PAEEK

PAEEK

Full name	Podosfairiki Athlitiki Enosi Eparxeias Kerynias
Founded	October 1953 (1953-10)
Ground	Keryneia Epistrophi, Lakatamia
Ground Capacity	2,000
Chairman	Filippos Filippou
Manager	Makis Sergides
League	Cypriot Second Division
2014–15	3rd (promoted)
Home colours Away colours

PAEEK (Greek: ΠΑΕΕΚ; Podosfairiki Athlitiki Enosi Eparxeias Kerynias = "Football and sport union of Kyrenia District") is a Cypriot sports club founded in Kyrenia in 1953 by graduates of Kyrenia Gymnasium and represented the first force to be reckoned from the small city. It now plays in exile in Nicosia since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in July 1974. This union has football division competing in Cypriot Second Division. PAEEK used to have also a basketball division but due to economic difficulties had to suspend it for some years up to date.

Basketball

The PAEEK was a founding member of the Cyprus Basketball Federation in 1966 rising to fame in the early 1970s after its basketball division won the Cyprus top division basketball league in 3 consecutive years..

The PAEEK reached the Cyprus Basketball Cup final on 5 occasions losing them all . 1995 was APOEL's year, when they took the basketball double. As losers of the Cup final, PAEEK automatically qualified to represent Cyprus in Europe in the Saporta Cup . They were knocked out by PAOK BC Salonika which in turn went on to reach the final of the competition.The game with PAOK BC was very special for both teams as they were all refugees and victims of the wars between Greece and Turkey.

Football

The football team has not matched the basketball team's success in terms of trophies. They have mostly hovered between the Cypriot Second and Third Divisions. Paeek is considered to be the team with the most appearances in the Cyprus Second Division with 41 in total. In the 2011–2012 season they came closest to their first ever promotion to the first division by finishing 4th.

Current squad

As of 21 September 2015

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

No. Position Player 2 DF Giorgos Costa 4 DF Christoforos Gavriil 5 DF Diego Portilla 6 MF Maxwell Ankomah 7 FW Yusif Rahman 8 FW Achilleas Vassiliou 9 FW Thomas Tsitas 10 MF Nicolas Oratiou (Captain) 12 DF Thomas Vouzas 13 MF Orestis Leivadiotis 14 MF Andreas Georgiou 15 MF Stefanos Michael 17 MF Panayiotis Therapontos (on loan from Omonia)

No. Position Player 19 FW Kyriacos Vassiliou 20 FW Angelos Papanastasiou 21 MF Panagiotis Giannopoulos 22 DF Marios Nicolaou 23 DF Leonidas Achilleos 24 DF Stelios Mina 25 GK Joaquín Caserza Ortega 28 MF Anaxagoras Violaris 29 MF Panayiotis Prountzou 33 GK Demetris Teggeris 44 DF Andreas Frangeskou (on loan from Omonia) 68 MF Vasilis Baxevanos 77 DF Panayiotis Panayiotou 91 GK Giorgos Papadopoulos

For recent transfers see List of Cypriot football transfers summer 2015

Colours

The colours of PAEEK shirt are symbolic with the black symbolising the sadness from the Turkish invasion in 1974 and the white symbolises the hope that one day they will return to their hometown. When this happens the colours will change back to yellow and black as they were before the Turkish invasion.

Honours

Basketball

• Cyprus Basketball Division 1
  • Winner (3): 1970, 1971 and 1972.
• Cypriot Basketball Cup
  • Runner-up (5): 1969, 1970, 1971, 1995, 1999.

Football

• Cypriot Third Division
  • Winner (3): 1992, 2003, 2008

External links

• Official website
• The history of PAEEK – The First Ten Years (.pdf document in Greek)

Cypriot Second Division
2016–17 clubs	Alki Akritas Ayia Napa ASIL ENAD EN Paralimni Eth. Assia Olympiakos Omonia Ar. Othellos PAEEK Pafos Parekklisia THOI
Associated competitions	First Division Third Division STOK Elite Division Women's 1st Division Cypriot Women's Cup Cypriot Women's Super Cup Cypriot Cup Cypriot Super Cup
Seasons	1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 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