Diagoras F.C.

Diagoras Football Club (Greek: Π.Α.Ε. Γ.Σ. Διαγόρας) is a Greek professional football club based in Rhodes, Greece. It was founded in 1905. Diagoras is named after the island's ancient athlete Diagoras. The team first played under Ottoman Rule until the short lived independence of the Dodecanese in 1912. No matches at all were held during the Balkan Wars and the team did not play with Greek teams until the Dodecanese joined with the rest of Greece in 1947.

Diagoras
Full nameGreek: Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Διαγόρας
Founded1905 (1905)
GroundDiagoras Stadium
Capacity3,693[1]
OwnerCharis Papadopoulos
ChairmanKonstantinos Stefanidis
ManagerSakis Theodosiadis
LeagueSuper League 2
2020–21Super League 2, 6th

History

The club demonstrated rich social, cultural, sporting and especially patriotic activities, because of which was dissolved by the occupying Fascist Italian authorities in 1929. Diagoras reconstituted in 1945, just prior the liberation of Rhodes and the union with Greece. They played in Super League Greece between 1986-1989.

In 1987, the club reached the semi-finals of the Greek Cup, losing to OFI.

On 16 February 2012, Diagoras was expelled from the professional leagues by the Greek Professional Sports Committee.

In the 2019–2020 season, Diagoras finished in third place of the Football League and was promoted to the Super League 2, the second tier of the professional football in Greece.[2]

Players

Current squad
As of 28 August 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
3 DF  IND Gurjinder Singh
4 DF  GRE Konstantinos Rougalas (captain)
5 MF  ALB Shefket Hoxha
7 DF  GRE Giannis Giorgou (third-captain)
8 FW  GRE Sotiris Pispas
9 FW  GRE Michalis Kouiroukidis
10 FW  GRE Giannis Bastianos
11 FW  BRA Geovane dos Santos
16 MF  GRE Hussein Mumin (vice-captain)
17 MF  GRE Giannis Parastatidis
19 DF  GRE Giannis Leontsakos
20 DF  GRE Dimitrios Tatsis
21 MF  GRE Vasilis Tsiantoulas
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 MF  GRE Konstantinos Papadopoulos
23 GK  GRE Giannis Bintsis
24 DF  GRE Charalampos Topal
25 MF  GRE Konstantinos Boubas
26 FW  BRA Rafael Nogueira
27 GK  GRE Stratos Pasalimaniotis
28 DF  GRE Nikolaos Saibert
29 FW  GRE Marios Zounis (on loan from Atromitos)
37 MF  BRA Thomaz Cavallieri
44 DF  GRE Angelos Karatasios
77 MF  GRE Konstantinos Lampiris
80 DF  COL Aldair Ordóñez
99 GK  GRE Dimitrios Skafidas

League Participation
  • First Division (3): 1986–1989
  • Second Division (21): 1962–1968, 1974–1975, 1980–1986, 1989–1992, 2008–2012, 2020–present
  • Third Division (9): 1978–1980, 1992–1993, 2005–2008, 2017–2020
  • Fourth Division (5): 1993–1994, 2002–2005, 2012–2013
  • Local Championships (8): 1998–2002, 2013–2017

Honours

Domestic

Leagues:

  • Second Division
    • Winners (1): 1985–86
      • Runners-up (4): 1963–64, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1982–83
  • Third Division
  • Fourth Division
    • Winners (1): 2004–05
  • Dodecanese FCA Championship (Local Championship)
    • Winners (17): 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1973–74, 1978–79, 2001–02, 2016–17

Cups:

  • Dodecanese FCA Cup (Local Cup)
    • Winners (12): 1947–48, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1973–74, 2003–04, 2016–17

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-15. Retrieved 2011-05-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "ΑΠΟΦΑΣΗ Ε.Ε.Α ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΟΜΑΔΑ ΒΟΛΕΙ ΤΟΥ ΗΡΑΚΛΗ". Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
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