Doxa Katokopias F.C.

Doxa Katokopia

Full name	Doxa Katokopia FC
Founded	1954
Ground	Peristerona Stadium (Capacity: 4,000)
Chairman	Charalambos Argyrou
Manager	Marios Constantinou
League	Cypriot Second Division
2010–11	13th (Relegated)
Home colours Away colours

Doxa Katokopia is a Cypriot football team from Katokopia in the Nicosia District. Since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Katokopia is under Turkish occupation, and the club moved to Peristerona, which is near Katokopia.

History

Doxa (which translates as Glory) promoted to First Division in 1998 for first time in their history, but after finishing 13th in the table (out of 14 teams) they were relegated. The following season, after finishing third in the Second division, they were promoted again in 2000 and this time, with the experience of their first participation, they achieved their greatest success by achieving to finish 11th and to remain in the First Division. They were relegated again in 2002 to become Second Division runners-up the following year. They competed again in the first division in the 2003–04 season where they finished last with only 1 win from 26 games and were thus automatically relegated. They were again promoted to the first division in 2007 and they have since avoided relegation. In their last 4 consecutive participations in First Division, they used as home ground the Makario Stadium. After 4 consecutive seasons in the First Division , a record for the club, they have been relegated back to the Second Division in 2011.

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Kyriacos Ioannou (on loan from APOEL) 4 DF Tiago Conceição 5 MF Esteban Sachetti 6 MF João Pedro 7 FW Lucian Pârvu 8 MF Cuco 9 FW Bonifácio 10 MF Nino Osmanagić 15 DF William Modibo (Captain) 17 DF Éder 18 FW Stelios Constantinou 20 DF Maxime Larroque

No. Position Player 21 FW Hardy Pinto-Moreira 23 GK Jorge 24 DF Gonçalo Costa 27 FW Michelé Adzic 30 MF Kypros Mouzouros 31 MF Rafael Sofokleous 45 MF Adul Baldé 55 DF Abel Pereira 88 FW Achilleas Vasiliou (on loan from APOEL) — GK Kyriacos Christodoulou — MF Pedro Mendes — FW Constantinos Christodoulou

For recent transfers, see List of Cypriot football transfers summer 2011.

Notable former players

See also Doxa Katokopia players

Albania Geri Malaj Latvia Vits Rimkus Cyprus Georgios Eleftheriou Evagoras Hadjifrangiskou Giorgos Ioannidis Andreas Mavris Nikolas Nicolaou Loukas Stylianou Kyriacos Polykarpou Angola Freddy Hélder Neto Argentina Gonzalo Cabrera Matías Escobar Andrés Imperiale Armenia Armen Ambartsumyan Belgium Fangio Buyse Brazil David Edmar Rodrigo Serjão Cameroon Nicolas Dikoume Cape Verde Ernesto Mateus Spencer France Daniel Gomez Gambia Mustapha Kamal N'Daw

Greece Giorgos Kostis Dimitris Rizos Lazaros Semos Hungary Dániel Sibalin Zsolt Posza Nigeria Rasheed Alabi Lewis Aniweta Joseph Nwafor Poland Piotr Kluzek Portugal Carlos André Marco Bicho João Paulo Júnior Igor Pita Luís Torres Henrique Margaça Mario Silva Milton Nuno Rodrigues Márcio Paiva Pedro Duarte Pedro Pereira Rui Andrade Saavedra Serbia Nemanja Mijailović Zoran Milinković Dejan Stefanov Slovenia Oskar Drobne Venezuela Raúl González

External links

• Official website