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A.O. Nea Ionia F.C, officially known as Nea Ionia (Greek: Νέα Ιωνία, Athlitikos Omilos Neas Ionias), the "Athletic Union of New Ionia", is a Greek association football club based in the city of Nea Ionia, Greece.[2] The club currently compete in the Athens First Division.

A.O. Nea Ionia

Full name	Athlitikos Omilos Neas Ionias (Athletic Union of New Ionia)
Nickname(s)	Κυανοκίτρινοι (Yellow-Blues)[citation needed]
Founded	16 May 1939; 83 years ago (1939-05-16) (merged three times in 1967,1988 and 2001)
Ground	Municipal Stadium of Nea Ionia
Capacity	3,000
Chairman	Andreas Chatzipavlidis
Head Coach	Giorgos Tsamopoulos
League	Athens First Division
2021–22	2nd[1]
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

At the end of the first decade of the previous century, the town of Nea Ionia had a lot of football clubs, each one with its separate football history. This in relation to its inhabitants' love of sport and especially football made the town known to the rest of Athens. A.O.Nea Ionia is today's most representative club of this refugee town, which is a merge product from football clubs of the town with the latter one having been accomplished in 2001. The basic colours of the team are yellow and blue. The football club was relegated from the Greek Football League 2 in 2014–2015 season, they finished 13th in Group 4 of the league table system. A change of ownership and a lot of financial problems find the club in the local championships for the new 2015–2016 football season.

Stadium

The club home ground was located in Nea Ionia, Athens. The municipal stadium of Nea Ionia[3] is the home ground for A.O.Nea Ionia from the day of its foundation. It was built in 1962. In 2004 the whole stadium was extensively renovated and the pitch was replaced with a turf system of the very last generation. The dressing rooms have been renovated for the last time in 2007. The new facilities and stands built in 2015 were sponsored by the Greek government. The stadium is also used by A.E. Eleftheroupoli and P.A.O. Alsoupolis. The main entrance of the stadium is located at Olympias street in Nea Ionia, Athens.

Players

Current squad

As of 24 February 2022.

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 Kostas Papoutsis 2 GK  GRE Thanasis Mpakolas 3 GK  GRE Nikitas Lourakis 4 DF  GRE Giannis Sigalas 5 DF  GRE Panagiotis Gkrosios 6 DF  GRE Kostas Stathopoulos 7 DF  GRE Nikos Petras 8 DF  GRE Fotis Ntaifotis 9 DF  GRE Giannis Gkletsos 10 DF  GRE Manolis Frantzeskos 11 DF  GRE Panagiotis Mpastas 12 MF  MLI Cisse Ousmane 13 MF  GRE Giorgos Mpanias

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  GRE Kostas Papadopoulos 15 MF  GRE Enias Kalogeris 16 MF  GRE Aggelos Chamatai 17 MF  GRE Nikos Ahmet 18 MF  GRE Ilias Ntounis 19 MF  GRE Giorgos Aggelis 20 FW  GRE Theodoros Nisariotis 21 FW  GRE Panagiotis Komninos 22 FW  GRE Lorentso Priftis 23 FW  GRE Pavlos Ntyrmisi 24 FW  GRE Kostas Outsikas 25 FW  GRE Dimitris Rammos

Retired numbers

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 32 FW  GRE Pantelis Pantelidis (posthumous)

Notable former coaches

2008–2009 Daniel Batista

Notable former players

2008–2009 Savvas Gentsoglou

2013–2014 Michalis Tsamourlidis

2009–2015 Marios Ogkmpoe

Personnel

Current Board

Position	Staff
President	Andreas Chatzipavlidis
Vice President A	Anastasios Theodoridis
Vice President B	Dionysios Tsourapis
General Secretary	Spyros Rakitzopoulos
Chief Financial Officer	Ilianna Kosta
Financial Officer Assistant	Ioanna Theodoridou
Deputy General Manager	Panagiotis Elmaloglou
Technical Director	Makis Elmaloglou
General Manager	Emmanouhl Despotopoulos
Kit Manager	Georgios Choulis

References

External links

Official Website

• A.O. Nea Ionia FC (in Greek)

Other Websites

• Facebook webpage (in Greek)

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