APOEL FC
That month, APOEL FC sent a telegram to SEGAS for the national games greeting the athletes and hoping for an end to dissent. Leftists protested the telegram's partisan tone, and five APOEL FC athletes (Lympouris, Tsialis, Gogakis, Xatzivasileiou, and Christodoulou) were indefinitely suspended. APOEL FC defectors founded AC Omonia in Nicosia in June, and AS Kyrenia was founded in Kyrenia.