A.P.O. Akratitos Ano Liosia ( el, Α.Π.Ο. Ακράτητος Άνω Λιοσίων) is a Greek

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professional club from

Ano Liosia Ano Liosia ( el, Άνω Λιόσια) is a suburb and a former municipality in the northern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Fyli, of which it is the seat and a munici ...

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, Greece. They currently play in the Alpha Division of the

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championship, which is the third level of the Greek football pyramid. They maintain a quite strong academy of youngsters.

History

Akratitos spent their first years in relative obscurity, until they rose from the lower ranks to the top flight under the managership of

Giannis Pathiakakis Giannis Pathiakakis ( el, Γιάννης Παθιακάκης; 15 June 1953 – 8 February 2002) was a Greek professional footballer who played as a midfielder and a later manager. After his death the stadium of Akratitos was named Yiannis Path ...

, who died on the pitch during a training session in 2002. The stadium was subsequently named after him. Akratitos spent 3 consecutive seasons (2001-02 until 2003-04) in the

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before being relegated in 2004 after losing a relegation match against

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which took place in

Makedonikos Stadium Makedonikos Stadium (greek: Γήπεδο Μακεδονικού / Gipedo Makedonikou) is a football stadium located in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is home to Makedonikos football club. The stadium was also used by Iraklis FC for two seasons when t ...

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. The following season Akratitos were re-promoted to Alpha Ethniki. The 2005-06 season was meant to be their last in the Greek top-flight, as they finished last and were relegated again to the

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, but they decided to withdraw from the professional leagues completely and were automatically demoted to the

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. During that season they also achieved the lowest attendance ever in the Alpha Ethniki, with only 26 spectators watching their home game against

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. The team faced another relegation in 2009, when they finished 12th in Group 7 of the

and got relegated to the local

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championships.

European matches

In July 2003 Akratitos took part in the

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. They played against

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team

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for the second round, using their youth team, and were eliminated.

Stadium

The team is using the

Yannis Pathiakakis Stadium Yiannis Pathiakakis Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Ano Liosia, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home stadium of Akratitos. The stadium holds 5,000 and was built in 1965. It is named afte ...

as their home ground. Until the death of

, it was known as Akratitos Stadium. It has a capacity of 4,944.

Honours

*Runners-up (2): 2000–01, 2004–05

Notable former players

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* Martin Zafirov * Froylan Ledezma *

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* Laurent Macquet * Dimitris Papadopoulos * Viacheslav Khorkin *

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* Paolo Vanoli *

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References

External links

Official website

{{Super League Greece teamlist Association football clubs established in 1963 Football clubs in Attica 1963 establishments in Greece West Attica