GS Ilioupolis () is a

multi-sport club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

based in

Ilioupoli Ilioupoli (, " Sun City") is a suburban municipality and a town in Central Athens regional unit and located in the central-southern part of the Athens agglomeration. Its name is the modern form of the ancient name of Heliopolis in Egypt ...

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. The club was founded in 1953, and it has about 2,000 athletes competing in nine sports.

Colours and crest

GS Ilioupoli's colours are red and blue and its logo features a setting sun on its nearby mountains and the ground.

Sports

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

(Men's and Women's) *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

Judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...

Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

Track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

(Men's and Women's) *

Water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...

Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...

(''defunct'') *

Futsal Futsal is a variant of association football played between two teams of five players each on a court smaller than a football pitch. Its rules are based on the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game of association football, and i ...

(''defunct'')

Football team

The football team of Ilioupolis achieved promotion to the

Beta Ethniki The Football League () was the second highest professional football league in Greece since its inception in 1962 as ''Beta Ethniki'' and until 2019. It then served as a third tier after the creation of the Super League 2 as the new second tier ...

(2nd tier championship) during the 2021–22 season.

Honours

Gamma Ethniki The Gamma Ethniki (, C National Division) is the Greek football league system, third highest football league in Greece. History The Gamma Ethniki began in 1965 as an amateur championship, while in 1983 it was changed to professional. Although no ...

** Winners (1): 2021–22

Players

Current squad

Basketball team

Ilioupolis has basketball team both men's and women's. The basketball team of GS Ilioupolis plays in the Athens local divisions. Biggest success of the club was winning the

championship, in the season 1994–95

Volleyball team

The women’s volleyball team of GS Ilioupolis plays in the

A1 Ethniki The Greek Basketball League (GBL), and also known as the Stoiximan Greek Basketball League (GBL) for sponsorship reasons, is the first tier level professional basketball league in Greece. It is run by the Hellenic Basketball Associat ...

(1st-tier championship). It plays for 2nd consecutive season in A1 Ethniki and has played again in the past, from 1995 to 1999.

Water polo team

GS Ilioupolis water polo team plays in

A1 Ethniki Water Polo The A1 Ethniki (), often referred to as the Greek Water Polo League, is the highest professional water polo league in Greece. It is run by the Hellenic Swimming Federation. It is considered one of the top national leagues in European water polo, ...

. It won the ascension during the last season (2014–15) when it finished in the 2nd place in A2 Ethniki championship.

Track and field

* Rankings: ** 2010: 63rd (out of 321 clubs) ** 2011: 49th (out of 299 clubs). ** 2012: 44th (out of 281 clubs)

Futsal team

Ilioupoli had a futsal team. This team had won a

Greek cup The Greek Football Cup (), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Betsson Greek Cup for sponsorship reasons is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second-most important domestic men's footba ...

in 2009. In the same year it was the finalist of the championship. The next years, Ilioupoli Futsal team finished in the 5th or 6th place of the championship until 2012 when the team withdrew from the championship.

Titles

;Futsal team * Hellenic Futsal Cup ** Winner (1) :2009

References

External links

GS Ilioupolis
– official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Ilioupolis Football clubs in Attica Association football clubs established in 1953 1953 establishments in Greece Multi-sport clubs in Greece Super League Greece 2 clubs Ilioupoli