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Kavala Football Club[1] (Greek: Α.Ο. Καβάλα), the Athletic Club Kavala, is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Kavala, Macedonia. They compete in the Gamma Ethniki, the third tier of the Greek football league system. The club's home ground is the Anthi Karagianni Stadium.

Kavala

Full name	Αθλητικός Όμιλος Καβάλα (Athletic Club Kavala)
Nickname(s)	Argonauts Light Brigade of the North
Short name	AOK
Founded	1965; 57 years ago (1965)
Ground	Anthi Karagianni Stadium
Capacity	10,550
Owner	Alex Haditaghi
Chairman	Stavros Kouros
Manager	Georgios Angelidis
League	Gamma Ethniki
2021–22	Super League Greece 2, 15th (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

The club was formed in 1965 from the merger of Phillipoi Kavala, Iraklis Kavala and A.E. Kavala.[2]

They have had a few runs in the top division of the Greek League. They were promoted to Alpha Ethniki for the first time in 1969 and stayed up for six years (1970 through 1975). They returned to top division in 1976 and played again for six seasons.

In 1982 the club were relegated to the Beta Ethniki (second tier of Greek football). After 11 years in Beta Ethniki and one year in Gamma Ethniki (third tier – 1988–89) they were promoted to Alpha Ethniki. There "black" period began for the team in which they played only in Beta Ethniki and Gamma Ethniki.

2009–2010 season

In 2009 they signed Miltiadis Sapanis and EURO 2004 winner Fanis Katergiannakis. Kavala were promoted for the first time in 9 years to Greeces top division. In their quest to remain in the top flight they have signed Pepe Reina's back up at Liverpool, Charles Itandje and recently acquired Brazilian Denílson (January 2010 transfer window) a 2002 World Cup Winner. Additional season signings include Craig Moore, Željko Kalac, Ebi Smolarek, Diogo Rincón, Sotiris Leontiou, Serge Dié, Wilson Oruma and Frédéric Mendy. This combined with coach Aad de Mos meant that Kavala set the league alight. They subsequently achieved notable victories in the 2009–2010 season against Iraklis FC, Panionios, AEK FC and Panathinaikos FC.

2010–2011 season

Ending in 6th place, the team entered the transfer season. In July, the Spanish goalkeeper, Javier Lopez Vallejo (who played in Real Zaragoza) was added to the roster. The team's owner sought the new manager throughout Europe and settled on the Serbian coach Dragomir Okuka who lasted until November, when he was replaced by Henryk Kasperczak. In Kasperczak's debut as a coach, Kavala beat AEK, 2–1, in what was considered a very good appearance.

But in March 2011, Kasperczak, retired as the coach of this team, and he was replaced by Ioannis Matzourakis, who was the coach in Kavala FC team in the seasons 1985–1986. Kavala finished 7th and later faced the threat of relegation to Football League (Greece) due to the match-fixing scandal.[3] After an appeal, the team managed to avoid relegation by starting the new league with 8 points less.[4] On 23 August, however, the Professional Sports Committee stripped both Kavala and Olympiakos Volou from their professional licence and demoted them to the Delta Ethniki.[5]

2011–2012 season

Kavala competed in Delta Ethniki Group 1. They only finished 4th, but were promoted two divisions to the Football League for 2012/13 after it was ruled that their demotion to Delta Ethniki in 2011 was as a result of government intervention and should not have been implemented by the football authorities.[6]

2013–2014 season

Ιn September 2013 Germans investors take the management of Kavala F.C. The agreement provides that the new investors will "catch" and a significant part of its debts to old players.

Indeed, the Germans will be able to buy a majority stake of the shares of FC paying €500,000 clause of the first season and €700,000 for the second, respectively.

Crest

The emblem of the club is the ancient trireme, as architecture engineer Christos Batsis designed it. According to the instigator of the emblem of Kavala, the boat is a trireme, where the oars are the footballers, the cloth the administration and the fancy the fans of the club. These three elements together lead Kavala to the harbors that are the targets the team puts each time. All of this certainly has to do with the fact that Kavala is a coastal city and its world closely related to the wet element. The original element of the emblem of Kavala was hanging on the door of the design of the late Christos Batsis until he died.

