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Panthrakikos
Full namePanthrakikos FC Komotini
Nickname(s)Crocodiles (Kροκόδειλοι)
Founded1963
GroundChristos Doulgerakis Stadium
Komotini, Greece
Capacity41,304
ChairmanKòstas DÁs
ManagerPavlos Dermitzakis
LeagueSuperleague Greece
2011–12Football League, 1st (promoted)

Panthrakikos is a football club in Komotini of Thrace in North Eastern Greece founded in 1963. The club competed in Super League Greece during the season 2008–2009 for the first time.

History edit

 
The foundation year, 1964
 
Panthrakikos vs Ergotelis, 2009–2010 season
 
Panthrakikos F.C.,1965
 
Panthrakikos F.C., 2009–2010 season
 
Panthrakikos F.C., 1974–1975 season

The early years, 1964-2001
Panthrakikos F.C. was formed in the town of Komotini in 1963 or 1964 when clubs Athlitiki Enosis Komotini, founded in 1936 and Orpheas Komotini, founded in 1948 were merged.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The new club participated in regional leagues until 1969, when they joined the Beta Ethniki. They stayed in this division until being relegated in 1978, but were promoted back to Beta Ethniki after a single season. They remained here until 1983. Panthrakikos finished 1982–83 12th in Beta Ethniki, but were relegated to Gamma Ethniki due to restructuring of the leagues. In 1983–84 they finished 18th position and were further relegated to Delta Ethniki. The club was promoted again to the Gamma Ethniki, and participated there in 1985–86 and 1986–87. Relegation to Delta Ethniki followed the end of the 1986–87 season. After relegation in 1995-1996, Panthrakikos merged with Orfeas Xylagani and competed as Panthrakikos Xylagani[7][8] on the founding status of Xylagani in 1996–1998. Competed again as Panthrakikos F.C. in lowest level of local leagues in 1998-2001, without any administration, without any investment. In that period, very few fans were take charge of administration.

New Era, 2001–present
In 2001-2003 Panagiotis Margaritis take charge of administration as chairman and Sakis Skoulis as manager. They were promoted two seasons in a row, reaching the Delta Ethniki in 2003.
In 2004 prompting significant investment into the club from local entrepreneurs Thodoris Savakis, Tasos Karaolanis & Yiannis Kitzidis.[9] Kostas Vasilakakis, a former player of Panthrakikos, was hired as manager in the summer of 2004. In season 2004–05 Panthrakikos were champions of Delta Ethniki and were again promoted, to the Gamma Ethniki. A third place finish in 2005–06 saw them promoted once more, to the Beta Ethniki.
Three managers were hired in the first half of the season 2007-2008. Zisis Tsekos, Dimitrios Kalaitzidis and Yiannis Gounaris, were fired to replaced by manager Kostas Vasilakakis and lead the club to an 11th place finish. Panthrakikos started the 2007–08 season with a breach of league rules[10] in their opening game, against Chaidari, and were penalised by a four point reduction. Despite this penalty, Panthrakikos beat Ilisiakos 1–0 in the final game of the season to overtake PAS Giannena, finish third and gain promotion to Super League Greece for the first time.
Emilio Ferrera, was hired as manager in the summer of 2008, and lead Panthrakikos to an 11th [11] place finish in their first Super League season. Ilie Dumitrescu was hired as manager in May 2009 but fired after the first game of the season to be replaced by Albert Cartier, who was fired after 15 winless games. Cartier's replacement was Pavlos Dermitzakis until the end of the season, the club's final rank was the 16th place, thus was relegated to Beta Ethniki.

OPAP - Municipal Komotini Stadium edit

Main article: Komotini Stadium
 
OPAP-MKS Gate 2 Ultras
 
OPAP-MKS Gate 1-7 & 6

The Stadium Municipal Athletic Center (ΔΑΚ – Δημοτικό Αθλητικό Κέντρο) was built in 1923 near Komotini Railway Station. Panthrakikos has played at MAC since 1963.

In 2009 the Stadium was renamed to OPAP-Municipal Komotini Stadium (ΟΠΑΠ-Δημοτικό Γήπεδο Κομοτηνής) after the Greek betting organization OPAP which is the stadium sponsor.

The northern grandstand was built in 1950 (rebuilt 1963–1965) with a capacity of about 2,500 while the southern grandstand was built in 1970 with a capacity of about 1,500. The northern grandstand and southern grandstand were rebuilt in 2008 with a capacity of 1,608 (1,377 seats for gate 1 & 231 seats for gate 7) and 1,090 (gate 5) respectively. In the southern grandstand at the back of, there is a big booth for the Radio and TV journalists (gate 4). Also there is special area for disabled (gate 3). The western grandstand was built in 2008 with a capacity of 2,002 (gate 6 – guests). Finally, the eastern grandstand was built in 2009 with a capacity of 1,498 (gate 2). The total capacity of OPAP-Municipal Komotini Stadium is 6,198 seats plus six booths, with ten persons capacity each of those. Building of southern grandstand is planned instead of existing construction, with a capacity of about 4,500 (total ~9,600).

