Egaleo Football Club () is a Greek professional

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club based in

Aigaleo Aigaleo or Egaleo ( ) is a town and a suburban municipality in the western part of the Athens urban area, belonging to the West Athens regional administrative unit. It takes its name from Mount Aigaleo, whose name comes from the words αίγα/a ...

, a suburban town in the

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, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931). The team currently competes in the

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, the second tier of Greek football and it holds home matches at

Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium is a football stadium in Aigaleo, a town and a suburb within the Athens#Athens Urban Area, Athens agglomeration, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football games and is the home stadium of Egaleo FC. it has a ...

. 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

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in 1961.

In the 2003–04 season, Egaleo managed its second better ever classification, fifth (fourth in the 1970–71 season), playing

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for the first time in 2004–05, appearing in the group stages (after defeating Gençlerbirliği of

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2–1 score on aggregate) with

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and

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, which ended with the conquest of just one point. In

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, the club finished sixth, trailing

PAOK PAOK (, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, ''Panthessalonikeios Athlitikós Ómilos Constantinopoliton'', ''Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans''), commonly ...

by just one point. After a disappointing 2006–07, Egaleo was relegated back to the second level. Another

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followed in the next year, and a third in 2008–09. In August 2009, a merger between Egaleo and

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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

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, Egaleo FC was relegated to the

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Honours

Domestic

Leagues

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**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

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group ''Gate 12'' have friendly relation with fans of

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, the towns of

Egaleo Aigaleo or Egaleo ( ) is a town and a suburban municipality in the western part of the Athens urban area, belonging to the West Athens regional administrative unit. It takes its name from Mount Aigaleo, whose name comes from the words αίγα/a ...

and

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happen to be twinned too.

Players

Current squad

Notable former players

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

Anestis Agritis Anestis Agritis (; born 16 April 1981) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for Aigeas Plomari, Egaleo, Kickers Offenbach in Germany's 2. Bundesliga, Iraklis, OFI, Kerkyra and AEL Kalloni. Agritis h ...

Giorgos Barkoglou Georgios "Giorgos" Barkoglou (; born 8 July 1978) is a Greek football manager for Super League Greece 2 club Egaleo and former midfielder. Career On 29 September 2013 as a member of Super League Greece club Apollon Smyrnis, Barkoglou scored a g ...

* Eleftherios Poupakis * Giannis Skopelitis *

Kostas Papoutsis Konstantinos Papoutsis (; born 31 March 1979) is a Greek footballer. Career Born in Athens, Papoutsis began playing professional football with Greek third division side Kerkyra in 1997. He also played for Egaleo in the Greek Super League ...

Antonis Petropoulos Antonis Petropoulos (; born 28 January 1986) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was also part of the Greece youth national team & currently serves as the technical director of Tilikratis F.C. Career Egaleo ...

Sotiris Leontiou Sotiris Leontiou (Greek: Σωτήρης Λεοντίου, born 17 July 1984) is a retired Greek footballer who coaches for P.O. Psychikou academies. He played as defensive midfielder or as a left full back. Career He started his playing career ...

Victor Mitropoulos Victor Mitropoulos (''Βίκτωρ Μητρόπουλος, Βίκτωρας Μητρόπουλος'', born 14 February 1947) is a Greek former football defender. He played for Egaleo FC and transferred to PAO FC in 1968. He was 1971 European Cu ...

Dimitrios Konstantopoulos Dimitrios Konstantopoulos (; born 29 November 1978) is a Greeks, Greek Association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former international Association football, football player who played as a Goalkeeper (association ...

Agustin Kola Agustin Kola (born 10 May 1959), is an Albanian professional football coach and retired player. He played most of his career at 17 Nëntori Tirana where he established himself as one of the greatest strikers of his generation, winning several i ...

* Marko Marić *

Danijel Cesarec Danijel Cesarec (born 8 January 1983) is a Croatian retired footballer. Club career NK Marsonia Cesarec started his career in NK Marsonia. He played there 2 years (2000-2002), making 40 appearances and scoring 6 league goals. This good season ...

* Daniel Edusei * Bennard Yao Kumordzi * Faraz Fatemi *

Olivier Makor Oliver Makor (born 9 October 1973) is a Liberian former professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. Over his career, he played for Persik Kediri, Proodeftiki F.C., Proodeftiki FC, Egaleo FC and Ionikos FC, among oth ...

* Mahamadou Sidibè *

Srđan Kljajević Srđan Kljajević (Cyrillic: Crђaн Kљajeвић; born 23 November 1974) is a Montenegro, Montenegrin goalkeeping coach and former player. Club career Born in Titograd, Kljajević began playing football with the youth side of FK Bokelj. He playe ...

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Aleksandar Stojanović Aleksandar "Dika" Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Стојановић Дика; born 19 June 1954) is a Serbian former football goalkeeper. He got 2 caps for Yugoslavia. Career After playing 5 seasons with his home town cl ...

* Aleko Yordan *

Dragan Stojkov Dragan Stojkov (; born on 23 February 1988) is a Macedonian professional footballer. Club career Born in Strumica, after playing in his homeland club FK Belasica, and an unsuccessful journey in South Korea on loan for the K1 league side Incheo ...

Notable former managers

Les Shannon Leslie Shannon (12 March 1926 – 2 December 2007) was an English football player and manager. As a forward, he scored 40 goals in 274 league games in the Football League, playing for Liverpool between November 1944 and November 1949 and the ...

Ilie Dumitrescu Ilie Dumitrescu (; born 6 January 1969) is a former Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is currently a television sport pundit for Digi Sport. As a player, he was a winger who notably played in the Premier League with ...

Lefter Küçükandonyadis Lefter Küçükandonyadis (, ''Lefteris Antoniadis''; 22 December 1924 – 13 January 2012) was a Turkish professional footballer of Greek descent, who played as a forward. He is often recognized as one of the greatest strikers to play for Fe ...

Notable chairmen

* Yiorghos Martinis (first chairman) * Nikolaos Michos * Dimitris Chaniotis * Yannis Tresos * Yiorghos Karabateas * Yannis Panteliadis * Dimitri Tusmanov * Yiorghos Dalakouras * Alexandros Stavropoulos * Christos Kanellopoulos *

* Dimitris Kalogeropoulos *

Alexis Kougias Alexios Kougias (; 23 January 1951 – 28 February 2025) was a Greek lawyer, Penology, penologist. Early life Kougias was born in Petroupolis on 23 January 1951. He studied law at the University of Thessaloniki and at the University of Athe ...

* Ioannis Paltoglou

Technical staff

European matches

References

Sources

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

External links

2003–04 EUFO team profileGOAL4Replay team profile

Egaleo Ultras Group
{{Super League Greece teamlist Football clubs in Athens Association football clubs established in 1931 Football clubs in Attica 1931 establishments in Greece Super League Greece 2 clubs Aigaleo