the 1957 Pan-Hellenic Championship with ten teams: from Athens to Panathinaikos, Apollonas and Panionios, from Piraeus to Olympiakos, Ethnikos and Proodeftiki, from Thessaloniki Aris and PAOK and the champions of the North Group, Doxa Dramas. In the 1990s, Panageriakos participated in the 2nd National Championship, but never won the championship of the First National Championship. In recent years the team has participated either in the local championships of Argolida or in the championship of the 4th National, but it remains the most favorite club for the Argian fans.

On May 31, 2008, they won the Cup of Amateurs defeating Niki Polygyrou with 3–0 in the lead. The final was in Lamia. In the same season (2007–08) they won the championship in the 7th group of the 4th National Division and the Cup of EPC of Argolida, achieving a treble. They fought for two seasons in the C National, without success, and were again relegated to the National Division. In August 2012, for the first time in the history of the club, a second team is formed, the newly established Panargiakos who originated from academies of the wider region and compete in the A'2 category championship.

In the 2012–13 season, Panargiakos won the 4th place in the 7th Group of the National Championship.

The team's jerseys have been previously worn by veterans of the First National Division such as Georgios Donis, Dimitrios Kapetanopoulos, Bledar Kola and Andreas Bonovas. Also, many football players in the B and C categories, such as Manolis Ioannis, Filis Spyridon, Batakos Dimitris, Da Silva Eduardo, Kapageridis Savvas, Koulianopoulos Ilias, Karabelas Giorgos, Thodis Dimitris, Pappas Pantelis.

Players

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Current squad

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As of 1 February 2024

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 Ilias Karargyris
15 GK Greece GRE Simos Synodinos
16 GK Greece GRE Petros Kyritsas
31 DF Greece GRE Michalis Batzelis
33 DF Greece GRE Manolis Aliatidis
4 DF State of Palestine PLE Saado Abdel Salam
5 DF Greece GRE Rey Rokaj
17 DF Greece GRE Dimitrios Nikolaidis
21 DF Cameroon CMR Wassim Ngassa Kamga
26 DF Guatemala GUA Elmer Cardoza
19 DF Greece GRE Paraskevas Prikas
71 DF Greece GRE Smaraldo Sala
3 DF Greece GRE Panagiotis Karelis
22 DF Greece GRE Konstantinos Panagiotou
11 MF Greece GRE Christos Katsoulis
14 MF Greece GRE Konstantinos Karypidis
8 MF Albania ALB Arber Cani
10 MF Greece GRE Antonis Tsirakis
No. Pos. Nation Player
6 MF The Gambia GAM Bakary Jaiteh
20 MF Mali MLI Ousmane Sountoura
28 MF Finland FIN Aatu Kujanpää
30 MF Greece GRE Dimitrios Miltiadis
7 MF Greece GRE Giannis Tsiolis
18 MF Greece GRE Giannis Drikakis
94 MF Greece GRE Giannis Pedakis
27 FW Greece GRE Vasilios Kostika
63 FW Guinea GUI Mamadou Diallo
9 FW Ivory Coast CIV Brahima Kone
29 FW United States USA Joseph Bernardo Montero
99 FW Greece GRE Pavlos Chatzidimitriou

References

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  1. ^ Ιστορικό Archived 2018-10-25 at the Wayback Machine Ένωση Ποδοσφαιρικών Σωματείων Αργολίδας (Greek language).
  2. ^ Abbink, Dimant & Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (18 May 2005). "Greece - List of Second Level Final Tables". RSSSF.
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