AEL Kalloni F.C.

Kalloni

Full name	Αθλητική Ένωση Λεκανοπεδίου Καλλονής (Athletic Union of Kalloni Basin)
Nickname(s)	Sardeles (Sardines)
Founded	15 May 1994
Ground	Mytilene Municipal Stadium Mytilene, Greece
Capacity	3,000
Owner	Nikos Michalakis
Chairman	Nikos Michalakis
Head coach	Vacant
League	Football League
2015–16	Superleague Greece, 16th (relegated)
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Athlitiki Enosi Lekanopediou Kallonis Football Club (Greek: Π.Α.Ε. Αθλητική Ένωση Λεκανοπεδίου Καλλονής – pronounced [aθlitiˈki ˈe̞nosi le̞kanope̞ˈðiu kaloˈnis]), commonly referred to as AEL Kallonis or Kalloni, is a Greek football club, based in Mytilene, Lesbos.

They competed in Superleague Greece from 2013 to 2016.

History

The club was established in 1994 after a merger of Arisvaios Kalloni (est. 1954) and Apollon Dafia (est. 1969), two clubs that had been based in villages in the wider area of Kalloni, the club's original seat.

2002–03 season

In 2002 they promoted in Delta Ethniki but they relegated to local championship of Lesbos. Being one of the weakest club of their group and without having any professional contract, they only achieved four wins.

2007–08 season

The advent of Prokopis Kartalis who had played at Alpha Ethniki as a player of Skoda Xanthi marks the beginning of the glorious course of the club. Kartalis emerged team's top scorer and AEL Kalloni easily won Lesbos local championship and the promotion to Delta Ethniki.

2008–09 season

In 2008–09 season, they promoted in Delta Ethniki and, even though outsider, they came close to take the first place. They were placed in a group that also competed Athenian clubs and finished 5th.

2009–10 season

During the 2009–2010 season AEL Kalloni, making an amazing second round and having the best defense and the second best goals for record in their group managed to win the first place and, for the first time ever, promotion to Football League 2.

2010–11 season

In the club's first season in a professional league, in the North Group of Football League 2, they placed 2nd, a place that led them to a mini league (play-offs) against Vyzas, the 2nd-place team of South Group, and the third-placed teams of each group, Fokikos and Iraklis Psachna. The winner of the league would be promoted in Football League. However, due to the relegation of five clubs by the previous version Football League, play-offs were not carried out, so Kalloni promoted directly with all clubs that would competed in play-offs, Anagennisi Giannitsa and Platanias to 2011–12 Football League.

Kalloni seasons

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1994–95	Lesbos FCA Championship	V	4th
1995–96	Lesbos FCA Championship		1st ↑
1996–97	Delta Ethniki	IV	13th ↓
1997–98	Lesbos FCA Championship	V	2nd
1998–99	Lesbos FCA Championship		2nd
1999–2000	Lesbos FCA Championship		1st
2000–01	Lesbos FCA Championship		4th
2001–02	Lesbos FCA Championship		1st ↑
2002–03	Delta Ethniki	IV	15th ↓
2003–04	Lesbos FCA Championship	V	4th
2004–05	Lesbos FCA Championship		5th
2005–06	Lesbos FCA Championship		2nd
2006–07	Lesbos FCA Championship		2nd
2007–08	Lesbos FCA Championship		1st ↑
2008–09	Delta Ethniki	IV	5th
2009–10	Delta Ethniki		1st ↑
2010–11	Football League 2	III	2nd ↑
2011–12	Football League	II	5th
2012–13	Football League		3rd ↑
2013–14	Superleague Greece	I	12th
2014–15	Superleague Greece		10th
2015–16	Superleague Greece		16th ↓
2016–17	Football League	II

• Delta Ethniki was abolished in 2013, as it was merged with Football League 2, the third tier of the Greek football league system.

