Andreas Stylianou (), who was born in 1942, is a former

Greek Cypriot Greek Cypriots (, ) are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community. According to the 2023 census, 719,252 respondents recorded their ethnicity as Greek, forming almost 99% of the 737,196 Cypri ...

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player. Andreas Stylianou joined

APOEL APOEL FC (; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") is a Cypriot professio ...

in 1963. He won the Cypriot Championship twice (1965, 1973). He also won the

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four times (1968, 1969, 1973, 1976) and the

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once, in 1963. Moreover, he was the top scorer of the Cypriot Championship in 1967 and 1971 and he was pronounced the best football player of the year in Cyprus in 1965 and 1974. Andreas Stylianou was the captain of

during 1973-1974, when APOEL participated in the

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, being the champion of the previous Cypriot Championship, and managed to avoid relegation.

would be the first team in Cyprus that would take part in the Greek Championship two consecutive seasons but, this institution stopped the next year, so the team returned to the Greek Cypriot Championship. He appeared in 314 matches and scored 148 goals in all competitions with

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stylianou, Andreas 1942 births Living people APOEL FC players Cypriot First Division players Cypriot men's footballers Cyprus men's international footballers People from Paphos District Men's association football forwards