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AEL 1964 (Greek: Αθλητική Ένωση Λάρισας 1964 - Athlitiki Enosi Larissas 1964), the Athletic Union of Larissa 1964, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Larissa, capital of Greece's Thessaly region. The club is also known, unofficially, as Larissa. It is the only FC outside the Greek capital Athens and co-capital Salonika, that has ever been Greek Champions (1988). They also have won a couple of Greek Cups (1985, 2007) and played another couple of Cup finals (1982, 1984), which places AEL amongst the top 5 of Greek Football. Famous fans: Philippos Pliatsikas (singer), Tasos Vamvakidis (actor), Stelios Kantonias (businessman), Kostas Kapatais (producer, winner of 2004 Olympic Golden Rings), Vassilis Tsiaras (lawyer), George Roussakis (journalist), Kostas Agorastos (politician), Dimitris Karatzas (businessman), Nikolaos Karydis (judge).
The team currently competes in the Super League Greece.
[edit] History
The club was founded as Athlitiki Enosi Larissas in 1964, the result of a merger of four local clubs - Iraklis Larissas, Aris Larissas, Toxotis Larissas and Larissaikos. It quickly rose to the first division. However, after winning the 1988 championship, the club fell into decline and by 2000 it had been relegated to the third division, going through bankruptcy. In 2003, the club was forced to change its name to AEL 1964 as a result of the bankruptcy.
However, the 2004-2005 season proved to be very fruitful for the club, winning the second division (achieving double promotion) and advancing to the quarterfinals of the Greek Cup. AEL has had a couple of good seasons in the First Division ever since. They have been particularly successful in the Greek Cup, and as highlight they lift the trophy for second time after 23 years.
[edit] Titles
AEL 1964 is the only countryside based team (i.e., outside of the Athens and Thessaloniki metropolitan areas) to win the Greek Alpha Ethniki (now Super League Greece) Championship, when they did so in 1988. The club also won the Greek football Cup twice: in 1985 by beating PAOK FC in the final (4-1) and in 2007 by beating Panathinaikos 2-1. Before that, AEL 1964 made the finals of the Greek Cup twice, losing in both 1982 and 1984 to Panathinaikos.
[edit] Greek Cup 2006-07 winners
AEL lifted the 2007 cup for their second time in their history after beating favourites Panathinaikos by a one goal margin[2]. Two goals gave underdog AEL the Cup by stunning their opposition who were in the midst of a disappointing season both nationally and in Europe. The first goal came early in the match as at the third minute AEL won a free kick which was taken by Georgios Fotakis and headed in by striker Jozef Kozlej. Just before the end of the first half Panathinaikos won a penalty and Dimitris Papadopoulos stepped up to make the score even on the 44th minute. As the match was approaching its end Henri Antchouet scored with a strong shoot after an excellent long pass from Georgios Fotakis to give AEL the lead. AEL then kept the lead, sealing a glorious day for the unlikely winners. The 10,000 AEL fans deliriously celebrated the goal as the opposing fans felt the disappointment of having to end the season trophyless despite high expectations.
[edit] Stadium
AEL currently plays at the Alkazar stadium, AEL's home since 1964. However plans have been approved to build a new ground at the suburbs of the city(the region is called neapoli). The new stadium's capacity will be 16,000 seats.
[edit] Current squad
AEL fans in
Veria during a game in January 2008.
As of 1 July 2009
- For recent transfers, see List of Greek football transfers summer 2009.
[edit] Youth team
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 1 |
 |
GK |
Erid Prifti |
| 2 |
 |
GK |
Christos Batavanis |
| 3 |
|
DF |
Alexandros Karateev |
| 4 |
|
DF |
Simos Kios |
| 5 |
|
DF |
Christos Nonis |
| 6 |
|
MF |
Alexandros Tiliopoulos |
| 7 |
|
DF |
Thomas Bourouzikas |
| 8 |
|
DF |
Nikolaos Karanikas |
| 9 |
|
DF |
Anastasios Zagkos |
| 10 |
|
MF |
Ermis Mezini |
|
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| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 11 |
|
MF |
Tasos Capetani |
| 12 |
|
MF |
Nikolaos Lougkos |
| 13 |
|
MF |
Ilias Karagiannis |
| 14 |
|
MF |
Kostas Eleftheriadis |
| 15 |
|
MF |
Savvas Siatravanis |
| 16 |
|
FW |
Antonios Vouzas |
| 17 |
|
FW |
Georgios Lytras |
| 18 |
 |
FW |
Giorgio Rocca |
| 19 |
|
FW |
Apostolos Bardas |
| 20 |
|
FW |
Christos Repsis |
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[edit] Coaching and medical staff
[edit] Managerial history
[edit] Notable former players
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[edit] Notable European campaigns
[edit] Sponsors
The main sponsor of Larissa F.C. is On Telecoms, a triple play (telephone, internet and television) telecommunications provider.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
Official Sites
Supporters
