Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C.
Iraklis Thessaloniki (Greek Ηρακλής to German Heracles ) is a Greek sports club, which consists among other things of a basketball, football and a volleyball department. The association founded in 1908 is one of the most historic Greece and belongs next to Aris and PAOK 's three major clubs, the second largest Greek city of Thessaloniki.
- 3.1 Title / Statistics
- 4.1 National League and Cup
- 4.2 European Cup
History
Iraklis has emerged from the music club founded in 1899 in Thessaloniki. In 1903, the members decided to expand its activities in the field of sports. First, the sports swimming and cycling then football were added from 1905. The first official match was played on 23 April of the same year. The official founding year is 1908, when the merger took place with the club Olympia Thessaloniki. The first president of the association was the physician Dr. A. Maltos.
Basketball
The basketball department of Iraklis was founded in 1928 and secured in the first year of existence, the first Greek Championship discharged before a seven years later, the second title.
Since then, the club was up to two years, a fixture of the highest Greek league. It took Iraklis would always have a strong position - but from the shadow of its two city rivals and the Athenian teams could not come today.
Among the most important players, who wore the jersey of Iraklis, including the three 2005 European Champion Nikolaos Chatzivrettas, Dimitrios Diamantidis and Lazaros Papadopoulos and Eleutherios Kakiousis, Roy Tarpley, Christos Tsekos, Sofoklis Schortsanitis and Jurij Zdovc.
The season 2005/2006 represents a low point in the club's history dar. After great bloodletting did not make the newly formed team to hold the class, an increase from the A2 league.
Title
- Greek champion: 1928, 1935
Football
The biggest success came in 1976 with Iraklis winning the Greek Cup. Play their home games in the club from Kaftanzoglio stadium, whose capacity is 28 000 places and this was also the venue for several matches during the 2004 Olympic Games. At the end of the 2010/11 season Iraklis has revoked the license. Although the team had finished the season in the secure midfield, they were relegated to the Football League.
Title / Statistics
- Balkan Cup winners: 1985
- Greek Cup winner: 1976
- Best position (1st League ): 3rd, 1984
- Worst place (1st League ): 13th (1968 and 2007)
Volleyball
The volleyball players from Iraklis Thessaloniki play in the first Greek League and the Champions League.
National League and Cup
Iraklis won in 2000 with the success in cup competition, his first title. Two years later they celebrated the Double that could be repeated in the 2004/05 season. 2008 Thessaloniki managed the fifth Cup victory.
European Cup
Iraklis, which each took second place in the two previous seasons, also played in the 2006/07 season in the Champions League. The Greeks met in Group B on their last year's playoff opponent Sisley Treviso (Italy) and third-placed VK Dynamo Moscow ( Russia) and Noliko Maaseik (Belgium ), Paris Volley (France) and Ortec Rotterdam (Netherlands). As a fourth place you dropped out after the first round.