| Full name | Panthrakikos FC Komotini | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Crocodiles (Kροκόδειλοι) | ||
| Founded | 1963 | ||
| Ground | OPAP-Municipal Komotini Stadium Komotini, Greece (Capacity: 6,198) |
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| Chairman | Tzelepis Dimitrios | ||
| Manager | Savas Pantelidis | ||
| League | Football League | ||
| 2010–11 | Football League, 7th | ||
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Panthrakikos is a football club in Komotini of Thrace in North Eastern Greece founded in 1963. The club competed in Super League Greece during the season 2008–2009 for the first time.
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The early years, 1963-2001
Panthrakikos F.C. was formed in the town of Komotini in 1963 or 1964 when clubs Athlitiki Enosis Komotini, founded in 1936 and Orpheas Komotini, founded in 1948 were merged.[1][2][3][4][5] The new club participated in regional leagues until 1969, when they joined the Beta Ethniki. They stayed in this division until being relegated in 1978, but were promoted back to Beta Ethniki after a single season. They remained here until 1983. Panthrakikos finished 1982–83 12th in Beta Ethniki, but were relegated to Gamma Ethniki due to restructuring of the leagues. In 1983–84 they finished 18th position and were further relegated to Delta Ethniki. The club was promoted again to the Gamma Ethniki, and participated there in 1985–86 and 1986–87. Relegation to Delta Ethniki followed the end of the 1986–87 season. After relegation in 1995-1996, Panthrakikos merged with Orfeas Xylagani and competed as Panthrakikos Xylagani[6][7] on the founding status of Xylagani in 1996–1998. Competed again as Panthrakikos F.C. in lowest level of local leagues in 1998-2001, without any administration, without any investment. In that period, very few fans were take charge of administration.
New Era, 2001–present
In 2001-2003 Panagiotis Margaritis take charge of administration as chairman and Sakis Skoulis as manager. They were promoted two seasons in a row, reaching the Delta Ethniki in 2003.
In 2004 prompting significant investment into the club from local entrepreneurs Thodoris Savakis, Tasos Karaolanis & Yiannis Kitzidis.[8] Kostas Vasilakakis, a former Panthrakikos player, was hired as manager in the summer of 2004. In season 2004–05 Panthrakikos were champions of Delta Ethniki and were again promoted, to the Gamma Ethniki. A third place finish in 2005–06 saw them promoted once more, to the Beta Ethniki.
Zisis Tsekos was hired as manager for the 2006–07 season but fired to be replaced by Dimitrios Kalaitzidis but resigned to be replaced by Yiannis Gounaris but fired to be replaced by Kostas Vasilakakis and lead the club to an 11th place finish. Panthrakikos started the 2007–08 season with a breach of league rules[9] in their opening game, against Chaidari, and were penalised by a four point reduction. Despite this penalty, Panthrakikos beat Ilisiakos 1–0 in the final game of the season to overtake PAS Giannena, finish third and gain promotion to Super League Greece for the first time.
Emilio Ferrera, was hired as manager in the summer of 2008, and lead Panthrakikos to an 11th [10] place finish in their first Super League season. Ilie Dumitrescu was hired as manager in May 2009 but fired after the first game of the season to be replaced by Albert Cartier, who was fired after 15 winless games. Cartier's replacement was Pavlos Dermitzakis until the end of the season, the club's final rank was the 16th place, thus was relegated to Beta Ethniki.
The Stadium Municipal Athletic Center (ΔΑΚ – Δημοτικό Αθλητικό Κέντρο) was built in 1923 near Komotini Railway Station. Panthrakikos has played at MAC since 1963.
In 2009 the Stadium was renamed to OPAP-Municipal Komotini Stadium (ΟΠΑΠ-Δημοτικό Γήπεδο Κομοτηνής) after the Greek betting organization OPAP which is the stadium sponsor.
The northern grandstand was built in 1950 (rebuilt 1963–1965) with a capacity of about 2,500 while the southern grandstand was built in 1970 with a capacity of about 1,500. The northern grandstand and southern grandstand were rebuilt in 2008 with a capacity of 1,608 (1,377 seats for gate 1 & 231 seats for gate 7) and 1,090 (gate 5) respectively. In the southern grandstand at the back of, there is a big booth for the Radio and TV journalists (gate 4). Also there is special area for disabled (gate 3). The western grandstand was built in 2008 with a capacity of 2,002 (gate 6 – guests). Finally, the eastern grandstand was built in 2009 with a capacity of 1,498 (gate 2). The total capacity of OPAP-Municipal Komotini Stadium is 6,198 seats plus six booths, with ten persons capacity each of those. Building of southern grandstand is planned instead of existing construction, with a capacity of about 4,500 (total ~9,600).
