Levadiakos F.C.

Levadiakos

Full name	Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Λεβαδειακός ΠΑΕ
Nickname(s)	The Blue-Greens
Founded	1 December 1961 (1961-12-01)
Ground	Levadia Municipal Stadium
Ground Capacity	6,500 [1]
Owner	Giannis Kobotis
Chairman	Aristeidis Roussaris
Manager	José Anigo
League	Superleague Greece
2016–17	Superleague Greece, 14th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Athlitikos Podosferikos Omilos Levadeon or simply Levadiakos is a Greek association football club that plays in the Greek Superleague.

Based in Livadeia, 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.^[2] It was then relegated to the Beta Ethniki ^[3] again in 2006–2007 and returned to the top tier in 2008–2009. The club finished one level above relegation that year but was relegated back to the second division by finishing 14th in 2009–10.

History of the club

Levadiakos started in 1961, when local clubs Trofonios and Pallevadiaki merged into a greater club. Straight after, Levadiakos played in the second division being close to relegation in almost every season. In the 1980s, the team was upgraded and in May 1987, players and supporters of the club celebrated the team's first ever promotion to Alpha Ethniki. Levadiakos stayed 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 ten years, in 2005, but was immediately relegated. In the next summer, Levadiakos bought many expensive players and appointed Georgi Vasilev 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 Momčilo Vukotić.

Players

Current squad

As of 15 July 2017^[4]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Stanislav Namașco 2 DF Theodoros Tripotseris 4 DF Nwankwo Obiora 5 DF Savvas Tsabouris 7 MF Matthaios Kapsaskis 11 FW Stylianos Vasileiou 14 MF Chahir Belghazouani 15 DF Ibrahima Niasse 16 DF Antonis Mangas 17 MF Toni Silva 20 FW Petros Giakoumakis 21 MF Zisis Karahalios 22 DF Marius Topi

No. Position Player 23 DF Jackson Mendy 25 GK Simeon Sinodinos 26 MF Nikos Kaltsas 27 FW Brandão 30 DF Giannis Zaradoukas 31 GK Anastasios Daskalakis 32 GK Dimitris Sotiriou 39 MF Mohamed Youssouf 77 MF Konstantinos Pappas 82 DF Pavlos Mitropoulos 97 MF Leonard Senka -- DF Leonardo -- FW Florian Raspentino

Retired Numbers

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

No. Position Player 10 Giannis Kobotis (owner of the club)

Managers

• Takis Lemonis (July 1, 2005 – June 30, 2006)
• Sakis Tsiolis (2006–07)
• Georgi Vasilev (July 1, 2007 – March 3, 2008)
• Momčilo Vukotić (July 1, 2008 – Sept 23, 2009)
• Quique Hernández (Sept 25, 2009 – March 1, 2010)
• Dimitris Farantos (March 1, 2010 – Sept 17, 2010)
• Vasilis Vouzas (Sept 17, 2010 – March 16, 2011)
• Giannis Papakostas (March 16, 2011 – Aug 20, 2011)
• Georgios Paraschos (Aug 28, 2011 – March 22, 2013)
• Jasminko Velić (March 22, 2013 – April 25, 2013)
• Takis Lemonis (May 18, 2013 – Oct 14, 2013)
• Dimitris Farantos (Oct 14, 2013 – Oct 21, 2013)
• Nikos Karageorgiou (Oct 21, 2013 – Feb 11, 2014)
• Savvas Pantelidis (Feb 12, 2014 – Feb 9, 2015)
• Apostolos Mantzios (Feb 9, 2015–Jun 10,2016)
• Ratko Dostanić (Jun 15,2016—Jan 5,2017)
• Giannis Christopoulos (Jan 7,2017;– Feb 21, 2017)
• Dimitris Farantos (Mar 14, 2017;– Jun 30, 2017)
• José Anigo (Jun 30,2017—)

References

External links

• Official website (in Greek)