page_title: Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki)
section_title: Crest and colours
hierarchical_section_title: Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) / Crest and colours
caption_attribution_description: English: A jersey of Iraklis from the 1987–88 season.
context_page_description: Iraklis Football Club is a Greek football club based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. The club will compete in 2020–21 in the third tier of the Macedonia Football Clubs Association championships, the seventh and second-to-last tier of greek football pyramid, in the region of Thessaloniki, through a successor club named Iraklis 2015 F.C.. It plays its home matches at Kaftanzoglio Stadium.
  Founded in 1908 as "Macedonikos Gymnasticos Syllogos", they are one of the oldest in Greek football and the oldest in Thessaloniki, hence the nickname Ghireos. A year later, the name "Iraklis" was added to the club's name as an honour to the ancient Greek hero Heracles. The team's colours are cyan or blue and white, inspired by the Greek flag. Iraklis is a founding member of Macedonia Football Clubs Association, as well as the Hellenic Football Federation, as a part of G.S. Iraklis.
  Before the formation of the nationwide league of Alpha Ethniki, Iraklis competed in the league that was run by the Macedonia Football Clubs Association, winning it on no less than five occasions.
context_section_description: Iraklis's crest has changed through times. The original club logo was a capital Η (Eta), the first letter of the word Iraklis (Ηρακλής) in Greek, surrounded by a circle. After the 2000 takeover of the club by Evangelos Mytilinaios, the logo was changed once again to a more "modern" looking one.  During the 2008–09 season the club used a special logo, created especially for its centenary. The crest that is now used depicts the demigod Heracles resting upon his club, a scene inspired by Farnese Hercules statue, itself a copy of a statue crafted by Lysippos in the fourth century BC.
  Throughout the entire club's history its colours were blue or cyan and white, to resemble the colours of the Greek flag, given the fact that Iraklis was established while Thessaloniki was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The team is so known in Greece as Kianolefkoi (Greek: "Κυανόλευκοι"), meaning the Cyan-Whites. Iraklis' away colours were usually either white or orange. Traditionally, the Iraklis shirt was blue and white stripes, but through the years this was changed often to all blue, all white, chess-like, and hooped, among others.
caption: Shirt of Iraklis of 1987–88 season
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