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| Full name | Athletic Football Club of Chalkida | ||
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| Nicknames | Μπλε (Blue) Νερατζούρι (Nerazzurri) Κυανόμαυροι (Cyan-Blacks) | ||
| Short name | AOH | ||
| Founded | 22 July 1967; 58 years ago (1967-07-22) | ||
| Ground | Municipal Stadium of Chalkida | ||
| Capacity | 1,694 | ||
| Chairman | Vangelis Tsaliangos | ||
| Manager | Vangelis Togias | ||
| League | Evia FCA First Division | ||
| 2022–23 | Gamma Ethniki (Group 3), 13th (relegated) | ||
| Website | https://aochalkis.gr/ | ||
Athletic Club Chalkis (Greek:Αθλητικός Όμιλος Χαλκίς), also known asA.C. Chalkida, is anassociation football club based inChalkida,Greece. The club was founded in 1967 upon the merger ofOlympiakos Chalkida andEvrypos Chalkida. Its colours areblack andblue and its symbol is the nymphArethusa.
Their greatest honour was winning theBeta Ethniki in 1968 and playing in the1968–69Alpha Ethniki. They currently play in the Group 3 ofGamma Ethniki.
A.C. Chalkis was founded in 1967 after a merger between the biggest clubs in the city,Olympiakos Chalkida andEvrypos, who were both competing in theGreek Second Division at the time, with Olympiakos finishing 4th and Evrypos 9th.[1]
Due to a law by theregime of the Colonels which ruled Greece since April 1967, athletic clubs that were based in the same city were forced to merge with each other.[2][3] As a result, Olympiakos Chalkida and Evrypos were merged in summer 1967 and the resulting club was namedA.C. Chalkis[4] in order to represent the city of Chalkis as a whole.
In the following 1967–68 season and first one after the merger, Chalkida finished 1st inBeta Ethniki's Northern Group and was promoted to theAlpha Ethniki for the first time.[5] However, they were immediately relegated after one season, as they finished 17th in the1968–69 Alpha Ethniki, second last only toAEL Limassol.[6]
Until 1989 the team competed in the Beta andGamma Ethniki championships, without repeating the success of their first season, although they won 2 Gamma Ethniki championships in 1977 and 1987.[7][8] From 1989 to 1996 the team was competing in the lower Gamma andDelta Ethniki championships, and from 1996 to 2003 only in the Delta Ethniki.
In 2003 A.C. Chalkis returned to the national championships after seven years, participating in the 2003–04 season of Gamma Ethniki and finishing 11th.[9] Although having finished in a safe mid-table position, the team was in a financial turmoil; the entire squad was released[10] and negotiations with potential investors were unsuccessful.[11] After a planned merger with local clubDoxa Prokopiou was not implemented, Chalkida decided to pull out of every championship, remain inactive for a year and re-appear at the localEvia Football Club Association leagues for the 2005–06 season.[12]
A.C. Chalkis finished 1st in the A1 Division of Evia and was promoted to the Delta Ethniki in 2010.[13] The club also won the Evia Amateur Cup six times and finished as runners-up once, with their last victory being in 2012.[14]
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