Athens Kallithea F.C.

The club was founded on 18 August 1966 from the merger of five local clubs: Esperos, Iraklis, AE Kallitheas, Kallithaikos, and Pyrsos.[2]

In 1970, Kallithea's Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium, named after the Greek liberal politician and peace activist Grigoris Lambrakis, was opened to the public.

In 2002, Kallithea achieved promotion to Greece's top division for the first time. The club's first win in the competition was a 3–2 upset of PAOK at Toumba Stadium, thanks to two goals from Theofanis Gekas, on 14 September 2002.

After finishing ninth in 2004–05, Kallithea was relegated from the top division in 2005-06.

In the 2021-22 season, Kallithea finished second in Super League 2, seven points back of league winners Levadiakos for promotion to Super League 1, which was the club's most successful season since it last appeared in the top division in 2005–06.

In September 2022, the club rebranded as Athens Kallithea FC. The presentation of the club's rebranding and 22/23 home and away shirts was met with widespread acclaim in Greece[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] and abroad,[10][11][12][13][14][15] with Milan-based Rivista Undici calling it "the most beautiful restyling of the year" and London-based Versus calling it "one of the cleanest football rebrands ever."

The first crest of Kallithea consisted of four circles representing the four groups of the merger of 1966, then becoming five circles with the addition of Pyrsos in 1967, which caused an issue with the Hellenic Olympic Committee. As a result, the club introduced a new crest with five stars in a diagonal line. The club's colors were blue and white, which were the colors of the two main groups of the merger, Esperos Kallitheas and Iraklis Kallitheas.

In September 2022, the club rebranded as Athens Kallithea FC and presented a new visual identity. The club's founding year 1966 and traditional five stars representing the founding merger of the club have been maintained as part of the identity, while the new Athens Kallithea FC crest is a stylized AK monogram with five points that reference the five stars. The club's traditional blue and white have been maintained but with an updated blue, and gold has been introduced as a complementary color. The design work was executed by German studio Bureau Borsche, which also handled the rebranding of Inter Milan and Venezia FC.[16]

As of 27 March 2023[17]

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  GRE Thanasis Pantos 3 DF  GRE Leonidas Rossi 4 DF  GRE Ilias Evangelou 5 MF  GRE Orestis Tsintonis 6 MF  GRE Konstantinos Bouloulis 8 MF  ESP Javier Matilla 9 FW  GRE Nikolaos Ioannidis 10 FW  ALB Flosard Malçi 12 MF  USA Constantine Edlund 13 GK  GRE Panagiotis Vosniadis 14 DF  GRE Michalis Kyrgias 15 MF  GRE Pavlos Laskaris 16 GK  GRE Georgios Strezos 17 FW  FRA Anthony Mounier 19 DF  GRE Vasilios Rentzas

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  ENG Adil Nabi 21 MF  ESP Omar Santana 22 DF  ARG Elías Pereyra (on loan from Godoy Cruz) 23 MF  GRE Stathis Vasiloudis 25 FW  GRE Giannis Loukinas 26 FW  GRE Panagiotis Kynigopoulos 29 DF  SYR Abdul Rahman Weiss 31 GK  GRE Vasilios Kravaritis 32 MF  GRE Paris Babis 33 DF  GRE Nikos Kenourgios 35 MF  GRE Lampros Kakakios 44 DF  GRE Konstantinos Koltsidas 96 DF  GRE Spyros Vlachos 99 MF  BRA Demethryus

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  GRE Georgios Manthatis (at Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat until December 2023) — MF  GRE Athanasios Kostanasios (at Egaleo until June 2023)