A.O. Nea Ionia F.C.

A.O. Nea Ionia F.C
Α.Ο.Νέας Ιωνίας

Full name	Athlitikos Omilos Neas Ionias (Athletic Union of New Ionia)
Nickname(s)	Κιτρινόμαυροι (Yellow-Blacks)
Founded	16 May 1939 (merged three times in 1967,1988 and 2001)
Ground	Δημοτικό Στάδιο Νέας Ιωνίας Municipal Stadium of Nea Ionia Nea Ionia, Athens, Greece
Capacity	1000
Chairman	Konstantinos Tsikrikas
Head Coach	Giorgos Karatzas
League	Athens First Division
2014–15	Football League 2 (Group 4) 13th relegated
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

A.O. Nea Ionia F.C, officially known as Nea Ionia (Greek: Νέα Ιωνία, Athlitikos Omilos Neas Ionias), the "Athletic Union of New Ionia", is a Greek association football club based in the city of Athens, Greece. The club currently compete in the Athens First Division.

History

At the end of the first decade of the previous century, the town of Nea Ionia had a lot of football clubs, each one with its separate football history. This in relation to its inhabitants' love of sport and especially football made the town known to the rest of Athens. A.O.Nea Ionia is today's most representative club of this refugee town, which is a merge product from football clubs of the town with the latter one having been accomplished in 2001. The basic colours of the team are yellow and blue. The football club was relegated from the Greek Football League 2 in 2014–2015 season, they finished 13th in Group 4 of the league table system. A change of ownership and a lot of financial problems find the club in the local championships for the new 2015–2016 football season.

Stadium

The club home ground was located in Nea Ionia, Athens. The municipal stadium of Nea Ionia^[1] is the home ground for A.O.Nea Ionia from the day of its foundation. It was built in 1962. In 2004 the whole stadium was extensively renovated and the pitch was replaced with a turf system of the very last generation.The dressing rooms have been renovated for the last time in 2007. The new facilities and stands which are expected to be completed at the end of 2015 were sponsored by the Greek government. The stadium is also used by A.E. Eleftheroupoli and P.A.O. Alsoupolis.

Players

Current squad

As of 4 December 2015.^[2]

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 Kostas Panagiotopoulos 32 GK Kostas Konstas 27 GK Panagiotis Stergiou 14 DF Evangelos Kapsiochas 21 DF Panagiotis Chrousis 6 DF Giorgos Xenos 8 DF Sotiris Papakounadis 9 DF Nikolaos Taratsas 10 DF Andrianos Karypidis 2 DF Dimitris Tsikrikas 5 DF Stelios Chalkiadakis 13 MF Giorgos Georgopoulos 4 MF Kostas Bogatsas 15 MF Vassilis Bogatsas 16 MF Lefteris Michalaris 17 MF Kostas Bouroutis

No. Position Player 18 MF Petros Mylovas 19 MF Anastasios Prisimitzis 7 MF Giorgos Padagias 20 MF Grigoris Kokkinos 12 MF Apostolis Verras 22 MF Nikolaos Triantis 11 FW Ainias Bidista 28 FW Manolis Bezyris 33 FW Anastasios Sikolas 34 FW Athanasios Koutsioumbas 35 FW Christos Zygouris 36 FW Giorgos Mantesis 37 FW Dionysios Gorgolis 38 FW Kostas Voutsinos 39 FW Theodoros Nisariotis

Notable former coaches

2008–2009 Daniel Batista

Personnel

Current Board

Position	Staff
President	Kostas Tsikrikas
Vice President A	Prodromos Papadopoulos
Vice President B	Giorgos Kirkimbesis
General Secretary	Dimitrios Padagias
Secretary	Manolis Bogatsas
Chief Financial Officer	Giannis Sarris
Deputy General Manager	Savvas Chatzicharalambous
Academy Operations Manager	Aimilios Konstas

References

1. Anonymous. Δημοτικό Στάδιο Νέας Ιωνίας. erasitexnikopodosfairo.gr (in Greek). Ερασιτεχνικό Ποδόσφαιρο. p. 1. Archived from the original on 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
2. Anonymous. "ΡΟΣΤΕΡ ΑΝΔΡΩΝ 2015 - 2016" (in Greek). Online. Archived from the original on 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.

External links

Official Website

• A.O. Nea Ionia FC (Official Website)(Greek)

Other Websites

• Facebook webpage(Greek)
• http://www.fostirasfc.gr/media/videos/nea-ionia-vs-fostiras-a-imichrono-20112012/