Egaleo F.C.

Egaleo F.C.

Full name	Egaleo Football Club
Nickname(s)	Egaleo
Founded	1946
Ground	Stavros Mavrothalassitis Egaleo, Athens, Greece
Capacity	8,217
Chairman	Ioannis Paltoglou
Manager	Giorgos Sourlis
League	Athens A Local-1st group
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Egaleo F.C. (Greek: Αθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω) is a Greek football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931), it holds home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium, with a 14,000-seat capacity.

Club colours are blue and white.

History

Egaleo was founded in 1931 by Demetrios Haniotis and Georgios Aronis, as Athletic Union of Ierapolis (Αθλητική Ένωση Ιεραπόλεως – Athlitiki Enosis Ieropoleos). In 1946, four clubs in the district merged with Ierapoleos to form Athletic Club Egaleo (Αθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω – Athlitikos Omilos Egaleo), which managed to reach for the first time the first division in 1961.

In the 2003–04 season, Egaleo managed its best ever classification, fourth, playing UEFA Cup for the first time in 2004–05, appearing in the group stages (after defeating Gençlerbirliği of Turkey 2–1 score on aggregate) with FK Partizan, S.S. Lazio, Middlesbrough and Villarreal CF, which ended with the conquest of just one point. In the league, the club finished sixth, trailing PAOK F.C. by just one point.

After a disappointing 2006–07, Egaleo was relegated back to the second level. Another relegation followed in the next year, and a third in 2008–09.

In August 2009, a merger between Egaleo and Ilisiakos F.C. took place, as the other club participated in the second division, with the purchase being made effective by Egaleo's owner Thomas Mitropoulos; the new club, which took Ilisiakos' place, was renamed Egaleo A.O.

At the end of the 2009–2010 season, due to the merger being declared illegal by the Greek Council of State, Egaleo F.C. was relegated to the Delta Ethniki.

Honours

National

• Second Division: 1960–61, 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01
• Third Division: 1998–99
• Fourth Division: 1995–96, 2012–13

Local

• Third Division: 1947–48
• Second Division: 1949–50
• A2 Division: 1953–54
• Athens Football Clubs Association: 1959–60, 1960–61, 2014–15
• Local Cup: 2014–15

Fans

The ultras group Gate 12 have friendly relation with fans of CD Leganés, the towns of Egaleo and Leganés happen to be twinned too.

Notable former players

Internationally capped players or players who have over 50 appearances for the club

• Anestis Agritis
• Giorgos Barkoglou
• Eleftherios Poupakis
• Giannis Skopelitis
• Antonis Petropoulos
• Victor Mitropoulos
• Dimitrios Konstantopoulos
• Agustin Kola
• Marko Marić
• Danijel Cesarec
• Daniel Edusei
• Bennard Yao Kumordzi
• Faraz Fatemi
• Olivier Makor
• Mahamadou Sidibè
• Srđan Kljajević
• Paweł Kieszek
• Aleksandar Stojanović

Notable former managers

• Les Shannon
• Ilie Dumitrescu
• Lefter Küçükandonyadis

Notable Chairmen

• Yiorghos Martinis (first chairman)
• Nikolaos Michos
• Dimitris Chaniotis
• Yannis Tresos
• Yiorghos Karabateas
• Yannis Panteliadis
• Dimitri Tusmanov
• Yiorghos Dalakouras
• Alexandros Stavropoulos
• Christos Kanellopoulos
• Victor Mitropoulos
• Dimitris Kalogeropoulos
• Alexis Kougias
• Ioannis Paltoglou

Technical staff

Name	Role
	Manager
	Assistant Manager
	Trainer

European matches

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
2002–03	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd Round	Fulham	1–1	0–1
2003–04	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd Round	Koper	2–3	2–2
2004–05	UEFA Cup	1st Round	Gençlerbirliği	1–0	1–1
		Group Stage (Group E)	Middlesbrough	0–1
			Partizan Belgrade		0–4
			Lazio	2–2
			Villarreal		0–4
2005–06	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd Round	Žalgiris Vilnius	1–3	3–2

Sources

• "Απ' τις λαμαρίνες στα σαλόνια της Ευρώπης" (Nikos D. Nikolaidis, "Embryo" Publications)

External links

• 2003–04 EUFO team profile
• GOAL4Replay team profile
• Egaleo Ultras Group