Egaleo F.C.

Egaleo Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Αιγάλεω 1931) is a Greek professional football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931). The team currently compete in the Super League 2, the second tier of Greek football and it holds home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium.

Egaleo
Full nameA.O. Egaleo Football Club
Nickname(s)City [1]
Founded1931 (1931)
GroundStavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium
Capacity8,217
OwnerPaltoglou Family
ChairmanIoannis Paltoglou
ManagerApostolos Charalampidis
LeagueSuper League Greece 2
2020–21Football League Greece, 9th (promoted)
WebsiteClub website

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

Leagues

Winners (4): 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01
Winners (2): 1998–99, 2018–19
Winners (2): 1995–96, 2012–13

Leagues

  • Athens FCA Championship
    • Winners (8): 1947–48, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1959–60, 1960–61, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17

Cups

Supporters

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 12 January 2022

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  GRE Nikos Fylaktos
4 DF  GRE Georgios Kalyvas
5 DF  GRE Michalis Papanikolas
7 MF  GRE Alexandros Piastopoulos
8 MF  GRE Giannis Stamatakis
10 FW  GRE Ilias Tsiligiris (captain)
11 FW  GRE Gerasimos Voukelatos
13 DF  GRE Theodoros Papoutsogiannopoulos
16 MF  GRE Pavlos Laskaris
17 FW  GRE Antonis Trimmatis (on loan from Atromitos)
18 FW  AUS Manolis Pavlis
19 DF  GRE Spyros Vlachos
20 GK  GRE Georgios Sikalias
21 DF  GRE Antonis Anastasiou
22 DF  GRE Konstantinos Panagiotou
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 MF  ALB Luan Skenderaj
26 FW  GRE Argyris Brebos
30 MF  GRE Konstantinos Tsitsaris
31 FW  GRE Kristo Shehu
32 MF  GRE Athanasios Daktylidis
33 FW  GRE Georgios Barbarousis
55 DF  GRE Giannis Andreou
56 FW  GRE Georgios Drenogiannis
65 GK  GRE Nikos Sfyridis
70 DF  GRE Gerasimos Papangelis
73 MF  GRE Nikos Katharios
77 FW  GRE Alexandros Arnarellis
80 MF  GRE Anastasios Dimitriadis
88 MF  ALB Gertin Hoxhalli
99 FW  GRE Alexandros Kavvadias (on loan from Panetolikos)

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
DF  GRE Michalis Valioutis (at Charavgiakos until 30 June 2022)

Notable former players

Internationally capped players or players who have over 50 appearances for the club

Notable former managers

Notable Chairmen

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

References

  1. "Club's history | official wedsite". www.aoaigaleo.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 9 April 2022.

Sources

  • "Απ' τις λαμαρίνες στα σαλόνια της Ευρώπης" (Nikos D. Nikolaidis, "Embryo" Publications)
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