Apollon Larissa
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Apollon Larissa is one of the oldest and historic football (soccer)
Football in Greece
Football is the national sport of Greece.-League system:The first league of professional football in Greece was officially established as the Panhellenic Championship in 1927...

 club that was founded in Larissa
Larissa
Larissa is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens...

, Greece
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. Its colours are blue and white.

It was founded in 1930 from members of Averofeio Rural School in Larissa in an agricultural community of the city Filippoupoli and the first name was Dimitra. Its current name Apollo was adopted in 1952.

Twelve years later in 1964, it overtook and played for the first time until today at Second Division
Beta Ethniki
Football League, former Beta Ethniki, is the second highest professional football league in Greece.-History:In its first years, the system of conduct was very intriguing. It began in 1954 as regional championship, separated in two groups, North and South. Then, the participating teams were the...

. Their route was really bad, it finished last with three points from its losses, it had 27 ties. They played 30 matches with 13 goals and lost 101. For several years, it was dried from the local championships and in the fourth division, even in the end of the 1980s and mainly in the early and mid 1990s, the teams made an outer direction to the Third Division
Gamma Ethniki
Football League 2, formerly known as Gamma Ethniki, is the third highest professional football league in Greece.-History:It began in 1965 as an amateur championship, while in 1983 it was changed to professional...

 and greatly returned to the second division in football (soccer).

It made many greatest players which mostly wore the shirt of the Greek team and played even in the championships worldwide. Here, it made to turn as it contrasted with different teams from tehe city, Apollon was a satellite of the greatest team of the city AEL, as contrast was the most resistant.

In 1998, it entered the fourth division and in another division which played until the 2004-05 season and entered the third. In the third division, it played 302 matches and had 404 points, 107 wints, 83 losses, 112 ties and 344-361 goals. It is the team with the most pariticipation in the fourth division numbering twenty.

In the cup, a great discrection was during the 1997-98 season which made it to the quarterfinals which lost to Iraklis
Iraklis Larissa
Iraklis Larissa is a football club in suburban Neapoli near Larissa, Greece. It was founded in 1930. Its president was Petros Papakonstantinou...

.

As it mentioned previously, Apollon had featured many greatest players and in other height of greatest players including Nikos Patsiavouras
Nikos Patsiavouras
Nikolaos Patsiavouras is a former football defender.Patsiavouras finished his playing career with Aris Thessaloniki F.C. in the 1989–90 season.He made one appearance for the Greece national football team....

, Kostas Kolomitrioussis, Vaios Athanassiou, Nikos Mihopoulos, Pavlos Adamos, Stalios Hassiotis and Tasos Venetis. In these was an information to the club which took part in the athletic participations in Filippoupoli which is founded and existed for over 79 years today and has over 5,000 seats.
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