For a while, the emblem contained the then name of the "Puma Nea Kavala Football Club" team.

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  Old crest.
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  Puma's crest.
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  Current crest.

Stadium

The Anthi Karagianni Municipal Stadium (Greek: Δημοτικό Στάδιο Ανθή Καραγιάννη), formerly the Kavala National Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Kavala, Greece. It is the homebase of Kavala FC. The stadium was built in 1970, and currently has a seating capacity of 10,500. It is named after the paralympic athlete, Anthi Karagianni, who won three silver medals in the 2004 Paralympic Games.

Honours

Domestic

League

• Second Division
  • Winners (4): 1966–67, 1968–69, 1975–76, 1995–96
  • Runners-up (1): 1993–94
• Third Division
  • Winners (2): 2007–08, 2018–19
  • Runners-up (2): 1989–90, 2020–21

Cup

• Kavala FCA Cup
  • Winners: 2017–18

Achievements

• Greek Cup
  • Semi-finals: 1964–65, 1994–95, 2009–10

League participation

• First Division (19): 1969–1975, 1976–1982, 1994–1995, 1996–2000, 2009–2011
• Second Division (23): 1965–1969, 1975–1976, 1982–1989, 1990–1994, 1995–1996, 2000–2001, 2002–2003, 2008–2009, 2012–2014, 2021–2022
• Third Division (15): 1989–1990, 2001–2002, 2003–2008, 2014–2021, 2022–present
• Fourth Division (1): 2011–2012

Sources:[7][8]

Recent seasons

Season	Category	Position	Cup
2000–01	Beta Ethniki (2nd division)	13th ↓	GS
2001–02	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	4th ↑	GS
2002–03	Beta Ethniki (2nd division)	14th ↓	1R
2003–04	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	17th	1R
2004–05	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	3rd	1R
2005–06	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	7th	3R
2006–07	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	5th	1R
2007–08	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	1st ↑	1R
2008–09	Beta Ethniki (2nd division)	3rd ↑	4R
2009–10	Super League (1st division)	6th	SF
2010–11	Super League (1st division)	7th ↓	5R
2011–12	Delta Ethniki (4th division)	4th ↑	—
2012–13	Football League (2nd division)	11th	4R
2013–14	Football League (2nd division)	13th ↓	1R
2014–15	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	3rd	—
2015–16	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	4th	—
2016–17	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	6th	—
2017–18	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	3rd	—
2018–19	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)	1st	1R
2019–20	Football League (3rd division)	6th	5R
2020–21	Football League (3rd division)	2nd ↑	—
2021–22	Super League 2 (2nd division)	14th ↓	—
2022–23	Gamma Ethniki (3rd division)

Best position in bold.

Key: 1R = First Round, 2R = Second Round, 3R = Third Round, 4R = Fourth Round, 5R = Fifth Round, GS = Group Stage, QF = Quarter-finals, SF = Semi-finals.

Players

Current squad

As of 16 April 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 Panagiotis Stathakis 2 DF  GRE Giannis Kazantzidis (captain) 3 DF  SRB Miloš Spasić 4 DF  SRB Dragan Nedeljković 5 DF  GRE Pantelis Panourgias 6 DF  LTU Vilius Armalas 7 MF  GRE Michalis Marinakis 8 MF  AUT Dino Musija 9 FW  GRE Nikos Sampanidis 10 FW  GRE Okan Suleiman 11 FW  SRB Lazar Stakić 13 MF  GRE Andreas Giannakos 16 DF  GRE Vangelis Thalassinos 17 FW  NGA Sunday Alimi

