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 2010-2011

Southern League

1. Apollon - Athens
2. Asteras - Magoula
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. Anagennisis Epanomi - Epanomi
3. Anagennisis Giannitsa - Giannitsa
4. Doxa - Kranoula, Ioannina prefecture
5. Ethnikos - Filippiada
6. Eordaikos - Ptolemaida
7. Fokikos - Amfissa
8. Kalloni - Kalloni, Lesbos
9. Kozani FC
10. Makedonikos - Efkarpia Thessaloniki
11. Megas Alexandros - Iraklia, Serres prefecture
12. Nafpaktiakos Asteras - Nafpaktos
13. Niki - Volos
14. Odysseas Anagennisis, Serres prefecture
15. Pontioi - Katerini
16. Tyrnavos FC
17. Zakynthos FC