P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras

Diagoras

Full name	Football Societe Anonyme Gymnastic Club Diagoras 1905 Greek: Ποδοσφαιρική Ανώνυμη Εταιρεία Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Διαγόρας 1905
Nickname(s)	Γηραιός (Old man) Kυανέρυθροι (The cyan and red)
Founded	March 25, 1905; 119 years ago (March 25, 1905)
Ground	Diagoras Stadium
Capacity	3,693[1]
Chairman	Michalis Stathopoulos
Manager	Thomas Grafas
League	Super League Greece 2
2023–24	Super League Greece 2, 8th
Home colours Away colours

PAE G.S. Diagoras 1905 (Greek: ΠΑΕ Γ.Σ. Διαγόρας 1905) is a Hellenic professional football club based in Rhodes city founded in 1905.

Diagoras is named after the island's ancient boxer Diagoras.

The team first played under Ottoman rule until the short lived independence of the Dodecanese in 1912 and then under the Italian occupation of the island. No matches at all were held during the Balkan Wars and the team played only with other local teams until the Rhodes and Dodecanese joined with the rest of Hellas in 1947.

Due to the club's extensive social, cultural, athletic, and particularly patriotic activities, the fascist Italian authorities in occupation decided to dissolve it in 1929. Diagoras reconstituted in 1945, just prior to the liberation of Rhodes and the union with the rest of Hellas. First joined the Beta Ethniki (2nd national division) in its creation in 1962-'63. They played in Alpha Ethniki (1st national division) between 1986-1989.

In 1987, the club reached the semi-finals of the Greek Cup, losing to OFI.

Diagoras returned to Beta Ethinki in 2008 until 2012 and since 2020 continues to the 5th season in Super League 2.

In the 2019–2020 season, Diagoras finished in third place of the Football League (3rd tier) and was promoted to the Super League 2 (A2 division), the second tier of the professional football in Hellas.^[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  GRE Konstantinos Dimitriou 10 MF  GRE Vasilios Tsiantoulas 17 MF  GRE Nikolaos Klonaris 20 MF  GRE Georgios Fekkas 23 DF  GRE Nikitas Nikolis 26 DF  GRE Stergios Dimopoulos 31 GK  GRE Giannis Galanis 33 FW  GRE Michalis Manias 77 DF  GRE Georgios Manolakis

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  GRE Apostolos Tsilingiris — GK  GRE Apostolos Barmpopoulos — DF  ALB Zog Djaloshi — DF  GER Nico Petras — DF  GRE Stergios Paraskevas — DF  GRE Adriano Troka — MF  GRE Giannis Papadopoulos — MF  GRE Iraklis Garoufalias — MF  ALB Rakip Bregu — MF  ARG Alex Aguado (on loan from Independiente Rivadavia II) — MF  GRE Michalis Koutsoupias — MF  GRE Sotirios Kokkinis — MF  GRE Panagiotis Georgeas — MF  ARG Alfredo Blancq — FW  GRE Athanasios Lioumis — FW  ARG Thomas Oliveri (on loan from Defensa y Justicia II)

• First Division (3): 1986–1989
• Second Division (22): 1962–1968, 1974–1975, 1980–1986, 1989–1992, 2008–2012, 2020–present
• Third Division (9): 1978–1980, 1992–1993, 2005–2008, 2017–2020
• Fourth Division (5): 1993–1994, 2002–2005, 2012–2013
• Local Championships (15): 1970–1974, 1975–1978, 1998–2002, 2013–2017

Leagues:

• Second Division
  • Winners (1): 1985–86
    • Runners-up (4): 1963–64, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1982–83
• Third Division
  • Winners (3): 1974, 1979–80, 2007–08
    • Runners-up (1): 2018–19
• Fourth Division
  • Winners (1): 2004–05
• Dodecanese FCA Championship (Local Championship)
  • Winners (17): 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1973–74, 1978–79, 2001–02, 2016–17

Cups:

• Dodecanese FCA Cup (Local Cup)
  • Winners (13): 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1974, 2004, 2017, 2018

• Dodecanese Super Cup: Winners 2019

Rivalries: A.S. Rodos 1968

• Official website