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Platanias
Full name	Αθλητικός Όμιλος Πλατανιά Χανίων; Athlitikós Ómilos Plataniá Chaníon; (Athletic Club of Platanias Chania)
Nickname(s)	Red Trifolium
Gegründet	15 March 1931; 93 years ago
Ground	Maleme Stadium ; Platanias, Chania, Greece
Capacity	700
Manager	Makis Sofronoglou
League	Chania FCA Third Division
Home colours	Away colours

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Platanias Football Club (Greek: Π.Α.Ε. Πλατανιάς Χανίων) is a Greek professional football club based in Platanias, Chania, Greece. The club hosted its home games at the Perivolia Municipal Stadium. Platanias was the first, and to this day only club to have represented Chania in the Super League, playing for six seasons between 2012 and 2018. Their colors are red and white.

History

Formation and recent years

The association was founded in 1931 by Antonis Varouxakis.

In 1942–43, AO Platanias struggled in the final Cup against the traditional rivals Talos but having significant absences, such as Galanis, who brought a gun wound in the abdomen.

Although Platanias lost the match, the final had a special importance because of the shirts of the players. The jerseys were made from Nazi flags that had been stolen from the warehouses of the Germans, and residents had turned into the athletic apparel seamstresses in the village. From this fact it was introduced the red on the jerseys of the team. With the same jerseys, the team competed even against football teams of German soldiers.

In 1945, the team languished due to heavy immigration and the civil war that caused many players to leave their homeland.

In 1958, the club was reestablished by Manolis Mathioulakis and first president Emmanuel Kallitsakis playing at local third category.

Then Platanias became a member of the Union of Football Associations of Chania and from the first year climbed category, where it remained until 1969.

In 1970, they played for the first time in the first "local category".

In 1971 Platanias had another important game against the Renaissance Chania (today Ionia), but because of the political situation of the time, the team was punished and remained inactive until 1975.

After the restoration in 1975, Platanias was reestablished, struggling to C local class, where they remained for two years and then went to B', where they played another two years before to play in the A category.

From 1980 begins the rise of Platanias, who participated in the National Amateur Championships (equivalent to the existing C "National") contestant in Greece.

After their first two matches, the team demoted and then took a radical renewal, with footballers inhabitants of Platanias.

In 1985, they moved category (D "National"), but relegated the same year. For three years they fought in the First local championship Chania.

In 1989, they went to the Fourth National class for two periods.

In 1993, after relegation, struggled for a year in the Regional Championship and won. After relegation in 2002 they fought in the local league.

Between 2002 and the period from 2008 to 2009, they played in the Crete Regional Championship having a starring role collecting 305 points in total.

The best, by then, football year in the history of Platanias, was the 2008–09 and after a stunning season champion emerging regional championship.

The road to the top

In 2009–10 season, the team fought for first time entry to Gamma Ethniki and managed, after a long effort, to remain in this class. Specifically, Platanias won 38 points in all 34 games, finishing in 12th position in the league.

The next year 2010–11 Football League 2 Platanias had excellent performances and managed to finish in 5th place but gained promotion due to the Koriopolis scandal, when many teams were relegated from the Football League.

The period 2011–12 at the Football League started with the best conditions for Platanias, who managed to stand out from the beginning and even won the title of "champion of winter." The last day found Platanias in fifth in the standings with 60 points, while promotion play-offs of the 2011–12 Football League the team made excellent appearances against Kallithea, Kalloni and Panachaiki to take first place and ascend,^[1] to the 2012–13 Super League, for the first time in their history, but also more generally in the history of the Chania region football.

Six seasons in the Super League

In their first season in the Super League, Platanias finished in 9th place with 36 points. They beat historically powerful teams such as Panathinaikos with 2 wins home & away (totally 3 with a Greek Cup win), AEK with 1 home win & Aris with 2 wins home & away. Their biggest impact of this season, was eliminating Panathinaikos in the Fourth Round of the Greek Cup in a two-legged match.

The team's best performance was finishing 7th in the 2016-17 Super League season, however, the following year 2017-18 Platanias finished last and were then relegated to the second division.

