Football C Division

The Greek Football C Division or Gamma Ethniki, is the division below the Football B Division or Beta Ethniki. The top clubs of the Football C Division participate in the Beta Ethniki in the following year. Similarly, the Beta Ethniki's bottom clubs are relegated to the Football C Division. The number of teams going up has varied over the years. Currently the format calls for four teams to be relegated from the B Division to be replaced by the top four teams from Gamma Ethniki with no playoffs involved. The bottom clubs of Gamma Ethniki are relegated into the Football D Division and are replaced by that leagues top teams.

History

The C Division did not always exist. In the first years of the A and B Divisions, Beta Ethniki was fed through the local prefectural leagues usually with playoffs involved. The National C Division was established for the 1983 season. At first, it consisted of a single league - as in England - but, as of its second year, it went to a 2-league (North and South) competition. The single league format was tried once more between 2000 and 2004 but, once again C Division has gone to two leagues.

Third division C' Ethniki 2007-2008

Southern League

1. Acharnaikos FC - Acharnai (Menidi)
2. Aias - Salamina
3. Aiolikos FC - Mytilene
4. Atsalenios - Heraklion, Crete
5. Diagoras Rhodes - Rhodes
6. Fostiras FC - Tavros Athens
7. Ilioupolis FC - Ilioupolis Athens
8. AO Thiva - Thebes
9. Thyella Patra - Patra
10. PAS Korinthos FC - Corinth
11. AO Koropi - Koropi
12. Messiniakos - Kalamata
13. Neos Asteras - Rethymno
14. Panachaiki - Patras, plays in the Pampeloponnisiako Stadium
15. Panaigialios - Egio
16. Panaitolikos Agrinio
17. Rhodes FC - Rhodes
18. Vyzas Megara - Megara

relegated from B' Ethniki (2008)

1. Aegaleo - Aegaleo Athens
2. Agios Dimitrios FC - Agios Dimitrios Athens
3. Chaidari FC - Chaidari Athens

Northern League

1. Anagennisis Arta - Arta
2. Anagennisis Giannitsa - Giannitsa
3. Anagennisis Karditsa - Karditsa
4. AE Giannina - Ioannina
5. Doxa Drama - Drama
6. Ethnikos Katerini - Katerini
7. Eordaikos - Ptolemaida
8. Enosi Thraki FC - Alexandroupolis
9. Thermaikos FC - Thermi
10. Kavala FC - Kavala
11. Lamia FC - Lamia
12. Niki Volos - Volos
13. PAO Neoi Epivates - Peraia
14. Ethnikos Olympiakos Volos - Volos
15. AE Polykastro
16. Prosotsani - Prosotsani
17. Preveza FC - Preveza