Panthrakikos Athletic Center edit

 
Panthrakikos Athletic Center. The main building
 
Panthrakikos Athletic Center

The training center is called "Panthrakikos Athletic Center". It covers a field of 42,000 sq.m. located 4 km east of Komotini at Kikidio village.

First squad. The main building covers 360 sq.m.. Includes the administration office, the press room, first aid station, physiotherapy chamber and locker room. Three full-sized terrains (two with natural turf, one with synthetic turf) are used for the first squad trainings. A half-sized terrain is also used for the goalkeepers training.

Youth Team and football academies. Another building 200 sq.m., which includes locker room, showers and dining room for the Youth team and the football academies. Two half-sized terrains and one full-sized are used by the Youth Teams.

Team Statistics 1964–present edit

According to combined sources [12] [13] [14] [15]

The early years, 1964–2001
Season Level Rank W-D-L Goals Season Level Rank W-D-L Goals
1963-64 1982-83 2 12 15-06-17 38-44
1964-65 3 1 6-1-1 14-7 1983-84 3 18 11-13-16 41-46
1965-66 3 5 25-26 1984-85 4 1 96-31
1966-67 3 5 40-22 1985-86 3 15 14-07-17 48-62
1967-68 3 1986-87 3 18 11-06-21 46-72
1968-69 3 1 1987-88 4 11 50-42
1969-70 2 14 07-12-15 26-47 1988-89 5 1
1970-71 2 9 10-12-12 35-34 1989-90 4 4 58-30
1971-72 2 7 17-07-14 45-44 1990-91 4 3 29-07-06 86-26
1972-73 2 9 14-10-14 34-31 1991-92 4 5 50-41
1973-74 2 8 16-12-12 43-39 1992-93 4 2 59-27
1974-75 2 5 16-11-11 43-35 1993-94 4 9 61-38
1975-76 2 10 15-05-18 44-47 1994-95 5 1
1976-77 2 12 14-08-16 39-56 1995-96 4 12 45-47
1977-78 2 17 12-08-18 44-46 1996-97 41 8 46-28
1978-79 3 1 1997-98 41 10 66-43
1979-80 2 11 11-11-16 34-39 1998-99 52 -
1980-81 2 7 17-06-15 42-48 1999-00 6
1981-82 2 8 15-09-14 38-48 2000-01 6

-1Panthrakikos merged with Orfeas Xylagani and competed as Panthrakikos Xylagani in 1996-1998
-2Panthrakikos withdrew from the league during the period due to financial problems

New Era, 2001–present
Season Level Rank W-D-L Goals
2001–02 6 1
2002–03 5 1 28–01–01
2003–04 4 5 17–07–06 39–22
2004–05 4 1 24–05–01 70–10
2005–06 3 3 19–09–02 44–21
2006–07 2 11 12–06–16 40–44
2007–08 2 3 17–10–07 44–31
2008–09 1 11 09–06–15 23–37
2009–10 1 16 03–03–24 21–62
2010–11 2 7 13-08-13 36-38
2011–12 2 1 22-07-05 49-16
2012–13 1

Honours edit

Domestic Titles and honours edit

Players edit

Current squad edit

As of 21 December 2012, according to combined sources [16]

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 Dimitris Koutsopoulos
2 DF   GRE Christos Melissis
3 DF   ESP Luna
4 DF   ARG Germán Ré
5 DF   GRE Giannis Stathis
6 FW   TAH Marama Vahirua (on loan from AS Nancy-Lorraine)
7 DF   GRE Stelios Malezas
8 FW   GRE Kostas Mitroglou
9 FW   GRE Dimitris Papadopoulos
10 MF   ARG Adrián Lucero
No. Pos. Nation Player
11 MF   ESP Luis García
13 DF   ALG Sofyane Cherfa (on loan from Omonia)
15 MF   FRA Joris Marveaux
17 MF   ARG Munafo Horta
18 MF   SWE Fredrik Ljungberg
19 DF   GRE Fotis Georgiou
22 FW   SRB Marko Pantelić
26 MF   GRE Giorgos Karagounis
34 GK   ARG Sebastián D´Angelo
84 MF   GRE Antonis Ladakis



Manager & Coaching Staff
As of 21 December 2012, according to Official Site [17]

Manager & Coaching staff
  Pavlos Dermitzakis Manager
  Giannis Taousianis Assistant Manager
  Tassos Sideridis Coach
  Goalkeeper Coach
  Zoran Stoinović Youth Team Manager

Players Statistics edit

Appearances and Goals from 2006 – present edit

Only with Panthrakikos F.C., according to combined sources [18][19][20]

