Niki Volos

Full name	Niki Volos Football Club
Nickname(s)	Κυανόλευκοι (The Blue-Whites)
Founded	19 August 1924; 100 years ago (1924-08-19) (asGymnastic Club of Volos' Refugees)
Ground	Pantelis Magoulas Stadium
Capacity	4,000
Owner	Alexis Papakonstantinou
Chairman	Nikos Papakonstantinou
Manager	Panagiotis Goutsidis
League	Super League Greece 2
2023–24	Super League Greece 2, 4th
Website	https://www.nikifc.gr/
Home colours Away colours

Departments ofNiki Volos
Football Basketball (Men's) Basketball (Women's) Volleyball (Women's) Water Polo Athletics Swimming Triathlon Cycling Rhytmic Gymnastics Synchronized Swimming Open Water Swimming Marathon Swimming Long Distance Swimming

Niki Volos Football Club (Greek:ΠΑΕ Νίκη Βόλου) is a Greek professionalfootball club based in the city ofVolos, in the region ofMagnesia, Greece. The club currently competes in theSuper League 2, the second tier of Greek football.

Niki Volos was founded on 19 August 1924 as Gymnastic Club of Volos' Refugees or Refugee Gymnastic Association, by Greek refugees who came fromAsia Minor.

Niki participated for the first time in the championship of the first category before the establishment of the First National, as in 1953–54 she was the winner of the Northern Group and this gave her the ticket for the final phase of the National Division Championship 1953–54, Six teams (Athens (2) – Piraeus – Thessaloniki – North – South) took the 5th place with 16 points, ahead of Panahaiki, who finished the championship with 13.

Niki won for the first time in the 1961Beta Ethniki, where she had 5 appearances in the big league. In 1966 she was relegated to theBeta Ethniki and since then has been trying to regain her rise to the big category, which eventually succeeded 48 years later, in 2014–15. In 1976 she won the Amateur Cup.

In recent years she has been competing in theBeta Ethniki Championship, but in the 2006–07 season finished last and was relegated to theGamma Ethniki. In the2012–13 season she was back in the Beta Ethniki, and in the following year (2013–14) after the play-offs, won the first place that led to theSuper League after 48 years of absence. Unfortunately, on 10 December 2014, the club of Thessaly left the championship due to the inability of the administration to cover the financial obligations that had been created, leaving all the players that belonged to its staff to be released as free and the following year started again from the amateurGamma Ethniki. From the period2021-2022 it was promoted again to the second division, where she currently competes. Niki has a long-standing rivalry withOlympiakos Volos, the crosstown derby.

Niki Volos crest displays the goddessNike as depicted in the statueWinged Victory of Samothrace. The image of the goddess was the original emblem of theSmyrna-based athletic clubPanionios, one of the most popularGreek athletic clubs ofIonia, before it was uprooted and re-established inAthens after theGreco-Turkish War. The founding members of Niki Volou FC, many of them refugees fromSmyrna (nowİzmir) and the surrounding region, decided to restore the emblem as part of their new club.

• Second Division
  • Winners(2): 1960–61,2013–14
    • Runners-up (1):1979–80
• Third Division
  • Winners(1):1995–96
    • Runners-up (4):1987–88,2011–12,2017–18,2018–19
• Fourth Division
  • Winners(2): 1992–93, 2001–02
• Greek FCA Winners' Championship
  • Winners(1): 1975–76
• Greek Football Amateur Cup
  • Winner (1): 1975–76

• Thessaly FCA Championship
  • Winners(15): 1932–33, 1937–38, 1945–46, 1947–48, 1948–59, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1975–76
• Thessaly FCA Cup
  • Winners(5): 1975–76, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2015–16, 2017–18
• Thessaly FCA Super Cup
  • Winners(1): 2016
• Volos Championship
  • Winners(14): 1933, 1934, 1938, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961
• Volos Cup
  • Winners(1): 1933
• Thessaly Cup
  • Winners(2): 1939, 1947

• Panhellenic Championship
  • Fifth place (1):1954

• Greek Cup
  • Semi-finals (2):1946–47,1964–65
  • Quarter-Finalists (7):1955–56,1956–57,1958–59,1959–60,1962–63,2005–06,2023–24

Key: 1R = First Round, 2R = Second Round, 3R = Third Round, 4R = Fourth Round, 5R = Fifth Round, GS = Group Stage, R16 = Round of 16, QF = Quarter-finals, SF = Semi-finals.

The club's most famous supporters group is the one consisting of members from "Blue Club", fan club established in 1985, the so-called Indians. The fan club is also recognized as "Blue Club Panagiotis Ntokouzis", named after one of the founding members of the fan club who died in a motorcycle accident. Another club, particularly famous among the majority of Greek ultras, is the "Blue Angels club 1994" established in 1994.^{[citation needed]}

• Dunav Ruse
• Astana

As of 23 January 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GRE Vasilios Soulis 2 DF  GRE Antonis Ikonomopoulos 4 DF  GRE Adam Koufas 5 DF  GRE Athanasios Prodromitis(on loan fromPanathinaikos) 6 MF  URU Damián Silva 8 MF  GRE Achilleas Salamouras 9 FW  COL Wilinton Aponzá 10 MF  GRE Georgios Tsilingiris 11 MF  GRE Dimitrios Litenas 13 DF  CPV Félix Mathaus 15 GK  GRE Stratos Misyrlis 17 MF  CYP Odysseas Spyridis 18 DF  POR Vasco Gadelho 20 FW  EST Alexandr Sapovalov 21 DF  GRE Spyros Vlachos

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  ARG Juan Manuel Arias 25 MF  GRE Georgios Xenitidis 27 FW  ARG Rafael Blancq 30 DF  GRE Stavros Panagiotou 33 FW  GRE Theodoros Vernardos 34 GK  GRE Themistoklis Tselios 37 MF  BRA Ed Carlos(on loan fromSantos) 44 DF  GRE Dimitrios Koutsibanas 49 FW  GRE Aristidis Venetis 64 MF  GRE Christos Kryparakos(on loan fromPanathinaikos) 66 FW  GRE Christos Tzioras 77 FW  NGA Adanu Edeh 88 MF  IDN Luke Xavier Keet — DF  SWE Mattias Johansson

Position	Staff
Owner	Alexis Papakonstantinou
President & CEO	Nikos Papakonstantinou
Vice-President	Vasilis Venetis
Communications Director	Giorgos Apostolakopoulos
Marketing Director	Andreas Kikilias
Press Office	Giannis Zattas
Board member	Alexis Papakonstantinou
Board member	Stergios Fatsis
Board member	Giannis Kazepidis

Position	Staff
Manager	Panagiotis Goutsidis
Assistant manager
Fitness coach	Angelos Papanikolaou
Fitness coach	Christos Karydopoulos
Goalkeeping coach	Manos Apostolidis
Physiotherapist	Stefanos Kougoulos
Physiotherapist	Nontas Voutselas

• Angelos Argyris, footballer, former Niki Volos player^[1]
• Dimitris Balafas, footballer and coach, former Niki Volos captain^[2]
• Lavrentis Machairitsas, singer^[3]
• Dimitrios Kokkinakis, footballer, former Niki Volos player, lifelong fan^[4]
• Giannis Paflias, footballer and coach, former Niki Volos captain^[5]

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