The 5th group of the 3rd National Greek Football division – A brief presentation of the participating clubs in the group ( part No2 of 2) – The clubs from Pireus

After the compilation of the 8 groups for the new season starting September 30^th and the fixtures of the games of F.C. PROODEFTIKI that we have posted recently, we will present you briefly the clubs participating in the 5th group of the 3^rd National Greek football League continuing with the participating clubs from Pireus area

The 5th group will consist of 13 teams in total (6 clubs from Pireus football association and 7 clubs from Crete representing the 4 different local football associations of the island) from which the champion will be "promoted" directly to the higher division, from the 2nd till the 7th place ranking teams will "remain" in the category next season, while the others, the least six clubs of the group, will be relegated in the local leagues of their respective associations.

 As concerns the latest information and if approved and adopted by the EPO the Greek National Football association, the restructuring plans for the new Greek leagues, will allow 4 more clubs ending on the 2^nd rank of their respective groups tables will likely be promoted to the higher division, after play –off games to be held right after the end of the season. The final decision is still pending

Let's be informed briefly about the clubs participating in the 5th group of this year's 3rd Greek National Division continuing with the 6 clubs participating from Pireus in this post (part No 2 of 2 related posts) and in an earlier post the 7 teams representing the Cretan local football associations have been presented as well.

FC PROODEFTIKI

Established: 1927

Playing at home: in Nikea Municipal stadium /’’The Cage’’

 The squad consists basically of a roster with many young and upcoming players, which has not yet been completed. As expected experienced players are to be booked.

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ATROMITOS PIREUS

Established: 1926

Playing at home: in Agios Ioannis Rentis Municipal stadium / ‘’S. Melissourgos’’

Atromitos Piraeus resumes in 3^rd National Greek League after a brief absence, aiming to remain in the category this season. The club has booked early several players to complete the roster, while some additions have been made in recent days.

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AMPELAKIAKOS

Established: 1937

Playing at home: in Ampelakia stadium / Salamis island

 Ampelakiakos is appearing for the first time ever in the 3^rd National Greek League and will try in his first historical presence  to make the surprise not to relegate, having acquired some skilled players who can make the difference in the 5^th group of the league.

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KERATSINI

Established: 1926

Playing at home: ’’P. Salpeas’’ stadium / Keratsini

In the years of its presence in the 3^rd National Greek League the club has beaten even the toughest rivals of any group it was playing. Additions were made to the roster, after the withdrawal of some players but without probably covered effectively the gaps that are left.

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ETHNIKOS PIREUS

Established: 1923

Playing at home: in Municipality stadium of Kallithea / Athens

Remains almost with an equally strong squad as past season, with selectively added skilled players. Important though, is the booking of head coach Loukas Karadimos and his staff, who trained past season the club of F.C. PROODEFTIKI and is well known for his job.

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IONIKOS

Established: 1965

Playing at home: in the Municipality stadium of Neapoli / Nikea

The arrival of a new President has resulted changes and excitement with a primary focus on the cooperation with FC Larisa (owned by the presidents family) from which club arrived some players who will strengthen the team. 

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PROODEFTIKI FC - SEASON TICKETS 2018 -2019 promo video launched

  
  As we are approaching the date of the kick-off for the new championship of the 3rd National Greek football division (season 2018 - 2019) a promo video for the sales of the season tickets for FC PROODEFTIKI home games is on air

Prices for the new season tickets are 20 Euro and 50 Euro, as well as 150 Euro (VIP section)

  Supporters of FC PROODEFTIKI from abroad, are aiming significantly the CLUB by purchasing the season tickets and donating them through the fan clubs for use of unemployed supporters for the club's home games, in order to have our well known ''HOT'' atmosphere in the cage.

The link to contact the club FC PROODEFTIKI - via its official facebook page (in the case you would like to donate season tickets to friends in Greece or to unemployed supporters of our club) is on the right hand side of the blogs starting page.

Or simply click following link : 
https://www.facebook.com/ProodeftikiFCofficial/

The 5th group of the 3rd National Greek Football division – A brief presentation of the participating clubs in the group ( part No1 of 2– The clubs from Crete island)

After the compilation of the 8 groups for the new season starting September 30^th 2018 and the fixtures of the games of F.C. PROODEFTIKI that we have posted recently, we will present you briefly the clubs participating in the 5th group of the 3^rd National Greek football League, starting with the 7 participating clubs from Crete island.

The 5th group will consist of 13 teams in total (6 clubs from Pireus football association and 7 clubs from Crete representing the 4 different local football associations of the island) from which the champion will be "promoted" directly to the higher division, from the 2nd till the 7th place ranking  teams will "remain" in the category while the others, namely 6 clubs, will be relegated in their local leagues of the respective associations.

