Panargiakos F.C.

Panargiakos

Full name	Panargiakos Athlitkos Podosfairikos Omilos
Nickname(s)	Λύκοι (Wolves)
Founded	1926;99 years ago (1926)
Ground	Argos Municipal Stadium
Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Stavros Tsiodras
Manager	Guy Feutchine
League	Super League Greece 2
2023–24	Gamma Ethniki (Group 3), 1st (promoted)
Website	http://panargeiakos.gr/
Home colours Away colours

Panargiakos Football Club (Greek : Παναργειακός Α.Π.Ο.) is a Greek football club based in Argos, Greece. The association was founded in 1926. The club is a founding member of the Argolida Football Clubs Association. ^[1]

Panargiakos played in the First Division during the 1956–57 Panhellenic Championship and in the second level of Greek football several times: 1965–1967, 1970–1975, 1981–1982, 1990–1998, and from 2024. ^[2] In 2008, they were promoted to Gamma Ethniki.

History

Panargiakos was founded in 1926 as "Pan-Hellenic Association of National Physical Education". The head of this historical movement was the writer Georgios Logothetis, who had settled in Argos since 1923, coming from Spetses. From 1926 to 1933 they participated only in friendly matches. In 1933, Panargiakos was deactivated and reactivated in 1945 as "Panargiakos APO". In 1947 they participated for the first time in an official football organization.

The biggest moment of Panargiakos's history is their participation as a South Group champion in the 1957 Pan-Hellenic Championship with ten teams: from Athens to Panathinaikos, Apollonas and Panionios, from Piraeus to Olympiakos, Ethnikos and Proodeftiki, from Thessaloniki Aris and PAOK and the champions of the North Group, Doxa Dramas. In the 1990s, Panageriakos participated in the 2nd National Championship, but never won the championship of the First National Championship. In recent years the team has participated either in the local championships of Argolida or in the championship of the 4th National, but it remains the most favorite club for the Argian fans.

On May 31, 2008, they won the Cup of Amateurs defeating Niki Polygyrou with 3–0 in the lead. The final was in Lamia. In the same season (2007–08) they won the championship in the 7th group of the 4th National Division and the Cup of EPC of Argolida, achieving a treble. They fought for two seasons in the C National, without success, and were again relegated to the National Division. In August 2012, for the first time in the history of the club, a second team is formed, the newly established Panargiakos who originated from academies of the wider region and compete in the A'2 category championship.

In the 2012–13 season, Panargiakos won the 4th place in the 7th Group of the National Championship.

The team's jerseys have been previously worn by veterans of the First National Division such as Georgios Donis, Dimitrios Kapetanopoulos, Bledar Kola and Andreas Bonovas. Also, many football players in the B and C categories, such as Manolis Ioannis, Filis Spyridon, Batakos Dimitris, Da Silva Eduardo, Kapageridis Savvas, Koulianopoulos Ilias, Karabelas Giorgos, Thodis Dimitris, Pappas Pantelis.

Players

Current squad

As of 1 February 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   GRE Ilias Karargyris 2 DF   GRE Petro Kostantin 3 DF   GRE Panagiotis Karelis 4 DF   PLE Saado Abdel Salam 5 DF   GRE Rey Rokaj 6 MF   GAM Bakary Jaiteh 7 MF   GRE Giannis Tsiolis 8 MF   GRE Arber Cani 9 FW   CIV Brahima Kone 10 MF   GRE Antonis Tsirakis 11 MF   GRE Christos Katsoulis 14 DF   GRE Konstantinos Karypidis 15 GK   GRE Simos Synodinos 16 GK   GRE Petros Kyritsas 17 DF   GRE Dimitrios Nikolaidis 18 MF   GRE Giannis Drikakis 19 FW   GUI Daouda Diallo

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF   MLI Ousmane Sountoura 21 DF   CMR Wassim Ngassa Kamga 22 DF   GRE Konstantinos Panagiotou 24 FW   SRB Bogdan Mandić 26 MF   SRB Marko Jovović 27 MF   GRE Vasilios Kostika 28 DF   GRE Apostolos Adamidis 30 FW   GRE Georgios Pachos 31 MF   ESP Jordan Domínguez 33 DF   GRE Manolis Aliatidis 63 FW   GUI Mamadou Diallo 71 DF   GRE Smaraldo Sala 72 FW   GRE Aristidis Kokkoris 93 MF   POR Miguel Rodrigues 94 MF   GRE Giannis Pedakis 99 FW   GRE Pavlos Chatzidimitriou

References

1. Ιστορικό Archived 2018-10-25 at the Wayback Machine Ένωση Ποδοσφαιρικών Σωματείων Αργολίδας (Greek language).
2. Abbink, Dimant & Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (18 May 2005). "Greece - List of Second Level Final Tables". RSSSF .

External links

• Official Site Archived 2013-09-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Ένωση Ποδοσφαιρικών Σωματείων Αργολίδας