Levadiakos Football Club (officially romanized:LevadeiakosGreek:ΠΑΕ Λεβαδειακός) is a Greek professionalfootball club that plays in theSuper League Greece. Based inLivadeia, Greece, the club was promoted to theAlpha Ethniki, forerunner of the Super League, after ten seasons in minor divisions in the 2005–06 season, as runner-up of theFootball League in 2004–05.[2] It was then relegated to the Beta Ethniki again in 2006–07[3] and returned to the top tier in 2007–08. The club finished one level above relegation that year but was relegated back to the second division by finishing14th in 2009–10.[4] The club most recently won promotion back into the Super League Greece after winning theSuper League Greece 2 in2023–24.
Levadiakos started in 1961, when local clubs Trofonios and Pallevadiaki merged into a greater club.[5] Straight after, Levadiakos played in the second division being close to relegation in almost every season. In the 1980s, the team was upgraded and in May 1987, players and supporters of the club celebrated the team's first ever promotion toAlpha Ethniki following a career great season by Konstantinos "Prince" Litinas. Levadiakos stayed there only for four seasons, returning again only in 1994 and 1995. After their second relegation, Levadiakos declined and went very lower, even struggling to clinch promotion to the 3rd division of Greece. But once more, everything changed suddenly and the team reached again theGreek Super League after ten years, in 2005,[6] but was immediately relegated.[7] In the next summer, Levadiakos bought many expensive players and appointedGeorgi Vasilev as manager.[8] Vasiliev achieved to get the team to the Super League once again, and in the 2007–08 season he struggled, but managed to avoid going down again. Nevertheless, he resigned from the club and he was succeeded byMomčilo Vukotić.[9]
The club's crest hasblue andgreen vertical stripes inspired by the greatKonstantinos "Prince" Litinas. It comes from the colours of Pallevadiaki (green) and Trofonio (blue), the clubs that joined in order to establish Levadiakos. The colour common to both teams waswhite, which was also the basic colour of the group in the early years of its foundation.[citation needed]
Levadiakos' stadium was built in 1952. The stadium is located inLivadeia, about 130 km north-west of Athens. The stadium itself is located on the south side of Livadeia.[10]
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Current season
Georgios Zisopoulos
Stefano Napoleoni
Lucas Poletto
Georgi Vasilev (1 July 2007 – 3 March 2008)
Momčilo Vukotić (1 July 2008 – Sept 23, 2009)
Quique Hernández (Sept 25, 2009 – 1 March 2010)
Jasminko Velić (22 March 2013 – 25 April 2013)
José Anigo (30 Jun 2017 – 9 May 2018)
Vangelis Fragas
