Doxa Drama F.C.
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Full name | Gymnastikos Syllogos Doxa Drama | ||
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Nickname(s) | Μαυραετοί (Black Eagles) | ||
Founded | 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 | ||
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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
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.
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Notable managers
Kostas Vasilakakis (1981–95) Michalis Grigoriou Apostolos Charalampidis Makis Katsavakis
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
External links
- Official website
- Doxa Dramas at UEFA
- http://www.stadia.gr/drama-f/drama-f-gr.html
- https://www.panoramio.com/photo/106218990