Egaleo F.C.

Egaleo Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Αιγάλεω 1931) is a Greek professional football club based in Aigaleo, a suburban town in the Athens urban area, 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.

For the basketball section, see Egaleo B.C.
Egaleo
Full nameΑθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω
A.O. Egaleo Football Club
Nickname(s)City [1]
Founded1931 (1931)
GroundStavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium
Capacity8,217
OwnerPaltoglou Family
ChairmanIoannis Paltoglou
ManagerThomas Grafas
LeagueSuper League Greece 2
2021–22Super League Greece 2, 8th
WebsiteClub website

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, S.S. Lazio, 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. 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

Leagues
Winners (4): 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01
Winners (2): 1998–99, 2018–19
Winners (2): 1995–96, 2012–13

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

Cups

Supporters

The ultras group Gate 12 have friendly relation with fans of CD Leganés, the towns of Egaleo and Leganés happen to be twinned too.

Players

Current squad
As of 28 February 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Greece GRE Michalis Christodoulidis
4 MF Albania ALB Luan Skenderaj
5 DF Greece GRE Michalis Papanikolas (vice-captain)
7 FW Greece GRE Andreas Vlachomitros
8 MF Greece GRE Giannis Stamatakis
9 FW Greece GRE Christos Kollas
10 FW Greece GRE Ilias Tsiligiris (captain)
11 MF Greece GRE Konstantinos Tsitsaris
12 FW Greece GRE Giannis Paltoglou
14 DF Greece GRE Giannis Pechlivanopoulos
15 DF Greece GRE Michalis Bousis
17 MF Greece GRE Alexios Nikolakopoulos
18 FW Argentina ARG Cristian Ramírez
20 GK Greece GRE Georgios Sikalias (third-captain)
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 FW Greece GRE Giannis Bastianos
26 MF Greece GRE Dimitrios Polychronis
27 MF Argentina ARG Juan Mattea
28 MF Greece GRE Spyros Fourlanos
30 MF Greece GRE Elini Dimoutsos
73 MF Sierra Leone SLE John Kamara
77 DF Greece GRE Georgios Drenogiannis
84 FW Greece GRE Andreas Stamatis
88 MF Albania ALB Gertin Hoxhalli
90 FW Greece GRE Vasilios Raftopoulos
99 GK Greece GRE Dimitrios Skafidas
— DF Greece GRE Angelos Karatasios
— DF Greece GRE Vasilios Spinos

Notable former players

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

Notable former managers

Notable Chairmen

Technical staff
Name Role
Greece Manager
Greece Assistant manager
Greece Trainer

European matches
Season Competition Round Club Home Away
2002–03 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round England Fulham 1–1 0–1
2003–04 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round Slovenia Koper 2–3 2–2
2004–05 UEFA Cup 1st Round Turkey Gençlerbirliği 1–0 1–1
Group Stage
(Group E)		 England Middlesbrough 0–1
Serbia and Montenegro Partizan Belgrade 0–4
Italy Lazio 2–2
Spain Villarreal 0–4
2005–06 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round Lithuania Žalgiris Vilnius 1–3 3–2

References
  1. "Club's history | official wedsite". www.aoaigaleo.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 9 April 2022.

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