Egaleo F.C.
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| Full name | Egaleo Football Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Egaleo | |||
| Founded | 1946 | |||
| Ground |
Stavros Mavrothalassitis Egaleo, Athens, Greece | |||
| Capacity | 8,217 | |||
| Chairman |
 Ioannis Paltoglou | |||
| Manager |
Giorgos Sourlis | |||
| League | Athens A Local-1st group | |||
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Egaleo F.C. (Greek: Αθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω) is a Greek football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931), it holds home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium, with a 14,000-seat capacity.
Club colours are blue and white.
History
Egaleo was founded in 1931 by Demetrios Haniotis and Georgios Aronis, as Athletic Union of Ierapolis (Αθλητική Ένωση Ιεραπόλεως – Athlitiki Enosis Ieropoleos). In 1946, four clubs in the district merged with Ierapoleos to form Athletic Club Egaleo (Αθλητικός Όμιλος Αιγάλεω – Athlitikos Omilos Egaleo), which managed to reach for the first time the first division in 1961.
In the 2003–04 season, Egaleo managed its best ever classification, fourth, playing UEFA Cup for the first time in 2004–05, appearing in the group stages (after defeating Gençlerbirliği of Turkey 2–1 score on aggregate) with FK Partizan, S.S. Lazio, Middlesbrough and Villarreal CF, which ended with the conquest of just one point. In the league, the club finished sixth, trailing PAOK F.C. by just one point.
After a disappointing 2006–07, Egaleo was relegated back to the second level. Another relegation followed in the next year, and a third in 2008–09.
In August 2009, a merger between Egaleo and Ilisiakos F.C. took place, as the other club participated in the second division, with the purchase being made effective by Egaleo's owner Thomas Mitropoulos; the new club, which took Ilisiakos' place, was renamed Egaleo A.O.
At the end of the 2009–2010 season, due to the merger being declared illegal by the Greek Council of State, Egaleo F.C. was relegated to the Delta Ethniki.
Honours
National
- Second Division: 1960–61, 1964–65, 1976–77, 1982–83, 2000–01
- Third Division: 1998–99
- Fourth Division: 1995–96, 2012–13
Local
- Third Division: 1947–48
- Second Division: 1949–50
- A2 Division: 1953–54
- Athens Football Clubs Association: 1959–60, 1960–61, 2014–15
- Local Cup: 2014–15
Fans
The ultras group Gate 12 have friendly relation with fans of CD Leganés, the towns of Egaleo and Leganés happen to be twinned too.
Notable former players
Internationally capped players or players who have over 50 appearances for the club
- Anestis Agritis
- Giorgos Barkoglou
- Eleftherios Poupakis
- Giannis Skopelitis
- Kostas Papoutsis
- Antonis Petropoulos
- Sotiris Leontiou
- Victor Mitropoulos
- Dimitrios Konstantopoulos
- Dimitrios Kalogerakos
Agustin Kola
Marko Marić- Danijel Cesarec
Daniel Edusei- Bennard Yao Kumordzi
Faraz Fatemi
Olivier Makor
Mahamadou Sidibè
Srđan Kljajević
Paweł Kieszek
Aleksandar Stojanović
Notable former managers
Notable Chairmen
- Yiorghos Martinis (first chairman)
- Nikolaos Michos
- Dimitris Chaniotis
- Yannis Tresos
- Yiorghos Karabateas
- Yannis Panteliadis
- Dimitri Tusmanov
- Yiorghos Dalakouras
- Alexandros Stavropoulos
- Christos Kanellopoulos
- Victor Mitropoulos
- Dimitris Kalogeropoulos
- Alexis Kougias
- Ioannis Paltoglou
Technical staff
| Name | Role |
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Manager |
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Assistant Manager |
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Trainer |
European matches
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away |
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| 2002–03 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 3rd Round |  Fulham |
1–1 | 0–1 |
| 2003–04 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 3rd Round |  Koper |
2–3 | 2–2 |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | 1st Round |  Gençlerbirliği |
1–0 | 1–1 |
| Group Stage (Group E) |
Middlesbrough |
0–1 | |||
 Partizan Belgrade |
0–4 | ||||
 Lazio |
2–2 | ||||
 Villarreal |
0–4 | ||||
| 2005–06 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 3rd Round |  Žalgiris Vilnius |
1–3 | 3–2 |
Sources
- "Απ' τις λαμαρίνες στα σαλόνια της Ευρώπης" (Nikos D. Nikolaidis, "Embryo" Publications)