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

Greek Cup appearances

Season	Round	Date	Home	Away	Result
2010–11	First	4 September 2010	Kalloni	Aetos Skydra	0–1
2011–12	Second	23 November 2011	Glyfada	Kalloni	2–2 aet (4–5 pen)
	Fourth	20 December 2011	Kalloni	Panionios	2–3 aet
2012–13	First	24 October 2012	Ethnikos Asteras	Kalloni	1–1 aet (1–4 pen)
	Second	31 October 2012	Olympiacos Volos	Kalloni	1–1 aet (5–3 pen)
2013–14	Second	26 September 2013	Pierikos	Kalloni	1–2
		31 October 2013	Kalloni	Pierikos	2–2 (4–3 agg)
	Round of 16	4 December 2013	OFI Crete	Kalloni	0–1
		16 January 2015	Kalloni	OFI Crete	0–2 aet (1–2 agg)
2014–15	Second (group stage) (eliminated)	24 September 2014	Kalloni	Tyrnavos 2005	1–1
		29 October 2014	Asteras Tripoli	Kalloni	2–1
		7 January 2015	Kalloni	Aiginiakos	5–0
2015–16	Second (group stage) (qualified)	28 October 2015	Asteras Tripoli	Kalloni	4–0
		3 December 2015	Kalloni	Panserraikos	2–1
		16 December 2015	Kissamikos	Kalloni	1–2
	Round of 16	6 January 2016	Kalloni	PAOK	2–1
		14 January 2016	PAOK	Kalloni	3–0

Crest and colours

Apollon and Arisvaios' crests

Apollon Dafia's crest depicted ancient god Apollo. The club's colours were blue and white. The crest of Arisvaios Kalloni were vertical strips in green and white colour, in the center of which were shown two runners. Up and down of strips, the name of the club was appeared.

Kalloni's original crest

Kalloni's original logo

Initially, it had been decided the colours of the new club to be green and white. After a malfunction of a printer, the green colours were printed in crimson. The executives of the club felt that this change would bring luck, so this variation was finally maintained.

There were two other variations, the one in blue and white and the other in yellow and blue.

New logo

A new crest was created in 2011 summer. It is a circle that in its interior has crimson and white vertical stripes and in its center there is a blue shield with two handshaking hands in laurel leaves at the bottom of which is written the establishment year, much like the original logo. In the exterior of the circle, the club's full name is indicated with white letters in blue background.

Ground

Kalloni uses the Mytilene Municipal Stadium. Until then, they used Kostas Kenteris stadium, situated in Kalloni. The stadium was built in 2002. It had one tier in its west, with a capacity about 900, all-seated. In 2010, when Kalloni promoted to Football League 2, some necessary repairs were made in order to make it appropriate for the proper conduct of matches. In 2009 a secondary field was constructed for training the first team and its academies. From 2011–12 season, the Mytilene Municipal Stadium has been made the club's home, because of the unsuitability of their physical home.

Honours

League Football League 2 (III) Runners-up: 2010–11 Delta Ethniki (IV) Winners: 2009–10 Championship of Lesbos Football Clubs Association (V) Winners (4): 1995–96, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2007–08 Runners-up (4): 1997–98, 1998–99, 2005–06, 2006–07

Cup Cup of Lesbos Football Clubs Association Winners (3): 1995–96, 2005–06, 2008–09 Runners-up: 2009–10

Players

First-team squad

As of April 17, 2016

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 Dafkos 3 DF Vasilis Golias 5 MF Alexander Fioretos 6 DF Panagiotis Spyropoulos 7 FW Dimitris Bourous 9 FW Giorgos Manousos (captain) 10 FW Miroslav Marković 11 MF Fotis Georgiou 12 FW Aris Lambrakis 13 DF Dimitris Oungialidis 14 DF Anestis Anastasiadis (captain) 16 DF Kyriakos Evaggelidakis 19 DF Ugo Ukah 20 DF Antonis Karageorgis 21 MF Michalis Chatzidimitriou 22 MF Giannis Giorgou

No. Position Player 26 MF Rafail Gioukaris 27 MF Nikos Kaltsas (captain) 28 FW Giorgos Xydas (on loan from Olympiacos) 29 MF Paul Were 30 FW Efthimis Gkamagkas 31 DF Savvas Tsabouris 32 MF Marko Blažić 33 DF Nikola Mikić 40 GK Nikos Mallis 55 DF Stratis Vallios 69 DF Raúl Llorente 85 FW Braulio Nóbrega 86 GK Kiriakos Stratilatis 90 FW Alexandros Hintaseli 96 FW Giorgos Sofianis

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 — MF Giorgos Agrimakis (at Kanaris Nenita)

No. Position Player — MF Patroklos Krotsidas (at Kanaris Nenita)

Reserves and academy

U20 team

The U20 team was established in 2011 summer, in the occasion of promotion of the club to Football League.

