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. In 2010, the C Division was named Football League 2.

Third division C' Ethniki 2011-2012

Southern League

1. Apollon - Athens
2. Asteras - Magoula, Attica prefecture
3. Kalamata FC
4. Chania FC - Chania, Crete
5. Proodeftiki - Korydallos, Piraeus
6. Glyfada FC
7. PAO Rouf - Rouf, Athens
8. Ilisiakos
9. Rouvas FC
10. Paniliakos - Pyrgos
11. Zakynthos FC

Northern League

1. Aetos - Skydra
2. Apollon - Kalamaria, Thessaloniki
3. Doxa - Kranoula, Ioannina prefecture
4. Ethnikos - Gazoros, Serres prefecture
5. Megas Alexandros - Iraklia, Serres prefecture
6. Niki - Volos
7. Odysseas Anagennisis, Serres prefecture
8. Oikonomos Tsaritsani
9. Pontioi - Katerini
10. Telycrates - Lefkada
11. Tyrnavos FC
12. Vataniakos FC - Katerini