AEL Kalloni F.C.

Kalloni

Full name

Αθλητική Ένωση Λεκανοπεδίου Καλλονής
(Athletic Union of Kalloni Basin)

Nickname(s)

Sardeles (Sardines)

Founded

15 May 1994

Ground

Mytilene Municipal Stadium
Mytilene, Greece

Capacity

3,000

Owner

Nikos Michalakis

Chairman

Giorgos Vazakas

League

Football League

2015–16

Superleague Greece, 16th (relegated)

Website

Club home page

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Athlitiki Enosi Lekanopediou Kallonis Football Club (Greek: Π.Α.Ε. Αθλητική Ένωση Λεκανοπεδίου Καλλονής – pronounced [aθlitiˈki ˈe̞nosi le̞kanope̞ˈðiu kaloˈnis]), commonly referred to as AEL Kallonis or Kalloni, is a Greek football club, based in Mytilene, Lesbos.

They competed in Superleague Greece from 2013 to 2016.

History

The club was established in 1994 after a merger of Arisvaios Kalloni (est. 1954) and Apollon Dafia (est. 1969), two clubs that had been based in villages in the wider area of Kalloni, the club's original seat.

2002–03 season

In 2002 they promoted in Delta Ethniki but they relegated to local championship of Lesbos. Being one of the weakest club of their group and without having any professional contract, they only achieved four wins.

2007–08 season

The advent of Prokopis Kartalis who had played at Alpha Ethniki as a player of Skoda Xanthi marks the beginning of the glorious course of the club. Kartalis emerged team's top scorer and AEL Kalloni easily won Lesbos local championship and the promotion to Delta Ethniki.

2008–09 season

In 2008–09 season, they promoted in Delta Ethniki and, even though outsider, they came close to take the first place. They were placed in a group that also competed Athenian clubs and finished 5th.

2009–10 season

Main article: 2009–10 AEL Kalloni F.C. season

During the 2009–2010 season AEL Kalloni, making an amazing second round and having the best defense and the second best goals for record in their group managed to win the first place and, for the first time ever, promotion to Football League 2.

2010–11 season

Main article: 2010–11 AEL Kalloni F.C. season

In the club's first season in a professional league, in the North Group of Football League 2, they placed 2nd, a place that led them to a mini league (play-offs) against Vyzas, the 2nd-place team of South Group, and the third-placed teams of each group, Fokikos and Iraklis Psachna. The winner of the league would be promoted in Football League. However, due to the relegation of five clubs by the previous version Football League, play-offs were not carried out, so Kalloni promoted directly with all clubs that would competed in play-offs, Anagennisi Giannitsa and Platanias to 2011–12 Football League.

Kalloni seasons

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1994–95	Lesbos FCA Championship	V	4th
1995–96	Lesbos FCA Championship	V	1st ↑
1996–97	Delta Ethniki	IV	13th ↓
1997–98	Lesbos FCA Championship	V	2nd
1998–99	Lesbos FCA Championship		2nd
1999–2000	Lesbos FCA Championship		1st
2000–01	Lesbos FCA Championship		4th
2001–02	Lesbos FCA Championship		1st ↑
2002–03	Delta Ethniki	IV	15th ↓
2003–04	Lesbos FCA Championship	V	4th
2004–05	Lesbos FCA Championship		5th
2005–06	Lesbos FCA Championship		2nd
2006–07	Lesbos FCA Championship		2nd
2007–08	Lesbos FCA Championship		1st ↑
2008–09	Delta Ethniki	IV	5th
2009–10	Delta Ethniki	IV	1st ↑
2010–11	Football League 2	III	2nd ↑
2011–12	Football League	II	5th
2012–13	Football League	II	3rd ↑
2013–14	Superleague Greece	I	12th
2014–15	Superleague Greece		10th
2015–16	Superleague Greece		16th ↓
2016–17	Football League	II

Delta Ethniki was abolished in 2013, as it was merged with Football League 2, the third tier of the Greek football league system.

