Pezoporikos Club Larnaca (, ''Pezoporikos Omilos Larnakas'') was a Cypriot

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based in Larnaca with

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and

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teams. Founded in 1927, the football club joined the Cypriot Championship in 1938, winning it twice as well as one

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. The colours of the club were green and white. In 1994 the club merged with EPA Larnaca and they formed AEK Larnaca (). The club also had a basketball and volleyball department and were basketball champions four times and five times cup winners. Since the 1990–91 season, the club dominated the Cyprus Basketball by winning 3 championships and one cup in four years. During the 1993–94 season the team eliminated Hapoel Eilat with 86–80 and 65–65 for the Korać Cup and qualified in the second round of Korać Cup where they were eliminated by Panionios. Even as champions, the club merged like the football department, however, AEK Larnaca didn't continue with the same success as Pezoporikos Basketball Club had. Founding member of the Cyprus Volleyball Federation, the volleyball women's team was more successful than the men's one. The women's team won the Cup once in 1979 when they beat

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in the final 3–2. They were Runners up twice each in the championship and in the cup.

Former players (football section)

* Jim McSherry (1983–84) * Ian Alexander (1985–86) * Spiros Livathinos (1986–88) * Stavros Papadopoulos (1980–81) * Neophytos Larkou (1987–94) * Uwe Bialon (1987–94) * Keith Miller (1972–73)

Honours

Football

* Cypriot Championship: ** Champions (2): 1953–54, 1987–88 ** Runner-up (8): 1939–40, 1952–53, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1981–82 *

: ** Winners (1): 1969–70 ** Runner-up (7): 1939–40, 1951–52, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1983–84 * Super cup: ** Runner-up (2): 1954, 1988

Basketball

* Cyprus Basketball Division 1: (4) 1973, 1991,1992,1994 *

(5): 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1992

Former players

* Darrell Armstrong (1993) * William Sanchez (1999)

Volleyball (women)

* Cypriot Championship: ** Runner-up (2): 1977, 1989 * Cypriot Cup: ** Winners (1): 1979 ** Runner-up (7): 1989,1990

History in European competition

Overall

Matches

References

{{Cypriot First Division Association football clubs established in 1927 Association football clubs disestablished in 1994 AEK Larnaca FC Basketball teams in Cyprus Volleyball clubs in Cyprus Defunct basketball teams Defunct football clubs in Cyprus Women's volleyball teams in Cyprus 1927 establishments in Cyprus 1994 disestablishments in Cyprus Pezoporikos Larnaca FC Football clubs in Larnaca