Chalkida F.C.
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| Full name |
Athletic Club Chalkis or Athletic Club Chalkida |
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| Nickname(s) | Blue, Nerazzurri |
| Founded | 1967 (as Athletic Club Chalkis) |
| Ground |
Municipal Stadium of Chalkida, Chalkida, Euboea |
| Capacity | 1.694 |
| Chairman |
 Basiles Tarnanas |
| Manager |
Panayotes Tocpasides |
| League | Gamma Ethniki |
| 2015-16 | Gamma Ethniki (Group 3), 9th |
| Website | Club home page |
Athletic Club Chalkis (Greek: Αθλητικός Όμιλος Χαλκίς), also known as A.C. Chalkida, is an association football club based in Chalkida, Greece. The club was founded in 1967 upon its merger with Olympiakos Chalkida and Evrypos Chalkida. Its colours are black and blue and its symbol is the nymph Arethusa.
Their greatest honour was winning the Beta Ethniki in 1968 and playing in the 1968–69 Alpha Ethniki. They currently play in the Group 3 of Gamma Ethniki.
A.C. Chalkis was founded in 1967 after a merger between the biggest clubs in the city, Olympiakos Chalkida and Evrypos, who were both competing in the Greek Second Division at the time, with Olympiakos finishing 4th and Evrypos 9th.
Due to a law by the regime of the Colonels which ruled Greece since April 1967, athletic clubs that were based in the same city were forced to merge with each other. As a result, Olympiakos Chalkida and Evrypos were merged in summer 1967 and the resulting club was named A.C. Chalkis in order to represent the city of Chalkis as a whole.
In the following 1967–68 season and first one after the merger, Chalkida finished 1st in Beta Ethniki's Northern Group and was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki for the first time. However, they were immediately relegated after one season, as they finished 17th in the 1968–69 Alpha Ethniki, second last only to AEL Limassol.
Until 1989 the team competed in the Beta and Gamma Ethniki championships, without repeating the success of their first season, although they won 2 Gamma Ethniki championships in 1977 and 1987. From 1989 to 1996 the team was competing in the lower Gamma and Delta Ethniki championships, and from 1996 to 2003 only in the Delta Ethniki.
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