The training center is called "Panthrakikos Athletic Center". It covers a field of 42,000 sq.m. located 4 km east of Komotini at Kikidio village.
First squad. The main building covers 360 sq.m. including the administration office, the press room, first aid station, physiotherapy chamber, showers and changing rooms. Three full-sized terrains (two with genuine grass, one with synthetic grass) are used for the first squad trainings. A half-sized terrain is also used for the goalkeepers trainings.
Youth Team (U-19) and football academies. Another 200 sq.m. building includes changing rooms, showers and dining room for the young players, that is the Youth team (U-19) and the football academies. A full-sized and two half-sized terrains are used by the Youth Teams.
According to combined sources [11] [12] [13] [14]
| The early years 1963-2001 | |||||||||
| Season | Level | Rank | W-D-L | Goals | Season | Level | Rank | W-D-L | Goals |
| 1963-64 | 3 | 1982-83 | 2 | 12 | 15-06-17 | 38-44 | |||
| 1964-65 | 3 | 1 | 1983-84 | 3 | 18 | 11-13-16 | 41-46 | ||
| 1965-66 | 3 | 5 | 25-26 | 1984-85 | 4 | 1 | 96-31 | ||
| 1966-67 | 3 | 5 | 40-22 | 1985-86 | 3 | 15 | 14-07-17 | 48-62 | |
| 1967-68 | 3 | 1986-87 | 3 | 18 | 11-06-21 | 46-72 | |||
| 1968-69 | 3 | 1 | 1987-88 | 4 | 11 | 50-42 | |||
| 1969-70 | 2 | 14 | 07-12-15 | 26-47 | 1988-89 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 1970-71 | 2 | 9 | 10-12-12 | 35-34 | 1989-90 | 4 | 4 | 58-30 | |
| 1971-72 | 2 | 7 | 17-07-14 | 45-44 | 1990-91 | 4 | 3 | 29-07-06 | 86-26 |
| 1972-73 | 2 | 9 | 14-10-14 | 34-31 | 1991-92 | 4 | 5 | 50-41 | |
| 1973-74 | 2 | 8 | 16-12-12 | 43-39 | 1992-93 | 4 | 2 | 59-27 | |
| 1974-75 | 2 | 5 | 16-11-11 | 43-35 | 1993-94 | 4 | 9 | 61-38 | |
| 1975-76 | 2 | 10 | 15-05-18 | 44-47 | 1994-95 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 1976-77 | 2 | 12 | 14-08-16 | 39-56 | 1995-96 | 4 | 12 | 45-47 | |
| 1977-78 | 2 | 17 | 12-08-18 | 44-46 | 1996-97 | 41 | 8 | 46-28 | |
| 1978-79 | 3 | 1 | 1997-98 | 41 | 10 | 66-43 | |||
| 1979-80 | 2 | 11 | 11-11-16 | 34-39 | 1998-99 | 52 | - | ||
| 1980-81 | 2 | 7 | 17-06-15 | 42-48 | 1999-00 | 6 | |||
| 1981-82 | 2 | 8 | 15-09-14 | 38-48 | 2000-01 | 6 | |||
-1Panthrakikos merged with Orfeas Xylagani and competed as Panthrakikos Xylagani in 1996-1998
-2Panthrakikos withdrew from the league during the period due to financial problems
| New Era, 2001–present | ||||
| Season | Level | Rank | W-D-L | Goals |
| 2001–02 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 2002–03 | 5 | 1 | 28–01–01 | |
| 2003–04 | 4 | 5 | 17–07–06 | 39–22 |
| 2004–05 | 4 | 1 | 24–05–01 | 70–10 |
| 2005–06 | 3 | 3 | 19–09–02 | 44–21 |
| 2006–07 | 2 | 11 | 12–06–16 | 40–44 |
| 2007–08 | 2 | 3 | 17–10–07 | 44–31 |
| 2008–09 | 1 | 11 | 09–06–15 | 23–37 |
| 2009–10 | 1 | 16 | 03–03–24 | 21–62 |
| 2010–11 | 2 | 7 | 13-08-13 | 36-38 |
| 2011–12 | 2 | |||
As of 12 September 2011, according to combined sources [15] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Manager & Coaching Staff
As of 22 September 2011, according to Official Site [16]
| Manager & Coaching staff | ||
| Savas Pantelidis | Manager | |
| Aggelos Digozis | Assistant Manager | |
| Vasilis Segos | Coach | |
| Athanasios Zlatkos | Goalkeeper Coach | |
| Zoran Stoinović | Youth Team Manager | |
Only with Panthrakikos F.C., according to combined sources [17][18][19]
| nat. | name | career | Super League | Beta Ethniki | Nation Cup | total | ||||
| appear | goals | appear | goals | appear | goals | appear | goals | |||
| Yiannis Kanotidis | 2007–11 | 40 | 1 | 43 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 87 | 1 | |
| Ludovic Clement | 2008–10 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 2 | |||
| Abdul Diallo | 2006–10 | 37 | 5 | 47 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 88 | 17 | |
| Manuel Lopes | 2007–11 | 37 | 1 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 77 | 2 | |
| Anestis Argyriou | 2007–10 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 0 | |
| Egutu Oliseh | 2008–10 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 0 | |||
