Chalkida F.C.

A.C. Chalkis
Full name Athletic Club Chalkis
or Athletic Club Chalkida
Nickname(s) Blue, Nerazzurri
Founded 1967 (1967)
(as Athletic Club Chalkis)
Ground Municipal Stadium of Chalkida,
Chalkida, Euboea
Ground Capacity 1.694
Chairman Greece Basiles Tarnanas
Manager Greece Panayotes Tocpasides
League Gamma Ethniki
2014-15 Eps Chalkis Champion, promotion play-off Group 7 winner
Website Club home page

Athletic Club Chalkis (Greek: Αθλητικός Όμιλος Χαλκίς), also known as A.C. Chalkida, is an association football club based in Chalkida, Greece. The club was founded in 1967 upon its merger with Olympiakos Chalkida and Evrypos Chalkida. Its colours are black and blue and its symbol is the nymph Arethusa.

Their greatest honour was winning the Beta Ethniki in 1968 and playing in the 1968–69 Alpha Ethniki. They currently play in the Group 3 of Gamma Ethniki.

History

Before the merger

A.C. Chalkis was founded in 1967 after a merger between the biggest clubs in the city, Olympiakos Chalkida and Evrypos, who were both competing in the Greek Second Division at the time, with Olympiakos finishing 4th and Evrypos 9th.[1]

Due to a law by the regime of the Colonels which ruled Greece since April 1967, athletic clubs that were based in the same city were forced to merge with each other.[2][3] As a result, Olympiakos Chalkida and Evrypos were merged in summer 1967 and the resulting club was named A.C. Chalkis[4] in order to represent the city of Chalkis as a whole.

A.C. Chalkis

In the following 1967–68 season and first one after the merger, Chalkida finished 1st in Beta Ethniki's Northern Group and was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki for the first time.[5] However, they were immediately relegated after one season, as they finished 17th in the 1968–69 Alpha Ethniki, second last only to AEL Limassol.[6]

Until 1989 the team competed in the Beta and Gamma Ethniki championships, without repeating the success of their first season, although they won 2 Gamma Ethniki championships in 1977 and 1987.[7][8] From 1989 to 1996 the team was competing in the lower Gamma and Delta Ethniki championships, and from 1996 to 2003 only in the Delta Ethniki.

Decline

In 2003 A.C. Chalkis returned to the national championships after seven years, participating in the 2003–04 season of Gamma Ethniki and finishing 11th.[9] Although having finished in a safe mid-table position, the team was in a financial turmoil; the entire squad was released [10] and negotiations with potential investors were unsuccessful.[11] After a planned merger with local club Doxa Prokopiou was not implemented, Chalkida decided to pull out of every championship, remain inactive for a year and re-appear at the local Evia Football Club Association leagues for the 2005–06 season.[12]

A.C. Chalkis finished 1st in the A1 Division of Evia and was promoted to the Delta Ethniki in 2010.[13] The club also won the Evia Amateur Cup six times and finished as runners-up once, with their last victory being in 2012.[14]

Achievements

League and cup history

Season Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 5 Tier 6 Pts. Pl. W L T GS GA Diff. Greek Cup
1967-19681 (G1)Round of 16
1968-196917did not participated
1969-19703 (G2)did not participated
1970-19719 (G2)Round of 16
1971-19728 (G2)did not participated
1972-19733 (G2)Round of 64
1973-19744 (G2)Round of 16
1974-19752 (G1)First Round
1975-197619 (S)Round of 16
1976-19771 (G5)did not participated
1977-19787 (S)Round of 64
1978-197914 (S)Round of 32
1979-19802 (S)did not participated
1980-19815 (S)Round of 64
1981-19825 (S)Round of 32
1982-19834 (S)Round of 64
1983-198420 (S)Round of 64
1984-19852 (S)Round of 64
1985-19865 (S)Round of 16
1986-19871 (S)Round of 64
1987-198818Round of 64
1988-1989'3 (Group 14)
1989-1990did not participated
1990-1991did not participated
1991-19921 (G4)did not participated
1992-1993'4 (Group 2)
1993-1994'did not participated
1994-19952 (Group 4)
1995-1996'4 (Group 4)
1996-1997did not participated
1997-1998did not participated
1998-1999did not participated
1999-2000did not participated
2000-2001did not participated
2001-20026 (G2)did not participated
2002-20031 (G6)did not participated
2003-200411Round of 64
2005-200616did not participated
2006-2007did not participated
2007-20081did not participated
2008-20095did not participated
2009-20101did not participated
2010-20115 (G7)did not participated
2011-20122 (G7)did not participated
2012-20135 (G7)did not participated
2013-201411 (G3)did not participated

