Egaleo Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Αιγάλεω 1931) is a Greek professional

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club based in

Egaleo Aigaleo or Egaleo ( el, Αιγάλεω ) is a suburban municipality in the western part of Athens, belonging to the West Athens regional administrative unit. It takes its name from Mount Aigaleo. Its population was 69,946 at the 2011 census. Ge ...

, a suburb of Athens, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931). The team currently competes in the

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, the second tier of Greek football and it holds home matches at

Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium is a football stadium in Egaleo, Athens, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football games and is the home stadium of Egaleo FC. it has an effective capacity of 8,217 people. It was built in 1968 and named aft ...

. 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, three other clubs in the district merged with A.E. 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 second better ever classification, fifth (fourth in the 1970–71 season), 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,

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, Middlesbrough and Villarreal CF, which ended with the conquest of just one point. In the league, the club finished sixth, trailing PAOK 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. Ilisiakos Football Club ( el, Ηλυσιακός A.O.) is an Athens-based football club that was founded in 1927 by Michalis Xydis, Lambropoulos, Evgenopoulos, Nikolaos Plessas, ''et al.''. They played in Delta Ethiniki until 2003. Ilisiakos spent ...

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 2009–10 season, due to the merger being declared illegal by the Greek Council of State, Egaleo FC was relegated to the Delta Ethniki.

Honours

Domestic

Leagues

* Second Division :Winners (4): 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01 *

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:Winners (2): 1998–99, 2018–19 *

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:Winners (2): 1995–96, 2012–13

Regional

Leagues

* Athens FCA Championship **Winners (8): 1947–48, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1959–60, 1960–61, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17

Cups

* Athens FCA Cup **Winners (1): 2014−15

Supporters

The ultras group ''Gate 12'' have friendly relation with fans of

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, the towns of

and Leganés happen to be twinned too.

Players

Current squad

Notable former players

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

Anestis Agritis Anestis Agritis ( el, Ανέστης Αγρίτης; born 16 April 1981) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for Aigeas Plomari, Egaleo, Kickers Offenbach in Germany's 2. Bundesliga, Iraklis Thessaloniki, ...

Giorgos Barkoglou Georgios Barkoglou ( el, Γεώργιος Μπάρκογλου; born 8 July 1978) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play ...

Eleftherios Poupakis Eleftherios "Lefteris" Poupakis (Greek: Ελευθέριος "Λευτέρης" Πουπάκης; born 28 February 1946) is a retired Greek footballer who played as a goalkeeper. During his career he played for Egaleo F.C., Olympiacos F.C., OFI ...

Giannis Skopelitis Giannis Skopelitis (Greek: Γιάννης Σκοπελίτης; born 2 March 1978) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Portsmouth Skopelitis joined FA Premier League club Portsmouth on 28 January 2005 ...

Kostas Papoutsis Konstantinos Papoutsis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Παπουτσής; born 31 March 1979) is a Greek footballer. Career Born in Athens, Papoutsis began playing professional football with Greek third division side Kerkyra in 1997. He also p ...

Antonis Petropoulos Antonis Petropoulos ( el, Αντώνης Πετρόπουλος; born 28 January 1986) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was also part of Greece youth national teams. Career Egaleo Petropoulos was born on ...

Sotiris Leontiou Sotiris Leontiou (Greek: Σωτήρης Λεοντίου, born 17 July 1984) is a retired Greek footballer who coaches for P.O. Psychikou academies. He played as defensive midfielder or as a left full back. Career He started his playing career ...

* Victor Mitropoulos *

Dimitrios Konstantopoulos Dimitrios Konstantopoulos ( el, Δημήτριος Κωνσταντόπουλος; born 29 November 1978) is a Greek former international football player who played as a goalkeeper. After playing amateur football with Iraklis Ampelokipi, Kons ...

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* Marko Marić *

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Daniel Edusei Daniel Edusei (born 2 September 1980) is a Ghanaian former professional footballerwho played as a defender. He represented the Ghana national team between 1998 and 2006. Career Edusei was born in Kumasi. He signed a five-year contract with Eg ...

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* Faraz Fatemi * Olivier Makor *

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Srđan Kljajević Srđan Kljajević ( Cyrillic: Crђaн Kљajeвић; born 23 November 1974) is a Montenegrin goalkeeping coach and former player. Club career Born in Titograd, Kljajević began playing football with the youth side of FK Bokelj. He played for FK Z ...

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Aleko Yordan Aleko Yordan (Alekos Iordanou) ( el, Αλέκος Ιορδάνου; 10 January 1938 – 21 September 2019) was a Turkish professional footballer who played as a center back and a later manager. Club career Yordan from a very young age he showed ...

Dragan Stojkov Dragan Stojkov ( mk, Драган Стојков; born on 23 February 1988) is a Macedonian professional footballer. Club career Born in Strumica, after playing in his homeland club FK Belasica, and an unsuccessful journey in South Korea on loan ...

Notable former managers

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* 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 Alexios "Alexis" Kougias ( el, Αλέξης Κούγιας; born on 24 January 1951 in Petroupolis, Athens) is a Greeks, Greek penologist, lawyer, former football player and football administrator. Law career He studied law at the University of ...

* Ioannis Paltoglou

Technical staff

European matches

References

Sources

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

External links

2003–04 EUFO team profileGOAL4Replay team profileEgaleo Ultras Group
{{Super League Greece teamlist Football clubs in Athens Association football clubs established in 1931 Football clubs in Attica 1931 establishments in Greece Super League Greece 2 clubs