# Egaleo F.C.

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

* Second Division
** Winners (4): 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01
* Third Division
** Winners (2): 1998–99, 2018–19
* Fourth Division
** 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

* Athens FCA Cup
** Winners (1): 2014−15

## 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 9 September 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | GRE | Savvas Skouropoulos |
| 4 | DF | AUS | Alexandros Bardas |
| 5 | MF | GRE | Tilemachos Karabas |
| 6 | DF | ALB | Kostandin Kariqi |
| 7 | FW | GRE | Georgios Daviotis |
| 8 | MF | GRE | Pavlos Karvounis |
| 10 | FW | GRE | Giannis Varkas |
| 11 | MF | GRE | Marios Zounis |
| 13 | MF | GRE | Stefanos Paraskevopoulos |
| 14 | MF | GRE | Nikos Konstantakopoulos |
| 15 | DF | GRE | Ilias Evangelou |
| 17 | MF | CIV | Manssour Fofana |
| 18 | MF | GRE | Michalis Voriazidis |
| 19 | MF | GRE | Antonis Dimitriou |
| 20 | DF | GRE | Angelos Zioulis |
| 21 | DF | GRE | Manolis Liofagos |
| 22 | DF | GRE | Konstantinos Tampas |
| 24 | MF | GRE | Orestis Canaj |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 27 | DF | GRE | Spyros Kostopoulos |
| 28 | FW | FRA | Ulrich N'Nomo |
| 29 | MF | GRE | Paris Babis |
| 30 | FW | GRE | Ierotheos Dritsas |
| 31 | DF | GRE | Dimitrios Tatsis |
| 33 | GK | GRE | Georgios Christodoulis |
| 36 | FW | ARG | Matías Piteo |
| 37 | GK | GRE | Vasilios Tsimopoulos |
| 63 | DF | GRE | Dimitrios Oungialidis |
| 65 | MF | GRE | Petros Kolokotronis |
| 75 | MF | GRE | Nikolaos Christou |
| 77 | MF | MLI | Diby Keita |
| 93 | FW | GRE | Christos Rovas |
| 97 | GK | GRE | Ilias Kyritsis |
| 99 | GK | GRE | Dimitrios Fontalis |

## Notable former players

Internationally capped players or players who have over 50 appearances for the club
* Anestis Agritis
* Giorgos Barkoglou
* Eleftherios Poupakis
* Giannis Skopelitis
* Kostas Papoutsis
* Antonis Petropoulos
* Sotiris Leontiou
* Victor Mitropoulos
* Dimitrios Konstantopoulos
* Agustin Kola
* Marko Marić
* Danijel Cesarec
* Daniel Edusei
* Bennard Yao Kumordzi
* Faraz Fatemi
* Olivier Makor
* Mahamadou Sidibè
* Srđan Kljajević
* Paweł Kieszek
* Aleksandar Stojanović
* Aleko Yordan
* Dragan Stojkov

## Notable former managers

* Les Shannon
* Ilie Dumitrescu
* Lefter Küçükandonyadis

## Notable chairmen

* Yiorghos Martinis (first chairman)
* Nikolaos Michos
* Dimitris Chaniotis
* Yannis Tresos
* Yiorghos Karabateas
* Yannis Panteliadis
* Dimitri Tusmanov
* Yiorghos Dalakouras
* Alexandros Stavropoulos
* Christos Kanellopoulos
* Victor Mitropoulos
* Dimitris Kalogeropoulos
* Alexis Kougias
* Ioannis Paltoglou

## Technical staff

| Name | Role |
| Dragan Đukanović | Manager |
| Stavros Bairamis | Assistant manager |
| Konstantinos Diallas | Fitness Coach |

## 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 |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | Group Stage (Group E) | Middlesbrough | 0–1 | |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | Group Stage (Group E) | Partizan Belgrade | | 0–4 |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | Group Stage (Group E) | Lazio | 2–2 | |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | Group Stage (Group E) | Villarreal | | 0–4 |
| 2005–06 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 3rd Round | Žalgiris Vilnius | 1–3 | 3–2 |