Egaleo
Full nameΑθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω
A.O. Egaleo Football Club
Nickname(s)City [1]
Founded1931 (1931)
GroundStavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium
Capacity8,217
ChairmanKonstantinos Tsikrikas
ManagerApostolos Charalampidis
LeagueSuper League Greece 2
2022–23Super League Greece 2, 10th

Egaleo Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Αιγάλεω 1931) is a Greek professional football club based in Aigaleo, a suburban town in the Athens urban area, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931). The team currently competes in the Super League 2, the second tier of Greek football and 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

Domestic

Leagues

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

Regional

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 6 January 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 Dimitrios Katsimitros
2 DF Greece GRE Pantelis Theologou
3 MF Greece GRE Iraklis Garoufalias
4 DF Greece GRE Giannis Christofilopoulos
6 MF Sierra Leone SLE John Kamara
7 FW Greece GRE Georgios Daviotis
8 MF Argentina ARG Cristian Ramírez
9 FW Greece GRE Christos Kollas (captain)
10 FW Serbia SRB Bogdan Stamenković
11 MF Greece GRE Anastasios Dimitriadis
14 MF Greece GRE Nikos Konstantakopoulos
15 DF Greece GRE Ilias Evangelou
17 FW Greece GRE Christos Marathonitis
19 FW Greece GRE Michalis Bastakos
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 DF Greece GRE Angelos Zioulis
22 DF Greece GRE Efthymis Pavlakis
23 MF Serbia SRB Nenad Gavrić
27 DF Greece GRE Vasilios Politis
29 MF Greece GRE Paris Babis
30 DF Greece GRE Konstantinos Tampas
33 DF Serbia SRB Marko Petković
37 GK Greece GRE Vasilios Tsimopoulos
45 FW Greece GRE Giannis Varkas
60 DF Suriname SUR Delvechio Blackson
70 FW Greece GRE Ioakim Zygeridis
73 GK Russia RUS Gleb Nesposudniy
88 MF Greece GRE Konstantinos Chatzidimpas
99 MF Nigeria NGA David Nazim

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
Montenegro Dragan Đukanović Manager
Greece Stavros Bairamis Assistant manager
Greece Konstantinos Diallas Fitness Coach

European matches

Season Competition Round Club Home Away
2002–03 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round England Fulham 1–1 0–1
2003–04 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round Slovenia Koper 2–3 2–2
2004–05 UEFA Cup 1st Round Turkey Gençlerbirliği 1–0 1–1
Group Stage
(Group E)		 England Middlesbrough 0–1
Serbia and Montenegro Partizan Belgrade 0–4
Italy Lazio 2–2
Spain Villarreal 0–4
2005–06 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round Lithuania 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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