Nat Name Career Level 1 Level 2 Nat Cup Total
app goals app goals app goals app goals
  Abdul Diallo 2006–10 37 5 47 12 4 0 88 17
  Yiannis Kanotidis 2007–11 40 1 43 0 4 0 87 1
  Fotis Konstantinidis 2005–09 22 1 54 4 8 0 84 5
  Robinho 2005–09 18 0 57 0 7 0 82 0
  Manuel Lopes 2007–11 37 1 39 1 1 0 77 2
  Spyros Vrontaras 2004–10 22 0 40 0 62 0
  Gábor Erős 2006–08 57 9 2 0 59 9
  Dimitris Souanis 2005–08 53 12 4 2 57 14
  Nikos Soultanidis 2010–12 53 14 3 3 56 17
  Dimitris Koutsopoulos 2010–present 55 0 55 0
  Bertrand Robert 2009–11 25 4 28 8 53 12
  Daniel Ponce 2008–12 25 2 24 0 2 0 51 2
  Christos Charalampous 2006–09 10 0 38 3 2 0 50 3
  Achilleas Angelopoulos 2007–09 15 0 30 0 2 0 47 0
  Nikos Bacharidis 2001–10 16 1 23 0 7 1 46 2
  Stavros Vangelopoulos 2010–12 42 1 4 0 46 1
  Vlasis Kazakis 2009–11 28 1 12 0 2 2 42 3
  Xenofon Gittas 2007–09 7 1 33 1 2 0 42 2
  Anestis Argyriou 2007–10 37 0 0 0 3 0 40 0
  Marios Agathokleous 2006–08 38 9 1 0 39 9
  Ludovic Clement 2008–10 38 2 38 2
  Egutu Oliseh 2008–10 35 0 1 0 36 0
  José Manuel Roca 2008–10 33 0 1 0 34 0
  Deniz Baykara 2011–present 31 6 2 0 33 6
  Sito Riera 2008–09 28 5 1 0 29 5
  Ronny van Es 2007–08 21 10 1 0 22 10

Appearances and Goals in Early years edit

According to combined sources

Nat Name Career Level 1 Level 2 Nat Cup Total
app goals app goals app goals app goals
  Christos Doulgerakis 1964–
  Stavros Svintridis 1964–
  Zacharias Tilios 1964–1976
  Apostolos Hatziioannidis 1969–1977
  Filippos Aivazis
  Archontis Katsaridis
  Kostas Vasilakakis 1973–1995 256 10 140 25 396 35
  Zisis Tsekos 1981–2000 230 20

Former players edit

From former players without a Wikipedia article, based on their long term presence in Panthrakikos, players worthy of mention are Filippos Aivazis who holds the record for most appearances and most goals in the Beta Ethniki, Apostolakis (1956-64 Orfeas Komotini, 1964-69 AO Kavala), Zacharias Tilios, Stavros Svintridis, Christos Doulgerakis, Archontis Katsaridis, Manolis Rakitzoglou, Vasilis Fotidis and Kostas Kalaitzidis.

Chairmen & Managers edit

season chairman manager level rank
2001–02 Panagiotis Margaritis   Sakis Skoulis 006 001
2002–03 005 001
2003–04   Antonis Michalakopoulos 004 005
2004–05 Yiannis Kitzidis   Kostas Vasilakakis 004 001
2005–06 003 003
2006–07   Zisis Tsekos
  Dimitris Kalaitzidis
  Yiannis Gounaris
  Kostas Vasilakakis		 002 011
2007–08   Kostas Vasilakakis 002 003
2008–09   Emilio Ferrera (June 2008–June 09) 001 011
2009–10 Yiannis Kitzidis
Dimitris Tzelepis		   Ilie Dumitrescu (July 2009–Sept 09)
  Albert Cartier (Sept 2009–Jan 10)
  Pavlos Dermitzakis (Jan 2010–July 10)		 001 016
2010–11 Dimitris Tzelepis   Kostas Vasilakakis (July 2010–March 11)
  Emilio Ferrera (Nov 2010–March 11)
  Savas Pantelidis (March 2011–Oct 12)		 002 007
2011–12   Savas Pantelidis 002 001
2012–13   Savas Pantelidis
  Pavlos Dermitzakis (Oct 2012–)		 001 00

Club crest and colours edit

The Panthrakikos crest is a sparkling flamming torch in a circle. The torch is surrounded by the club's name and the year of establishment. Traditional club's shirts are green or white or green with white vertical stripes. The club crest sits on the left side of the chest. Traditional club's shorts are green or white with green or white socks. Alternative strips for the season 2009–2010 are black shirts, shorts and socks with silver figures & details.

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References edit

  1. ^ "Panthrakikos History".
  2. ^ "Panthrakikos History".
  3. ^ "2nd Level Table, 1962–63".
  4. ^ "2nd Level Table, year 1963–64".
  5. ^ "Mergers and Name Changes".
  6. ^ "Panthrakikos F.C. foundation, 1964".
  7. ^ "Mergers and Name Changes".
  8. ^ "merging with Orfeas Xylagani".
  9. ^ "2006.11.03, Savakis resignation".
  10. ^ "Beta Ethniki 2006–07".
  11. ^ "Super League 2008–09".
  12. ^ "Panthrakikos History-official site".
  13. ^ "2nd Level Final Tables".
  14. ^ "3rd Level Final Tables".
  15. ^ "merging with Orfeas Xylagani".
  16. ^ "Panthrakikos squad 2010".
  17. ^ "Panthrakikos Coaching staff".
  18. ^ "Panthraxstats (pdf)".
  19. ^ "insports.gr".
  20. ^ "epo, kypello".

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