Onisilos Sotira 2014 was a Cypriot

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

club based in

Sotira, Famagusta Sotira () is a town in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, west of Paralimni. In 2011, it had a population of 5,474. Gallery File:Aerial view of Ayia Thekla beach.jpg, Aerial view of the beach and the chapel File:ΑΓΙΑ ΘΕΚΛΑ (Agia Thek ...

, located in the

Famagusta District Famagusta District, or simply Famagusta, is one of the six districts of Cyprus. While the entire district covers an area of , only about is under the de jure control of the Republic of Cyprus. Most of the district including the capital and lar ...

. Its stadium was the Sotira Municipal Stadium. It has 2 participations in

STOK Elite Division The STOK Elite Division is the fourth tier and the last professional football league competition in Cyprus, run by the STOK Federation of the Cypriot levels. History The STOK Elite Division Championship was initiated by the Cyprus Football Assoc ...

History

Onisilos was founded in 2014 to replace the same-year dissolved club due to financial problems, Kentro Neon Onisilos Sotira. The name of the club comes from the

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city-state of Salamis on the island of

Cyprus Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Situated in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical orientation are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the List of isl ...

, and

Onesilus Onesilus or Onesilos (, "useful one"; died 497 BC) was the brother of king Gorgos (Gorgus) of the Greek city-state of Salamis on the island of Cyprus. He is known only through the work of Herodotus (''Histories'', V.104–115). Background Cyprus ...

, who lived at the end of

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and at the beginning of

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and tried to liberate the island from

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. The colours of the club were green and white. On 23 June 2022, the club merged with

Achyronas Liopetriou Achyronas Liopetriou was a Cypriot football club based in Liopetri. Founded in 1956, the club played in the Cypriot Second, Third, and Fourth Divisions. On 23 June 2022, the club merged with Onisilos Sotira 2014 to form Achyronas-Onisilos ...

to form Achyronas-Onisilos.

Current squad

''For recent transfers, see List of Cypriot football transfers summer 2021.''

Honours

Cypriot Third Division The Cypriot Third Division (Greek language, Greek: Πρωτάθλημα Γ΄ Κατηγορίας) is the third tier Association football, football league competition in Cyprus, run by the Cyprus Football Association. Each year, the top finishing ...

: : Winners (1): 2017–18 *

: : Winners (1): 2016–17 (shared record) *

Cypriot Cup for lower divisions The Cypriot Cup for lower divisions, formally known as the Cypriot Coca-Cola Cup of Third Division and STOK Elite Division for sponsorship purposes, is a domestic cup for the teams which participate in the Cyprus, Cypriot Cypriot Third Division, ...

: : Winners (1): 2017–18 (shared record)

References

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