Apollon Kalamata ( el, Απόλλων Καλαμάτας) is a
football (soccer)
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club in
Kalamata
Kalamáta ( el, Καλαμάτα ) is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula, after Patras, in southern Greece and the largest city of the homonymous administrative region. As the capital and chief port of the Messenia regi ...
,
Greece
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. It currently plays in the
Messenia(n) First Division.
History
The club was founded in
1927
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. Its colors are white and black and its emblem is a plant. During the prewar period, the players was raised mainly in the royalist part of the population. Along with
Prassina Poulia made its important football (soccer) teams in Kalamata. Apollon had distinctly many players.
After the war, it took part many times in the prefectural championships and took part in their first championship in the
Second Division in
1959 and 1960. In 1967, the dictatorship dissolved temporarily the team and united with two other clubs of the city: Prasina Poulia and Olympiakos to create
Kalamata FC.
Apollon was refounded in 1974 and returned to its original position. It began from the last part of the prefectural soccer. It quickly elevated to the categories and in the
1975-76 season, it returned to the national category. It did not enter the Second Division.
From then, it took part in many local titles and had won many times in the National Artistic Championships of the
Fourth Division. It plays in the
prefectural first division.
From Apollon,
Panagiotis Bahramis started is career and participated in the national youth team and later in
First Division teams.
Other than the soccer club, in 1948, it mention the founding of the swimming club along with
Prassina Poulia,
AEK Kalamata and
Kalamata NC founded on July 17, 1948, in Kalamata and its swimming teams "First Akropoleia" with the sponsor of the newspaper "Akropolis".
Achievements
*National Artistic Championships (1) (1975)
*
Messenian Championship (1):
:1959, 1975
*Messinia Cup (2):
:1992, 1999
Association football clubs established in 1927
Sport in Kalamata
Football clubs in Peloponnese (region)
1927 establishments in Greece