Panionios NFC

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Panionios GSS FC
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Full name PAE Panionios Gymnastikos
Syllogos Smyrnis

(Pan-Ionian Gymnastic
Association of Smyrna FC)
Nickname(s) Kyanerythri (Blue-Reds)
Istorikos (Historic)
Founded 1890
Ground Nea Smyrni Stadium,
Athens, Greece
Capacity 11,700 (all-seated)
Chairman Flag of Greece Georgios-Eleytherios Katsifarakis
Manager Ewald Lienen
League Super League Greece
(Σούπερ Λίγκα Ελλάδα 2007)
2006-7
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Panionios GSS FC (Greek: Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης - Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis), the Pan-Ionian Gymnastic Association of Smyrna, is a Greek association football club based in Athens, Greece.

The club currently competes in the Super League Greece.

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1890 in Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey). Smyrna had a flourishing Hellenic population at the time, with athletic clubs, schools, etc. This was a continuation of the Greek presence and cultural prevalence in the area since the ancient times (cf. ancient Ionia). After the Asia Minor Catastrophe, which saw the expulsion of the Greek population of Anatolia by the Turkish army of Kemal Atatürk in 1922, the Smyrnan refugees in Athens founded the suburb of Nea Smyrni (New Smyrna), and Panionios continued its sport activities there.

Panionios has spent nearly its entire history in the Greek First Division (now called 'Superleague'), having missed out from competing in Greek football's top division only twice in its more than one hundred year history. Within this, Panionios rose quite often to the high levels, with top achievement in terms of the league being the 2nd position that the club reached in 1971, losing the title to AEK.

In December 2001, working around bankruptcy legislation, the club was renamed to Panionios NFC, to avoid the threat of relegation from the first division because of financial difficulties.

Panionios has produced all three major Greek strikers of the 1980s, namely Nikos Anastopoulos (later of Olympiakos), Thomas Mavros (later of AEK), and Dimitris Saravakos (later of Panathinaikos). Other notable players coming out of the club include Nikos Tsiantakis (later of Olympiakos) and Takis Fyssas, later of Panathinaikos and member of Greek national team that won Euro 2004).

The football club has since been renamed Panionios GSS FC.

[edit] Current squad

As of 10 March 2007

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Slovakia GK Miroslav Koenig
2 Flag of Greece DF Giannis Maniatis
3 Flag of Slovakia DF Josef Gaspar
4 Flag of Mali DF Sékou Berthé
5 Flag of Brazil DF Marcelo Jose Pletsch
6 Flag of Canada DF Tamadani Nsaliwa
8 Flag of Slovakia FW Mario Breska
9 Flag of Portugal FW Carlos Carneiro
10 Flag of Georgia (country) MF Levan Tskitishvili
11 Flag of Greece FW Christos Aravidis
12 Flag of Greece GK Haralambos Tabasis
13 Flag of Greece DF Evvagelos Koutsopoulos
14 Flag of Greece DF Grigoris Makos
15 Flag of Greece MF Nikos Stamos
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17 Flag of Albania DF Albi Kondi
18 Flag of Slovakia FW Drazen Zezelj
19 Flag of Greece MF Spiros Dorovinis
20 Flag of Greece MF Fanouris Goundoulakis
21 Flag of Greece MF Nikos Spiropoulos
23 Flag of Argentina MF Dario Fernandes
24 Flag of Greece DF Savas Exouzidis
29 Flag of Greece DF Hristos Hatzifountas
44 Flag of Greece FW Giorgos Xidis
35 Flag of Greece FW Dimitrios Sialmas
45 Flag of Algeria FW Rafik Djebbour
46 Flag of Switzerland DF Oumar Kondé
47 Flag of Cyprus FW Kyriacos Pavlou
47 Flag of Portugal FW Lourenço da Silva

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