Crest

Platanias' crest is a red trifolium, probably from a designer's mistake who instead of a platanus foil, he designed a simple trefoil. The name of the village "Platanias" means "area of Platanus".

Facilities

Platanias & Maleme Municipal Grounds

The municipal ground of Platanias, built in 1959 and still exists today, was built by the same residents who were using hoes to dig the field with donkeys carrying soil used to fill the field. However, at that time were working on the basis of Marathi and an employee, resident of Platanias, Kostas Tsigounakis, volunteered to help build the stadium using a machine – loader base. Today FC Platanias uses three pitches, two of which (grounds of Platanias and Maleme) belongs to Municipality of Platanias and one (Perivolia Municipal Stadium) in the Municipality of Chania. The ground of Platanias, which located within the village, have plastic turf of modern standards since 2008–09 period.

The municipal ground of Maleme is land granted by the Greek Air Force in Platanias, who built the stadium with natural grass. Platanias played in this ground, until 2011–12 period. In these, indeed, installations, contains another ground, which like the ground of Platanias use for their workouts teams Academies FC Platanias. ^[2]

Perivolia Municipal Stadium

From the season 2012–13 the team competes in Perivolia Municipal Stadium of Chania, which took place in record time, extensive upgrading and modernization work at all levels to meet in full all the obligations set by the organizing principle of Super League and NOVA TV. The Municipal Ground of Perivolia has now "morphed" into a modern football stadium, with two tiers (one of them covered), journalists theories, comfortable – brand new changing rooms for athletes and referees (female assistants are separate changing rooms), dispensary, gym, comfortable office for the observer of the match, great room for press conferences and other venues. ^[3]

Club sponsors

Season	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2010–11	Macron	Lotto
2011–12	Macron	OPAP
2012–13	Macron	Tzoker
2013–14	Macron	Tzoker
2014–15	Macron	Tzoker
2015–16	Macron	Stoiximan.gr
2016–17	Macron	Pame Stoixima
2017–18	Luanvi	ErgoBeton
2018–19	Luanvi	ErgoBeton
2019–21	Acerbis	ErgoBeton

Honours

Domestic

Leagues

Delta Ethniki
- Winners (1): 2008–09

Cups

Greek Cup:
- Quarter Finals (2): 2012–13, 2016–17

League performance

Season	League	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts
2008–09	Delta Ethniki	1	30	19	7	4	61	15	66
2009–10	Football League 2	12	32	10	9	13	32	36	39
2010–11	Football League 2	5	30	14	7	8	42	23	52
2011–12	Football League	5	34	17	9	8	41	20	60
2012–13	Super League	9	30	10	6	14	29	42	36
2013–14	Super League	14	34	10	8	16	39	48	38
2014–15	Super League	9	34	12	8	14	32	30	44
2015–16	Super League	9	30	10	9	11	32	30	39
2016–17	Super League	7	30	11	9	10	34	38	42
2017–18	Super League	16	30	2	4	24	14	65	10
2018–19	Football League	2	30	15	10	5	53	22	55
2019–20	Super League 2	9	20	8	2	10	26	32	26
2020–21	Gamma Ethniki	15	15	1	2	12	8	29	5

Pos. = Position; Pl = Match played; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lost; GS = Goal scored; GA = Goal against; Pts = Points
Colors: Gold = winner; Green = promoted; Red = relegated.

Professional history

6 seasons in the First Division
3 season in the Second Division
2 seasons in the Third Division
7 seasons in the Fourth Division

Statistics

Most appearances in professional divisions

Player	Matches
Kostas Mendrinos	91
Fanouris Goundoulakis	91
Yaya Banana	90
Juan Aguilera	89
Thomas Nazlidis	86

Top-scoring players in professional divisions

Player	Goals
Thomas Nazlidis	23
Giannis Loukinas	22
Miguel Bianconi	22
Nikos Katsikokeris	19
David Torres	18

Notable former players

Albanien

Arber Dhrami
Emiljano Shehu
Vasil Shkurti
Enea Gaqollari
Diljan Bodouri
Renato Ziko
Kevin Cela
Franko Lamce
Kostika Tajari
Adrian Imeri
Oresti Batzio
Irdis Merolli
Adnan Shkurtaj
Alexandros Ndoi

