Apollon Larissa F.C.

Apollon Larissa Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Απόλλων Λάρισας) is a Greek professional football club based in Filippoupoli, Larissa, Greece. The club plays in the Super League 2, the second tier of the Greek football league system. It plays its home matches at the Apollon Ground.

Apollon Larissa

Full name	ΠΑΕ Απόλλων Λάρισας
Founded	1930 (1930)
Ground	Apollon Ground, Larissa
Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Panagiotis Mantzanas
Manager	Giannis Mangos
League	Super League 2
2019–20	Super League 2, 6th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Anniversary logo of the team in 2015 for the 85 years since the foundation.

History

Apollon Larissa is one of the oldest and most historic groups that were created in the city of Larissa. The club was founded in 1930 by students of the Averofius Farm School of Larissa in a rural settlement of the city of Philipoupoli and its first name was "Dimitra". The name "Apollon" the team took it in 1952. Its colours are blue and white.[1] Twelve years later, in 1964, Apollon Larissa managed and played it for the first time in Greek second division, but did not win a league match at that level.[2] The club also had a fine run in the 1997–98 Greek Cup, reaching the quarterfinals.[3] There followed several years of "drought" in the local championship of Larissa and Delta Ethniki, but in the late 1980s and especially in the early and mid 1990s the team made an excellent run in Gamma Ethniki, giving very good football. In the Greek Cup, Apollon Larissa biggest distinction was the 1997–98 season when they reached the quarter-finals, where they were eliminated by Iraklis. Apollon Larissa has shown many remarkable players that some of them wore the shirt of National Hellas and played in foreign tournaments such as Nikos Patsiavouras, Kostas Kolomitrosisis, Vaios Athanasiou, Nikos Michopoulos, Pavlos Adamos, Stelios Hassiotis and Tasos Venetis. This is also contributed by the fact that the club owns athletic facilities in the city of Filippoupoli, where the team has a capacity of about 5,000 spectators. In May 2011, Apollon Larissa was relegated to the regionalized fifth level of Greek football, ending a period of 31 years in the national third and fourth divisions.[4] In 2016, they were promoted to Gamma Ethniki for the second time in the history of the club since 1964. In the 2014–15 season, Apollon Larissa will fight for many years in the A1 category of Larissa (local category), which they departed until next season. The demobilization of the team resulted in the team being born again from its ashes and the administration was flanked by young people with a desire to work and with the aim of returning the team directly to the local class and at the same time organizing all the departments of the Academy today it has about 150 children.

Honours

Domestic

Leagues

• Gamma Ethniki

Winners (1): 2016–17

• FCA Larissa Championship

Winners (5): 1963–64, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1978–79, 2015–16

Cups

• FCA Larissa Cup

Winners (7): 1980–81, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2015–16

Players

Current squad

As of 7 August 2020

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GRE Nestoras Gekas 2 DF  GRE Kostas Georgakopoulos 3 DF  GRE Kostas Kourtesiotis (vice-captain) 4 DF  GRE Apostolos Koulpas 7 MF  GRE Dimitris Tasioulis 8 MF  GRE Michalandreas Nyktaris 10 MF  GRE Dimitris Litenas 11 MF  GRE Kostas Kamperis 13 GK  GRE Kleomenis Theologis 14 MF  GRE Alexandros Bimai 18 FW  GRE Vangelis Nousios 21 MF  GRE Dimitris Kosmidis

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  GRE Kostas Skoupras (3rd captain) 23 FW  BRA Gustavo Balotelli 24 MF  GRE Marios Kostoulas 26 FW  GRE Argyris Brebos 44 DF  GRE Angelos Karatasios 55 MF  GRE Konstantinos Chatzis (captain) 65 GK  GRE Lazaros Kardanis 77 FW  GRE Fotis Goudroubis 80 MF  GRE Prodromos Koutsoukis 96 GK  GRE Giorgos Vasiliadis 99 MF  NGA David Nazim — MF  GRE Theodoros Loukas

Team statistics

Season to season

Seasons Category Position 1930–1960 FCA Thessaly — 1960–1964 FCA Larissa — 1964–1965 Beta Ethniki 16th 1965–1979 FCA Larissa — 1979–1980 Gamma Ethniki 13th 1980–1981 FCA Larissa 1981–1982 Gamma Ethniki 6th 1982–1983 Delta Ethniki 2nd — 1983–1984 Delta Ethniki 9th — 1984–1985 Delta Ethniki 2nd — 1985–1986 Delta Ethniki 3rd — 1986–1987 Delta Ethniki 3rd — 1987–1988 Delta Ethniki 4th — 1988–1989 Delta Ethniki 3rd 1989–1990 Gamma Ethniki 16th 1990–1991 Delta Ethniki 1st 1991–1992 Gamma Ethniki 5th — 1992–1993 Gamma Ethniki 6th — 1993–1994 Gamma Ethniki 6th — 1994–1995 Gamma Ethniki 6th — 1995–1996 Gamma Ethniki 3rd — 1996–1997 Gamma Ethniki 3rd —

Seasons Category Position 1997–1998 Gamma Ethniki 14th 1998–1999 Delta Ethniki 6th — 1999–2000 Delta Ethniki 9th — 2000–2001 Delta Ethniki 4th — 2001–2002 Delta Ethniki 7th — 2002–2003 Delta Ethniki 3rd — 2003–2004 Delta Ethniki 1st 2004–2005 Gamma Ethniki 16th 2005–2006 Delta Ethniki 11th — 2006–2007 Delta Ethniki 9th — 2007–2008 Delta Ethniki 4th — 2008–2009 Delta Ethniki 9th — 2009–2010 Delta Ethniki 11th — 2010–2011 Delta Ethniki 11th 2011–2012 A' FCA Larissa 5th — 2012–2013 A' FCA Larissa 5th — 2013–2014 A' FCA Larissa 14th 2014–2015 A1 FCA Larissa 1st 2015–2016 A' FCA Larissa 1st 2016–2017 Gamma Ethniki 1st 2017–2018 Football League 10th — 2018–2019 Football League 3rd —

References

1. Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (19 January 2005). "Greece Team Colors". RSSSF.
2. Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (23 October 2004). "Greece - Second Level All-Time Table". RSSSF.
3. Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (7 October 1999). "Greece Cup 1997/98". RSSSF.
4. Archontoula, Christos (9 May 2011). Υποβιβάστηκε ο Απόλλων Λάρισας (in Greek). Eleftheria.gr. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012.

External links

• Official website