Doxa Drama F.C.

Doxa Dramas
Full name Gymnastikos Syllogos Doxa Drama
Nickname(s) Μαυραετοί (Black Eagles)
Founded 1918 (1918)
Ground Doxa Drama Stadium
Capacity 9,000
Owner Giannis Byros
Chairman Giannis Byros
Manager Staikos Vergetis
League Football League
2017–18 Football League, 5th
Website Club website

Doxa Dramas Football Club is a Greek football club based in the city of Drama, Macedonia, Greece. The club currently competes in the Football League, the second tier of the Greek football league system. Founded in 1918, the club's home ground since then has been Doxa Drama Stadium.

Doxa Dramas is considered one of the most historic and major teams of Greece, and was one of the founding members of the Super League, the first tier of Greek football.

History

Takis Loukanidis started his career in Doxa.

During World War I, near the city of Drama, Macedonia, a team of English soldiers who played football regularly in their camp inspired the local Greek population to create the first football club in the region. Founded as Peleus in 1918, the team was renamed Doxa (Glory) in 1919.

Initially, the team colors were black and white with the logo of a black clover. After the war the team's logo was permanently changed to a black eagle, while the team colours of black and white remain until today.

The first formal match of Doxa was against AOK, the team of neighbouring city Kavala. In that first game Doxa won 3–0. Doxa Dramas is one of the founders of the Greek League Alpha Ethniki, the highest tier of Greek club football. Doxa reached the final of the Greek football Cup in 1953–54, 1957–58 and 1958–59, but lost all three finals to Olympiacos.

Doxa Dramas participated in Alpha Ethniki for 21 seasons. Financial and administrative turmoil, however, led to the club being relegated to Greece’s amateur division, Delta Ethniki. In 2008–09, Doxa had a strong year in the Third Division and clinched the Gamma Ethniki North title with two games to spare. Doxa returned to Beta Ethniki after 11 years for the 2009–10 season, where the team finished 14th in the regular season and 13th after the Beta Ethniki play-outs.

Stadium

The stadium of Doxa Drama has a capacity of 9,000 people and it is situated in the western part of the town of Drama, in the district of Komninoi. It was recently renovated. Follow the external links below to see the pictures before and after the renovation.

Crest and colours

Crest

The primary crest of the club was the clover. Each leaf of the clover was written a letter from the GSD (initially the words "Gymnastic Association of Drama"). The crest changed at the 1950s after many fans' reactions, removing the preference of black clover and putting the black eagle in its position, which the team has even today.

Colours

The colours of the club black and white. The black clothing honors those Doxa Dramas' footballers who were killed during the Greek-Bulgarian War. Doxa's legend Takis Loukanidis had said that i do not know who those footballers were, but we honored the lads, feeling great pride wearing the black.

Support

The famous and revered association of Doxa's fans, from which devotion and worship originates to the entity of the group and each player separately for 93 years now, consists not only of the Door 4 fanatics who for so many years do something more for Doxa Dramas, but also by team members. People reluctant to forget and at the same time willingly to help, either financially or spiritually, by maintaining their love for the club of their hearts and if they can spread it to the younger generations. But the real test for friends and fanatics came when they had to keep their love unchanged during the great decadence of Doxa Dramas. When Doxa fell to the Fourth National Division (Delta Ethniki), things showed that the fans' loyalty had completely faded after the under-operation of the league that led to its closure, which made the situation in the team hopeless and hopeless to revive it. Eventually, in the case of Doxa, the saying "the phenomena abort" applied, as the team and the fans needed a "click" to wake up from the lethargy to which they had fallen for a long time. In 2004, in the wake of the Athens Olympic Games, a group of people managed to re-establish the fans' association of Doxa. They then voted for president and in the following year the list of members of the association was "fired". Eligible friends of the group, who may have left but did not forget, were re-establishing the link, which was for them a redemption, and by extension the club. The association to this day is trying to give the Friends of Doxa their old glory, when the Dramians did not fare with the parties, but they talked until Thursday about the last fight and from Friday to the next. This is one of the many factors that the Friends of Doxa Dramas are rated as the three most fanatical provincial group fans. The fans also managed to persuade their executives at the 50s to change the club's logo, the previously black clover, to the black eagle known to all of us today.

Players

Current squad

As of 8 September 2018

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Albania GK Orestis Menka
2 Greece DF Chrysostomos Revythopoulos
3 Greece DF Stavros Petavrakis
4 Greece MF Pantelis Rizogiannis
5 Greece DF Vangelis Andreou
6 Brazil DF João Paulo
7 Greece FW Tasos Kritikos
8 Brazil MF Rogério Martins
9 Greece FW Konstantinos Markopoulos
10 Argentina MF Jonathan Casasola
11 Greece FW Nikos Kouskounas
14 Greece MF Alexandros Natsiopoulos
19 Greece FW Nikos Sampanidis
No. Position Player
20 Spain MF Álex Cruz
21 Greece DF Dimitris Siopis
23 Greece DF Stelios Kapsalis
25 Greece DF Tryfon Kasmeridis
30 Greece GK Vaggelis Pitkas
33 Greece DF Vasilios Vitlis
34 Turkey MF Deniz Baykara
40 Guinea MF Alhassane Soumah (on loan from Asteras Tripolis)
44 Greece DF Konstantinos Rougalas
54 Greece MF Giorgos Makris
71 Greece GK Michalis Iliadis
80 Greece MF Manolis Patralis (on loan from PAOK)
89 Spain FW Salva Chamorro

Notable managers

Notable players

Achievements

  • Greek Cup
  • Participation in National Divisions:
    • Championship of Eastern Macedonia:1938-39.
    • Northern regional group: 1953-54, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1958-59.
    • Northern regional group: 1955-56 (3d).
    • Northern regional championship: 1957-58.
    • National championship: 1956-57 (5th), 1957-58 (7th), 1958-59 (5th).
    • 1st Division (A' Ethniki, Alpha Ethniki, Superleague): 1959-60 (6th), 1960-61 (7th), 1961-62 (16th), 1963-64 (11th), 1964-65 (16th), 1979-80 (12th), 1980-81 (9th), 1981-82 (11th), 1982-83 (12th), 1983-84 (11th), 1984-85 (13th), 1985-86 (14th), 1986-87 (14th), 1988-89 (9th), 1989-90 (10th), 1990-91 (8th), 1991-92 (13th), 1992-93 (13th), 1993-94 (15th), 1994-95 (16th), 2011-12 (16th).
    • 2nd Division (B' Ethniki, Beta Ethniki, Football League): 1962-63, 1965–66, 1978–79, 1987–88, 1995–96, 2009-10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013-14.
    • 3rd Division (Γ' Ethniki, Gamma Ethniki): 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005–2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008–2009, 2014-2015, 2015-16, 2016-17.
    • 4th Division (Δ' Ethniki, Delta Ethniki): 1999-2000.
    • National amateur division: 2000-01, 2001–02, 2002-03.

References

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