Doxa Katokopias F.C.

Doxa Katokopia FC

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Full name	Doxa Katokopia FC
Founded	1954 (1954)
Ground	Makario Stadium Nicosia, Cyprus
Ground Capacity	16,000
Chairman	Costas Christodoulou
Manager	Loukas Hadjiloukas
League	Cypriot First Division
2014–15	11th
Home colours Away colours

Doxa Katokopia (Greek: Δόξα Κατωκοπιάς) is a Cypriot football team from Katokopia in the Nicosia District. Since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Katokopia is under Turkish occupation, and the club moved to Peristerona, which is near Katokopia.

The solid Era squads

Doxa Katokopias known as Doxa which translates to Glory in Greek, from 2011 onwards became famous for the solid squad players, the majority of whom are Portuguese from the lower divisions, that the club president "Karavidas" locates and the team employs, to face strong opponents and therefore obtains the respect of the CFA community due to the decent results.

History

Doxa (which translates as Glory) was promoted to First Division in 1998 for first time in their history, but after finishing 13th in the table (out of 14 teams) they were relegated. The following season, after finishing third in the Second division, they were promoted again in 2000 and this time, with the experience of their first participation, they achieved great success by managing to finish 11th and to remain in the First Division. They were relegated again in 2002 to become Second Division runners-up the following year. They competed again in the first division in the 2003–04 season where they finished last with only 1 win from 26 games and were thus automatically relegated. They were again promoted to the first division in 2007 and after 4 consecutive seasons in the First Division, a record for the club, they have been relegated back to the Second Division in 2011. In 2012 they were promoted again to the First Division after finishing 2nd in the Second Division. In their last three consecutive participations in First Division, they used as home ground the Makario Stadium.

Current squad

As of 31 May 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Alexandre Negri 2 DF Paulinho (on loan from Ermis) 3 MF Stelios Demetriou 6 DF Manuel Redondo 7 MF Richard Emmanuel 8 MF Dani López 9 FW Ricardo Lobo 11 MF Caló (3rd captain) 13 FW Wilson Kenidy 15 DF Paolo Stylianou 19 MF Edmar (Captain) 21 MF Constantinos Christodoulou 25 DF João Leonardo (Vice-captain)

No. Position Player 26 MF Gaoussou Fofana 30 MF Henri Eninful 31 DF Giorgos Xenofontos 36 DF Dimitris Myrthianos 39 MF Marios Koukartas 77 MF Alex Konstantinou (on loan from APOEL) 79 GK Michalis Morfis 89 FW Aguinaldo 94 GK Andreas Efstathiou 99 GK Evagoras Hadjifrangiskou MF Tiago Gomes FW Carles Coto

On loan

Out

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player

For recent transfers, see List of Cypriot football transfers summer 2016.

Notable former players

See also Doxa Katokopia players for a complete list

Managers

• Pambos Christodoulou (July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2010)
• Nikodimos Papavasiliou (July 1, 2010 – Jan 13, 2011)
• Nikos Andronikou (Jan 21, 2011 – March 19, 2011)
• Marios Constantinou (March 21, 2011 – Nov 1, 2012)
• Loukas Hadjiloukas (Nov 1, 2012 – Jan 19, 2014)
• Sofoklis Sofokleous (Jan 21, 2014 – April 9, 2014)
• Demetris Ioannou (April 9, 2014 – Sept 1, 2014)
• Slobodan Krčmarević (Sept 8, 2014 – Feb 15, 2015)
• Nicos Andreou (March 4, 2015 – May 24, 2015)
• Loukas Hadjiloukas (June 3, 2015–)

External links

• Official website