Kallithea F.C.

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Kallithea FC

Full name

Γ.Σ. Καλλιθέα
Gymasticos Syllogos Kallithea

Nickname(s)

Blues , England

Founded

1966

Ground

Gregoris Lambrakis Stadium
(also known as El Paso Stadium),
Kallithea, Athens, Greece
(Capacity 4,200)

Chairman

Nikos Salevris

Manager

Christos Georgiou

League

Second Division

2006-07

7th

Website

[[1] Club home page]





Home colours





Away colours

Kallithea FC (Kallithea, Athens, Greece, in Greek Γ.Σ. Καλλιθέα) [2] was founded in 1966 from the amalgamation of four local football (soccer) clubs: Esperos [3] (played in Greek Division 1 in years 1948-49, 1949-50 and 1954-55), Iraklis (Hercules), AE Kallitheas and Kallithaikos. A fifth club (Pyrsos) joined next year (1967). The five stars in the club's logo depict the five founders.

Kallithea FC (in Greek "Gymnasticos Syllogos Kallithea" or GS Kallithea) started playing in Division 3 in year 1966. In year 1969 was promoted to Division 2 and in year 2002 to Division 1.

Since its foundation (1966) Kallithea FC has played for 15 periods in Division 3 (1966-1969, 1975, 1982-1987, 1990-1993, 1994-1997), 21 periods in Division 2 (1969-1975, 1976-1982, 1987-1990, 1993, 1997-2002) and 4 periods in Division 1 (2002-2006).

In January 2005 the top scorer of the Greek Championship, Theofanis Gekas, was transferred from Kallithea FC to Panathinaikos and from there in September 2006 to VfL Bochum, where he scored 20 goals and became the top scorer of the German Championship 2006-2007 [4]. In July 2005 Tasos Kyriakos, was transferred from Kallithea FC to Olympiakos.

Football ground: Kallithea Municipal Stadium "Gregoris Lambrakis" (capacity 5,000) at the Sikelia Heights, also known as "El Paso", a name acquired during the 1960s after the "For a Few Dollars More" spaghetti-western film.

[edit] Notable players

[edit] Current squad 2007/08

As of June 4, 2008:

No.	Position	Player
3	DF	Michalis Tzormbatzakis
5	DF	Vassilios Karatzas
6	DF	Borislav Georgiev
8	DF	Georgios Syros
9	FW	Georgios Kazantzis
10	MF	Agisilaos Pasas
15	GK	Kostantinos Drambalis
23	MF	Athanasios Noutsos
28	FW	Stefanos Voskaridis

No.	Position	Player
29	DF	Mamary Traore
35	FW	Luis Sarmiento
37	DF	Alkis
40	MF	Alexandros Karachalios
88	MF	Gabriel Leonardo Lettieri
99	FW	Dražen Jelic
	DF	Nikolaos Meserdis
	MF	Loukas Karadimos
	FW	Marko Markovski (on loan from Partizan Belgrad)
	DF	Pavlos Moustafidis (on loan to Acharnaikos)