Freedom 24 ENY Ypsonas FC is Cypriot

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club based in

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of the

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History

The club was founded in 2014 after the merger of two clubs: Enosi Neon Ypsona and

Digenis Akritas Ipsona Digenis Akritas Ipsona was a Cypriot football club based in Ipsonas, Limassol. Founded in 1956, was playing sometimes in Second, in Third and in Fourth Division. In 2014 merged with Enosi Neon Ypsona to form Enosi Neon Ypsona-Digenis Ipsona. ...

. Until May 14, 2019, the name of the club was Enosi Neon Ypsona-Digenis, before changing their name to Ypsonas FC (). In July 2022, Russian football blogger Yevgeny Savin, previously owner of Russian club FC Krasava, bought the club and became the new owner. The club then changed their name and adopted a similar logo to Krasava. Savin is a former football player. According to his own account, he bought the club for US$450'000. After he had released a video interviewing football players like

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and Dario Srna on the

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, he was threatened with criminal charges concerning public actions aimed at dicreediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The Moscow-based 3rd Division club Krasava that Savin had founded just in 2020, could not get any field to use for its home games. He fled to Cyprus where he takes a second attempt with building up his own football club will be renamed FC Krasava – ENY Digenis Ypsona. In 2024 the team changed is name to Freedom 24 ENY Ypsonas fc. In the 2024-25 Cypriot Second Division the club achieved promotion to the Cypriot First Division, making it the second russian club to be in the first division, after Pafos.

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Honours

Cypriot Second Division The Cypriot Second Division () is the second highest association football, football division of the Cypriot football league system. Administered by the Cyprus Football Association, it is contested by 16 teams, with the top three teams being Prom ...

**Winners (1): 2024–25

References

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* * Football clubs in Cyprus Association football clubs established in 2014 2014 establishments in Cyprus {{Cyprus-footyclub-stub