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| Full name | Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Σύλλογος Πανθρακικός | ||
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| Nickname | Kροκόδειλοι (Crocodiles) | ||
| Founded | 1964; 62 years ago (1964) | ||
| Ground | Komotini Municipal Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 6,198 | ||
| Investor | Nikolaos Pachoumis | ||
| Chairman | Xaralampos Sakaris | ||
| Manager | Periklis Amanatidis | ||
| League | Gamma Ethniki | ||
| 2024–25 | Gamma Ethniki (Group 1), 2nd | ||
| Website | Club Website | ||
Panthrakikos Football Club (Greek:Α.Π.Σ. Πανθρακικός) is a Greekfootball club based inKomotini,Thrace in North EasternGreece founded in 1964. The club competed inSuper League Greece during the 2008–09 season for the first time.
Panthrakikos F.C. was formed in the town ofKomotini in 1964.Athlitiki Enosis Komotini (Athletic Union of Komotini) which was founded in 1936, andOrpheus Komotini which was founded in 1948 were merged with Panthrakikos.[1][2][3][4][5]The club participated in regional leagues until 1969, when they joined theBeta Ethniki. They stayed in this division until being relegated in 1978, but were promoted back toBeta Ethniki after a single season. They remained here until 1983. Panthrakikos finished 1982–83 12th inBeta Ethniki, but were relegated toGamma Ethniki due to restructuring of the leagues. In 1983–84 they finished 18th position and were further relegated toDelta Ethniki. The club was promoted again to theGamma Ethniki, and participated there in 1985–86 and 1986–87. Relegation toDelta Ethniki followed the end of the 1986–87 season. After relegation in 1995-1996, Panthrakikos merged withOrpheus Xylagani and competed asPanthrakikos Xylagani[4] on the founding status of Xylagani during the years 1996–1998. Competed again asPanthrakikos F.C. in lowest level of local leagues during the years 1998-2001, without any administration and without any investment. In that period, very few fans were take charge of administration.
In 2001-2003 Panagiotis Margaritis take charge of administration as chairman and Sakis Skoulis as manager. They were promoted two consecutive seasons, reaching theDelta Ethniki in 2003.
In 2004 prompting significant investment into the club from local entrepreneurs Thodoris Savakis, Tasos Karaolanis & Yiannis Kitzidis.[6]Kostas Vasilakakis, a former player of Panthrakikos, was hired as manager in the summer of 2004. In season 2004–05 Panthrakikos were champions ofDelta Ethniki and were again promoted, to theGamma Ethniki. A third-place finish in 2005–06 saw them promoted once more, to theBeta Ethniki.
Three managers were hired in the first half of the season 2006-2007.Zisis Tsekos, Dimitrios Kalaitzidis andYiannis Gounaris, were fired to be replaced by managerKostas Vasilakakis and lead the club to an 11th-place finish. Panthrakikos started the2007–08 season with a breach of league rules[7] in their opening game, againstChaidari, and were penalised by a four-point reduction. Despite this penalty, Panthrakikos beatIlisiakos 1–0 in the final game of the season to overtakePAS Giannina, finish third and gain promotion toSuper League Greece for the first time.Emilio Ferrera, was hired as manager in the summer of 2008, lead Panthrakikos to an 11th[8] place finish in their firstSuper League season.
On January 25, 2017, Panthrakikos withdrew from the Football League (Level 2) due to financial problems after the 12th game of the period.
After competing in the Regional Amateur League of Thrace for over 4 years, Panthrakikos got promoted once again toGamma Ethniki and will be competing in the competition for the 2022/23 Football Season.
The "Municipal Athletic Center" (ΔΑΚ – Δημοτικό Αθλητικό Κέντρο) was built in 1923 by theHellenic Army near the railway station ofKomotini. Panthrakikos has played there since 1963.
The northern grandstand was built in 1950 (rebuilt 1963–1965) with a capacity of about 2,500 while the southern grandstand was built in 1970 with a capacity of about 1,500. The northern grandstand and southern grandstand were rebuilt in 2008 with a capacity of 1,608 (1,377 seats for gate 1 plus 231 seats for gate 7) and 1,090 (gate 5) respectively. In the southern grandstand at the back of, there is a big booth for the Radio and TV journalists (gate 4). Also there is special area for disabled (gate 3). The western grandstand was built in 2008 with a capacity of 2,002 (gate 6 – guests). Finally, the eastern grandstand was built in 2009 with a capacity of 1,498 (gate 2). The total capacity of OPAP-Municipal Komotini Stadium is 6,198 seats.
The training center is called "Panthrakikos Athletic Center". It covers a field of 42,000 sq.m. located 4 km east of Komotini at Kikidio village.
The main building covers 360 sq.m.. Includes the administration office, the press room, first aid station, physiotherapy chamber and locker room. Three full-sized terrains (two with natural turf, one with synthetic turf) are used for the first squad trainings. A half-sized terrain is also used for the goalkeepers training.
Another building 200 sq.m., which includes locker room, showers and dining room for the Youth team and the football academies. Two half-sized terrains and one full-sized are used by the Youth Teams.
