Asteras Arfara is a football (soccer)

Football in Greece

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 club in Arfara

Arfara

Arfara is a village and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kalamata, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 3,212 ....

, Greece

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. It currently plays in the Messenia(n) First Division

Messinia Football Clubs Association

The Messinia Football Clubs Association is part of the Greek Football Federation that includes football teams in the Messinia prefecture.-History:...

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History

The club was mentioned as an Athletic Football Club in 1930

1930 in football (soccer)

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, a little later, it was recognized as a main club. Players of the decades included Georgios Bouras of Domisthini , Livas Mimis of Kleomenis, Spiros Festas of Konstandinou, Vasileios Moutevelis of Georgiou, Ioanis Moutevelis of Petros, Vassilios Kotaridis of Dimitriou, Andonios Kartsionas of Nikolaos, Dimitrios Moragiorgas, Kostas Moragiorgas, Ioannis Theokas, Grigorios Kotsiaris, Dimitrios Lafazanos, Hristos Yannakoutzos, Ioannis Kotaridis, Ioannis Petropoulos, Konstantinos Kapralos, Dinos Kotsiaris, Giannis Papanikolaou, etc.

The founding of Asteras and History

Asteras Athletic Football (Soccer) Club was officially founded in 1955

1955 in football (soccer)

The following are the football events of the year 1955 throughout the world.-Events:*March 13 – For the first time in history of Dutch football the professionals are allowed to play for the Netherlands national football team...

 with the colors blue and white and the emblems of a shining star in white part and a circe. Some year later, it was definitely inactive until 1971 when it refounded again. In later years, it played in the prefectural first division and first entered the Fourth Division in 1999.

The team played for three seasons with the national division without relegating. After suffering its economic difficulties in 2008, it could not take part in the fourth division, not even the prefectural fourth dviision. Lately in 2009, with the councilling of its athletic residents of the seat relegated to the prefectural second division in the 2009-10 season.

Athletic history

• 1998-99: Champion of the prefectural second division with the chief Efstathios Vanikiotis
• 1999-2000: Messinia Cup
  Messinia Cup
  The Messinia Cup is an annual football cup that is held by the Messinia Football Clubs Association.-Information sources:The organization of the Messinia Cup began to carry out from the MFCA in the mid 1980s. Its council rights had the famous teams from the prefecture...
  
  , at the finals with Sperchogeia 4-2 with the head Nikolaos Moulatsiotis and the president Andreas N. Karagiannis then for two continuous terms as mayor of Arfara
• 2004-05: Champions of the prefectural first division and entered the first division, heads included Antonis Mavreas and Minas Kakaletris and its president Konstandinos Ath. Katsiabanis and Marios Pan. Koutsioubos.
• 2005-06
  2005-06 in Greek football
  The 2005-06 Greek Football season saw Olympiacos claim its second consecutive and 34th Greek title in the Alpha Ethniki. However, the season was somewhat overshadowed by the suspension of the Greek FA by UEFA, which jeopardized the European places of the Champions League, UEFA Cup, and Intertoto...
  
  : Messinia Cup, in the final with Asteras-Papaflessas Choras 6-0 with the president: Antonis Mavreas, Minas Kakaletris and Konstantinos Kritikakis and president Panayiotis Dim. Moragiorga
• 2005-06
  2005-06 in Greek football
  The 2005-06 Greek Football season saw Olympiacos claim its second consecutive and 34th Greek title in the Alpha Ethniki. However, the season was somewhat overshadowed by the suspension of the Greek FA by UEFA, which jeopardized the European places of the Champions League, UEFA Cup, and Intertoto...
  
  : Fourth National Division (6th part): 6th place with 42 points played during 15 games.
• 2006-07
  2006-07 in Greek football
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  : Fourth National Division (6th part): 7th place with 42 points played during 16 games.
• 2007-08
  2007-08 in Greek football
  -Coaches:Below is the list of coaches who left their teams after the start of the season.-Third Qualifying Round:* AEK'-Group Stage:* Olympiacos...
  
  : Fourth National Division (6th part): 9th place with 46 points played during 18 games.
• 2008-09: Remained in the Fourth National Division but did not took part not even the prefectural first division.
• 2009-10: Prefectural second division

Achievements

• Messenian Championship
  Messinia Football Clubs Association
  The Messinia Football Clubs Association is part of the Greek Football Federation that includes football teams in the Messinia prefecture.-History:...
  
  (1): 2005
• MFCA Second Division (1): 1998
• Messinia Cup
  Messinia Cup
  The Messinia Cup is an annual football cup that is held by the Messinia Football Clubs Association.-Information sources:The organization of the Messinia Cup began to carry out from the MFCA in the mid 1980s. Its council rights had the famous teams from the prefecture...
  
   (2):

2000, 2006

• Participations in the Fourth Division (3):

2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08