Apollon Larissa F.C.

Apollon Larissa Football Club (Greek: ΑΟ Απόλλων Λάρισας) is a Greek professional football club based in Filippoupoli, Larissa, Greece. It plays its home matches at the Philippoupoli Ground.

Apollon Larissa

Full name	ΑΟ Απόλλων Λάρισας
Founded	1930; 94 years ago (1930)
Ground	Philippoupoli Ground
Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Christos Terzoudis
Manager	Tasos Venetis
League	Larissa FCA First Division
2022–23	Super League Greece 2, 15th (withdrew)
Website	https://apollonlarissafc.gr/
Home colours

Anniversary logo of the team in 2015 for the 85 years since the foundation.

History

Apollon Larissa is one of the oldest and most historic groups that were created in the city of Larissa. The club was founded in 1930 by students of the Averofius Farm School of Larissa in a rural settlement of the city of Philipoupoli and its first name was "Dimitra". The name "Apollon" the team took it in 1952. Its colours are blue and white.^[1] Twelve years later, in 1964, Apollon Larissa managed and played it for the first time in Greek second division, but did not win a league match at that level.^[2] The club also had a fine run in the 1997–98 Greek Cup, reaching the quarterfinals.^[3] There followed several years of "drought" in the local championship of Larissa and Delta Ethniki, but in the late 1980s and especially in the early and mid 1990s the team made an excellent run in Gamma Ethniki, giving very good football. In the Greek Cup, Apollon Larissa biggest distinction was the 1997–98 season when they reached the quarter-finals, where they were eliminated by Iraklis. Apollon Larissa has shown many remarkable players that some of them wore the shirt of National Hellas and played in foreign tournaments such as Nikos Patsiavouras, Kostas Kolomitrosisis, Vaios Athanasiou, Nikos Michopoulos, Pavlos Adamos, Stelios Hassiotis and Tasos Venetis. This is also contributed by the fact that the club owns athletic facilities in the city of Filippoupoli, where the team has a capacity of about 5,000 spectators. In May 2011, Apollon Larissa was relegated to the regionalized fifth level of Greek football, ending a period of 31 years in the national third and fourth divisions.^[4] In 2016, they were promoted to Gamma Ethniki for the second time in the history of the club since 1964. In the 2014–15 season, Apollon Larissa will fight for many years in the A1 category of Larissa (local category), which they departed until next season. The demobilization of the team resulted in the team being born again from its ashes and the administration was flanked by young people with a desire to work and with the aim of returning the team directly to the local class and at the same time organizing all the departments of the Academy today it has about 150 children.

Honours

Domestic

Leagues

• Third Division
  • Winners (1): 2016–17
• Fourth Division
  • Winners (2): 1990–91, 2003–04
• Larissa FCA Championship
  • Winners (5): 1963–64, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1978–79, 2015–16
• Thessaly FCA Second Division
  • Winners (2): 1957–58, 1958–59
• Thessaly FCA Third Division
  • Winners (1): 1954–55

Cups

• Larissa FCA Cup
  • Winners (7): 1980–81, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2015–16

w==Players==

Current squad

As of 22 July 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  GRE Vangelis Avlonitis 4 DF  GRE Christos Kalousis 5 MF  GRE Prodromos Potosoglou 6 DF  GRE Charilaos Fourkiotis 8 MF  GRE Alexandros Chalatsis 16 MF  GRE Nikolaos Bekiaridis 17 MF  GRE Dimitrios Ziakas 18 MF  GRE Apostolos Kotsianoulis

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 GK  GRE Giannis Ikonomopoulos 21 FW  GRE Georgios Zacharakis 23 FW  GRE Giannis Balogiannis 27 MF  KOS Buron Humolli 71 GK  GRE Konstantinos Bakaros 77 MF  GRE Vangelis Nousios 88 DF  GRE Dimitrios Klingopoulos 99 DF  GRE Pavlos Divanes

Team statistics

Season to season

Seasons Category Position 1930–1960 FCA Thessaly — 1960–1964 FCA Larissa 1964–1965 Second Division 16th 1965–1979 FCA Larissa — 1979–1980 Third Division 13th 1980–1981 FCA Larissa 1981–1982 Third Division 6th 1982–1983 Fourth Division 2nd — 1983–1984 9th 1984–1985 2nd 1985–1986 3rd 1986–1987 3rd 1987–1988 4th 1988–1989 3rd 1989–1990 Third Division 16th 1990–1991 Fourth Division 1st 1991–1992 Third Division 5th — 1992–1993 6th 1993–1994 6th 1994–1995 6th 1995–1996 3rd 1996–1997 3rd 1997–1998 14th 1998–1999 Fourth Division 6th —

Seasons Category Position 1999–2000 Fourth Division 9th — 2000–2001 4th 2001–2002 7th 2002–2003 3rd 2003–2004 1st 2004–2005 Third Division 16th 2005–2006 Fourth Division 11th — 2006–2007 9th 2007–2008 4th 2008–2009 9th 2009–2010 11th 2010–2011 11th 2011–2012 A' FCA Larissa 5th — 2012–2013 5th 2013–2014 14th 2014–2015 A1 FCA Larissa 1st 2015–2016 A' FCA Larissa 1st 2016–2017 Third Division 1st 2017–2018 Second Division 10th — 2018–2019 3rd 2019–2020 6th 2020–2021 9th 2021–2022 11th 2022–2023 15th

References

1. Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (19 January 2005). "Greece Team Colors". RSSSF.
2. Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (23 October 2004). "Greece - Second Level All-Time Table". RSSSF.
3. Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (7 October 1999). "Greece Cup 1997/98". RSSSF.
4. Archontoula, Christos (9 May 2011). Υποβιβάστηκε ο Απόλλων Λάρισας (in Greek). Eleftheria.gr. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012.

External links

• Official website