Alki Oroklini

For the club known as Alki Larnaca from 1948 to 2014, see Alki Larnaca FC.

Alki Oroklini is a Cypriot football club based in Oroklini. The team was founded as Omonia Oroklinis in 1979. Omonia had one participation in the Fourth Division. In 2014 the team changed their name to Alki Oroklini, when business man Andy Loppas, who became the president of the team, renamed it to Alki as his favorite team was Alki Larnaca FC which was dissolved that year, due to financial problems. Alki managed the outstanding 3 promotions in 3 years from the fourth division to Cypriot first division, the highest tier in Cyprus. They withdrew from the Cypriot Second Division during the 2022–23 season.

Alki Oroklini

Nickname(s)	Αθάνατη (The Immortal)
Founded	1979; 45 years ago (1979) (as Omonia Oroklini)
Ground	Ammochostos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus
Capacity	5,500
Chairman	Andy Medwik
Manager	Danos Damianos
2021–22	Second Division, 5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

Omonia Oroklinis

The logo of Omonia Oroklini.

Omonia Oroklinis founded at 1979. Until 2013, the team was a member of the local association, Free Area of Famagusta Football Association (POEPA). The season 2012–13, took part to the finals of the CFA Integration Championship. They lost to Enosis Kokkinotrimithia, but they won their promotion to the 2013–14 Cypriot Fourth Division and became a member team of the Cyprus Football Association (CFA).^[1] The team able to avoid relegation.^[2] The team's colors were the green and white. Team's home ground was the Oroklini Community Stadium.

Omonia Oroklinis at CFA competitions

Season	Championship										Cup
	Division	Position	Teams	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals		Points	Cup	Round
								For	Against
2013–14[2]	D	11	15	28	10	4	14	35	46	34	Lower Division Cup	Did not participated[3]

Rename to Alki Oroklini

On 10 April 2014, the team's board of directors decided to rename the team to Alki Oroklini,^[4] when business man Andy Loppas, who became the president of the team, renamed it to Alki as his favorite team was Alki Larnaca FC which was dissolved that year, due to financial problems. The new president had a goal to promote the team to the Cypriot First Division. Alki Oroklini has no connection to Alki Larnaca, as the two teams never merged.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Alki Oroklini adopted the colors of Alki Larnaca (Blue and Red). The emblem of the team is similar to Alki Larnaca emblem. Furthermore, the nickname "Immortals" that was used as a nickname for Alki Larnaca is now being used for Alki Oroklini.^[13]

In the 2014–15 Cypriot Fourth Division season, Alki won the championship and promoted to the Cypriot Third Division.^[14][15] The next season, Alki took the second place of the league and was promoted to the Cypriot Second Division (they earned the same points with the champions team but they lost due to head-to-head records).^[16] Furthermore, they won the 2015–16 Cypriot Cup for lower divisions.^[17] At their first participation in the Second Division, the season 2016–17 Cypriot Second Division, the team won their promotion to the Cypriot First Division for the first time in their history, five rounds before the end of the championship.^{[18][19][20][21]} A few rounds later, they won the championship.^[22]

Alki Oroklini at CFA competitions

Season	Championship										Cup
	Division	Position	Teams	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals		Points	Cup	Round
								For	Against
2014–15[14]	D	1	14	26	20	3	3	64	17	63	Lower Division Cup	Quarterfinals[23]
2015–16[16]	C	2	16	30	21	4	5	62	25	67	Lower Division Cup	Winner[17]
2016–17[24]	B	1	14	26	21	3	2	60	15	66	Cypriot Cup	A' round
2017–18[25]	Α	11	14	36	11	6	19	48	73	39	Cypriot Cup	A' round[26]
Points: Won=3 points, Drawn=1 point, Lost=0 points

Home ground

Omonia Oroklinis home ground was the Oroklini Community Stadium. Alki Oroklini used that stadium for the first two seasons of their existence under that name. After they were promoted to the second division, they are using the Ammochostos Stadium.^[27][28]

Players

As of 10 January 2022

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  CYP Giorgos Panayi 2 MF  CYP Costas Charalambous (Captain) 5 MF  CYP Iakovos Kaiserlides 6 DF  CYP Sotiris Finiris 7 MF  CYP Leandros Lillis (Vice-captain) 8 MF  ALB Enea Kotrri 9 FW  CYP Sergios Avraam 11 FW  GRE Christos Efstathiou 14 DF  BRA Anderson 15 DF  CYP Constantinos Kastanas 19 FW  CYP Marcos Michael

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  VEN Rafael Acosta 21 DF  CYP Chrysostomos Filippou 24 DF  CYP Panayiotis Loizides 33 DF  CYP Alexandros Theocharous 34 GK  CYP Gregoris Ioakeim 35 FW  CYP Gregorios Mouchli 43 GK  POL Mateusz Taudul 55 MF  ARG Esteban Sachetti 70 FW  CYP Nicolas Theodorou 77 FW  CYP Neofytos Raounas 88 MF  CYP Sotiris Fiakas — FW  CRO Vilim Posinković

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

Out on loan

Technical and medical staff

Position	Staff
Sporting Director	Panos Ziakas
Team manager	Theodoros Theodorou
Head coach	Nedim Tutić
Assistant coach	Stefanos Voskaridis
Goalkeeper coach	Jovan Savic
Fitness coach	Christos Michael
Medical staff
Physiotherapist	Kyriakos Andreou
Caregiver	Panagiotis Hadjipanteli

Honours

• Cypriot Second Division

Champions (1): 2016–17

• Cypriot Fourth Division

Champions (1): 2014–15

• Cypriot Cup for lower divisions

Winners (1): 2015–16

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External reference

• Cyprus portal
• Association football portal

• Omonia Oroklinis at Cyprus Football Association website (in Greek)
• Alki Oroklini at Cyprus Football Association website (in Greek)
• Alki Oroklini on Facebook