↑ Promoted	↓ Relegated

Greek Cup appearances

Season	Round	Date	Home	Away	Result
2010–11	First	4 September 2010	Kalloni	Aetos Skydra	0–1
2011–12	Second	23 November 2011	Glyfada	Kalloni	2–2 aet (4–5 pen)
2011–12	Fourth	20 December 2011	Kalloni	Panionios	2–3 aet
2012–13	First	24 October 2012	Ethnikos Asteras	Kalloni	1–1 aet (1–4 pen)
2012–13	Second	31 October 2012	Olympiacos Volos	Kalloni	1–1 aet (5–3 pen)
2013–14	Second	26 September 2013	Pierikos	Kalloni	1–2
	Second	31 October 2013	Kalloni	Pierikos	2–2 (4–3 agg)
	Round of 16	4 December 2013	OFI Crete	Kalloni	0–1
	Round of 16	16 January 2015	Kalloni	OFI Crete	0–2 aet (1–2 agg)
2014–15	Second (group stage) (eliminated)	24 September 2014	Kalloni	Tyrnavos 2005	1–1
		29 October 2014	Asteras Tripoli	Kalloni	2–1
		7 January 2015	Kalloni	Aiginiakos	5–0
2015–16	Second (group stage) (qualified)	28 October 2015	Asteras Tripoli	Kalloni	4–0
		3 December 2015	Kalloni	Panserraikos	2–1
		16 December 2015	Kissamikos	Kalloni	1–2
	Round of 16	6 January 2016	Kalloni	PAOK	2–1
	Round of 16	14 January 2016	PAOK	Kalloni	3–0
2016–17	Second (group stage) (TBD)	25 October 2016	Kalloni	Agrotikos Asteras	1–2
		1 December 2016	Xanthi	Kalloni
		TBA	Kalloni	PAS Giannina

Crest and colours

Apollon and Arisvaios' crests

Apollon Dafia's crest depicted ancient god Apollo. The club's colours were blue and white. The crest of Arisvaios Kalloni were vertical strips in green and white colour, in the center of which were shown two runners. Up and down of strips, the name of the club was appeared.

Kalloni's original crest

Kalloni's original logo

Initially, it had been decided the colours of the new club to be green and white. After a malfunction of a printer, the green colours were printed in crimson. The executives of the club felt that this change would bring luck, so this variation was finally maintained.

There were two other variations, the one in blue and white and the other in yellow and blue.

New logo

A new crest was created in 2011 summer. It is a circle that in its interior has crimson and white vertical stripes and in its center there is a blue shield with two handshaking hands in laurel leaves at the bottom of which is written the establishment year, much like the original logo. In the exterior of the circle, the club's full name is indicated with white letters in blue background.

Ground

Kalloni uses the Mytilene Municipal Stadium. Until then, they used Kostas Kenteris stadium, situated in Kalloni. The stadium was built in 2002. It had one tier in its west, with a capacity about 900, all-seated. In 2010, when Kalloni promoted to Football League 2, some necessary repairs were made in order to make it appropriate for the proper conduct of matches. In 2009 a secondary field was constructed for training the first team and its academies. From 2011–12 season, the Mytilene Municipal Stadium has been made the club's home, because of the unsuitability of their physical home.

Honours

League

Football League 2 (III)

Runners-up: 2010–11

Delta Ethniki (IV)

Winners: 2009–10

Championship of Lesbos Football Clubs Association (V)

Winners (4): 1995–96, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2007–08

Runners-up (4): 1997–98, 1998–99, 2005–06, 2006–07

Cup

Cup of Lesbos Football Clubs Association

Winners (3): 1995–96, 2005–06, 2008–09

Runners-up: 2009–10

Players

First-team squad

As of September 11, 2016

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Dimitris Tairis
2	MF	Dimitris Zouliotis (c)
3	DF	Spyros Apostolou
4	DF	Panagiotis Arnaoutoglou
5	MF	Lazaros Tzelidis
6	MF	Alexis Dallas
7	FW	Florenc Keri
9	FW	Lucian Burdujan
10	FW	Anderson Paraíba
11	FW	Michalis Frangos
12	FW	Aris Lambrakis
16	DF	Kyriakos Evaggelidakis
17	GK	Fotis Papazoglou
19	FW	Giorgos Sofianis
20	DF	Antonis Karageorgis

