Ergotelis F.C.
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| Full name | Gymnastikos Syllogos Ergotelis |
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| Nickname(s) | Οι Κρητικοί (The Cretans) |
| Founded | 7 August 1929 |
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Pankritio Stadium Heraklion, Greece |
| Capacity | 26,240 |
| Owner | Gymnastics Club Ergotelis |
| President | Georgios Vrentzos |
| Manager | Soulis Papadopoulos |
| League | Gamma Ethniki |
| 2015–16 | Football League Greece, withdrew (Relegation) |
| Website | Club home page |
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The Gymnastics Club Ergotelis (Greek: Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Εργοτέλης, Γ.Σ. Εργοτέλης), commonly known simply as Ergotelis (Greek: Εργοτέλης), is a Greek association football club, department of the multi-sport club Gymnastics Club Ergotelis, which is based in Heraklion, Crete. It is the club's oldest and most successful department, officially established in 1929 and named after the famous ancient Cretan expatriate Olympic runner Ergoteles of Himera. The club currently competes in the amateur Gamma Ethniki, the third tier of the Greek football league system, and hosts its home games at the Pankritio Stadium, the city's largest and most modern sports venue. Ergotelis is one of the two Heraklion-based football clubs to have competed in the Greek Superleague, the country's top-level football competition, having made a total of 9 appearances during 2004–2015. The club's best finish in the competition is 7th place during the 2013–14 season. It has also won the Beta Ethniki (second tier of the Greek football league system) once, in 2006, as well as the Greek Football Amateur Cup in 1983. Its' traditional colors are yellow and black.
Ergotelis was established as an amateur club of Cretan footballers in 1929 by prominent Heraklion citizens, mainly refugees from Asia Minor. The club's foundation, as well as its first ever recorded game, a friendly 4–0 win against local side Leon (Greek: Λέων) held at Chandax (Greek: Χάνδαξ) stadium on August 4, 1929, was reported onto local newspaper 'Eleythera Skepsis' (Greek: Ελευθέρα Σκέψις) on Wednesday, 7 August 1929. Since its early days, Ergotelis showed the progressive ideals of its founders, being one of the first sports clubs in Greece to allow women into its sporting divisions, as well as its board of directors. The team gradually gained its own football ground on Martinengo Bastion, located on the Venetian Era walls surrounding the city's center, and would mostly play in local championships and Greece's national Second Division, after the latter was founded in the early 1960s.
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