As concerns the latest information and if approved and adopted by the EPO the Greek National Football association, the restructuring plans for the new Greek leagues, will allow 4 more clubs ending on the 2^nd rank  of their respective groups tables will likely be promoted to the higher division, after play –off games to be held right after the end of the season. The final decision is still pending. 

Let's be informed briefly about  the clubs  participating in the 5th group of this year's 3rd Greek National Division starting with the 7 clubs participating from Crete in this post (part No 1) and in a following post  mid-week the 6 teams representing the Pireus local football association will be presented as well.

EPISKOPI

Established: 1962

 Playing at home : in the Municipal Stadium "I. Vardinoyannis" – Rethymno

 Returning again to the 3^rd  league, but this year more experienced, with a refreshed squad aiming this season to be promoted to a higher division

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PALAIOCHORA F.C.

Established: 1982

Playing at home : in the Kantanos Municipal Stadium – Chania Prefecture

The previous season with the effective rank of the captured 6th place in the 8th group. The club has not impressed in friendlies so far, while a few days ago the club was defeated by 2-0 in the final of the local Super Cup of Chania by AEEK SYNKA

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AEEK SYNKA

 Established: 2009

Playing at home : in Stadium Mournion – Chania

With a good organization and playing beautiful football returned directly in the 3^rd league after a recent relegation into the local championship of Chania. The club has signed players that strengthened the squad significantly, after last year's undefeated winning the local league and the promotion to the 3^rd National Greek division and can create many problems for opponents.

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ATSALENIOS F.C.

Established: 1951

 Playing at home: in Atsalenioy Stadium – Heraklion

The clubs squad has been strengthened with many players from Greece and abroad with the first impressions to be quite positive after the good results and good performances in friendlies with strong opponents

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GIOUCHTAS

Established: 1957

Playing at home: in Archanes town Stadium – Heraklion Prefecture

With several additions since last year the board of the club insists that they will be the pleasant surprise of the 5^th group. Besides the frantic course of the previous season it is indicated as a rugged team.

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O.F. IERAPETRA

Established: 1970

Playing at home: in Municipal Stadium of Ierapetra  - Lasithi Prefecture

Ierapetra F.C. responded last year extremely well in the League finishing in the 3rd place of the 8th group while they won the Amateur Cup and the best season in its history. With the last reasons as a guide the club is expected this season to be among the very strong  teams in the 5^th group.

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A.E  NEAPOLEOS

Established: 1968

Playing at home: in Municipal Stadium of Neapoli Lasithiou – Lasithi Prefecture

Neapoli has signed some players through transfers mainly from the amateur departments of   famous clubs, but so far figures on friendlies show that the squad is unprepared to participate in this division. In the first appearance in the 3^rd division, celebrating 50 years since its Establishment, the club is a question mark of what it will accomplish.

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The presentation of the remaining 6 clubs from Pireus local football association, will be posted in a few days

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In our following articles, we will present briefly the other football teams participating in group 5 of the 3rd Greek National football division.

FC Proodeftiki - Fixtures, GET the full schedule of the new season games here

As  the new seasons schedule for the 5th group of the new championship for the 3th National League in Greece was announced, you can read the complete fixtures for the games of FC Proodeftiki here (including dates & kick - off time)

Dates, kick-off times (Greek time) - get the full schedule for the 2018 - 2019 championship of the 5th group in the 3rd Greek National League here. 

The tournament starts September / 30  and runs through to mid April '19 

1st game (30-9-2018 – 16:00) : Ethnikos – PROODEFTIKI 

2nd game (7-10-2018 – 16:00): PROODEFTIKI  – Εpiskopi / Crete

3rd game (14-10-2018 – 16:00): Αtsalenios / Crete – PROODEFTIKI 

4th game (21-10-2018 – 16:00): PROODEFTIKI  – ΑΕΕΚ SΥΝ.ΚΑ / Crete

5th game (27-10-2018 – 15:00): PROODEFTIKI  – Giuchtas / Crete 

6th game (4-11-2018 – 15:00): Κeratsini – PROODEFTIKI 

7th game (11-11-2018 – 15:00): PROODEFTIKI  – Α.Ε Νeapoli / Crete

8th game (18-11-2018 – 15:00): Ιonikos – PROODEFTIKI 

9th game (25-11-2018 – 15:00):PROODEFTIKI   – Paleochora / Crete

10th game (2-12-2018 – 15:00): Ierapetra / Crete – PROODEFTIKI 

11th game (9-12-2018 – 15:00): Αtromitos Pireus – PROODEFTIKI 

12th game (16-12-2018 – 15:00): DAY OFF

13th game (6-1-2019 – 15:00): Αmpelakiakos Salamis island – PROODEFTIKI 

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2nd round

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14th game (13-1-2019 – 15:00): PROODEFTIKI – Εthnikos

