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Asteras Tripolis
Full name	P.A.E. Asteras Tripolis
Nickname(s)	"The yellow-blue"
Founded	1931
Ground	Asteras Tripolis Stadium, Tripoli, Greece (Capacity 4,000)
Chairman	Vagelis Kritikos
Manager	Paulo Campos
League	Super League Greece
2006-07	Second Division, 1st (promoted)
Home colours 　 Away colours

B Ethniki 2006-07 Winners

Asteras Tripolis is a Greek football club from the town of Tripoli, Greece. Asteras was founded in 1930, in the area near the railway station and formally recognized from the courts with the 312/1931 act. After some time, for unknown reasons, Asteras was inactive and during 1932 all the football clubs of the town temporary dissolved.

During that period Minas Tsavdaris was in Tripoli, and founded a football team named “Keramikos” with black & White colors, influenced by the name of the area he was leaving. The team of “Keramikos” was never formally recognized and during 1938 Minas Tsavdaris used the constitution of Asteras and integrated the players of “Keramikos”. This way Asteras reassembled. During 1939 EPOT was founded, Asteras plays for the Championship of the period 1939-1940, with open teams like Aris Tripolis, AEK Tripolis, Olympiada Tripolis. WWII stops (as it was expected) all sport activities in Tripoli, and like all Teams of the town Asteras dissolved.

After WWII , Asteras refounded under the name Neos Asteras and recognized under the act No.508 of the court of Tripoli on the 23rd of June 1947. During the decade of the 50’s, Asteras takes part in the championship of Enosi Podosfairikon Somation Arcadias (Union of Football Teams of Arcadia), winning the title of Champion five consecutive times (1957 - 1962). Asteras played for two years in B’ Ethniki (1961 - 1963). It is the first team of Tripolis that played in this high a league and one of the charter members of B’ Ethniki. The summer of 1963, Asteras integrated with Ari – Atromito, that had been integrated as well a year earlier. This way was created Athlitikos Omilos Tripolis. AOT.

The AOT was based in the constitution of Asteras, that changed to Omilos. At the same time another team created under the name “SEFA Aris - Atromitos” afterwards renamed “SEFA Arcadicos”. Omilos was alive until 1968, and was dissolved with the act No.345 of the Tripoli court, after it was integrated with Arcadikos to form Panarcadikos.

The new history of Asteras as we know it until today, started in 1978 and was formally recognized under the act of No.368 of Tripolis court, since then it takes part with success in the regional championship of Arcadia, it counts five participations for D Ethniki, one in G’ Ethniki, B’ Ethniki, 1 in Superleague.

The club is the best in Arcadia, especially in terms of their financial support and youth setup.

As of May 12th, 2007 the club clinched a promotion spot to the Super League Greece for the 2007-08 season.

Contents 1 Asteras Tripolis home grounds 2 First Season in the Greek Super League 3 Current roster 3.1 Squad Changes for 2007/08 season 3.2 Winter Squad Changes for 2007/08 season 4 Notable players 5 Managers 6 Technical staff 7 Honours 7.1 Domestic Titles and Honours 8 Super League Greece Table 9 External links

Asteras Tripolis Stadium is a privately owned stadium in Tripoli, Greece. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium of Asteras Tripolis. The stadium is commonly referred to as Wembley after the famous British stadium. It holds 5,000.

The owners are currently building a new stadium, Asteras Tripolis New Stadium, with a capacity of 15,000 seats. The Stadium will be ready for the 2008-2009 season.

Despite being unbeaten at home from 2001 until November 2006 (in Greek cup vs. 1st division Xanthi 1-0 and in regular season 2-1 to Kastoria), Asteras made a spectacular start to their first season in the Super League. Their first ever win in Super League was against Panathinaikos FC, 1-0. This was followed by their first away win in Super League against OFI Crete, 0-3. However perhaps their most memorable game so far this season was a 1-0 home victory over Olympiakos. After this win Asteras is the only newcomer team in the Superleague or A ethniki that beat both those two teams Panathinaikos FC,Olympiakos in the same year.

As of September 28, 2007 according to combined sources on the official website http://www.asterastripolis.gr and http://www.superleaguegreece.net:

Abaris Lazaridis Psomas Masara Flavio Masado Cardozo (Zairi) Ladakis (Milano) Rosario (Ioannou) Filomeno Cesarec

Asteras Tripolis Possible Lineup for 07/08 Season. .

No. Position Player 1 GK Dimitris Lyberopoulos 2 DF Cyril Kali 3 DF Fernando Masado 4 DF Nikos Hatzopoulos 5 DF Manolis Psomas 6 MF Petros Kanakoudis 7 FW Mauro Ramiro Milano 8 MF Horacio Ramón Cardozo 9 FW Danijel Cesarec 10 MF Savvas Panteliadis 11 DF Jean Carlos Donde 12 MF Gavrihl Apostolidis 14 FW Patrick Zounti 15 DF Flávio Pinto de Souza 16 MF Nikos Troiris 17 FW Jaouad Zairi

