Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia

Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia

Founded	1930
Based in	Nea Filadelfeia
Colours	blue and white
Titles	10 Men's Handball Championships, 5 Men's Handball Cups, 2 Women's Volleyball Championships,
Branches	Basketball, Volleyball, Handball

Departments of Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia
Basketball	Volleyball	Handball

Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (also Ionikos Nea Philadelphia) is a sport club that is based in Nea Filadelfeia, an Athenian suburb. The full name of club is A.S. Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (Greek: Α. Σ. Ιωνικός Νέας Φιλαδέλφειας). It was founded in 1930. The club has teams in many sports. The more successful teams are the handball and basketball teams. The colours of Ionikos are blue and white.

Basketball team

Ionikos N.F. played in the Greek Basket League from 2001 to 2005. In 2004, Ionikos moved to Amaliada, Greece and was named Iionikos N.F. Amaliada, but the team returned to Nea Filadelfeia at the end of the season. In the 2003–04 season, Ionikos played in the Eurocup,^[1] and in the 2004–05 season, Ionikos played in the EuroChallenge.^[2] Today, the team competes in the Greek B League.

Notable players

Apostolos Kontos Michalis Kakiouzis Prodromos Nikolaidis Tzanis Stavrakopoulos Georgios Bosganas Georgios Limniatis Periklis Dorkofikis Vassilis Soulis Nikos Vetoulas Sasa Marcovic Nikos Papanikolopoulos Antonios Asimakopoulos Alexios Tsioumpris Michalis Perrakis Miloš Šakota Spiros Panteliadis

Jurica Žuža Teoman Alibegovic Michael Koch Mirza Kurtović Antti Nikkilä Larry Ayuso / Justin Hamilton Tony Dawson Eddie Gill Carl Thomas Kenyan Weaks Charles Jones Antoine Carr Robert Conley

Handball team

The handball department of Ionikos is the most successful team of the club. Ionikos has got fifteen domestic titles (ten championships and five cups). In season 2010-11 Ionikos relegated in A2 Category.^[3] In recent season (2014–15), it finished in 1st place in A2 Ethniki and promoted to A1. However, it was withdrawn from the championship due to financial problems and was replaced by Archelaos Katerinis.^[4]

Titles

• 10 Greek Men's Championships:^[5] 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1999.
• 5 Greek Men's Cups:^[6] 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993.

Recent seasons

Season	Division	Place	Notes
2001-02	A1 Ethniki	5th	Finalist Greek Cup
2002-03	A1 Ethniki	4th	Finalist Greek Cup
2003-04	A1 Ethniki	3rd
2004-05	A1 Ethniki	7th
2005-06	A1 Ethniki	10th
2006-07	A1 Ethniki	11th
2007-08	A1 Ethniki	9th
2008-09	A1 Ethniki	11th	Relegated to A2
2009-10	A2 Ethniki	1st	Promoted to A1
2010-11	A1 Ethniki	11th	Relegated to A2
2011-12	A2 Ethniki	5th
2012-13	A2 Ethniki	5th
2013-14	A2 Ethniki	3rd
2014-15	A2 Ethniki	1st	Promoted to A1 but after it was withdrawn from the championship

Volleyball team

The volleyball department had also donated successes, mainly the women’s team. The women’s team has conquered two Greek championships. During last season (2012–13) the team played in A2 category, in 2nd group.

The men’s team of Ionikos plays in A2 Ethniki in 2nd group. It has played 22 times in A1 Ethniki. The better period of team was the decade of seventies when Ionikos took the three place of championship twice.

Titles

• 2 Greek women's championships: 1989, 1994.

References

1. Ionikos NF Egnatia Bank, ULEB Cup 2003–04 statistics.
2. IONIKOS NF AMALIADA ACCUMULATED STATISTICS.
3. "Υποβιβάστηκε ο Ιωνικός". onsports.gr. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
4. "Και επίσημα τέλος ο Ιωνικός ΝΦ". sport-fm.gr. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
5. Greek handball Federation, Greek Champions
6. Greek Handball Federation, cup's winners