Niki Volos F.C.

Niki Volos Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Νίκη Βόλου) is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Volos, in the region of Magnesia, Greece. The club currently competes in Gamma Ethniki, the 3rd league of Greek football. It is the most historic team in Volos, according to the fans of the club, since it holds 26 titles in its potential, hence the only 6 entries in the First National Division.

Niki Volos
Full nameNiki Volos Football Club
Founded19 August 1924 (1924-08-19)
GroundPanthessaliko Stadium
Capacity22,700
OwnerAlexis Papaconstantinou
ChairmanNikos Papaconstantinou
ManagerStaikos Vergetis
LeagueFootball League Greece
2019–20Football League Greece, 5th
WebsiteClub website

History

Niki Volos was founded on 19 August 1924 as Gymnastic Club of Volos' Refugees or Refugee Gymnastic Association, by Greek refugees who came from Asia Minor.

Niki participated for the first time in the championship of the first category before the establishment of the First National, as in 1953–54 she was the winner of the Northern Group and this gave her the ticket for the final phase of the National Division Championship 1953–54, Six teams (Athens (2) – Piraeus – Thessaloniki – North – South) took the 5th place with 16 points, ahead of Panahaiki, who finished the championship with 13.

Niki won for the first time in the 1961 Men's National Soccer Championship, where she had 5 appearances in the big league. In 1966 it was devalued to the Beta Ethniki and since then it has been trying to regain its rise to the big category, which eventually succeeded 48 years later, in 2014–15. In 1976 he won the Amateur Cup.

In recent years he has been fighting in the Beta Ethniki Championship and in the 2006–07 season he finished last and deferred to the Third National. In the 2012–13 season he was back in the Beta Ethniki Championship, and in the following year (2013–14) after the play-offs he won the first place that led to the Super League after 48 years of absence. Unfortunately, on 10 December 2014, the club of Thessaly left the championship due to the inability of the administration to cover the financial obligations that had been created, leaving all the players that belonged to its staff to be released as free. From 2015 he competes in the Gamma Ethniki.

Crest and colours

Old crest until 2015

Niki Volos crest displays the goddess Nike as depicted in the statue Winged Victory of Samothrace. The image of the goddess was the original emblem of the Smyrna-based athletic club Panionios, one of the most popular Greek athletic clubs of Ionia, before it was uprooted and re-established in Athens after the Greco-Turkish War. The founding members of Niki Volou FC, many of them refugees from Smyrna (now Izmir) and the surrounding region, decided to restore the emblem as part of their new club.

Players

Current squad

As of 6 August 2020

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  GRE Konstantinos Papadopoulos
3 FW  GRE Savvas Kyriakidis
5 DF  GRE Manolis Aliatidis
6 DF  GRE Konstantinos Kyriakidis
7 FW  GRE Konstantinos Kardaris
10 MF  GRE Giorgos Iordanidis
11 FW  GRE Vangelis Litsios
15 DF  GRE Thomas Tsimpoukas
17 MF  GRE Alexandros Bitsakos
19 FW  ARG Antonio Rojano
20 MF  ESP Álex Cruz
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 MF  GRE Apostolos Tsiolis
25 MF  GRE Sotiris Balafas
26 MF  GRE Stergios Oikonomikos
30 GK  GRE Manolis Apostolidis (captain)
31 MF  ESP Jordan Domínguez
32 FW  ARG Martín Batallini
99 GK  GRE Konstantinos Karakostas
DF  GRE Angelos Argyris
MF  ALB Neti Meçe
DF  GRE Ilias Polimos
MF  GRE Achilleas Salamouras

Honours

Leagues

Leagues

Cups

League Participation

  • Super League Greece (6): 1961–1966, 2014–2015
  • Football League (31): 1959–1961, 1966–1975, 1976–1984, 1988–1990, 1996–1999, 2003–2007, 2012–2014, 2019–present
  • Gamma Ethniki (21): 1975–1976, 1984–1988, 1990–1992, 1993–1996, 1999–2000, 2002–2003, 2007–2012, 2015–2019
  • Delta Ethniki (3): 1992–1993, 2000–2002

Supporters

The club's most famous supporters group is the one consisting of members from "Blue Club", fan club established in 1985, the so-called Indians. The fan club is also recognized as "Blue Club Panagiotis Ntokouzis", named after one of the founding members of the fan club who died in a motorcycle accident. Another club, particularly famous among the majority of Greek ultras, is the "Blue Angels club 1994" established in 1994.

Notable supporters

Friendships

Managers

References

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