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: Ποδοσφαιρικός Αθλητικός Όμιλος Ρουφ;

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: Football Athletic Club Rouf)'' is a

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club, based in Rouf,

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. The association was founded in 1947. The club has played in its traditional colours of red and white since its creation in 1947, after

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. The chairman of the club is Athanasios Kafezas, a Greek businessman. The current stadium is the ''Rouf Municipal Stadium Rouf-Dimitris Giannakopoulos'', seating 1,600 spectators.

History

In 1968, Amyna Rouf and Erigona merged with Rouf. In 2009, they promoted to

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. During the 2011–12 season Rouf were active in the Football League 2 - South in Greece and spent their third consecutive season in the third tier of Greek football. On occasion the club has been criticised for being a "mesh up" of several Greek clubs including

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and

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. The average attendance at Rouf's home games in the 2011–12 season was 467, An increase on the 2010–11 season by 109. Dimitris Arnoutis is the manager and head coach of the club and has enjoyed a run of success since taking over from Michalis Papadopoulos in late 2007. He is the longest serving manager at the club since Costas Gianakis from 1956 to 1970. In the 2012–13 season, the club played in the

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(Group 2).

Ranking history

*1972:

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- Group 2: 3rd *1973: Second Division - Group 1: 3rd *1974: Second Division - Group 1: 9th *1975: Second Division - Group 1: 14th - relegated *2009:

- Group 8: 1st (57 pts) *2010–11: Football League 2 - South Group: 11th *2011–12: Football League 2 - South Group: 12th - relegated

Season to season

Sources:

League history

Cup appearances

*Athens Cup: **1976: Defeated

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3-2 **2002: Defeated

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1-0 **2009: Defeated

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2-1 *Greek Cup: **

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- Rouf: 2-1

Notable former players

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*Michael Giannoukakis *Ioannis Georgopoulos (later appeared in

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) *Giannakopoulos brothers *Vasilis Kandias (later appeared in Fostiras Tavros) *Kotsos brothers *Georgios Labrou (later appeared in Ionikos) *Panagiotis Livas (later appeared in

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and the Greece national team) *Polioudakis *Athanassios Remoundos (later appeared in

Ethnikos Piraeus Ethnikos Piraeus (Greek: Εθνικός Πειραιώς) is a Greek multisport club based in Piraeus. It was founded in 1923. The full name of the club is Ethnikos Omilos Filathlon Pireos/Phalirou or Ethnikos OFPF (Greek: Εθνικός Όμιλ ...

and

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) *Sainis *Simatos brothers *Stergios Stergiou (later appeared in

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and Ionikos) *Takounas *Themis Vangis (later appeared in

and

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) *Xynias

References

External links

Official website
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