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Aiginiakos

Full name	Aiginiakos Football Club
Founded	1953; 71 years ago (1953)
Ground	Municipal Stadium "Giannis Paralikidis"
Capacity	1,000
Chairman	Michalis Kissoudis
Manager	Leonidas Bilis
League	Gamma Ethniki
2023–24	Pieria FCA First Division, 1st (promoted)
Home colours Away colours

Aiginiakos Football Club (Greek: Αιγινιακός Π.Α.) is a Greek professional football club based in Aiginio, Pieria, Greece. It plays its home matches at the Municipal Stadium "Giannis Paralikidis".

History

Aiginiakos is a club in Aiginio, a town in the prefecture of Pieria. The colors of Aeginian are blue and white. Initially, the club came from the merger of two groups, Ethnikos and Digenis, in 1953. The headquarters of Aiginiakos are the municipal stadium "Giannis Paralikidis."

In the 1975–76 season, Aiginiakos came very close to the Beta Ethniki (second division), since in the special championship among the first teams from four prefectures he reached the source, but water did not drink as in the crucial match at Aiginio with Niki Polygyrou defeated 0–2 at the same time he lost the ticket for the Beta Ethniki. In the 1977–78 season, Aiginiakos took 4th place in the championship of the Delta Ethniki. In the year 1986–87, he rose to Delta Ethniki, prevailing at the barracks of the Ghost Petrosa. In the period 1987–88, he managed to stay in the Delta Ethniki by winning Achilleas Triandrias in Polykastro in a barrage match. The next season, after an excellent presence, Gamma Ethniki (1989) passed the threshold of professional football, the greatest distinction in the history of the club. Notable is the presence of the team in the championship of Delta Ethniki, where it had a total of 13 years.

Aiginiakos appeared in Gamma Ethniki's Northern Group in 1989–90, but finished the season in the last place and was relegated to the regional championship.

In 2012, Aiginiakos lifted the Pieria FCA Cup after beating AE Peristasi 1–0 in the final and were supposed to play in the 2012–13 Delta Ethniki after having ended first in the A' Division of the local Pieria championships. However, they took the place of fellow Pieria-based club Platamon Academy in the Football League 2; the latter were Group 3 champions in the 2011–12 Delta Ethniki but could not obtain a professional licence to play in the 2012–13 Football League 2. They merged with Platamón FC and got the licence they needed. In the Football League 2, things were easy for the teams, as they knew that the top five teams would be promoted to the Football League. Aiginiakos got 4th place with ease, and were promoted to the Football League for the first time in their history.

Honours

Domestic

Since 1996

Leagues

• Gamma Ethniki
  • Winners (1): 2015–16
• Pieria Football Clubs Association Championship
  • Winners (5): 1995–96, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2011–12, 2023–24

Records

Most club appearances

Rank Name Apps 1 Athanasios Tolios 92 2 Panagiotis Giazitzoglou 88 3 Nikolaos Zourkos 82 4 Vasilios Liolios 79 5 Marcelo Penta 64

Affiliated clubs

• PAOK

References

1. ^ Dermisis, D. (10 July 2012). "Επιστροφή" του Αιγινιακού στα "σαλόνια" [Return of Aiginiakos in the "big leagues"]. Pierikoi Antilaloi (in Greek). Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
2. Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (18 May 2005). "Greece - List of Third Level Final Tables". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
3. Achlatlis, Savvas (12 April 2012). ΚΥΠΕΛΛΟ ΕΠΣ ΠΙΕΡΙΑΣ: ΑΙΓΙΝΙΑΚΟΣ – ΑΕ ΠΕΡΙΣΤΑΣΗΣ 1-0 // Σήκωσε την κούπα ο Αιγινιακός! [Pieria FCA Cup: Aiginiakos - AE Peristasi 1-0 // Aiginiakos lifted the Cup!]. Olympio Vima (in Greek). Retrieved 21 October 2012.
4. ^ "2011-12 leagues". Pieria Football Clubs Association (in Greek). Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
5. "Aiginiakos in the Football League 2" (in Greek). onsports.gr.
6. "Aiginiakos merged with Platamonas" (in Greek). iraklis1908.gr.
7. "1995-96 leagues". Pieria Football Clubs Association (in Greek). Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
8. "1998-99 leagues". Pieria Football Clubs Association (in Greek). Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
9. "2001-02 leagues". Pieria Football Clubs Association (in Greek). Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
10. "2006-07 leagues". Pieria Football Clubs Association (in Greek). Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
11. Αυτή είναι η συμφωνία Αιγινιακού - ΠΑΟΚ (in Greek). 27 May 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2017.

• Football clubs in Central Macedonia
• 1953 establishments in Greece
• Football clubs in Pieria (regional unit)
• Gamma Ethniki clubs