Niki Volos F.C.

Niki Volou Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Νίκη Βόλου) is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Volos, in the region of Magnesia, Greece. The club currently competes in the Super League 2, the second tier of Greek football.

Niki Volou
Full nameNiki Volou Football Club
Founded19 August 1924 (1924-08-19) as Gymnastic Club of Volos' Refugees
GroundPanthessaliko Stadium
Capacity22,700
OwnerAlexis Papakonstantinou
ChairmanNikos Papakonstantinou
ManagerDimitrios Eleftheropoulos
LeagueSuper League Greece 2
2021–22Super League Greece 2, 4th
WebsiteClub website

History

Niki Volou was founded on 19 August 1924 as Gymnastic Club of Volos' Refugees or Refugee Gymnastic Association, by Greek refugees who came from Asia Minor.

Niki participated for the first time in the championship of the first category before the establishment of the First National, as in 1953–54 she was the winner of the Northern Group and this gave her the ticket for the final phase of the National Division Championship 1953–54, Six teams (Athens (2) – Piraeus – Thessaloniki – North – South) took the 5th place with 16 points, ahead of Panahaiki, who finished the championship with 13.

Niki won for the first time in the 1961 Greek FCA Winners' Championship, where she had 5 appearances in the big league. In 1966 she was relegated to the Beta Ethniki and since then has been trying to regain her rise to the big category, which eventually succeeded 48 years later, in 2014–15. In 1976 she won the Amateur Cup.

In recent years she has been competing in the Beta Ethniki Championship, but in the 2006–07 season finished last and was relegated to the Gamma Ethniki. In the 2012–13 season she was back in the Beta Ethniki, and in the following year (2013–14) after the play-offs, won the first place that led to the Super League after 48 years of absence. Unfortunately, on 10 December 2014, the club of Thessaly left the championship due to the inability of the administration to cover the financial obligations that had been created, leaving all the players that belonged to its staff to be released as free and the following year started again from the amateur Gamma Ethniki. From the period 2021-2022 she was promoted again to the second division, where she currently competes.

Crest and colours

Historical crest
Team's crest until 2015

Niki Volos crest displays the goddess Nike as depicted in the statue Winged Victory of Samothrace. The image of the goddess was the original emblem of the Smyrna-based athletic club Panionios, one of the most popular Greek athletic clubs of Ionia, before it was uprooted and re-established in Athens after the Greco-Turkish War. The founding members of Niki Volou FC, many of them refugees from Smyrna (now Izmir) and the surrounding region, decided to restore the emblem as part of their new club.

Players

Current squad

As of 31 August 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Greece GRE Savvas Topalidis
3 DF Cyprus CYP Stelios Demetriou
4 DF Greece GRE Christos Gromitsaris
5 DF Greece GRE Georgios Delizisis
6 MF Greece GRE Georgios Krimitzas
7 MF Brazil BRA Bruno
8 DF Greece GRE Pavlos Kyriakidis
9 FW Equatorial Guinea EQG Óscar Siafá
10 MF Equatorial Guinea EQG Josete Miranda
11 FW Uruguay URU Luciano Olaizola
12 DF Greece GRE Antonis Anastasiou
15 GK Greece GRE Stratos Misyrlis
16 GK Greece GRE Nikos Bourganis
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW Argentina ARG Antonio Rojano
20 MF Greece GRE Vasilios Gavriilidis
21 MF Greece GRE Stavros Tsoukalas
22 DF Greece GRE Panagiotis Panagiotidis
25 FW Greece GRE Georgios Ballas
26 DF Greece GRE Vangelis Andreou
28 GK Serbia SRB Vladimir Bajić
29 MF Albania ALB Neti Meçe
31 FW Greece GRE Paschalis Kassos
40 MF Serbia SRB Luka Milunović
46 DF Greece GRE Pavlos Logaras (on loan from PAOK B)
66 FW Greece GRE Christos Tzioras
77 FW Greece GRE Anastasios Kritikos

Honours

Leagues

Leagues

Cups

Seasons in the 21st century

Season Category Position Cup
2000–01 Delta Ethniki (4th division) 3rd
2001–02 Delta Ethniki (4th division) 1st
2002–03 Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) 4th 1R
2003–04 Beta Ethniki (2nd division) 6th 1R
2004–05 Beta Ethniki (2nd division) 4th 2R
2005–06 Beta Ethniki (2nd division) 10th QF
2006–07 Beta Ethniki (2nd division) 18th 5R
2007–08 Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) 10th 2R
2008–09 Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) 7th 2R
2009–10 Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) 11th 1R
2010–11 Football League 2 (3rd division) 11th 1R
2011–12 Football League 2 (3rd division) 2nd 2R
2012–13 Football League (2nd Division) 5th 3R
2013–14 Football League (2nd division) 1st 3R
2014–15 Super League (1st division) 17th GS
2015–16 Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) 3rd
2016–17 Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) 6th
2017–18 Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) 2nd
2018–19 Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) 2nd GS
2019–20 Football League (3rd Division) 5th 3R
2020–21 Football League (3rd Division) 8th Cancelled
2021–22 Super League 2 (2nd Division) 5th R16

Key: 1R = First Round, 2R = Second Round, 3R = Third Round, 4R = Fourth Round, 5R = Fifth Round, GS = Group Stage, R16 = Round of 16, QF = Quarter-finals, SF = Semi-finals.

Notable wins

Season Match Score
1965–66 Niki VolosOlympiacos 1–0
1964–65 Niki VolosPanathinaikos (cancelled) 1–0
1961–62 Niki VolosAEK Athens 2–1
2013 Niki Volos – AEK Athens (friendly match) 3–1
1953–54 PAOKNiki Volos 1–2
1962–63 PAOK – Niki Volos 0–2
1963–64 Niki Volos – PAOK 1–0
1964–65 Niki Volos – PAOK 1–0
1938 Niki VolosAris 2–0
1958–59 Niki Volos – Aris (for Greek Cup) 1–0
1963–64 Niki Volos – Aris 3–0
1963–64 Aris – Niki Volos 0–2
1964–65 Niki Volos – Aris 1–0
1964–65 Niki Volos – Aris (for Greek Cup) 2–1 (a.e.t.)
2005–06 Niki Volos – Aris (Beta Ethniki) 2–1
2006–07 Niki Volos – Aris (for Greek Cup) 2–0 (a.e.t.)

Supporters

The club's most famous supporters group is the one consisting of members from "Blue Club", fan club established in 1985, the so-called Indians. The fan club is also recognized as "Blue Club Panagiotis Ntokouzis", named after one of the founding members of the fan club who died in a motorcycle accident. Another club, particularly famous among the majority of Greek ultras, is the "Blue Angels club 1994" established in 1994.

Notable supporters

Friendships

Sponsorships

  • Great Shirt Sponsor: Car.gr
  • Official Sport Clothing Manufacturer: Macron
  • Golden Sponsor: TBA

References

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