No. Position Player 18 DF Sokratis Ofridopulos 19 MF Roman Bolbocian 20 DF Nikos Lazaridis 21 MF Gaston Martina 22 MF Nikolaos Stratakis 25 FW Rosario Gonzalves Martins 26 DF Xenophontas Moschogiannis 27 DF Carlos Alberto Masara 30 GK Giannis Symeonidis 31 FW Lucio Filomeno 40 GK Georgios Ambaris 44 FW Elias Ioannou 77 MF Nikos Pourtoulidis 79 GK Nikos Anastasopoulos 84 MF Antonis Ladakis 99 FW Nikos Kouskounas

In:

No. Position Player 5 DF Manolis Psomas (Signed from AO Aigaleo Athen) 15 DF Flávio Pinto de Souza (Signed from Botafogo) 11 DF Jean Carlos Donde (Signed from Feyenoord) 26 DF Xenophontas Moschogiannis (Signed from AO Kerkyra) 16 MF Nikos Troiris (Return from Pierikos) 19 MF Roman Bolbocian (Return from Skoda Xanthi)  ? DF Leonidas Argyropoulos (Return from Korinthos FC) 2 MF Cyril Kali (Return from Kalamata FC) 40 GK Giorgos Abaris (Signed from Iraklis)  ? MF Horacio Ramón Cardozo (Signed from Estudiantes) 8 MF Gaston Martina (Signed from Defensa) 7 MF Mauro Ramiro Milano (Signed from Club Atlético Huracán) 31 FW Lucio Filomeno (Signed from Nueva Chicago) 22 MF Nikolaos Stratakis (Signed from Ethnikos Piraeus) 9 FW Cesarec Danijel (Signed from Aigaleo)  ? FW Christos Aritzis (Signed from Doxa Dramas) 12 MF Gavrihl Apostolidis (Signed from Doxa Dramas) 17 MF Jaouad Zairi (Signed from free, Nantes,Boavista)

In:

No. Position Player  ? DF Sokratis Fyntanidis (Signed from Apollon Kalamarias)

• Lucio Filomeno
• Flávio Pinto de Souza
• Jaouad Zairi

Paulo Campos is the current Manager for Asteras Tripolis. He has been with the team since January 2007.

Giannis Petrakis (Asteras Rethimnou) 2004 – January 2006 Local League, D Ethniki, G Ethniki Lisandros Georgamlis 2006 – May 2006 G Ethniki Giannis Papakostas (Pas Giannina) June 2006 – December 2006 B Ethniki Paulo Campos 2007 – present, B Ethniki, SuperLeague

Name	Role
Borovilos Dimitrios	General Director
Borovilos Giorgos	Consultant Manager
Skorpidas Babis	Director
Paulo Campos	Manager
Tzanavaras Panagiotis	Assist. Manager
William Hautman	Trainer
Xatzopoulos Polivios	Scouting
Nikos Kapogiannis	Academy Staff
Panagiotopoulos Christos, Leontios Dimitris, Terzis Dimitris	Academy Manager
Jerry Ougen	Goalkeeper Coach
Panagiotis Melas, Tsakotos Giorgos, Dimitrakopoulos Kostas	Doctors
Alexantros Kastritis, kostas Papas, Kostas Diamantopoulos	Physio
Tsatsoulis Spyros	Statistics

• Total Titles: 15

• • Second Division: 1
    • 2007
  • Third Division: 1
    • 2006
  • Fourth Division: 1
    • 2005
  • Arcadian Championship (Fifth Division):8
    • 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1988, 1990, 2003
  • Arcadian Cup:3
    • 1990, 2004, 2005
  • Arcadian Double:1
    • 1990

Asteras Tripolis Professional History

• 1 season in the Super League Greece
• 3 season in the Second Division
• 2 seasons in the Third Division
• 5 seasons in the Fourth Division

European Titles and Honours Asteras Tripolis has not participated in any European competition yet.

Last updated December 16, 2007

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Olympiacos	12	8	3	1	26	10	+16	27
2	AEK Athens	12	9	0	3	23	5	+18	27
3	Panathinaikos	12	7	3	2	18	5	+13	24
4	A.Tripoli	12	6	3	3	13	6	+7	21
5	Aris	12	5	4	3	10	7	+3	19
6	Atromitos	12	5	3	4	11	11	0	18
7	Panionios	12	5	3	4	15	16	-1	18
8	PAOK	12	5	2	5	17	14	+3	17
9	Iraklis	12	3	5	4	10	12	-2	14
10	Larissa	12	2	7	3	11	14	-3	13
11	Xanthi	12	3	3	6	8	13	-5	12
12	Apollon Kal.	12	3	3	6	12	19	-7	12
13	Levadiakos	12	3	2	7	10	24	-14	11
14	OFI	12	3	2	7	15	24	-9	11
15	Veria	12	2	4	6	7	14	-7	10
16	Ergotelis	12	1	5	6	8	18	-10	8

	UEFA Champions League Third Qualifying Round
	UEFA Champions League Second Qualifying Round
	UEFA Cup Second Qualifying Round
	Intertoto Cup Second Round
	Relegation to Second Division

Source:Super League Greece
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

• (Greek) Official website
• [1] Asteras Tripolis Stadium in English
• [2] Fan Forum in Greek and English
• [3] Fan Forum in Greek, English section, From Greece, News etc

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