Levadiakos FC

Full name	Athlitikos Podosferikos Omilos Levadeon
Nickname(s)	Greens (πρασινοι)
Founded	1961
Ground	Levadias Stadium Levadia (Capacity: 10,200)
Chairman	Ioannis Kobotis
Manager	Momčilo Vukotić
League	Super League Greece (Σούπερ Λίγκα Ελλάδα)
2008-09	Super League Greece, 13th
Home colours Away colours

Levadiakos FC is a soccer club that plays in Super League Greece in the 2008-2009 season.

Based in Levadia, 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. [1] It was then relegated to the Beta Ethniki [2]again in 2006-2007 and returned to the top tier in 2008-2009.

[edit] History of the club

Levadiakos started in 1961, when local clubs Trofoni and Pallevadiaki Enosi merged into a greater club. Straight after, Levadiakos played in the second division being close to relegation in almost every season. In the eighties, the team was upgraded and in May of 1987, players and supporters of the club celebrated the team's first ever promotion to Alpha Ethniki. Levadiakos standed 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 eleven years, in 2006, but was immediately relegated. In the next summer, Levadiakos bought many expensive players and appointed Georgi Ivanov Vasiliev 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 Momcilo Vukotic.

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Srđan Blažić 2 DF Athanasios Moulopoulos 3 DF Giorgos Koltzos 4 DF Federico Martorell 5 DF Fernando Machado 6 DF Georgios Paraskevaidis 7 MF Serginho 8 FW Alban Bushi 9 FW Stylianos Vasileiou 10 MF Paulo Costa 11 FW Gustavo Balvorín 12 DF Michalis Tzormbatzakis 13 MF Georgios Zisopoulos 14 DF Serge Branco 14 GK Lubos Hajduch

No. Position Player 15 FW Victor Agali 17 MF Giannis Taralidis 19 DF Michalis Kapsis 20 DF Georgios Koltsis 21 MF Giorgos Barkoglou 22 DF Dimitrios Chaloulos 23 FW Athanasios Lemonis 24 DF Ioannis Alexiou 27 MF Stefano Napoleoni 29 GK Kiriakos Stratilatis 76 GK Nikos Karakostas 77 MF Argirios Gatsos 98 DF Dimitrios Galanopoulos 99 GK Alexandros Paschalakis TBA MF Nacho González

For recent transfers, see List of Greek football transfers summer 2009.

[edit] Notable former players

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[edit] External links

Official Sites

• Official site: http://www.levadiakos.gr/
• Levadiakos TV channel from Goal4Replay.net (English) (Greek)

Other

• Albion Road guide to Levadiakos: http://albionroad.com/club-profiles/levadiakos.html

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