Nea Kifissia or Nea Kifisia B.C., or New Kifissia B.C. (

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: Νέας Κηφισιάς KAE), is a

professional

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club that is based in

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, a suburban town in the

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. The club's full name is Athletic Union Nea Kifissia (Αθλητική Ένωση Νέας Κηφισιάς), which is also abbreviated as Α.E.Ν.Κ., which is the club's common name. The club is also known by the name A.E.N. Kifissia (Α.Ε.Ν. Κηφισιάς).

History

A.E.N.K. was founded in 1994, with the men's basketball section being started in 1996. The club competed in the Greek Second Division, for the first time, during the 2011–12 season. The club won the Greek Second Division championship in 2013. They played in the top league in Greece, the

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, for the first time in the 2013–14 season. The club's first season in the league was amazing, considering it was their first time competing in Greece's top division. They finished in fifth place in the regular season. The success of the club has been compared with the success that

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had in the Greek League in the recent previous years, in where a nearby local Athens community club (

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and

are located near each other) was able to achieve good results on the Greek national level. In the 2016–17 season, the club qualified play for the first time in a European-wide league tournament, as they qualified to play in the Champions League. However, the club refused its place in the Champions League, due to financial issues. Nowadays the team competes in Greek C League. In 2016, the club was relegated down from the first-tier Greek Basket League, to the third-tier Greek B League, due to financial problems.Η Κηφισιά ενημέρωσε τον ΕΣΑΚΕ πως δεν θα παίξει στην Basket League .
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Championships

* Greek A2 League :Winners (1): 2012–13

Roster

Notable players

Markos Kolokas Markos Kolokas (Greek: Μάρκος Κολώκας; born April 21, 1977, in Athens, Greece) is a Greek former professional basketball player and professional basketball coach. At a height of 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) tall, he played at both the sma ...

Ioannis Psathas Ioannis Psathas (alternate spellings: Giannis, Yiannis) (; born April 15, 1983) is a Greek professional basketball player. He is 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) in height, and he can play at both the small forward and power forward positions. Profession ...

* Dimitrios Kompodietas *

Vangelis Karampoulas Evangelos "Vangelis" Karampoulas (alternate spellings: Vaggelis, Karaboulas) (Greek: Ευάγγελος "Βαγγέλης" Καράμπουλας; born November 18, 1981) is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a tall shooting guard–s ...

* Dimitrios Tsaldaris * Nikos Liakopoulos * Nikos Barlos *

Michalis Kakiouzis Michalis "Mika" Kakiouzis (alternate spellings: Michail, Michailis, Mihalis) (Greek language, Greek: Μιχάλης Κακιούζης; born November 29, 1976) is a Greek former professional basketball player and basketball coach, coach. He is cu ...

* Dimitrios Mavroeidis *

Panagiotis Kafkis Panagiotis Kafkis (alternate spelling: Panayiotis) (Greek: Παναγιώτης Καυκής; born May 8, 1980, in Athens, Greece) is a Greek former professional basketball player and coach. During his playing career, at a height of 1.97 m (6&nb ...

* Leonidas Kaselakis * Andreas Glyniadakis * Nikos Gkikas * Linos Chrysikopoulos * Panagiotis Vasilopoulos * Saša Vasiljević * Nikola Pešaković * Uroš Duvnjak * Petar Popović * Ogo Adegboye * Patrick Ewing Jr. * Tony Crocker *

Darrius Garrett Darrius Garrett (born April 11, 1990) is an American-Rwandan former professional basketball. He played college basketball for the University of Richmond. High school career Garret attended McEachern High School in Powder Springs, Georgia where ...

* Justin Jackson * Cade Davis * Dustin Hogue * Muhammad El-Amin * Roscoe Smith * Robert Lowery *

Xavier Silas Xavier James Silas (born January 22, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player and current head coach for the Mets de Guaynabo of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN), the highest professional basketball league in Puerto Rico. ...

* Tony Woods

Head coaches

* Ilias Papatheodorou

References

External links

Official Website

Eurobasket.com Team ProfileA.E.N.K. Basketball Club
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