As of October 17, 2015

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

No. Position Player — GK Cresencio Arvanitis — GK Efstratios Vogiatzis — DF Dimitris Axis — DF Zacharias Chatzellis — DF Giannis Kamaros — DF Antonis Karageorgis — DF Thanasis Kondylas — DF Nikos Kritikos — DF Apostolis Tiniakos — DF Alex Topali — DF Charalambos Vaggelakis — DF Andreas Veletakis — MF Antonis Giazitzoglou — MF Eroli Hamzallari — MF Dimitris Keramidas — MF Giorgos Kritikos

No. Position Player — MF Alexandros Moschoudis — MF Tsabikos Statis — MF Antonis Tzanetellis — MF Lazaros Tzelidis — MF Lambros Triantafyllou — FW Giorgos Alagiannis — FW Giannis Bastianos — FW Nikos Kyriakou — FW Pantelis Michalakellis — FW Michalis Moschos — FW Christos–Panagiotis Petavrakis — FW Klaus Sefullaj — FW Giorgos Sofianis — FW Fivos–Aimilianos Tsipas — FW Dimitris Vladikas

U17 team

The U17 team was established in 2013 summer, in the occasion of promotion of the club to Superleague Greece.

As of October 17, 2015

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

No. Position Player — GK Pantelis Alexiou — GK Elidion Kishta — GK Athanasios Paterellis — DF Michail–Aggelos Athanasiadis — DF Nikos Arnomallis — DF Matteo Demo — DF Nikos Drakoulis — DF Fotis Fotellis — DF Adriano Likometi — DF Adamantios – Kyriakos Papagiannakis — DF Anastasios Thomaidis — DF Kostas Tsakiris — MF Mario Balliu

No. Position Player — MF Isidoros Bris — MF Nikos Chasapis — MF Dimitris Makrypoulias — MF Christos Palamoutsis — MF Stratis Tiniakos — MF Anestis Vasiliadis — FW Renato Hoxha — FW Dimitris Kokkinellis — FW Giorgos Komvos — FW Dimitris Ligiellis — FW Dimitris Parellis — FW Tasos Saliaris — FW Marios Valsamis

Club officials

• Owner: Nikos Michalakis
• Chairman: Nikos Michalakis

AEL Kalloni Football Club

• Chief Executive Officer: Prokopis Kartalis
• General Manager: Giorgos Chorianopoulos

Coaching and medical staff

• Head coach: Vacant
• Assistant manager: Vacant
• Goalkeepers' coach: Panagiotis Nasis
• Fitness trainer: Mert İsbilir
• Club doctor: Dimitris Varvagiannis
• Physiotherapist: Thanos Karavasilis
• U20 team coach: Dimitris Gavalas
• U17 team coach: Dimitris Vlastellis

Managerial history

Paraschos Laskaris (1994–96) Giorgos Spartalis (1997) unknown (1997–98) Panagiotis Pittos (1998) Petros Kalogirou (1999–2000) Simeon Vamvarapis (2000–01) unknown (2001–02) Giorgos Spartalis (2002–03) unknown (2003–06)

Fotis Kokkinellis (2006) Giorgos Spartalis (2007) Prokopis Kartalis (2008) Sotiris Antoniou (2008–10) Michalis Kasapis (2010–11) Sotiris Antoniou (2011) Prokopis Kartalis (2011) Luciano de Souza (2011–12) Giannis Matzourakis (2012)

Timos Kavakas (2012) Loukas Karadimos (2012) Babis Tennes (2012–13) Giannis Matzourakis (2013–15) Vangelis Vlachos (2015) Thalis Theodoridis (2015) Nikos Karageorgiou (2015–16)

External links

• Official website (Greek)