Apollon Patras

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A.S. Apollon Patras
Full nameA.Σ. Απόλλων Πατρών
Athletic Society Apollon Patras
Nickname(s)Μελανόλευκοι, Melanolefkoi (Black-Whites)
Founded1926
Capacity3,500
ChairmanNikos Karapanos
ManagerNikos Vetoulas
The first version of this article has been based in the text of
GFDL
.

A.S. Apollon Patras (

Greek God Apollo
, and its team colours are black and white.

History

The club was founded in 1926, in the

Panachaiki, APS Olympiakos, Patraikos, and Thyella. The team's ground was in the Olympiakos Patras Arena, today's Prosfygika Stadium
.

The football team was later dissolved, and today Apollon is mainly a

Korać Cup (1999), and has played in the Greek Cup Final in 1997, where they lost the title game against Olympiacos
, by a score of 78–80.

Honours

Basketball

Apollon Patras Indoor Hall, in Perivola, Patras

Men's team

  • Participation in the Premier Division (Basket League) (32x): 1972, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Titles: (8x)

Greek Honours:

European honours:

Women's team

  • Achaia local regional championship winner (3x): 1998, 2006, 2007

Volleyball

Men's team

  • Achaia local regional championship winner (3x): 1998, 2005, 2007
  • Participation in the Second National Division: 2001, 2002
  • Participation in the Third National Division: 2004, 2006

Women's team

  • Achaia local regional championship winner (2x): 2007, 2008
  • Participation in the Second National Division: 2001, 2002

Football

  • Achaia local regional championship winner (3x): 1945, 1946, 1948
  • Participation in
    Greek Football Third Division (South)
    : 1967, 1976

Table tennis

The club also competes in table tennis competitions, and it finished in fourth place in 1974. It produced athletes such as: Dimitrios Zikos, Giorgos Glarakis, Gerasimos Roussopoulos, and Spyros Kalogriopoulos. Roussopoulos was a member of the team that won the Atomic Greek Youth Championships in 1971, and finished second in 1972 and 1973.

In 1969, along with Spyros Kalogriopoulos, they were Greek champions in the children's doubles, as athletes of Sporting Patras.[2]

Gallery

References

External links