15th game (20-1-2019 – 15:00): Εpiskopi / Crete – PROODEFTIKI

16th game (27-1-2019 – 15:00): PROODEFTIKI  – Αtsalenios / Crete

17th game (3-2-2019 – 15:00): ΑΕΕΚ SΥΝ.ΚΑ / Crete – PROODEFTIKI 

18th game (10-2-2019 – 15:00): Giuchtas / Crete – PROODEFTIKI 

19th game (17-2-2019 – 15:00): PROODEFTIKI  – Κeratsini

20th game (24-2-2019 – 15:00): Α.Ε Νeapoli / Crete– PROODEFTIKI 

21st game (3-3-2019 – 15:00): PROODEFTIKI  – Ιonikos

22nd game (17-3-2019 – 15:00): Paleochora / Crete – PROODEFTIKI 

23rd game (24-3-2019 – 15:00): PROODEFTIKI  – Ierapetra / Crete

24th game (31-3-2019 – 15:00):PROODEFTIKI   – Αtromitos Pireus

25th game (7-4-2019 – 16:00): DAY OFF

26th game (14-4-2019 – 16:00):  PROODEFTIKI – Αmpelakiakos Salamis island

Νew friendly away game for FC PROODEFTIKI and the latest news about the new championship

Couple of days ago on Thursday 6^th September the official formation of the 8 different groups of the new seasons 3^rd division football championship of Greece was announced by EPO (Greek Football Federation)

As was mentioned in our previous article, FC PROODEFTIKI  and the other  teams from Pireus football Federation participating in this category will compete in the 5th group of this championship and will play against teams from the football associations of Crete island, resulting already considerable expenses for all teams involved in the group, due to extensive travel  arrangements  in away games  (tickets, accommodation etc)  

Τhe 5^th group will consist of following 13 teams:

6 teams participating from Pireus local football federation, which are following:  FC PROODEFTIKI, Ethnikos Pireus, Keratsini, Atromitos Pireus, Ionikos and Ampelakiakos (from Salamis island)

And the following 7 teams from Crete island: Episkopi (Rethymno football federation), Palaiochora & SYNKA (representing Chania football federaton), Atsalenios & Giouchtas (Heraklion football federation) and OF Ierapetra & Neapoli (Lasithi football federation)

On Sunday 9^th September FC PROODEFTIKI is playing a friendly away game against the team of Akratitos (in the Athenian suburb of Ano Liosia) as both team are practicing for the following new championships

The game starts at 6 pm (Greek local time)  and will be transmitted live with streaming via  

our face book page at:  www.facebook.com/CrimsonClub

Videos of the live transmission can be watched as well in the Crimson Club page after the game.

Latest information for the new championship of the 3rd National football category in Greece (season 2018 – 2019)

Most probably the 8th group of the new championship of the 3rd football category in Greece (season 2018 – 2019) will include 13 football teams, the teams from Piraeus area (6 football teams) and the teams from Creta island ( 7 football teams)

This is apparent from the final recommendation of the Committee on events of EPO (Greek football federation) which is expected to be ratified and officially to the Board of the Federation next Thursday 6th Sept 2018
 

Specifically, the 8th group will consists of the following teams:6 teams of Piraeus local football federation, which are following:

FC PROODEFTIKI, Ethinkos, Keratsini, Atromitos Piraeus, Ionikos and Ampelakiakos (from Salamis island)
and following teams from Creta island : Episkopi (Rethymno local football federation), Palaiochora & SYNKA (Chania local football federation), Atsalenios & Giouchtas (Heraklion local football federation), OF Ierapetra & Neapoli ( Lasithi local football federation)
According to the current information, the draw of 3rd National Greek football league will take place on Friday 7th September 2018 and the kick-off for the new championship is set for Sunday 23 September.

As regards FC PROODEFTKI the squad is training already since a few weeks and it will be totally different comparing to last season squad.

New players have signed for the team (some experienced and several young talented players ) are training daily with our new coach Mr. Theodore Gatsios
The Squad can not be finally announced yet, as several more players will join the new team of FC PROODEFTIKI

Live transmissions of the games of FC PROODEFTIKI will be as well available this season, but the program will be announced after the draw of the games.