Volos Football Club () is a Greek professional

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club based in

Volos Volos (; ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the capital of the Magnesia (regional unit), Magnesia regional unit of the Thessaly Region. Volos ...

, Magnesia, Greece. The club currently competes in the

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, the first tier of football in Greece. Volos plays its home matches at the

Panthessaliko Stadium The Panthessaliko Stadium is a stadium located in Volos, Greece. The stadium was the site of football (soccer) matches during the 2004 Summer Olympics. It was officially opened on July 30, 2004 and has a capacity of 22,189 seats, though only 21,1 ...

History

After years of unsuccessful efforts and negotiations between the two older football clubs of

(

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and Olympiakos) to be merged to create a strong football club for the city, finally in April 2017 discussions and efforts by Achilleas Beos, mayor of Volos, led to the creation of a new football club. It was decided Pydna Kitros to be dissolved and renamed and thus, Volos New Football Club was created, the official presentation of which was held on June 2. The team, which took the position of Pydna Kitros in

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for the 2017–18 season, began its preparation with significant transcriptional movements. Volos eventually won first place in Group 4 and 2nd in Group 1 of the Promotion Play-Offs, and they were promoted to the

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. In the 2022–23 season, Volos had an excellent run in the

, finishing the regular season in fifth place in the Championship, but the inexperience of its players cost them and they finished the playoffs with only one point and a total of nine defeats and one draw.

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was voted Volos' best player of the season, even though he only played 13 matches.

Stadium

For its participations in the third and second division leagues, Volos NFC used the stadium located in the Neapoli area in

, at the edge of Neapoli. Neapoli Municipal Stadium was constructed several years ago, but in the summer of 2017 the Municipality of Volos refurbished it on behalf of Volos NFC who later used it as their seat. It has a capacity of 2,500 tiers, while there is a roof on the northwest side. After promotion to the

, the team uses the

of Volos, constructed for the

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, which has a capacity of 22,700.

Sponsorship

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Season to season

Players

Current squad

Coaching staff

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Honours

Domestic

Leagues: *

(Second Division) ** Winners (1): 2018–19 *

(Third Division) ** Winners (1): 2017–18

Notable players

;Albania * Jorgo Muca *

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* Alexandros Tereziou * Edi Dajlani * Orestis Stavro * Marios Sinanaj ;Algeria * Liassine Cadamuro ;Angola * Núrio Fortuna ;Argentina * Sebastián Caballero * Marcelo Penta * Pitu García * Lucas García * Joaquín Torres * Franco Ferrari * Fernando Joao * Augusto Max * Brian Sarmiento *

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* Julián Bartolo * Nicolás Martínez * Rodrigo Colombo * Dardo Miloc * Nicolás Oroz * Jorge Correa *

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* Enzo Gaggi * Facundo Bertoglio * Juan Manuel García * Lucas Villafáñez * Maximiliano Comba * Júnior Mendieta ;Belgium * Alexandros Galitsios ;Brazil * Felipe Pires ;Burkina Faso * Ismahila Ouédraogo ;Cameroon * Jacques Alberto Ngwem * Sébastien Bassong ;Colombia *

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* Kevin Rosero ;Cyprus * Christos Sielis * Konstantinos Karagiannis * Pavlos Korrea ;Denmark * Luka Racic ;Egypt * Amr Warda ;England * Albert Roussos ;France * Anthony Knockaert * Harouna Sy * Alexis Trouillet * Quentin Cornette * Lucas Bernadou ;Finland * Nikolai Alho * Juha Pirinen * Jasin-Amin Assehnoun * Simon Skrabb ;Germany * Alexandros Kartalis * Giannis Kiakos *

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;Greece * Vlasis Andrikopoulos *

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* Georgios Ballas * Konstantinos Balogiannis * Nikos Bourganis *

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* Konstantinos Dermitzoglou * Apostolos Diamantis * Dimitris Diminas * Stergios Dimopoulos * Alexandros Doris * Giannis Dosis * Tasos Douvikas * Stergios Farmakis * Michalis Fragkos * Thanasis Garavelis * Vasilios Grosdis * Antonis Ikonomopoulos * Vangelis Ikonomou * Theocharis Iliadis * Konstantinos Iliopoulos *

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* Vasilis Kalamidas * Giorgos Kanellakis * Fotis Karagiolidis * Tasos Karagiozis *

Andreas Kokas Andreas Kokas (; born 24 June 1997) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Super League 2 club Olympiacos Volos. Personal life Kokas’ twin brother, Dimos, is also a professional footballer. Honours ;Volos *Footba ...

* Aristidis Kokkoris * Christos Kollas * Konstantinos Korelas * Georgios Kornezos * Georgios Koutsias * Vasilios Kravaritis * Tasos Kritikos * Giorgos Kyparissis * Alexandros Kyziridis * Pavlos Logaras * Konstantinos Lykourinos * Odysseas Lymperakis * Lefteris Lyratzis * Theodosis Macheras * Theofanis Malakasiotis * Vasilios Mantzis * Dimitrios Melikiotis * Rafail Melissopoulos * Dimitrios Metaxas * Gerasimos Mitoglou *

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* Georgios Mygas *

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* Dimitrios Oungialidis * Symeon Papadopoulos * Thomas Papadopoulos * Alexandros Piastopoulos * Sotiris Pispas * Vangelis Pitkas * Achilleas Salamouras *

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* Stathis Tachatos * Marios Tsaousis * Lazaros Tzelidis * Ilias Tselios * Sarantis Tselebakis *

Tasos Tsokanis Anastasios "Tasos" Tsokanis (; born 2 May 1991) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or left back for Super League club Volos, for which he is captain. Career Tsokanis started his career at Iraklis Psachna in 2 ...

* Athanasios Triantafyllou * Thomas Vasiliou *

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;Honduras *

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;Hungary * Márk Koszta * Dániel Kovács ;Iceland *

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;Israel * Boris Klaiman * Omri Altman ;Italy * Cristian Battocchio ;Morocco * Yahia Attiyat Allah * Adrien Regattin ;Netherlands * Daan Rienstra * Tom van Weert *

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* Ian Smeulers ;Peru * Jean-Pierre Rhyner ;Poland * Jakub Kuzdra * Kamil Wojtkowski ;Portugal * Renato Santos * Alex Soares * Rodrigo Escoval ;Romania * Călin Popescu ;Serbia * Miloš Deletić * Bogdan Stamenković *

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* Nemanja Glavčić * Ivan Kostić * Nemanja Miletić ;Slovakia * Erik Jendrišek *

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* Dominik Kružliak ;Slovenia * Matic Kotnik ;Spain *

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* Nacho Cases * Juan Muñiz * Sergio Chica * Iker Guarrotxena * Tekio *

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* Victor Fernández *

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* Pedro Conde *

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* Carles Soria ;Sweden * Simon Lundevall * Mikael Dyrestam * Nikolaos Dosis *

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;Switzerland *

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;Syria * Abdul Rahman Weiss ;Turkey *

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;Uruguay * Jean Barrientos * Franco Romero * Nicolás Mezquida * Bryan Olivera ;Venezuela * José Alejandro Rivas * Juanpi

References

External links

* Media * News sites
Current results of Volos matches
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