Egaleo F.C.

Egaleo Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Αιγάλεω 1931) is a Greek professional football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931), it holds home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium.

Egaleo
Full nameA.O. Egaleo Football Club
Founded3 November 1946 (1946-11-03)
GroundStavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium
Capacity8,217
ChairmanIoannis Paltoglou
ManagerThomas Grafas
LeagueFootball League
2018–19Gamma Ethniki (Group 7), 1st (promoted)
WebsiteClub website

Club colours are blue and white.

History

Egaleo was founded in 1931 by Demetrios Haniotis and Georgios Aronis, as Athletic Union of Ierapolis (Αθλητική Ένωση Ιεραπόλεως – Athlitiki Enosis Ieropoleos). In 1946, three other clubs in the district merged with A.E. Ierapoleos to form Athletic Club Egaleo (Αθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω – Athlitikos Omilos Egaleo), which managed to reach for the first time the first division in 1961.

In the 2003–04 season, Egaleo managed its second better ever classification, fifth (fourth in the 1970-71 season), playing UEFA Cup for the first time in 2004–05, appearing in the group stages (after defeating Gençlerbirliği of Turkey 2–1 score on aggregate) with FK Partizan, S.S. Lazio, Middlesbrough and Villarreal CF, which ended with the conquest of just one point. In the league, the club finished sixth, trailing PAOK by just one point.

After a disappointing 2006–07, Egaleo was relegated back to the second level. Another relegation followed in the next year, and a third in 2008–09.

In August 2009, a merger between Egaleo and Ilisiakos F.C. took place, as the other club participated in the second division, with the purchase being made effective by Egaleo's owner Thomas Mitropoulos; the new club, which took Ilisiakos' place, was renamed Egaleo A.O.

At the end of the 2009–10 season, due to the merger being declared illegal by the Greek Council of State, Egaleo FC was relegated to the Delta Ethniki.

Honours

Domestic

Leagues
Winners (4): 1960–61, 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01
  • Gamma Ethniki (Third Division)
Winners (2): 1998–99, 2018–19
Winners (2): 1995–96, 2012–13

Regional

Leagues
  • Athens FCA Championship
    • Winners (8): 1947–48, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1959–60, 1960–61, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17

Cups

Supporters

The ultras group Gate 12 have friendly relation with fans of CD Leganés, the towns of Egaleo and Leganés happen to be twinned too.

Players

Current squad
As of 15 January 2020

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

No. Position Player
2 DF Georgios Tsaftaridis
3 DF Georgios Magakis
4 DF Stathis Syriopoulos
5 DF Michalis Papanikolas
6 DF Panagiotis Spyropoulos
7 FW Ilias Tsiligiris (captain)
8 MF Giannis Stamatakis
9 FW Dimitris Kapos
11 FW Paolo Farinola
12 GK Angelos Stamatopoulos
15 DF Lamin Diallo
16 MF Pavlos Laskaris
17 MF Konstantinos Tsitsaris
18 FW Ismael Blanco
20 GK Georgios Sikalias
No. Position Player
21 DF Vasilios Ioannidis
22 FW Konstantinos Christou
23 FW Paul Were
24 MF Vasilios Kavourinos
25 MF Michalis Maris
26 DF Giannis Stathis
29 DF Vangelis Gotovos
33 MF Dimitris Macheras
60 MF Stathis Lamprou
65 GK Nikolaos Sfyridis
71 GK Dimitrios Glotsos
88 MF Georgios Katsikogiannis
96 MF Marcolino
99 FW Pavlos Makrygiannis

Notable former players

Internationally capped players or players who have over 50 appearances for the club

Notable former managers

Notable Chairmen

Technical staff
Name Role
Manager
Assistant Manager
Trainer

European matches
Season Competition Round Club Home Away
2002–03 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round Fulham 1–1 0–1
2003–04 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round Koper 2–3 2–2
2004–05 UEFA Cup 1st Round Gençlerbirliği 1–0 1–1
Group Stage
(Group E)		 Middlesbrough 0–1
Partizan Belgrade 0–4
Lazio 2–2
Villarreal 0–4
2005–06 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round Žalgiris Vilnius 1–3 3–2

Sources
  • "Απ' τις λαμαρίνες στα σαλόνια της Ευρώπης" (Nikos D. Nikolaidis, "Embryo" Publications)
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