Paniliakos F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Paniliakos FC
nickname = "Pirgiotes"


fullname = Paniliakos Athlitikos Omilos
founded = 1958
ground = Pirgos Municipal Stadium, Greece
capacity = 6,750
chairman =
manager = flagicon|Greece Theodoros Vaggopoulos
league = Greek Fourth Division
season = 2006-2007
position = Greek Third Division, 18th
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Paniliakos (also uncommonly Panileiakos) was founded in 1958 from the union of four teams from the city of Pyrgos (Ethnikos, Iraklis, A.E.K., Apollon). It was a vision of three people: Lampaounas, Galanopoulos and Liatsis.

Paniliakos was the team of Serbia and Montenegro international Predrag Đorđević, before moving to Olympiacos, Greece international Stelios Giannakopoulos, now of Bolton Wanderers in England, and of Vassilis Lakis, also a Greece international, now a player of PAOK FC.

Paniliakos is a very important club for greek football history, due to its constant presence in the Greek first division and its amazing results, especially during the 1990s. However, the past few years the club has known a decline, since former president of the club, Sakis Stavropoulos, owner of "International Service", a major greek enterprise decided to give up on the team. A series of bad results has brought historic Paniliakos in the 4th Division of Greece.

In 2006 a team of businessmen from Pyrgos decided to invest on the team, planning a come back in the greek elite. In February 2007, the stocks were sold to the people of Pyrgos for 3 euros each.Fact|date=April 2008

External links

* [http://www.paniliakos.net Paniliakos]
* [http://www.paniliakosfans.webs.com Paniliakos Fans]
* [http://www.paniliakosfc.tk Paniliakos Blog]