Filippos Veria

A.C. Filippos Verias
Full name	Athletic Club Filippos Verias (Greek: Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Φίλιππος Βέροιας)
Nickname(s)	Vasilias (The King) Erythrolefkoi (The Red-Whites)
Short name	Filippos
Founded	1962
Arena	Filippeio Indoor Hall
Capacity	1,500
President	Giorgos Fikatas
Head coach	Stelios Sereikidis
League	Handball Premier
2014–2015	5th
Home Away
Website Official site

Active departments of Filippos Veria
Basketball	Handball (Men)	Handball (Women)
Volleyball	Athletics	Gymnastics

A.C. Filippos Verias^[1] (Greek:Α.Σ. Φίλιππος Βέροιας) is a Greek sport club based in Veria. It has departments Basketball, Volleyball and Handball. The most successful is the department of Handball that has won many titles. Filippos was founded in 1962 and its colours are white and red. Its emblem is Philip of Macedonia. Filippos is also known as "Vasilias (the king)" and its the second most successful club in Premier Handball/A1 Ethniki history.

History

Filippos Veroia Handball Club was founded in 1977, when the first Greek Handball tournament was held. Filippos won the first tournament in 1977, organised by SEGAS.^[2] The next years Filippos won 8 moreover championships (reaching 9 totally) and 5 cups and became the club with the most titles in Greek Handball along with Ionikos Nea Filadelphia. In 2003 Filippos played in the final of EHF Challenge Cup but it was defeated by Danish team Skjern Håndbold. It was the first Greek handball club that played in a final of a European competition.^[3][4] Filippos also participated in 2003–04 EHF Champions League where they achieved three wins in six matches and they were disqualified in a quadruple tie as they had the worst GD. After four years of decline, Filippos finished 4th in the A1 championship and after PAOK's rejection to play in the EHF Challenge Cup, they registered to the competition and they'll replace the team. This was the first time after five years that Filippos would participate in a European competition. Moreover, Theodoros Karipidis (president and owner of Veria), involvement in Filippos, boosted club's morale and confidence and it appears that there's an opportunity for the dream to resurrect from its ashes. In co-operation with Karipidis, the board of the club achieved to sign the captain of the Greek national team, Giorgos Mastrogiannis, as well as Savvas Karipidis.^[5][6]

Recent seasons

Season	Division	Place	Notes
2000–01	A1 Ethniki	2nd
2001–02	A1 Ethniki	3rd
2002–03	A1 Ethniki	1st	Winner Greek Cup
2003–04	A1 Ethniki	2nd
2004–05	A1 Ethniki	2nd
2005–06	A1 Ethniki	3rd
2006–07	A1 Ethniki	2nd	Winner Greek Cup
2007–08	A1 Ethniki	5th
2008–09	A1 Ethniki	5th	Finalist Greek Cup
2009–10	A1 Ethniki	2nd
2010–11	A1 Ethniki	5th
2011–12	A1 Ethniki	8th
2012–13	A1 Ethniki	9th
2013–14	A1 Ethniki	7th
2014–15	A1 Ethniki	5th
2015–16	Handball Premier		Winner Greek Cup

European record

	Agg.		1st match	2nd match	Competition	Round
HC Granitas Kaunas	46 : 58	Filippos Verias	26 : 33	20 : 25	2003–04 EHF Champions League	Qualification round
Skjern Handball	67 : 55	Filippos Verias	27 : 30	35 : 25	2002–03 EHF Challenge Cup	Final
Krasnodar	60 : 61	Filippos Verias	29 : 35	31 : 26	2015–16 EHF Challenge Cup	Round 2
AEK	56 : 68	Filippos Verias	34 : 36	22 : 32	2015–16 EHF Challenge Cup	Round 3
Benfica	57 : 40	Filippos Verias	34 : 14	23 : 26	2015–16 EHF Challenge Cup	Last 16

Honours

• Greek Men's Handball Championship
  • Winner (8): 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2003
• Greek Men's Handball Cup
  • Winner (6): 1985, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2007, 2016
• EHF Champions League
  • Group stage (1): 2004
• EHF Cup Winners' Cup
  • Semi final (1): 1993
• EHF Challenge Cup
  • Finalist (1): 2003

Current squad

Season 2015–16^[7]

Number	Player	Position	Birth Date	Height (m)
1	Christos Evaggelopoulos	Goalkeeper	18/11/1993	1.93
2	Nikos Arvanitidis	Pivot	22/6/1988	1.84
3	Nikos Zlatanos	Goalkeeper	11/10/1994	1.88
5	Nikos Charalabidis	Left Extreme	25/1/1997	1.88
6	Stefanos Michailidis	Left Inter	15/5/1994	1.98
7	Diogenis Apostolidis	Left Inter	23/2/1996	1.93
9	Anastasios Pantelidis	Left Inter	23/2/1996	1.80
10	Charalampos Ananiadis	Pivot	29/7/1986	1.90
11	Dimitris Mpantis	Play Maker	15/6/1980	1.92
12	Akis Psomiadis	Goalkeeper	3/8/1996	1.88
14	Theofanis Deligiannis	Left Extreme	11/5/1987	1.80
18	Grigoris Sanikis	Left Inter	7/8/1980	1.87
20	Savas Karipidis	Right Extreme	23/5/1979	1.82
21	Kostas Psomiadis	Left Extreme	1/6/1997	1.88
22	Giorgos Kotsifas	Goalkeeper	27/6/1982	1.87
23	Angelos Dragolas	Right extreme	14/4/1991	1.85
25	Giorgos Mastrogiannis	Play Maker	30/8/1981	1.84
31	Kostas Tsilimparis	Play Maker	30/8/1981	1.84
33	Thomas Koronas	Goalkeeper	9/3/1994	1.85
55	Stauros Rebelakos	Left Extreme	13/6/1989	1.76
69	Stauros Papadopoulos	Left Extreme	28/5/1980	1.80
77	Veselinovic Slobodan	Inter	12/7/1985	1.95
88	Nikos Nikolaidis	Left Extreme	21/4/1988	1.75

Technical staff

Technical staff
Head coach	Kostas Toutsis
Assistant coach	Kostas Deligiannis
Fitness coach	Giannis Tzoumakis

See also

• Filippos Verias B.C.
• Veria F.C.
• GE Verias

References

1. A.C. Filippos Verias eurohandball.com
2. "Filippos Veria". handball.gr. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
3. "Έγραψε ιστορία" (in Greek). tanea.gr. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
4. "Χάντμπολ: Ο Διομήδης Αργους σε ραντεβού με την Ιστορία". tovima.gr. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
5. Βόμβα με τον αρχηγό της Εθνικής!
6. Συνεχίζει τις μεταγραφικές βόμβες ο βασιλιάς Φίλιππος
7. Hellenic Handball Federation Filippos Veria squad

External links

• Official Site
• A.C. Filippos Verias eurohandball.com, Filippos Verias