Achilleas Agrou (official name "Achilleas Agrou Athletic Club") is a sports association of the
Agros Community in the
Limassol District. It was founded on 8 May 1958 in the village of Agrou by village residents, as a cultural group, with the first official football section, with the aim of spreading the sports to the community. Today, the club has a basketball team that participates in the
Division B
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, as well as teams of Teenagers (U19) and children (U16) participating in the
Cyprus Basketball Federation championships. During the period 2014–2015 the basketball team re-opened and managed to reach the final of the championship, where it lost from the
Anagennisi Germasogeias
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Anagennisis Germasoyias is a Cypriot football club based in Yermasoyia, Lemesos province, Cyprus.
Anagennisis were founded in 1956. Their colours are blue and white and they play in Yermasoyia Municipal Stadium. ...
.
Basketball
In 1988 the basketball section of Achilleas Agrou was founded, which was the first to participate in the
Division B
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Mathematics
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in the period 1988–1989. In the late 1990s, the team will make history, as after winning the first basketball championship in 1998, the team will be in the
Division A
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Mathematics
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and will be able to stay in it for four years. At a greater moment in this period, the participation in the 2001
Cup
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semifinals were missed by
APOEL
APOEL FC ( el, ΑΠΟΕΛ; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', literally "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") ...
. After a period of 4 years when the basketball team was inactive, in September 2014 it re-opened and managed to reach the final of the championship.
Home ground
Since the foundation of the basketball section in 1988, the basketball court of the Apisitio Agros Gymnasium (a capacity of 250 fans). Since 2007, the ground of the team has been moved to the modern
Sports Center "Glafkos Clerides", where it is used until today.
Νotable players
* Christos Spirou
* Michalis Hadjifedonos
* Antonis Konstantinidis
* Giannos Pantelidis
* Adonis Christou
* Panayiotis Yerasiotis
Honors
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Cyprus Basketball Division B
The Cypriot Basketball Division B is currently the second-tier level men's professional basketball competition of the Cypriot basketball league system. It is run and governed by the Cyprus Basketball Federation.
Format
At present, eight clubs comp ...
(1): 1997–1998
Sources
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Αθλητισμός στον Αγρό
Sports clubs and teams established in 1956
Basketball teams in Cyprus