Difference between revisions of "Football C Division"
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==History== | ==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. | 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. | ||
| + | In [[2010]], the C Division was named Football League 2. | ||
==Third division ''C' Ethniki'' 2010-2011== | ==Third division ''C' Ethniki'' 2010-2011== | ||
Revision as of 12:24, August 30, 2010
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. In 2010, the C Division was named Football League 2.
Third division C' Ethniki 2010-2011
Southern League
- Agia Paraskevi FC - Agia Paraskevi Athens
- Apollon - Athens
- Aspropyrgos FC - Aspropyrgos Athens
- Aias - Salamina
- Chania FC - Chania, Crete
- Iraklis - Psachna, Euboea
- Keravnos - Keratea
- Olympiakos - Chersonisos
- PAS Korinthos FC - Corinth
- PAO Rouf - Rouf, Athens
- Panachaiki - Patras, plays in the Pampeloponnisiako Stadium
- Panaigialios FC - Aigio
- Paniliakos - Pyrgos
- Platanias - Platanias, Crete
- Rhodes FC
- Vyzas Megara - Megara
Northern League
- Aetos - Skydra
- Anagennisis Epanomi - Epanomi
- Anagennisis Giannitsa - Giannitsa
- Doxa - Kranoula, Ioannina prefecture
- Ethnikos - Filippiada
- Eordaikos - Ptolemaida
- Fokikos - Amfissa
- Kalloni - Kalloni, Lesbos
- Kozani FC
- Makedonikos - Efkarpia Thessaloniki
- Megas Alexandros - Iraklia, Serres prefecture
- Nafpaktiakos Asteras - Nafpaktos
- Niki - Volos
- Odysseas Anagennisis, Serres prefecture
- Pontioi - Katerini
- Tyrnavos FC
- Zakynthos FC