Asteras Tripolis
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| Full name | Αθλητικός Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Αστέρας Τρίπολης (Athletic Gymnastics Society Asteras Tripolis) |
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| Nickname(s) | "The Yellow-Blue" "Arkades" (Arcadians) |
| Founded | 1931 |
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Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium Tripoli, Greece |
| Capacity | 7,616 |
| Owner(s) | Dimitris Bakos Giannis Kaimenakis |
| Chairman | Georgios Borovilos |
| Manager | Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos |
| League | Superleague Greece |
| 2015–16 | Superleague Greece, 7th |
| Website | Club home page |
Asteras Tripoli Football Club (Greek: "Αστέρας Τρίπολης", transliterated "Asteras Tripolis", translated "Star of Tripoli") is a Greek football club from the town of Tripoli in Arcadia, Greece. The club was founded in 1931 and since the 2007–08 season, they have played in Superleague Greece, the top professional league in Greece.
Asteras was founded in 1931, in the area near Tripoli's railway station and was formally recognised forthwith. However, the club stayed inactive and during 1932 all football clubs in Tripoli were temporarily dissolved. At the same time, Minas Tsavdaris founded a football club and named it "Keramikos" after his home area. Despite his efforts, Keramikos was never formally recognised, and in 1938 Tsavdaris decided to transfer all of the club's players to Asteras Tripolis, which was still legally recognised. This signified the revival of the club and Asteras managed to compete in the inaugural season (1939–40) of the regional Arcadian League. However, the subsequent German occupation of Greece ended all league competitions abruptly and the club was dissolved once again.
After World War II, Asteras was reformed under the name "Neos Asteras" and was accordingly recognised by Tripoli's courts on 23 June 1947. Asteras won five consecutive titles in the Arcadian League (1957–62). The team won consecutive promotions and managed to play for two seasons in the Greek Second Division (1961–63), thus becoming the first team from Tripoli to ever participate in such a high division. In the summer of 1963, Asteras merged with Aris–Atromitos and the new team was named "Athlitikos Omilos Tripolis" (Athletic Club of Tripoli, AOT). AOT's function was based in Asteras' statute and the new club continued its activities until 1968, when it was dissolved once again and was subsequently merged with Arcadikos to form Panarkadikos.
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