Algerien

Antar Yahia

Argentinien

Australien

Apostolos Giannou

Österreich

Michael Gspurning

Weißrussland

Bosnien und Herzegowina

Brasilien

Bulgarien

Chigozie Udoji

Kamerun

Tschad

Azrack Mahamat

Kroatien

Igor Mirčeta

Zypern

Antonis Georgallides

Tschechische Republik

Marios Pourzitidis

Congo

Clévid Dikamona

DR Congo

England

Walter Figueira

Äquatorial-Guinea

Lawrence Doe

Frankreich

Deutschland

Ghana

Griechenland

Indien

Gurjinder Singh

Liberia

Herron Berrian

Litauen

Darius Zutautas

Malawi

Tawonga Chimodzi

Mali

Ousmane Coulibaly

Montenegro

Filip Kasalica

Niederlande

Nigeria

Chidi Onyemah

Palestine

Saado Abdel Salam Fouflia

Polen

Piotr Grzelczak

Portugal

Rumänien

Vladimir Nicoara

Serbien

Spanien

Schweiz

Fabian Stoller

Syria

Abdul Rahman Oues

Türkei

Kendal Ucar

Ukraine

Yevhen Budnik
Evgeniy Kononenko
Renat Mochulyak
Yevhen Neplyakh
Vitaliy Pryndeta
Yevhen Selin
Vadym Shevchuk

Venezuela

Ruben Arocha
Andrés Sampredo

Managerial history

Christos Vasileiou (2009 – 25 Oct 2009)
Miodrag Ćirković (30 Oct 2009 – Sept 29, 2010)
Timos Kavakas (Sept 29, 2010 – 6 July 2011)
Andreas Pantziaras (6 July 2011 – 19 Oct 2011)
Timos Kavakas (24 Oct 2011 – 20 March 2012)
Giannis Chatzinikolaou (29 March 2012 – 19 Nov 2012)
Angelos Anastasiadis (20 Nov 2012 – 23 May 2013)
Marinos Ouzounidis (28 May 2013 – 4 Nov 2013)
Nikos Anastopoulos (6 Nov 2013 – 8 Feb 2014)
Angelos Anastasiadis (9 Feb 2014 – 18 May 2014)
Giannis Christopoulos (23 May 2014 – 11 March 2015)
Giannis Thomaidis (11 March 2015 – 16 March 2015)
Georgios Paraschos (16 March 2015 – 31 October 2017)
José Manuel Roca (12 Nov 2017 – 29 Jan 2018)
Giannis Chatzinikolaou (31 Jan 2018 – 30 Jun 2018)
Paulo Campos (18 July 2018 – 8 Oct 2018)

References

^ Σούπερ Λίγκα: Ο Πλατανιάς έλαβε άδεια συμμετοχής στο πρωτάθλημα (in Greek). naftemporiki.gr. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
^ Γήπεδα Πλατανιά & Μάλεμε – Π.Α.Ε. ΠΛΑΤΑΝΙΑΣ ΧΑΝΙΩΝ. Fcplatanias.gr.
^ Δημοτικό Γήπεδο Περιβολίων – Π.Α.Ε. ΠΛΑΤΑΝΙΑΣ ΧΑΝΙΩΝ. Fcplatanias.gr.

External links

Official website (in Greek)
Platanias at UEFA

[1] Σούπερ Λίγκα: Ο Πλατανιάς έλαβε άδεια συμμετοχής στο πρωτάθλημα (in Greek). naftemporiki.gr. Retrieved 24 August 2012.

[2] Γήπεδα Πλατανιά & Μάλεμε – Π.Α.Ε. ΠΛΑΤΑΝΙΑΣ ΧΑΝΙΩΝ. Fcplatanias.gr.

[3] Δημοτικό Γήπεδο Περιβολίων – Π.Α.Ε. ΠΛΑΤΑΝΙΑΣ ΧΑΝΙΩΝ. Fcplatanias.gr.

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