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  GRE Dimitrios Thomaidis 19 MF  GRE Christos Retsos 20 GK  GRE Konstantinos Papapostolou 22 DF  GRE Apostolos Stikas 26 DF  ISR Orel Cohen 28 DF  GRE Christoforos Karagiannis 30 FW  BRA Caiuby 31 DF  SRB Stefan Jaraković 41 DF  GRE Stathis Belevonis (on loan from Panetolikos) 47 MF  GRE Pavlos Grosdanis 72 FW  FRA Yanis Ammour (on loan from AEK Athens B) 87 MF  GER Patrick Ebert (vice-captain) 97 GK  GRE Ilias Kyritsis (third-captain) 99 FW  SRB Bogdan Stamenković

Other squad players

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF  GRE Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou 23 GK  GRE Giannis Karipidis 27 MF  GRE Giorgos Theodoros Tachtatzidis 29 FW  GRE Panagiotis Boutzatzas 32 MF  GRE Dimitris Papadopoulos 35 DF  GRE Dimitris Vordonarakis

No. Pos. Nation Player 38 DF  GRE Grigoris Pertzemlidis 40 FW  GRE Nikos Draganidis 45 FW  GRE Stelios Kamaridis 46 DF  GRE Theodoros Klepousniotis 49 DF  GRE Giorgos Labaditis 52 DF  GRE Michalis Aposoglou

Personnel

Technical staff
Owner	Alex Haditaghi
President	Stavros Kouros
Curator of Football	Argyris Spanidis
Technical director

Coaching Staff

Manager: Panagiotis Dilberis (caretaker) Assistant manager: Nikos Karabiberis Assistant manager: Georgios Angelidis Goalkeeping coach: Nikos Soumoulidis Fitness coach: Kyriakos Fourkalas

Notable Managers

The following managers won at least one national trophy when in charge of Kavala F.C.:

Name	Period	Trophies
Jane Janevski	1975–1977	Football League
Georgios Paraschos	1995–1996	Football League
Stratos Voutsakelis	2007–2008	Gamma Ethniki
Konstantinos Anyfantakis	2017–2018	Kavala FCA Cup
Pavlos Dermitzakis	2018–2019	Gamma Ethniki

Most Serving Managers

Name	Period	Days
Béla Pálfi	1969–1975	2065
Georgios Paraschos	1995–1997, 1999–2000	941
Vassilis Daniil	1979–1981	911
Pavlos Dermitzakis	2018–2020	730
Jane Janevski	1975–1977	730

Gallery

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  Pavlos Dermitzakis 2018–2020
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  Henryk Kasperczak 2010–2011
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  Reiner Maurer 2008
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  Aad de Mos 2010

Record players

Name Apps Georgios Mallios 171 Georgios Koltsis 124 Konstantinos Vakirtzis 117 Georgios Peglis 114 Anestis Athanasiadis 109 Leszek Pisz 101 Kyrillos Kallimanis 91 Ivan Mitev 85 Anastasios Tsapanidis 82 Panagiotis Logaras 79

Name Goals Leszek Pisz 26 Benjamin Onwuachi 24 Nikos Soultanidis 23 Anestis Athanasiadis 22 Giorgos Papandreou 21 Georgios Nasiopoulos 19 Georgios Mallios 10 Bartosz Tarachulski 8 Serge Dié 7 Dimitrios Orfanos 7

Source:^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Official Website

На других языках

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[de] AO Kavala

AO Kavala ist ein griechischer Sportverein, der in der nordgriechischen Hafenstadt von Kavala zuhause ist. Der Verein, der hauptsächlich durch seine Fußballmannschaft bekannt ist, aber auch Volleyball und Leichtathletik betreibt, wurde 1965 gegründet.

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- [en] Kavala F.C.

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[es] A. O. Kavala

El Athlitikos Omilos Kavala es un club de fútbol griego de la ciudad de Kavala. Fue fundado en 1965 y juega en la Gamma Ethniki.

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[ru] Кавала (футбольный клуб)

«Кава́ла» (греч. Αθλητικός Όμιλος Καβάλα) — греческий футбольный клуб, представляющий в чемпионате своей страны одноимённый город. Клуб был основан в 1965 году посредством слияния клубов Филипой Кавала, Ираклис Кавала и АЕ Кавала. Домашние матчи команда проводит на стадионе Кавала, вмещающем 12 500 зрителей.

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