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Niki Volos

Full name	Niki Volos Football Club
Founded	19 August 1924; 94 years ago (1924-08-19)
Ground	Panthessaliko Stadium
Capacity	22,700
Chairman	Níkos Imeráchi
Manager	Ratko Dostanić
League	Gamma Ethniki
2017–18	Gamma Ethniki (Group 4), 2nd
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Niki Volos Football Club is a Greek football club based in the city of Volos, in the region of Magnesia. The club currently competes in Gamma Ethniki, the 3rd league of Greek football.

History

Niki Volos was founded on 19 August 1924, by 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 200?–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 25 January 2019

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

No. Position Player GK Manolis Apostolidis GK Konstantinos Papadopoulos DF Christos Kartsabas DF Nikos Papadimas DF Ervist Metushi DF Anastasios Kantoutsis DF Theodoros Papadopoulos MF Angelos Mattheou MF Vasilios Rovas MF Neti Meçe

No. Position Player MF Alexandros Tseberidis MF Aleksa Vukomanović MF Giorgos Iordanidis MF Alexandros Anastasiou FW Giannis Diniotakis FW Fábio FW Florenc Keri FW Stavros Vourdakis FW Lazaros Mantziris

Honours

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  Football League
  
  • 
    Winners (2): 1960–61, 2013–14
    


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  Football League 2
  
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    Winners (2): 1975–76, 1995–96


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  Delta Ethniki
  
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    Winners (2): 1992–93, 2001–02


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  Thessaly FCA Championship
  
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    Winners (15): 1932–33, 1937–38, 1945–46, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1975–76


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  Thessaly FCA Cup
  
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    Winners (5): 1975–76, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2015–16, 2017–18

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

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  Lavrentis Machairitsas, rock musician

Friendships:

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  Dunav Ruse
  


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  Astana
  

Managers

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  Stelios Manolas (6 November 2012 – 17 February 2013)


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  Luciano (18 December 2013 – 17 January 2014)


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  Alekos Vosniadis (17 January 2014 – 1 July 2014)


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  Wiljan Vloet (1 July 2014 – 14 September 2014)


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  Sven Vandenbroeck (14 September 2014 – 20 October 2014)


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  Panagiotis Tzanavaras (20 October 2014 – 31 December 2014)


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  Fangio Buyse (1 July 2017 – 28 September 2018)


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  Giorgos Koutsis (28 September 2018 – November 2018)

External links

• 
  Official website (in Greek)