Egaleo F.C.

Egaleo F.C.
Egaleo Football Club 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
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
European matches
References
Sources
"Απ' τις λαμαρίνες στα σαλόνια της Ευρώπης" (Nikos D. Nikolaidis, "Embryo" Publications)
External links
2003–04 EUFO team profile
GOAL4Replay team profile
Egaleo Ultras Group
Football clubs in Athens
Association football clubs established in 1931
Football clubs in Attica
1931 establishments in Greece
Super League Greece 2 clubs
Aigaleo