Foinikas Syros V.C.

Foinikas Syros (Greek: Φοίνικας Σύρου) is a professional Greek volleyball club based in the island of Syros. Foinikas plays in the first division of Greek Volleyball Championship (A1 Ethniki Volleyball) and has won 2 national titles, the Greek League Cup at 2012 and 2021. Their home ground is the Dimitris Vikelas Arena in Ermoupolis, Syros and their colours are blue and red.

Foinikas Syros

Founded	1980
Ground	Dimitris Vikelas Arena (Capacity: 700)
Chairman	Christos Kaftiranis
Manager	Thanos Terzis
League	A1 Volleyleague
2020–21	2nd
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home Away

History

The club was founded in 1980 and its first home was the Foinikas, village in the southwest of Syros. Since 2000, Foinikas plays continually in national divisions. In season 1999-2000 Foinikas was promoted in fourth division of Volleyleague (Gamma Ethniki). The next season, won the rise in third division (Beta Ethniki). After four years, in season 2004-05 was promoted in second division (A2 Ethniki). In season 2008-09 played for first time in first division. Foinikas remained in first division for two years. In season 2009-10 was relegated but returned the next year. As soon as it returned, won the Greek League Cup. At the same season succeeded one more important accolade. It played in the finals of the championship but was beaten by Iraklis Thessaloniki.^[1]

Recent seasons

Season	Division	Place	Notes
2000–01	Gamma Ethniki		Promoted to Beta Ethniki
2001–02	Beta Ethniki
2002–03	Beta Ethniki
2003–04	Beta Ethniki
2004–05	Beta Ethniki		Promoted to A2 Ethniki
2005–06	A2 Ethniki	3rd
2006–07	A2 Ethniki	3rd
2007–08	A2 Ethniki	2nd	Promoted to A1 Ethniki
2008–09	A1 Ethniki	5th
2009–10	A1 Ethniki	12th	Relegated to A2 Ethniki
2010–11	A2 Ethniki	1st	Promoted to A1 Ethniki
2011–12	A1 Ethniki	2nd	Winner League Cup
2012–13	A1 Ethniki	5th
2013–14	A1 Ethniki	4th
2014–15	A1 Ethniki	3rd
2015–16	A1 Ethniki	2nd
2016–17	A1 Ethniki	6th
2017–18	A1 Ethniki	3rd
2018–19	A1 Ethniki	3rd
2019–20	A1 Ethniki	4th
2020–21	A1 Ethniki	2nd	Winner League Cup
2021–22	A1 Ethniki	3rd	Winner Super Cup

Honours

• Greek Volleyball Championship
  • Finalist (3): 2011–12, 2015–16, 2020–21
• Greek Volleyball League Cup
  • Winner (2): 2012, 2021
  • Finalist (2): 2014, 2019
• Greek Volleyball Super Cup
  • Winner (1): 2021^[2][3]

Current squad

2020–2021 roster ^[4]

Number	Player	Position	Height (m)	Birth Date
1	Peter Michalovič	Opposite	2.00	(1990-05-26) May 26, 1990 (age 34)
2	Georgios Papalexiou	Middle blocker	2.02	(1999-08-28) August 28, 1999 (age 25)
3	Dimitris Pochanis	Opposite	2.00	(1997-07-28) July 28, 1997 (age 27)
4	Dimitris Konstantinidis	Libero	1.88	(1993-08-05) August 5, 1993 (age 31)
5	Raydel Hierrezuelo	Setter	1.96	(1987-07-14) July 14, 1987 (age 37)
6	Deivid Júnior Costa	Middle blocker	2.06	(1998-04-26) April 26, 1998 (age 26)
7	Kostas Kapetanidis	Outside hitter	1.95	(1999-03-24) March 24, 1999 (age 25)
8	Ilias Theodosis	Setter	1.90	(1995-05-20) May 20, 1995 (age 29)
9	Nikos Papaggelopoulos	Middle blocker	2.02	(1988-11-17) November 17, 1988 (age 36)
10	Markos Galiotos	Setter	1.95	(1996-08-23) August 23, 1996 (age 28)
12	Mitar Tzourits	Middle blocker	2.11	(1989-04-25) April 25, 1989 (age 35)
13	Andreas Frangos (c)	Outside hitter	2.01	(1989-12-21) December 21, 1989 (age 35)
14	Žiga Štern	Outside hitter	1.93	(1994-01-02) January 2, 1994 (age 31)
15	Vasilis Karasavvidis	Libero	1.96	(1995-03-17) March 17, 1995 (age 30)
17	Panagiotis Papadopoulos	Outside hitter	1.98	(1992-04-30) April 30, 1992 (age 32)
18	Nikos Milis	Opposite	1.97	(1996-11-04) November 4, 1996 (age 28)

Technical and managerial staff

Job	Name
Head coach	Joško Milenkoski
Assistant coach	Luigi Parisi

Notable players

• 
  Andreas Frangos
• 
  Panagiotis Pelekoudas
• 
  Raydel Hierrezuelo
• 
  Peter Michalovič
• 
  Mitar Tzourits
• 
  Boyan Yordanov
• 
  Žiga Štern

(Players are listed in alphabetical order)

Greece Andreas Andreadis Andreas Frangos Vasilis Kournetas Ilias Lappas Athanasios Maroulis Athanasios Protopsaltis

Panagiotis Pelekoudas Nikolaos Smaragdis Dimitrios Soultanopoulos Mitar Tzourits Theodoros Voulkidis

Brazil Pedro Azenha Leonardo Caldeira Deivid Júnior Costa Murilo Radke

Bulgaria Boyan Yordanov  Cuba Raydel Hierrezuelo  Serbia Tomislav Dokić Nikola Mijailović

Slovakia Peter Michalovič  Slovenia Žiga Štern

Sponsorships

• Great Sponsors: ONEX Neorion Shipyards, Blue Star Ferries, City Insurance