Egaleo F.C.

Egaleo Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Αιγάλεω 1931) is a Greek professional football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens, 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 12 September 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
1 GK  GRE Michalis Christodoulidis
2 MF  GRE Dimitris Raftopoulos
4 MF  ALB Luan Skenderaj
5 DF  GRE Michalis Papanikolas (vice-captain)
6 MF  KOS Rald Veseli
7 FW  GRE Andreas Vlachomitros
8 MF  GRE Giannis Stamatakis
9 FW  GRE Christos Kollas
10 FW  GRE Ilias Tsiligiris (captain)
11 MF  GRE Konstantinos Tsitsaris
12 FW  GRE Giannis Paltoglou
14 DF  GRE Giannis Pechlivanopoulos
15 DF  GRE Michalis Bousis
17 MF  GRE Alexios Nikolakopoulos
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW  GRE Themis Patrinos
20 GK  GRE Georgios Sikalias (third-captain)
21 DF  GRE Spyros Vlachos
22 MF  GRE Alexandros Piastopoulos
24 FW  GRE Giannis Bastianos
26 MF  GRE Dimitrios Polychronis
27 MF  GRE Thomas-Kyriakos Zoutas
28 MF  GRE Spyros Fourlanos
30 MF  GRE Elini Dimoutsos
32 MF  GRE Athanasios Daktylidis
77 DF  GRE Georgios Drenogiannis
88 MF  ALB Gertin Hoxhalli
90 FW  GRE Vasilios Raftopoulos
99 GK  GRE Dimitrios Skafidas
— DF  GRE Angelos Karatasios

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
Manager
Assistant Manager
Trainer

European matches
Season Competition Round Club Home Away
2002–03 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round Fulham 1–1 0–1
2003–04 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round Koper 2–3 2–2
2004–05 UEFA Cup 1st Round Gençlerbirliği 1–0 1–1
Group Stage
(Group E)		 Middlesbrough 0–1
Partizan Belgrade 0–4
Lazio 2–2
Villarreal 0–4
2005–06 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3rd Round 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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