Egaleo Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Αιγάλεω 1931) is a Greek professional football 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 Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates a ...

, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931). The team currently competes in the Super League 2, 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

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for the first time in 2004–05, appearing in the group stages (after defeating Gençlerbirliği of

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2–1 score on aggregate) with

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, S.S. Lazio,

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and

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, which ended with the conquest of just one point. In

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, the club finished sixth, trailing PAOK by just one point. After a disappointing 2006–07, Egaleo was relegated back to the second level. Another

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followed in the next year, and a third in 2008–09. In August 2009, a merger between Egaleo and Ilisiakos F.C. 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

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:Winners (4): 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01 * Third Division :Winners (2): 1998–99, 2018–19 * Fourth Division :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 CD Leganés, 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 * Giorgos Barkoglou *

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., OF ...

* Giannis Skopelitis * Kostas Papoutsis * Antonis Petropoulos *

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 care ...

* Victor Mitropoulos * Dimitrios Konstantopoulos *

Agustin Kola Agustin Kola (born 10 May 1959), is an Albanian professional football coach and retired player. He played most of his career at 17 Nëntori Tirana where he established himself as one of the greatest strikers of his generation, winning several ...

* Marko Marić *

Danijel Cesarec Danijel Cesarec (born 8 January 1983) is a Croatian retired footballer. Club career NK Marsonia Cesarec started his career in NK Marsonia. He played there 2 years (2000-2002), making 40 appearances and scoring 6 league goals. This good seaso ...

* Daniel Edusei * Bennard Yao Kumordzi * Faraz Fatemi * Olivier Makor * Mahamadou Sidibè *

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 ...

* Paweł Kieszek *

Aleksandar Stojanović Aleksandar "Dika" Stojanović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Стојановић Дика; born 19 June 1954) is a Serbian former football goalkeeper. He got 2 caps for Yugoslavia. Career After playing 5 seasons with his home tow ...

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 loa ...

Notable former managers

Les Shannon Leslie Shannon (12 March 1926 – 2 December 2007) was an English football player and manager. As a forward, he scored 40 goals in 274 league games in the Football League, playing for Liverpool between November 1944 and November 1949 and the ...

Ilie Dumitrescu Ilie Dumitrescu (; born 6 January 1969) is a Romanian football manager and former professional footballer. As a player, he was a winger who notably played in the Premier League with Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United, and in La Liga with S ...

* 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 Greek penologist, lawyer, former football player and football administrator. Law career He studied law at the University of Thessa ...

* 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