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Apollon Patras

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Ground capacity
  
3,500

Manager
  
Nikos Vetoulas

Chairman
  
Nikos Karapanos

Founded
  
1947

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Full name
  
A.Σ. Απόλλων Πατρών Athletic Society Apollon Patras

Nickname(s)
  
Μελανόλευκοι, Melanolefkoi (Black-Whites)

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A.S. Apollon Patras (Greek:A.Σ. Απόλλων Πατρών) is a multi-sports club that is based in Patras, Greece. It has included sports sections in association football, basketball, table tennis, and volleyball. The club is named after the ancient Greek God Apollo, and its team colours are black and white.

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History

The club was founded in 1926, in the Prosfygika neighborhood. The football club entered the Achaea FCA, and played many matches against Panachaiki, APS Olympiakos, Patraikos, and Thyella. The team's ground was in the Olympiakos Patras Arena, today's Prosfygika Stadium.

The football team was later dissolved, and today Apollon is mainly a basketball team, K.A.E. Apollon Patras. It is a regular member of the top-tier level (Greek Basket League), has participated in the Saporta Cup (1997, 1998), the Korać Cup (1999), and has played in the Greek Cup Final in 1997, where they lost the title game against Olympiacos, by a score of 78–80.

Men's team

  • Participation in the Premier Division (Basket League) (32x): 1972, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

    • Titles: (8x)

  • Divisional titles: (4x)
  • Greek A2 Basket League (2x): 1992, 2003
  • Greek B Basket League (2x): 1976, 1979
  • Local titles: (4x)
  • Achaia Local Regional Championships (4x): 1956, 1958, 1971, 1973

    • Greek Honours:

  • Greek Cup Finalist (2x): 1997, 2015

    • European honours:

  • Saporta Cup: Round of 16, 1997
  • Saporta Cup: Round of 32, 1998
  • Korać Cup: Round of 16, 1999

    • Women's team

  • Achaia local regional championship winner (3x): 1998, 2006, 2007

    • Men's team

  • Achaia local regional championship winner (3x): 1998, 2005, 2007
  • Participation in the Second National Division: 2001, 2002
  • Participation in the Third National Division: 2004, 2006

    • Women's team

  • Achaia local regional championship winner (2x): 2007, 2008
  • Participation in the Second National Division: 2001, 2002
  • Achaia local regional championship winner (3x): 1945, 1946, 1948
  • Participation in Greek Football Third Division (South): 1967, 1976

    • The club also competes in table tennis competitions, and it finished in fourth place in 1974. It produced athletes such as: Dimitrios Zikos, Giorgos Glarakis, Gerasimos Roussopoulos, and Spyros Kalogriopoulos. Roussopoulos was a member of the team that won the Atomic Greek Youth Championships in 1971, and finished second in 1972 and 1973.

    In 1969, along with Spyros Kalogriopoulos, they were Greek champions in the children's doubles, as athletes of Sporting Patras.

    References

    Apollon Patras Wikipedia
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