Doxa Drama F.C.

Doxa Drama FC

Full name	Gymnastikos Syllogos Doxa Drama
Nickname(s)	Mavraetoi (Black Eagles)
Founded	1918
Ground	Doxa Dramas Stadium Drama, Greece
Capacity	7,000
Owner	Stavros Dailakis
Chairman	Stavros Dailakis
Manager	Andreas Pantziaras
League	Gamma Ethniki
2014–15	Gamma Ethniki, 4th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Doxa Drama F.C. is a football club based in the city of Drama, Greece.

The club currently competes in the Greek Football League.

History

Takis Loukanidis started his career in Doxa.

During World War I, near the city of Drama, Macedonia, a team of English soldiers who played football regularly in their camp inspired the local Greek population to create the first football club in the region. Founded as Peleus in 1918, the team was renamed Doxa (Glory) in 1919.

Initially, the team colors were black and white with the logo of a black clover. After the war the team's logo was permanently changed to a black eagle, while the team colours of black and white remain until today.

The first formal match of Doxa was against AOK, the team of neighbouring city Kavala. In that first game Doxa won 3–0. Doxa Dramas is one of the founders of the Greek League Alpha Ethniki, the highest tier of Greek club football. Doxa reached the final of the Greek football Cup in 1953/54, 1957/58 and 1958/59, but lost all three finals to Olympiacos.

Doxa Drama participated in Alpha Ethniki for 21 seasons. Financial and administrative turmoil, however, led to the club being relegated to Greece’s amateur division, Delta Ethniki. In 2008–2009 Doxa had a strong year in the Third Division and clinched the Gamma Ethniki North title with two games to spare. Doxa returned to Beta Ethniki after 11 years for the 2009–2010 season, where the team finished 14th in the regular season and 13th after the Beta Ethniki play-outs.

Stadium

The stadium of Doxa Drama has a capacity of 7,000 people and it is situated in the western part of the town of Drama, in the district of Komninoi.

Current squad

2015-16 season

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

No. Position Player GK Anastasios Karadais GK Oresti Menka GK Evangelos Pagkakis DF Angelos Vramentzalis DF Thomas Gkaraklidis DF Stergios Laspantzis DF Konstantinos Petropoulos DF Crysostomos Revythopoulos DF Nikolaos Siampos DF Dimosthenis Tsiaras MF Konstantinos Dimantidis MF Konstantinos Kanetidis MF Alexios Koumproglou

No. Position Player MF Savvas Kyriakidis MF Athansios Ktsidis MF Ploutarchos Mpapouras MF Pantelis Ntoutsaridis MF Giannis Persidis MF Athanasios Stoikos MF Nikolaos Toungkelidis FW Nikolaos Gkaidatzis FW Michail Doulmplatzis FW Marko dos Santos FW Antonios Charitidis FW Dimitrios Gaidartzis

Notable players

• Georgios Georgiadis
• Takis Loukanidis
• Theodoros Pahatouridis
• Kyriakos Tohouroglou

Notable managers

• Kostas Vasilakakis (1981–95)
• Michalis Grigoriou
• Apostolos Charalampidis
• Makis Katsavakis

Achievements

• Greek Cup
  • Runners-up (3): 1953, 1958, 1959
• Participation in National Divisions:
  • Championship of Eastern Macedonia:1938-39.
  • Northern regional group: 1953-54, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1958-59.
  • Northern regional group: 1955-56 (3d).
  • Northern regional championship: 1957-58.
  • National championship: 1956-57 (5th), 1957-58 (7th), 1958-59 (5th).
  • 1st Division (A' Ethniki, Alpha Ethniki, Superleague): 1959-60 (6th), 1960-61 (7th), 1961-62 (16th), 1963-64 (11th), 1964-65 (16th), 1979-80 (12th), 1980-81 (9th), 1981-82 (11th), 1982-83 (12th), 1983-84 (11th), 1984-85 (13th), 1985-86 (14th), 1986-87 (14th), 1988-89 (9th), 1989-90 (10th), 1990-91 (8th), 1991-92 (13th), 1992-93 (13th), 1993-94 (15th), 1994-95 (16th), 2011-12 (16th).
  • 2nd Division (B' Ethniki, Beta Ethniki, Football League): 1962-63, 1965–66, 1978–79, 1987–88, 1995–96, 2009-10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013-14.
  • 3rd Division (Γ' Ethniki, Gamma Ethniki): 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005–2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008–2009, 2014-.
  • 4th Division (Δ' Ethniki, Delta Ethniki): 1999-2000.
  • National amateur division: 2000-01, 2001–02, 2002-03.

References

External links

• Official Doxa Drama Website
• Unofficial Fan Website
• Information about the stadium