Niki Volou FC

Niki Volos Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Νίκη Βόλου) is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Volos, in the region of Magnesia, Greece. The club currently competes in Gamma Ethniki, the 3rd league of Greek football. It is the most historic team in Volos since it holds 26 local titles in its potential, although it has only 6 entries in the First National Division.

Niki Volos
Full nameNiki Volos Football Club
Founded19 August 1924 (1924-08-19)
Ground«Pantelis Magoulas»
Capacity5,000
OwnerS.V.L.K. Limited
ChairmanVasilis Venetis
ManagerStaikos Vergetis
LeagueFootball League
2018–19Gamma Ethniki (Group 4), 2nd
WebsiteClub website

History

Niki Volos was founded on 19 August 1924 as Gymnastic Club of Volos' Refugees or Refugee Gymnastic Association, by Greek refugees who came from Asia Minor.

Niki participated for the first time in the championship of the first category before the establishment of the First National, as in 1953–54 she was the winner of the Northern Group and this gave her the ticket for the final phase of the National Division Championship 1953–54, Six teams (Athens (2) – Piraeus – Thessaloniki – North – South) took the 5th place with 16 points, ahead of Panahaiki, who finished the championship with 13.

Niki won for the first time in the 1961 Men's National Soccer Championship, where she had 5 appearances in the big league. In 1966 it was devalued to the Beta Ethniki and since then it has been trying to regain its rise to the big category, which eventually succeeded 48 years later, in 2014–15. In 1976 he won the Amateur Cup.

In recent years he has been fighting in the Beta Ethniki Championship and in the 2006–07 season he finished last and deferred to the Third National. In the 2012–13 season he was back in the Beta Ethniki Championship, and in the following year (2013–14) after the play-offs he won the first place that led to the Super League after 48 years of absence. Unfortunately, on 10 December 2014, the club of Thessaly left the championship due to the inability of the administration to cover the financial obligations that had been created, leaving all the players that belonged to its staff to be released as free. From 2015 he competes in the Gamma Ethniki.

Crest and colours

Old crest until 2015

Niki Volos crest displays the goddess Nike as depicted in the statue Winged Victory of Samothrace. The image of the goddess was the original emblem of the Smyrna-based athletic club Panionios, one of the most popular Greek athletic clubs of Ionia, before it was uprooted and re-established in Athens after the Greco-Turkish War. The founding members of Niki Volou FC, many of them refugees from Smyrna (now Izmir) and the surrounding region, decided to restore the emblem as part of their new club.

Players

Current squad

As of 14 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
1 GK Konstantinos Papadopoulos
3 FW Savvas Kyriakidis
4 DF Giannis Voskopoulos
5 DF Manolis Aliatidis
6 DF Konstantinos Kyriakidis
7 FW Konstantinos Kardaris
8 MF Sebastián Caballero
10 MF Giorgos Iordanidis
11 FW Vangelis Litsios
15 DF Thomas Tsimpoukas
17 MF Alexandros Bitsakos
No. Position Player
19 FW Antonio Rojano
20 MF Álex Cruz
21 MF Apostolos Tsiolis
22 MF Lucas García
25 MF Sotiris Balafas
26 MF Stergios Oikonomikos
30 GK Manolis Apostolidis (captain)
31 MF Jordan Domínguez
32 FW Martín Batallini
33 DF Vasilios Vosniadis
99 GK Konstantinos Karakostas

Honours

  • Football League
  • Football League 2
    • Winners (2): 1975–76, 1995–96
  • Delta Ethniki
    • Winners (2): 1992–93, 2001–02
  • Thessaly FCA Championship
    • Winners (15): 1932–33, 1937–38, 1945–46, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1975–76
  • Thessaly FCA Cup
    • Winners (5): 1975–76, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2015–16, 2017–18
  • Greek Football Amateur Cup
    • Winner (1): 1976

Supporters

The club's most famous supporters group is the one consisting of members from "Blue Club", fan club established in 1985, the so-called Indians. The fan club is also recognized as "Blue Club Panagiotis Ntokouzis", named after one of the founding members of the fan club who died in a motorcycle accident. Another club, particularly famous among the majority of Greek ultras, is the "Blue Angels club 1994" established in 1994.

Notable supporters

Friendships

Managers

References

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