GAS Kilkis (full name: Gymnastic Athletic Club Kilkis, el, Αθλητικός Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Κιλκίς, Γ.Α.Σ. Κιλκίς) is a Greek

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

and

beach handball Beach handball is a team sport where two teams pass and bounce or roll a ball, trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. The game is similar to standard handball, but it is played on sand instead of on a solid floor. Because the ball ...

club based in

Kilkis Kilkis ( el, Κιλκίς) is a city in Central Macedonia, Greece. As of 2011 there were 22,914 people living in the city proper, 28,745 people living in the municipal unit, and 51,926 in the municipality of Kilkis. It is also the capital city o ...

. It was founded in 1980 and has played in

A1 ethniki The Greek Basket League (GBL), often also referred to as the Greek A1 Basketball League, or Greek Basketball Championship (originally called Panhellenic Basketball Championship), and also known as the Stoiximan Basket League for sponsorship reaso ...

(first-tier division) many consecutive years. It has won one cup, in 2004. The home arena of the club is the municipal gymnasium of Kilkis and the club's colours are blue and red.

History

GAS Kilkis was founded in 1980. Few year later it promoted to

A1 Ethniki The Greek Basket League (GBL), often also referred to as the Greek A1 Basketball League, or Greek Basketball Championship (originally called Panhellenic Basketball Championship), and also known as the Stoiximan Basket League for sponsorship reaso ...

and the 1993–94 season played in the final of the championship. Overall, GAS Kilkis has played three times in the finals of the championship and ranked in 2nd place, the years 1994, 2000 and 2008. It has won one

Greek cup The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second most im ...

in 2004 and even two times it was a Greek cup finalist. The previous season, GAS Kilkis, which had been demoted to A2 Ethniki, placed 11th overall. The club has also youth teams, two of them, the Men's U-16 team and women U-16 team have won the championship in 1990. The beach handball team has won the Men's European Beach Tour Finals 2016.

Recent seasons

Honours

National

* Greek Handball Cup **Winner (1): 2004 **Finalist (2): 1999, 2005 * Greek Handball Championship **Finalist (3): 1994, 2000, 2008

European

* European Beach Tour Finals: **Winner (1): 2016

References

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