Anagennisi Karditsa F.C.

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Anagennisi Karditsa

Full name	A.S. Anagennisi Karditsa 1904
Nickname(s)	Kanaria (Canaries)
Short name	ASA
Founded	16 October 1904; 120 years ago (1904-10-16)
Ground	Municipal Stadium of Karditsa
Capacity	13,000
Chairman	Dimitris Papadimitriou
Manager	Timos Kavakas
League	Gamma Ethniki
2023–24	Super League Greece 2, 11th (relegated)
Website	https://anagenisifc.gr/
Home colours Away colours

Anagennisi Karditsa Football Club (Greek: Α.Σ. Αναγέννηση Καρδίτσας) is a Greek professional football club based in Karditsa, Greece, which competes in the Gamma Ethniki, the third tier of the Greek football league system.

One of the oldest clubs in Greek football, Anagennisi was formed on October 16, 1904^[1] in the southwestern Thessalian city of Karditsa as the football team of the multisport club ASA (Greek: Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Αναγέννησης - Athlitikos Syllogos Anagennisis), the Athletic Association Anagennisi. The name of the club comes from the Greek word for "renaissance". The statute of the club was signed personally by Crown Prince Constantine I.

The first Olympic Games in Greece, in '1896, make the conditions for the creation of an athletic club in the city of Karditsa. The "Laikos Athlitikos Syllogos i Athina" (Greek: Λαϊκός Αθλητικός Σύλλογος η Αθηνά) (=popular sports association "Αthena") ripe the conditions for the creation of an athletic football club in Karditsa.^[2]

From its inception in 1904, the football team of Anagennisi^[3] (Athlitikos Syllogos Anagennisis=>ASA=>Sport Assosiation Anagenisi) was not officially recognized as a distinct entity within the organization. As more of the club's athletes began to show interest in the sport, the football team began to train, and play locally organized games, in the area of central Karditsa at her stadium (which later became the Pavsilipo Park). With the sport's expanding popularity in Greece in the following decades, in 1924 the football team was finally given its department within ASA. Playing in the independent, regional Thessalian League from 1929 to 1962, it joined the newly established Greek second division in time for the 1962–63 season.^[4] When the Greek football league became professional in 1979, the football department of ASA was reformed as a Football Public Limited Company, or PAE (Greek: ΠΑΕ - Ποδοσφαιρική Ανώνυμη Εταιρία / Podosferiki Anonymi Eteria) and continued to compete as PAE Anagennisi Karditsas (FC Anagennisi Karditsa).

One of the highlights in Anagennisi Karditsa's history is the victory over Olympiacos for the Greek Cup in 1993–94 as well as the win against Paniliakos for the Greek semi-professional Cup final in 1981. In 2008 Anagennisi Karditsa reached the Gamma Ethniki play-off and beat Ilioupoli 2–0 in Athens to win promotion to Beta Ethniki.

Anagennisi Karditsa is a well-supported club by regional football standards, and their passion is very well known. They hold the record for the most fans to ever attend an away game for Gamma Ethniki in 2008, with 2.000 supporters in the play-off match against Ilioupoli. In 2008–09 season Anagennisi Karditsa had the fourth best average in attendance despite having only avoided relegation in the last fixture against Veria.

The team took the name "Anagenisi" (renaissance) because Karditsa city was freed at 1881 from the Ottoman Empire. So 24 years after was created the team.^[5]

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. .

On 16 October 2024, Anagennisi Karditsa FC celebrated the 120th anniversary of its foundation.^[6]

Anagennisi Karditsa's main rivals are Trikala, from the neighbouring city of Trikala, and Ionikos. For many years, Anagennisi also maintained a bitter local rivalry with AOK. The fans have friendly relations with fans of Doxa Drama, Panetolikos and Agroticos Asteras.

Since 1949, Anagennisi Karditsa plays its home games at the Municipal Stadium of Karditsa "Antigoni Ntrismpioti",^{[7][8][9][10]} located in the eastern part of Karditsa. In January 2010 the stadium capacity was extended to 9,500 seats. Club training facilities, and football academy, are located in the nearby southern borough of Stavros. The training center has taken the name 'Georgios Mpazis'.^[11][12]

• Anagennisi became, unofficially, winter champion of the year 1993-94 because she won Olympiacos Piraeus, in the Greek Cup. But, lost the promotion.^[13]
• In December 2021, was promoted – for the 1st time of her history – in the "8" of Greek Cup (pro-semi final) (Cup quarterfinals).^[14][15][16]
• Anagennisi Karditsas – both with other team of Karditsa (AOK) – where very powerful teams. A reason that she was not promoted to the 1st tier of Leagues (Super League 1) is that she did not follow the merging- that made the most teams.^[17]
• The summer of 2020 conquered (invincible) the 3rd tier -as so in promotion matches. It was the only team in Greece that remain invincible of the season 2019–20, also as season 2021-22 (final position 5th).^[18]

• Third Division
  • Winners (2): 1992–93, 1996–97
    • Runners-up (3): 1980–81, 2007–08, 2012–13
• Fourth Division
  • Winners (3): 1991–92, 2011–12, 2020–21
    • Runners-up (2): 2002–03, 2003–04
• Greek Football Amateur Cup
  • Winner (1): 1980–81
• Thessaly FCA Championship
  • Winners (2): 1961–62, 1962–63

• Karditsa FCA Cup
  • Winners (4): 1980–81, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2011–12
• Karditsa FCA Super Cup
  • Winners (1): 2011–12

As of 3 June 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GRE Nestoras Gekas 2 DF  GRE Vlasis Andrikopoulos 3 DF  CAN James Stamopoulos 6 MF  GRE Vangelis Kerthi 7 MF  GRE Sotirios Kokkinis 8 MF  GRE Vasilios Bouzas 9 FW  ARG Fernando Coniglio 14 DF  GRE Nikos Golias (captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF  GRE Konstantinos Korelas 24 DF  GRE Paraskevas Doumanis 25 DF  GRE Nikolaos Stasinopoulos 28 FW  GRE Georgios Xydas 30 MF  GRE Panagiotis Zangos 34 GK  GRE Themistoklis Tselios 44 DF  GRE Apostolos Skondras 72 FW  GRE Athanasios Papadakos 99 GK  GRE Giannis Gantis

• Pavlos Dermitzakis
• Vaios Karagiannis
• Sakis Tsiolis
• Georgios Vakouftsis
• Sokratis Boudouris
• Julio Mozzo^[19][20] (2010)
• Dos Santos Goncalves Wellington Daniel^[21][22] (2010)

• Andreas Stamatiadis (1973–74)
• Georgios Paraschos (1994–95)
• Vaios Karagiannis (2006–08, 2010–11, 2013)
• Giannis Mangos (2016–17)
• Periklis Amanatidis (2009–10)

• Official website (archived)
• Gate 3 - Karditsa Fans (Official)
• ASA Club Anthem
• Ethniko Stadion Karditsas at Stadia.gr
• anagenisi-karditsas.gr