Doxa Katokopias F.C.

Doxa Katokopia FC

Full name	Doxa Katokopia FC
Founded	1954 (1954)
Ground	Makario Stadium Nicosia, Cyprus
Ground Capacity	16,000
Chairman	Costas Christodoulou
Manager	Nicos Andreou
League	Cypriot First Division
2013–14	10th
Home colours Away colours

Doxa Katokopia (Greek: Δόξα Κατωκοπιάς) is a Cypriot football team from Katokopia in the Nicosia District. Since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Katokopia is under Turkish occupation, and the club moved to Peristerona, which is near Katokopia.

The solid Era squads

Doxa Katokopias known as Doxa that in Greek means: Glory from 2011 onwards became famous for the solid squad players (the majority of whom are Portuguese from the lower divisions with extremely low payroll that the club president locates) that the team employs, to face strong opponents and obtains the respect of the CFA community due to the decent results.

History

Doxa (which translates as Glory) was promoted to First Division in 1998 for first time in their history, but after finishing 13th in the table (out of 14 teams) they were relegated. The following season, after finishing third in the Second division, they were promoted again in 2000 and this time, with the experience of their first participation, they achieved great success by managing to finish 11th and to remain in the First Division. They were relegated again in 2002 to become Second Division runners-up the following year. They competed again in the first division in the 2003–04 season where they finished last with only 1 win from 26 games and were thus automatically relegated. They were again promoted to the first division in 2007 and after 4 consecutive seasons in the First Division, a record for the club, they have been relegated back to the Second Division in 2011. In 2012 they were promoted again to the First Division after finishing 2nd in the Second Division. In their last three consecutive participations in First Division, they used as home ground the Makario Stadium.

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 3 DF Paulo Jorge (vice-captain) 4 DF Ferrán Monzó 5 MF Elias Romero 8 MF Dani López 9 FW Diogo Ramos 10 MF Ricardo Fernandes (captain) 12 FW Christian Novoa 13 DF Carlos Marques 15 FW Albert Ahulu 16 DF Nilson Antonio 17 MF Constantinos Christodoulou 18 FW Bernardo Vasconcelos 20 MF Héctor González

No. Position Player 21 DF Álvaro Ocaña 23 MF Homero Calderón 25 DF João Leonardo 28 FW Richard Emmanuel Njoh 31 DF Giorgos Xenofontos 32 MF Savvas Nicolaou 39 MF Marios Koukartas 77 DF Raúl González 79 GK Michalis Morfis 84 FW Ricardo Lobo 87 GK Giannis Siderakis 88 MF Georgios Aresti 99 GK Evagoras Hadjifrangiskou

On loan

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

No. Position Player MF Pantelis Vasiliou (on loan to PAEEK until May 2015) 22 FW Kyriacos Vasiliou (on loan to PAEEK until May 2015)

No. Position Player 93 GK Nicolas Anastasiou (on loan to Olympiakos Nicosia until May 2015) 14 DF Paulo Alves (on loan to Kabuscorp until May 2015)

For recent transfers, see List of Cypriot football transfers summer 2014.

Notable former players

See also Doxa Katokopia players

Managers

• Pambos Christodoulou (July 1, 2006–June 30, 2010)
• Nikodimos Papavasiliou (July 1, 2010–Jan 13, 2011)
• Nikos Andronikou (Jan 21, 2011–March 19, 2011)
• Marios Constantinou (March 21, 2011–Nov 1, 2012)
• Loukas Hadjiloukas (Nov 1, 2012–Jan 19, 2014)
• Sofoklis Sofokleous (Jan 21, 2014–April 9, 2014)
• Demetris Ioannou (April 9, 2014–Sept 1, 2014)
• Slobodan Krčmarević (Sept 8, 2014–Feb 15, 2015)
• Nicos Andreou (March 4, 2015–)

External links

• Official website

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