Panserraikos F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Panserraikos


fullname = "FC Panserraikos"
nickname = Λιοντάρια (Lions)
Ερυθρόλευκοι (The red-whites)
founded = 1964
ground = Serres Stadium
Serres, Greece
capacity = 9,500
chairman = flagicon|Greece Petros Theodoridis
manager = flagicon|Greece Giannis Papakostas
league = Greek Super League
Σούπερ Λίγκα season = 2007-08
position = 1st promoted
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Panserraikos FC is the football club of Serres in Macedonia, Greece. Panserraikos was formed in 1964 when two local clubs, Iraklis and Apollon, merged. Their current home ground is Stadium of Serres, built in 1926. Panserraikos is one of the most important and well-supported clubs in northern Greece, and had had a near-continuous presence in the First Division in the 60's and 70's.

Since their last relegation in 1992 the club had been struggling in the Second Division,and were even relegated to the Third Division twice, in 1993 and 1996, yet promptly returning to the second tier on both occasions. The club did come close to promotion a few times, missing out on 5 points in 1998 and on just one point in 2000.

In 2008, Panserraikos managed to end a 16-year wait, gaining promotion to the newly-formed Greek Super League. Managed by Giannis Papakostas, the club had been leading the Second Division table for the most part of the season, even securing a top-three spot with two games to spare - though they had narrowly escaped another relegation in the previous two seasons.

Current squad

Notable former players

;flagicon|Greece Greece
*Dimitrios Aivazidis
*Sakis Anastasiadis
*Ioakim Chavos
*Traianos Dellas
*Evaggelos Kalogeropoulos
*Christos Melissis
*Ilias Savvidis
*Panagiotis Sofianopoulos
*Konstantinos Tarasis
*Zisis Tsekos
*Georgios Tsifoutis;flagicon|Albania Albania
*Edvin Murati

;flagicon|Algeria Algeria
*Maamar Mamouni

;flagicon|Bulgaria Bulgaria
*Yordan Gospodinov
*Ivaylo Pantsev

;flagicon|Liberia Liberia
*Kelvin Sebwe;flagicon|Romania Romania
*Marius Baciu

;flagicon|USA USA
*Jeremiah White

;flagicon|Uzbekistan Uzbekistan
*Georgi Georgiev

External links

*el icon [http://www.panserraikos.gr Official Website]
* [http://www.panserraikara.gr/ Panserraikos' supporters "Che Guevara" club]