Egaleo F.C.

For the basketball section, see Egaleo B.C.

Egaleo

Full name	Αθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω A.O. Egaleo Football Club
Nickname(s)	City
Founded	1931 (1931)
Ground	Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium
Capacity	8,217
Chairman	Achilleas Karachalios
Manager	Apostolos Charalampidis
League	Super League Greece 2
2023–24	Super League Greece 2, 6th
Home colours Away colours

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.

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.

Egaleo FC players and fans during 2024/25 season.

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

Domestic

Leagues

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

Regional

Leagues

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

Cups

• Athens FCA Cup
  • Winners (1): 2014−15

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 9 September 2024

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	DF	AUS	Alexandros Bardas
5	MF	GRE	Tilemachos Karabas
6	DF	ALB	Kostandin Kariqi
7	FW	GRE	Georgios Daviotis
8	MF	GRE	Pavlos Karvounis
9	FW	GRE	Leonardo Nikolli
10	FW	GRE	Giannis Varkas
11	MF	GRE	Marios Zounis
13	MF	GRE	Stefanos Paraskevopoulos
14	MF	GRE	Nikos Konstantakopoulos
15	DF	GRE	Ilias Evangelou
17	MF	CIV	Manssour Fofana
18	MF	GRE	Michalis Voriazidis
19	MF	GRE	Antonis Dimitriou

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	DF	GRE	Angelos Zioulis
21	DF	GRE	Manolis Liofagos
22	DF	GRE	Konstantinos Tampas
23	MF	VEN	Yuxer Requena
27	DF	GRE	Spyros Kostopoulos
29	MF	GRE	Paris Babis
30	FW	GRE	Ierotheos Dritsas
31	DF	GRE	Dimitrios Tatsis
33	GK	GRE	Georgios Christodoulis
37	GK	GRE	Vasilios Tsimopoulos
45	FW	GRE	Nikos Tsoukalos
63	DF	GRE	Dimitrios Oungialidis
73	GK	RUS	Gleb Nesposudniy
97	GK	GRE	Ilias Kyritsis

Notable former players

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

• Anestis Agritis
• Giorgos Barkoglou
• Eleftherios Poupakis
• Giannis Skopelitis
• Kostas Papoutsis
• Antonis Petropoulos
• Sotiris Leontiou
• Victor Mitropoulos
• Dimitrios Konstantopoulos
• Agustin Kola
• Marko Marić
• Danijel Cesarec
• Daniel Edusei
• Bennard Yao Kumordzi
• Faraz Fatemi
• Olivier Makor
• Mahamadou Sidibè
• Srđan Kljajević
• Paweł Kieszek
• Aleksandar Stojanović
• Aleko Yordan
• Dragan Stojkov

Notable former managers

• Les Shannon
• Ilie Dumitrescu
• Lefter Küçükandonyadis

Notable chairmen

• Yiorghos Martinis (first chairman)
• Nikolaos Michos
• Dimitris Chaniotis
• Yannis Tresos
• Yiorghos Karabateas
• Yannis Panteliadis
• Dimitri Tusmanov
• Yiorghos Dalakouras
• Alexandros Stavropoulos
• Christos Kanellopoulos
• Victor Mitropoulos
• Dimitris Kalogeropoulos
• Alexis Kougias
• Ioannis Paltoglou

Technical staff

Name	Role
Dragan Đukanović	Manager
Stavros Bairamis	Assistant manager
Konstantinos Diallas	Fitness Coach

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

Sources

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

External links

• 2003–04 EUFO team profile
• GOAL4Replay team profile Archived 2009-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Egaleo Ultras Group