Only with Panthrakikos F.C. As of 18 April 2016 according to combined sources[9][10][11]
| Nat | Name | Career | Level 1 | Level 2 | Nat Cup | Total | ||||
| app | goals | app | goals | app | goals | app | goals | |||
 | Deniz Baykara | 2011–16 | 111 | 5 | 31 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 156 | 12 |
 | Antonis Ladakis | 2012–16 | 85 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 89 | 2 | ||
 | Igor | 2013–16 | 77 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 80 | 25 | ||
| Thanasis Papageorgiou | 2013–16 | 74 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 82 | 2 | ||
| Christos Tzanis | 2012–16 | 73 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 81 | 17 | ||
| Giannis Christou | 2011–16 | 70 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 109 | 2 |
| Dimitris Hasomeris | 2013–16 | 68 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 75 | 5 | ||
 | Pape M'Bow | 2013–15 | 59 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 64 | 2 | ||
| Ioannis Potouridis | 2014–16 | 57 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 62 | 0 | ||
| Giorgos Athanasiadis | 2013–16 | 57 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 60 | 0 | ||
 | Nicolas Diguiny | 2014–16 | 55 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 57 | 8 | ||
| Achilleas Sarakatsanos | 2011–14 | 48 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 83 | 2 |
 | José María Cases | 2013–15 | 47 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 50 | 10 | ||
| Yiannis Kanotidis | 2007–11 | 40 | 1 | 43 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 87 | 1 |
| Ludovic Clément | 2008–10 | 38 | 2 | 38 | 2 | ||||
 | Abdul Diallo | 2006–10 | 37 | 5 | 47 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 88 | 17 |
 | Manuel Lopes | 2007–11 | 37 | 1 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 77 | 2 |
 | Munafo Horta | 2009–13 | 32 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 66 | 2 |
| Spyros Vrontaras | 2004–10 & 2012–13 | 28 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 70 | 0 |
| Adrián Lucero | 2012–13 | 28 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 34 | 6 | ||
| Sito Riera | 2008–09 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 5 | ||
 | Marama Vahirua | 2012–13 | 26 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 30 | 5 | ||
| Bertrand Robert | 2009–11 | 25 | 4 | 28 | 8 | 53 | 12 | ||
| Dimitrios Papadopoulos | 2012–13 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 30 | 12 | ||
| Fotis Konstantinidis | 2005–09 | 22 | 1 | 54 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 84 | 5 |
| Dimitris Koutsopoulos | 2010–14 | 22 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 84 | 0 |
| Christos Mingas | 2011–13 | 22 | 0 | 26 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 57 | 7 |
| Robinho | 2005–09 | 18 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 82 | 0 |
| Nikos Bacharidis | 2001–10 | 16 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 46 | 2 |
 | Gábor Erős | 2006–08 | 57 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 59 | 9 | ||
| Dimitris Souanis | 2005–08 | 53 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 57 | 14 | ||
| Nikos Soultanidis | 2010–12 | 53 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 56 | 17 | ||
 | Ronny van Es | 2007–08 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10 | ||
Former players without Wikipedia article, based on their long-term presence in Panthrakikos, players worthy of mention areFilippos Aivazis (1967–84) who holds the record for most appearances (405) and most goals (89) in the Beta and Gamma Ethniki,Apostolos Hatziioannidis - Apostolakis (1956-64 Orfeas Komotini, 1964-69 AO Kavala, 1967-77 Panthrakikos F.C.),Zacharias Tilios (1964–76),Stavros Svintridis,Christos Doulgerakis,Archontis Katsaridis,Manolis Rakitzoglou,Vasilis Fotidis,Kostas Kalaitzidis andKostas Vasilakakis (1973–81).
| season | chairman | manager | level | rank |
| 2001–02 | Panagiotis Margaritis | Sakis Skoulis | 6 | 1 |
| 2002–03 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 2003–04 | Antonis Michalakopoulos | 4 | 5 | |
| 2004–05 | Yiannis Kitzidis | Kostas Vasilakakis | 4 | 1 |
| 2005–06 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 2006–07 | Zisis Tsekos Dimitris KalaitzidisYiannis GounarisKostas Vasilakakis | 2 | 11 | |
| 2007–08 | Kostas Vasilakakis | 2 | 3 | |
| 2008–09 |  Emilio Ferrera (Jun 5, 2008 – Jun 30, 2009) | 1 | 11 | |
| 2009–10 | Yiannis Kitzidis Dimitris Tzelepis |  Ilie Dumitrescu (Jul 1, 2009–Sep 20, 2009)Albert Cartier (Sep 20, 2009–Jan 12, 2010)Pavlos Dermitzakis (Jan 12, 2010–Jul 22, 2010) | 1 | 16 |
| 2010–11 | Dimitris Tzelepis | Kostas Vasilakakis (Jul 25, 2010–Nov 10)Emilio Ferrera (Nov 7, 2010 – Mar 25, 2011)Savas Pantelidis (Mar 30, 2011 – Oct 29, 2012) | 2 | 7 |
| 2011–12 | Savas Pantelidis | 2 | 1 | |
| 2012–13 | Savas PantelidisPavlos Dermitzakis (Oct 31, 2012 – Apr 30, 2013) | 1 | 10 | |
| 2013–14 | Apostolos Mantzios (May 9, 2013 – Nov 5, 2014) | 1 | 10 | |
| 2014–15 | Apostolos MantziosJosé Manuel Roca (Nov 10, 2014 – Sep 16, 2015) | 1 | 12 | |
| 2015–16 | José Manuel RocaDimitrios Eleftheropoulos (Sep 19, 2015 – ) Giannis Hatzinikolaou (Jan 26, 2016 – ) Zoran Stoinović (Mar 16, 2016 – ) | 1 | 15 | |
| 2016–17 | Kostas Anifantakis (– Dec 8, 2016)Kostas Vasilakakis (Dec 10, 2016 – Jan 25, 2017) | 2 | 18 | |
| 2017–18 | Manolis Sakalis | Vangelis Kyrialanis | 5 | 2 |
| 2018–19 | Nikolaos pachoumis | Kostas Gemenetzis | 4 | 3 |
| 2019–20 | 4 |
Panthrakikos crest is a sparkling flaming torch in a circle. The torch is surrounded by the club's name and the year of establishment. The club crest sits on the left side of the chest. Traditional club's colors are green and white.
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