Levadiakos F.C.

Levadiakos
Full name APO Levadiakos Football Club
Nickname(s) The Blue-Greens
Short name APOL
Founded 1 December 1961 (1961-12-01)
Ground Levadia Municipal Stadium
Capacity 6,500 [1]
Owner Andreas Kolokithas[2]
Chairman Konstantinos Kolokithas
Manager Akis Mantzios
League Super League
2017–18 Super League, 10th
Website Club website

Levadiakos Football Club is a Greek association football club that plays in the Greek Super League. Based in Livadeia, Greece, the club was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki, forerunner of the Super League, after ten seasons in minor divisions in the 2005–06 season, as runner-up of the Football League in 2004–05.[3] It was then relegated to the Beta Ethniki [4] again in 2006–07 and returned to the top tier in 2008–09. The club finished one level above relegation that year but was relegated back to the second division by finishing 14th in 2009–10.

History

Levadiakos started in 1961, when local clubs Trofonios and Pallevadiaki merged into a greater club. Straight after, Levadiakos played in the second division being close to relegation in almost every season. In the 1980s, the team was upgraded and in May 1987, players and supporters of the club celebrated the team's first ever promotion to Alpha Ethniki. Levadiakos stayed there only for four seasons, returning again only in 1994 and 1995. After their second relegation, Levadiakos declined and went very lower, even struggling to clinch promotion to the 3rd division of Greece. But once more, everything changed suddenly and the team reached again the Greek Super League after ten years, in 2005, but was immediately relegated. In the next summer, Levadiakos bought many expensive players and appointed Georgi Vasilev as manager. Vasiliev achieved to get the team to the Super League once again, and in the 2007–08 season he struggled, but managed to avoid going down again. Nevertheless, he resigned from the club and he was succeeded by Momčilo Vukotić.

Players

Current squad

As of 1 September 2018[5]

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

No. Position Player
1 Greece GK Giannis Zografos
3 Brazil DF João Francisco
4 Greece DF Giorgos Nikas
5 Brazil DF Leonardo
6 Nigeria DF Suleiman Omo
7 Guadeloupe MF Lenny Nangis
8 Greece MF Nikos Katharios
9 Serbia FW Marko Markovski
11 Central African Republic FW David Manga
13 Greece DF Giorgos Zisopoulos (3rd captain)
14 Greece DF Thanasis Panteliadis
19 Serbia GK Vladimir Bajić
20 Greece FW Petros Giakoumakis
21 Greece MF Zisis Karachalios
22 Serbia MF Marko Stanojević
No. Position Player
24 Greece DF Stathis Chatzilampros
25 Greece DF Savvas Tsabouris (captain)
26 Greece MF Marios Vichos
30 São Tomé and Príncipe DF Jordão Diogo
37 Serbia DF Jovan Krneta
40 France GK Devis Epassy
42 Burkina Faso MF Souleymane Sawadogo
44 Greece DF Panagiotis Liagas
66 Hungary MF József Windecker
82 Greece DF Pavlos Mitropoulos (vice-captain)
86 Brazil MF Chumbinho (4th captain)
88 Montenegro GK Vuko Vujović
92 Benin DF Moise Adilehou
99 Greece FW Fotis Ioannidis

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player
Greece GK Anastasios Daskalakis (at AO Chania−Kissamikos until 30 June 2019)
Albania MF Leonard Senka (at Amvrisseas Distomou until 30 June 2019)

Former managers

References

  1. "levadiakos.gr". levadiakos.gr. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  2. "Έγκριση ΕΕΑ για τις μετοχές του Λεβαδειακού και... τέλος ο Κομπότης". gazzetta.gr. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  3. "Greece 2004/05". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  4. "Greece 2005/06". Rsssf.com. 2006-08-20. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  5. "Roster". superleaguegreece.net. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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