Cup results history

Greek Cup

  • 1967-68:
  • 1970-71:
    • A.C. Chalkis 1-1 Edessaikos (3-1 pen.) [Preliminary Round]
    • A.C. Chalkis 1-0 Aigaleo [Round of 32]
    • Olympiacos 4-0 A.C. Chalkis [Round of 16]
  • 1972-73:
  • 1973-74:
  • 1974-75:
    • A.C. Chalkis 0-1 Panaitolikos [First Round]
  • 1975-76:
    • A.C. Chalkis 1-0 Corinth [First Round]
    • No match (Second Round)
    • A.C. Chalkis 1-2 Panionios [Round of 16]
  • 1977-78:
  • 1978-79:
    • A.C. Chalkis 2-0 Lamia [Round of 64]
    • Karditsa 1-0 (aet) A.C. Chalkis [Round of 32]
  • 1980-81:
    • A.C. Chalkis 1-3 Olympiacos [Round of 64]
  • 1981-82:
    • A.C. Chalkis 2-1 Trikkala [Round of 64]
    • Toxotis Volos 2-1 (aet) A.C. Chalkis [Round of 32]
  • 1982-83:
  • 1983-84:
    • A.C. Chalkis 0-2 OFI [Round of 64]
  • 1984-85:
    • Aris F.C.|Aris 9-0 A.C. Chalkis [Round of 64]
  • 1985-86:
    • A.C. Chalkis 6-1 Neapoli Piraeus [Round of 64]
    • A.C. Chalkis - Iraklis Kavala (1-0, 0-1 pen. 3-0) [Round of 32]
    • A.C. Chalkis - AEK (1-2, 0-2) [Round of 16]
  • 1986-87:
    • Olympiakos Chalkida 2-1 A.C. Chalkis [Round of 64]
  • 1987-88:
    • Panathinaikos 2-0 A.C. Chalkis [Round of 64]
  • 1988-89:
    • Group 14
  1. Aris 4
  2. Anagennisi Arta 2
  3. A.C. Chalkis 0
  1. Panachaiki 7
  2. Olympiakos Volos 7
  3. EAR 3
  4. A.C. Chalkis 2
  5. Pontioi Kozani 1
  1. Ethnikos 6
  2. A.C. Chalkis 5
  3. Panaitolikos 5
  4. Athenaicos 5
  5. Niki Volos 4
  1. Agios Nikolaos 10
  2. Anagennisi Giannitsa 8
  3. Ethnikos 7
  4. A.C. Chalkis 3
  5. Doxa Drama 0

Evia Cup

Current squad

As of 16 May 2012 [15]

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

No. Position Player
Greece GK Georgios Monos
Greece GK Georgios Barolas
Greece DF Athanasios Gounaris
Greece DF Anastasios Pastos
Greece DF Christos Patsatzoglou
Greece DF Antonios Nikolaou
Greece DF Vasilios Petsis
Greece DF Kyriakos Tsiggros
Greece DF Konstantinos Kallimanis
Greece DF Konstantinos Tavlaridis
Greece DF Konstantinos Tourlas
Greece DF Orestis Nikolopoulos
Greece DF Spyridon Gitsalis
No. Position Player
Greece MF Vasilios Bakris
Greece MF Georgios Giogios
Greece MF Georgios Kalogeropoulos
Greece MF Erwin Birbilis
Greece MF Ioannis Thomas
Greece MF Loukas Karakatsanis
Greece MF Nikolaos Lekkas
Greece MF Panagiotis Taftaridis
Greece MF Renos Tsoutis
Greece MF Christos Maniatis
Greece FW Aggelos Giokas
Greece FW Michalis Kafantaris

References

  1. ↑ Abbink, Dinant; Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander. "Greece - List of Second Level Final Tables". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  2. ↑ "Η ΓΕΝΙΚΗ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΙΑ ΥΠΟΔΕΙΚΝΥΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΣΥΓΧΩΝΕΥΣΙΝ ΤΩΝ ΣΩΜΑΤΕΙΩΝ ΔΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΞΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΙΝ ΤΩΝ ΑΘΛΗΤΩΝ (The General Secretary points towards merger of clubs for athletes' benefit)". Athlitiki Echo (in Greek) (Athens). 10 June 1967.
  3. ↑ "Ένωση Ποδοσφαιρικών Σωματείων Ευβοίας, Οι πρώτες ομάδες (Evia Football Clubs Association, the first clubs)" (in Greek). Evia Football Clubs Association. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  4. ↑ Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander. "Greece - Mergers and Name Changes". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  5. ↑ Abbink, Dinant; Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander. "Greece - List of Second Level Final Tables". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  6. ↑ Abbink, Dinant; Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander. "Greece - Final Tables 1959-1999". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  7. ↑ Vazogiannis, M. (15 June 1977). "Η Χαλκίδα κάνει σήμερα τον γύρο του θριάμβου (Chalkida performs the victory march today)". Athlitiki Echo (in Greek). Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  8. ↑ Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander. "Greece - List of Third Level Final Tables". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  9. ↑ Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander. "Greece Third Level 2003/04". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  10. ↑ "Χαλκίδα: Οργή και απογοήτευση (Chalkida: Anger and disappointment)". Athlitiki Echo (in Greek). 3 August 2004.
  11. ↑ ""Βουλιάζει" η Χαλκίδα (Chalkida "sinking")". Athlitiki Echo (in Greek). 26 July 2004.
  12. ↑ "Χαλκίδα: Τέλος εποχής (Chalkida: End of an era)". Athlitiki Echo (in Greek). 6 September 2006.
  13. ↑ "Evia FCA competitions, 2009–10 standings" (in Greek). Evia Football Clubs Association. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  14. ↑ "ΤΕΛΙΚΟΙ ΚΥΠΕΛΛΟΥ (Amateur Cup finals)" (in Greek). Evia Football Clubs Association. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  15. ↑ "AO Chalkis squad". aoxalkisfc.gr. Retrieved 16 May 2012.

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