Levadiakos F.C.

Levadiakos FC

Full name	Athlitikos Podosferikos Omilos Levadeon
Nickname(s)	Greens (πρασινοι)
Founded	1961
Ground	Levadias Stadium Levadia
Capacity	10,200 (8,000 seats)
Chairman	Ioannis Kobotis
Manager	Momčilo Vukotić
League	Super League Greece (Σούπερ Λίγκα Ελλάδα)
2007-08	Super League Greece, 11th
Home colours Away colours

Levadiakos FC is a soccer club that plays in Super League Greece in the 2008-2009 season.

Based in Levadia, 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 Beta Ethniki in 2004-2005. [1] It was then relegated to the Beta Ethniki [2]again in 2006-2007 and returned to the top tier in 2008-2009.

History of the club

Levadiakos started in 1961, when local clubs Trofoni and Pallevadiaki Enosi merged into a greater club. Straight after, Levadiakos played in the second division being close to relegation in almost every season. In the eighties, the team was upgraded and in May of 1987, players and supporters of the club celebrated the team's first ever promotion to Alpha Ethniki. Levadiakos standed 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 eleven years, in 2006, but was immediately relegated. In the next summer, Levadiakos bought many expensive players and appointed Georgi Ivanov Vasiliev 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 Momcilo Vukotic.

Current squad

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	MNE	Srđan Blažić
2	DF	GRE	Athanasios Moulopoulos
3	MF	RWA	Fritz Emeran
4	DF	GRE	Anastasios Pastos
5	DF	URU	Fernando Machado
6	DF	GRE	Georgios Paraskevaidis
8	DF	BUL	Borislav Georgiev
9	FW	ARG	Eduardo Ariel Montoya
10	MF	BRA	Leonardo
11	FW	GRE	Stilianos Vasiliou
13	MF	GRE	Georgios Zisopoulos
14	DF	GRE	Michalis Tzormbatzakis
16	DF	GRE	Paraskevas Andralas
18	DF	GRE	Ilias Tsellos

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	DF	GRE	Michalis Kapsis
20	FW	ALB	Alban Bushi
21	MF	MLI	Toure Basala
22	DF	GRE	Theodoros Tripotseris
23	FW	BEL	Patrick Dimbala
24	MF	GRE	Georgios Katsikogiannis (on loan from Olympiacos)
26	MF	GRE	Kostas Kiassos
29	GK	GRE	Kiriakos Stratilatis
31	DF	GRE	Giorgos Koltzos
76	GK	GRE	Nikolaos Karakostas
77	MF	GRE	Argirios Gatsos
99	GK	GRE	Alexandros Paschalakis
--	FW	FIN	Toni Lehtinen
--	MF	CRC	Armando Alonso

Out on loan

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	GRE	Lambros Chaniotis (to AO Kerkyra)

Notable former players

• Petros Ravousis
• Takis Lemonis
• Takis Gonias
• Lakis Nikolaou
• Michalis Kasapis
• Evaggelos Kalogeropoulos
• Dimos Kavouras
• Konstantinos Loumpoutis
• Georgios Tsifoutis
• Michalis Ziogas
• Elton Koca

• Ivan Russev
• Elie Kroupi
• Andrija Balajic
• Template:Country data FYROM Vlatko Gosev
• Template:Country data FYROM Nebi Mustafi
• Template:Country data FYROM Goran Popov
• Mirnes Sisic
• Jorge Barrios
• Diego Perrone
• Miguel Mea Vitali

External links

Official Sites

• Official site: http://www.levadiakos.gr/
• Levadiakos TV channel from Goal4Replay.net Template:En icon Template:Gr icon

Other

• Albion Road guide to Levadiakos: http://albionroad.com/club-profiles/levadiakos.html