No.	Position	Player
21	MF	Giorgos Agrimakis
22	MF	Giannis Giorgou
23	DF	Giannis Savva
24	DF	Stelios Pozatzidis
25	DF	Thanasis Repetsas
26	MF	Rafail Gioukaris
27	MF	Patroklos Krotsidas
30	FW	Efthimis Gkamagkas
32	FW	Dimitris Litainas
33	MF	Stefan Stefanović
37	MF	Lambros Triantafyllou
40	GK	Nikos Mallis
87	GK	Kostas Maniatis
88	MF	Andreas Dambos
99	FW	Alexandros Hintaseli

For recent transfers, see List of Greek football transfers summer 2016

Retired Numbers

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

No.		Position	Player
8		MF	Luciano de Souza

Club officials

Owner & Chairman: Nikos Michalakis

AEL Kalloni Football Club

Chief Executive Officer: Prokopis Kartalis
General Manager: Dimitris Aggelonias

Coaching and medical staff

Head coach: Giorgos Vazakas
Assistant manager: Apostolos Papanikolaou
Goalkeepers' coach: Giannis Georgiadis
Fitness trainer: Panagiotis Konomaras
Club doctor: Dimitris Varvagiannis

Managerial history

Paraschos Laskaris (1994–96)
Giorgos Spartalis (1997)
unknown (1997–98)
Panagiotis Pittos (1998)
Petros Kalogirou (1999–2000)
Simeon Vamvarapis (2000–01)
unknown (2001–02)
Giorgos Spartalis (2002–03)
unknown (2003–06)

Fotis Kokkinellis (2006)
Giorgos Spartalis (2007)
Prokopis Kartalis (2008)
Sotiris Antoniou (2008–10)
Michalis Kasapis (2010–11)
Sotiris Antoniou (2011)
Prokopis Kartalis (2011)
Luciano de Souza (2011–12)
Giannis Matzourakis (2012)

Timos Kavakas (2012)
Loukas Karadimos (2012)
Babis Tennes (2012–13)
Giannis Matzourakis (2013–15)
Vangelis Vlachos (2015)
Thalis Theodoridis (2015)
Nikos Karageorgiou (2015–16)
Giorgos Vazakas (2016–)

External links

Official website (Greek)

AEL Kalloni F.C.

History	History of AEL Kalloni

Stadium	Mytilene Municipal Stadium Kostas Kenteris Stadium

Seasons	2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Football League

2016–17 teams	Acharnaikos AEL Kalloni Agrotikos Asteras Aiginiakos Anagennisi Karditsa Apollon Smyrni Aris Chania Kallithea Kissamikos Lamia OFI Panachaiki Panegialios Panelefsiniakos Panserraikos Panthrakikos Sparti Trikala Zakynthos

Seasons	1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Superleague Greece teams

Current (2016–17)	AEK AEL Asteras Tripoli Atromitos Iraklis Kerkyra Levadiakos Olympiacos Panathinaikos Panetolikos Panionios PAOK PAS Giannina Platanias Veria Xanthi

Former	AE Kavala Akratitos Apollon Kalamaria Apollon Smyrni Aris Aspida Xanthi Athinaikos Atromitos Piraeus Chalkida Chalkidona Diagoras Doxa Drama Edessaikos Egaleo Ergotelis Ethnikos Asteras Ethnikos Athens^* Ethnikos Piraeus Fostiras Filippoi Kavala Goudi Athens Ionikos Iraklis Serron Kalamata Kallithea Kalloni Kastoria Kavala Korinthos Makedonikos Megas Alexandros Megas Alexandros Katerini Naoussa Niki Volos OFI Olympiakos Chalkida Olympiakos Volos Panachaiki Panargiakos Panegialios Panelefsiniakos Paniliakos Panserraikos Panthrakikos Peiraikos Syndesmos^* Pierikos Proodeftiki Rodos Thermaikos Thessaloniki Thrasyvoulos Trikala Vyzas Megara *only in pre-HFF championships

Former (from Cyprus)	AEL Limassol APOEL EPA Larnaca Olympiakos Nicosia Omonia Nicosia

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