SKODA Xanthi FC
A.C. Xanthi was a football club that was formed in 1967 by the involuntary merger of Aspida Xanthi and Orpheus Xanthi.
A.C. Xanthi becomes SKODA Xanthi F.C.
In 1991 and for the first time in Greek football history a big company would fully sponsor a team. « Sponsor» ... Almost unknown and yet new, not only for the city of Xanthi, Thrace, but also for the whole Greek sporting world, since, till then, it was something taking place only in Europe. The VIAMAR S.A., this big company, took over the team. So «Xanthi» became «SKODA XANTHI». They signed the agreement on 10th of October 1991 and they looked ahead with hope. The results of this «pioneer» agreement, at least for Greek football, were soon evident. The help the team got to its financial problem was more than generous.
Having solved their major problem, they were soon excellent organized, with money available, they had important transfers for the team. This proved to be quite fruitful in the near future.
In 1992-1993 «SKODA XANTHI» finished at the 8th place, impressing everybody in the championship. All fans believed that it was a great team from the province and at the same time a promising team for Greek football.
Big clubs were highly interested in young talented players of the team. Marinos Ouzounidis was the first to be given to Panathinaikos in 1992, then Nikos Kostenoglou to AEK (1994), Christos Maladenis (1995) and Triantafillos Maheridis (1996) to the same team, Zisis Vryzas (1997) to PAOK. Everybody really wanted to have footballers from «SKODA XANTHI». Kelvin Sebwe (1998) went to AEK, Paraskevas Antzas and Luciano De Souza to Olympiakos in summer 1998 and Akis Zikos to AEK. In 1999 Stelios Venetidis was in PAOK, Christos Patsatzoglou signed for Olympiakos.
Players
60s - 70s
1990s - Present
- Nikos Alavantas
- Luciano De Souza
- Giorgos Chalkidis
- Paul Chatzopoulos
- Giorgos Giorgousis
- Nikos Kehayas
- Nikos Kostenoglou
- Tasos Malousis
- Petros Marinakis
- Veridiano Marcelo
- Haris Baniotis
- Marinos Ouzounidis
- Makis Tzantzos
- Zisis Vryzas
- Giorgos Athanasiadis
- Ivan Mitev
- Lenzo Panou
- Christos Samaras
- Petros Teggelidis
- Giorgos Mirtsos
- Yiannis Tsakonakis
- Alexandros Vasi
- Juri Zaleski
- Andreas Zikos
- Stefanos Karkanis
- Giorgos Iosifidis
- Triantafyllos Macheridis
- Aggelos Vilanakis
- Charalambos Zekeridis
- Vangelis Chosadas
- Elias Talikriadis
- Paraskevas Antzas
- Giorgos Kogioglou
- Kelvin Sebwe
- Christos Eliopoulos
- Stelios Venetidis
- Nikos Tsimblidis
- Sotiris Antoniou
- Giorgos Kantzilidis
- Waldemar Adamczyk
- Vasilis Damianos
- Thomas Makris
- Ali Rezan Mansurian
- Juraj Bucek
- Ioakim Chavos
- Nikos Karageorgiou
- Prokopis Kartalis
- Nikos Zapropoulos
- Dimitris Geladaris
- Yiannis Papadimitriou
- Christos Patsatzoglou
- Giorgos Toursounidis
- Dimitris Zografakis
- Ismail Ba
- Thomas Kyparissis
- Paris Zoumboulis
- Kostas Kalimanis
- Nikos Meserdis
- Theofylaktos Nikolaidis
- Yiannis Papadimitriou
- Nikos Papadopoulos
- Deniz Baykara
- Christos Kakiouzis
- Vlasis Kazakis
- Enrico Koulowich
- Stelios Sfakianakis
- Vasilis Torosidis
- Petros Dimitriadis
- Guenter Friesenbichler
- Stavros Lambriakos
- Paschalis Melissas
- Thanasis Prittas
- Emmanuel Olisadebe