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Levadiakos
Full nameΑθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Λεβαδειακός ΠΑΕ
Nickname(s)The Blue-Greens
Founded1 December 1961; 62 years ago (1961-12-01)
GroundLevadia Municipal Stadium
Capacity6,500 [1]
OwnerGiannis Kobotis
ChairmanAristeidis Roussaris
ManagerJosé Anigo
LeagueSuperleague Greece
2016–17Superleague Greece, 14th
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Levadiakos Football Club is a Greek association football club that plays in the Greek Superleague.

Based in Livadeia, Greece, the club was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki, forerunner of the Super League, after ten seasons in minor divisions in the 2005–2006 season, as runner-up of the Football League in 2004–2005.[2] It was then relegated to the Beta Ethniki [3] again in 2006–2007 and returned to the top tier in 2008–2009. The club finished one level above relegation that year but was relegated back to the second division by finishing 14th in 2009–10.

History of the club

Levadiakos started in 1961, when local clubs Trofonios and Pallevadiaki merged into a greater club. Straight after, Levadiakos played in the second division being close to relegation in almost every season. In the 1980s, the team was upgraded and in May 1987, players and supporters of the club celebrated the team's first ever promotion to Alpha Ethniki. Levadiakos stayed there only for four seasons, returning again only in 1994 and 1995. After their second relegation, Levadiakos declined and went very lower, even struggling to clinch promotion to the 3rd division of Greece. But once more, everything changed suddenly and the team reached again the Greek Super League after ten years, in 2005, but was immediately relegated. In the next summer, Levadiakos bought many expensive players and appointed Georgi Vasilev as manager. Vasiliev achieved to get the team to the Super League once again, and in the 2007–08 season he struggled, but managed to avoid going down again. Nevertheless, he resigned from the club and he was succeeded by Momčilo Vukotić.

Players

Current squad

As of 2 January 2018[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Moldova MDA Stanislav Namașco
2 DF Greece GRE Theodoros Tripotseris (captain)
3 DF Brazil BRA João Francisco
4 DF Nigeria NGA Nwankwo Obiora
5 DF Brazil BRA Leonardo
7 FW Guinea-Bissau GNB Toni Silva
8 MF Greece GRE Nikos Katharios
9 FW Serbia SRB Marko Markovski
12 MF Morocco MAR Chahir Belghazouani
13 DF Greece GRE Giannis Zaradoukas
15 DF Senegal SEN Ibrahima Niasse
17 MF Scotland SCO Matthew Kapsaskis
20 FW Greece GRE Petros Giakoumakis
21 MF Greece GRE Zisis Karahalios
No. Pos. Nation Player
25 DF Greece GRE Savvas Tsabouris
27 MF Greece GRE Nikos Kaltsas
30 DF São Tomé and Príncipe STP Jordão Diogo
31 GK Greece GRE Anastasios Daskalakis
32 GK Greece GRE Dimitris Sotiriou
39 MF Comoros COM Mohamed Youssouf
40 GK France FRA Devis Epassy
77 MF Greece GRE Konstantinos Pappas
82 DF Greece GRE Pavlos Mitropoulos
86 FW Brazil BRA Chumbinho
88 MF Greece GRE Giorgos Nikas
92 DF Benin BEN Moise Adilehou
-- FW Burkina Faso BFA Souleymane Sawadogo

Retired Numbers

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
10 Greece GRE Giannis Kobotis (owner of the club)

Managers

References

  1. ^ "levadiakos.gr". levadiakos.gr. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  2. ^ "Greece 2004/05". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  3. ^ "Greece 2005/06". Rsssf.com. 2006-08-20. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  4. ^ "Roster". superleaguegreece.net. Retrieved 2 January 2018.