Anagennisi Karditsa F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Anagennisi Karditsa


fullname = PAE Anagennisi Karditsas 1904
(FC Anagennisi Karditsa 1904)
nickname = "ASA"
"Kitrinomavri" (The Yellow-Blacks)
founded = 1904
ground = Karditsa Stadium
Karditsa, Greece
capacity = 9,000
chairman = flagicon|Greece Dionysis Kotoulas
manager = flagicon|Greece Vaios Karagiannis
league = Second Division
season = 2007-08
position = Third Division ("North" Group), 2nd

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Anagennisi Karditsa, or Anagennisi Karditsa 1904 (Greek: Αναγέννηση Καρδίτσας 1904), is a Greek association football club based in the city of Karditsa, Greece.

The club currently competes in the Second Division.

History

The club was formed in 1904 in the southwestern Thessalian city of Karditsa as the football department of the multisport club ASA (Greek: Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Αναγέννησης - Athlitikos Syllogos Anagennisis), the "Anagennisi Athletic Association". The name of the club comes from the Greek word for "Rebirth".

When the Greek football league became professional in 1979, the football department of ASA was reformed as a Football Public Limited Company, or PAE (Greek: ΠΑΕ - Ποδοσφαιρική Ανώνυμη Εταιρία / Podosferiki Anonymi Eteria) and continued to compete as PAE Anagennisi Karditsas ("FC Anagennisi Karditsa").

Spending most of its existence in the lower tiers of the Greek football championship, from 2006 the club underwent a resurgence with former AEK Athens F.C. player Vaios Karagiannis as manager, the development of many of its younger players, and a close player exchange agreement with AEK Athens F.C..

An improvement in performances on the field culminated in promotion in 2008/09 to the Beta Ethniki, after eight consecutive years in the Third Division (North Group).

tadium

Anagennisi Karditsa currently plays its home games at the Ethniko Stadion, located in the eastern part of Karditsa. Club training facilities are located in the nearby southern borough of Rousso.

Affiliated Clubs

* AEK Athens FC

Notable Coaches

*flagicon|Greece Andreas Stamatiadis, 1973/74
*flagicon|Greece Vaios Karagiannis, 2006-

External links

* [http://www.gate3.gr Gate 3 - Karditsa Fans (Official)]
* [http://www.gate3.gr/video/asa.mp3 ASA Club Anthem]
* [http://www.stadia.gr/karditsa/karditsa1.jpgEthniko Stadion Karditsas at Stadia.gr]