| José Manuel Roca | 2008–10 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 0 | |||
| Sito Riera | 2008–09 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 5 | |||
| Vlasis Kazakis | 2009–11 | 28 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 42 | 3 | |
| Bertrand Robert | 2009–11 | 25 | 4 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 12 | |
| Daniel Ponce | 2008–09 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 2 | |||
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| Marcelo Goianira | 2009–11 | 25 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 42 | 1 | |
| Fotis Konstantinidis | 2005–09 | 22 | 1 | 54 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 84 | 5 | |
| Spyros Vrontaras | 2004–10 | 22 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 0 | |
| Robinho | 2005–09 | 18 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 82 | 0 | |
| Nikos Bacharidis | 2001–10 | 16 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 46 | 2 | |
| Achilleas Angelopoulos | 2007–09 | 15 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 0 | |
| Fotis Papoulis | 2010–11 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 5 | |
| Christos Charalampous | 2006–09 | 10 | 0 | 38 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 3 | |
| Filip Arsenijević | 2009–11 | 8 | 1 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 5 | |
| Xenofon Gittas | 2007–09 | 7 | 1 | 33 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 2 | |
| Gábor Erős | 2006–08 | 57 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 59 | 9 | |||
| Dimitris Souanis | 2005–08 | 53 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 57 | 14 | |||
| Marios Agathokleous | 2006–08 | 38 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 9 | |||
| Nikos Soultanidis | 2010–present | 29 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 8 | |||
| Ronny van Es | 2007–08 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10 | |||
According to combined sources
| nat. | name | career | Alpha Ethniki | Beta Ethniki | ||
| appear | goals | appear | goals | |||
| Zacharias Tilios | 1963–1976 | |||||
| Stavros Svintridis | 1963– | |||||
| Christos Doulgerakis | 1963– | |||||
| Apostolos Hatziioannidis | 1969– | |||||
| Filippos Aivazis | ||||||
| Archontis Katsaridis | ||||||
| Kostas Vasilakakis | 1973–1995 | 256 | 10 | 140 | 25 | |
| Zisis Tsekos | 1981–2000 | 230 | 20 | |||
From former players without a Wikipedia article, based on their long term presence in Panthrakikos, players worthy of mention are Filippos Aivazis who holds the record for most appearances and most goals in the Beta Ethniki, Apostolakis, Zacharias Tilios, Stavros Svintridis, Christos Doulgerakis, Archontis Katsaridis, Manolis Rakitzoglou, Vasilis Fotidis, Kostas Kalaitzidis and Thomas Dramalis.
| season | chairman | manager | level | rank |
| 2001–02 | Panagiotis Margaritis | Sakis Skoulis | 6 | 1 |
| 2002–03 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 2003–04 | Antonis Michalakopoulos | 4 | 5 | |
| 2004–05 | Yiannis Kitzidis | Kostas Vasilakakis | 4 | 1 |
| 2005–06 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 2006–07 | Zisis Tsekos Dimitris Kalaitzidis Yiannis Gounaris Kostas Vasilakakis |
2 | 11 | |
| 2007–08 | Kostas Vasilakakis | 2 | 3 | |
| 2008–09 | Emilio Ferrera | 1 | 11 | |
| 2009–10 | Yiannis Kitzidis Dimitris Tzelepis |
Ilie Dumitrescu Albert Cartier Pavlos Dermitzakis |
1 | 16 |
| 2010–11 | Dimitris Tzelepis | Kostas Vasilakakis Emilio Ferrera Savas Pantelidis |
2 | 7 |
| 2011–12 | Savas Pantelidis | 2 |
The Panthrakikos crest is a sparkling flamming torch in a circle. The torch is surrounded by the club's name and the year of establishment. Traditional club's shirts are green or white or green with white vertical stripes. The club crest sits on the left side of the chest. Traditional club's shorts are green or white with green or white socks. Alternative strips for the season 2009–2010 are black shirts, shorts and socks with silver figures & details.
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