Pezoporikos Larnaca FC

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Pezoporikos
Πεζοπορικός
Full nameΠεζοπορικός Όμιλος Λάρνακας
Pezoporikos Omilos Larnacas
Founded1927; 97 years ago (1927)
Dissolved1994; 30 years ago (1994)
GroundGSZ Stadium

Pezoporikos Club Larnaca (

AEK Larnaca
(Αθλητική Ένωση Κιτίου).

The club also had a basketball and volleyball department and were basketball champions four times and five times cup winners. Since the 1990–91 season, the club dominated the Cyprus Basketball by winning 3 championships and one cup in four years. During the 1993–94 season the team eliminated

Panionios
. Even as champions, the club merged like the football department, however, AEK Larnaca didn't continue with the same success as Pezoporikos Basketball Club had.

Founding member of the Cyprus Volleyball Federation, the volleyball women's team was more successful than the men's one. The women's team won the Cup once in 1979 when they beat AEL Limassol in the final 3–2. They were Runners up twice each in the championship and in the cup.

Former players (football section)

Honours

Football

Basketball

  • Cyprus Basketball Division 1
    : (4)
    1973, 1991,1992,1994
  • Cypriot Cup (5): 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1992

Former players

Volleyball (women)

  • Cypriot Championship:
    • Runner-up (2): 1977, 1989
  • Cypriot Cup:
    • Winners (1): 1979
    • Runner-up (7): 1989,1990

History in European competition

Overall

Competition Pld W D L GF GA GD
European Cup 0 0 0 2 2 7 -5
European Cup Winners' Cup 6 0 2 4 2 25 -23
UEFA Cup
6 0 2 4 6 20 -14
Total 14 0 4 10 10 52 –42

Matches

Season Competition Round1 Club 1st leg 2nd leg Agg.
1970–71 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Wales Cardiff City 0–8 (A) 0–0 (H) 0–8
1972–73 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Republic of Ireland Cork Hibernians 1–2 (H) 1–4 (A) 2–6
1973–74 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Sweden Malmö FF 0–0 (H) 0–11 (A) 0–11
1978–79 UEFA Cup 1R Poland Śląsk Wrocław 2–2 (H) 1–5 (A) 3–7
1980–81 UEFA Cup 1R West Germany VfB Stuttgart 0–6 (A) 1–4 (H) 1–10
1982–83 UEFA Cup 1R Switzerland Zürich 2–2 (H) 0–1 (A) 2–3
1988–89 European Cup 1R Sweden IFK Göteborg 1–2 (H) 1–5 (A) 2–7

References